<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: justify;" class="">Fantastic (and sublimely sending shivers) — to put these next to each other — from the well-meaning idealism to the "<span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">autocannibalistic </span><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">…</span><span style="text-align: justify; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> surreal click-based economic model” — and this also overlaps with the idea of n(y)et-forms of management and administration. Precursors might include Home’s artists strikes, but without the "</span>algorithmic autonomy” the projects lack the “autocannibalistic” … and that is where these works become interesting IMHO … as Deleuzian models of governmental bureaucracies (beyond the functional/dysfunctional binary). [given the context of this list, I also liked the student debt strike — although not attuned-surreal).<br class=""></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="text-align: justify;" class=""><br class=""></div><div><div class="">On Sep 22, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Timothy Conway Murray <<a href="mailto:tcm1@cornell.edu" class="">tcm1@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br class="">Muntadas 1979: this is great. Thanks, Simon.<br class=""><br class="">Our exchange so far has me thinking of some of the idealistic, direct<br class="">interventions of projects brought up last week, efforts that are engaged<br class="">with rewriting the terms of corporate power.<br class=""><br class="">I¹m reminded especially here of two titles from the list rybn shared a<br class="">while back: GWEI (Ubermorgen, 2005-8; <a href="http://www.gwei.org/index.php" class="">http://www.gwei.org/index.php</a> ), a<br class="">project I¹ve admired and mulled over for years; and the Robin Hood Asset<br class="">Management Cooperative (Akseli Virtanen & collective, 2013;<br class=""><a href="http://robinhoodcoop.org/" class="">http://robinhoodcoop.org/</a> ). The role of algorithmic autonomy and<br class="">automated actions in both of these endeavors is, of course, significant.<br class="">To the extent that they express a desire to change the world, these<br class="">projects promote a kind of idealism but I get hung up on the ways they<br class="">construe management and agency. Posthumanism comes in lots of flavors.<br class=""><br class="">Tamiko Thiel¹s message about Christin Lahr¹s MACHT GESCHENKE, DAS CAPITAL<br class="">(<a href="http://e-flux.com/timebank/event/christin-lahr-macht-geschenke-das-kapital" class="">http://e-flux.com/timebank/event/christin-lahr-macht-geschenke-das-kapital</a><br class=""> ) comes to mind here as well a project fundamentally about transcoding<br class="">political memory and exploiting tiny gaps in automated bureaucratic<br class="">procedures of financial institutions.<br class=""><br class="">I also think of online projects that are more traditionally activist (ie<br class="">efforts that play up the idea of collective political and economic agency)<br class="">and focus on debt strikes and crowd-funding of debt relief.<br class="">The Debt Collective <a href="https://debtcollective.org" class="">https://debtcollective.org</a> (Strike Debt 2014) and<br class="">Rolling Jubilee (Strike Debt, 2012) <a href="https://rollingjubilee.org/" class="">https://rollingjubilee.org/</a> are great<br class="">examples of this. Thom Feeney¹s attempted Greek bailout fund on Indiegogo<br class="">pops up for me, also (<br class=""><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-bailout-fund" class="">https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/greek-bailout-fund</a> ), though it may<br class="">strain our working definitions of net.art.<br class=""><br class="">Does anyone have thoughts about these works, or others deal with idealism,<br class="">change, and the (post)human .Š or perhaps we should return to Simon¹s<br class="">initial question of ³whether we shouldn¹t bother²?!<br class=""><br class="">mik<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Timothy Murray<br class="">Professor of Comparative Literature and English<br class="">Taylor Family Director, Society for the Humanities<br class=""><a href="http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/" class="">http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/</a><br class="">Curator, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art<br class="">http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu<br class="">A D White House<br class="">Cornell University,<br class="">Ithaca, New York 14853<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">empyre forum<br class="">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au<br class="">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu<br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></body></html>