Hi Julian,<br><br>Repression and awareness are not the same thing, and in fact are the opposite. So, I think it is first of all important to increase our awareness of the impact of our actions, on other people, on the environment, and choose our own ways of how we want to minimize the damage. But negative approaches only bring us so far (critical environmental education actually discourages students, but engagement with nature empowered them, showed one study I saw once), much better than a negative approach, is to replace our material priorities with immaterial ones. Search for happiness in the intellectuality, spirituality, culture, relationality, and build our life around the passionate production of such value.
<br><br>With post-capitalist strategies, let me be very short here not to repeat my core argument, we need to support the emergence of peer production, governance and property into all domains of social life; (because they are respectively more economically, politically, and distributionally productive), and strengthen both the sharing economies of individual expression, and the commons-oriented forms of production. This is predicated on both abundance (immaterial field) and distribution (slicing up, in the material field), so that the central strategy then becomes, 'the distribution of everything', and the direct social production, everywhere we can, of social value: distributed means of production (computers, desktop manufacturing), of finance (p2p lending, but more importantly the direct social production of money), of energy (distributed solar). Finding the right relationship between the commons and the for-profit ecology around it (see sam rose's contribution here at
<br><a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-business-models-business-and-open-source/2007/05/08">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-business-models-business-and-open-source/2007/05/08</a>, which expands on that topic); finding cooperative models for such interaction (austrian os alliance, indian open source cooperative in pune (see
<a href="http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Cooperative">http://www.p2pfoundation.net/Open_Source_Cooperative</a>); strengthen these types of social production and human relationships within or against the sphere of commodity, until "we" are strong enough, to tackle meta-system change.
<br><br>Michel<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Julian Kücklich</b> <<a href="mailto:julian@kuecklich.de">julian@kuecklich.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Michel,<br><br> > But we are all part of that system, so that any approach that blames<br> > capital, and does not want to change its own behaviour, is going to be<br> > unproductive.<br><br>I agree, it's counterproductive to think of oneself as somehow outside
<br>of capital, or outside of "the environment", for that matter. My point<br>was, however, that the current ethics of repression works through<br>moralising everyday behaviour, so now I have to feel bad every time I
<br>consume one of the commodities of climate change (energy, water, meat,<br>etc.), and the ff plugin introduced through this list is an agent of<br>this new ethics of repression.<br><br>But as everyone who has ever read a novel from the Victorian era knows,
<br>repression doesn't make unwanted behaviour go away - it just hides it.<br>Emission certificates are a brilliant example of how one can destroy the<br>environment and still have a clean environmental conscience. I am just
<br>waiting for the next plugin, which enables me to counter-balance my<br>ecological sins by purchasing indulgences every time I book a flight,<br>order a book, or leave my computer running overnight.<br><br>> Now the key question is how you change the meta-system, giving the
<br>> record of<br>> failure in this regard, and the obsoleteness of industrial era leftism? My<br>> suggestion would be to tone down the useless anti-capitalist rhetoric, and<br>> to tune up the post-capitalist practices.
<br><br>Indeed. But what are these post-capitalist practices? Surely you are not<br>suggesting that by minimising our ecological footprints we will somehow<br>"change the system"?<br><br>- Julian.<br><br><br>--<br>
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