Re: <nettime> Foundations for "Anthropocene Socialist" Movement (Brian Holmes and Vincent Gaulin)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Isn't this like going to shrink to cure the discomfort of belonging to 
the not-ruling class and get sedated, instead of looking for a pitchfork?

Are we at the point where problems are framed as caused by cosmic rays 
and weltschmerz, and need some primordial nurturing to 'heal', the 
'situation' being so complex, unfathomable and requiring conferences to 
discuss and ensuing papers to cite? Plus this metaphysical bs. of 
relegating everything to the 'climate change' monster, the new Rapture 
for progressives.

Pathetic and impotent.

Where the f*ck are the communists on nettime?

Instead of vacuous ruminations try wearing a magnetic bracelet. It may 
work. Hard to get a grant for it, though.



> I must admit that talk of collectivist camps and ascetic material
> minimalism gives me pause, unless you are talking about short-term work
> for the unemployed as in the New Deal, and unless it is voluntary. It’s
> not just that, short of another Great Depression, I suspect that this
> vision may not be attractive to most Americans raised in a culture of
> excess and (a distorted) individualism, but also that my own experience
> as an activist makes it less than attractive.
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