This is brilliant as is Helen's response. I think part of the issue for me
is tha that Netbehaviour (my favorite list btw) has veered towards block-
chain promoters and detractors (meanwhile of course Bitcoin has just hit
14,000 USD), to the detriment of other arts and other net behaviours that
might inform the discussion or develop discussion knots of their own.
I've been thinking about what constitutes a net in the first place, and
what then constitutes behavior, both on and off the net. And one of the
things that leads me in this direction is studying slime molds (we now
have three small pieces in the refrigerator, beginning preparation to
examine them), which seem to break down ideas of networks as nodes and
connectors - replaced perhaps by three-dimensional manifolds without nodes
but with internal flows (nuclei, nutrients). Neural networks are also of
interest when they're decentered re: ganglia and nets. If chains and
signals are distributed and continuously recontextualized at multiple
nodes, then what? I've also been thinking about virtual particles and
virtual particle energy, and the more one goes in any of these direction,
the more alien and interesting perhaps the concepts become. Finally, what
about painting? I've never painted (I've critiqued classes with paintings
in them), but I'm fascinated by the insistence of paintings and pottery
etc. etc. - on the ground and ground-work of the planet in a sense. ...
Finally, given the brutal behaviour of our fuhrer here, american politics
and foreign policy are in an inextricable mess - we no longer even have an
ambassador to S. Korea for example - and I wonder how, given everything
here, we can think an activist politics (at least in the u.s.) that would
lead to change or at least a conversation about change. People I know are
inundated, worn out, despairing beyond belief, almost to a state of
catatonia and talk about suicide; a psychologist I go to has talked
repeatedly about the huge influx of patients who literally can no longer
cope with society. (I'm not at that point yet at all.) It seems this state
of emergency, at least for some of us, should be discussed here, DIWO to
be sure, when we have DIWO/O - do it with others against others, these
tiny TAZs, tiny k-nots...
- Alan
On Thu, 7 Dec 2017, Edward Picot wrote:
> A poem-video about the Blockchain (and computerisation in general). Audio: 'Data Tones' by Brotherprovisional, from Freesound.org. Images from Google Images. Text based on a cut-up of blockchain discussion from Netbehaviour.org.
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> Vimeo - https://vimeo.com/245758021
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