brian carroll on 5 Feb 2001 05:49:48 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] the condition of net.time |
[open-source, please debug as necessary] trapped in language + trying to communicate - shared meaning - immediate consequence = things seem possible, change seems possible, things are almost okay institutions + ideas = ideologies art = architecture = design = thought = ideological positioning, 'intelligentsia' net.art + net.criticism =/= net.thought net.thought =/= intelligentsia intelligentsia = bureaucracy of thought net.intelligentsia = things figured out, things almost okay, just another theory around the corner, from the new-comer who is 'one of us' power = institutional power thought is not separated from power, nor is net.thought from net.power x lots of net.art + lots of net.criticism + lots of net.'knowledge' = repackaging of the old institutional ideologies as new net.avant-garde the net.avant-garde = ploy for power + ideological certainly + expert knowledge = net.power old.economy + old.avant-garde = new.economy + new.avant-garde caught in language, symbolic manipulation = the trap, discourse as discourse exists as commodity, presupposed meaning based on opinions, as there is no common knowledge disagreement = division = camps of thought, nodes of thought, schools of net.thought net.thought =/= intelligence net.thought = deficit of original thinking, extra-institutional language, logic, truth, identity, belief x 5+billion individuals = nothing = no social + no political + no economic power keywords, traits, mannerisms, expressionism (!) = code manipulation, another algorithm = addition, multiplication, division, subtraction the calculus of ideas =/= ideologies ideologies can be controlled, ideas cannot + people are watching, listening, Halliburton Oil, Enron, .Gov, .Mil to nettime's public sphere = chance to be heard, hearing what? repetition, details, small thinking based on private spheres, non-shared, fragmented identities + institutional power structure = controllable perception management, controllable thought, no .net worth mass death, mass inequality, mass poverty, mass pollution, mass inefficiency, mass of problems + incremental, bureaucratic change - realistic possibility of change in the short term, sans revolution = troubling scenario civic belief, public service, common goals, shared work, pursuits + competition + economic capital =/= social change institutional agendas = part of the problem, bureaucrats cannot fundamentally change bureaucracies, only alter them change from within systems + going to change the larger systems = illusion logic = either-or, us-them, black-white logic =/= either-or + both-and + neither-nor, white, black, and grayscale, color logic = identity identity = culture culture = power + people culture =/= public people power public = humanity private = humanity, gender, sex, race, ethnicity, etc. etc. either-or logic = competition + opposition, protest versus security = clash, violence logic = language + truth + identity truth = language + reason + faith, belief truth = certainty truth = belief in what is true seeing is perceiving =/= seeing is believing perceiving truth =/= net.thought anti-this, anti-that, ideological armies + group mentalities = power group mentalities + ideologies =/= questions ideologies = answers, not questions net.art, net.criticism, net.thought = answers, expert knowledge = net.intelligentsia = power = ideologies = belief in truth =/= public truth public truth = larger reality, shared by humans as a group napster, Aol = net.critism net.criticism =/= global crises involving nuclear war scenearios in year 2000 in Middle East answers = pro.this, pro.that, anti-this, anti-that = either-or logic question = larger public sphere + language entrapment + imperfection + ugliness of the text + debate, not discourse alone - ideological baggage = action? down with net.intelligentsia + (net.intelligentsia = net.theory = net.criticism = net.art = same as it ever was) + intelligentsia =/= intelligence intelligence =/= creativity, imagination intelligence =/= morality intellectualism = net.thought, net.theory, net.discourse net.time = net.time + old.logic now = chance, change, public, future, actions, scale, world, shared beliefs = good will - violence - incitement - + strategy + working together x people who believe in this truth 5+ billion = human public home of human public = earth public 'we' = humanity public 'we' also = nettime public 'we' =/= net.intelligentsia net.intelligentsia = nettime network as ideological institutional bureacracy producing predictable products/commodities personal opinion = this, public-private concern, belief in possiblity - reality of 'discursive practice' + discourse + politic of the .net as ideological machination x millions of public-private spheres + language games + fallibility of language, limits of reason = need for a calculus of shared communication = human identity, human language, human logic, human truth, complex + contradictory, paradox hierarchy = flattened, humans are equals (men, women, children, ethnicities =/= basis for universal equality) belief in nettime as place for organizing - ideological constructs, running currents of the stream, directing discourse, putting 2 cents in, adding up to lots of ideological $ as controllable institutional power for leverage. change =/= protest - change in logic, thought, truth change = action + logic, thought, truth + protesting for this public =/= text public = psychology, way of seeing truth, perception, and belief + logic + reason + intention nettime's public intention = net.intelligentsia? net.intelligentsia = private power of net. individuals presupposing the public, private man's history =/= the human story net.time = net.space-time to organize for change + to deter catastrophe + to use this moment to think ahead of the consequences of the now, global scale net.space-time = localized, insulated, not enough = opportunity + moment - action, enough to address the scale of issues at the time needed to avert larger disasters public net.space-time is contracting, not expanding = possibilities + space-time running out + need - shared reality as to the issues, as to the ideas need to organize, need to move beyond net.time = criticism = net.art net.time needs net.thought = not about the internet, about net worth, something more than is put in, something to take home, to earth, not to the private flat net.time = networked.thought/thinking net.time, no longer =/= net.criticism, as net.critism is dead, everyone's a critic private + everyone = no (public) body -human being _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold