Re: [-empyre-] time again

["melinda rackham" <melinda@subtle.net>]

jill wrote:
> i thought computer ideologues generally speak as though everything
> can be faster, smaller, better? or am i thinking of this back to
> front from you? can you explain it to me please?

i think maybe its the software end.. coding parameters i've absorbed ..ie
things/ behaviours,/appearances/ have a mostly mathetical range,  so
everything that appears on the screen is just a matter of lots of options
rather anything of infinite possibilities..  and software gets bigger and
more bloated to try and fit in more featurs rather than more streamlined ,
as opposed to the hardware smaller faster better quicker refresh more
expense type hype.. which dosnt always seem to hold true either..but i did
get a spam for a $US50 , 40 gig pocketsized usb2 external harddrive this
morning which made me actually want to reply to spam..(oh im getting my
lists mixed up here..;)

mez wrote

> i suppose its 2 do with n.tention.....i still thrive & glean ][v][i][a][n
> the net, still x.tract & absorb whilst trying 2 resist the concretisation
> of x.pected _cyber_ tangents & slow collapsing in2
> c][apitalistic][ulturally-tainted pre.settings........i understand,
> however, that 4 some this has turned in2 a place of confinement rather
than
> connection...........

back to the finity thing.. constraint and confinement have interresting
possibilities, eg thoes that are physically restrained do amazing things..,
maybe its the master and slave context again the slave is always in control
of the master/mistress as they really need the the slave to maintain their
illusion and position ..so what looks like submission and defeat is actually
power and self aware liberation, where as what appears externally  to be
power and control is actually unawareness and dependance..
maybe that relates to cyberspatial issues..maybe it doesnt..
data marrow is a very nice phrase
m