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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.
>>
>=09[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.
>
>
>=09=09Doesn'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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If we start on the premisses that anything has to be useful for human natur=
e,
we should accept that gossip satisfies some needs, essential in conception =
or
not. But what is this need for non-essential cast, can we talk of wastefuln=
ess
or must we accept the will to believe? Believe as an other concept of human
mind demands disinformation. This reminds me on recent demonstrations of
the 1st may tradition, performed in Moscow.
Again people hit the road to carry portraits of Stalin, and wasn't wishful
thinking the reason for this awakening of the dead?
(=8A)
The topic of gasolin makes me remember the Afghanistan War was held
because there is one biggest world resources of oil under the Iranian /
Afghany territories. Just lately it begins to appear to be mentioned
in a codified way by Western press.
Why did we in West somehow wanted to be trapped in the gossip that Russian
and Communist idealogy were the guilty ones? I think it served some believe=
s.
And, was it useful?
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