Dark Euphoria Where Did The Future Go?

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 • Aging Baby • Gen x: Boomers. things falling Have the apart, votes. everything is possible Crisis Gothic Capitalism High Tech Shock of Dark the old Euphoria Emergent Favela countries Chic • BRICS, • Gen x: fundies- action is globalising but cheaper not progressing than control

Who is? What is? GOTHIC HIGH TECH

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 cheerfully campaign against themselves

no lie holds sway -but nothing holds

position themselves in the narrative rather than build any permanent infrastructure

cheerleaders not leaders

why are gen x goths? why do they like to dress up like dead people? don't blame me because I'm already dead don't blame me I'm a vampire

And on the flipside FAVELA CHIC

lost everything material- everything they've built and every thing they have but wired to the gills

no children no relationships

but big on facebook

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

an emergent structure action is cheaper than control

you can't insure it or get title to it -no inspections -it's a slum that you built yourself with play labour

a civilized squat a stuffed animal: a smokestack industry, repurposed

there isn't any other place to go the old new an urban intervention

References IMAGES • Bruce Stirling’s Closing Key note Dark 1. Your Personal "Flying Carpet” Euphoria- the cultural temperament of the http://www.flickr.com/photos/hollywoodplace/3016264752/ 2. "buy this new thing, suckers" coming decade: Gothic High-Tech and http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarod_uses_film/2576845129/ Favela Chic 3. The Watchers Ruin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwest/215218600/ • “It is neither progress nor conservatism 4. Confrontation? http://www.flickr.com/photos/jarra/1350029316/ because there's nothing left to conserve 5. Banksy http://www.flickr.com/photos/simon- and no direction in which to progress. So crubellier/147034740/ what you get is transition. Transition to 6. Lobbyists for McCain http://www.flickr.com/photos/darynbarry/2831975838/ nowhere.'" 7. cheerleaders • http://video.reboot.dk/video/486788/bruc 8. http://www.flickr.com/photos/earthdog/31471319/ eat the people who piss me e-sterling-reboot-11 off.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitca/2280075391/ 9. Electrical http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjurman/2199563743/ • He defines four quadrants for the coming 10. My social Network on Flickr, Facebook, Twitter and MyblogLog decade and neatly discards this half as http://www.flickr.com/photos/luc/1824234195/ 11. James, I think your cover's blown! being irrelevant for the audience (which http://www.flickr.com/photos/23912576@N05/2962194797/ equates to the majority of the world's 12. The moon belongs to everyone... http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauronascimento/2606241050/ population): the financial crisis of the 13. Jumping into the new dimension Boomer generation, the BRICs, the http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutterhack/2328014257/ emerging economies and the 'fundies' of 14. always in beta http://www.flickr.com/photos/russelldavies/375434178/ all persuasions 15. http://www.treehugger.com/2008-01-14_110939-TreeHugger- wigglesworth1.jpg • length 45 minutes 16. http://steampunkworkshop.com/stunning-etched-brass- modular-synth

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Dark Euphoria Where Did The Future Go?

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