tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2406875840421844341.post4675025224126928569..comments2023-06-14T23:23:38.873+10:00Comments on The Garden of Self Defence: Hamish's giftPermapoesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05565236504537501720noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2406875840421844341.post-86842065908429409232008-11-20T21:45:00.000+11:002008-11-20T21:45:00.000+11:00"power invents a mask for powerlessness to wear" T..."power invents a mask for powerlessness to wear" Toby Sime<BR/><BR/>Thank you so much Hamish! Maybe the blogasphere is not merely just a cheap version of the mainstream media – 'the shopping guides' in McKenzie Wark's words. So good to get your thoughts.<BR/>There are so many things to respond to, but i'm going to keep it brief for now.<BR/><BR/>Firstly, I take your point about the city. That is why I call my thought and my art 'transitional'. This transitional phase is self-determined, and belongs to a sea of folk with like ideas. The hopefulness found in my work is the utopian conjuring of a post-industrial, ecological revolution. The hopelessness is the understanding that this will not occur without a crash because the civilised, mediated twenty-first century human is a hopeful, globalised and compromised unit of capitalism.<BR/><BR/>My idea of, or rather interest in, hope and hopelessness is influenced by Eastern philosophy. Hopefulness is the acceptance of powerlessness. Hope is generally organised or encouraged by some hierarchy or another. Hopelessness is therefore non-delusional, and by extension, to my mind at least, not a negative position. <BR/><BR/>In real terms, as an Anglo-European occupying DjaDja wurrung land with the questionable license-to-do-so of a global-pool-of-money bank mortgage, digging over the soil, improving the humus and beginning to understand the nuances and complexities of the ecology that supports us is, so far, all that I've come up with.<BR/><BR/>pjPermapoesishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05565236504537501720noreply@blogger.com