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RE: INFOWAR: information is shit
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
http://www.aec.at/infowar
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> ...mainly for the reason that it allows us to think about information
> and
> cultural production in particularly scatological terms; for
> frequently,
> when I look at the 'state of the civilization' here in Canada, North
> America, and the capitalist West in general, I get the striking
> feeling
> that information, like heavy industry, pop, high and low culture,
> agriculture etc, is basically implicated in a widespread and wholesale
> production of shit. Waste, detritus, pollution, excess; shit.
>
[Ramsey, Shafer] This is an example of tautological thinking.
Because something is of no use to the observer it is useless. The
observer calls it pollution, excess, shit and wishes it was gone. But
if it were removed and suddenly the observer needed or wanted that
information what was once useless becomes useful and waste becomes gold.
Doesn't the author of the top paragraph remember that
gasoline was once a 'waste' byproduct of oil refining and considered
pointless and worthless?
>
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