Critical Hedonism
Humans need to find ways to escape the vicious circle of forced work for wages and imposed leisure, to escape symbolic dominance and cultural entrainment, the "reality" of everyday life and the flatlands of binary logic. The change towards an immaterialization of goods, electromagnetic pulses driving the global banking networks and media-satellites is based on a change from body-work to attention span management. Not the inclination for poetry but the compulsion for complexity reduction spiralizes the information management into the occult while the mesh of media creates black holes of attention and sells it off to the wormholes of the commodified anti-markets. Transactions and exchange is independently leading to the desubstantiation of the economic process through immanent conversion of values. The economy of attention creates singularities, personified attractors of telemetric flesh as mind focus, dark stars in mediaspace, social sculptures with habits as capricious as tribal African fetishes. The transformation of the economic competition into a battle for attention is sometimes also seen as a hidden blessing in the power structure of the social organism.
If the transfer of control from human to machine is part of a process aimed at disciplining the human body in order to increase its potential and at the same time gain control over its skills, the so-called abolition of slavery led to the introduction of a subtle form of generalized subjugation where with the help of superior methods of control, the symbol-manipulative intelligence of the workforce can be increased to meet the requirements of production. The assumption of solidarity of a working class seems a misconception when association with work is effectively the choice of losers. Political theories and movements relate to historic facts which can become dull and questionable with the advance of time. Hardly any facts can be truly verified anyway - so who cares. The brain filters out all but a few of millions of signals, the rest is called factual reality. The only fairly secure personal facts: birth and death, two numbers with a "-" in between produce a shift of interest from facts to effects. Human pleasure seeking organisms, born to have fun, carry the risk of permanent brain stroke in an environment where "enjoying your self" is a political risk. Synesthetic effects refer to the involuntary physical experience in which the stimulation of one sense modality causes an additional perception in different senses. The movement of hedonistic escape from materialism is a global language of zero work ethics in full e~fact. Towards the united international hedonistic diversification, critical escapism will dance at the grave of ordinary pancapitalism.