Lichty, Patrick M on Sun, 5 Sep 2021 17:27:57 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Covid and the crisis of neo-liberalism |
I am in agreement with: I think is built from the post-WWII/post-Cold War mythology in which the Democratic Capitalist Neoliberal Military-Industrial complex and its excess of wealth borne from those conflicts became dogma for the future. But that unchecked neoliberalism, along with a similarly unchecked Californian Ideology in creating a technocratic hyperplutocracy that created a faux algodemocracy through social media call ideology back into question. This may sound like a reductive questioning Western Democracy as if 1: it has not had a morphology over history, and 2: it is homogenous throughout the West. Conversely, I have wound up in Facebook conversations that have devolved into epithets with personages like Baruch Gottleib who almost uncritically state China is the future, with its glittering cities, while I have met the Dungan and Uighyr who fled to Eastern Kyrgyzstan. From my standpoint, Stiegler’s observation of (American especially) democratic failure was seen clearly from my standpoint in Arabia, as Trump was deftly manipulated by much of Asia (which America does not comprehend, let alone understand) from MBS to Kim Joon Il, and the UK’s suicidal move towards Brexit. What this screed attempts to illustrates the truth of the above, but then not being quick to castigate the West in favor of far more restrictive system(s). Social Media, in its necessity for more attention-capital, privileges the lunatic fringe under the framework of faux populism shaped by plutogratic Algorithmic manipulation.
I muse back again on Deleuze and Foucault and mechanisms orf power to critically interrogate the West without throwing the proverbial baby out with the democracy. Patrick Lichty website: http:://www.patricklichty.com email: voyd@voyd.com instagram, twitter: @patlichty From: <nettime-l-bounces@mail.kein.org> on behalf of Sean Cubitt <sean.cubitt@unimelb.edu.au> thanks for circulating Patrice there's a great piece responding to similar issues by Daniel Ross (aka Stiegler’s translator): https://mscp.org.au/plague-proportions/this-pandemic-should-not-have-happened a flavour: "Anthropogenic climate change and the systemic limits with which it is associated indeed define the fundamental emergency situation with which we are confronted today. The possibility of facing up to this emergency depends on recognizing seán Seán Cubitt | He/Him Professor of Screen Studies scubitt@unimelb.edu.au New Book: Anecdotal Evidence https://global.oup.com/academic/product/anecdotal-evidence-9780190065720?lang=en&cc=au# Latest from the Lambert Nagle writing partnership https://books2read.com/u/4NXA1W <snip> The comprehensive crisis of neoliberalism may have unleashed creative intellectual energy even at the once-dead centre of politics. But an intellectual crisis does not a new era make. If it is energising to discover that we can afford anything we can actually do, it also puts us on the spot. What can and should we actually do? Who, in fact, is the we?
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