http://www.publicseminar.org/2014/11/postpolitical-infrastructures/#.VGyUSfnF-So
“Can the planet be hacked? That might be the question for these times. Can the infrastructure being built out, one which precludes by design old-fashioned ‘politics’, yield to new kinds of engagement? These would seem to be very timely questions. Everybody knows the current infrastructure is not one that can last. In a way, it does not even exist, given that on the longer time frames of the Anthropocene it will flicker like an image and be gone. Hopefully to be replaced by a more habitable one.
Easterling: “Laissez-faire was planned; planning was not.” (156) Perhaps neither markets not plans are adequate metaphors for organization at scale any more. Hayek was right about the limits of planning as an information and organization system. We now know that the geo-engineering of freedom, where market signals are legislated and architected into primacy, has not worked much better. There’s some keys and tools for thinking otherwise in Easterling’s book, and that is what makes it so timely and interesting.”
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Great stuff. I ordered the Easterling book before even getting to the end! Looks fascinating.
be interested in yer take on it, she’s definitely sharp:
these problems of expertise, organization, and collective-rule are deep ones that often get overlooked in more bookish conversations and part of why I haunt the good folks @ http://installingorder.org/
but yes we need tool/hacking labs for all kinds of practices/systems, part of the gestalt-shift behind many of our favorite thinkers is about foregrounding the taken-for-granted background/infrastructures/re-sources/etc a sort of making explicit/un-canny if you will and than a bit of reverse-engineering and hacking, part of why I ramble on about assembling proto-types vs peddling/policing arche-types.
http://peerproduction.net/issues/issue-2/peer-reviewed-papers/hacklabs-and-hackerspaces/
Building an online library or resource center for hacking techniques would certainly be a worthwhile project! Have you encountered anything of the sort?
not really, thought we should be/build one, want in?
Absolutely!
I’ll email you a link to michael/archive-fire our good host here