________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ > The postmodern late-leftist discourse of the '68 generation has now closed > all its possible options. There is no way out for them, locked up, as they > are, in their down-sized, optimised, professional institutions. So let it > be. The same can be said of the more recent 'new social movements', with > exception of sudden outbursts of un-controlled (and therefore not > organized) social-ethnic unrest. Let us not get distracted by ideological > pseudo-events such as the Culture Wars or paranoid waves of xenophobia. > Some fights are shadow boxing. Others are real. Now it is time for other > options, in search for the genuine New that does not fit into known > patterns of eternal return, being taken back into the System. Virtual > Volutarism means being able to overcome moods of melancholy, perfectly > aware of all possible limits and opportunities, looking for the > impossible, on the side, out of reach of both futurists and nostalgics. > Being able to present alternative realities, chocking the Johnsons, way > out of reach of the Appropriation Machines. The market authorities will > arrive too late. Yes, this is a dream, but we do cannot survive in a > (digital) environment without options. In order to get at the point, we > should reach a level of collective 'self conciousness' to overcome the > system of fear and distrust which is now spreading. No attempt to > reconstruct what worked once. No glorification of the inevitable. In order > not to throw away everything which has been built up we should invent > concepts on top of it and not narrow all our options into making the world > institutionally legible. The "Next Age", the name of a department store in > Pudong/Shanghai, is hybrid: half-clean, somehow dirty, never entirely > digitised, stuck between real growth and an even more real crisis. > Obsessed with progress, in full despair. But there are other options, and > we can realise them. "Get Organised" (n5m3) DAIMLERCHRYSLER 22.07.99 MERLE KRAUSE ________________________________________________________________________________ DAIMLERCHRYSLER TORSTRASSE 161 BERLIN DONNERSTAGS AB 22:00 UHR FAX: 493024725298 E-MAIL: DAIMLERCHRYSLER@ROLUX.ORG URL: HTTP://WELCOME.TO/DAIMLERCHRYSLER ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 1999 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org