#Deactivist

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Hi all, check out my other blogs and follow them if you like the style. They are listed below.

🌆@shambholic (this one) mixed, travel

🏝@heresying @miss-wallflowers nature, tropical

🥀@mangalsutra @engager light indie

🖤 @deactivist @night-eclipses dark indie (with some nature)

🤍 @faraarri pale

💚 @taneid @exoticly @phastels personal

🪐 @tanqled classy

🧡 @erudities colour-coded with funny textposts

🗺 @worldtalks travel

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✒ @arabnights poetry

📷 @secondwheel uploads

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[cknightleyart]

As I get older I don't want to be an Activist. I was always a Honorable Deactivist!

Shut a 'nigga/wigga' down before they begin.

That's why they keep me in the Psych Ward aka (Behavioral Unit). I don't take shit from nobody. I punched Security. Yes I did. Right in the face. I didn't want to get naked in front of those men. Now every time he see me he turns the other cheek.

((9:22 AM) march 31, 2021)

[marginalstudio]

De-activist Manifesto

"Activism consists of efforts to promote, impede, or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change, or stasis." (Wikipedia) "Change management is an approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations to a desired future state." (Wikipedia) DE-ACTIVATE: a de-activism manifesto =============================== * De-activism is non-passivist activism that refuses to end up as change management. * De-activism is activism that does not buy into innovation narratives. * De-activism basically is turning ‘things’ off. LESS IS EQUAL ============= De-activism considers the concept of 'having or gaining less' to have equal value to the doctrine of growth.It is clear that some species have to shrink in order to save their own kind (species). We need smaller fish in less water. We need decreased visibility in organisations and systems to be kept out of sight from controllers, bureaucrats and accountants. Like conventional business economics, conventional activism often falls into the trap of promoting growth. Look at social activism that activates the dormant economy of a neighborhood. Look at environmental activism that grows organic supermarkets and solar cell industries. See how queer rights activism ends up growing the wedding industry. See how media activism fosters the growth of Silicon Valley and Chinese computer sweatshops by promoting access-for-all participatory media. AN END TO INNOVATION ===================== De-activism embraces shrinkage. It looks for systems to deactivate - no matter whether these systems are technological, commercial, social, cultural, political, personal. De-activism is a turn against accumulation - accumulation of stuff, of ever-more layers of determinism and complexity. De-activism is about leaving gaps and opening up undefined, new spaces. Doing so, de-activism is strictly pragmatic. It entails no whatsoever romanticism and zero nostalgia for a pre-modern, unalienated or off-urban life. But it permits itself to indulge in obscure, obsolete and ineffective systems, technologies and practices that have slipped under the PRISM radar of this self-control society. De-activism does not buy into any liberal or libertarian ideologies of deregulation either. These ideologies are ultimately about economic growth and accumulation of property. They only pretend to do away with systems while actually installing new ones that are just as intransparent and even less manageable than the ones they replace. (Bitcoin, the libertarian alternative to conventional money, is a good example.) DOWN WITH QUALITY =================== And lastly, de-activism is not about quality over quantity. De-activism opposes qualitative accumulation just as much as quantitative accumulation. It embraces quality loss, at least aesthetically. It also makes no false dialectical promises (like: "less is more") of a better life that is to be gained. De-activism is a deliberately open experiment, indeterministic, with unpredictable outcomes. What will happen if we switch off and shrink? How can we produce less goods, less services, less data - without this activity becoming yet another system on top of everything else, one more layer of accumulated complexity? This is the fundamental paradox of de-activism. De-activism does not pretend to ever solve this paradox, but embraces it as an (un)creative challenge. De-activism is our emancipation from self-imposed burnout, from Tiredness Society, ADHD, Prozac, Effexor, Ritalin, from our own opportunism in doing stuff that we know is a bubble. De-activism simply aims for the functional decolonization of everyday life. It doesn't fetishize shrinking, and therefore won't stop at itself. Probably, it will deactivate itself at some point. Hopefully.

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