Re: <nettime> Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

Grüzi Mittenand,

"You do one thing" was an admonition I often heard when I lived in 
India. My 'thing' I'd advise you (all?) to 'do' would be : (re)read 
Bolo'bolo! (*) It's of course not _the_ (only) solution, but as a 
'realistoc utopia' it does give a number of possible lines of thought & 
action.

'Gute Rutsch' to All! May 2019 be as enjoyable as it will be 
interesting!
p+7D!

(*) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/p-m-bolo-bolo



On 2018-12-30 18:09, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The problem is that this doesn't scale. Or at least the scaling model
> has not been discovered. At the same time, the opposition scales
> pretty well.
>
> For this scaling to involve machines (computers, programs, networks
> and such, and I cannot imagine competitive scaling not involving
> machines - anyone?) another problem has to be solved, as the current
> crop of the available computing machinery is heavily biased towards
> individualistic outcomes. The redesign would be a major effort, as it
> definitely does not consist of another 'app'. It involves
> interventions at the infrastructure level, and there are $ trillions
> already invested in the current one, so it's hard.
>
> How do you motivate open door crappers to lay own fiber, grow own
> silicon and use only P2P protocols with source routing? It's hard to
> even imagine this.
>
>
> On 12/30/18, 04:53, Keith Hart wrote:
> > When I grew up in Manchester after the war, solidarity was a powerful
> > weapon against privacy, the cult of being exclusive. We could not 
> > close
> > our house doors since neighbors should be free to come and go as they
> > please. When the men took their morning crap in the outside loos, they
> > left the door open to converse across the low backyard walls. After
> > sanitation was modernized, you could still  accidentally run into a 
> > old
> > lady in the bathroom who couldn't bring herself to close the door. All
> > bedroom doors were left open. The corner pub was our living room. When
> > the gas company started work with their machines outside too early, 
> > half
> > a dozen women would assail them on behalf of   "our street". They shut
> > down the machines.
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