NOTES +RESOURCES for C-KINO#94
https://pads.ccc.de/CK94
For now our description from CK93... we will update this soon, with new resources and some of our latest investigations. If you wish to visit our notes from CK93 they are here:
https://pads.ccc.de/CK93
NEW:
This is an updated ( and report back ) version, which we created for the Bits Und Baume conference at TU-Berlin at the beginning of October. It's called CK94: Organisms vs. Automatons Revisited... b/c we urgently need to rethink our relationships to the idiotic rise of Big Tech + the planetary-scale monstrosities... As symbiotic organisms, honestly speaking, we would prefer a habitat that isnt a senseless devouring + profiteering machine-driven corporatocracy ! And to alter that dangerous course we might need a few other warm and fuzzy and fierce ideas to counter all the bullshit, myths and predatory agendas !
OUR THEMES:
XLterrestrials present
CiTiZEN KiNO : ( #93 / #94 ) Organisms vs. Automatons
- Revisited
From our perspective all is not well in the cybernetic trajectories ! If
we wish to address the full-scope of the ecological, social and
planetary turmoil already unfolding, it will be crucial to reassess our
relationship to technological environments and the
hyper-industrialization of living organisms and our habitat. Our theory
is that an uncanny *trench* * is developing - or a convergence of grave
errors manifesting - in diverse fields such as anthropocene + climate studies,
financial systems, social + political organization, biological
innovation and internet technologies.
Have we crossed a toxicity threshold as a species whereby our/their tech
industry explosions and social mutation now aim to capture, shape and adapt life
in order to feed particular systems and agendas, rather than to serve
the needs of a plurality of societies and cultures and all its rural and
urban inhabitants? These kinds of questions might lead us to other
concerns beyond finding ways to make our tech better and greener, but
more urgently to make it less destructive and less invasive to an entire
eco-system of symbiotic, intelligent and evolving lifeforms !
* the Uncanny Trenches:
not just something in the artificial oddities that are unsettling, obscene or appalling, but a whole structural abyss that is increasingly difficult to get out of.
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New + old angles:
-forget shower showers ( jore )
-welcome to guineapigdom
-when technopolitics becomes technofascism
- the great adaptation, social shock adjustment programs
- adapting living organisms to the technological envorinments
- when environmental crisis became a krapitalist agenda
etc.
On the positive side...
our current environmental crises can renew and rejuvenate the strategies for and creation of a commons-based culture ( and governannce, and/or self-governance zones ).
There are some good anecdotes and stratagies for that in a new book by
Lieven De Cautier
"Ending the Anthropocene - Essays on Activism in the age of collapse"
...
Also important for our research for CK94:
Romain Felli 's
The Great Adaptation: Climate, Capitalism and Catastrophe
The Great Adaptation ( 2021 ) tells the story of how scientists, governments and corporations have tried to deal with the challenge that climate change poses to capitalism by promoting adaptation to its consequences, rather than combating its causes. Since the 1970s, neoliberal economists and ideologues have used climate change as an argument for creating more “flexibility” in society, for promoting more market-based solutions to environmental and social questions. This book unveils the political economy of this potent movement, showing how some powerful actors are thriving in the face of dangerous climate change and even making a profit out of it. <
https://www.versobooks.com/books/3797-the-great-adaptation
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NEW: CK94 resources:
Paul Mobbs
Shock Doc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erD_ldCVqmw
Naomi Klein
on Nation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17XWaLV6C8c
https://archive.org/details/Jore_Interview-DerrickJensen-01
( excerpt about lewis Mumford )
https://archive.org/details/Jore_Interview-AliceFriedemann-01
( to be analyzed )
https://jore.cc/interview/
https://sub.media/
https://sub.media/trouble-19-quiet-storm/
( Trouble #19 episode : Quiet Storm - Technology and Social Control
Featuring interviews with Peter Gelderloos, Angela Orasch,etc.
Also relevant for CK94:
https://sub.media/tfn-7-in-zad-we-trust/
and many episodes on indigenous struggles...
incl. the battles for the Amazon in Brasil.
Lula's inspirational speech before he was arrested during the Bolsanaro regime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJm08zHWaKA
Steve Cutts
The Turning Point - (Mirror Steve Cutts 2020)
( with different soundtrack )
https://www.stashmedia.tv/wantaways-reaches-the-turning-point-steve-cutts/
link for the Wantaways youtube :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnPyaHje-2Q
Note: We remixed this clip with music from "www neurobeat" from CZ...
if you want to know more about the track we used, contact us:
podinski @ mailbox dot org
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Extra Clip Links:
- Steven Donziger Tele Sur interview : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCudgAmCX-k
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CK94 will have a FEW things different... but here was our
CK93 : rough PLAYLIST
- The Trailers
1. Colossus
2. Star Wars - Andor in Disneyland - critiqued
3. Rise Up Trailer from Leftvision
+ Hal as Alexa clip
- Intro
4. Paul Mobbs’ Huxley remix
5. Public Enemy - Grid music video
6. Donziger interview
7. Submedia Tv
8. Algo-Rhythm - Manu Lucksch
9. David Graeber RSA clip
10. Laute Fruhling Trailer
11. Laute clip
Already/Symbiosis
12. Lynn Margulis doc - Trailer
13. Problema Finale
14. Yuval Harari ( Contact Tracing ) - critiqued
15. I Can Fix You - Dasha Ilina
Closing
16. Mal Eleve „non“ musik track
See CK93 links for more notes on this CK93 playlist.
Also still very revelant :
The Lewis Mumford Quotes:
"Only those who are sufficiently awake to the forces that menace us and who have taken the full measure of their probable consequences will be able to overcome them." ...
“Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations,
threw off the ancient regime of absolute government, operating under a
once-divine king, they were restoring this same system in a far more
effective form in their technology, reintroducing coercions of a
military character no less strict in the organization of a factory than
in that of the new drilled, uniformed, and regimented army. During the
transitional stages of the last two centuries, the ultimate tendency of
this system might be in doubt, for in many areas there were strong
democratic reactions; but with the knitting together of a scientific
ideology, itself liberated from theological restrictions or humanistic
purposes, authoritarian technics found an instrument at hand that has
now given it absolute command of physical energies of cosmic dimensions.
The inventors of nuclear bombs, space rockets, and computers are the
pyramid builders of our own age: psychologically inflated by a similar
myth of unqualified power, boasting through their science of their
increasing omnipotence, if not omniscience, moved by obsessions and
compulsions no less irrational than those of earlier absolute systems:
particularly the notion that the system itself must be expanded, at
whatever eventual cost to life."
- Lewis Mumford ( 1895-1990 )