[-empyre-] Creativity as a social ontology

[Julian Oliver]

..on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:00:59AM -0700, { brad brace } wrote:
> 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.
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> I've moved the project here:
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> PROXY Gallery
> http://cart.iabrace.com

This is a great/interesting project. A clever diversion of Social Capital.

Congrats,

-- 
Julian Oliver
home: New Zealand
based: Berlin, Germany 
currently: Berlin, Germany 
about: http://julianoliver.com

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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2010, Julian Oliver wrote:
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> > > 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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