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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/06/18 20:18, Shu Lea Cheang
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:bdfdd3c5-b3c8-266e-6f91-ba6671daf0e2@earthlink.net">Then,
Jaromil alarmed us, " <span
style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Courier">Just
like network routing algorithms were inspired by ant scenting
patterns, we are witnessing a moment in history in which the
mainstream industry with all its techno-poetic powers have
embraced the patterns of Mycelia."</span></blockquote>
<p>neither is there need at this moment in history to sound or heed
alarm nor is there to bear witness silently mute or vocally
poetic: the embrace of the mainstream industry with its
technopoetic arms, its <span>long arms, its</span><span></span><span>
automatic arms, its electronic arms, its</span><span> arms,</span><span>
its petrochemical arms, its military arms, is</span><span> of
patterns, or is making patterns, network-like patterns,
barabbasian patterns, informational patterns, but productive
patterns, profitable patterns, semiocapitalist patterns, and
market-economic-neuroliberal patterns, algorithmically-invested
patterns, desirous of some natural-religious explanation and
causation: its patterns are all PR & marketing depts. And
the market is for economists, to see which ones write the best,
futuristic, progressive, smartest, computer-AI-assisted EF
[Economic Fiction] techno-poetry. The warning is Foucault's:
where resistance has gone power will follow. Where the
resistance has been the power has followed.</span></p>
<p><span>best,</span></p>
<p><span>Simon<br>
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