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Metamodernist // Manifestohttp://www.metamodernism.org/
1. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.
2. We must liberate ourselves from the inertia resulting from a century of modernist ideological naivety and the cynical insincerity of its antonymous bastard child.
3. Movement shall henceforth be enabled by way of an oscillation between positions, with diametrically opposed ideas operating like the pulsating polarities of a colossal electric machine, propelling the world into action.
4. We acknowledge the limitations inherent to all movement and experience, and the futility of any attempt to transcend the boundaries set forth therein. The essential incompleteness of a system should necessitate an adherence, not in order to achieve a given end or be slaves to its course, but rather perchance to glimpse by proxy some hidden exteriority. Existence is enriched if we set about our task as if those limits might be exceeded, for such action unfolds the world.
5. All things are caught within the irrevocable slide towards a state of maximum entropic dissemblance. Artistic creation is contingent upon the origination or revelation of difference therein. Affect at its zenith is the unmediated experience of difference in itself. It must be art’s role to explore the promise of its own paradoxical ambition by coaxing excess towards presence.
6. The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now.
7. Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge, whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.
8. We propose a pragmatic romanticism unhindered by ideological anchorage. Thus, metamodernism shall be defined as the mercurial condition between and beyond irony and sincerity, naivety and knowingness, relativism and truth, optimism and doubt, in pursuit of a plurality of disparate and elusive horizons. We must go forth and oscillate!
by Luke Turner, 2011
*Using the term metamodernism employed by Vermeulen & van den Akker in Notes on metamodernism, Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Volume 2, 2010
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The Listening Society
Publication date: September 1, 2017
Author(s): Freinacht, Hanzi
Our mission, in a nutshell, is thus:
To unite the many struggles of the exploited bodies of the poor with the struggles of the lost, suffering souls of the rich world.
And to expand that struggle to sustainability across time and space.
And to expand that solidarity to fathom the vast suffering and multiplicity of perspectives of the animal realm in its entirety.
And to deepen the struggle until it is reborn as play.
Publication date: September 1, 2017
Author(s): Freinacht, Hanzi
Our mission, in a nutshell, is thus:
To unite the many struggles of the exploited bodies of the poor with the struggles of the lost, suffering souls of the rich world.
And to expand that struggle to sustainability across time and space.
And to expand that solidarity to fathom the vast suffering and multiplicity of perspectives of the animal realm in its entirety.
And to deepen the struggle until it is reborn as play.
Drawing upon an elaborate weaving of psychology, sociology, political science and philosophy this book lands in a positive vision for the future. It shows how a clear description of human psychological growth – how we grow as human beings – can also offer us key insights into how global society can and should evolve in the internet age. A politics that can help humans grow to the later stages of psychological development is also one that can be capable of meeting the staggering challenges of our time.https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM
It is the first TEDx talk of the founder of Free Software movement. Stallman, RMS for short, has changed the world with his vision of freedom for the digital age. He launched the GNU operating system, used with Linux as a component, and inspired the development of Creative Commons licences and Wikipedia project. In this talk, Stallman describes how nonfree programs give companies control of their users and what users can do in order to recover control over their computing.Forwarded from History Quote Buff
"What haunts us in such myths of disintegration are not their histories, but their prophecies. Like the Norsemen, and perhaps even more, like the people at the close of the Middle Ages, we sense that our world, too, is breaking down — institutionally, culturally, and physically. Whether we are faced with a new, paradisical era or a catastrophe like the Norse Ragnarok is still unclear, but there can be no lengthy period of compromise between past and future in an ambiguous present. The reconstructive and destructive tendencies in our time are too much at odds with each other to admit of reconciliation. The social horizon presents the starkly conflicting prospects of a harmonized world with an ecological sensibility based on a rich commitment to community, mutual aid, and new technologies, on the one hand, and the terrifying prospect of some sort of thermonuclear disaster on the other. Our world, it would appear, will either undergo revolutionary changes, so far-reaching in character that humanity will totally transform its social relations and its very conception of life, or it will suffer an apocalypse that may well end humanity's tenure on the planet."
-Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin
-Ecology of Freedom, Murray Bookchin
Forwarded from the wires
I'll summarize Matrix (https://matrix.org) because I highly believe it should be the communication platform of choice for everyone, and especially political or other minorities.
Matrix is a specification for how clients (like apps) should talk to servers, and how those servers should talk amongst eachother.
You can choose to sign up on any of the public servers, or even run your own if you have the means. You can then participate in rooms, even with people from different servers. Those communicate with eachother to make this possible.
Every server that participates in a given room has a copy of what has happened (insofar as they are allowed to read its history). This means that even if one server goes offline, all the users on other servers can still continue to talk in that room. If that server does come back online (internet works again, or it was restored from a backup), it will realize it's missing message from its absence and ask the other servers to send them again, at which point its users can fully participate in the room again.
Matrix also features proper end to end encryption
As Matrix is only a specification, you need to pick a client you will use to connect to the server you chose. Currently the only fully-featured client is Riot (https://riot.im) which is available for Web, Desktop (Electron), Android and iOS. Other clients are still in the works for all sorts of platforms, including my own project: Neo (https://neo.pixie.town)
Matrix is a specification for how clients (like apps) should talk to servers, and how those servers should talk amongst eachother.
You can choose to sign up on any of the public servers, or even run your own if you have the means. You can then participate in rooms, even with people from different servers. Those communicate with eachother to make this possible.
Every server that participates in a given room has a copy of what has happened (insofar as they are allowed to read its history). This means that even if one server goes offline, all the users on other servers can still continue to talk in that room. If that server does come back online (internet works again, or it was restored from a backup), it will realize it's missing message from its absence and ask the other servers to send them again, at which point its users can fully participate in the room again.
Matrix also features proper end to end encryption
As Matrix is only a specification, you need to pick a client you will use to connect to the server you chose. Currently the only fully-featured client is Riot (https://riot.im) which is available for Web, Desktop (Electron), Android and iOS. Other clients are still in the works for all sorts of platforms, including my own project: Neo (https://neo.pixie.town)
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The matrix specification also allows for seamless bridging to other chat software, through so-called appservice. They get a block of user accounts allocated to them (like @telegram_*) which they have full control over. The appservice can then use those to relay messages from the users on the other chat platorms