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INFOWAR: Re: Wiggling into Temporary Organisms
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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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Rushkoff said: >why I'm attempting to distinguish between the
>"deadmatter" of information and the "aliveness" of human beings.
"Aliveness" is the slippery part of the world. As Felix Guattari said in
*The Three Ecologies*: "The human subject is not a straightforward
matter... a thinking which struggles only to gain a hold on itself merely
spins ever more crazily." We desperately need to embrace our
interconnection with the world. It's the only way out of cynicism. Rushkoff
made a clear distinction between the human sphere and the technological
sphere although pointing out the interconnections. What I would like to see
emerge is a new approach to defining ourselves from the get-go as
bionically FUSED with our technology AND the surrounding ecosphere. I'd
like to embrace spirit as a "subjective biome." "Aliveness" multiplied. A
post-psychological, post-human, post-art sense of worldbeing (and
responsibility for that being) which nearly approximates what Native
Americans have expressed about the wilderness as a "great spirit."
How can we get there in an honest, day-to-day manner without the scourge of
associations with the "new age," academic mumbo, and without dunking our
tender heads into another writhing pit of vitriolic cynicism?
Here's some hunches:
* One could try ACTING as if one were bionic, wiggling, responsible, and
interconnected...
* Pretending to be objective (i.e. separate) does not fit the bill.
* Absurdity does not necessarily follow from the above.
* Speaking/acting/mediating with unusual alertness to both inner worlds and
outer worlds helps. Alert to the interpenetration (and inter-excretions?)
of voices, emotions, rustlings, gurglings, visions, and deadpan
observations. All us collegiate honkies could take a cue from the kind of
collective voice rap music often unfolds.
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Here's a link into a experiment to become a temporary, interconnected
"Organism." Me and a bunch of earnest creatoids in Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
"grew" this creature in an abandoned Mustard Factory in 1993. It was
something I called a "web jam" although *web* was intended to refer to
nature and the internet inclusively:
ORGANISM: http://www.artnetweb.com/organism
I know Ricardo D's going to jump in any time now and talk about the "State"
as totalitarian organism, but that ain't what I hope I'm saying! The
"State" isn't that temporary. (But you can chide me any time, Ricardo!)
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