[Atompunk] and now for something completely different the CORE of what ATOMPUNK is about

[jaromil]

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re all,

much inspired by the topic, i write you again from the country where i
was born,  where a  couple of  weeks ago a  ~6 Richter  earthquake hit
hard, deleting entire  towns built in the past  60 years (while cement
was  mixed to salty  water, it  seems, way  less resistant  than older
structures) and leaving homeless thousands of families.

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:57:48AM +0200, Viola wrote:
> I'm  reading,  thinking,   researching,  feeling,  spying,  bribing,
> robbing, on  the theme of  Atompunk, all inspired by  your wonderful
> lines.

thanks Viola. i can finally feel some passion flowing in the discourse
of this group. i'm also very passionate about all this: atom-punk is a
big theme, just look at how much (post)atomic imaginary is relevant on
mass media, in games like Fallout and in Obama's call to dismantle all
atomic weapons.

> Online identity, autonomy, are  really terms made possible now (only
> the  last decades) also  thanks to  the internet  we can  unfold our
> personality  and uniqueness  like a  flower, with  groups  for every
> characteristic we have.  So Atompunk for me = Autonomy.

i agree about  your identification with Autonomy, but  i'm confused by
"Online  Identity" since  actually (post)atomic  societies  are mostly
represented  by "group  identity": sheltered  colonies  (Vaults?)  and
conformed mutations  identify people as  autonomous communities rather
than single  identities. Rogues (Raiders?) are  everyone's enemies and
won't survive  long mostly killed  by their lack of  sense, objectives
and reproductivity. Communal and mutual  help carry the feble light of
hope,  in a  kind of  Noha's ark  syndrome that  deletes  any personal
aspiration and individuality. Every new healthy birth is not acclaimed
as an individual but as another chance of persistance for human race.

and dragged by morning inspiration, let me add more: 

i've got quite upset by the last announcement of an evening projection
at  Planet Art  which was  putting  forward some  blatant hologram  of
Futurist Propaganda as if it  can add anything more to our discussion.

We are living in 2009  and Futurism stinks like a radio-active corpse.

Those who were  celebrating Futurism's birthday a short  while ago are
all tainted by their own  incapacity to comprehend the post-future and
leave  behind  the  privileges  of  a  pseudo-art  serving  industrial
interests,  a fascist  mindset that  is  still found  in the  decadent
initiatives called Creative Industries.

So  I and I  find it  depressing, if  not offensive,  to find  that an
apology of Futurism is set as the opening of Atom-Punk pre-exhibition.

As a  response i  offer to contribute  to this year's  GOGBOT festival
with another small  lecture, this time on the  theme of POST-FUTURISM,
let this manifesto be a reference for what i have to offer. Ciao.



MANIFESTO OF POST-FUTURISM

http://eipcp.net/n/1234779255?lid=1234779848

1. We  want to sing  of the  danger of love,  the daily creation  of a
sweet energy that is never dispersed.

2. The essential elements of  our poetry will be irony, tenderness and
rebellion.

3. Ideology and advertising have exalted the permanent mobilisation of
the productive  and nervous energies  of humankind towards  profit and
war. We want to exalt  tenderness, sleep and ecstasy, the frugality of
needs and the pleasure of the senses.

4. We  declare that the splendor of  the world has been  enriched by a
new beauty:  the beauty  of autonomy. Each  to her own  rhythm; nobody
must be constrained  to march on a uniform pace.  Cars have lost their
allure of  rarity and above  all they can  no longer perform  the task
they were conceived for: speed has slowed down. Cars are immobile like
stupid  slumbering tortoises  in the  city traffic.  Only  slowness is
fast.

5. We want to sing of the  men and the women who caress one another to
know one another and the world better.

6.  The  poet must  expend  herself  with  warmth and  prodigality  to
increase the power  of collective intelligence and reduce  the time of
wage labour.

7. Beauty exists  only in autonomy. No work that  fails to express the
intelligence of the possible can  be a masterpiece. Poetry is a bridge
cast over the  abyss of nothingness to allow  the sharing of different
imaginations and to free singularities.

8. We are  on the extreme promontory of the  centuries... We must look
behind  to remember  the abyss  of violence  and horror  that military
aggressiveness and nationalist ignorance is capable of conjuring up at
any moment in time. We have lived in the stagnant time of religion for
too long. Omnipresent  and eternal speed is already  behind us, in the
Internet, so we can forget its syncopated rhymes and find our singular
rhythm.

9. We want to ridicule the idiots who spread the discourse of war: the
fanatics of competition,  the fanatics of the bearded  gods who incite
massacres,  the  fanatics   terrorised  by  the  disarming  femininity
blossoming in all of us.

10. We  demand that art turns  into a life-changing force.  We seek to
abolish  the  separation between  poetry  and  mass communication,  to
reclaim the  power of media  from the merchants  and return it  to the
poets and the sages.

11. We will  sing of the great crowds who  can finally free themselves
from the slavery of wage  labour and through solidarity revolt against
exploitation.  We will  sing  of  the infinite  web  of knowledge  and
invention,  the  immaterial technology  that  frees  us from  physical
hardship. We will  sing of the rebellious cognitariat  who is in touch
with her  own body. We  will sing to  the infinity of the  present and
abandon the illusion of a future.






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