Peter Lamborn Wilson / Hakim Bey on "Civilization, Technology and Consciousness"
Donnerstag, 2.3.2023, 19.00 Uhr
Vienna premiere and discussion with the authors
A video by World-Information.Net, Konrad Becker/Felix Stalder
Camera: Fred Barney Taylor, NY Support: Jim Fleming, Lewanne Jones, Postproduction: Georg Schütz, Sound: Konrad Becker, (57min. 2022)
In his latest interview, conducted during the global pandemic, anarchist researcher and cultural theorist Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bay looks back and forward at the same time. He draws a wide arc through the history of civilization, technology and consciousness. The focus is on the current tendency to narrow and flatten the imagination due to the global expansion of consumerism and increasing abstraction and quantification as the basis of social worlds. Which perspectives of radical alternatives can be thought of against the status quo and right-wing extremism?
Lamborn-Wilson not only formulates criticism, but explores other ways of being in the world, more immediate, full of wonder and free from oppressive domination.
A "cyberguru" in the 90's, he deliberately didn't have an email address and wrote his pieces by hand or with an old typewriter. As the author of "Temporary Autonomous Zone" and dozens of other books, including titles like "Pirate Utopia", he inspired several generations. He died one day after the last recording of this interview in May 2022.
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Konrad Becker is an author, artist and producer in the field of cultural intelligence and information technology. Director and co-founder of the Institute for New Culture Technologies/t0, World-Information.Net and numerous projects
Felix Stalder teaches digital culture at the Zurich University of the Arts, works with the World Information Institute and the Technopolitics Working Group in Vienna, and has been a moderator of <nettime> for many years.
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