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* The right-wing feeds on division.
* The left should grow from trust.
That sounds like #KISS because it is. But this simple truth is buried under decades of ideological shit: #Stalinism's dead weight, #Postmodernism's fog, #Neoliberalism's rot, and now the wider social, political and technological mess they have all helped leave behind.
We don't need to pretend this history didn't happen. We need to understand it,
then we need to compost it, turn the pile, let it breathe, pull apart the assumptions.Keep what is useful, let the rotten parts decay, turn all that accumulated failure into something fertile.
Because the alternative to the right-wing politics of fear, division and permanent culture war is not just another set of slogans.
It is trust, not being nice to everyone. Trust is built through doing things together, being accountable, showing your working, admitting mistakes, sharing power and staying around long enough to learn from failure.
* That is why the #commons matters.
* That is why the #openweb matters.
And that is why the demand to “use the proper channels” is so often a trap.
* Who owns those channels?
* Who wrote the rules?
* Who staffs the committees?
* Who decides what counts as legitimate?
Too often the machinery of #mainstreaming is designed to absorb dissent without allowing dissent to change anything. You submit the form, attend the consultation, become a stakeholder, write the response, wait for the committee.
You get thanked for your valuable contribution and then nothing changes. The energy is drained away, and the existing power remains exactly where it was. This is not always a conspiracy. It doesn't need to be. Systems reproduce power simply because that is what they have been designed to do.
And this is what really scares the #fashionistas and #mainstreaming crew about grassroots alternatives: We don't need them. We can walk away, build our own infrastructure, our own media. We build trust through doing things together - that is the important bit.
The answer isn't to create another closed alternative controlled by another small group of experts. That would just be more of the same, the answer is open process, the #4opens.
This is where #OMN fits, not as another shiny platform competing for attention, but as part of a longer #openweb reboot: grassroots news, archiving and eventually governance built around federation, trust, participation and shared infrastructure.
We don't need to win their game, we need to stop playing it. Their machine runs on division, attention, status and extraction. Our alternative has to run on participation, trust, memory, care and shared power.
So yes, there is a huge pile of shit in front of us. Social shit, political shit, technological shit, institutional shit, funding shit and #techshit.
We don't deny the pile, we pick up the shovel,
we turn it over, we compost it. And we use whatever fertile ground comes out of it to grow something living.That's the work, together.
#OMN #KISS #4opens #openweb #commons #deathcult #mainstreaming #fashionistas #techshit
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Our failure to mediate the mess
The current #AI boom is built on a huge contradiction, you can see this in #mainstreaming terms. That AI companies are not paying the real costs of what they consume. They haven't paid for the copyrighted material they trained on. They haven't paid the environmental costs of the water and electricity they use. They haven't paid for the pressure they place on public infrastructure, or for the social costs of flooding the web with synthetic content. Yet AI services are sold below their true […] -
Rebuilding Shared Meaning in a Fragmented World
A lot of our current mess can be understood through the long transition from #modernism to #postmodernism. Not as an academic debate, but as a lived reality. Modernity was about progress. It believed that society could be understood, improved, and consciously shaped. Science, democracy, planning, industry, public institutions, trade unions, education, and infrastructure were all part of this path. The future was something people could build together. Of course, this vision was never as […]https://hamishcampbell.com/rebuilding-shared-meaning-in-a-fragmented-world/
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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Discourse didn’t die from censorship.
It died from convenience — from reacting faster than we can think.
A new essay on capitalism, comment sections, and the death of thought.🔗 philosophics.blog/2025/11/10/when-nobody-reads-capitalism-comment-sections-and-the-death-of-discourse
#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Capitalism #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #blog #psychology #AttentionEconomy #amwriting #apology #cancer #society #socialmedia #LinkedIn #criticalthinking #communication
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Capitalism doesn’t kill with guns or gulags. It kills with forms, policy, and plausible deniability. The machine is efficient precisely because no one feels responsible. When an insurance executive cuts 'unprofitable' coverage, it’s not an atrocity – it’s 'cost optimisation'.
