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Re: [microsound] Revitalization
can we explore, for the sake of context, what other
dynamics might be born of other global political
systems ?
i'm thinking socialism, communism, agrarianism,
utopianism, fascism - etc. what could those systems
offer that dont get us bogged down into some other
negative dynamic.
also i wonder if there are any positive dynamics
resulting of the global capitalistic economic system ?
perhaps this system can be tweaked to arrange the
types of outcomes we prefer. ones instead of war and
fanaticism. can capitalism's inherent tendency of
competition be tweaked to a less harmfull version ?
examples of profit sharing companies, and co-op
ownership of properties(equity) are progressive forms
of this same capitialistic economy.
i would be interested in what people imagine can
happen under alternative global political systems ?
i.e.(nazism ?)
and if those systems can function any better than
global capitalism has.
theoritcally,
b.g.
--- David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The tendency to activate deterritorializing forces
> of progress that
> sweep away the old forms, on the one hand, and to
> activate intense
> reterritorializations, such as violent
> fundamentalisms and
> nationalisms, is itself a dynamic that is internally
> generated by
> global capitalism. The reterritorializations and are
> not a form of
> resistance to modernization, but are part of the
> same dynamic.
> Furthermore, this dynamic is not the result of some
> ahistorical,
> eternal law but rather is a tendency of the global
> political-economic
> system in its current form. Different
> political-economic systems would
> generate different dynamics.
>
> ~David
>
> On 9/26/06, { brad brace } <bbrace@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > A maintaining dynamic provides stability, while a
> > modernizing dynamic forces change. We tend to be
> satisfied
> > with a view of the world as a theatre of conflict
> between
> > stability and change. Collecting a congeries of
> phenomena
> > under the rubric of modernization, we project a
> future that
> > will be purified in a certain direction. With only
> the
> > craven desire for stability to overcome, the
> victory of
> > modernization seems assured, and the world must
> progress
> > toward the mechanized, the artificial, the
> commercial, the
> > secular, the individual, and the international.
> There is,
> > however, an oppositional force of self-conscious
> resistance
> > on behalf of the bodily, the natural, the
> creative, the
> > sacred, the collective, and the local. This
> countervailing
> > force is underestimated because we have not yet
> learned, as
> > we have with modernization, to gather its
> disparate signs
> > under one label. Oppositional actions do not
> connect
> > directly; they align independently in negative
> response to
> > modernization, the force also called, depending
> upon
> > context, progress, development, secularization,
> > industrialization, westernization, or colonialism.
> The goal
> > is not maintenance; the orientation is
> progressive, but the
> > dynamic is recursive. The mind scans the past to
> imagine
> > the future. Consider the popularity of hobbies
> involving
> > handicraft, the concern for environmental
> conservation and
> > historic preservation, the profusion of civic
> festivals, the
> > resurgence of ethnic identity, the escalation of
> nativism,
> > and nationalism, the institution of reactionary
> values in
> > politics and education, the convergence of
> alternative
> > ideology and spiritual yearning in religious
> revival, the
> > new age cults, in Christianity and Judaism, in
> Buddhism,
> > Hinduism, and Islam. In detail it is too much to
> encompass:
> > The Mahabharata in ninety-three installments on
> Indian
> > television, mosques destroyed in Bosnia and built
> in
> > Afghanistan, powpows in Oklahoma, martial arts in
> Japan, new
> > music in Colombia, glass painting in Poland and
> Romania,
> > rosemaling in Norway and Wisconsin, political
> order in Iran,
> > rebellion in Chechnya, separatism in Quebec,
> fundamentalism
> > in Christianity, the Mao cult in China, Kwanzaa in
> > Philadelphia, the Eid parade in Dhaka city,
> Saraswati Puja
> > at Jagannath Hall... But take it all together,
> name it
> > revitalization, and it is a power to balance
> modernization.
> >
> > brad brace sound:
> > http://69.64.229.114:8000
> > http://bbrace.net/undisclosed.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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