Alan Sondheim on Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:21:09 +0200 (CEST) |
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I just wrote a long reply which got lost. I want to say only briefly: 1. I know a lot of mathematicians, physicists, programmers, who see there work as art and aesthetics; I don't draw these boundaries at all, which I think are damaging. 2. Throwing stalinist socialist realism whatever around because I think linux is an art or artwork/s, or artflux, say, is absurd and damaging to any discourse, and reflective of more boundaries. 3. I accept and work with programming languages as languages which are highly performative, with the program as parole-in-transition to a second parole, which is the output; this is not that different from thinking of natural languages (which do not imply consciousness, at least human con- sciousness, unless one assumes animal's can't manipulate signs or are blindly instinctual) which reference various intermediary (pausological for instance) structures on the way to parole; I wouldn't say they're meta at all but doubly or triply encoded. 4. It's unclear that linux is a language per se, but it is certainly an articulated or linked accumulation of languagings - which are processes - just like language and speech production and reception are processes - So I just can't narrow these things down, Microsoft notwithstanding - and for that matter, we're all under the sign of capital, you, me, nettime, thing.net, etc., all of whom utilize computers, routers, wires, satellites which are part of a transnational infrastructure; if anything, the GNU operative at least brings that to the surface, and without reference to the old soc-real of the old USSR - Alan Internet Text at http://www.anu.edu.au/english/internet_txt Partial at http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/internet_txt.html Trace Projects at http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/index.htm # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net