Morlock Elloi on Thu, 3 Nov 2011 10:17:28 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> The False Defences of Utopian Thought. |
I'm referring to the fact that deferring decisions to quantum throw of dice (evolution) or to a deity makes no difference. What is going on appears to be massive setting of the scene for Something to happen. Like a pagan ritual. Or cargo cult in the best case - we have all the elements of revolution, WTF is it? The future belongs to those who can imagine it. > > So real events, creating the future otherwise unimaginable by > > individuals, are unconscious acts of collective creation that we > > are only to interpret post-festum? > > > > That's religion. > > Hi Morlock, I'm not sure what you're responding to in particular, > buy couldn't natural selection also be understood as such > unconscious acts of collective creation creating otherwise > unimagined futures? > > That's evolution. > > -- Dmyri Kleiner Venture Communist > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org