ayça çubukçu

resonating and intro’d via david graeber connections.. ayça on david’s possibilities from m of care – feb 23.. et al

adding page this day – ayça on fairer society – because of her 5 min intro:

10 min – ayça: i would like to begin by observing how the question posed for us today what would a fairer society look like refrains from conjuring an ideal society.. it invites us instead to a limited seemingly grounded comparative framework..t it demands we imagine not a just society.. but a fairer one.. fairer than what.. every hitherto existing society.. or this one.. of hereditary rights/privileges/property.. fairer than this common wealth of food banks.. billed thru colonial dispossession and slavery..t nevertheless.. implicit in the question of a fairer society.. is the possibility.. even the desirability of transformation.. but if something needs to be changed.. that something falls short of *everything we would need to transform to live in a just society.. economically, politically, ecologically, ethically, globally, t.. that everything includes ‘realistic questions’ which strangle the imagination.. rendering our yearning for revolutionary change and justice unrealistic.. not merely for now but forever.. t

*aka: any form of m\a\p.. huge

this is why we have not yet gotten to global equity.. we haven’t let go enough to see (what legit free people are like)

12 min – ayça: yet it is in the nature of every revolutionary passion for justice as hannah arendt once named it.. to resist this strangulation.. *the longing for what appears to be impossible compels us into (?) of (?) to be realistic by demanding the impossible..t this revolutionary realism as i would call it.. contrasts sharply with mark fisher describes as capitalist realism ‘sense that not only c only viable political/econ system.. but now impossible even to imagine a coherent alt’..t thatcher ‘no alt’.. reps perfectly confining vision of neolibs.. who are capitalist realists par excellence..

*imagine if we just tap into that.. that which is already on each heart.. something every soul already craves..

need 1st/most: means to undo our hierarchical listening to self/others/nature for a global detox/re\set.. so we can org around legit needs

imagine if we listened to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & used that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness as nonjudgmental expo labeling)

13 min – ayça: invested in drawing borders around the imaginable/possible.. their ideological work consists in shaping our sense of reality and w/it what is and is not seen as realistic and achievable.. fisher argues.. c realism.. not a particular type of realism.. more like realism in itself..t this realism seeks to provide a shield protecting us from perils posed by belief.. esp belief in anti c ideologies of past.. nevertheless.. c realism maintains prevalent and depressive belief today that all hope is a dangerous illusion..t

14 min – ayça: it renders any revolutionary desire for justice.. social/global/econ/eco.. not merely unrealistic.. but naively if not madly misguided.. c realism pens our imagination in colorless parades (?) of trouping pragmatism.. policing the limits of our capacities to act/live.. even to love one another differently..t in this situation.. the injunction to realistic by demanding the impossible requires *immeasurable experiments in imagining otherwise.. lola (?)’s formulation.. it is not incidental but essential to c however.. that it incorporates into the global market as consumable goods our own anti c desires for living differently.. t according to diff principles in a just society..

*or perhaps just one is enough (findings abstract) to try graeber model law.. which would then unleash infinitesimal structures approaching the limit of structureless\ness and/or vice versa .. aka: ginorm/small ness; experiments everyday in every way by everyone..

again for that.. need ai as nonjudgmental expo labeling

15 min – ayça: in this scene .. mark fisher finds.. alt/independent cultural spaces/attitudes become established styles .. in fact.. the dominate styles w/in the mainstream.. this insight allows him to observe how c realism is very far from precluding (prevent from happening) a certain anti c.. t

hari rat park law et al

ayça: here and now.. if that all sounded too abstract.. the lse festival w/its alt question of a fairer society can offer one ie of what fisher calls corporate anti c.. how else shall we explain the silence here around the strike wave that has been sweeping thru/beyond the academy.. as unionized workers at the lse.. the main (?) survivable workloads/conditions.. decent pay/pensions.. it becomes impossible not to question the profit making *calculus of c realism.. is this what a fair uni looks like..t

*literacy and numeracy both elements of colonialism/control/enclosure.. we need to calculate differently and stop measuring things

16 min – ayça: today.. well funded institutes examining ineq and well attended festivals curated to demonstrate impact and corporate social responsibility.. both evidence and cater to our desire for social change and justice.. they also offer corporations.. and i’m not excluding unis.. the opp to shape the world as the lse slogan has it.. *by confining revolutionary desires/energies w/in the borders of c realism.. t

*nothing to date.. has not confined us.. mostly because none of us are free ness.. has to be all of us

good news is (and we’re missing it).. today we have the means for a global leap/re\set

art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as global re\set.. to fittingness (undisturbed ecosystem)

we need a problem deep enough to resonate w/8bn today.. a mechanism simple enough to be accessible/usable to 8bn today.. and an ecosystem open enough to set/keep 8bn legit free

ie: org around a problem deep enough (aka: org around legit needs) to resonate w/8bn today.. via a mechanism simple enough (aka: tech as it could be) to be accessible/usable to 8bn today.. and an ecosystem open enough (aka: sans any form of m\a\p) to set/keep 8bn legit free

thinking restate/update 7.18.. and 2\ short findings restate in 2019

findings:

1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen

2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b legit free people

17 min – ayça: in fisher’s words.. such undertakings perform our anti c for us.. not unlike disney films w anti c themes.. even this very speech.. they enable us to participate in c w/a clear conscience.. t

huge.. to leigh and all thoughts ness.. whalespeak et al.. keep us not-us

ayça: nevertheless.. there are moments/movements/networks/collectives as surrealist poetics.. where c realism cracks.. growing thru those cracks we become a spring.. the arab/occupy spring.. the movement for black lives.. spring to mind.. they find us mad at last.. justice.. that burning longing.. enchanting.. every mantra of revolutionary action opens the scene of our imagination.. we promise.. no justice no peace.. w/o c realism.. what would a just society really look like.. t

graeber make it diff law.. we need to try something legit diff..