Re: <nettime> Stormy weather?

[Pit Schultz <pit@klubradio.de>]

- proxy vs. direct. this is most likely not a war in a series of
others, but probably a new type of war that has the potential to
recalibrate the world order by risking to lead to another world war.
it has elements of colonial wars  but implicitly sets the engagement
of geopolitics (geographic determinism) against the demand of
planetary politics (climate determinism). this war pits mutually
regressive imperial, hegemonic forces against necessary
(technological, social) progress.

- The number of refugees from natural, including anthropogenic,
disasters is likely to exceed the number of refugees from wars, and it
is of course no help to exorcise one evil with the other.

- the escalation of a war against china would not only double the
front lines, it would also involve a naval, hi-tech and, above all,
financial war of a different scale, which will have a fundamental
impact on the west and lead to systemic self-destruction. such
destruction is only remotely rational given the systemic inability to
adapt effectively.

- The climate crisis (which is driven by an entire fossil fuel layer
of industrial technology and is therefore initially technically
determined) cannot be overcome without a major and fundamental
restructuring of capitalist system architectures.

- AI, along with other (mostly useless) technologies such as the
metaverse, VR, bitcoin, is not heading towards a singularity (whatever
that means), but rather towards a systemic transition to the next
technological chapter, similar to what happened after the Second World
War (nuclear technology, cybernetics and the computer), which requires
different kinds of regulation, philosophy, technological culture and
epistemological breakthroughs.

- The great conjecture of a possible world revolution will most likely
be for fundamental systemic changes, hopefully without millions of
deaths for the sacrifice of a long list of previous certainties,
including that "the unwritten history of technical standards is [...]
a war history".


On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 8:51 PM Brian Holmes
<bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wonder how nettimers
cheers!
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