[Nettime-bold] THE CHALLENGE OF INSTABILITY IN THE NEW MILLENIUM

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THE CHALLENGE OF INSTABILITY IN THE NEW MILLENIUM. 


In the time of chaos, uncertainty and misleading declarations new
challenges and paradigms come clearly on the foreground. New York City,
September 11. This is the time and place where as many political analysts
agree the war was declared by …the anonymous force. Around 10 am this
morning we saw two American airliners gliding into the World Trade Center
towers within 20 minutes interval. 35 min after that another plane crashed
into the Pentagon building in Washington, then yet another one near by
Pittsburgh. Immediate results included thousands of civilian victims, 30 %
decrease in U.S. economic activity, as well as federal and legislative
disruptions.

Most interpretations use terrorism as an explanation of what occurred to be
precisely orchestrated disruptive economic action against U.S.  If we
abstract from political ideologies and look at this event in the context of
the emerging global processes we will see the message underlying the act of
destruction of American symbols of power. Considered to be the number one
power in the world both economically and military, U.S. was unable to
prevent a deadly strike in the heart of its economic and legislative system
and left clueless as to the subject of this action. No country or political
group declared responsibility.  The names like Osama Bin Laden, radical
Lumah groups, Saddam Hussein were widely used across the reports pointing
to the Middle East as the source of what many called the ultimate evil.
Regardless of who directed the suicide pilots and positioned trucks and
boats full of explosives and (as it was stated in 2 of NYC TV reports)
potentially even used biological weapons the fact that the global system is
out of balance comes out into the open. The American dollar is falling down
on every market and all it took to achieve this was redirecting 4 in land
flights. The resources necessary to organize this barbaric act and the
damage, which it caused, are incomparable which by itself is an indication
of instability.    It is also a clear display of the dissemination of
political subjectivity in the global context.  Augmented by the technology
political subjectivity as a complex system of power and knowledge triggered
chaotic geo-political and economic processes, which as the attack on the
U.S. shows lead to its technological and economic disintegration.
Disruptions in electronic communication systems from cellular networks to
internet services which we experienced in this critical moment today in NYC
when lives were on the line were not caused by terrorists but by the
overwhelming amount of traffic which these networks aren't designed to
handle. Suddenly the magic of comfort and safety was wiped out on so many
levels that many of us are waking up from the superficial mass marketed
idea of piece. It is not panic which leads us, it is the reality of being
inside the system, which has no more resources to maintain internal balance.

As we enter the new millennium we find ourselves in the middle of the war
field, which this world has become conditioned by excessive socio-economic
practices and trans-mutations of the lines of power. We understand that
American national crisis is merely a representation of the global
dissipation in which all of the countries, corporations and populations are
involved willingly or against their will. I have no doubt that U.S. will
respond to this action but it is also clear that whatever military actions
will be taken against the imaginary subject of evil this framework is not
going to reinstate global balance. The death of power symbols is the
beginning of a confusing and painful but vital process of reorientation and
enlightenment. It is a call for new progressive mentalities to enter the
global scene and replace what Bataill called restricted economies. Without
an exegeration this challenge is critical to our survival and prosperity. 


Vlad Muzhesky

BASICRAY, NYC

September 11, 2001

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