Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Travelogue, Rotary ECT, Robert Crouch, Jim Haynes, Geneva Skeen, Jasmin Blasco, Yann Novak, Pauline Lay, Gabie Strong + Peter KolovosĬage+Cunningham performance – “Instances of Silence/Trails” featuring dancers Jmy James Kidd + Jillian Stein *Source: “Elon Musk, Twitter and the internet economy”, Will Dunn, The New Statesman,ĬM von Hausswolff, IHVH, SPS, Dr. If we can’t reinvent the wheel, we had better reinvent the superhighway, and drive in a different direction. After the car, 20th Century symbol of forward freedom, the automated vehicle – 21st Century symbol of living in reverse, bonded behind a screen of algorithmic passivity. Might he be aware of one of Nikola Tesla’s unresolved inventions, “The Thought Machine”, that intended to be able to project an individual’s retinal images onto a screen? Does he take Twitter to be an improvement on this?Īfter the wheel, the spiked wheel of fortune. Musk has plans for brain implants that connect to the internet, AI initiatives in addition, and if it all goes haywire, there’s always Life on Mars. The sum is roughly equivalent to the total budget President Biden’s administration has dedicated to combatting climate change. Musk has bid $44bn to acquire the company. Musk made $171bn during the first year of the Covid pandemic and increased Tesla’s market capitalisation 13-fold since the end of 2019*. Notably, his key company appropriated the name Tesla – whose electric cars provide a platform to numerous means of wealth accumulation. This may be exaggerated, but clearly Tesla never achieved great wealth despite his numerous inventions, most of all the feat in having developed the means of electrical current distribution.Įlon Musk, meanwhile, is currently the richest man in the world. Tesla died in his New York hotel in 1943 in relative poverty and apparently with a mere $100 to his name. It could come from wireless networks for nothing, but that was not allowed to happen.
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Nikola Tesla proposed the principal of free energy a hundred years ago.
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Nevertheless, the last ten years has seen a relentless abstraction of this – in the UK, a deceitful attempt to return to “past glories” alongside a series of fiscal measures that punish the poor for the crime of being poor.įrom its genesis during the times of the horse and cart to today’s driverless cars, the wheel keeps on turning, creating massive fortunes for the fortunate few, but the energy needed to drive it is another matter entirely. “You can’t reinvent the wheel” – So goes the saying to describe a futile attempt to improve upon what has gone before. jon-wozencroft-sound-seminar-after-the-wheel/ There’s a good app called Transit which has live local transport times and options. It’s then a 10-15 minute walk to the venue… we suggest you allow extra time for travelling. Iklectik isn’t far from Waterloo (also Lambeth North is half a kilometre away), on the underground and can be easily reached by bus. On Saturday there is due to be a train strike. Touch.40 Iklectik is a home-based lighthouse in the centre of London and we invite you to this celebration of past present and future.Īs everything gets more atomised in terms of inner and outer worlds, we intend this as a beacon of our collective commitment to joy, pleasure, life, the challenge of being human in these uncertain times. To survive for 40 years as an independent music project is the ability to bear witness to the massive changes in cultural production – and to hold a candle for artistic freedom and sonic invention.