<nettime> Empire Shitholes Überalles aka The Tales of Anthropocene ( and its buddy Surveillance Capitalism ) …

[podinski <podinski@mailbox.org>]

hello dear nettimers,

( Quick preface in response to the interesting thread about Nettime being in bad shape ... Ya wanna know what's really in bad shape ? Society in the grips of the whole metastizing Cybernetic Regime... archived List culture might not seem like such the speakeasys makers thought they could be back in those exhuberant + myopic technotopian heydays... But well, sometimes ya just gotta say what ya gotta say. )

The XLterrestrials were at yet another Anthropocene conference this past weekend, this time at Humboldt University put on by Phd students.  It DID have a refreshing amount of authenticity, because it was not overshadowed by the experts, academia popo and the usual tracks these debates are supposed to stay on, and the over-the-edge careering into that over-intellectualizing abyss...

But it was certainly not free from some of the usual errors ...

This time it provided us an opportunity to get to the underbelly of should probably be identified as clear strains of The Anthropocene AGENDAS...

It's still a work in progress to illuminate the theory.... Here's what we got so far:

XLt reports : The Trials Of The Homocidal Anthropocene ! v.1

http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=19247

" While the facts from the sciences can be precise and useful, this is not so much about humanity crossing this geological time span / threshold, but an atrocities-crime scene, where the most powerful industries and their profiteering operators ( with names and addresses ) are implementing a reckless, high-risk, criminal, and ultimately murderous Agenda. A disastrous and terrifying Guinea-Pigdom ! Is this a sequel to all the previous colonial projects that perpetrated so much human, wildlife and eco-systsem carnage, long before this new Anthropocene brand? Not questions being asked too frequently in the academic settings, especially when there are so many coming from that species of genocide-apologists, i.e. the Stephen Pinker-esque schools. "

" Nevermind the Deep-time of the Anthropocene, let’s deal with the more tangible, in all our faces problem of TECHNO-FASCISM ! "

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As we are working on part 2...

"We are beginning to uncover new patterns of how much the neo-colonialism + technodystopias ( and might we include aspects of the incorporated MAKER culture ? ) are intertwined with anthropogenic agendas...

It is neither the citizens nor the inhabitants of this earth who have chosen the expansionist's graveyard and a host of unspeakable atrocities ! It is not "WE" who are murdering all species and and all the magic and functionality of our living, breathing, pre-existing ecosytems ! It's primarily a trajectory set by the profiteers of a global-scale Futurist Disruption Economy... the same greedy, bloody, patriarchal, corporate entities who were the warmonger-profiteers in the last season(s) of Empire Shitholes Überalles. "

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If you happen to be in Berlin next week, we will discuss this as part of our new episode of CiTiZEN KiNO #79: Eyes Wired Shut on June 20th...

For more info, check for venue, time, updates, description here:

http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=19233

It will also entail a FUNDRAISER AFTERPARTY, so please do join us if you're around... and/or spread the word - we could use all the support we can get to keep this project going !

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Thx for reading !

Podinski and the XLterrestrials

p.s. And Mucho Thanx + RESPEX to Nettime's flows of information... in particular the discussion raised by i think both Andy Garcia and Patrice Riemens re: Gianroberto Casaleggio, It was great to be reminded of these clips ( which were buzzing conversation pieces - amongst the "Indymedians" and many in the IT industries - in SF Bay Area at the time they first hit the net ) ..  and we will be analyzing them further in the C-KINO show... in relation, of course to the rise of TEchno-Fascism !

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