[D66] Acceleratie-idiotie

[J.N.]

https://leesmagazijn.wordpress.com/2016/08/30/na-de-eindigheid-naar-de-drukker/

na de eindigheid, het apeiron, into the void...


On 09/02/2016 11:06 AM, J.N.  wrote:
> Wat te doen? Vraag het de luddieten...
> 
> http://www.publicbooks.org/nonfiction/on-accelerationism
> 
> 
> On Accelerationism
> Fred Turner
> 
> September 1, 2016 — What is to be done? In 1901, when Lenin posed this
> now-canonical question, the answer was a communist revolution. Today, 25
> years since the Internet went public, the answer has come to seem to
> many on the left to be a technological one. In the 1990s, it was
> right-wing libertarians such as John Perry Barlow who claimed to know
> what to do with the information system. In the future, they wrote, we
> would leave our bodies behind and dive headlong into a glorious pool of
> universal mind called Cyberspace. In the early 2000s, the builders of
> social media, some of whom subscribed to the tech-left ideals of open
> source software and copyleft reproduction rights, sold the public a new
> utopia. But instead of the world of technology-enabled interpersonal
> intimacy they promised, social media have become a series of
> commercially sponsored stages on which to preen for selfies and spin off
> data to be mined by states and corporations. During the Arab Spring
> uprisings of 2011, pundits on the right and the left even declared that
> cell phones and the Internet were becoming tools of political
> revolution. Yet today the authoritarian leaders of Egypt are if anything
> more entrenched than their predecessors were.
> 
> In their new book, Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World
> without Work, based on their widely circulated 2013 “Manifesto for an
> Accelerationist Politics,” British cultural theorists Nick Srnicek and
> Alex Williams argue that all of this needs to change. At a time when the
> future seems to belong to Chicago-school economists and the Internet to
> Google and the NSA, Srnicek and Williams have courageously drafted a
> call to re-imagine left politics from top to bottom. Nonetheless, the
> alternative vision of the left they propose in fact owes a great deal to
> the neoliberal imagination it aims to challenge. Srnicek and Williams
> believe that emerging technologies have laid the foundation for the kind
> of egalitarian social world once promised by Lenin himself. To bring
> that world into being, they argue, we need not to resist but to
> accelerate the development of new technologies and the spread of
> capitalism. And they are not alone. In the last two years, a vigorous
> debate has bubbled up in England, where Srnicek and Williams live, and
> spilled over into the tech-savvy enclaves of the United States. To visit
> that debate may be to catch a glimpse of a new New Left emerging—or, in
> the view of some of the movement’s more strident critics, the final
> triumph of techno-libertarianism.
> 
> 
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