Re: <nettime> Stormy weather?

[Vesna Manojlovic <becha@xs4all.nl>]

To reply to the Stormy Weather, both as a forecast and as allegory ...


> Brian wrote:
>
> "....Today, under the pressure of climate change, broader fronts are 
> emerging, which include not only peasant and indigenous struggles, but 
> also metropolitan minorities and, crucially I think, elements of the 
> middle classes who see the looming dead-end of industrial modernism - 
> something that has not been very perceptible to the old working 
> classes. These emergent alliances from below are threatened, not only 
> by the police, but even more, by the paralyzing power of psychic distress

... this reminds me of the 2023 book "Deluge" [1] by Stephen Markley [2] 
(available @ libgen .rs)

Highly recommended!

I am still reading it, so no spoilers if you've finished it already!

It's a child of "The Road" & "Ministry of the future"... thicker than 
both, dark & dystopian & full of love stories...

And here are a few select quotes:

> “We are not at a crossroads,” Pietrus writes in his introduction. “We 
long ago took the wrong fork. Now we must do everything in our power, 
including sacrificing our comfort, our livelihoods, our economy, and 
partial, carefully excised pieces of our democracy, to save our species 
and all species.”

> “the biosphere doesn’t give a shit about the craven vicissitudes of 
the American political system”

> We are committed to taking capital, and therefore political power, 
out of the hands of a fossil-fuel oligarchy. That is the global recipe 
to attack a primary source of misogyny, racism, and endemic inequality. 
Distributed systems of energy will redistribute political and economic 
power faster and more decisively than any other action, period.

... (including Ecofeminism)...

> The history of capital accumulation has also been a history of 
women’s subordination and environmental degradation. Those three things 
are so intimately connected that you can’t unwind them. We are a 
colonized gender. we are in the process of achieving the dream of all 
oppressed peoples: we’re moving into the Master’s house, when really 
what we should be doing is burning the house down. Instead, we’re 
clamoring to be a part of the patriarchal, phallocentric political, 
economic, and social ecology: (...) capitalist patriarchy. But there has 
to be an “other” for that system to maintain because it sees a world of 
scarcity and the only solution is an inequitable hoarding of resources. 
Part of that “other” will always be women, and bitches are kidding 
ourselves if we think otherwise. If a system views everything in the 
biosphere as a resource, whether it’s buffalo, maize, fresh water, a gas 
deposit, or our internet data, it’s going to view women as extractive 
resources as well”

On 16/02/2023 11:50, mp wrote:

> Always. Things come and go, civilizations come and go. As one falls 
> the next is already in the making. One can throw oneself in there 
> where one thinks it will matter in the next world, in the next meantime.


... another (un)civilization quote, therefore cross-posting:

> "I could name all the events that have destroyed families and lives 
and homes over the past ten or twenty years, but what’s the point? All 
of this is only the beginning. That’s what breaks my heart so much. 
We’re not here to prevent that future anymore—because we can’t. All we 
have left to fight is our own oblivion. Our civilization devouring 
itself as we run from storms and fires, as we die starving and thirsty 
and fearful and alone."


I also recommend his previous book, "Ohio" -> specially in light of the 
recent poison cloud...


Sharing our pains, sharing our joys,

Vesna


[1] 
https://www.salon.com/2023/01/31/the-deluge-is-a-climate-nightmare--and-its-based-on-reality_partner/ 


[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Markley

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