Jet Settlements - A regressive Utopia

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The insurance companies’ silentretreat from risky terrain confirms a turn to the paradigm of global prevention, which tolerates local destruction. Comprehensive removal of solidarity corresponds with the segregating element of actuarial space structures. Guidance towards care for the self became accepted against the background of lifestyles deviating from imposing a sanction. The sanction has a name: uninsurability. Uninsurability is the sword of Damocles for the self-responsibility so dear to neo-liberalism. In areas that cannot be insured, those-who-are-not-even-exploited-any-more have to eke out their precarious existences. Access to the insurance sanctuary is purchased by (self-)adaptation. This leads to a colonization of souls: Inside Empire.
But there are always some of those-who-are-not-even-exploited-any-more who do not yield to increasing pressure from criminalization. Agreed that through no fault of their own they have got into a state of generalized excludedness, they form solidarity communities. They embark ever more frequently on a desperate search for suitable land,so that they can demand their rights vociferously – at least their rights to unfettered consumption. And while the most extreme of those-who-are-not-even-exploited-any-more push all their worldly goods along the highway – in this way following the promise that physical mobility will bring social mobility with it – they come to believe more strongly in the commandment of flexibilty.

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Jet Settlers and Neo-Cargo(Intensive Colonizatrion)

Jet Settlers was the name given to what is possibly the most striking grouping of those-who-are-not-even-exploited-any-more, who had decided to escape from those-who-could-no-longer-be-rescued. The Jet Settlers were recruited from the defunct American Express Society – a parallel society who constantly postponed exhausting their credit by skilfully recycling debt between various credit cards, in order to realize their “Instant Wish Fulfilment” (IWF). Nothing could have contradicted the ascetic thrift model of wish postponement more than IWF, because debt or indebtedness inside the American Express Society was not the negative result of an action, but its cause. But the time came when the creditors’ optimism evaporated, and they insisted on having the money they had lent paid back.Only those with good insurance and criminals risked IWF from then on. Lady Luck seemed to have switched sides unnoticed: she was no longer for the hard-working, she was for the insured.
Since then even the act of humility known as admitting complete failure offered redemption. What remained open to them was flight on the spot. Hoping for duty freedom they moved to the many disused airfields – hence the name “Jet Settlers”. Globalization’s implementation techniques had become superfluous when their programme came to perfection – absolute availability of everything everywhere. When the ubiquitous condition started to dawn, aircraft and other movables became useless relics of a past age of mobility, the scrap of civilization. Somehow or other it was easy for the Jet Settlers to construct architecture from the aircraft parts. They let the engines howl every night, as the death knell of technocratic utopias. They practised the old mobility dogma exclusively within the properties – the immovables – as a now meaningless habit. The lively hustle and bustle familiar from airports … All that remained as reinsurance for these uninsured persons was routine as a copied adaptation of an outmoded success model.

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