Re: [-empyre-] RE: Mobile Media debate

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

I completely agree with this point of view. BUT in front of the inescapable
tsunami which appoints, I think that it is necessary to take a bending
position constitute in a sort a critical evil, an homoeopathic vaccine
(treat the pathology as evil by attacking its proper self defence) from
which the dumping will become indifferent. It is because, from my part, I
encourage hardly creative critical dispositions including the culture of the
modernity and of the arts as Franck Ancel enters. That is the real mirror of
the global that is being played to disappear radically into other global
disposition: being the realized communication instead of the society itself,
as the virtual society felt as very society; and to tell it is not nothing
and not more acting an alliance with the power. We need this sort of
representation to enter the criticism of the connected mobility. As well as
Marx would not have ignore the political economy to make the criticism of
the political economy : being the environment.

It is exactly the possible role of the artistic infra or extra architectural
devices. The mobility of the city not being the one of the city but the one
of the citizen in New Babylon, please to remember the early situationist
emergent proposition from Chtcheglov (coming from International Lettrism)
and Constant (as architect from Cobra) after they have invented the Unitary
Urbanism as a living theory on the city, and proposing the derive as
alternative construction of the city by the citizenship mode of mobile life,
under the regime of the psychogeography.

There are more the material questions of health bounded to the dumping of
the living bodies in the low frequencies, the mobile telephony or the
connection by wifi instead of being inescapable to bear the global
disposition or half disposition of satellites, on the other hand the field
of the wifi relay and the handing mobile connected terminals are the fields
on which locally it can be acted.

And that is why I think that, at the moment or in the other one, there will
be a major legal transformation of the air port or cellular connected
mobility in the collective and private urban spaces at the credit of the
disconnected mobility. As well from the deliberate decision by the citizens,
radically auto-regulating, if the States would not assume.

 And it could indeed go faster than for the cigarettes not being more really
tobacco (but the base being tobacco more GM tobaccos)  in spite of the
stakes in power of control and economic. Because it is directly the question
of the young children. Moreover already the Majors officers (following
Murdock not to name him) are reconstituting Internet through their own
control (MySpace) in prevision for not lose the part of no predictable
connected mobile destiny... And whatever the following destiny of this sort
of mobility by installing its relay of edited communication on Internet by
privatisation of Internet.

At this moment, I think that our following critical question would be better
to understand both the question of free Internet that is announced to
disappear in the same time that connected mobility is extending : that is
exactly the determinant critical question of the future of the collective
communication [and radically operating without dialectic] between the Media
Majors.. and the alternative weapons of the power whatever being but being
always to go to the totality.

It is my personal feeling of these strange things that happens us.

On 27/09/06 0:01, "Brian Holmes" <brian.holmes@wanadoo.fr> probably wrote:

> Marina Vishmidt wrote (about "Songdo City"):
> 
>> The horizon of social change as a different form of
>> organisation of social and productive relations is out of the picture
>> completely - or, it is understood as a byproduct of our 'tools'.  So the
>> power of technologies to mould the social landscape is one of the main
>> stories told by capitalism to itself to help it sleep at night - why are
>> we repeating it instead of exacerbating the crisis that is plainly in
>> evidence?
> 
> This whole post by Marina is so lucid that it seems
> hallucinatory.
> 
> My own belief is that most people in cultural circles - and
> expecially those connected to the net therefore more aware
> of actuality - are literally scared out of their minds, and
> retreating into the fantasy that it's all gonna be OK.
> 
> Well, any English or American citizen who thinks it's all
> gonna be OK is a fool or a cynic, that's for sure. Felix
> Stalder posted on netime today a preview of what the
> Anglo-American war is producing, under the heading "Feral
> Cities":
> 
> http://www.nwc.navy.mil/press/Review/2003/Autumn/art6-a03.htm
> 
> Of course, in the meantime one can speculate as to the forms
> that the minor narcissistic alienation of the middle classes
> will take, and one can even make so-called art of those
> forms, but I gotta say I'm not very impressed....
> 
> best, BH
> 
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