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<p>it is hard not to noticed that the week 3 of network rehearsal
are all female protagonists.... if the curatorial suggestion here
is that the the post-net network imaginary depends on female
traits, let me throw in another angle from the realm of 'mother'
culture. <br>
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<p>paraphrasing Marx, the new will appear in the womb of the
old.....<span style="font-size: 36px;" class=""> š”Ā š” </span><span
style="font-size: 36px;" class=""> š”Ā š” </span>(thank you for
this Liz) <br>
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<p>two points here. one with regards to Kombucha culture and the
resistance presented by their mother/ daughter dyad to cultural
appropriation into the growing health drink industry or what some
even have called the
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kombucha breweries and federal regulation agencies. as some might
know, the kombucha drink bottled and sold in health food shops is
always already impregnated and a live. the smallest environmental
change, be it a temperature or oxygen levels will reactivate the
fermentation process, daughters growth and rise the alcohol
levels, subsequently requiring this slavery to be regulated under
the law as an alcoholic beverage, with costs that entails.Ā </p>
<p>the other point ..... like the recent rise of 'heartless
psychopaths' there are also a rise of what some could call
'heartfelt psychopaths' or what they themselves prefer to call the
crazy mother movement who are standing up for the acknowledgment
of matrixial and the rights of the voiceless infant child.
Borrowing Brecha Ettinger articulation of matrixial space as one
pregnant with potentials, possibilities and surprises, a radical
and anarchic space where 'co-emergence' takes place, but only if
undisturbed by the logic of separation, the noise of cultural
hegemony and techno excitement, they beginning to contest and
refuse what Bernard Shaw once called the "witchcraft, in modern
form of patent medicines and prophylactic inoculations". <br>
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<p>these standpoints represent rejection of the separations that are
currently imposed on all subjects and reinforce the notions of
inter-connectivity, inter-subjectivity and
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relationship 'mother' culture represent. </span></span></span>It
still to be seen what the network of angry mothers can bring to
the life in capitalism ruins.... </p>
<p>in such context, the DNA discussions are also already shifted
from frameworks of identity to those of epigenetics and
inter-dependencies. <br>
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<p>Hi all</p>
<p>Let me just pick up a few threads here to follow through<br>
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From Kate Rich - "i'm particularly interested in non-model
businesses - experiments in business which do not scale or
replicate but can travel, cross-breed and transmit -Ā & also
in martin parker's idea of insurgent entrepreneurship as a set of
potentially transformative practices in reorienting economy, for
communities as well as individuals."<br>
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From Ilze Black - the human networks that transport kombucha, the
t-shroom, ultimately "to put forward the notion of symbiosis for
the post-net network imagination! Mycelium networks offer us
organic metaphors to re-evaluate ourselves....They give us a
chance to move away from human=machine rhetoric, from cyborg like
visions of future transhumans, and possibly change the course of
current industrial enterprise. This, however, requires for every
supporter to become a symbiosis partner, to be considered as a
cell in a social mycelium. "<br>
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<p>From Liz, risking getting into the discourse on 'immersive
species",Ā we would certainly be interestedĀ in the tracks of
UBERMORGEN's network projects that "undermine the current
networks of the heartless psychopaths". <br>
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I offer here also a quote from Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, <i>The
mushroom at the end of the world -on the possibility of life in
capitalist ruins</i><br>
"We are stuck with the problem of living despite economic and
ecological ruinationā¦.. Neither tales of progress nor of ruin tell
us how to think about collaborative survival. It is time to pay
attention to mushroom picking. Not that this will save usā but it
might open our imaginations. "<br>
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There is new relationships to be established, some disconnection
to be made...... <br>
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any takers?<br>
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sl<br>
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