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[environmentalism and the postindustrial neoproletariat]prof.
dr. jason rebillotarchitect, maaassociate professor + graduate
program coordinatorwoodbury universityschool of
architectureprincipal, future living syndicatelos angeles
within the logics of postindustrial service economies lies a
project of radical personal autonomy with clear territorial
implications it equally suggests that these two components- the
postindustrial and the territorial- are imbricated with yet a third
concern- the environmental.
or
technological emancipationxpersonal autonomy+ collective
autonomy/decentralization=sustainability
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technologys new proletariat
the neoproletariat as environmentalist
broadly speaking, it is only by decentralization that we can
increase self-sufficiency- and self-sufficiency is vital if we are
to minimize the burden of social systems on the ecosystems that
support them.
edward goldsmith, 1972
neighborhoods500
communities5,000
urban regions500,000
no bureaucratic manipulative, centralized administration here,
but a voluntaristic system in which the economy,society and ecology
of an area are administered by the community as a whole, and the
distribution of the means of life is determined by need, rather
than by labour, profit or accumulation.
murray bookchin, 1996
radical agriculture offers a meaningful response to this
desperate situation in terms not of a fanciful flight to a remote
agrarian refuge, but of a systematicrecolonization of the land
along ecological lines.
murray bookchin, 1996
an ethos of decentralism toward urban settlement patterns and
their attendant administrative andgovernmental systems, social
provisions, and materialinfrastructures is the most viable means of
livingwithin the carrying capacity of the planet.
in this formulation, survival is linked to the cultivationof an
extensive, rather than intensive, spatiality.
