<div dir="ltr">"It was women’s fingers that enfolded the
data-corpse into the fabric of the world.
Sadie Plant tells us that these fingers
are like a spider’s spinnerets, extruding
digital silk, weaving the history of
networked technology, which at its core
is a cunning practice of emasculation:
‘cyberspace is out of man’s control, [it]
destroys his identity...at the peak of
his triumph, the culmination of his
machinic erections, man confronts the
system he built for his own protection
and finds it female and dangerous.’ For
Plant, man sentenced himself to annihilation
when he let the feminine hydra
of digital technology out of its black box.
Now, it is everywhere, slyly completing
its task.
Cyberfeminism is an occult form
of warfare. It understands about ‘cyber -
space’ what Cixin Liu’s ‘dark forest’
theory understands about the cosmos:
all existence is determined by hostility
and so the highest form of intelligence
lies in occluding one’s coordinates. The
hypothesis explains why the universe,
statistically full of life, is dead silent.
It is not because, as is commonly thought,
life has not found a way to communicate,
but because it understands that
silence is the most advanced form of
intelligence. Our physical and virtual
spaces, which are increasingly inseparable,
are alike a dark forest, where
every step must be taken with care, as
revealing one’s existence portends annihilation.
The most desirable skill, the
most coveted trick, and the most longed
for disposition can only be this—a fluency
in the trading of secrets. The skills we
need to strategically deploy concealment,
de-concealment and re-concealment."<br><br>this is from Bogna Konior's "Ancestral Cyberspace: On the Technics of Secrecy" (<a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584d3a10be6594f67565c0a0/t/5b34c37a0e2e7239ad7bc9ee/1530184579239/AncestralCyberspace.pdf">https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584d3a10be6594f67565c0a0/t/5b34c37a0e2e7239ad7bc9ee/1530184579239/AncestralCyberspace.pdf</a>)<br><br>thinking about how the warfare of cyberfem (i think this itself is leading 2 discussions on Gender Accelerationism (G/ACC) and LesbiaNRx) functions within networks specifically.<br>Hacking, ddos attacks, patchwork + weavinggg</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM Shu Lea Cheang <<a href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net">shulea@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------
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<p>dear All</p>
<p>threads entangled deeper into Mycorrhyizal networks that Simon
meticulously argued.</p>
<p>As a moderator for the first time of such 'old fashioned' mailing
list, (and let's leave it text based forever), I am feeling an
indescribable tension, anxiety as I check in on admin page to
'pass' the sporadically incoming postings... <br>
</p>
<p>the roots have no bound composting (thus renewed) underground...
and how do we follow? cross-path?</p>
<p>Let me try -</p>
<p>We have checked ourselves into the 90s of its online communities
which parallel to artistic intervention on the Net at the time,
but existed as a society on its own, multiple mini-societies,
mainly local (unlike the known international ones we refer to,
spectre, nettime, to name a few), some archived, some legendary...
bring it up to date, the current 'warred' zone of local social
media, sign in to wechat in China and whatsup in the States, has
to echo these 'scenes' of the 90s.</p>
<p>I do not want to lose Alice Famer's references on
patchwork/weaving as we got 'sidetracked' and 'righttracked' to
mycelium..</p>
<p>thanks to dollyoko's taking us back to real (small) spaces of
"deep social experimentation and collaborative creativity",
somehow i connect these days with occupied squated space, move in
and takeover... Jaromil can possibly echo these days with
Amsterdam stakeout of a time? not to fall into any nostagia or
romantic about it... collectives get dissolved, creativity fights
over credits, and ultimately who's doing the dishes? taking out
the garbage? <br>
</p>
<p>Much thanks to Jaromil's summing of past 3 weeks... there are so
many quotes of the contributors, each can lead us to 'rabbit
holes' as dollyoko dares us to venture in???</p>
<p>again-</p>
<p>I am standing still in this junction with walkers in all
directions, that particular center of the universe in Shibuya's
transit exit.........</p>
<p>the swarm of thoughts from outer universe hitting at you...
spores falling like spring snow, invasive as they are.<br>
</p>
<p>help me through this last few days of June..........</p>
<p>many thanks<br>
</p>
<p>sl<br>
</p>
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On 26/06/18 06:37, Shu Lea Cheang wrote/quoted:<br>
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believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature.
Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
information-sharing membranes</blockquote>
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Mycorrhyizal networks became entangled in the underground theatre
work of Minus Theatre. But for reasons that rather go against
those adduced in and around CMNs here, in their emphasis on the
gains to be had, got from, harvested off the literal and
metaphorical fungolalia and fungalia. The gain, for example, of
communication: what if--we speculated in the spectacles we
made--communication were not the point, but an
exploitation-abstraction layer covering over--a too-human
groundcover--the <i>work</i> of decomposition? What if
communication is <i>in </i>and an <i>excess</i> of this work?
And what then if the scatter, crackle and static of languages were
the condition of their significations? The breaking-down, the
waste itself, the soil, ground? Such work--of decomposition--would
not be valued according to elements and minerals <i>liberated</i>
but would be valued in and through itself, as forming the maternal
matrices in indeterminacy, inaction, asignifying, across inorganic
and organic strata. Decomposition lays waste: elements are
understood to be liberated and the value is in this breaking down,
giving off phosphorescing halos in an excess of incandescent
energy illumining the dark, not a light dispelling it.<br>
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best,<br>
Simon <br>
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