sci-fi-sunset: hencetherefore: Hence Therefore - Bad Hope/Bad Despair EP Inspired by China Miev
sci-fi-sunset:hencetherefore:Hence Therefore - Bad Hope/Bad Despair EPInspired by China Mieville’s “The Limits of Utopia”, Hence Therefore sharpens his technoid soundscapes - angling into the dancefloor. With clattering bicycle spokes, experimental choral dirges andpolyrhythmic interplay, we are invited to consider how we deploy ourdances and despairs, and against whom. Coming soon on 12″ vinyl & mp3 via 3BS Records. Listen to “Bad Hope” here: https://soundcloud.com/3bsrecords/hence-therefore-bad-hopeI’ve got a record coming out.The song titles are all lifted from this passage in China’s very good and grim essay:Bad hope and bad despair are mutually constitutive. Capitalism gets you coming or going. ‘We’ can fix the problem ‘we’ made. And when ‘we’, geoengineers, fail, ‘we’ can live through it, whisper ‘our’ survivalist bad consciences, the preppers hoarding cans of beans.Is there a better optimism? And a right way to lose hope? It depends who’s hoping, for what, for whom – and against whom. We must learn to hope with teeth. There is a line from Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale that distills this even further, perhaps:Better never means better for everyone. It always means worse, for some.Utopia for the rich is apocalypse for the rest of us - hence the swans enjoying the flood. Let’s make apocalypse for the rich, sweep away their borders, and be the swans. -- source link
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