This topic was created in December 2018, and the proposal was not completed for lack of commitment on all parts, but it already shows our interest in the topic…
Following up with our recent publication with the Journal of Peer Production #11 on Singular Technologies & the Third-TechnoScape, we’d like to propose a topic for JoPP #14 on Resistance & Transition.
The topic would put in perspective what is resistance, why resist, and resisting to what? as well as the seemingly consensual concept of transition.
If you are interested in pursuing this line of thought, we’d be happy to produce a CFP within the next week, and propose a work platform to sustain collaborative inquiry over the next two years up until the publication of JoPP #14.
@natacha: is this OK for you if I send this to the list as a starter?
Resistance (< 1 Ohm) is futile. Yet, resistance networks arise everywhere. What is resistance, and why resist? French kilometric philosopher Bernard Stiegler said: “I hate the word resistance. I hate it. Resisting is accepting domination…”, ignoring from his privileged space the very fact that domination, for most people, is not an idea, but a current state of affair, and resistance is the required second step, after awareness, to stop domination in its track, to signal a limit has been passed and the wind is about to change direction – or a last, desperate call to the world for help dismantling a genocide. Resistance is invention, under pressure, of a new space where breathing becomes not only vital but the premise of a fight back.
Transition has been on everybody’s mouth for a decade or more. Climate change forces us “to transition away from fossil fuels”, “to reduce our carbon emissions”, “to change our way of life”. Isn’t it formidable that both the left and right came to an agreement on the necessity to “transition to a greener economy”? What does it entail, and what does it hide? The recent past has seen technological solutionism propose techniques for carbon capture to enable industrial processes to lower their carbon dioxyde emissions – in the past, we
would call ‘trees’ such technologies, but nowadays, trees are obstacle to pre-hamburger grazing, and the ‘solutions’ come from high technologies involving electricity and digital ‘intelligence’. Now that even oil companies have engaged in the ‘transition’, everything seems right on track to fuel down fossil fuel, and replace our noisy and stinky cities with smart vehicles running silently on ‘green’ power, smart stuff regulating our chaos, and our growing demands for digital assets into a perfect black Friday bedtime story.
« Il n’y a jamais eu de transition énergétique. Les sources d’énergie s’accumulent. »
« On n’a jamais autant brûlé de charbon qu’aujourd’hui. »
« La transition énergétique en Europe, dans les années 70, c’est : le nucléaire, le gaz de chiste, la transformation de charbon en pétrole – cette dernière technique est une technique développée par les Nazis pour assurer l’autonomie énergétique de l’Allemagne pendant la guerre. »
