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INFOWAR: Re: information is shit
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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
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Yeah, but then there's always Arthur Kroker, who calls all of it
"excremental culture." Still, I argued to him that excrement makes the best
fertilizer for new growth.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ramsey, Shafer <SRamsey@tusd.k12.az.us>
To: 'infowar@aec.at' <infowar@aec.at>
Date: Wednesday, May 06, 1998 7:21 PM
Subject: 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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