LIFESCIENCE: loss

[melinda rackham <melinda@subtle.net>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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back after many failed attempts at data resucitation.. ..one thing to say
..backup...

>Clearly, where the computer is used to generate and explore "non-human
>reality"
>then it is a valuable "exploratory medium" and not a simple "propaganda
>tool".

sometimes i think in my borgian symbiotic relationship with my system it
can sense my stress and reacts back.. i have seen postings on lists where
people speak about feeling the energy of the net when they loggin..and i
dont think this is always drug induced or far fetched,.. rather an
evolutionay thing..tapping into a field of energetic vibration which we
know nothing about as yet..although of course this only applied to the 1%
of us on th e planet who have ever even used email.

and pop culture is full of fear around it.. was watching  a trash movie on
tv last nite about a computer virus entering the biological body
..transferred from screen thru the eyes- altering cell responses as light
does.. and killing people..nice concept... this morning i read about banns
on geneticaly modified food in the weekend papers, and thanx for all the
virus postings speer..
these societal  fears about playing 'god' ..mucking with evolution.. are
justified .. altering things when we dont know the consequences .. as emily
martin so neatly says  we don't yet speak the language of the body
..we try to kill a lot of it to cure a tiny part
try to map it  because we no longer use all our senses and are dissociated
from it.
and progress == regress
there is no gain without loss in the universal equilibrium.
a small example -i now find it physically difficult to write with a pen, as
my musclestructure  has adapted to my mouse..
melinda

melinda rackham
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