Morlock Elloi on Tue, 19 Mar 2019 21:18:19 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Christchurch and the Dark Social Web by Luke Munn


Accelerated and (unconditionally) broadcast communications affect humans at many levels, not just the surface cognition.

One (imperfect) model of the networked society:

We are all in the same (not Olympic-size, but half) swimming pool. As we pee, shit, fart, ejaculate and ooze various stuff, it spreads around and affects everyone within minutes or hours (on the far side of the pool.) The water in the pool is never recycled, everything stays there forever, including excrement from decade ago. Try to be friendly.

Perhaps there should be an annual (bi-annual?) Network Cleaning Day, when everything electronically stored is erased, under the pain of imprisonment?


But now all social relations in all the developed societies are in some way mediated by networks. That means two things simultaneously: computer networks seep into all culture, and all elements of culture - including the worst and most rancid white supremacy - seep directly into computer networks.

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