LewisMumford

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Almere, the first solarpunk city? Sustainable Dutch tech shows how we could live(bluelabyrinths.com)
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Digital Reincarnation: LuYang NetiNeti – A New Digital Art Exhbition in London(bluelabyrinths.com)
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Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation(bluelabyrinths.com)
1 points by LewisMumford 4y ago|1 comments
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
"Dylan Mulvin’s ‘Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In’ invites the reader to consider the ways in which representation through proxies, often viewed as an arbitrary scientific or technical process of prima facie neutrality, may pr
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Distracting Ourselves Together(bluelabyrinths.com)
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
>Can you qualify this statement a bit more? I don't really agree here. The Matrix doesn't even appear in this list It's obviously going to be somewhat subjective, but if take film critics or scholars words to have any weig
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Fair enough!
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
The fact that the two most inflential sci fi movies of all time are both cyberpunk tells you all you need to know. Even the fact they decided to make a modern CP2077, and how hyped it was, shows how much cultural force the genre still has.
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Absolutely. Having an ideal to fight for and a vision of a better future are both necessary to move beyond the current system.
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Totally disagree. Solarpunk is providing an out for the future that cyberpunk warns us about. Hoplessness is endemic amongst the young people in Western socities at the moment. A hopeful vision for the future is something necessary to perva
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
> there’s a -punk there, and not just because it’s become a trendy suffix. There’s an oppositional quality to solarpunk, but it’s an opposition that begins with infrastructure as a form of resistance.” > Green, sustainable infrastruct
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
B. Fuller is a legend and revolutionary in a lot of ways. Have you read any Sloterdijk? He takes a lot of his ideas on and applies them more strictly to philosophy.
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Underground and generally unpopular aesthetic? Really? Biggest sci-fi movie of the 80s? Blade Runner. Biggest sci-fi movie of the 90s? The Matrix. And these aren't just the biggest sci-fi movies, they were huge cultural phenomena when
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
To me it feels absolutely anti corporate, even if that twee cartoon was a from a corporate ad. Solarpunk is about conceptualising new ways to invent the future. It's not kitsch like steampunk. It seems like the early days of a movement
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
It was literally a speculative design. These things happen a lot in architecture. They lay the way for future projects even if they themselves will never be built. They are rebuilding the roof exactly as it was...
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
It didn't say anything about advocating. It was a vision of the future that cam true in a lot of senses. But now it's run out of steam. It seems dated. New visions of the future are necessary, and solarpunk is one of them. That&#x
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
The lived environment isn't sufficient to catalyse political change, as seen in Singapore, but it's definitely a start. Projecting a better future is the first step in making it into reality. If these ideas start to pervade the pu
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Tbf the 2.0 aspect was almost purely aesthetic, but saying that in that article there is a specific mention of things like phones and other tech that's so ingrained in the society in way that wouldn't have been imaginable in the 8
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
It's to distinguish from technology which has more of a specific philosophical meaning. Technics can refer to practice (e.g. techniques) as well as objects.
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by LewisMumford 4y ago
Absolutely. Any future requires speculation and imagination before practical application. Both go hand in hand.