Recap
“what does the further execution of the effective accelerationist agenda mean for our social and intellectual abilities?”
A project by “technopositivists” for those still to be convinced.
In taking on this role, to show the absurdity of this ideology
From here:
Looking for a persona to use as a vessel for our narrative
Interacting with the community– quite dead.
while trying to interact with the discord community, we asked ourselves, “how does one even become a member?”
This led us to the topic of indoctrination.
We decided to investigate different ways to communicate this notion.
Unfortunately, through analysis of twitter activity which was more prominent than the discord, we realized that communication is very simple and not attempting to manipulate, as propaganda would.
Simultaneously, we had brainstorming of visualization methods.
Ideation: 1st attempt
Army recruitment stand– combining the fascist nature of a futurist ideology speaking in absolutes and the indoctrination required for such movements to succeed.
Adopting this visual language to create an e/acc recruitment stand
Disagreements: lacks criticality and would just be staging a scene. What role would the people play that we interact with? Are we simply messing with them? Why should a digital community engage with people offline?
Ideation: 2nd attempt
2 Truths and a Pitch
research of personas and investment projects
A community based on innovation:
what innovation?
Disagreements:
the goal of coming up with something more absurd to show how absurd this ideology is, is quite difficult.
All of our brainstormed ideas sounded plausible and couldn’t beat the mosquito drone
Conclusions
What would be we gain by imagining another absurd product.
We are living in such an absurd era, that our ability to shock and provoke is
a) limited, and
b) not as powerful as we thought.
The Onion problematic post-Trump
Language of absurdity is not the way to go.
Going forward:
Using contrast as a method as opposed to reinforcing.
Absurdity = playing into e/acc tropes
Contrasting = communicating our disagreements and being critical
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