Re: <nettime> Against techno-optimism

[Patrice Riemens via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Ah yeah, I am going to read it, always curious about the next nonsense produced by libertarian dickheads.

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From: "Vesna Manojlovic via nettime-l" <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>
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Cc: "Vesna Manojlovic" <becha@xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, 18 October, 2023 12:34:02
Subject: <nettime> Against techno-optimism

Recently published "Techno-Optimist Manifesto" by Marc Andreessen is,
IMHO, the most vile & horrible neo-liberal nonsense,
and I am afraid it will speak to many aspiring technocrats :(

I am proud to be into the multiple "enemy categories" of this guy:
degrowth, sustainability, “trust and safety”, “tech ethics”, diversity..

I encourage you to be AGAINST techno-optimism, against Leviathan...
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/fredy-perlman-against-his-story-against-leviathan

The antidotes?

Care, solidarity, ecofemnism, empathy, XR, intersectional 
environmentalism...
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-economy-of-care/
&
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/environmental-impact-of-internet-urgency-de-growth-rebellion/

Vesna

More Links:

The content of the "manifesto" has been continuously disputed on UnCiv 
list since 2013, https://lists.puscii.nl/wws/info/uncivilization ,
and in 2009 by the original "uncivilisation" manifesto: 
https://dark-mountain.net/about/manifesto/ ,
by climate scientists : 
https://bonpote.com/en/12-climate-delay-discourses-and-how-to-debunk-them/ 
& 
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7/S2059479820000137a.pdf/discourses_of_climate_delay.pdf 

and recently by the authors of the TESCREAL acronym ... 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TESCREAL


Jason Lefkowitz: https:// octodon . social/@jalefkowit/111246809951833086

             ^^^^^^ (URL modified because of the spam filtering rules by 
my ISP!)

"a bruised ego.

Andreessen doesn't like the way people look at his investments 
critically these days. He doesn't like the questions he gets today about 
environmental impact, labor mistreatment, racial and sexual 
discrimination, and so forth at his portfolio companies. He bristles at 
assuming the responsibilities required of any grown-up business person.

What he wants instead is to go back to the oughts, when the entire 
global media edifice was credulously repeating the line that his 
investments weren't just making him and his rich friends richer, but 
were improving the world to boot. He liked that treatment quite well. He 
would very much like the rest of us to go back to giving it to him.

But he can't just, you know, SAY that. He'd be laughed out of the room 
if he did. So he has to dress it all up as a philosophical argument, as 
A Movement, even if by doing so he makes it clear just how tenuous his 
grasp is of the works he's quoting, and just how much of his worldview 
came from reading “thinkers” whose personal mission was to comfort the 
comfortable.

Which makes it tempting to dunk on, I know. But don't bother, because 
the philosophy is beside the point. It's all just window dressing placed 
to obscure the fundamental point: the world used to tell this guy his 
farts smelled like flowers; at some point, it stopped; and he'd really 
like it to start back up again."


https://fortune.com/2023/10/16/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-ai-50-billion-people-billionaire-vc/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/17/when-was-the-last-time-marc-andreessen-talked-to-a-poor-person/?guccounter=1

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/marc-andreessens-ai-manifesto-hurts-his-own-cause

Images:

https://www.leolinne.com/?portfolio=discourses-of-climate-delay

https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:IMG_7881.PNG

https://labs.ripe.net/images/t1xLN7do8IYUtV0OXgl12IazUIs=/8059/width-1536/IMG_9077.jpg


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