POL-MONOLOG / David Potočnik
For Thu, 2017-05-11 @Rog social centre
Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/1341251335964805/?ref=br_rs
Table of Contents
| 1 | (ENG) |
| 2 | (SLO) |
| 2.1 | Tokrat |
| 2.2 | Kdo je David Potočnik? |
¶(ENG)
Something about totalism
Totalism is a [dynamic towards a] consistent and consequential re-systematization of all knowledge. For this purpose, it needs a new substrate (which is not "daily news", "polemic essay", "social network" - or, not at all a "text" or a "media" as we currently know them). Fancy words aside. Totalism is a sort of a differently grounded communism which, on one side, eyes 100 years back towards the communist-scientist Alexander Bogdanov, when he speaks about tektology or "the universal organisational science"; on the other, towards the psychedelic-cyberneticist Ted Nelson, when he talks about hypermedia; and finally, into the deep contemporary - a new organisational vision, and the corresponding tactical practices.
Something about postcapitalist lifestyles
The previous "pol" [event] with Erik Valenčič laid out with excellence the Situation, how it came to be, what sustains it, what it might lead to, and how, then, to respond as the political avantgarde.
I, however, would like to convince you, at least performatively, to immediately cease going to your wretched work; to cancel your rented room and reorganize into different living configurations; to cease eating outside; to pest everyone with Apple computers; so, to cease feeding the capitalist monstrosity. Not because this would make you some sort of a "better person", but for this insurgence, given the adequate infrastructural support: opens space-times; to further open space-times; then ???; then postcapitalism.
I will be channeling this through a bunch of practices of "CHT", a hackerbase towards postcapitalism, which I have been co-maintaining for the last 5 years on Lanzarote, and is my main living and working habitat.
Gossipping the Slovenian, European and global "left scene"
Comrades!, with this I suggest to crack open some beers, and gaze into the other, not-my-"pol" [event name, meaning "half"]. I wanted to say that, since I'm spending little time in Slovenia in the recent years, I dont give too much of a fuck, so I'll be able to speak with hazy enthusiasm about our left cliques, cliches, "the party" pretensions, bloated theoretizing, lack of practice, glorification of community micropolitics, ... and wait for the responses. But, isn't it the same drama, everywhere? Can the left be more than just the conviction, with which we pride ourself? What would be a practicing left, and what are some down-to-earth, but grand, technicized future-gazing, but natureful visions?
P.S.
Love in capitalism is a stupid insincere idea.
"We are comrades when we face the same dangers." (Platonov)
Something about totalism
Totalism is a [dynamic towards a] consistent and consequential re-systematization of all knowledge. For this purpose, it needs a new substrate (which is not "daily news", "polemic essay", "social network" - or, not at all a "text" or a "media" as we currently know them). Fancy words aside. Totalism is a sort of a differently grounded communism which, on one side, eyes 100 years back towards the communist-scientist Alexander Bogdanov, when he speaks about tektology or "the universal organisational science"; on the other, towards the psychedelic-cyberneticist Ted Nelson, when he talks about hypermedia; and finally, into the deep contemporary - a new organisational vision, and the corresponding tactical practices.
Something about postcapitalist lifestyles
The previous "pol" [event] with Erik Valenčič laid out with excellence the Situation, how it came to be, what sustains it, what it might lead to, and how, then, to respond as the political avantgarde.
I, however, would like to convince you, at least performatively, to immediately cease going to your wretched work; to cancel your rented room and reorganize into different living configurations; to cease eating outside; to pest everyone with Apple computers; so, to cease feeding the capitalist monstrosity. Not because this would make you some sort of a "better person", but for this insurgence, given the adequate infrastructural support: opens space-times; to further open space-times; then ???; then postcapitalism.
I will be channeling this through a bunch of practices of "CHT", a hackerbase towards postcapitalism, which I have been co-maintaining for the last 5 years on Lanzarote, and is my main living and working habitat.
