I loved the #Horizon games, particularly the way it acts as a #critique of our current world, and how societies react to a literal apocalypse of our own making (in their case a robot apocalypse, in ours a climate apocalypse).

The critique I have however is in the...misguided optimism I suppose.

In Horizon we see the pre-plague world as a futuristic version of our own, with magnified issues as well. A technofuturist, VC techbro utopia for the few parts of the world that can enjoy it, but with obvious swathes of the world being used as fodder to fuel the fancy world order (the "peacekeeping" in areas of the world being an obvious tell).

The emergence of the Faro Plague, a quite literally monumentally stupid set of technological designs put together with no concern for people or the world at large, merely the possible profit it could generate. We see the same thing in our own climate apocalypse, technological innovation after innovation that seem to do either nothing to stop or make worse what we all know and see is coming.

All this is great!

The critique however comes from one thing to me. There is no Elisabet Sobeck that's going to swoop in and save the day, there is no Project Zero Dawn to galvanize the public long enough to take effective action, and there is no AI Goddess that will take over and fix our problems to reseed our people on a fresh virgin world.

That is the misguided optimism I criticize.

To fix our problem, there is no waiting it out or doing half measures. We do need a unifying plan. And we do in fact need technology to reduce and manage our current and future situations. And I mean technology that actually helps the world, not the profits of the rich or necessarily humans either.

I don't see that happening anytime soon.

So what can we do as individuals except to try and effect change where we can, organize, protest, teach, learn, and just to be genuine humans instead of this empty consumerist illusion that humanity has been sold.

I really do have hope for the future. It can be better. We can MAKE it better.

It's just going to likely more as not be a harder road than we hope.

@MarkIngs

Here is the page with the documentation 🫤

https://www.alexhead.com/cults-and-culture-talk

#UAP #architecture #Book #launch #critique, #design, #politics, #Theory #writing
#AlexHead #anti-rhizome #art, #Bitcoin #BND #Berlin #Cults #Culture #CulturalEpigenetics #Epigenetics #GoldStandard #Libertarianism #Memory #MentalHealth #ornament #publishing #Ricochet #SocialMedia #urbansim #whitesupremacy #Witnessing #thephenomenon #LjåForlag

@MarkIngs

Cults and Culture Talk
Moved to the 13th…

http://www.mottodistribution.com/site/?p=55001

Will live stream here: https://instagram.com/kult_epigenetic?igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==

#UAP #architecture #Book #launch #critique, #design, #politics, #Theory #writing
#AlexHead #anti-rhizome #art, #Bitcoin #BND #Berlin #Cults #Culture #CulturalEpigenetics #Epigenetics #GoldStandard #Libertarianism #Memory #MentalHealth #ornament #publishing #Ricochet #SocialMedia #urbansim #whitesupremacy #Witnessing #thephenomenon #LjåForlag

There’s A Problem with Anarchist Media – by Nerd Teacher

“Perhaps it starts with the fact that these anarchist media organisations are often established as formal businesses and nonprofits (even if they call themselves worker-run collectives). Infuriating though it might be, they have to be established in some way because they’re aware that they have to exist within a capitalist system. If they sell things and generate any kind of revenue, they’re required to submit taxes so that they can continue to provide their products for our “intellectual self-defense,” a term that feels a bit holier-than-thou for what buying a book or listening to a podcast is.

And honestly, I’m not here to say that all of the work they publish and share is meaningless because it isn’t. I have found numerous texts that have shifted my own ideas or helped me build upon or articulate others, and I’ve listened to people who have improved my understanding of different topics or sent me down rabbit holes I never expected to follow.

But it is telling that, though they claim to hold anti-capitalist values, they persist in using capitalist strategies and fail to recognise how that impacts them, the way they organise, and their customers. And that third category is customers because it’s not really comradeship to sell stuff. It can be seen in the ways they talk about their work and what they do, and it can be understood in the gaps they create because they’re too focused on competing in a capitalist system against traditional media (whether they recognise it or not).

It’s a bit perplexing that we’ve bought into this model so thoroughly, they’ve actively chosen to use these strategies. They recognise that traditional media is their competition, but they’re choosing to compete with them using their tools.

Should we be there? Yes. Should it be our primary focus? I really don’t think so..”

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/nerd-teacher-there-s-a-problem-with-anarchist-media

#AnarchistLibrary #AnarchistMedia #Critique #NerdTeacher

Pour bien débuter 2023, une #critique de l'idéal #bourgeois et du #capitalisme, associée à une analyse #sociologique de la bagnole & une pointe de #prospective. Un texte tout à la fois daté et d'actualité. Il est parfois bon de regarder dans le rétroviseur https://larotative.info/l-ideologie-sociale-de-la-bagnole-3011.html

"critique is service..if these powerful companies cannot release systems that meet the expectations of those most likely to be harmed by them, then their products are not ready to serve these communities and do not deserve widespread release."

https://www.wired.com/story/large-language-models-critique/

#critique #chatgpt #AIethics

Le miracle GTA RPZ

Que cache cet étrange objet culturel qui a soulevé les internets ? Simulation de série télé ? Théâtre d'impro vidéoludique ? Un tout nouvel art à part entière ? Exploration d'un événement aux ramifications parfois inattendues.

https://youtu.be/oxzev-ml-CY

#Bolchegeek #curiosité #vulgarisation #internet #streaming #critique #analyse #sociologie #culturePopulaire #culture #populaire #GTARPZ #GTA