Mvuent's Live Q&A session: TONIGHT, TONIGHT.

[luka]

ask him anything you want. he will be Online and Available from the hours of 11:30pm-9:00am

 

[luka]

@shiels have you read mvuent's new book length essay posted on his blog?

 

[sus]

Can you translate to American time please what is this Greenwich Standard nonsense I want Mountain Time I want Central Time I want that Silicon Valley Standard

 

[luka]

i dont know sorry mvuent would only give me GMT that's the standard he works on

 

[luka]

17:30 on the Wisconsin clock.

 

[luka]

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[sus]

Mvuent my first question for you is this

Your work on "worlds" echoes many of my own explorations. We have several threads here on Dissensus about worlding. Meanwhile, Peli Grietzer has written extensively on "vibe" as a kind of world-capturing. There have been essays for and against world-building. Simon has written about the worlds created by conceptronica.

It seems to me this sort of thinking is very much in the water. Do you agree? If so, what do you think it says about the current moment?

David Chapman writes, very relatedly I think,

The countercultures wrongly rejected rationality, because the systematic mode had absolutized it. The subcultures rejected universalism—rightly, but absolutely, which made nation-scale structures impossible. Atomization made coherence impossible, which could become disastrous. During the eras of these three modes, rational, large-scale, coherent systems became increasingly inconceivable—but without them, civilization is impossible. The fluid mode [to come] must reinstate rationality, universality, and coherence, but with recognition of their nebulosity. In fluidity, systems are relativized, not eliminated.

And I can't help but wonder whether the desire to create/navigate/inhabit worlds is a regressive impulse to return back to the subcultural mode, for those atomized, or a step forward into the fluid mode. What do you make of all this?

 

[linebaugh]

Do you have a large pecker?

yes or no question. please dont post 'stats'

www.dissensus.com

 

[luka]

Do you have a large pecker?

yes or no question. please dont post 'stats'

www.dissensus.com

why you being coy we all know you did side by side comparsions at the ranch and rumour has it there are even photographs

 

[sus]

I've uninvited Linebaugh to my house ever again after the above comment. Trying to bring down Ian's moment of triumph. I won't stand for it.

 

[sus]

@woops Have you read Ian's great new work? It mentions you.

@thirdform Have you read Ian's great new work? It is still in progress but I can already tell it will one-up his Neon Screams post

 

[luka]

i read it months ago but hes been too coy to publish it till now

 

[wektor]

who is Ian? Been a bit out lately and I'm not up to date with the current nicknames on the forum

 

[wektor]

@woops Have you read Ian's great new work? It mentions you.

woops is dead.

 

[luka]

he did drink ten pints of Guinness before going out on his shield though. what a warrior.

 

[wektor]

It's this many. unbelievable.

 

[luka]

its mental. the sad thing is he did want to live. ive always been slightly ambivalent on the question but for him there was no doubt being alive was desireable.

 

[luka]

the world's most famous music writer simon reynolds 'liked' the tweet advertising tonight's event. probably Ian can expect a lot of celebrity attendance as a result.

 

[luka]

for everyone that wants to retweet it here it is

 

[luka]

@version will be attending this or have you and Ian still got unresolved issues from the incident a couple of years ago?