#capitalocene

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MAXXI: Rereading Relational Art, Thirty Years Later

What counts as a gesture of art today? Can it emerge from an everyday action, a fleeting interaction, or a shared moment rather than an object to be contemplated? These questions resurface vividly in 1+1. The Relational Years, the exhibition at the MAXXI that revisits the legacy of Relational Art three decades after Nicolas Bourriaud first theorized it. From the beginning, the exhibition does…

[villasugandhala]

Les Rouages (Secrets) des Ultras Riches pour Exploiter la Planète - Moni...

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Fundamentally, capitalism isn't an economy at all, as this word derives from oikos = household and nomos = law or management. From an evolutionary perspective, however, capitalism is destroying our home, the Earth, within a fraction of a second, which amounts to ruinous exploitation, sawing off the branch on which all life sits.

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So I’ve had type one diabetes for 24 years. During most of that time, I’ve been on the same medications. Control of my diabetes has only fluctuated for two reasons: access to medication (price and insurance) and stress (usually related to pricing and insurance). This morning, my RN messaged me to tell me they would withhold the prescription request I made at my appointment last week until I got a test. The test is no issue, it’s a basic A1c test, but the choice to withhold my medication, that which without will make me deathly ill, over a test that will give the same result it has for the last 24 years: sorrry, still diabetic, need insulin, blah blah blah, feels like an assault on my bodily autonomy. After sucking up my dignity and begging for my medication refill until I can take time off work to get the test, I only saw the medication approved for one refill this morning, Xmas eve, when the pharmacy will be closed, leaving me fucked for two days.

This is why people hate our healthcare system.

This is exactly why.

Your medical providers and insurance providers wave the hand of god and decide which of us gets to sit with ketoacidosis.

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“Are you depressed because of who you are, or because you’re working two mind-numbing jobs at minimum wage? Is it you, or is it capitalism?” (Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, 2019)

I just finished getting through The People’s Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski, and I have to say it felt spot on. The book gives you a good background on various instances of economic planning from Walmart to the NHS, followed by how neoliberalism ruined the NHS, as well as a brief history of the ussr.

Planned economies work, but right now they’re serving private interests like Walmart and Amazon, not us. Rather than being a statistical impossibility, advances, and computing technology have made planned economies, far more reliable than the market (or the gambling den, where government is the casino, big corp is the House, and the rest of us are the gambling losers).

Can you imagine what it would be like if we used the same technology for tracking and predicting purchases to meet the needs and even the desires of the people? Can you imagine a world where planning is used for the benefit of people over profit? Or a world where we do the best for the most instead of pursuing the most for the least?

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CAPITALOCENE - ENJOY YOUR SYMPTOMS (E.Y.S) | TEASER

E.Y.S adalah band beraliran Rock Alternatif yang menuangkan berbagai gagasan filosofis ke dalam musik. Diisi oleh Zuhdi Sang (vokal), DidiNov(gitar), Moe (gitar), dan Ibonk (bass)

Nama Enjoy Your Simptoms (EYS) dipinjam dari judul karya seorang Filsuf Psikoanalis, Slavoj Zizek (2003), yang secara umum bisa diartikan suatu upaya untuk selalu menyadari dan menikmati hidup sehari-hari sebagai gejala dari situasi yang dalam (batin atau alam bawah sadar).

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The people of Plastic Sands are proud to announce that artists Mad Barbier and Egg Dahl have been awarded funding through the 2023 arts3C grant program to pursue an experimental publication project.

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Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Necrocene "To confront Anthropocene crisis is not to cast a prospect of dis-tancing projection onto a deep past or lost future but, rather, to work from within the scene in which we are enmeshed, the Anthropocene as a landscape of genocide. With what they call the 'orbis hypothesis,' climate scientists Simon L. Lewis and Mark A. Maslin propose 1610 CE as the 'golden spike' origin point for the Anthropocene. Working from the proposition that the effects of genocide are registered as declining levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide measurable by traces in arctic ice cores, the orbis hypothesis positions colonial encounter, the transatlantic slave trade, and its lethal effects on indigenous plants, animals, and peoples as pivotal. In representing the Anthropocene as a scene of genocide precipitated by the fatal transformation of world into orbis, or territorialized globe, by techniques of colonial landscaping—that is, 'exposure to dis-eases carried by Europeans, plus war, enslavement and famine' along with the transfer of plant and animal species between Europe and the Americas, leading to a significant loss in bio-diversity and acceleration of species extinction rates—it might, rather, be named the Necrocene. It is not a term I have coined, but one I give a particular twist that foregrounds the agencies and power-producing effects of making die."

Read the full thing at https://necrocenenecrolandscaping.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/12_casid.pdf