Consciousness

Marxist—Buddhist

[dhammicsocialist]

In retelling origin stories, cyborg authors subvert the central myths of origin of Western culture. We have all been colonized by those origin myths, with their longing for fulfilment in apocalypse. The phallogocentric origin stories most crucial for feminist cyborgs are built into the literal technologies — technologies that write the world, biotechnology and microelectronics — that have recently textualized our bodies as code problems on the grid of C3I. Feminist cyborg stories have the task of re-coding communication and intelligence to subvert command and control.

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).

[dhammicsocialist]

Within the framework of three major stages of capitalism (commercial/early industrial, monopoly, multinational) — tied to nationalism, imperialism, and multinationalism, and related to Jameson's three dominant aesthetic periods of realism, modernism, and postmodernism — I would argue that specific forms of families dialectically relate to forms of capital and to its political and cultural concomitants. Although lived problematically and unequally, ideal forms of these families might be schematized as (1) the patriarchal nuclear family, structured by the dichotomy between public and private and accompanied by the white bourgeois ideology of separate spheres and nineteenth-century Anglo-American bourgeois feminism; (2) the modern family mediated (or enforced) by the welfare state and institutions like the family wage, with a flowering of a-feminist heterosexual ideologies, including their radical versions represented in Greenwich Village around the First World War; and (3) the 'family' of the homework economy with its oxymoronic structure of women-headed households and its explosion of feminisms and the paradoxical intensification and erosion of gender itself.

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).

[dhammicsocialist]

One important route for reconstructing socialist-feminist politics is through theory and practice addressed to the social relations of science and technology, including crucially the systems of myth and meanings structuring our imaginations. The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code. Communications technologies and biotechnologies are the crucial tools recrafting our bodies. These tools embody and enforce new social relations for women world-wide. Technologies and scientific discourses can be partially understood as formalizations, i.e., as frozen moments, of the fluid social interactions constituting them, but they should also be viewed as instruments for enforcing meanings. The boundary is permeable between tool and myth, instrument and concept, historical systems of social relations and historical anatomies of possible bodies, including objects of knowledge. Indeed, myth and tool mutually constitute each other.

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).

[dhammicsocialist]

Beyond either the difficulties or the contributions in the argument of any one author, neither Marxist nor radical feminist points of view have tended to embrace the status of a partial explanation; both were regularly constituted as totalities. Western explanation has demanded as much; how else could the 'Western' author incorporate its others? Each tried to annex other forms of domination by expanding its basic categories through analogy, simple listing, or addition. Embarrassed silence about race among white radical and socialist feminists was one major, devastating political consequence. History and polyvocality disappear into political taxonomies that try to establish genealogies. There was no structural room for race (or for much else) in theory claiming to reveal the construction of the category woman and social group women as a unified or totalizable whole.

Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).

[dhammicsocialist]

None of 'us' have any longer the symbolic or material capability of dictating the shape of reality to any of 'them'. Or at least 'we' cannot claim innocence from practicing such dominations. White women, including socialist feminists, discovered (that is, were forced kicking and screaming to notice) the non-innocence of the category 'woman'.

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991).

[samdashh-deactivated20210615]

do you ever just want to go outside in the middle of the night and walk around and not actually do anything just observe and think and stuff

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This is actually a thing I like to do

[dhammicsocialist]

I often want to but I don't feel safe because I have to carry around an apparently-violence-provoking vagina. :(

[dhammicsocialist]

The dream of some Uyghurs after 1949—those who believed the Chinese communists’ earlier promises of self-determination for national minorities—was that the PRC would establish Soviet-style republics. In the end, however, Mao didn’t recognize the right to self-determination of the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Mongols, and others.

Nabijan Tursun, "Yearning for a Republic Erased from the Map," (PDF) on the history of the East Turkestan/"Xinjiang" conflict (from a Uyghur perspective).

[thinksquad-deactivated20190405]

LAFAYETTE, Colo. – An elementary school principal says she was fired for protecting children from humiliation.

Noelle Roni says she fought against a policy requiring kids to get their hands stamped if they don’t have enough money in their lunch account. She was fired from Peak to Peak Charter School in Lafayette in the fall.

“The kids are humiliated. They’re branded. It’s disrespectful. Where’s the human compassion? And these are little children,” she said.

Roni was principal for nine years before being fired. She calls it a wrongful termination, and wants her job back.

[assangistan-deactivated20200803]

MUST SEE & I think I posted this before but not the pic, it wouldn’t hurt though, #R.I.P Aaron Swartz.

On the first Anniversary of Aaron Swartz, today the Anonymous group of hackers defaced the sub-domain of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) website (http://cogen.mit.edu/) for about an hour as part of #OPLASTRESORT.

[littletexts]

[keenanthony-deactivated20150310]

In memoriam, Aaron H. Swartz, 8 November 1986 — 11 January 2013. American technologist, ethicist, activist for civil justice. Friend to the Internet community. He was 26. He died for the crime of downloading academic journals that mankind might prosper from the open sharing of scientific knowledge.

[atmagaialove]

Step into the fire of self-discovery.  This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. 

~Mooji

[cryptid-sighting]

[dhammicsocialist]

A deep ethical-theoretical question to the anarcho-capitalist (anti-)community.

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[kashmijr]

“Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game.”

– Terence McKenna (via lifeslushlips)

[assangistan-deactivated20200803]

MUST READ & #FreeAnakata & #Givehimpropertreatment

Pirate bay founder back in court as ‘proper treatment’ petition gets over 50,000 signatories

via RT.com

The Pirate Bay founder, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, has returned to Danish court after his imprisonment was extended for three weeks in December. Meanwhile, an online petition to improve his jail conditions has gained over 54,000 signatures.

The hearing is being held behind closed doors. During a previous hearing last month, entry to the proceedings was also restricted. His attorney Louisa Hoj maintains this is an unnecessary precaution.

“The prosecutor has so far argued that the case is sensitive and that the hearings should be held behind closed doors, but I don’t think that the things we are discussing are particularly delicate, and it would be good for the Danish people to see what is really going on in this case,” Hoj told The Copenhagen Post.

On December 18, Frederiksberg City Court ruled that Warg, aka ‘anakata’, was to spend an additional three weeks behind bars.

Warg is now facing six years in prison on charges of hacking the Danish social security database, driver’s license database, and the shared IT system used in the Schengen zone. He pleaded not guilty.

The “Free Anakata” group has drawn attention to Warg’s imprisonment comparing his “unbearable conditions” to those received by convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik in Norway, who killed 77 people in 2011.

“Stop treating activists worse than mass murders,” their petition demands.

The campaign points out that Warg is denied the ability to read “newspapers, magazines, books that are in the prison library, or his books that were brought from Sweden with him during extradition.” Aside from that, his total contact with other inmates cannot exceed nine hours a week, according to the group.

Addressed to both Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and the Justice Ministry, the petition criticizes Warg’s isolation and calls for him to be provided reading material.

The petition, launched on December 26, has gained significant support following the “Twitter storm” which began on Tuesday. Prior to the storm, not many more than 1,000 people had signed the petition. The petition has already got more than 54,000 signatories.

The “Free Anakata” team posted a list of links and called on Warg’s supporters to tweet them starting at 8am GMT on January, 7.

“Please join us as we speak out against his unjust treatment and let the world know that anakata is, in fact, a political prisoner,” the group said.

Convicted of Internet piracy back in 2009, Warg had already been serving a one year jail term in Sweden for hacking, where he was extradited from Cambodia in 2012. He was then handed over to neighboring Denmark in November 2013, extradited from Sweden after facing charges of hacking into a Swedish public database while he was in the country, and losing an appeal to the Swedish Supreme Court.

The popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was founded in Sweden in 2003 by Warg and two others – Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde – to allow its users do download music, films, and video games free of charge.

The website later moved its domain to .sx, which is registered in Sint Maarten, a Dutch territory in the Caribbean, due to frequent attempts by the Swedish authorities to shut it down.

[ragemovement]

[assangistan-deactivated20200803]

via ragemovement:

Ow

Stop here. I want a ride!