http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/10/17/kubler-ross-and-occupywa... those that do not believe in collective action have no knowledge of history and are condemned to operate on the margins, both are needed, new practices AND political power that can only be the result of collective action, Michel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 2:49 AM Subject: "Favela Chic" ? To: [email protected] I was a isolated demonetized nomad. I am favela chic, and prefer to use it as a way to get out of it. "Transition to nowhere" ? The vision is autonomy, local "and" globally networked, marginalized finding each other into intentional tribal nomadism, in dialogue, rhizomatic, information rich, getting together into creating our modular ( nomadic ) favela, our own sense of post-market, the swarmed tribe. /// http://bigthink.com/ideas/30959 excerpt : As Sterling recently explained in his closing address at the reboot 11 conference <http://video.reboot.dk/>, one possible scenario for the future is the "favela chic" scenario, in which material wealth is non-existent, but individuals are plugged into the grid and satiated with Facebook and Twitter. some of us may have seen this 2009 video already : http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11 in relation to some politicians : "cheerleaders, not leaders" - "they position themselves into the narrative, they do not create infrastructure" regarding favela chic : "favela chic is when you lost everything - its a really cool place to be" "its made out of instructables" , "action is cheaper then control", "just fucking do it" "its a slum" "do things while alive" "objects are frozen social relationships" /// found this link via http://www.facebook.com/groups/120497731371323/?notif_t=group_activity http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/10/17/kubler-ross-and-occupywa... " This is where a new breed of post-Industrial micro-capitalism is taking root. Instead of protesting Wall Street, this is the sector that’s slowly figuring out how to do without Wall Street. For now, all they’ve done is accept reality: game over. " -- P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net Connect: http://p2pfoundation.ning.com; Discuss: http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation Updates: http://del.icio.us/mbauwens; http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens; http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens