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[thejaymo]

Start Select Reset Zine – What!? SSR Is Evolving?

Issue #006 of Zine Start Select Reset went out yesterday via sail mail to supporters subscribed at £5 a Month or above! If you would like to support my podcast and join the mailing list to receive SSR 4 times a year subscribe!

[kenyatta]

In order to continue to profitably mine the stable expectations of the wider cultural imagination, mainstream culture has to continually frack the past to create future material. [...] So then we are in need for new futures. Because we are all starved for visions of the future that will sustain us. The only way that this is going to happen is if we create our own.

SOLARPUNK: Life in the future by @thejaymo

[yhancik]

Greetings

Synchronous greetings, featuring @oneterabyteofkilobyteage @thejaymo and WOPR from WarGames.

[zzkt]

Mini-documentatry from @FIBERFestival's Coded Matter(s): Terra Fiction last year Features me talking about #solarpunk . Also the voices of fellow excellent speakers @goldipipschmidt , @Catamaroon , Ivan Henriques, @mihatursic + Nik & Maja from @_foam https://t.co/RYjy1KokKu

— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) July 13, 2019

(via http://twitter.com/thejaymo/status/1149975598577651713)

[solarpunks]

And Lately, The Sun - Anthology

Bushland is burning. The Arctic is shedding ice. And around the world, people are imagining futures which function. 

Gritty, graceful, commonsense or whimsical, these twenty tales probe at how we could build a working world using the resources available to us – the natural, the social, the political, and the technological.

Some of these stories invite readers to bask in the warmth of a bright tomorrow, from tree dwellings in India, to restoration projects in Milano, to rewilded suburbs in the East of Australia. Other stories burn with spirit in the face of adversity: smallholders in Botswana adjust to international treaties; gamers tackle reality using virtual tools. And there are shadows, too, in tech suburbs where you can buy eco-cigarettes, or on tree plantations where family members won’t toe the line.

Excited to share that the story ‘In the Storm, A Fire’ by admin @thejaymo​ and solarpunks.net regular Andrew Dana Hudson has been nominated for the BSFA Award Longlist for short fiction!

In the Storm, A Fire

A story that contrasts Solarpunk’s vision of beautiful, dirty, solidaritistic, environmentalism/climate survival with ecofascist unsolutions.

Its packed full of ideas about cyberpunk interfaces, generational politics, high-tech policing, religious schisms, snapchat demagogues. Permaculture retrosuburbia, communities of resistance forced to play power politics with fash gangs in order to survive.

Get the book here!

Smashwords (70% off through to Feb 6th 2020 using code QY58K ) (BSFA Long List Promotion) Amazon (kindle) Barnes and Noble Kobo Apple

If you are a BSFA member please consider voting for the story here.

[gothscreenshots]

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[crowess]

Weekly Notes: December 21

Weekly Notes: December 21

I decided to take a note–er–a page from @TheJaymo and figured I could do weekly-ish notes, too.

The Daily Routine

My current morning routine is a slew of business:

Acknowledge country

St. Cyprian protective prayer

Do my version of St. Patrick’s lorica (kinda sans St. Patrick)

Do a St. Columba success prayer

Do the Heptameron daily for the angel of the day

Started doing the Vedic Saturn mantra that

[deziluzija]

RT @thejaymo: .@focx & I made a kaleidoscopic compass of speculative multispecies imaginaries #solarpunk #morethanhuman https://t.co/1Q9cVJYNTr

.@focx & I made a kaleidoscopic compass of speculative multispecies imaginaries#solarpunk#morethanhuman pic.twitter.com/1Q9cVJYNTr

— Your roots are in the infinite (@thejaymo) August 20, 2019

from Twitter https://twitter.com/deziluzija

[mikaelseppala]

Tweeted

RT @thejaymo: New Post! Solarpunk: A Narrative Strategy, a Memetic Engine | The Stoa I went to The Stoa last night to talk about Solarpun…

— Mikael Seppälä (@mikaelseppala) Aug 18, 2021

[captainkujafan]

#solarpunk

[thejaymo]

My Wordpress blog turned 14!!!

This Tumblr is older tho - 15 years i’ve been on this damn site.

[kenyatta]

I’ve done a shit load of meditation in the last few years or so. During 2018 especially. However, It wasn’t until the summer that I realised something fundamentally important. Quite frankly, It is a little embarrassing that it has taken me this long to realise it to be honest. But the point is: Your attention is sovereign. There are two things that should be addressed. 1. You, personally, get to decide where you put your attention. 2. By acknowledging this fact you have to take full responsibility for where you have put your attention in the past, and where you will put it in the future. Yes, all those hours spent on Twitter, Facebook or Netflix were influenced by dark patterns designed to monetize your attention but ultimately you alone are responsible. Yes, social media addiction is a thing we hear spoken about. But the difference is that it’s a habit not an addiction. The Skinner’s box that is the algorithmic interface of almost all social media platforms has trained us this way. It gets a little sticky when it comes to young children.... But nevertheless. The parent is still sovereign, Adults make the decisions about where they allow their children to put their attention.

