Choose_Your_Own

=><= // In its highest form, the manifesto acts as a magic spell incanted by the visionary artist. It is a performative speech/act that attempts to bring a new reality into existence. // Julian Hanna, *Manifestos: A Manifesto* ==> (t8n: "dissolve")[##We stayed up all night, my friends and I ... We conspired and crafted a manifesto. ] It began by considering the the state of [[The World|01 The World]] <== #####//A Choose Your Own Manifesto Game by Mita Williams//

=><= # 02 ### When you look to the future, what do you see? <== The (link:"future")[(set: $Line02 to "The future needs to be constructed. It has been demolished by neoliberal capitalism and reduced to a cut-price promise of greater inequality, conflict, and chaos.")(set: $Citation2 to "ACCELERATE MANIFESTO")(go-to: "03 Capitalism")] needs to be constructed. It has been demolished by neoliberal capitalism and reduced to a cut-price promise of greater inequality, conflict, and chaos. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your (link: "future")[(set: $Line02 to "Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.")(set: $Citation2 to "INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH")(go-to: "03 Capitalism")]. With government crippled and industry brain-dead to any conceivable moral appeal, the (link: "future")[(set: $Line02 to "With government crippled and industry brain-dead to any conceivable moral appeal, the future of decentered, autonomous cultural networks looks very bright. There has never been an opportunity to spread new ideas and new techniques with the alacrity that they can spread now.")(set: $Citation2 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "03 Capitalism")] of decentered, autonomous cultural networks looks very bright. There has never been an opportunity to spread new ideas and new techniques with the alacrity that they can spread now. No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique. Our (link: "future")[(set: $Line02 to "No more futureless repetition on the treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour, productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given masked as critique. Our future requires depetrification.")(set: $Citation2 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "03 Capitalism")] requires depetrification. People ask me to predict the (link: "future")[(set: $Line02 to "People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.")(set: $Citation2 to "RECONSTRAINED DESIGN A MANIFESTO")(go-to: "03 Capitalism")] , when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

=><= # 01 ### What world do you recognize? <== Ours is a (link: "world")[(set: $Line01 to "Ours is a world in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation, interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity.")(set: $Citation1 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "02 The Future")] in vertigo. It is a world that swarms with technological mediation , interlacing our daily lives with abstraction, virtuality, and complexity. To fully engage with our (link: "world")[(set: $Line01 to "To fully engage with our world of systems, we must all think like designers.")(set: $Citation1 to "MANIFESTO FOR A LUDIC CENTURY")(go-to: "02 The Future")] of systems, we must all think like designers. We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the (link: "world")[(set: $Line01 to "We recognise oscillation to be the natural order of the world.")(set: $Citation1 to "THE METAMODERNIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "02 The Future")]. The (link: "world")[(set: $Line01 to "The world needs a new, unnatural, seductive, mediated, glamorous Green. A Viridian Green, if you will.")(set: $Citation1 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "02 The Future")] needs a new, unnatural, seductive, mediated, glamorous Green. A Viridian Green, if you will. The (link: "world")[(set: $Line01 to "The world is full of mistakes, but the worst is the art that got made. Art gives us Dante’s Inferno as styled by interior decorators")(set: $Citation1 to "RETRODADA MANIFESTO")(go-to: "02 The Future")] is full of mistakes, but the worst is the art that got made. Art gives us Dante’s Inferno as styled by interior decorators.

=><= # 03 ### What of Capitalism? <== BECAUSE we hate (link:"capitalism")[(set: $Line03 to "BECAUSE we hate capitalism in all its forms and see our main goal as sharing information and staying alive, instead of making profits of being cool according to traditional standards.")(set: $Citation3 to "RIOT GRRRL MANIFESTO")(go-to: "04 Fast or Slow")] in all its forms and see our main goal as sharing information and staying alive, instead of making profits of being cool according to traditional standards. Ultimately, every emancipatory abolitionism must incline towards the horizon of class abolitionism, since it is in (link:"capitalism")[(set: $Line03 to "Ultimately, every emancipatory abolitionism must incline towards the horizon of class abolitionism, since it is in capitalism where we encounter oppression in its transparent, denaturalized form: you're not exploited or oppressed because you are a wage labourer or poor; you are a labourer or poor because you are exploited.")(set: $Citation3 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "04 Fast or Slow")] where we encounter oppression in its transparent, denaturalized form: you're not exploited or oppressed because you are a wage labourer or poor; you are a labourer or poor because you are exploited. (link:"Capitalism")[(set: $Line03 to "Capitalism has begun to constrain the productive forces of technology, or at least, direct them towards needlessly narrow ends. Patent wars and idea monopolisation are contemporary phenomena that point to both capital’s need to move beyond competition, and capital’s increasingly retrograde approach to technology.")(set: $Citation3 to "ACCELERATE MANIFESTO")(go-to: "04 Fast or Slow")] has begun to constrain the productive forces of technology, or at least, direct them towards needlessly narrow ends. Patent wars and idea monopolisation are contemporary phenomena that point to both capital’s need to move beyond competition, and capital’s increasingly retrograde approach to technology. Inclusion is often used as an invitation to be enveloped willingly in a larger system of oppression. While some are included for survival (e.g., workers under (link:"capitalism)")[(set: $Line03 to "Inclusion is often used as an invitation to be enveloped willingly in a larger system of oppression. While some are included for survival (e.g., workers under capitalism), that inclusion is unwilling.")(set: $Citation3 to "A KILLJOY MANIFESTO")(go-to: "04 Fast or Slow")], that inclusion is unwilling. I argue for a politics rooted in claims about fundamental changes in the nature of class, race, and gender in an emerging system of world order analogous in its novelty and scope to that created by industrial (link:"capitalism;")[(set: $Line03 to "I argue for a politics rooted in claims about fundamental changes in the nature of class, race, and gender in an emerging system of world order analogous in its novelty and scope to that created by industrial capitalism; we are living through a movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system--from all work to all play, a deadly game.")(set: $Citation3 to "A CYBORG MANIFESTO")(go-to: "04 Fast or Slow")] we are living through a movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system--from all work to all play, a deadly game.

=><= # 04 ### Fast or Slow? <== We affirm that world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of (link:"speed")[(set: $Line04 to "We affirm that world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.")(set: $Citation4 to "MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM")(go-to: "05 Question")]. The choice facing us is severe: either a globalised post-capitalism or a (link:"slow")[(set: $Line04 to "The choice facing us is severe: either a globalised post-capitalism or a slow fragmentation towards primitivism, perpetual crisis, and planetary ecological collapse..")(set: $Citation4 to "ACCELERATE MANIFESTO")(go-to: "05 Question")] fragmentation towards primitivism, perpetual crisis, and planetary ecological collapse. (link:"slow")[(set: $Line04 to "slow down. think twice. ask more questions. no good to deliver the feminist keynote or publish the feminist book when the conference or the publisher structurally upholds inequities. no good to throw our energy into systems that cause harm.")(set: $Citation4 to "A MANIFESTO IN PROGRESS")(go-to: "05 Question")] down. think twice. ask more questions. no good to deliver the feminist keynote or publish the feminist book when the conference or the publisher structurally upholds inequities. no good to throw our energy into systems that cause harm. (link:"slow")[(set: $Line04 to "slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves..")(set: $Citation4 to "INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH")(go-to: "05 Question")] down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves. To secede from or disavow capitalist machinery will not make it disappear. Likewise, suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded velocities, the call to (link:"slow")[(set: $Line04 to "To secede from or disavow capitalist machinery will not make it disappear. Likewise, suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded velocities, the call to slow down and scale back, is a possibility available only to the few -- a violent particularity of exclusivity -- ultimately entailing catastrophe for the many.")(set: $Citation4 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "05 Question")] down and scale back, is a possibility available only to the few -- a violent particularity of exclusivity -- ultimately entailing catastrophe for the many.

=><= # 05 ### What is the question? <== All of us want to work less. It is an intriguing (link:"question")[(set: $Line05 to "All of us want to work less. It is an intriguing question as to why it was that the world’s leading economist of the post-war era believed that an enlightened capitalism inevitably progressed towards a radical reduction of working hours... What has instead occurred is the progressive elimination of the work-life distinction, with work coming to permeate every aspect of the emerging social factory.")(set: $Citation5 to "ACCELERATE MANIFESTO")(go-to: "06 Culture")] as to why it was that the world’s leading economist of the post-war era believed that an enlightened capitalism inevitably progressed towards a radical reduction of working hours... What has instead occurred is the progressive elimination of the work-life distinction, with work coming to permeate every aspect of the emerging social factory. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different (link:"question")[(set: $Line05 to "Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.")(set: $Citation5 to "INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH")(go-to: "06 Culture")]. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions. It's a (link:"question")[(set: $Line05 to "It's a question of tactics. Civil society does not respond at all well to moralistic scolding. There are small minority groups here and there who are perfectly aware that it is immoral to harm the lives of coming generations by massive consumption now: deep Greens, Amish, people practicing voluntary simplicity, Gandhian ashrams and so forth. These public-spirited voluntarists are not the problem. But they're not the solution either, because most human beings won't volunteer to live like they do.")(set: $Citation5 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "06 Culture")] of tactics. Civil society does not respond at all well to moralistic scolding. There are small minority groups here and there who are perfectly aware that it is immoral to harm the lives of coming generations by massive consumption now: deep Greens, Amish, people practicing voluntary simplicity, Gandhian ashrams and so forth. These public-spirited voluntarists are not the problem. But they're not the solution either, because most human beings won't volunteer to live like they do. We (link:"question")[(set: $Line05 to "We question the relentless commodification of bodies, and recognise value as something that should be defined by more than capitalist profit motives.")(set: $Citation5 to "FEMINIST INTERNET MANIFESTO")(go-to: "06 Culture")] the relentless commodification of bodies, and recognise value as something that should be defined by more than capitalist profit motives. This isn’t saying ‘gender’ as a concept shouldn’t exist but that one should (link:"question")[(set: $Line05 to "This isn’t saying ‘gender’ as a concept shouldn’t exist but that one should question the binaries imposed on them. We need to forget ideas of pink and blue, and create a world filled with shades of purple instead.")(set: $Citation5 to "GENDER ANARCHY MANIFESTO")(go-to: "06 Culture")] the binaries imposed on them. We need to forget ideas of pink and blue, and create a world filled with shades of purple instead.

=><= # 06 ### What of Culture? <== Nature and (link:"culture")[(set: $Line06 to "Nature and culture are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other. The relationships for forming wholes from parts, including those of polarity and hierarchical domination, are at issue in the cyborg world.")(set: $Citation6 to "A CYBORG MANIFESTO")(go-to: "07 Power")] are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or incorporation by the other. The relationships for forming wholes from parts, including those of polarity and hierarchical domination, are at issue in the cyborg world. Technology isn't inherently progressive. Its uses are fused with (link:"culture")[(set: $Line06 to "Technology isn't inherently progressive. Its uses are fused with culture in a positive feedback loop that makes linear sequencing, prediction, and absolute caution impossible.")(set: $Citation6 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "07 Power")] in a positive feedback loop that makes linear sequencing, prediction, and absolute caution impossible. The rise of computers has paralleled the resurgence of games in our (link:"culture")[(set: $Line06 to "The rise of computers has paralleled the resurgence of games in our culture. This is no accident. Games like Chess, Go, and Parcheesi are much like digital computers, machines for creating and storing numerical states. In this sense, computers didn’t create games; games created computers.")(set: $Citation6 to "MANIFESTO FOR A LUDIC CENTURY")(go-to: "07 Power")]. This is no accident. Games like Chess, Go, and Parcheesi are much like digital computers, machines for creating and storing numerical states. In this sense, computers didn’t create games; games created computers. Unlike the modernist art movements of the twentieth century, a Viridian (link:"culture")[(set: $Line06 to "Unlike the modernist art movements of the twentieth century, a Viridian culture-industry movement cannot be concerned with challenging people's aesthetic preconceptions. We do not have the 19th-century luxury of shocking the bourgeoisie. That activity, enjoyable and time-honored though it is, will not get that poison out of our air. We are attempting to survive by causing the wealthy and the bourgeoisie to willingly live in a new way.")(set: $Citation6 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "07 Power")]-industry movement cannot be concerned with challenging people's aesthetic preconceptions. We do not have the 19th-century luxury of shocking the bourgeoisie. That activity, enjoyable and time-honored though it is, will not get that poison out of our air. We are attempting to survive by causing the wealthy and the bourgeoisie to willingly live in a new way. Real (link:"culture")[(set: $Line06 to "Real culture is here to be found. First of all, we can begin by cultivating taste, rather than impoverishing it, by stimulating progress, by encouraging international exchange programs, by endorsing worthwhile projects, by advocating historical food culture and by defending old-fashioned food traditions.")(set: $Citation6 to "SLOW FOOD MANIFESTO")(go-to: "07 Power")] is here to be found. First of all, we can begin by cultivating taste, rather than impoverishing it, by stimulating progress, by encouraging international exchange programs, by endorsing worthwhile projects, by advocating historical food culture and by defending old-fashioned food traditions.

=><= # 07 ### What about Power? <== We must acknowledge our complicity, but that does not make us hypocrites. We can still speak out against unjust systems. Those with higher positions of (link:"power")[(set: $Line07 to "We must acknowledge our complicity, but that does not make us hypocrites. We can still speak out against unjust systems. Those with higher positions of power within a system must work harder to dismantle it.")(set: $Citation7 to "A KILLJOY MANIFESTO")(go-to: "08 Technology")] within a system must work harder to dismantle it. (link:"Power")[(set: $Line07 to "Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free.")(set: $Citation7 to "INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH")(go-to: "08 Technology")] to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can’t be free agents if we’re not free. We refuse any code of phony “ethics” and false proclamations of transparency that are wielded as cover, as tools of (link:"power")[(set: $Line07 to "We refuse any code of phony “ethics” and false proclamations of transparency that are wielded as cover, as tools of power, as forms for escape that let the people who create systems off the hook from accountability or responsibility.")(set: $Citation7 to "FEMINIST DATA-MANIFEST-NO")(go-to: "08 Technology")], as forms for escape that let the people who create systems off the hook from accountability or responsibility. Solar and wind (link:"power")[(set: $Line07 to "Solar and wind power should be sold as premiums available to particularly affluent and savvy consumers. It should be considered the stigma of the crass proletarian to foul the air every time one turns on a light switch.")(set: $Citation7 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "08 Technology")] should be sold as premiums available to particularly affluent and savvy consumers. It should be considered the stigma of the crass proletarian to foul the air every time one turns on a light switch. This planet, shared and co- inhabited by a plurality of peoples, each inhabiting different worlds, each orienting themselves within and towards their environments in different ways, and with different civilisational histories, is being undermined by a globalised system of (link:"power")[(set: $Line07 to "This planet, shared and co- inhabited by a plurality of peoples, each inhabiting different worlds, each orienting themselves within and towards their environments in different ways, and with different civilisational histories, is being undermined by a globalised system of power that threatens to flatten and eradicate ontological and epistemological difference, rewriting histories and advance visions of a future for a privileged few at the expense of their human and nonhuman others.")(set: $Citation7 to "A MANIFESTO FOR DECOLONIZING DESIGN")(go-to: "08 Technology")] that threatens to flatten and eradicate ontological and epistemological difference, rewriting histories and advance visions of a future for a privileged few at the expense of their human and nonhuman others.

=><= # 08 ### We observe Technology as such <== We believe the most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must become called an accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and (link:"technology")[(set: $Line08 to "We believe the most important division in today’s left is between those that hold to a folk politics of localism, direct action, and relentless horizontalism, and those that outline what must become called an accelerationist politics at ease with a modernity of abstraction, complexity, globality, and technology.")(set: $Citation8 to "ACCELERATE MANIFESTO")(go-to: "09 NO!")]. The silicon chip is a surface for writing; it is etched in molecular scales disturbed only by atomic noise, the ultimate interference for nuclear scores. Writing, power, and (link:"technology")[(set: $Line08 to "The silicon chip is a surface for writing; it is etched in molecular scales disturbed only by atomic noise, the ultimate interference for nuclear scores. Writing, power, and technology are old partners in Western stories of the origin of civilization, but miniaturization has changed our experience of mechanism.")(set: $Citation8 to "A CYBORG MANIFESTO")(go-to: "09 NO!")] are old partners in Western stories of the origin of civilization, but miniaturization has changed our experience of mechanism. It took several decades for automobiles to shift from being a hobbyist (link:"technology")[(set: $Line08 to "It took several decades for automobiles to shift from being a hobbyist technology requiring expert knowledge to being a locked-in consumer product. The constant change of digital technology means that our hardware and software systems may never stabilize in this way.")(set: $Citation8 to "MANIFESTO FOR A LUDIC CENTURY")(go-to: "09 NO!")] requiring expert knowledge to being a locked-in consumer product. The constant change of digital technology means that our hardware and software systems may never stabilize in this way. The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new (link:"technology")[(set: $Line08 to "The present is a symptom of the twin birth of immediacy and obsolescence. Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now.")(set: $Citation8 to "THE METAMODERNIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "09 NO!")] enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the here and now. Poetry, sex, (link:"technology")[(set: $Line08 to "Poetry, sex, technology and pain are incandescent with this tension we have traced. But give up on the task of revision, release the reins and slacken that tension, and these filaments instantly dim.")(set: $Citation8 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "09 NO!")] and pain are incandescent with this tension we have traced. But give up on the task of revision, release the reins and slacken that tension, and these filaments instantly dim.

=><= # 10 ### What about Information? <== Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of (link:"information")[(set: $Line10 to "Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our “noodle.”")(set: $Citation10 to "INCOMPLETE MANIFESTO FOR GROWTH")(go-to: "11 Coda")], we leave room for what he called our “noodle.” We refuse coercive settler colonial logics of knowledge and (link:"information")[(set: $Line10 to "We refuse coercive settler colonial logics of knowledge and information organization; we commit to tribal nation sovereignties and Indigenous information management that values Indigenous relationality, the right to know, and data sovereignty.")(set: $Citation10 to "FEMINIST DATA-MANIFEST-NO")(go-to: "11 Coda")] organization; we commit to tribal nation sovereignties and Indigenous information management that values Indigenous relationality, the right to know, and data sovereignty. Social attitudes can and should be changed by the addition of cogent (link:"information")[(set: $Line10 to "Social attitudes can and should be changed by the addition of cogent information to situations where invisible costs have long been silently exported into the environment. Make the invisible visible. Don't sell warnings. Sell awareness.")(set: $Citation10 to "THE MANIFESTO OF JANUARY 3 2000")(go-to: "11 Coda")] to situations where invisible costs have long been silently exported into the environment. Make the invisible visible. Don't sell warnings. Sell awareness. Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All (link:"information")[(set: $Line10 to "Just as science strives for poetic elegance, artists might assume a quest for truth. All information is grounds for knowledge , whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense.")(set: $Citation10 to "THE METAMODERNIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "11 Coda")] is grounds for knowledge , whether empirical or aphoristic, no matter its truth-value. We should embrace the scientific-poetic synthesis and informed naivety of a magical realism. Error breeds sense. When (link:"information")[(set: $Line10 to "When information is put at play, game-like experiences replace linear media. Media and culture in the Ludic Century is increasingly systemic, modular, customizable, and participatory. Games embody all of these characteristics in a very direct sense.")(set: $Citation10 to "MANIFESTO FOR A LUDIC CENTURY")(go-to: "11 Coda")] is put at play, game-like experiences replace linear media. Media and culture in the Ludic Century is increasingly systemic, modular, customizable, and participatory. Games embody all of these characteristics in a very direct sense.

=><= # *coda* ### How to end your manifesto? <== make (link:"friendship")[(set: $Line11 to "make friendship the work.")(set: $Citation11 to "A MANIFESTO IN PROGRESS")(go-to: "Your Manifesto")] the work. There is no escape from the history yet to be (link:"unmade")[(set: $Line11 to "There is no escape from the history yet to be unmade!")(set: $Citation11 to "RETRODADA MANIFESTO")(go-to: "Your Manifesto")]! If nature is unjust, (link:"change")[(set: $Line11 to "If nature is unjust, change nature!")(set: $Citation11 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "Your Manifesto")] nature! Now is the time to (link:"leap")[(set: $Line11 to "Now is the time to leap.")(set: $Citation11 to "THE LEAP MANIFESTO")(go-to: "Your Manifesto")]. Doing nothing only favors a deadly status quo: we must act (link:"boldly")[(set: $Line11 to "Doing nothing only favors a deadly status quo: we must act boldly and defiantly.")(set: $Citation11 to "SOCIETY CENTERED DESIGN")(go-to: "Your Manifesto")] and defiantly.

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=><= # 09 ### NO <== say no to civility and respectability. say no to the hidden curriculum, the tacit rules, the unspoken norms, the ways things have always been done. say no to *should* and *ought*. say no to individualizing or ignoring systemic failures. our (link:"no")[(set: $Line09 to "say no to civility and respectability. say no to the hidden curriculum, the tacit rules, the unspoken norms, the ways things have always been done. say no to *should* and *ought*. say no to individualizing or ignoring systemic failures. our no is beautiful and powerful.")(set: $Citation9 to "A MANIFESTO IN PROGRESS")(go-to: "10 The Information")] is beautiful and powerful. There is (link:"no")[(set: $Line09 to "There is no longer an excuse for building new infrastructure projects that lock us into increased extraction decades into the future. The new iron law of energy development must be: if you wouldn’t want it in your backyard, then it doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard.")(set: $Citation9 to "THE LEAP MANIFESTO")(go-to: "10 The Information")] longer an excuse for building new infrastructure projects that lock us into increased extraction decades into the future. The new iron law of energy development must be: if you wouldn’t want it in your backyard, then it doesn’t belong in anyone’s backyard. The planting and the cultivating are (link:"no")[(set: $Line09 to "The planting and the cultivating are no less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means.")(set: $Citation9 to "RECONSTRAINED DESIGN A MANIFESTO")(go-to: "10 The Information")] less important than the finished product. Life is not conceived as a linear progression directed to, and justified by, the achievement of a series of goals; it is a cycle in which ends cannot be isolated, one which cannot be dissected into a series of ends and means. In affirming a future untethered to the repetition of the present, we militate for ampliative capacities, for spaces of freedom with a richer geometry than the aisle, the assembly line, and the feed. We need new affordances of perception and action unblinkered by naturalised identities. In the name of feminism, 'Nature' shall (link:"no")[(set: $Line09 to "In affirming a future untethered to the repetition of the present, we militate for ampliative capacities, for spaces of freedom with a richer geometry than the aisle, the assembly line, and the feed. We need new affordances of perception and action unblinkered by naturalised identities. In the name of feminism, 'Nature' shall no longer be a refuge of injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever!")(set: $Citation9 to "THE XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO")(go-to: "10 The Information")] longer be a refuge of injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever! We refuse a data regime of ultimatums, coercive permissions, pervasive cookie collecting, and blocked access. Not everyone can safely refuse or opt out without consequence or further harm. We commit to (link:"no")[(set: $Line09 to "We refuse a data regime of ultimatums, coercive permissions, pervasive cookie collecting, and blocked access. Not everyone can safely refuse or opt out without consequence or further harm. We commit to “no” being a real option in all online interactions with data-driven products and platforms and to enacting a new type of data regime that knits the “no” into its fabric.")(set: $Citation9 to "FEMINIST DATA-MANIFEST-NO")(go-to: "10 The Information")] being a real option in all online interactions with data-driven products and platforms and to enacting a new type of data regime that knits the “no” into its fabric.

### //Choose Your Own Manifesto// References (set: $ReferenceList to (a: $Citation1, $Citation2, $Citation3, $Citation4, $Citation5, $Citation6, $Citation7, $Citation8, $Citation9, $Citation10, $Citation11)) (if: $ReferenceList contains 'A MANIFESTO FOR DECOLONIZING DESIGN')[Abdulla, D., Ansari, A., Canli, E., Keshavarz, M., Kiem, M., Oliveira, P., Prado, L., & Schultz, T. (2019). A Manifesto for Decolonising Design. Journal of Futures Studies, 23(3), 129–132. <a href="https://doi.org/10.6531/JFS.201903_23(3).0012">https://doi.org/10.6531/JFS.201903_23(3).0012</a>] (if: $ReferenceList contains 'A KILLJOY MANIFESTO')[Ahmed, S. (2017). A Killjoy Manifesto. In //Living a Feminist Life//. Duke University Press.] (if: $ReferenceList contains 'FEMINIST DATA-MANIFEST-NO')[Cifor, M., Garcia, P., Cowan, T.L., Rault, J., Sutherland, T., Chan, A., Rode, J., Hoffmann, A.L., Salehi, N., Nakamura, L. (2019). 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