Re: <nettime> Reframing the Creative Question

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

Hallo Allan -

> history. Now, to the point, what is disastrous is to see processes of change
> simply in economic terms - as a revolt against neoliberal values, social
> conditions - the shallow rhetoric of the Labour Party in the UK is a great,
> pathetic, example of this. Cultures of resistance, voices of change, a more
> expansive social horizon, do not appear, come into being, as a product of
> some creative class but emanate from a more nuanced, multi-dimensional
> social reality.

I agree that the rhetoric of the market/economics seems to be a panacea that 
damages potentials of change -- the process would also have to entail embodied, 
internal change in one's own self as well as change in the  momentary, daily, 
and cumulative life-pathway, way-of-going, way-of-being, way-of-doing. I think 
that the general politicization of change also works against a more 
self-controlled and internalized process that I believe is a necessary precursor 
of widely sustainable social change.

Another pessimistic example is in the area of energy use -- try doing a survey 
to see who around you has made hard core changes in their life-style that would 
impact their total energy usage. I find the anecdotal evidence points to the 
situation that very few people are making substantive changes on that daily level...

Cheers,
John

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