[-empyre-] Biomes

Sat Apr 25 07:23:32 EST 2009

Nick + Steve:

I think the question is whether or not there can be a history of exchange, or whether "exchange" transcends historical analysis because, like Being and Time in Heidegger's system, it has always been there as a primary given or noumenon, and we have no analytical access to its fundamental thereness.  Personally, I think that even if we trace exchange back to metabolism, there is the possibility of constructing a genealogy, albeit a biochemical one.  Currently, I'm reading Lynn Margulis' Dazzle Gradually, and paying a lot of attention to her idea that life began as symbiosis (a motile spirochete invading a stationary archaebacterium, and the two forming a stable and transmissible system).  But even in her thought, there is pre-exchange, a time preceding even the push and pull of metabolism or symbiosis, making it possible to rephrase the question of a history of exchange as a problematics of bacteriology.  For her, even the exchanges of capital refer back to the exchanges of metabolism, which ultimately begin with the interactions of bacteria with environment and one another, which hearken back to the autopoiesis that made individual existence and its interactions possible in the first place.    

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> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:27:47 -0700
> From: editor at intertheory.org
> To: empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] local currencies
> 
> 
> sd...it all depends upon how you read/perceive a market...and exchange...my view is quasi-empirical: in such a view, 'breathing' is a capitalist action, wherein a being, call it 'A' --capitalizes upon the extant oxygen in a given gas containing milieu, further utilizing that oxygen to drive cellular processes that enable energy production in the form of cellular ATP. The Romantics will call such activity, as it drives a certain familiar mammal around the planet, human 'life'. There is even a built-in regulator of ecological balance, in the sense that one person can only breathe so much at a time...on the other hand, other activities of anthro-capital utilization (e.g. financial speculation, local currency creation,etc.) are checked by more anthropic laws...
> 
> Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
> Editor, Kritikos
> http://intertheory.org
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> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "sdv at krokodile.co.uk" <sdv at krokodile.co.uk>
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 2:25:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] local currencies
> 
> Nick
> 
> Given that earlier you claimed that 'we are all capitalists' and in the 
> same note proceeded to mention the 'market' in terms which effectively 
> continue the fetishization of the concept which we've been living with 
> throughout the last three decades, to then revert back to a currency 
> localized in geographic terms seems a little inconsistent...
> 
> Still there have always been methods of exchange which are external to 
> capitalist markets, for markets existed before capital and will exist 
> long after capital has been superceded.
> 
> steve
> 
> 
> 
> Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
> > these people may really be on to something with this practice...why wouldn't or shouldn't every locale have their own currency?
> >
> > NRIII
> >
> > Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
> > Editor, Kritikos
> > http://intertheory.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: davin heckman <davinheckman at gmail.com>
> > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2009 2:35:14 PM
> > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Eddies, Whirlwinds, Trade Winds
> >
> > I just read an article in the Detroit News on their new local currency:
> > http://www.detnews.com/article/20090323/BIZ/903230389/Detroit+cash+keeps+hometown+humming
> >
> > It's not "extra-marketable"... but I do like that it tries to keep money local.
> >
> > Davin
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:58 PM, { brad brace } <bbrace at eskimo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, G.H. Hovagimyan wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >>>> ghh...what might an 'extra-marketable' utopia look like...?
> >>>> 
> >>> ... In New York there are hundreds of artists collectives that
> >>> are now functioning outside of the market. They share loft spaces,
> >>> produce work online and offline and function despite the
> >>> market...
> >>> 
> >> you'd know better than me G.H. (I haven't set foot in NYC
> >> since the 70-80's), so I'm genuinely interested to know
> >> about all these many suddenly successful artists' co-ops...
> >> care to name a few? (or is this wistful posturing...)
> >>
> >>
> >> /:b
> >>
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