Fraternity?

"The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy, but fraternity..."
- Germaine Greer


Greer continues... "yet I think it’s women who are going to have to break this spiral of power and find the trick of cooperation..."


a cooperation of a kind that...
"...could make politics irrelevant; by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action the like of which we have never seen; which is so far from people’s ideas of state structure or viable social structure that it seems to them like total anarchy — when what it really is, is very subtle forms of interrelation that do not follow some heirarchal pattern which is fundamentally patriarchal."


I wonder if it must be women who break this spiral alone...?

How do we foster a culture of brotherhood and sisterhood and siblinghood,
no matter our gender nor our desire nor
some alchemical archetype of some form...


Siblinghood?

A preliminary Definition :
Through this world of strange times... we look out for one another, encourage one another to fight for the things worthy of fight. To nurture and hold whosoever needs nurturing and comfort. To hold one another accountable for the things we've done wrong that we should right. For forgiving those who have hurt us, and for forgiving ourselves for having hurt others...
and then telling one another, gently but firmly,
to stand up..., and
"Let's try again."

For sticking together no matter how difficult the journey ahead may get... this strange rush of civilisation toward ... what End?

What joy,
what a privilege,
to have space and time this precious,
to reflect and to contemplate.

postglobal manifesto (version 0.1)

in the tradition of art movement manifestos, but with the intent to more broadly transform tradition.

the making of culture is an activity that has so far survived the liberations and catastrophes of globalization.

questions about the meaning of cultural origins are relevant because the irreversible interaction of the world’s peoples is spreading, deepening, and perhaps poised to develop into a globally connected culture, the character of which we are now determining.

do we defend and preserve our origins? do we exchange origins? do we give them up?

new creators of culture must face tradition and identity from the holarchic perspective of our epoch, the anthropocene: we have already co-created a physical and spiritual condition on the planetary scale.

we engage this rapidly changing condition by creating culture in synergy with technology.

basic materials (sound, word, image, narrative, etc.) are free to interact without taboo, passing through the unbroken lines of canonical cultural identities (national, generational, ethnic, etc.).

cultural frames of reference cannot be assumed, but a basis for communication is necessary.

the integrity of established cultural origins is not necessarily at stake, but is also not necessarily protected or morally defensible.

we must take the moral position of addressing all people as the new origins.


a collaborative document. version 0.1, 02011-01-01.