Re: [-empyre-] RE: Mobile Media debate

[Henry Warwick <henry.warwick@sbcglobal.net>]

hi!

Mr H hit a nail on the head. I tend to disagree with some of the  
finer points. for one, contemporary electronic technology itself  
***REQUIRES*** a rapacious and destructive socio-political-labour  
system - and because of overpopulation, we are utterly and completely  
dependent on this petroleum burning high tech beast to survive. There  
is no technological subversion to the capitalist-industrial system -  
technology itself instantly co-opts mediated critique into reformist  
notions: the Revolution won't be televised, podcast, or anything like  
that, nor *can it*.

The collapse of the capitalist industrial system will come from  
without, not within. Insofar as it sees itself as "natural", nature  
will be its undoing. Insofar as information systems are seen as the  
"electronic background" of communication, the loss of resources (esp.  
metals) will prove to be their undoing.

A Bottle of Wine.

Does it matter if the yeast can talk to itself? It's still populating  
itself beyond its resource base and will die off and become a bottle  
of wine: something that is both seductive and intoxicating.

Can we use the ubiquity of communication systems to tell the yeast:  
STOP EATING SUGAR!!!

?

HW


On Sep 23, 2006, at 7:54 AM, G.H.Hovagimyan wrote:

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