[-empyre-] Internet: a house with many mansions and no roof.

["Lachlan Brown" <lachlan@london.com>]

Thanks Jill for the reference. Pressflex, a resource for publishing
webmasters is an excellent source. What a pity you didn't reference/link 
it in your blog.

Another brilliant resource for publishing is Catchword and
associated services which can be applied to all aspects of academic 
publishing as well as I expect we will see, before very long, the electronic 
edition of academic books the primary edition in some academic publishing
areas, with the printed matter thrown in as an additional product if the book 
'does well'. 

Thinking about some of the interlacings between text, video in blog, and
'social virtual realities' involving telepresence like MOO, chat, but also
networked gaming and cam, as well as 'soft cam' technologies, used
by 'ghostees' [using 'ghosting technologies' to access 'locked' chat rooms, 
of apparently closed chat rooms (Internet is a house with 
many mansions and no roof) - I hope I am not giving away any unix lad or ladette
secrets :/ ] to capture images - this is referenced very well 
in one of the desktop theatre groups Palace performances 'The Spectacled 
Society' to excellent effect.

http://leda.ucsd.edu/%7Eajenik/archive/files/a_fr_01.htm

I wonder what dramatic/artistic forms can encompass the entire range
of visible/invisible known/unknown technologies and practices and their 
social contexts as audiences/producers but also as subjects with rights? 
Never in the field of aesthetics is so much hinging on aesthetic articulation 
of these several elements. To confirm the distinction between what we call art 
and performance and what we call everyday life. The latter has its professional 
perfomances too, but these have a strongly economic aspect in career and renumeration, 
in repetitive workaday aspects of social being in law, identity and embodiment 
the sum of a wide range of contracts. From 'the social contract' to  insurance 
and empoyment guarantees, contracts and regulation, which unfortunately Butler didn't 
reference very well. I mean  transgression has a strongly economic character. It can be 
used to level or override social distinction but it can be used and most often is used 
to heighten social distinctions too to create
new patterns of uneven distribution of knowledge and hence power.

Just some thoughts adding to common knowledge to help in the economy of Internet and
everyday life. 



Lachlan













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