Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:33:13 +0000
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trapped in language + trying to communicate
- shared meaning - immediate consequence =
things seem possible, change seems possible,
things are almost okay
institutions + ideas = ideologies
art = architecture = design = thought =
ideological positioning, 'intelligentsia'
net.art + net.criticism =/= net.thought
net.thought =/= intelligentsia
intelligentsia = bureaucracy of thought
net.intelligentsia = things figured out,
things almost okay, just another theory
around the corner, from the new-comer
who is 'one of us'
power = institutional power
thought is not separated from power, nor
is net.thought from net.power
x
lots of net.art + lots of net.criticism
+ lots of net.'knowledge' = repackaging
of the old institutional ideologies as
new net.avant-garde
the net.avant-garde = ploy for power +
ideological certainly + expert knowledge
= net.power
old.economy + old.avant-garde =
new.economy + new.avant-garde
caught in language, symbolic manipulation
= the trap, discourse as discourse exists
as commodity, presupposed meaning based on
opinions, as there is no common knowledge
disagreement = division = camps of thought,
nodes of thought, schools of net.thought
net.thought =/= intelligence
net.thought = deficit of original thinking,
extra-institutional
language, logic, truth, identity, belief
x
5+billion individuals
=
nothing
=
no social + no political + no economic power
keywords, traits, mannerisms, expressionism (!)
=
code manipulation, another algorithm
=
addition, multiplication, division, subtraction
the calculus of ideas =/= ideologies
ideologies can be controlled,
ideas cannot
+
people are watching, listening, Halliburton Oil,
Enron, .Gov, .Mil to nettime's public sphere
=
chance to be heard, hearing what?
repetition, details, small thinking based
on private spheres, non-shared, fragmented
identities + institutional power structure
=
controllable perception management,
controllable thought, no .net worth
mass death, mass inequality, mass poverty,
mass pollution, mass inefficiency, mass
of problems + incremental, bureaucratic
change - realistic possibility of change
in the short term, sans revolution
=
troubling scenario
civic belief, public service, common
goals, shared work, pursuits + competition
+ economic capital =/= social change
institutional agendas = part of the problem,
bureaucrats cannot fundamentally change
bureaucracies, only alter them
change from within systems + going to
change the larger systems = illusion
logic = either-or, us-them, black-white
logic =/= either-or + both-and + neither-nor,
white, black, and grayscale, color
logic = identity
identity = culture
culture = power + people
culture =/= public people power
public = humanity
private = humanity, gender, sex, race,
ethnicity, etc. etc.
either-or logic = competition + opposition,
protest versus security = clash, violence
logic = language + truth + identity
truth = language + reason + faith, belief
truth = certainty
truth = belief in what is true
seeing is perceiving =/= seeing is believing
perceiving truth =/= net.thought
anti-this, anti-that, ideological armies
+
group mentalities
=
power
group mentalities + ideologies
=/=
questions
ideologies = answers, not questions
net.art, net.criticism, net.thought =
answers, expert knowledge =
net.intelligentsia
=
power = ideologies = belief in truth
=/= public truth
public truth = larger reality, shared
by humans as a group
napster, Aol = net.critism
net.criticism =/=
global crises involving
nuclear war scenearios
in year 2000 in Middle East
answers = pro.this, pro.that,
anti-this, anti-that = either-or logic
question =
larger public sphere
+ language entrapment
+ imperfection
+ ugliness of the text
+ debate, not discourse alone
- ideological baggagev
= action?v
down with net.intelligentsia +
(net.intelligentsia = net.theory =
net.criticism = net.art = same as
it ever was) + intelligentsia =/=
intelligence
intelligence =/= creativity,
imagination
intelligence =/= morality
intellectualism = net.thought,
net.theory, net.discourse
net.time = net.time + old.logic
now = chance, change, public,
future, actions, scale, world,
shared beliefs = good will -
violence - incitement -
+ strategy + working together
x
people who believe in this truth
5+ billion = human public
home of human public = earth
public 'we' = humanity
public 'we' also = nettime
public 'we' =/= net.intelligentsia
net.intelligentsia = nettime network
as ideological institutional bureacracy
producing predictable products/commodities
personal opinion = this, public-private
concern, belief in possiblity - reality
of 'discursive practice' + discourse +
politic of the .net as ideological
machination x millions of public-private
spheres + language games + fallibility
of language, limits of reason
=
need for a calculus of shared communication
=
human identity, human language, human logic,
human truth, complex + contradictory, paradox
hierarchy = flattened, humans are equals
(men, women, children, ethnicities =/= basis
for universal equality)
belief in nettime as place for organizing
-
ideological constructs, running currents
of the stream, directing discourse, putting
2 cents in, adding up to lots of ideological
$ as controllable institutional power for
leverage.
change =/= protest - change in logic, thought
,
truth
change = action + logic, thought, truth +
protesting for this
public =/= text
public = psychology, way of seeing truth,
perception, and belief + logic + reason
+ intention
nettime's public intention = net.intelligentsia?
net.intelligentsia = private power of net.
individuals presupposing the public, private
man's history =/= the human story
net.time = net.space-time to organize
for change + to deter catastrophe + to use
this moment to think ahead of the consequences
of the now, global scale
net.space-time = localized, insulated,
not enough = opportunity + moment - action,
enough to address the scale of issues at
the time needed to avert larger disasters
public net.space-time is contracting, not
expanding = possibilities + space-time
running out + need - shared reality as
to the issues, as to the ideas
need to organize, need to move beyond
net.time = criticism = net.art
net.time needs net.thought = not about
the internet, about net worth, something
more than is put in, something to take
home, to earth, not to the private flat
net.time = networked.thought/thinking
net.time, no longer =/= net.criticism,
as net.critism is dead, everyone's a
critic
private + everyone = no (public) body
-human being
Subject: the condition of net.time
From: brian carroll
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 21:44:02 +0000
[debugging...]
truth = language + reason + faith, belief
error: [truth = certainty]
truth =/= certainty
truth = certainty and-or uncertainty
truth = belief in what is true
v seeing is perceiving =/= seeing is believing
