Some snips with comments from Bryant's blog post "the material unconscious."
It highlights how kennilingus, while giving lip service to the right
quadrants' influence, is still rather individual-interior heavy and
lacks the sort of in-depth analysis Bryant brings.
"What we take to be our own agency, our own free choice, instead turns out in so many instances to be the agency of these things or machines acting upon us. To be sure, I choose which hallway to walk through, but what I don’t choose– to paraphrase Zizek –is the form of choice dictated by hallways, or roads, or paths, themselves. These things lie before me as so many choices already chosen within which I might make my choices. I live in a world where my being is mediated– where it is afforded and constrained –in an endless variety of ways."
"The material unconscious plunges us into an eccentric orbit where our action, agency, cognition, ways of relating to one another, and desires are organized from without; all the while creating the misrecognition of these things as our own. [...] To know the material unconscious one must think not like a Brandomian or a phenomenologist, but rather like a ecologist, designer, or architect. Indeed, another name for architecture and design is ecology. The designers and architects are the great cartographers of the material unconscious; they even produce much of it."
This is why the ecological consciousness Rifkin talks about arises from our participation in the neo-Commons. It is directly from our interactions with the internet of things that changes us from the outside rather than having individual-interior cognitive models to which things must anthropocentrically conform.
"Recognizing that the material unconscious mediates our agency is not a defeatist thought, but is the first step towards developing real agency; an agency that is not merely the order of thought. We must develop a politics of things; a politics that involves building, designing, and constructing and not merely legislating and persuading."
Hence real agency gets involved in a "politics of things" like the neo-Commons infrastructure and practice, which inculcates and enacts this ecological consciousness from such encounter. It is the emerging actual next wave for humanity and techno-organically grown, not in some integrally-informed 'think' tank.
"What we take to be our own agency, our own free choice, instead turns out in so many instances to be the agency of these things or machines acting upon us. To be sure, I choose which hallway to walk through, but what I don’t choose– to paraphrase Zizek –is the form of choice dictated by hallways, or roads, or paths, themselves. These things lie before me as so many choices already chosen within which I might make my choices. I live in a world where my being is mediated– where it is afforded and constrained –in an endless variety of ways."
"The material unconscious plunges us into an eccentric orbit where our action, agency, cognition, ways of relating to one another, and desires are organized from without; all the while creating the misrecognition of these things as our own. [...] To know the material unconscious one must think not like a Brandomian or a phenomenologist, but rather like a ecologist, designer, or architect. Indeed, another name for architecture and design is ecology. The designers and architects are the great cartographers of the material unconscious; they even produce much of it."
This is why the ecological consciousness Rifkin talks about arises from our participation in the neo-Commons. It is directly from our interactions with the internet of things that changes us from the outside rather than having individual-interior cognitive models to which things must anthropocentrically conform.
"Recognizing that the material unconscious mediates our agency is not a defeatist thought, but is the first step towards developing real agency; an agency that is not merely the order of thought. We must develop a politics of things; a politics that involves building, designing, and constructing and not merely legislating and persuading."
Hence real agency gets involved in a "politics of things" like the neo-Commons infrastructure and practice, which inculcates and enacts this ecological consciousness from such encounter. It is the emerging actual next wave for humanity and techno-organically grown, not in some integrally-informed 'think' tank.
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