[-empyre-] Play ball

[marc <sparkle@c-level.cc>]

Nato, Edmar, Christinas and Ryan and the rest of Empyre....

I agree that spaces and places create the context.
I personally see Lumpen/Buddy/Select Media as one of the best 
counterculture models out there.
And I definitely am a fan of building through conversation and 
critique, not destroying (the journal is all about countercultural 
ecosystems.)
For my book, a culture of generous spaces (multi-use centers) is step 
one. Step two is tactically and super-inclusively start thinking about 
what are we going to do with this.


As Nato said, "And in terms of settling on terms as marc has advocated: 
what terms should we discuss. I'm ready to play the game."

So Lets play.

I. Questions- of Precepts...
	1. Who are we when we think of a network of spaces?
	2. Who are we (this is a super-fucking-inclussive we... I want to be a 
part of any club that will 	have me and want anyone to be a member of 
my club as long as they are members a club that is 	meaningful.)
	3. What is OUR common denomonators
 	 a. what values do we share
 	 b. what ideals
 	 c. what goals
 	 d. what resources
	4. What are our differences?
	5. Who are we in our local cities and scenes and how does this relate 
to our more global we?
	6. How do we distinguish ourselves from the those that are clearly not 
us?

II. would be (in my book...) what does it mean that we are a we?

PS. This post and threads from Ireland Indymedia is worth looking at 
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72857
It critiques a situationist view on the paris riots.. (any disturbance 
is a revolution). This is fucking contemporary if you ask me.  I see 
it's pertainant to this discussion because it identifies a love of 
disturbance but then calls for more becuase "The net result of the 
Paris riots will not be some mass proletarian consciousness awakening 
and sudden crystallisation into a political movement - because "the 
left" is for the most part fractured in urban areas and simply not 
present on the ground." It identifies the need to talk about it and 
turn anger (or cultural production) into praxis.

As a fan of humanity and gaia, I don't need my social change to be 
solidly "left." But I do know that if we talk about it collectively in 
a big way, it can become so...