Gossipping the Slovenian, European and global "left scene"
Comrades!, with this I suggest to crack open some beers, and gaze into the other, not-my-"pol" [event name, meaning "half"]. I wanted to say that, since I'm spending little time in Slovenia in the recent years, I dont give too much of a fuck, so I'll be able to speak with hazy enthusiasm about our left cliques, cliches, "the party" pretensions, bloated theoretizing, lack of practice, glorification of community micropolitics, ... and wait for the responses. But, isn't it the same drama, everywhere? Can the left be more than just the conviction, with which we pride ourself? What would be a practicing left, and what are some down-to-earth, but grand, technicized future-gazing, but natureful visions?
P.S.
Love in capitalism is a stupid insincere idea.
"We are comrades when we face the same dangers." (Platonov)
¶ Tokrat
Nekaj o totalizmu.
Totalizem je dinamika naproti konsistentni in konsekventni re-sistematizaciji vsega znanja. Za to nalogo potrebuje nov substrat (ki ni "dnevni časnik", "polemični esej", "družabno omrežje", "znanstveni članek" - oziroma sploh ni "tekst" ali "medij", kot jih trenutno poznamo). Brez dolgovezenja, totalizem je neke sorte zelo drugače vpet komunizem, ki se na eni strani ozira 100 let nazaj k komunistu-znanstveniku Aleksandru Bogdanovu, ko ta govori o tektologiji oz "univerzalni organizacijski znanosti"; na drugi 50 let nazaj proti psihadeličnem kibernetiku Tedu Nelsonu, ko govori o hipermedijih; na tretji v globoko sedanjost - v novo organizacijsko vizijo, in pripadajoče vsakodnevne taktične prakse.
Nekaj o postkapitalističnih lajfstajlih.
Prejšnji "pol" Erika Valenčiča je z odličnostjo orisal kaj je situacija, kako je do nje prišlo, kaj jo vzdržuje, kakšna scena se utegne zgoditi, in kako takrat odreagirati kot politična avantgarda.
Jaz bi vas rad prepričal, vsaj performativno, da kar nemudoma nehate hodit v morebitne bedne službe; da odpoveste svoje morebitne najete sobe in se reorganizirate v drugačne življenske skupnosti; da prenehate hodit ven jest; da težite vsem, ki imajo Apple računalnik; skratka, da nehate hranit kapitalistično pošast. In to nikakor ne zato, ker bi s tem postali kao boljši posamezniki, ampak ker ta "insurgence", ob ustrezni infrastrukturni podpori: odpira prostor-čase; za nadaljna odpiranja prostor-časov; zatem ???; zatem postkapitalizem.
To nameravam govoriti skozi razno malho praks "CHT", hekerske baze naproti postkapitalizmu, ki jo so-vzdržujem že 5 let na Lanzaroteju, in je moj glavni življenski in delovni habitat.
Nekaj pogledov na slovensko, evropsko, svetovno "levo sceno".
Tovariši_ce, ob tem delu predlagam odpreti piva in zabresti v drugo, ne mojo "pol". Hotel sem reči, da, ker me zadnjih nekaj let ni skoraj nič v Sloveniji, me nekoliko bk, in da bom lahko z lahnim zanosom govoril o naših levih klikah, klišejih, partijskih pretenzijah, nabuhlem teoretiziranju, pomanjkanju prakse, poveličevanju skupnostnega mikropolitiziranja, ... ter pri tem pričakoval odzive. Ampak, saj a ni povsod pravzaprav ista drama? A je lahko levica več kot samo prepričanje, s katerim se ponaša(mo)? Kaj bi bila "practicing" levica, in kje so neke prizemljene, toda velike, s tehnicirano prihodnostjo soočene, toda narave polne vizije?
P.S.
Ljubezen v kapitalizmu je neumna, neiskrena ideja.
"Tovariši smo, ko se soočamo z enakimi nevarnostmi." (Platonov)
Nekaj o totalizmu.
Totalizem je dinamika naproti konsistentni in konsekventni re-sistematizaciji vsega znanja. Za to nalogo potrebuje nov substrat (ki ni "dnevni časnik", "polemični esej", "družabno omrežje", "znanstveni članek" - oziroma sploh ni "tekst" ali "medij", kot jih trenutno poznamo). Brez dolgovezenja, totalizem je neke sorte zelo drugače vpet komunizem, ki se na eni strani ozira 100 let nazaj k komunistu-znanstveniku Aleksandru Bogdanovu, ko ta govori o tektologiji oz "univerzalni organizacijski znanosti"; na drugi 50 let nazaj proti psihadeličnem kibernetiku Tedu Nelsonu, ko govori o hipermedijih; na tretji v globoko sedanjost - v novo organizacijsko vizijo, in pripadajoče vsakodnevne taktične prakse.
