Heath Row on Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:49:41 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Bill Joy on the threats of technology |
I think Joy's article is of particular interest when read in conjunction with Vernor Vinge's writing on the Singularity -- http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/Trans/vinge -- and Stewart Brand's work with the Long Now Foundation -- http://www.longnow.org At SXSW Interactive -- http://www.sxsw.com -- earlier this week, Brand cited Joy and Vinge within beats of each other... Also of interest if tied in to Bruce Sterling's Viridian work -- http://www.well.com/conf/mirrorshades/viridian/ Add to that Ebon Fisher's Wigglism Manifesto -- http://www.wahcenter.org/exhibits/transfiguration/wigglism.html -- and you've got the foundation for... something. *** T H E W I G G L I S M M A N I F E S T O TO NURTURE THAT WHICH WIGGLES We loop into vital coilings, this coiling, our coiling. We spark the fibrillations of a vague biological embrace. We nurture that which wiggles -of flesh or steel, sinew or circuit, mud or imagination; transmuting art into a zoology of spirit. FOR THAT WHICH WIGGLES IS AMAZING We ovulate every workstation, artwork, and module of consumption, into the blood of living ritual. We ejaculate connections in a biome of twitches and presences -soaking tendrils of thought and conscience in a spray of fibrous feedback. We infuse phantoms and facts with equal measures of visceral significance -creeping along the rivulets and curls of writhing knowledge. We breed turbulent creatures in a mongrel jungle of plasma, machines, and minds. We struggle to love these creatures, these worlds, these convulsions, to keep that which wiggles, and that which sustains wiggling, in succulent focus. May the lethal pomposities of art and science disappear in the surrounding blur. So let us secrete every milky ganglion and wire into the cross-eyed wilderness; Let us siphon every atom, and theory of atom, into the hot belly of shared being; Let us disappear into the folds and reverberations of that which seems to be alive. Let us entwine with the infinite wiggling which thrives in slippery suspension somewhere between us. *** If any Nettimers are going to be in Austin, Texas, this Friday for the SXSW Music Festival, a random assortment of folks from the Company of Friends, the Well, and other collectives will be gathering at 6 p.m. at El Casino Camino on 6th Street. Right next to the Flamingo. The gathering will be of indeterminate length, and the participants will be a random set. I'll be wearing bushy hair, small glasses, blue Vans, and an Oven Digital -- http://oven.com -- T-shirt. Heath Heath Row | Fast Company | http://www.fastcompany.com 77 N. Washington St. | third floor | Boston, MA 02114 Vox: 617-973-0358| Fax: 617-973-0373 | In: Boston Company of Friends http://www.fastcompany.com/friends FYI: I do not open or read unsolicited attachments. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold