Eminent domain is not good wording for sucateamento. It’s been the nth time I search for this term in English since 2020, and each time I’m astonished the closest we get is expropriation, which actually leads to yet another not so equivalent desaproriação (“dispropriation”) in my mother tongue. We’re not talking about States or the States taking ownership of something, we’re talking about the State itself, led by non-State forces to burn itself up. The astonishment: this is common-place for authoritative governments. Think Dead Poets Society, Mr. Holland’s Opus or The Soloist, Hollywood, Paramount and Disney subcompanies have been throwing in our faces for decades what is happening with Education and Art is simply not right: stuff’s burning, and that’s the people’s stuff.
I randomly found myself watching Hic et Nunc 2000’s Tibum Residency program. There’s an absolutely uncanny crying from someone’s mic midstream, as uncanny as Cryo’s stuff I love listening to read and write. That cry out followed the artists’ media: painting, design, music, 2D, 3D even tattooing; but those are not the Renaissance polymaths we read biographies about, those are disembodied (or deterritorialized) professionals, dismembered workers, proletário sucateado, just like their profs. and teachers’ institutions. I come from a PhD background, and this is not exclusive to H=N’s national origin, Brazil, but it’s a worldwide phenomenon.[1] Crypto is not an obvious and ready-made revolution, and as long as these bodies remain as such, and not as their main income, supposing that's one artist’s desire, are we really ready to jump in and say blockchain is already built revolutionary?
It’s built scientifically, have a look at Satoshi’s origins: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/bitcoin/; and science is all about experimenting and mostly documenting what works and what doesn’t work, with honesty. We’re also on the brink of worldwide mass manifestations, most of the almost 4 million deaths reported by WHO were base workers, teachers included, not your regular “entrepreneur”. Revolutions and revolutionary actions are built upon mobilization, not just economics by itself, which does nothing but reproduce fiat capital’s currents.
Right now, I’m working as a freelance reviewer, translator and layout designer, which has less and less been able to fill up rent and basic needs, so up to Memeland we go: cryptocurrencies, cryptoart and even freelancing as a telemarketer, through an application developed by a conveniently and stereotypical South Asian brand name. This is not to be looked down upon: memes got many folks elected, and not just politicians that are or became memes themselves, mostly through xenophobia, LGBTphobia and the such. Likewise, memes can empower very random and poor people, precisely what Tibum’s artists reported. Of course I’m deadly pissed at the memelord that took away my wage, but it’s not like you reading me has never watched or even heard of part-timers on most universities, and it’s not like the unemployed graduate is becoming more and more a reality, less funny, and less of a meme.
Sucateamento is a word missing in English, our lingua franca, though we all experience its growth with Death ringing streets’ neon xenomic paint.
R.I.P. Cesar Alexandre a.k.a. Mount Shrine.
Shoutout to @AndersonSang6, @crzypatchwork, @geancg1 (thanks for posting it on Cryptobrasileragem!), Gustavo R. (@dot.z), @hypercorpora, @mariana9destro, and @softdread2021, I wish you all the best.
Props to @strangepeo for the thumbnail.
[1] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/518478, https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/518478, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17508487.2019.1708765.
Trust the crow if you want to read these.