Your Attention Is Sovereign, @thejaymo​ [pdf]

[spite-powered-utopia]

“Our modern world attempts to focus us towards the short term and quarterly growth. But in the real world, away from high-frequency ledger entries, it takes 100-120 years for an oak tree to grow from seed to full-canopy height. That is three human generations.

This is real growth. And I’d like to propose to you all that everything that occurs in the duration between the decision to plan an acorn to its full-grown crown is short-term thinking in the context of the Anthropogreen.

Beyond 2150 is the medium term.”

[solarpunks]

One of our admins @thejaymo​​ recently posted his 2019 Unsound Festival talk: ‘Solarpunk - Life in the Future Byond the Rusted Chrome Of Yestermorrow’ on his blog.

Here’s what the sentiers.media newsletter said about it:

Fascinating piece here (based on a presentation so lots of visuals) by Jay Springett who sets the table by covering some memetic theory and media narratives, to then beautifully present and explain what Solarpunk aims to achieve. He presents punk and mainstream, how our interests and where we can share them was atomized by the internet, to then re-cohear on the big platforms. Pre-internet is the last time there was a more defined mainstream, so Disney and others are constantly re-hashing old heroes and cultures. They “frack” the media of the past because it is the (somewhat) common ground they can make blockbusters from. It’s the same with sci-fi and most of the futures presented to us; they are old futures based on and extracted from the culture of those past decades. As “climate change looms over all those futures and no-one seems capable of doing anything about it,” we need better futures, extrapolated from this present, not that of our predecessors. “We need to collectively foster a new way of seeing the world” and, quoting Madeline Ashby, we need “to talk, loudly and frequently and in detail, about the future [we] want. You can’t manifest what you don’t share. I highlighted 32 passages from this talk so I highly recommend having a look, even if only to see his slides, it’s the best presentation of Solarpunk I’ve read, covers a lot of ground, is hopeful, and cites quite a few topics and people often covered in Sentiers. Sentiers #142

futurecrun.ch called it an “incredibly cool exploration of solarpunk as both a sci-fi genre and radical social movement.” too. 

Hope you like it. 

[stacktivism]

Pokémon Go makers sued for encouraging trespassing

The class action lawsuit is the first to be filed against the Pokémon Go makers, and is seeking damages that, while not specified, could be in excess of $5 million (£3.7 million) for a "flagrant disregard" for the impact of the game on real world places. Jeffrey Marder, the New Jersey man who brought the case, claimed that at least five players had knocked on his door and asked to catch Pokémon in his garden. The game superimposes creatures into the real world, which players must physically approach in order to catch. 

"Defendants have shown a flagrant disregard for the forseeable consequences of populating the real world with virtual Pokémon without seeking the permission of property owners," the lawsuit alleges. 

Marder is seeking class action status against Niantic, the company behind the game that was released a month ago, as well as co-creators Nintendo and the Pokémon Company, on behalf of other owners of residential and public property. 

(via Pokémon Go makers sued for encouraging trespassing)

Piece above is from 2016. But now the case is going ahead:

‘Pokémon Go’ Suit Makes Case for Virtual Trespassing

Federal judge is set to decide on case alleging game developer caused hordes to illegally enter properties

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pokemon-go-suit-makes-case-for-virtual-trespassing-1491310800

i just went back and re-read @nathanjurgenson‘s seminal:

Digital Dualism versus Augmented Reality

the systematic bias to see the digital and physical as separate; often as a zero-sum tradeoff where time and energy spent on one subtracts from the other. This is digital dualism par excellence. And it is a fallacy.

I am proposing an alternative view that states that our reality is both technological and organic, both digital and physical, all at once. We are not crossing in and out of separate digital and physical realities, ala The Matrix, but instead live in one reality, one that is augmented by atoms and bits. And our selves are not separated across these two spheres as some dualistic “first” and “second” self, but is instead an augmented self. A Haraway-like cyborg self comprised of a physical body as well as our digital Profile, acting in constant dialogue.

https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2011/02/24/digital-dualism-versus-augmented-reality/

When talked about clouds at @theorizingtheweb 14:

Infrastructure Territory and The Geopolitics of The Stacks

https://medium.com/@thejaymo/colonising-the-clouds-4405d2d590b5

furthermore

The Cloud, the State, and the Stack: @mthvn in Conversation with Benjamin Bratton

Here we have the vertical superimposition of two possibly incommensurate logics of geography and governance. One, a globally distributed, cognitive capitalist, NSA-protected polis predicated on data rationalization, and two, a geographically circumscribed central command which sees the Cloud as an extension of the body of the State.

http://mthvn.tumblr.com/post/38098461078/thecloudthestateandthestack

In other pokemon go thoughts i’m level 30 and caught a Pineco today // JAY

p.s i also been posting other things like these over on @solarpunks

[hardcorefornerds]

To me what is most interesting in the very long time are not Manichean struggles between light and darkness, our team/their team, ork/not-ork―all the messianic, absolutist rhetoric is surface-level noise―but how truly alien, unforeseen, even indecipherable geopolitical forms can appear and accelerate the post-Copernican rotation in geopolitical thinking in ways that we can scarcely anticipate. It’s not just about redrawing the flat world map but of thinking political geography in multiple dimensions and temporal scales.

The Cloud, the State, and the Stack: Metahaven in Conversation with Benjamin Bratton (via thejaymo)