| Morlock Elloi on Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:52:34 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Franco Berardi & Geert Lovink: A call to the Army of Love and to the Army of Software |
If it's a fight against machines, let's do La Jetee/Terminator/12 Monkeys all the way: What *is* the future like if machines win? What is it like if they lose? No one talks about that. The projections of future are nonexistent, from any side. The future has collapsed to the next 7 days. Gone are shorts about futuristic cities, appliances and automobiles produced by GM and other industry giants in 1950s. Gone are Hollywood fantasies from 1970s (2001: A space Odyssey) and dystopias from 1980s (mostly after PKD) - there are not even dystopias in the public mind any more! It doesn't get any worse than that. There was no successful social movement without some - however fake, ridiculous, rosy, impossible - idea about future, an utopia. We have none today. No dystopias, no utopias. Why is there this ban on the Future? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org