<DIV>Well, for the past year, I've been told that my criticism has not beeb strong enough, and that my tact is a bit too circumspect. This is mainly because I refuse to engage in the types of radical polarization that the US is famous for. </DIV>
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<DIV>Then, A Polemic for The Collapse of the Western World.</DIV>
<DIV>Yes, let us go to static platforms where we do not have to buy a computer any mroe than every fifteen years or so. Let us tell the Intels and Motorolas and Apples, and Microsofts to GO TO HELL. Let us decentralize our nets, create decentralized fabrications systems, using un-gridded power sources, and forget Fordism, Keynesian econimics, and tell Adam Smith he was just bloody fucking WRONG. Let us erect our solar panels, grab our shotguns and drive our biofuel-powered muletruck to the Farmer's Market.</DIV>
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<DIV>Let us say that Ford, Taylor, and their image of the future was just nothing we could do for long, and Lenin & Marx didn't work out so well as well. Let us distribute; go nano, give into the atomization of niche culture with guilds of fabricators and circuitbenders and live light upon the earth while radiatig our signals into the cosmos, </DIV>
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<DIV>(That's merely a polemic, and not necessaily the beliefs of the author... Seems a littl 1990 for me, but it's a strong statement)<BR><B><BR></DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=xoEncapsulatedBody style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">The tightening of credit that “is coming”? I thought it had been here for a year already? What’s coming next is a major economic slowdown – if not collapse.<BR><BR>Sorry for the downer...perhaps I’ll get drunk with Patrick then?<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Simon<BR><BR><BR>On 30/9/08 15:49, "Patrick Lichty" <voyd@voyd.com> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px">I just checked it again, and it's very green all over.<BR>It's interesting that I think this was written by Mark Wattenberg, also a <BR>respected New Media artist. I had lunch with him at his office overlooking <BR>Ground Zero in 2001...<BR><BR>The confluence of events is very funny.<BR><BR>However, with the tightening of credit that IS coming, I think that shows <BR>like Holy Fire _might_ forecast an overall move towards art-materiality in <BR>the short term.<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>> After yesterday's bailout rejection and the huge stock market drop, I <BR>> checked out the Map of the Market and saw this:<BR>> <BR>> <A href="http://blog.burak-arikan.com/back-to-materiality/">http://blog.burak-arikan.com/back-to-materiality/</A><BR>><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>iDC -- mailing list of the Institute for Distributed Creativity (distributedcreativity.org)<BR>iDC@mailman.thing.net<BR>https://mailman.thing.net/mailman/listinfo/idc<BR><BR>List Archive:<BR><A href="http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/">http://mailman.thing.net/pipermail/idc/</A><BR><BR>iDC Photo Stream:<BR><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/idcnetwork/</A><BR><BR>RSS feed:<BR><A href="http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc">http://rss.gmane.org/gmane.culture.media.idc</A><BR><BR>iDC Chat on Facebook:<BR><A href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2457237647</A><BR><BR>Share relevant URLs on Del.icio.us by adding the tag iDCref<BR></SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR><BR><BR>Simon Biggs<BR>Research Professor<BR><FONT color=#fe7700>edinburgh college of art<BR></FONT>s.biggs@<FONT color=#fe7700>eca</FONT>.ac.uk<BR>www.<FONT color=#fe7700>eca</FONT>.ac.uk<BR><BR>simon@littlepig.org.uk<BR>www.littlepig.org.uk<BR>AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk<BR></SPAN></FONT><!--qsdbegin--><BR><PRE>Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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