mezomian community?

Poem

Minologos

 

Nothing takes place. Nothing takes no place. Becoming remains. Becoming remains and becomes, until becoming fills nothing to the edge of falling and it no longer moves. No longer stands. It only flutters, twitches, crackles. Monadic, mumbling monologues. Word-soaked, the bodies of millenniums drip through the walls, leaving only the mumbling bricks. He picks one up for himself. The other end is being held.

thoughts from talk by Stowe Boyd at reboot 9.0

"Time is a shared space", Stowe says at reboot in Copenhagen

time is not my own - time already belongs to all of us or to the between of us. this means that basically, what I do does not belong to me, as it is necessarily and more and more something that is created by interaction, that is action that takes place between us, with more than one mind acting and developing things, so the ideas develop even though I am not present - this creates better ideas, but I have to accept that I do not own the ideas that are being developed. at the ened of the line, this destroys the right to property, whether individual or collective. no protection of rights, no protection of property, no redistribution of property. but at the end of that - how does anyone make money today? the whole market economy is arranged around property and exchange of it:- and even if we create in open source processes, in the end, if no one own's the products that come out of our work, no one can make money from them? well, not exactly, right?

there is stuff on flow that I don't agree with, like the feeling of personal control while being in flow. this is definitely not my impression; control doesn't really take me very far, except of course control over the desire to control B-)

but this is cool: network productivity trumps personal productivity - yep. but this is really in contradiction with the way that i.e. many academics are working and being asked to work today.

"everything important will find its way to you more than once, don't worry if you miss it the first time" - I don't know if he is right on this, but something tells me (that something being a kind of collective intuition?) that it is.

The main problem here, apart from "being in personal control", which at least demands a change in what we call "person", is that is maybe isn't radical enough at least for my taste. ok, this is fine, but let's go there: if time is not my own, my mind i snot my own, my body is not my own, let's skip the whole idea of individual property, which means that we have to blow up the whole idea of property whatsoever except as precisely that: flow...

But nice talk, though, a good start to a day that seems suspiciously promising (suspiciously because shit happens, but ok, let me be optimistic about it).

non-local dialogism and eventality

here's definitely a piece of philosophical delirium on the way: I have started a piece of work on the possible co-thinking of dialogism, evental philosophy, and inspirations from sufism and other mystical thought directions (there's a lo of quasi-platonic stuff written in the 70's by people like Capra and Bohm, that the 'real' physicists hate like hell. But lt's keep our minds open, shall we? I f we are to understand what dialogism is about, we have to take non-local quasi-causality in consideration.

Anyway, this is all in the making, this small piece is merely first step, to be discussed at a meeting in the NSU this weekend.

Multitudes and Copenhagen: "pink rebellion"

Check out this background piece to give you some information on Copenhagen riots of march 2007 from the outside in.

Not so bad, but of course coloured strongly by the multitudes negrist perspective of the world. Let that be, there is still some reflection and hope behind this. For what that may be worth..

As the author, alex foli writes: the young rebelling have lost faith in traditional left wing politics. Sic. You bet they have. And so have the ones that are a little older, pink or not pink.

Hommage à JB

"In transparent, homeostatic or homeofluid systems, there is no longer a strategy of the Good vs the Evil, there is nothing but the Evil against the Evil - the strategy of worse. It is not even a matter of choice, we see it unfolding before our eyes, the homeopathic virulence."

idun.sandsgaard.dk

"So, the extreme phenomena serve, in their secret disorder, as prophylaxy through chaos against the extreme rise of order and transparency."

Jean Baudrillard: La transparence du mal. Paris, 1990.
My Translations.

Death of a voice, birth of an era?

Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007) - taken from simulation.dk

 

Artforum says:

03.07.07 - The French critic and provocateur Jean Baudrillard, whose theories about consumer culture and the manufactured nature of reality were intensely discussed both in rarefied philosophical circles and in blockbuster movies like The Matrix, died yesterday in Paris, reports Patricia Cohen for the New York Times. He was seventy-seven. Michel Delorme, director of Galilee, Baudrillard's publisher, announced his death, which he said followed a long illness. Baudrillard, the first in his family to attend a university, became a member of a small caste of celebrated and influential French intellectuals who achieved international fame despite the density and difficulty of their work. The author of more than fifty books and an accomplished photographer, Baudrillard ranged across different subjects, from race and gender to literature and art to 9/11.

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As someone who read a lot of Baudrillard in my early student days, when I first started studying philosophy and communication, this is an event to notice. I have loved his thoughts, his books, especially La transcendence du mal, in which he diagnosed the danger of the fear of viral difference in our culture, a fear which he predicted would have fatal consequences. No doubt in my mind that this is proved to be right again and again.

A letter from a Copenhagen activist

This was sent to me this morning. I still shake a bit, because I know it is real, and because I know it's not over. What will happen next I don't know. All I know is that the world has changed a little once again. Changed back? No, i guess not. But changed. Another veil has been lifted, and maybe that is for the better. But for all the force of the nakedness of eyes seeing each other as they are at last, there is also the gap between eyes that do not see anything else, they do not feel the force of the space of virtuality between them that will allow for freedom. They see nothing but doubt, spite, anger, rage, dispair, and violence. Welcome to the 21st century. Thomas, the word is yours.

If you have no idea what this is all about, open your eyes and have a look at politics today, at indymedia.dk. Or look at the picture below and wonder what that may be.

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 Dear everyone else who cares.

My friend. I want to tell you about the events taking place in Copenhagen, right now. Please check out indymedia.dk , modkraft.dk , ungeren.dk or just indymedia.org to learn what is happening, because I'm not going to give you details. I am going to tell you another story.  These days, one particular image is ceaselessly haunting me.  

Ante-strategy: the challenge of organising an aesthetic moment

This is a long abstract sent to a seminar this summer - enjoy and comment.. hope to go the sunny side for a few days once again..

crisis?

Politics is an aesthetic matter, a reconfiguration of the way we share out or divide places and times, speech and silence, the visible and the invisible.
(Rancière, 2003)

 

More on Copenhagen in trouble

Well, actually i guess Copenhagen thinks it's getting out of trouble. But the question remains, why the house had to be sold to an extremely conservative and secterian religious group instead of housing one of the largest communities for alternative/radical culture in Denmark.

Copenhagen is clearing out its differences - soon there will nothing but the monolithic remains of a bureaucratic-commercial tourist trap. Of course, this will never happen. What will happen is that more conflict, more antagonism, greater divides between generational and political groups will continue to develop, as they have in Denmark in the past 6 years.

Oh, worth noting: the city of Copenhagen is not lead by the evil right-wingers and conservatives. Not officially, anyway. This town is lead by a central-left alliance, with a social democrat mayor.

Read more about the not so quiet day at the office in Copenhagen at indymedia.dk

Suspension of another suspension

Today, the "ungdomshus", house for youth, in Copenhagen, a source of inspiration for ideas about political multitude in European Cities, is being cleared by armed polica forces.

The inhabitants are disappointed, but their response is not violent. The loss for Copenhagen is not yet estimated, but experts in branding are making it clear these days that with no house for young people with an alternative political stance, and with Christiania normalised within months, Copenhagen will lose its last touch of the open-minded society that Denmark was thought to be.

R.I.P.