aka: organize (has to be all of us) around legit needs (authenticity and attachment)
note: all quotes w/time stamp and in gold.. are from 15 min video clip (june 2020) of nika and david on infra
on the need to get to the root of the problem
on the need for a way that 8b people could leap to (global systemic change.. back/to an undisturbed ecosystem.. aka: wake up)
1 min - david: you could make the argument that what artists and revolutionaries have in common is that they actually are people who do that.. revolution really happens when there is a *transformation of common sense.. **how can we turn this moment into.. there will be a transformation of common sense.. *aka: wake up **org around legit needs ie: a nother way.. as a means to undo our hierarchical listening.. setting all art ists free (all of us) in sync
grok what matters
1 min - david: i've been thinking hard about every way we measure econ indicators to the very notion of disciplines of econ and bodies of assumption about human nature that are kind of packaged into them.. *how can they directly be challenged.
*maybe they can't.. maybe we just need a way for 8b people to get out of sea world.. hari rat park law et al.. so that rather than challenging them.. they become irrelevant s
maybe it’s time we quit spinning our wheels.. wasting our energies.. in rhetoric and refusal et al
4 min - david: so that theological notion of productivism.. that econ is production/consumption.. if we were to get rid of that.. what would we substitute.. how would we rethink it ie: oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
6 min - david: so in that idea of reformulating essential structures of value.. how do we reimagine what art does 9 min nika: he created an infra in which people were able to art by themselves
perhaps what we need to reformulate are our essential needs.. our essence.. and org around that.. so that the art\ists (aka: all of us) are legit free.. and then trust that..
ie: city sketchup; cure ios city; in the city; as the day; et al
art (by day/light) and sleep (by night/dark) as re\set.. to fittingness/undisturbed ecosystem
12 min - nika: so it's like he was imagining creating a physical infra where people are connected to each other.. then maybe society will maintain this collective life/health/youth ness..
exactly.. we've been trying to org around non legit needs (food/water/shelter/resources) rather than the needs of our essence.. ie: maté basic needs
imagine if we organize around that enoughness around the essence/necessities of that
imagine if we use 2 convos to reshape/do-over/revolutionize
everyday life for all of us
a means/mech for listening to all the words to no words . . . to get to eudaimoniative us
imagine if we just focused on listening to the itch-in-8b-souls.. first thing.. everyday..
and used that data to augment our interconnectedness..
zoom in (2 convos) graphic
app/chip update ideas – perhaps everyone does the 3 min by 9am. then there are a couple set assembly spaces (ie: library, school buildings, theatre/hall, park, ..) – where the app directed/suggested match-ups happen at 10am (rather than a text – perhaps gps ness directs matches to each other). the 30 min home base would be some/any fixed group of 7ish (flexible as/if tribe found/desired)
13 min - david: we didn't really attempt to really realize yet.. what would it mean for everybody to be an artist aka: all of us
huge.. let’s do this first - huge ie: a nother way
13 min - david: there were these infras created around play and creative expression
13 min - nika: but to me.. it's important to get into details and to figure out what kind of green new deal we will advocate.. because the green new deal in the us in 30s was state run new deal.. that wasn’t creating an infra for the artists for ie.. it was just.. the govt help artists during this transition when they would supposed to become successful entrepreneurs..
on the need to organize ourselves around legit needs
ie: 2 conversations .. as infra
we keep trying to org save define ourselves by focusing on non legit needs
perhaps we haven’t yet gotten there.. because we keep focusing (and rhetoric ing)
and obsessing on nonlegit ‘necessities’.. (ie: from hannah arendt‘s promise of politics around 1505 ff.. that politics is about organizing for these necessities of survival et al.. and the magic wand)
because.. when those nonlegit ‘necessities’ don’t satisfy.. (as they can’t) we perpetuate the myth of sea world.. of tragedy of the non common.. where scarcity/fear/violence/oppression/order.. are assumed
today we have the means to let go of all those assumptions.. p t we have the means to undo our hierarchical listening (to self/others/nature).. i o so that we can hear/see/grok the essence of human being.. n
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14 min - nika: created an infra in which everybody would be (in) common ..
findings (from a 5+ yr museum/city of care experiment): 1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen 2\ if we create a way to ground the chaos of 8b free people
we found.. what we’re missing/forgetting are the ways of an undisturbed ecosystem..
and asked..
let’s do this first
tweet from simona.. who originally shared the video:
@nikadubrovsky @davidgraeber 3/
reversing this outcome, and restoring and idea of freedom that is collective creation based on mutual care, instead of on the coercive power of the State, is our most important task Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/sonmi451it/status/1441762031137263620
[*itch-in-the-soul: daily curiosity.. self talk as data that would/could lead to legit/natural affinity gatherings.. rather than ongoingly perpetuating a ‘whales in sea world‘ (non)existence.. state power et al]
tweet from nika: That's how I see our future plans. https://t.co/G36SgxmgxU Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/nikadubrovsky/status/1442105512577822723 “Revolutions have consisted above all of planetwide
transformations of political common sense.” David Graeber “We Zapatistas think that now more than ever, we
to give birth to a new world.”
need ART in order
imagine if we.. ..just focused on listening to the *itch-in-8b-souls.. first thing.. everyday.. and used that data to augment our interconnectedness.. locally/entropically.. we might just get to a more antifragile, healthy, thriving world.. the ecosystem we keep longing for.. what the world needs most is the energy of 8b alive people
there is
for all of us to live
let’s model/be that