<div dir="ltr">Thanks Shu Lea,<div> i was at a thesis defense just yesterday and i was thinking about this. The defender's name is Pehr Englen, and i expect he'll write about this soon. The topic was the Situationist International considered as a network, and as an argument between different forms of network. Which got me thinking about Jacqueline de Jonge's journal, The Situationist Times, which one can read as a publication for artists and (partly) by artists that was a resource-book for thinking and acting in networks. It was multi-lingual, but had more of a visual than a written language. There were issues devoted to specific topologies, such as rings or spirals. I think this side of the Situationist International that ended up in The Situationist Times was very interested in what distributed networks of autonomous groupings would be like as a form of artistic communication. One has to wrest it out of the hands of art history, which is more interested in either individual artists or movements that have names and leaders. This was an avant-garde that had neither of those qualities.</div><div><br></div><div>This connected for me to a project i have never quite managed to get done, which would be a more personal account of the listserv culture of the nineties. I was on nettime more than empyre but i see them as part of a network of networks that includes undercurrents, spectre, rhizome and several others. How do you write about something in the form of linear prose that didn't have that form at all? It is hard enough with just two correspondents. When i was editing my correspondence with Kathy Acker this drove me crazy. In actuality there were always several threads going and we answered each other on those threads. But in book form all that has to collapse into one sequence. I printed the whole thing out and moved the documents around on the floor. The order ended up being a compromise. Imagine doing that for dozens of threads among hundreds of parties.... Not that i would want to actually transform those listserv debates literally into print form, but even just notionally to transform the dynamics of those networks into one prose narrative seems to defeat the form of the thing itself.</div><div><br></div><div>So that might be a place to start thinking about speculative *and* tangible networks, or ones that are both at once. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 4:25 AM, Shu Lea Cheang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net" target="_blank">shulea@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear all</p>
<p>thanks to Fran llich's latest posting (as promised) which coming
at the tail end of week3 serves well to lead us into week 4. I
believe there would be some follow up for Fran's tremendous
endeavours, Fran, please stay with us for this week 4.</p>
<p>This week we focus on <span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times">proposals
for speculative, tangible networks - the unrealized, to be
realized, the anticipated, to be anticipated, the trashed and
the in progress, deep sleep conjuration, deep water dive in,
deep root expounding.... we open up this week to welcome all
your proposal contributions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times">I am honored to
welcome the following three heavy-weight thinkers, writers,
hackers, weavers+++ whose work i admired much to join us this
week.<br>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span></span><span>Francesca da Rimini (Adelaide,
Australia) is an artist, writer, filmmaker and
researcher.</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span><span>She was awarded
an Australia Council New
Media Fellowship in 1999, and her work has been widely
published and exhibited.
She is a founding member of the cyberfeminist art collective
VNS Matrix,
intercontinental group identity_runners (with Diane Ludin and
Agnese Trocchi,
and In Her Interior (with Virginia Barratt). Recent
collaborations include
performance/installation <i>lips becoming
beaks, hexing the alien</i> and <i>The
Darkening</i>. She periodically adds to her labyrinth at
LambdaMOO to continue
hexing capitalism from within the beast.<u></u><u></u></span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Denis Roio
aka Jaromil
(Amsterdam, NL) is a </span><span>purpose driven software artisan and
well known
ethical hacker.</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana"> </span><span>CTO and co-founder of the Dyne.org
think &do tank, a
non-profit foundation with more than 15 years of expertise in
social and
technical innovation. Leading digital culture institution
popular among digital
natives and millenials. Jaromil shares understandable insights
and visions on
Internet of Things, Blockchain Technologies, Cyber Security,
Data Ownership and
Software Freedom. Expert speaker about Open Source, Lean and
Agile
methodologies</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana"><u></u><u></u></span><span>McKenzie Wark from New Castle,
Australia, currentl living and working in New York City. </span><span>
known for his writings on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_studies" title="Media studies" target="_blank">media theory</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_theory" title="Critical theory" target="_blank">critical theory</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media" title="New
media" target="_blank">new media</a>, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International" title="Situationist International" target="_blank">Situationist International</a>.
His best known works are <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Hacker_Manifesto" title="A Hacker Manifesto" target="_blank">A Hacker Manifesto</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gamer_Theory&action=edit&redlink=1" class="m_-1558535988817260495new" title="Gamer Theory (page does not exist)" target="_blank">Gamer
Theory</a></i>. He is Professor of Media and Cultural
Studies at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_School" title="The
New School" target="_blank">The New School</a> in New York City. To cite a few
of his books -</span></p>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>The Beach Beneath the Street: The Everyday Life and
Glorious Times of
the Situationist International</i> (Verso, 2011) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>Telesthesia: Communication, Culture and Class</i>
(Polity, 2012) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>Excommunication: Three Inquiries in Media and
Mediation</i> (with Alexander
R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker) (University of Chicago Press,
2013) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>The Spectacle of Disintegration</i> (Verso, 2013) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene</i>
(Verso, 2015) <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>·</span><span><span>
</span><i>General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the
Twenty-First Century</i>
(Verso, 2017) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>On a sunny
day in June.. let the words begin....</span></p>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#000;padding:5px 0 0 5px;margin:0px"><span style="color:#e82e21">McKenzie Wark</span><br>
<strong>Professor of Media and Culture</strong><br>
<span style="color:#e82e21">EUGENE LANG COLLEGE</span><br>
<span>65 w11th st, NEW YORK, NY 10011</span></p><p style="font-family:arial;font-size:10px;color:#666;padding:10px 0 0 5px;margin:0px">
<a href="http://www.newschool.edu/marketing-communication/email-signature.html#" style="color:#666" target="_blank">warkk@newschool.edu</a><br>
<span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">T</span> 212 229 5100 2241 / <span style="color:#000;font-weight:bold">M</span> 646 3697266 / @mckenziewark / room #456<br></p><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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