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o - hou great dze veLt = !zt !n dze br!ghtnesz ov ur lampz. o - hou zml dze veLt = !zt !n dze e!ez ov m! rekolekz!e ov u. o - m! heart jumpz l!ke 01 ch!ldz. + ! eksper!ensz 01 flash ov rejuvenaz!on. o + o - ! fade + zlumbr !n dze kreasez ov ur m9nd. >Sender: 55-admin@bek.no >Errors-To: 55-admin@bek.no >X-BeenThere: 55@bek.no >X-Mailman-Version: 2.0beta2 >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: 55@bek.no >List-Id: <55.bek.no> > >The analysis that supports the statement below that the family system must >be abolished so that men and women are to lead equal lives is incomplete and >proves itself to be false. Uncontrolled reproduction or the absence of state >intervention promotes the diversity and thus the likelihood of survival of >the species. Diversity is key to survival, as specialization breeds in >weakness. A specialized creature by definition cannot adapt. > >Sex allows the species to have wide variations, thus exponentially >decreasing the likelihood that any threat is a danger to the entire species. >The unknown and overrated stability of our economies and societies means >that even psyches that are considered abnormal, insane or antisocial are >suited to survival. This includes characteristics such as violent >tendencies, schizophrenias, and autism. One might even theorize that such >disorders exist because they have been "naturallly selected" due to >advantages they have provided in recent or anchient history; or that our >genetic makeup has not eliminated them because there is a deeper process at >work than we suspect at present time. In mentioning natural selection, I >only acknowledge the theory and do not claim that it is complete or >infallable, but that it may be part of the whole. > >If controls on human reproduction are to be established, criteria is needed >for the controls. To establish criteria, one must decide what sort of >results the criteria should produce. If it is decided that the purpose of >the criteria is to estblish total equality in the lives of men and women, >then the presence of "RULERZ" enforcing their criteria means that the >process has already defeated its own purpose. > >The disadvantages of a system of controlled breeding cannot be assessed >because such a system has never been fully implemented in history that we >know of. It could be argued that the results of such practices in animal >breeding has led to maladies like mad cow disease or hoof and mouth disease. >One likely disadvantage is that the lowered diversity will lead to birth >defects as the chances of the equivalent to inbreeding inceases. > >The absence of controls on breeding allow humans to shape themselves because >humans choose their own breeding partners. The survival rate of humans will >decrease as the diversity of the types of intelligence used to shape the >species decreases. First we will be left with the humans who have had the >gall to consider themselves elite and forced the others to abide by such a >narrow and naive assumption and then those humans will destroy themselves >because of their inablity to adapt. Extinction will be the result. > >Unless it is decide that the purpose of the state is extinction and not >survival, controls on breeding enforced by the state should not be >implemented. To argue that such controls will incease equality is senseless >and contradictory. > >A. R. Boyle > >"The fools that have thought us to be as they are, have never truly seen >guided by limiting the ways that they think, they thought us blind and >obscene" -Steve Tucker mor l!p zerv!sz 4rom dze korporat fasc!zt zerfz From: "Phonet][r][ix" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au> ][this extract is 4m an upcoming article in _Net.Artivism_, Vol iii., Issue 4 (April 01)). the author has given permission 2 [partially] reprint][ >____________________________________________________________________ > >*Net.art As Typographical Response: Recoding A Performative Net.Action* > > >-M.T. Markoff > > > >On March 30, 2001, the artist called "FTR" (Free The Radical) performed a net.artivist action that would make the most moderate of email list moderators stew in their static. FTR performed an artistic intervention that endeavored to unsubscribe the *recode* list moderator (Julianne Pierce, Executive Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology and a co-founding member of VNS Matrix) from the *recode* list itself. > >FTR engineered this typical example of net.artivism (and corresponding mail response _Majordomo results: gameplay_) in response to Pierce's removal of mez (Mary-Anne Breeze) from the Australian new media email list *recode*. mez is an internationally renowned internet artist who posts to many rt-oriented email lists in order to construct her "net.wurk performance texts" which often incorporate "spontaneous collaboration segments" resulting from this "open-source performance and dispersal method" and production (Breeze, 31/3/01). Pierce carried out the removal after concluding that mez's latest collaborative and interactively constructed work, _[Col][Lab [C]Logging: Agency of The N][arratively fractured][etwurk_ (http://www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker/colablog1.htm),was inherently "spam" - a type of unsoliticed and commercially-driven email - which therefore violated the nature of the list dynamics (that "nature" being defined as discussion focusing on new media art, rather than functioning as a forum for experimentation or art construction). > >Mez's *recode* removal was made without any attempt to consult or correspond with her (or indeed any of the contributing authors) directly, or with the current members of the *recode* list. This (surprisingly) runs contrary to Pierce's previously stated opinions and moderator decisions regarding mez's work, and its right to be displayed via the recode mailing list. Pierce has previously stated: > > "Even though the (recode) list has been set up for discussion and information, I think that it is fairly open about what can be posted. There is no moderation of the list, I act as an administrator, and do not filter out any postings. I can understand that mez()'s postings might seem out of place on the list, but I would not like to unsubscribe them, as I think that their work reacts and responds to all sorts of traffic on the net. Even though it is some sort of data stream of consciousness, it seems to me an attempt to interpret data flows, code, digits etc. The one thing that is pretty annoying though, is that it is cross-posted across a whole lot of lists. So in fact, the work is not responding to the what goes on at :::recode:::, rather it is a general burst of mez() across the net." [Julianne Pierce, *recode*, 20/4/00] <rangy description of open source art/nodal distribution models snipped> >>As a result of Pierce's unsubscription/resubscription action, mez will no longer be including *recode* in her open source art and nodal distribution model, and views Pierce's actions are a decisive blow to this (and other) methods of net.art copyleftist action, production and dispersal. . . .... ..... net.wurk][.Phonet][r][ix][ n.sert no here xXXx + www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold