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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hola Tod@xs,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">I do not remember when I was joined -empyre- but it is a part, at least for me, of a history and presence of list-servs that have been extremely important for the gestures and conceptual disturbances that I have participated
in. List-servs are an e-form that I continue to see as a core condition for the performative matrix for all the collaborations I have been involved in the past, now and ones to come.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">As I remember the first list-servs I was a part of were based at thing.net in the 90's. Probably the most well known list that echoes the
<span>deep model of</span> -empryre- was nettime.org. <br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Here is my first call to join a list-serv back in 1998 (riding the memory lane):</p>
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<li><em>To</em>: <a>nettime-l {AT} Desk.nl</a></li><li><em>Subject</em>: <nettime> infowar thread on www.thing.net </li><li><em>From</em>: ricardo dominguez <<a>rdom {AT} thing.net</a>></li><li><em>Date</em>: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:48:47 -0800</li><li><em>Sender</em>: <a>owner-nettime-l {AT} basis.Desk.nl</a></li></ul>
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<pre>InfoWar
"War in our current era is one of reduced tangibility
and soft power."
--Joseph Nye.
"Centralize strategically, but decentralize tactically."
--Mao
This is an invitation to join and participate on
the InfoWar thread moderated by Ricardo Dominguez
on the new Thing bbs system at:
<a href="http://www.thing.net">http://www.thing.net</a>
starting on March 5, 1998.
The InfoWar thread will consider how soft power has
redefined command, control, intelligence and resistance.
InfoWar tactics are now moving beyond the theoretical questions
about the rise of "network power" and the end of hierarchies.
Instead, Military and Intelligence groups are now experimenting
with pragmatic hybrid structures that can retain control
over networks, while allowing network autonomy to
expand within a specific types of command structures.
In order to contain the rising soft power of small groups
that can organize themselves "into sprawling
networks" that can threaten hard power structures.
Military and Intelligence communities since the late 80's
have mapped 5 distinct possible structures for understanding
InfoWar:
1)A Game, chess or Go.
Go has displaced chess as the dominant tactical game
metaphor.
2)The Wild West.
Each town makes its own laws and out on the
range its everyone for themselves and God against all.
3)The Castle/Bunker.
Enclaves built for security with moats, massive walls,
drawbridges and loyal Knights who roam the outskirts
of the fiefdom.
4)A Plant.
A rhizome made of endless root-structures,with
poly-spacial connectivity, and a multi-layered linkages
with non-plant agents.
5)The Hive.
A bio-diverse system,with the ability to
rapidly mutate, and capable of swarm like activity.
Each map calls for different types of responses to the
questions of security, aggression, and resistance.
What can we gain from each map as the importance
of InfoWar continues to grow with greater global access.
The thread will also consider the specific case
of the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. They have
been able to constrain the Mexican government
from quickly eliminating the movement
since 1994--by building a transnational network
of resistance. How were a group of Mayan
people deep in the Lacandona jungle able to
become the first, "post modern warriors?"
And finally, what happens when War Theory
goes beyond InfoWar to overcome the problems
that arise from the "age of networks?"
Suggested reading list -- (not necessary to
have read them to participate):
Copernicus....Forward C4I for the 21st Century
<a href="http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c4i/coperfwd.txt">http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c4i/coperfwd.txt</a>
Cyberwar is Coming. Arquilla and Ronfeldt
<a href="http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Military/cyberwar">http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Military/cyberwar</a>
Electronic Warfare
<a href="http://www.dreo.dnd.ca/pages/electwf/electwf.htm">http://www.dreo.dnd.ca/pages/electwf/electwf.htm</a>
Guide to Information Warfare
<a href="http://www.uta.fi/~ptmakul/infowar/iw2.html">http://www.uta.fi/~ptmakul/infowar/iw2.html</a>
In Athena's Camp (John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, editors)
<a href="http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/contents.html">http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/contents.html</a>
Information War and Cyberspace Security by RAND
<a href="http://www.rand.org/publications/RRR/RRR.fall95.cyber/">http://www.rand.org/publications/RRR/RRR.fall95.cyber/</a>
Information War Cyberwar Netwar by George J. Stein
<a href="http://www.cdsar.af.mil/battle/chp6.html">http://www.cdsar.af.mil/battle/chp6.html</a>
Information Warfare
<a href="http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~sdjames/info_war.html">http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~sdjames/info_war.html</a>
What is Information Warfare?
