Re: <nettime> Bifo: Beyond the Breakdown. Three Meditations on a, Possible Aftermath

[podinski <podinski@mailbox.org>]

dear Bifo and any Haraway Cyborgy hangers-on,

Let's set the record straight...

Haraway doesn't get much right, and when she does, it's like trying to
digest a hairball that has been collecting under the lab fridge.

>From the XLterrestrials perspective Haraway has been entirely useless in
this unfolding cybernetic order/casino/mousetrap/deathtrap/greyGoo...
and her companion species havent offered much help either, unless you
have an actual living-breathing non-theoretical one cuddled in your lap
for some warmth.

Her thoughts on Critters will probably be as helpful in the Corona
epidemic Times as a Joe Biden dress rehearsal for the expanded
curriculum and epic 4-decades-long retrospective dance performance of
all the skeletons in the racist white-supremacist neoliberalist
imperialist closets. And she is about insightful for cultures of
resistance as a twittering Orange Piglet-Snake-Rat+WallStreet-Baboon in
a Chimerican uniform.

Where was Haraway when all the whistleblowers did their detournement
checkmate moves on the mass new media pipelines ( Cyborg Inc. +
Techno-fascism ) ?

Nowhere to be seen!

Where was Haraway during all the protests against Monsanto, and as Big
Agro was worming its way into all the UC academic institutions ... and
prof Ignacio Chapela was being denied tenure at UC Berkeley... and
taught his courses out on the lawn in protest.

Nowhere to be seen !

Where was Haraway when migrant families and children were being caged at
the Us/Mex border ? And when iCE continues to make raids in the midst of
a nightmare pandemic ?

Nowhere to be seen !

Where was Haraway when ALL of the Silicon Valley companies scooped all
yur data for their booming surveillance krapitalism gold rush ?

Nowhere to be seen !

Where was Haraway's eco-feminism when eco-activist Judi Bari ( who
fought to protect the California  forests + eco-systems ) had a bomb
planted in her car by FBI agents, survived for many years after, and
fought in courts to prove that she was innocent of planting the bomb
upon herself as the authorities claimed.

Nowhere to be seen!

etc.

....

We've seen way too many Haraway-inspired art and hyper-bubble-dom
privilege over the years... and it has almost ALL been laughable SHITE !

Let's move on Nettime ! and Institutionally-funded art festivals and
galeries ! ... this Haraway hanging-on has been an embarrasment to the
true work of activism, arts, solidarity, environmentalism and
culture-making ( of resistance )... and the fight for social justice !

...

Bifo, other than that ...

we like your article very much !

and will study it further.

Thx,

The XLterrestrials



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