[-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]
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Fri Jun 15 17:37:42 AEST 2018
A quick note:
I immediately imagine the cinematics - the Hollywood dénouement and the
matrix style slowed bullets trajectory... (sigh).
Resist/refuse representation?
#fractal #ruins
a&f
On 15/06/2018 5:06 AM, Shu Lea Cheang wrote:
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> Oh, dearest
>
> Hold the gun!
>
> To Ricardo, speaking of reaching to the gun, I am quite fascinated by
> your phrasing of 'gestures' (not even poetic)
>
>
> " Some gesture must be of complete refusal. Some for invisible work.
> Some for non-relational-relational collaboration. Some as a part of
> the system.
>
> Gestures built on strange shrooms and in between the ruins. As the
> Zapatistas say, we do not need your support-but if you would like to
> walk beside us that can be done. "
>
>
> The walking, the march, side by side.... down the boulevard, across
> the bridge, the barricade, the borders, down streams, deep in the
> jungles.....
>
> So, when the bullets hit, who take the shot?
>
> sl
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> >From Minerva to MAVEN and back again or (What is to be Done)
>
> Hola Tod at xs,
>
> These are all excellent questions in the face of navigating the ruins
> behind us, around us now and those yet to come.
>
> >>How do we create forms of life that no longer reproduce the machines
>
> >of capital. How do we desert the system that has no outside. How do we
>
> >refuse to become the fools in the palace, providing the progressive
>
> >masks to the institutions whose very life blood is in the corporate
>
> >military industrial realm…
>
> Exit cultures or escape routes are now and perhaps always have been
> useful to have available and build. With the dream of a great outside
> as a possibility. Certainly Capitalist Realism always like plays with
> the “no outside” gambit as its ontological certainty-but it works
> constantly to maintain this manufactured state. The Zapatistas ecology
> starting in 1994 created an outside that is nested within the post
> NAFTA state and its multiple ruins with the force of having fought
> back during the last 500 years plus.
>
> >
>
> > >>How do we not separate our ethics and aesthetics ( as wittgenstein
>
> >urged us not to do )
>
> The Zapatistas do not separate their ethics from the aesthetic-no
> Wittgenstein silence from them.
>
> http://scalar.usc.edu/anvc/dancing-with-the-zapatistas/table-of-contents
>
> > >>Do we refuse to collaborates ?
>
> We have to work fractally to some degree. Some gesture must be of
> complete refusal. Some for invisible work. Some for
> non-relational-relational collaboration. Some as a part of the system.
>
> Gestures built on strange shrooms and in between the ruins. As the
> Zapatistas say, we do not need your support-but if you would like to
> walk beside us that can be done.
>
> > >>Can we hack from the inside ?
>
> Yes, it can be done to some degree. Electronic Disturbance Theater’s
> Transborder Immigrant Tool navigated the Minerva institutional
> condition. (In good, bad and ugly ways):
>
> http://tbt.tome.press/
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> https://anthology.rhizome.org/transborder-immigrant-tool
>
> Description:
> https://anthology.rhizome.org/user/pages/transborder-immigrant-tool/mobiles.jpg
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> NET ART ANTHOLOGY: Transborder Immigrant Tool
> <https://anthology.rhizome.org/transborder-immigrant-tool>
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> anthology.rhizome.org
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> The Transborder Immigrant Tool, devised by Electronic Disturbance
> Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, was a mobile phone application intended to
> guide individuals who were making their way to the United States
> through the deserts of the U.S./Mexico borderlands to water. The
> application delivered poetry to i...
>
> > >>Do we desert and build counter powers ?
>
> Yes.
>
> >Or do we just cook up the poison mushrooms and feed them to those making
> money from death ?
>
> Yes.
>
> P.S. The MAVEN Tale of Reversing #TheRuinsYetToCome
>
> In early May 2018 I received an email request from Prof. Lilly Irani,
> a colleague of mine at University of San Diego (UCSD) and Prof. Peter
> Asaro, who participated in a #DronesAtHome project that I did at
> Gallery at CALIT2 in 2012 on UCSD’s deep entanglement in developing these
> remote controlled killing machines and spreading them around the world.
>
> The e-mail concerned signing a letter to support Google A.I. division
> workers shutting the DOD’s MAVEN funding to develop a weaponized use
> of A.I. imaging systems that were be developed:
>
> “Project Maven is a United States military program aimed at using
> machine learning to analyze massive amounts of drone surveillance
> footage and to label objects of interest for human analysts. Google is
> supplying not only the open source ‘deep learning’ technology, but
> also engineering expertise and assistance to the Department of Defense.”
>
> The letter the ended with these demands:
>
> * Terminate its Project Maven contract with the DoD.
> * Commit not to develop military technologies, nor to allow the
> personal data it has collected to be used for military operations.
> * Pledge to neither participate in nor support the development,
> manufacture, trade or use of autonomous weapons; and to support
> efforts to ban autonomous weapons.
>
> The letter got a total of signatures by academics: 1171
>
> https://www.icrac.net/open-letter-in-support-of-google-employees-and-tech-workers/
>
> Description: https://s0.wp.com/i/blank.jpg
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> Open Letter in Support of Google Employees and Tech ...
> <https://www.icrac.net/open-letter-in-support-of-google-employees-and-tech-workers/>
>
> www.icrac.net
>
> Researchers in Support of Google Employees: Google should withdraw
> from Project Maven and commit to not weaponizing its technology.. An
> Open Letter To:
>
> The above letter expanded the networks of support for the Google
> employees protesting any weaponization of Google A.I and beyond:
>
> The internal debate over Maven, viewed by both supporters and
> opponents as opening the door to much bigger defense contracts,
> generated a petition signed by about 4,000 employees
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/technology/google-letter-ceo-pentagon-project.html>
> who demanded “a clear policy stating that neither Google nor its
> contractors will ever build warfare technology.”
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html
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> Description:
> https://static01.nyt.com/images/2018/05/31/business/31GOOGLE/merlin_138827160_6293d3a2-9bb3-49cb-84e8-3a186ce45a71-facebookJumbo.jpg
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html>
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> How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for ...
> <https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/technology/google-project-maven-pentagon.html>
>
> www.nytimes.com
>
> A $9 million deal for the use of artificial intelligence technology
> has fractured the internet giant’s work force and risks driving away
> top engineering talent.
>
> >From these series of gestures among the ruins yet to come. Google was forced to end the contracts with DOD:
>
> “Google will not seek to extend its contract next year with the
> Defense Department for artificial intelligence used to analyze drone
> video, squashing a controversial alliance that had raised alarms over
> the technological buildup between Silicon Valley and the military.
>
> The tech giant will stop working on its piece of the military’s AI
> endeavor known as Project Maven when its 18-month contract expires in
> March, a person familiar with Google’s thinking told The Washington Post.”
>
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/google-to-drop-pentagon-ai-contract-after-employees-called-it-the-business-of-war/?
>
>
> #FractalNetworks
>
> So here is a case of rapid fractal gestures that gather multiple
> inside and outside communities that can at least for a moment A.I.
> weponization. So that the question of growing living forms inside the
> poison atmospherics of the institutions towards living forms networks
> that can create tunnels and wings to Zapatistas from the roots-we at
> EDT 1.0 and 2.0 do believe to be more than possible.
>
> #SoEndthThisTale
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> *From:*empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
> <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of patrick
> lichty <p at voyd.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:35:18 AM
> *To:* 'soft_skinned_space'; 'shu lea cheang'
> *Subject:* Re: [-empyre-] rehearsal of a network - [week 2]
>
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> I am fascinated byt the notion of the invasive species. Perhaps for me
> the notion of invasiveness at one point or another in a closed system like
> the biosphere is to be assumed. What is more interesting to me is the
> insertion of the species into the new environment, the method in which it
> does it, and the rate of
> spread/invasion/assimilation/integration/homeostasis. For example, we
> could consider the Indigenous American's introductionjn across the
> Beringian land Bridge as form of invasive introduction, which led arguably
> to the elimination of much of the meggfauna on the continent save the
> Bison - That would take the invasion of H.Sapiens Europensis (sic).
>
> But the cooperative introduction of invasives may be more interesting,
> such ad the Zebra Mussel's hooking to human vessels to get to the Great
> Lakes, the Us Navy's intridcution of caribou onto Adak Island in the
> 1950's for an alternate food source for the base, only to let them
> multiply out of control with only hunters as predatoprs when the land was
> ceded baclk to the Unangans in the early 2000's. Of the fact that spores
> can go halfway around the world, or even the theory in testing that DNA on
> Earth may have originated on Mars, and was placed here by asteroidal
> panspermia....
>
> This spinning set of relations constructs in my mind a series of tectonics
> of relation - speed, temporal expansion, location, and cooperation.
>
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