#Philosophy #Politics #Capitalism #Ethics #Violence #Accountability #CriticalTheory #Postmodernism #AntiEnlightenment #society #Blog #psychology #humancondition #healthcare #systems
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Soon at http://civa.brussels
"In an attempt to grasp and reckon with the historical moment that he was living in, #CharlesJencks, the legendary father of #postmodernism, developed Evolutionary Tree drawings. These #drawings, which are somewhere between a #diagram and a #map, laid out six ideologies that allowed him to categorize all the “-isms” of present, past, and future architectural culture.
"The exhibition #Chronograms of #Architecture showcases Jencks’ key diagrams, spanning from 1920 to 2000, along with eight newly commissioned diagrams by 8 teams of contemporary architects, researchers and graphic designers, reflecting on the historical moment that we live in today."
#CIVA #ArchitecturalAssociation #MariaFedorchenko #Rotor #LionelDevlieger #PierVittorioAureli #MarioCarpo #LievenDeCauter #GideonBoie #IsabelleDoucet #BorisHamzeian #MichaelJakob #BeatriceLampariello #Meow #LorenzoPezzani #WouterVanAcker #ChristopheVanGerrewey #MarkWigley #BenjaminZurstrassen #MarsonKorbi #MarioCarpo #MarkGarcia #CharlesLDavisII #CurryJHackett #MichaëlGhyoot #AdamPrzywara #KarenSteukers #ArneVandeCapelle #LouiseVanhee #YelizAbdurahman #UrtziGrau #FrancescaHughes #MOULD #BryonyRoberts #AbriannahAiken -
A actavist history of the web
The “better” #closedweb (ISP intranets) was “surprisingly” destroyed by the “inferer” #openweb which then exploded in use to spread everywhere.
The #mainstreaming thinking then tried and failed to recapture this #4opens project for ten years as it takes up global space, and was a real challenge change, that the “common sense” said should not exist.
This working alternative was finally sold out by our own #fahernistas, who bribed with money and statues members of the “unthinking” #geekproblem to build the #dotcons that rapidly took over the #openweb space.
Our wider activist #fashernistas created “liberal stories” about how embracing the #dotcons was a good path. The wider #fahernistas flocked to these #closedweb spaces to grasp at the real early power they provided, after society had finished this shift, the bate and switch took this power away, and we were left with “servalence capitalism” and no social power, as was obvuse at the time it was a con.
Our #fahernistats then pissed tech change/challenge agenst the wall for ten years. While the #openweb user facing technology withered, ignored and irrelevant to #mainstreaming
A few years ago we had an “accidental” #openweb reboot with #activitypub and soon after pushing of the next generation of #closedweb projects with #web03 leaving us in the current messy times.
Yes now the #dotcons are roting, but the #openweb is only a small change challenge due to our #fahernistas and #geekproblem actively #BLOCKING the change challenge inherent to the project.
Where are we now and what can we learn from this?
Liberalism in tech are often active prats, co-opting, bait and switch and taking the easy #NGO funded path when the choice comes.
They are #friendlyenemies, even when they deny this with all their “common sense”
Ideas to mediate this, please?Do you except that “new” is often #deathcult (neo-liberalism) and #postmodernism because this is “common sense” what is your plan/idea to get around these problems?
I have had 20 years of “new” and am very underwhelmed, actually it’s almost all #blocking or adding to the #techshit to be composed. This is obviously a problem that needs to be mediated, what is your plan/process to have a better outcome?
Remember that the only thing that has worked in the last 10 years has been copying #dotcons with #activertypub every themselves has failed, what can we learn from this?
This is an important question that the #OMN project mediates.
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A activist history of the web
The “better” #closedweb (ISP intranets) was “surprisingly” destroyed by the “inferer” #openweb which then exploded in use to spread everywhere.
The #mainstreaming thinking then tried and failed to recapture this #4opens project for ten years as it takes up global space, and was a real challenge change, that the “common sense” said should not exist.
This working alternative was finally sold out by our own #fahernistas, who bribed with money and statues members of the “unthinking” #geekproblem to build the #dotcons that rapidly took over the #openweb space.
