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Dark Euphoria
A visualisation of Brue Stirling’s notes on the cultural temperament of the
coming decade: Reboot 11
Where did the future go?
• We’ve known since the 12th century what progress is: Master nature, more security, better health.....
• What we’re going to get: No money, scarcity, financial collapse, low-intensity global warfare, and a climate crisis.
• We’re deliberately moving backwards.
the cultural temperament of the coming decade
• Gen x: action is cheaper than control
• BRICS,fundies-globalising but not progressing
• Gen x: things falling apart, everything is possible
• Aging Baby Boomers. Have the votes.
Crisis Capitalism
Gothic High Tech
FavelaChic
Emergent countries
Dark Euphoria
Shock ofthe old
GOTHIC HIGH TECHWho is? What is?
Steve Jobs•brilliant but dying of something secret and horrible•got both hands on the steering wheel
- but death is waiting
a heroic 18th century gothic novel
brilliant poly-ethnic
with no ideology
will cheerfullycampaign against themselves
no lie holds sway -but nothing
holds
positionthemselves in the narrative
rather thanbuild anypermanentinfrastructure
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don't blame mebecauseI'm already deaddon't blame me I'm a vampire
why are gen x goths? why do they like to dress up like dead people?
FAVELA CHICAnd on the flipside
lost everything material-everything they've built and every thing they have but wired to the gills
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Facebook is a favela- the whole thing is going south,
no civil rights, you can't make money there,, you live there until they pull the plug
action is cheaper than control
an emergent structure
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there isn't any other place to go
the old new
an urban intervention
References• Bruce Stirling’s Closing Key note Dark
Euphoria- the cultural temperament of the coming decade: Gothic High-Tech and Favela Chic
• “It is neither progress nor conservatism because there's nothing left to conserve and no direction in which to progress. So what you get is transition. Transition to nowhere.'"
• http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruce-sterling-reboot-11
• He defines four quadrants for the coming decade and neatly discards this half as being irrelevant for the audience (which equates to the majority of the world's population): the financial crisis of the Boomer generation, the BRICs, the emerging economies and the 'fundies' of all persuasions
• length 45 minutes
IMAGES
1. Your Personal "Flying Carpet” http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/3016264752/
2. "buy this new thing, suckers" http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarod_uses_film/2576845129/
3. The Watchers Ruin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwest/215218600/
4. Confrontation? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarra/1350029316/
5. Banksy http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon-crubellier/147034740/
6. Lobbyists for McCain http://www.flickr.com/photos/darynbarry/2831975838/
7. cheerleaders http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthdog/31471319/
8. eat the people who piss me off.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitca/2280075391/
9. Electrical http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurman/2199563743/
10. My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and MyblogLoghttp://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/
11. James, I think your cover's blown! http://www.flickr.com/photos/23912576@N05/2962194797/
12. The moon belongs to everyone... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauronascimento/2606241050/
13. Jumping into the new dimension http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutterhack/2328014257/
14. always in beta http://www.flickr.com/photos/russelldavies/375434178/
15. http://www.treehugger.com/2008-01-14_110939-TreeHugger-wigglesworth1.jpg
16. http://steampunkworkshop.com/stunning-etched-brass-modular-synth