<nettime> The Great Acceleration Event (GAE)

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

It's depressing to hear, over and over again, "we need to" calls, as if 
the key is in some magical proposition, a thought, a formula, a method, 
which is just around the corner, just another conference or another book 
away. For a hammer everything is a nail, and for a tenured thinker 
everything is an idea.

But things will take care of themselves.

Some 2.3 billion years ago, several cyanobacteria, working in a garage, 
figured out how to produce oxygen from sunlight and CO2. What followed 
is the Great Oxygenation Event. Anaerobic life protested, held many 
conferences, called for de-oxygenation, and eventually died out (except 
few hardcore species that dug themselves into the ground.) The rest is 
history.

Some *will* survive the GAE and thrive.

On 9/16/16, 5:37, Felix Stalder wrote:

> limit. We need to find a new economic rationality. And if it is
> possible, contrary to what skeptics think all this is because we can not
> do otherwise.

#  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
#  @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: