Publication? Collective? Philosophy? Approach? Website? Newspaper? Arbitrary effort at maintaining our personal curiosities and thinking out loud?
Cybel is an attempt to seek new mythologies and question old ones – to join the chorus of people asking how things could be otherwise. The act of questioning alone summons a sort of active stance, a sturdy armor with which we can resist the consumption-oriented algorithmic order that swallows authentic desires and replaces them with a palatable yet altogether mundane substitute! Cybel space is an open invite, not an exclusive scene. It’s a means of looking alive out there, paying attention, getting curious.. about? In the spirit of otherwise-ness, anything goes! Cyberworlds and cybernetics; mythologies and magics; solarpunk and symbols; stories and signs; techno-mediated existence; feelings, figures, fakes; rethinking and rerouting; the spiritual and scientific; the everyday and the infinite; selfhoods and origins; media and mediums; life online and life off.
Cybel Charter
RESIST
PASSIVITY
Technology should prioritize possibility over probability. We want to abandon the mindless banality imposed on us & repurpose given tools for active curiosity and creation
PURSUE
CURIOUSITY
We think of the self as a small corner of the universe experiencing itself from a new angle; by actively pursuing curiousity, we try on different outfits of existence and reach toward new understandings
EMBRACE
AMBIGUITY
In the spirit of otherwiseness, we hold convictions loosely – positing ideas without possessing or preaching. Ideally we will continually change our minds
OPPOSE
APATHY
Amid a general trend towards detachment, irony, and cynical realism, we earnestly think the world can and should be better – and we want to be active in imagining it.
“For there are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt - of examining what those ideas feel like being lived on Sunday morning at 7 a.m., after brunch, during wild love, making war, giving birth, mouring our dead - while we suffer the old longings, battle the old warnings and fears of being silent and impotent and alone, while we taste new posibilities and strengths.”
- Audre Lorde
Poetry is Not a Luxury
