http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/zkp/bravenew.txt brave new Heaven - the net as a transcendent space the net is the place where consciousness appears without the body. the entities' contact is limited to the information getting through the net. you are not able and it is not possible to send more. the body ceased to exist as a physical form determining abilites and possibilities. There is no one beautiful or ugly, physiological condition does not matter. the distance of entities depends on the speed of data transfer between them. how near they are to each other depends on the mode and quality -- in other words 'density' -- of the data transfer. Fashion and exhibitionism is undeniable. Only what is purpously put on public display is seen. Once you display something you can not deny your purpose - exhibtionism. Unconditional bow and loose obidience to the maintainer of the Net, the provider of existence itself. This is the point where the real world gets involved. Power can not be fooled in this Space. Power comes from outside. Every factor of Power has an own sovereign territory. Sometimes these work in conjunction with, sometimes in paralell to each other. Every one can set up a Space by real world resources to govern it and influence it's entities. Total absolutism and anarchy in one's own space limited only by real world aspects. Inner (pseudo) power is the posession of information. Information retrieval is theft, cheating and lieing. the hero of the new age is the descendant of the thieves. unwanted peek into others' secrets. appearence in other's faces. catching the ones doing these. power obtained this way has value only outside the Space. and punishment may only come from the outside as well. there is no mass manipulation. each and every piece of data exists in itself and only for itself. the entities are justified by the existence of data, they live on this data. electron-eating vampires. every entity has a unique taste. they are picky, only survive on their favourite nourishment. they don't even taste other kind of food. they are desparately seeking their own kind of food. birth and death are a consequences of events from without. formation and ceasure of a counscious entity are results of outer events, real world happenings. within the Space the entity may only be made to starve or sent to exile. the role of the real world distorts. it will only serve as the maintainer of the counscious entity in the Space. totalitarian expectation from the consciousness: the subordination of physical reality. the counscious entity quickly builds up a dependency on mental nourushment. the appearance of entities with no real world bodies in the Space. the New Era. they are restricted for being unable to implement results achieved in the Space directly outside. they are free for having none of the restrictions of the real world. their only contact to the without is via entities bearing a real world existence; only this way can the implement inner power. they are capable of evolution in the Space. (c) east edge 1996 # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de