Just very quickly, as I'm prepping for class here in the UAE, and also sorry
fvor being so offline.
In this conversation, I miss Rhizome's online community, as it made so many
careers, including mine.
But I want to give a minor tally of communities Ihave been part of as a
point of conversation.
The Well
Spectre
Nettime
Senselab Basecamp
Netbehaviour
Empyre
Fibrecultture
Odyssey
Rhizome Raw
The Thing
7-11
And a few more.
These are esseantial to our community, culture, and history.
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[mailto:empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au] On Behalf Of Renate
Terese Ferro
Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 8:15 AM
To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] -empyre- in 2002- a trip down memory lane
----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Hey Ricardo.
So glad you mentioned nettime.org and thank you for posting this post from
February 26th 1998 nearly twenty years ago. Talking about history I have
enlisted twelve of my Introduction to Digital Media students to join us this
month on –empyre-. A few every week will post tidbits of history and facts
about online communities and forums. I thought it would be great to get
young artists and thinkers involved this month so that they can get a sense
of the long history but also to share with us their own insights about how
online and internet based platforms are incredibly networked. I will be
introducing them tomorrow. I am hoping that some of their posts will prompt
our subscribers to post additional thoughts and recollections.
Best and thanks. Renate
Hola Tod at xs,
I do not remember when I was joined -empyre- but it is a part, at least for
me, of a history and presence of list-servs that have been extremely
important for the gestures and conceptual disturbances that I have
participated in. List-servs are an e-form that I continue to see as a core
condition for the performative matrix for all the collaborations I have been
involved in the past, now and ones to come.
As I remember the first list-servs I was a part of were based at thing.net
in the 90's. Probably the most well known list that echoes the deep model
of -empryre- was nettime.org.
Here is my first call to join a list-serv back in 1998 (riding the memory
lane):
* To: nettime-l {AT} Desk.nl
* Subject: <nettime> infowar thread on www.thing.net
* From: ricardo dominguez <rdom {AT} thing.net>
* Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:48:47 -0800
* Sender: owner-nettime-l {AT} basis.Desk.nl
________________________________
InfoWar
"War in our current era is one of reduced tangibility and soft power."
--Joseph Nye.
"Centralize strategically, but decentralize tactically."
--Mao
This is an invitation to join and participate on the InfoWar thread
moderated by Ricardo Dominguez on the new Thing bbs system at:
http://www.thing.net
starting on March 5, 1998.
The InfoWar thread will consider how soft power has redefined command,
control, intelligence and resistance.
InfoWar tactics are now moving beyond the theoretical questions about the
rise of "network power" and the end of hierarchies.
Instead, Military and Intelligence groups are now experimenting with
pragmatic hybrid structures that can retain control over networks, while
allowing network autonomy to expand within a specific types of command
structures.
In order to contain the rising soft power of small groups that can organize
themselves "into sprawling networks" that can threaten hard power
structures.
Military and Intelligence communities since the late 80's have mapped 5
distinct possible structures for understanding
InfoWar:
1)A Game, chess or Go.
Go has displaced chess as the dominant tactical game
metaphor.
2)The Wild West.
Each town makes its own laws and out on the
range its everyone for themselves and God against all.
3)The Castle/Bunker.
Enclaves built for security with moats, massive walls,
drawbridges and loyal Knights who roam the outskirts
of the fiefdom.
4)A Plant.
A rhizome made of endless root-structures,with
poly-spacial connectivity, and a multi-layered linkages
with non-plant agents.
5)The Hive.
A bio-diverse system,with the ability to
rapidly mutate, and capable of swarm like activity.
Each map calls for different types of responses to the questions of
security, aggression, and resistance.
What can we gain from each map as the importance of InfoWar continues to
grow with greater global access.
The thread will also consider the specific case of the Zapatistas in
Chiapas, Mexico. They have been able to constrain the Mexican government
from quickly eliminating the movement since 1994--by building a
transnational network of resistance. How were a group of Mayan people deep
in the Lacandona jungle able to become the first, "post modern warriors?"
And finally, what happens when War Theory goes beyond InfoWar to overcome
the problems that arise from the "age of networks?"
Suggested reading list -- (not necessary to have read them to participate):
Copernicus....Forward C4I for the 21st Century
http://www.stl.nps.navy.mil/c4i/coperfwd.txt
Cyberwar is Coming. Arquilla and Ronfeldt
http://gopher.well.sf.ca.us:70/0/Military/cyberwar
Electronic Warfare
http://www.dreo.dnd.ca/pages/electwf/electwf.htm
Guide to Information Warfare
http://www.uta.fi/~ptmakul/infowar/iw2.html
In Athena's Camp (John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, editors)
http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR880/contents.html
Information War and Cyberspace Security by RAND
http://www.rand.org/publications/RRR/RRR.fall95.cyber/
Information War Cyberwar Netwar by George J. Stein
http://www.cdsar.af.mil/battle/chp6.html
Information Warfare
http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~sdjames/info_war.html
What is Information Warfare?
http://www.ndu.edu/ndu/inss/actpubs/act003/a003cont.html
Zapatistas
The Zapatistas and the Electronic Fabric of Struggle
http://www.eco.utexas.edu/faculty/Cleaver/zaps.html
Netwars
http://www.teleport.com/~jwehling/Netwars.html
Zaptistas in Cyberspace.
http://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html
Latin America's first post-Communism rebellion
http://mprofaca.cro.net/chiapas.html
Electronic Civil Disobedience
http://mailer.fsu.edu/~sbarnes/ECD/ECD.html
Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rferro at cornell.edu
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Ricardo Rene Dominguez" <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on
behalf of rrd54 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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