[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

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(Julian, I'll "reply to all" because my contributions to
this network are ironically/routinely blocked. ;))

I concur with your statement but would add that exclusion is
often predicated by political-notions of scarcity/trust.,
ie., your LAN is 'protected' against unauthorized
bandwidth-use or intrusion. When in reality, there is no
scarcity, no pressing need for ever-greater/new
production... only equitable distribution.

My FB account with 5000 appreciative 'friends' was
immediately disabled once I began to sell collections of
(enhanced/enlarged) profile portraits. The hierarchical
social network hasn't changed a bit.

I've moved the project here:

PROXY Gallery
http://cart.iabrace.com

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On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Julian Oliver wrote:

> > I wonder if exclusiveness (not necessarily understood as a negative feature)
> > is the only necessary ingredient for intimacy... ?
>
> The very basis of a community depends on a logic of exclusion; any community
> represents a grouping around a common interest, whether that be needs, fetisches
> or topics. To defend those interests - even if that requires excluding others -
> is to invest in the health of the community.
>
> A society itself can be understood as an expression of exclusion; membership
> is only granted to those that prove compatibility with the existing interest(s).
> For this reason, a discussion around 'Intimate networks' could be more aptly
> (but less fashionably) named 'Exclusive Networks'.
>
> The Local Area Network of your apartment or school expresses this exclusion with
> (the somewhat depolitised) WEP or WPA encryption. An IRC channel excludes those
> that do not demonstrate respect for the channel topic. A town in the South of
> the U.S.A might do so by making the newcomers feel generally horrible about
> being there until they expressly prove a compatible interest.
>
> Exlusion has an awful name, largely due to xenophobic, classist projects
> throughout history, but we're all already practicing exclusion in the interests
> of our cherished communities every day. In consideration of this topic, one
> could say any social network is the industrialisation of social exclusion
> (network anxiety) - "Am I your friend or not"?
>




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