Nekaj o postkapitalističnih lajfstajlih.
Prejšnji "pol" Erika Valenčiča je z odličnostjo orisal kaj je situacija, kako je do nje prišlo, kaj jo vzdržuje, kakšna scena se utegne zgoditi, in kako takrat odreagirati kot politična avantgarda.
Jaz bi vas rad prepričal, vsaj performativno, da kar nemudoma nehate hodit v morebitne bedne službe; da odpoveste svoje morebitne najete sobe in se reorganizirate v drugačne življenske skupnosti; da prenehate hodit ven jest; da težite vsem, ki imajo Apple računalnik; skratka, da nehate hranit kapitalistično pošast. In to nikakor ne zato, ker bi s tem postali kao boljši posamezniki, ampak ker ta "insurgence", ob ustrezni infrastrukturni podpori: odpira prostor-čase; za nadaljna odpiranja prostor-časov; zatem ???; zatem postkapitalizem.
To nameravam govoriti skozi razno malho praks "CHT", hekerske baze naproti postkapitalizmu, ki jo so-vzdržujem že 5 let na Lanzaroteju, in je moj glavni življenski in delovni habitat.
Nekaj pogledov na slovensko, evropsko, svetovno "levo sceno".
Tovariši_ce, ob tem delu predlagam odpreti piva in zabresti v drugo, ne mojo "pol". Hotel sem reči, da, ker me zadnjih nekaj let ni skoraj nič v Sloveniji, me nekoliko bk, in da bom lahko z lahnim zanosom govoril o naših levih klikah, klišejih, partijskih pretenzijah, nabuhlem teoretiziranju, pomanjkanju prakse, poveličevanju skupnostnega mikropolitiziranja, ... ter pri tem pričakoval odzive. Ampak, saj a ni povsod pravzaprav ista drama? A je lahko levica več kot samo prepričanje, s katerim se ponaša(mo)? Kaj bi bila "practicing" levica, in kje so neke prizemljene, toda velike, s tehnicirano prihodnostjo soočene, toda narave polne vizije?
P.S.
Ljubezen v kapitalizmu je neumna, neiskrena ideja.
"Tovariši smo, ko se soočamo z enakimi nevarnostmi." (Platonov)
¶ Kdo je David Potočnik?
http://totalism.org/d
Je človek, je kibernetik, je popisovalec, je praktik. Je hippie, je totalist in levičar. A naše besede so brezveze, saj poskuša na svoji strani zapisati več ali manj vse: http://totalism.org/
Ideološko: http://totalism.org/commonground
Rez iz strani o "jedrnih interesih":
"Self-sustainability, off-grid, autarky / resilience and temporary architecture research & alternative construction // Free software and free hardware development // Free Industry // Open data, workflow and organisational technology, Tektology // Hypermedia // Digital nomadism // Critical theory // Anthropocene // Sound studio, bands, Intermedia Art // Growing food // Renewable energy technologies // Nootropics // A nomad hacker lifestyle in a network of hacklabs // "Coliving" and "Coworking" // Hacker camp // Financial and temporal freedom // Autonomy"
-- Modri Kot
http://totalism.org/d
Je človek, je kibernetik, je popisovalec, je praktik. Je hippie, je totalist in levičar. A naše besede so brezveze, saj poskuša na svoji strani zapisati več ali manj vse: http://totalism.org/
Ideološko: http://totalism.org/commonground
Rez iz strani o "jedrnih interesih":
"Self-sustainability, off-grid, autarky / resilience and temporary architecture research & alternative construction // Free software and free hardware development // Free Industry // Open data, workflow and organisational technology, Tektology // Hypermedia // Digital nomadism // Critical theory // Anthropocene // Sound studio, bands, Intermedia Art // Growing food // Renewable energy technologies // Nootropics // A nomad hacker lifestyle in a network of hacklabs // "Coliving" and "Coworking" // Hacker camp // Financial and temporal freedom // Autonomy"
-- Modri Kot