Our wider activist #fashernistas created “liberal stories” about how embracing the #dotcons was a good path. The wider #fahernistas flocked to these #closedweb spaces to grasp at the real early power they provided, after society had finished this shift, the bate and switch took this power away, and we were left with “servalence capitalism” and no social power, as was obvuse at the time it was a con.
Our #fahernistats then pissed tech change/challenge agenst the wall for ten years. While the #openweb user facing technology withered, ignored and irrelevant to #mainstreaming
A few years ago we had an “accidental” #openweb reboot with #activitypub and soon after pushing of the next generation of #closedweb projects with #web03 leaving us in the current messy times.
Yes now the #dotcons are roting, but the #openweb is only a small change challenge due to our #fahernistas and #geekproblem actively #BLOCKING the change challenge inherent to the project.
Where are we now and what can we learn from this?
Liberalism in tech are often active prats, co-opting, bait and switch and taking the easy #NGO funded path when the choice comes.
They are #friendlyenemies, even when they deny this with all their “common sense”
Ideas to mediate this, please?Do you except that “new” is often #deathcult (neo-liberalism) and #postmodernism because this is “common sense” what is your plan/idea to get around these problems?
I have had 20 years of “new” and am very underwhelmed, actually it’s almost all #blocking or adding to the #techshit to be composed. This is obviously a problem that needs to be mediated, what is your plan/process to have a better outcome?
Remember that the only thing that has worked in the last 10 years has been copying #dotcons with #activertypub every themselves has failed, what can we learn from this?
This is an important question that the #OMN project mediates.
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A longer list of research interests relevant to #RedEnlightenment
#education #consciousness #psychedelia #ChristianSocialism #engagedbuddhism #meditation #mindfulness #enlightenment #radicalenlightenment #decolonising #decolonizing #historyofphilosophy #ChinesePhilosophy #indianphilosophy #AncientPhilosophy #IslamicPhilosophy #spinoza #anthropology #utopianism #historyofscience #dialecticalmaterialism #deleuze #guattari #postmodernism #Bogdanov #ContemporaryArt #mysticism #activism #markfisher
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Have been feeling inspired after doing some work assembling communities that I'm really interested in - thought I'd do a tag dump for some of the areas that I'm looking into, as well as have already found super interesting, have been following and am boosting... (not in alphabetical order and probably too broad but for my own future reference also!)
#Tag heap:
#Abolition #ACAB #ADHD #Affect #AffectStudies #AntiImperialism #AntiColonialism #AntiRacism #Archiving #Archives #Art #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #Boardgames #ClimateChange #Coffee #Commons #CriticalTheory #CinemaStudies #Communities #CulturalStudies #Decolonisation #Design #Disabled #DigitalCommons #DigitalCulture #DigitalCultures #DigitalHumanities #DigitalTechnologies #DigiModernism #Diversity #EDI #EnglishLiterature #Feminism #Feministsts #FilmStudies #FreeSoftware #Games #Gaming #Geopolitics #Geography #Hauntology #HCI #HumanComputerInteraction
#HigherEd #HigherEducation #History #Histodians #Incarceration #Inclusion #InfrastructureStudies #InternetStudies #London #LowTech #Media #MediaStudies #Museum #Museums #Musicals #OpenPedagogy #ParticipatoryDesign #Pedagogy #PoliceAbolition #Philosophy #Photography #Praxis #Prisons #PrisonAbolition #Preservation #Progressive #Politics #Postmodernism #PublicEducation
#Running #ScienceAndTechnologyStudies #SocialInclusion #SocialMobility #SocialTheory #Socialism #SocialJustice #Sociology #Sociodon #Sociodons #Solidarity #SoftwareStudies #SoundScapes #Skeuomorphism #SpeculativeFiction #STS #Technology #Trans #UK #VanLife #VideoGames #University #ZinesAlso I suppose really this is a second #Introduction after the #TwitterMigration as I'm still relatively #NewHere so... Hi again! Feel free to follow or boost if this sounds like your areas of interest also