 Meme X
From: Konrad Becker
Subject: Meme x
Status: RO
Memes? Memex !
http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/
(Vannevar Bush, Office of Scientific Research and Development during World
War II, the world's first organized and coherent military-industrial complex. )
Zitat :
INFOBODY SUBPROPAGANDA
Senso - Linguistic Infiltration Programs (SLIP), Telepresent Contagious
Postures (TCP), Propaganda Propulsion Project (PPP), Mac Believe Industry,
Cybercratic Conspiracy Command Control Intelligence (C4I), Intelligent
Pandemonium (IP), Infobody Biofeedback Modulation (IBM), Vast Active Living
Intelligence System (VALIS), MemeSlaves (MS), Leviathan Supersystems
.... Memes are thought-chains that propagate and compete in the cultural
environment. Parasitizing the brain the way a virus parasitizes the genetic
mechanism of the host cell they are described not just metaphorically but
technically as living structures. We are talking about living entities,
living off humans, eating brain when they do not battle themselves in
memetic cannibalism, preying on each other like flip-flop cellular
automatons. .....
Zitat Ende
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Synreal Systems
http://www.t0.or.at/0ntext/synsysen.htm
.....Means of transport such as legs, man, animal, or robot may be perceived
as oscillators. The human gait can be understood as two
synchronous oscillators in bi-phase. System behavior is dependent on the
bandwidth of frequency-distribution patterns, that is, if the
bandwidth in relation to the phaselocking is large enough, the system falls
into incoherence... variance below a critical level yields
spontaneous synchronization. The synchronous phase allows for minimal mutual
force. To attenuate disturbances, dissipative mechanisms
and outer energy-sources are needed to keep the oscillator within the
limit-cycle. The spreading of synchronization seeds and induction
viruses is achieved by cooperation (or groupforce, mobbing). Many biological
periodic systems are dependent on outside impulses as, for
instance, the diurnal cycle. Although synchronous behavior spreads quickly
through positive feedback, oscillators whose frequency is
differing too highly will stay unsynchronized and may invite elimination.
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EXPANDED E~SCAPISM
http://www.t0.or.at/0ntext/exescape.htm
......The nets used by cultural activists as meta-data tools according to a
new artistic tradition of inspired interpretation
of data within a panopticum of commodified worldviews. Guerrilla
semiotics replacing pretentious artistic creation with recombinant
cultural synthesis of the techno-voodoo memetic environment. ....
.... The economy of attention: building attractors, dark stars as
social sculptures, mindfocus in telematic flesh, with habits as
expensive and sophisticated as tribal African village fetishes.
Is the transformation of the economic competition into a battle for
attention a hidden blessing in the powerstructure of the social
organism?
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Code War
....The "shameless society, with modern life as a hothouse of basic
instincts", according to the title story in the magazin
"Der Spiegel" on 11.1.93, probably provides optimal conditions for the
discovery of new parasitic information molecules. The virus as a
genetic pirate is a frontier commuter between inanimate matter and living
organisms, a model for self-organization at an early development
stage in life. The examination of viruses shows how information can be
optimized and further processed at a molecular level.
These self-reproducing information systems transcend the barriers between
man and machine, animate and inanimate nature. When the text
"I have become alive, I am alive!" suddenly appears on a computer monitor,
then the computer is very probably infected with a virus.
<http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/codewar/page003.htm>
......
In contrast to the somewhat awkward self-reproducing ideologies of the past
consisting of religion and politics, we have
become acquainted with, not least , new and more aggressive species of
ideology bytes and timecodes through the fast breeder of the
media.
Ideology is superseded by efficient ideograms whose reduced molecular
morphology becomes clear in the comparison between a baroque
saint and a modern street sign. The logogramme of the AIDS virus with its
degree of notoriety, in the meantime, comes close to the
popularity of the Mercedes star.
<http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/codewar/page005.htm>
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Not the inclination for poetry but the compulsion for condensed complexity
reduction transforms semi-hard
facts in to turnkey metaphors and spiralizes the ambiguity of the medial
commonplace into the ups and downs of collective unconscious in
order to leave its scent there.
<http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/codewar/page008.htm>
......
With a cheerful "Ex nihilo nihil fit" we leaf through the press or absorb
vivid pictures and just as genetic
mutations are triggered off through the bombardment of cosmic radiation, the
field of vision of the media consumer is pixelized by cathode
rays. Being able to make sense, means in the killer circle of dog eats dog:
hallucinate consensually or die.
<http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/codewar/page009.htm>
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The bioculturally related game rules have become increasingly complicated
and abstracted through medialization.. An Industry of "special effects for
special effects" has recorded itself engrammatically in the unconscious,
just as viral
genetic information has been introduced over generations into the human
genotype. (Some of these viruses could have been washed onto our
planet a long time ago as cosmic flotsam and jetsam from exploding star
systems and could have made man into the host of parasitic alien
life forms.) In this way man became his double, cloned from the triplets of
trivial trinity of press, radio and television.
<http://kernighan.imc.akh-wien.ac.at/t0/t0/codewar/page022.htm>
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