INSCRIÇÃO CIRS
February 8th, 2010
Creativity
February 5th, 2010
Living structures canalize energy flows so as to insure their internal coherence and linear expansion. Creativity means transversing existing canals, inventing new ways. Thus, it is natural that rigid structures, such as totalitarian political systems, fear artistic creation.
Creativity is a kind of chaos, it is the fact of life. Creativity is also the principal tool nomads use to adapt to new situations. Creativity arises naturally in conditions of changes and novelty. In a changing environment creation is permanent.
The construction of an identity is a creative, nonlinear process. It is a dialogue with one’s physical and social environment; a multiple-ways, dynamic relationship.
image from Fabíola
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O novo homem
February 2nd, 2010
O novo homem não será do tipo “ou isto/ou aquilo” - ele será do tipo “ambos/e”. O novo homem será terreno e divino, mundano e transcendente. O novo homem aceitará sua totalidade e vai vivê-la sem qualquer divisão interior; ele não será cindido. Seu deus não estará oposto ao demônio, sua moralidade não estará oposta à imoralidade, ele não conhecerá a oposição. Transcenderá a dualidade, não será esquizofrênico. Com o novo homem virá um mundo novo, pois o novo homem vai perceber as coisas de uma maneira qualitativamente diferente. Ele levará um modo de vida totalmente diferente, que ainda não foi vivido. Será um místico, um poeta, um cientista, tudo ao mesmo tempo. Ele não escolherá: ele será ele mesmo sem precisar escolher.
OSHO
Situation
February 1st, 2010
Nomads live in the present. There must be no sense, just the inspiration of the moment. Living the multiplicity and multidimesionality of the situation is the way out of alienation.
Situationism is the politics of the moment. A revolutionary take over of the context. Spontaneity and unrestricted action, critical intervention and creative destruction.
Trapped in the monodirectionality of the system, the sedentary does not live in the present anymore. He rather repeats unconsciously a routine that he integrated so much that he gets offended if others do not follow it.
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Unity
February 1st, 2010
The unity of the tribe ensures the consistency of the nomads’ trajectory. The tribe is a moving standpoint. Linking together the multiple realities of the present, the tribe prevents the total fragmentation of nomadic identity.
Unity is necessary to the coherence of the tribe but paradoxically imperils nomadic life. Nomads will run away from any force that tries to embody them in a single, monolithic, unified reality.
Any transport that accelerates the speed at which the rhizome expands also reduces its connections to the multiple. Speed projects objects forward in a direction and simultaneously alien it from all others. Nomads strengthen their unity by integrating the multidimensional.
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I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
February 1st, 2010
I wish I knew how
It would feel to be free
I wish I could break
All the chains holding me
I wish I could say
All the things that I should say
Say ‘em loud say ‘em clear
For the whole round world to hear
I wish I could share
All the love that’s in my heart
Remove all the bars
That keep us apart
I wish you could know
What it means to be me
Then you’d see and agree
That every man should be free
I wish I could give
All I’m longin’ to give
I wish I could live
Like I’m longin’ to live
I wish I could do
All the things that I can do
And though I’m’m way over due
I’d’d be starting a new
Well I wish I could be
Like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be
If I found I could fly
Oh I’d’d soar to the sun
And look down at the sea
Than I’d sing cos I know - yea
Then I’d sing cos I know - yea
Then I’d sing cos I know
I’d’d know how it feels
Oh I’d know how it feels to be free
Yea Yea! Oh, I’d know how it feels
Yes I’d know
Oh, I’d know
How it feels
How it feels
To be free
Freedom
February 1st, 2010
Nomads chose to be nomads because they want to be free. Free to go their ways. It is this freedom that the sedentary man lost. The sedentary is free to own land, nomads have the whole world.
When freedom is achieved -and is it never completely achieved- it becomes a strength. Freedom generates identity and creativity. Freedom is firstly the freedom of inventing oneself.
Nomads want to be free to explore the multidimensionality of reality. They will fight until death not to be imprisoned in a unidirectional structure where movements are predetermined.
Movement
February 1st, 2010
Movement is life and life is movement. There is nothing on earth that is not animated by movement. Even the oldest stone is in movement, it is only a question of scale.
Movement is the essence of nomadic life. Nomads do not try to resist the movement, to domestify life or to stop time. Nomads go with the flows, live the moment, in the movement.
“Movement commands the events”, says Virilio. There is no way to master the movement in its multidimensionality, any attempt to do so will only create non-events, sameness at another speed.
Exchange
February 1st, 2010
Nomad economics is one of collective contribution, sharing and exchange. In the tribe, the fate of one is the fate of all. Hence, individual accumulation of resources would amount to choosing living with objects rather than people.
Exchange does not necessitate money. It is not monitored by the global market system, it functions on a parallel plan.
The internet, with napster for instance, proved to be a good space of exchange. Web designers, musicians, artists and all professions relying on collaboration increasingly engage in informal exchange of goods and services.
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Flows
February 1st, 2010
Flows are life. Life is flows. Nomads have a fluid identity. The structure of nomadic tribes is fluid and non-hierachical.
Flows are never linear or constant. They follow chaotic, unpredictable, and multidirectional motions. Strange attractors can for instance create whirlpools in rivers for no apparent reason.
Today’s information flows come from a multiplicity of decentralized sources. The multiplication of emetors and receptors of information brings confusion, instability, conflicts, and chaos. The environment becomes more nomadic.