<a href="http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/inss/actpubs/act003/a003cont.html">http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/inss/actpubs/act003/a003cont.html</a>
Zapatistas
The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle
<a href="http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zaps.html">http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zaps.html</a>
Netwars
<a href="http://www.teleport.com/~jwehling/Netwars.html">http://www.teleport.com/~jwehling/Netwars.html</a>
Zaptistas in Cyberspace.
<a href="http://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html">http://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html</a>
Latin America's first post-Communism rebellion
<a href="http://mprofaca.cro.net/chiapas.html">http://mprofaca.cro.net/chiapas.html</a>
Electronic Civil Disobedience
<a href="http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sbarnes/ECD/ECD.html">http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sbarnes/ECD/ECD.html</a>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, February 4, 2018 11:40:11 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 1067pacificpeople@gmail.com; soft_skinned_space<br>
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<div class="PlainText">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br>
Hello Andrea, <br>
Absolutely loved your participation a few months ago and so glad you have joined in on –empyre-. Many of us in the North America will be making it to Los Angeles to the College Art Association. If anyone from –empyre- listserv will be around we can arrange
to meet for drinks. <br>
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We have most definitely touched down in real space—IIt was featured as part of documenta 12's Magazine Project conducting three moderated conversations in 2006 and 2007. In 2008, --empyre- collaborated with the Anderson Art Ranch in Snowmass, Colorado to offer
two Presidential Full Merit Scholarships to members of the -empyre- community. -empyre- also has collaborated with institutions and festivals to produce dynamic online forums for physically located events. Some of those events have included the Cornerhouse
in Manchester, Marcos Weskamp's Social Circles visualization slice of the list dynamics. In 2008 -empyre- co-hosted a special conference with City Light Books on Paul Virilio in San Francisco, In 2009, a special panel on "viral marketing" was hosted by Exit
Art in New York City. In 2010 a discussion held around The Making Sense Colloquium at the Centre Pompidou, Paris was sponsored by -empyre-. And in the fall of 2011 -empyre- hosted a networking event at the annual ISEA (International Symposium for Electronic
Arts) in Istanbul, Turkey. We also participated in a HASTAC conference in Peru in 2015 and met many –empyreans- on solid ground.
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If you will be in LA between February 18 to 20th let us know. <br>
Renate<br>
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Andrea wrote- <br>
Hello longtime empyreans,<br>
<br>
Being very new to this community since winter 2017 I enjoy that this is an<br>
online listserv because it is devoted to *discussing *things.<br>
Facebook is about to popularize an idea and if you start a Twitter (with<br>
its limit of word count) the only thing it does to get a lot of people<br>
interested in your observation and creates quick connection to others that<br>
are fleeting.<br>
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In this short time Im part of the listserv it gave me in contrast to other<br>
online platforms connection to people that are devoted to deeper thinking<br>
and willing to discuss and engage with others people thinking.<br>
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I do sense a desire to meet the listserv people in person, so may be in the<br>
near future as an extension of this listserv virtual space there could be<br>
an opportunity to meet as well in a physical space.<br>
<br>
looking forward to meet others thinking and being and be part of the<br>
discussions that grows out of this listserv community.<br>
<br>
warmly<br>
<br>
andrea<br>
—————<br>
andrea haenggi<br>
artist, choreographer, dancer, radical care sitter<br>
faculty at Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies<br>
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<br>
Renate Ferro<br>
Visiting Associate Professor<br>
Director of Undergraduate Studies<br>
Department of Art<br>
Tjaden Hall 306<br>
rferro@cornell.edu<br>
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On 2/4/18, 10:54 PM, "empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Andrea Haenggi" <empyre-bounces@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of 1067pacificpeople@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
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