[D-G] détruire les conceptualisations qui empêchent la pensée sui generis de tous

[.Sylvia_Jenepi.]

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« to destroy the conceptualizing wrong habit which kills sui generis 
thinking in everyone on Terra »
Le lun. 14 févr. 2022 à 12:28, Marine DaughterOfthePirate 
<marine.daughter.of.pirate at gmail.com> a écrit :

Hi Molly,

i am me too always amazed at the way work redistribution (division du 
travail, see Plato Republic or Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith for inst.) 
entices some people to create little devicery, tools (called concepts) 
while others are set to create devicery that are handled , or supposed 
by the conceptualizers to be handled (and their purpose seem indeed to 
make « their devices » to work « well », smoothly, even if unresponsible 
to the plans the others might have for the first devices (the one 
objects of reflexion of the conceptualizers). in the case of this 
discussion between Brian and Molly on the potential of art to bring new 
possibles, in the face of control society by corporation and state 
agents. In my view both corporate and state agents are though hiding 
under the gize of their own tools (for inst. premptive war, media 
debunking, non scientific or non experience based science « Expert 
Commitees » etc) these agents of both corporate militaro industrial 
conglomerate and state organization are i contend the organizers of the 
societies of control which Burroughs and Deleuze talked about. The 
interesting question the conceptualizers are setting to the minds of the 
lower layers (while setting their concepts to those who are supposed to 
be unable to think in advance probably because we are supposed to need 
each other in this division of intellectual labour (cfr Negri?) ie.the 
artists in this interrogation: will artists be able to develop tools 
working in cunjuction with the perceived necessities of our times (ie. 
Control societies, privacy etc)?
In response to this questioning,
I just want to express my experience as an artist now: this pressure is 
always either unproductive (like when you have something to say BUT the 
teacher in art school puts an agenda on your thoughts-work-unconscious 
intuitive-aesthetical personal agenda that makes it impossible for you 
to accomplish your own blossoming in it) either destructive: the young 
artist is actually not an artist (because he does not think by himself) 
and will just adapt to societies other players (among which « theorists 
» intellectuals or media glue).
This is the true Tragedy of our time.
Because it IS true: the lower layers are the true answer to unblock the 
misery of the present (and future!!) control society. not only the 
artists, but the any workers who produce the tools to production that 
are free work and self liberation. the assemblage of tools which 
theorists and conceptualizer « reflect » upon only in a general view, 
which is smooth and large in scope and aesthetic in its own assemblage 
intensities (for the subjectivities) but which has the problem to 
depotentialise the free work synergy: indeed: reflexion (even when 
elaborating on art potential for freedom from control societies 
parameters) blocks and captures, attracts new problems, new knots to 
stiffen and transforms dark matter  into more control: why? because 
thinking, by your self, is so important in this decodage of control 
societies, and the theorist absorbs any capacity (captures) of thinking 
by your self of the other « lower » layers (called here lower only 
because reflexion is general and assumes implicitely superiority in 
smoothness).

The importance thus for theory in this fight can only be in destruction: 
destruction of this capacity of some others to conceptualize and to 
capture the « lower » layers inner capacity to think.

Thats what the 1968 theorist dimly understood: ATP elaborates on how the 
intellectuals had been overflown by the situationists and new discovered 
molecularity of people in the streets of Paris or Bologna to think by 
themselves, instead than to listen and follow to old school Marxists or 
Adam Smiths theorists and Experts in street becoming or instituted in 
world forums, internet and media platforms, which simply have been built 
to please Condoleza Rice and the likes of them. The hidden  Hawks!!

Thought should not reflect but create, always build new emotions to 
share with others, new visions, new ideas, in autonomous synergies: 
never dry concept shared without building some sensual flesh IN YOU as 
someone given by and with the Infinite Growing Substance in You, with 
this wonder: to discover in your own thinking pace, how adequately to 
resist other people meta-verse cancer, and start on a new dawn for 
Earth, to enjoy the impossible bliss to think by yourself on this 
planet.

Sincerely, un saludo a todo aquí

Sylvia Jenepi





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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2022 16:02:20 -0800
 From: Molly Hankwitz <mollyhankwitz at gmail.com>
To: Sean Cubitt <sean.cubitt at unimelb.edu.au>
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hello thread,

I have had a moment to reflect upon these recent comments on 'boris'
thread...(he seems to ape a kind of 'american model' of the 'family man'
and that's all i have to say)

thank you, sean cubitt, for your hope and lighter note and sense that 
art
might turn recuperative and bring on fantastic responses, even if not 
able
to solve all the global problems, at least maybe artists are capable of
taking off in some fantastic directions while we wait to see what's 
going
to happen...
(sean writes)

<so it is heartening to remember that the equivalent period after WW1 
and
the Spanish influenza a hundred years ago gave us the Duino Elegies and
Ulysses. Audiovisual media have been maturing for about the same time as
the novel had been in 1922: perhaps this pandemic year we'll see similar
aesthetico-political breakthrough>



and to Brian's thoughts, along with those with whom he shares them...


(Brian writes)

<From the get-go this is a corporate state that develops social 
functions
for the needs of enterprise. But as a socially transformative force the
state "comes back in" (as the poly sci people say) whenever there is a
collective issue such as war, drought, systemic economic crisis that 
cannot
...[pretend to].... be resolved through market relations. It's the only 
way
the state can retain legitimacy>


civil society unfortunately eroded as it is...didn't jurgen habermas
predict this problem in some analysis about corporations becoming larger
than the state? platforms being what they are and FB losing 29 million 
in a
day...maybe there is some kind of collective action of disgust



(Brian writes)

<under the pressures of global inequality and climate

change, we are going experience many excruciating versions of this 
return

of collective agency.>


sequels smile


(and more from Brian)

<However, like Patrice and Joe too, I have serious doubts whether the
corporate state can fulfill its democratic promises. It was amazing to 
see
plans for transformative state investment come together along with the
vaccines during the early phases of the pandemic, then reach

the US legislative process in 2021. What next occurred was a breakdown 
of
that legislative process in the face of identitarian right-wing 
political

agitation, to the point where a US administration trying to fight

inequality and climate change through a comprehensive economic program
designed primarily by Bernie Sanders....>


infrastructure bills to build back better bridges and roads which are in
terrible condition...crumbling...which would bring in jobs are not even
impressing those who seem to want democratic state...along with the 
voter
suppression...its corporate controlled right wing lawmakers who are 
behind
this - read ALEC - making "model laws" which can be easily copied
state-to-state and passed by willing members in state 
legislatures...they
are bent on eroding federal government. federal government in the US is 
the
only democratic state we have.


i think there is just not enough action-filled action to Biden's style -
for the likes of the social media-brained population weaned on linear
immediacy (my term for how we get our kix on social media, liking) - 
Biden
is quiet, semi-diligent, a bit elderly, and wants to be liked for
federalizing legal marijuana...not a bleach blonde or tanning bed
flamboyant...admin made up of quiet non-media seeking people like Deb
Hallend...it is our fad-seeking population that may not know what 
democracy
(in terms of legislation and action looks-like any more and 
unfortunately,
young people are too pissed about policing to consider even the most
rudimentary democrat worthwhile...even if the media pics of the state
become more multicultural...democratic civil society has eroded! answer:
return to "civics" in public schools.  in california, we have a big 
problem
of start up companies breaking state laws to operate business as a fad 
and
gaining tons of profit...then some public peon or child gets hurt and
suddenly...the disrupting 'no rules' philosophy becomes complete amnesia
and ...whatever happened to that state law...when in fact they are doing
"green" work for the benefit of "society"...


<is now courting war with Russia as a

desperate attempt to hang onto power.>


yes, its concerning that the only model Joe Biden and his admin seem to 
be
able to conjure up for a democratic state trying to deal with the 
climate
crisis is the Cold War and potential environmental devastation (Ukraine,
what's that?) from a battle...


Brian writes:


< Instead the question is whether you

can engage with the most far-thinking scientists, indigenous leaders and

environmental justice activists to turn the corporate state into an

ecostate.>


it is the only way to go one vegetable at a time. I think we should
collectively move the Organic Consumers Association (which is run by
indigenous leaders and organic farmers and consumers) into the white 
house
and let them tell us what to do with mother earth




<What's missing,  particularly in the cultural and intellectual

fields, is...>


maybe no longer missing....


< a fully fledged and broadly sharable vision of exactly what that

last word could mean in your own life - and in your own body.>


mollyxx




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