Re: [-empyre-] Matrixial Encounters

[hight@34n118w.net]

> Yes.

The issue at hand is one that has been around through countless earlier
new technologies, functionalities, gizmos, etc.

I have experienced this personally.  I helped create an early locative gps
spatial narrative and sound project that got a lot of press in the art
world first, then the business folks sniffed the utilitarian and
commercial applications of what we created.  We went from being written
about in wired and speaking on npr to getting emails about commerical
ends.  This is inevitable with any tool that begins to hint at or clearly
elucidates some new gizmo aspect of existing business paradigms.  We never
intended that to be our goal at all, in fact we were coming at it from
purely concept and avant garde angles.   We left it to others to go in the
commercial direction ( essential a literalization and dumbing down of what
we and a few others came to as art and  cultural commentary).

 I really think that fighting the inevitable is futile.  The thing to do
is to search these new frontiers and galvanize behind  ways to push them
in pure art and alternate culture jamming and dissent organizing
methodologies and strategems.  We cannot argue and pick at fine points,
signifiers, qouted reference points in the words of philosophy and
previous analytical constructs while the need for action and unity in
dissent and awareness grows at such a frightening rate.  A crucial
discussion would be one of what technologies and functionalities we have
now at hand, what we will have very soon, and what to do.

jeremy





> Capitalist (bourgeois) relationships (those of ownership)  are now,  as
> in the past a fetter on the development of the means of production --
> within such a environment  "Hackers" no more make up a class in the
> classical sense of that word then the militants  (from the luddites to
> the Maoist) who in the name of various ideologies sought to combat
> capital -- and in actuality by classic Marxist -Leninist terms they are
> adventurist  because their actions are volunteristic -- directed by no
> class vision and lacking ties to those classes in whose name they act
> -- to identify this individualism and lack of discipline and the
> resulting spontaneity as liminal is to romanticize the Hacker  who seem
> to occupy no more than a petite bourgeois position as a facilitator who
> has already been appropriated into the capital's research and
> development dept.
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