[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[Johannes Birringer]

dear Simon, dear all


"Organize a strike in your school or workplace on the grounds that it does not satisfy your need for indolence & spiritual beauty"
(Hakim Bey)



yes, i must agree with you, and i share you skepticism regarding the "blueprint"  for the UK creative industries and "digital futures"  ("Creating growth: a blueprint for the creative industries") that was launched. 
At the same time, i notice that you refer to "the system" and you seem to think that grassroots or other (non affiliated?, alternative?) arts organizations or social networks are not part of "system" or are not in themselves following blueprints or organizational models of system. In my questions I was merely trying to pose a doubt about the illusions (and utopian or transgressive metaphors associated with them) attached to autonomous zones and the many DIY's and DIWOs  we have seen or have been engaged with or romantically interested in.  Perhaps in some cases (of those of us here on the list who are employed by institutions or work partly inside them and imagine working partly outside them) it would be more honest to say that we have been consumed by the systems we inevitably become a part of. 

As to the histories of creativities, i value what i learnt this weak about Furtherfield and the Chateau, and i tried to imagine the  "methods and ideas around contemporary networked media arts
practice" , as Ruth called them, while i kept doubting the cohesion of something defined as collaborative communitiy of networks. What if social networks, as they were described here, are always dissociative, apart from or including the fact that they are economically and psychologically nor sustainable.  

It might be valuable to look at the failure of anarchism as an example and, yes, reread the impossible manifesto that Hakim Bey wrote in 1985:
"The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism"

http://hermetic.com/bey/taz_cont.html

what a fascinating and strange text!


regards

Johannes Birringer
Interaktionslabor
http://interaktionslabor.de
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