<nettime> The Californian Reality (from: New Geography)

[allan siegel <allan@allansiegel.info>]

Hello,
Thanks Brian for the snapshot history lesson; what seems to be glossed 
over in your letter is this salient point: "Not only in California, but 
across the world there are new oligarchies who dispose (of us) more or 
less as they please. Unlike the student movements of 2009, I don't think 
this thing is going to fall in some passionate spontaneous coming 
insurrection." Precisely, and exactly what kind of 
planning/organizing/conceptualizing is necessary (or possible) not 
simply as a defense against the OS of a corporate totalitarianism but to 
envision and "plan" a new trajectory of possibilities altogether? If we 
can't, decisively, move beyond the Democrats vs. Republicans paradigm 
then we can rest assured that the Google buses will just keep coming (to 
a bus stop near you).

best
allan


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