Of course, that's the standard reply of the wayward upper classes our
sterred chambre is going after!
;-)
cheers, p+5D!
(the case is temporarily adjourned)
> Hi Patrice,
>
> Of course. Then I naturally cast " doubt on the legitimacy of the
> proceedings.â :)
>
> Salut! Rob
>
>> Op 29-okt.-2014, om 17:00 heeft Patrice Riemens <patrice@???> het
>> volgende geschreven:
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> Our in-house star chamber 'naturally' operates according to its original
>> principles ;-)
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Chamber
>>
>> Cheerio, p+5D!
>> ('All Rise' ;-)
>>
>>> Hi Patrice,
>>>
>>> Put on the sternest glasses! :) I am always learning from your
>>> perspective
>>> on things, and I hope this can be the beginnings of a collaborative
>>> text,
>>>
>>> Greetings, Rob
>>>
>>>
>>>> Op 29-okt.-2014, om 16:37 heeft Patrice Riemens <patrice@???>
>>>> het
>>>> volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>> +1 !
>>>>
>>>> (for the mail-readable text. It's content shall be analysed in due
>>>> time
>>>> soon by our in-house star chamber ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheeeeerz, p+5D!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Asbesto,
>>>>>
>>>>> You are beyond hardcore! :)
>>>>> Here is plain text:
>>>>>
>>>>> big hug! Rob
>>>>>
>>>>> Trolls' purses are the mischief
>>>>> Rob van Kranenburg
>>>>>
>>>>> Angry Samson
>>>>> by Robert Graves
>>>>> (1895-1985)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Are they blind, the lords of Gaza
>>>>> In their strong towers,
>>>>> Who declare Samson pillow-smothered
>>>>> And stripped of his powers?
>>>>> O stolid Philistines,
>>>>> Stare now in amaze
>>>>> At my foxes running in your cornfields
>>>>> With their tails ablaze,
>>>>> At swung jaw-bone, at bees swarming
>>>>> In the stark lion's hide,
>>>>> At these, the gates of well-walled Gaza
>>>>> A-clank to my stride.
>>>>>
>>>>> origins
>>>>>
>>>>> "Use cunning and deception as weapons, for in the circumstances
>>>>> deceit
>>>>> is
>>>>> no more then prudence, - Pope Innocent III to Arnold Amaury, head of
>>>>> Cistercian order of monks who who the religious leader of the
>>>>> Albigensian
>>>>> Crusade against the Cathars. (John Kekes, The Roots of Evil, Cornell
>>>>> University Press, 2005, p.13.)
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no more center and the sacred tree is dead. â Black Elk
>>>>>
>>>>> In most, though not all, stories of origin, - human origin I talk
>>>>> about,
>>>>> there is a child near the water. This makes sense, as we grow and
>>>>> live
>>>>> and
>>>>> be born in water. Sometimes and in some stories â aletheia as
>>>>> told by
>>>>> Heidegger , for example â there is an open space in the woods.
>>>>> These
>>>>> spaces harbor the notion of âÂÂbecomingâÂÂ. That without which
>>>>> nothing
>>>>> could exist. And guess what, there may be only one. For without
>>>>> becoming,
>>>>> no time, no space and no grasp of any kind of dimension. Flat it
>>>>> would
>>>>> be.
>>>>> This notion is quite real. It lives. Without it no life would be. One
>>>>> could therefore say that it has a stake in the developments it has
>>>>> facilitated, engendered, helped to bring about and has witnessed what
>>>>> human beings have been up to for their time they have spend on this
>>>>> planet, earth. Not a disinterested party, our friend
>>>>> âÂÂbecomingâÂÂ.
>>>>> Lately we have been having late night conversations and I have been
>>>>> told
>>>>> of her worries. Her voice is much thinner lately. She coughs
>>>>> sometimes.
>>>>> How it pains me to hear becoming herself coughing. What have we come
>>>>> to?
>>>>>
>>>>> For you an RFID tag on a t-shirt or can of tea is still an object +
>>>>> an
>>>>> RFID tag. You know that an NFC (Near Field Communication) tag/sticker
>>>>> can
>>>>> talk to your phone with an NFC reader (for example all LG phones
>>>>> currently) as the last four digits point to a web page and your phone
>>>>> is
>>>>> always on so it goes an collects that page to show you allergy
>>>>> information
>>>>> or where it came from or who made it. But your kid won't. For them
>>>>> the
>>>>> tag
>>>>> has become a 'quality' of the shirt. It is normal for them that
>>>>> shirts
>>>>> trigger information on a device. It is 'natural'. Now what will
>>>>> happen
>>>>> if
>>>>> only money-makers are in that link from the tag to the device/phone?
>>>>> Any
>>>>> story told through that link will be seen as 'real'. As real as the
>>>>> shirt
>>>>> or the can of tea. And that is how power has for centuries scripted
>>>>> reality.
>>>>>
>>>>> This time that reality, as Baudrillard shows us in his Agony of
>>>>> Power,
>>>>> becomes 'integral', as there is nothing but that reality. Well it
>>>>> does
>>>>> not have to be like this. You can be in that link from the tag to the
>>>>> phone as well. We can open up the entire chain; from open hardware,
>>>>> software, NFC, to Sourcemap.com, open data, to open media. It may not
>>>>> be
>>>>> that less bad, but at least there is a chance that it will be more
>>>>> diverse and more and different stories can be told. And as we know
>>>>> the
>>>>> larger the group the elite can draw from, the more internal valuable
>>>>> conflict and diversity that leads to resilience. Elite? I hear you
>>>>> thinking? Are we the elite, as in âÂÂam I the bad guy hereâÂÂ?
>>>>> Yes, and
>>>>> we have to live up to this or forever disappear in a few lines of
>>>>> text
>>>>> that no one - we can not kid ourselves - will be able to trace back
>>>>> as
>>>>> all our idiosyncratic qualities will be filtered out.
>>>>>
>>>>> We cannot go back, nor go to live in a world without this
>>>>> connectivity.
>>>>> You would cripple and handicap an entire generation and within ten
>>>>> years
>>>>> you would not be able to fill any managerial nor innovation position
>>>>> with
>>>>> a local person. You would only hire Cloud professionals and will be
>>>>> paying
>>>>> throughout this technological cycle of Internet of Things that will
>>>>> last
>>>>> around 15 to 20 years before it will be immersed in the combination
>>>>> of
>>>>> nano and bio technology.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Bert and Tom went off to the barrell. William was having another
>>>>> drink.
>>>>> Then Bilbo plucked up courage and put his litle hand in William's
>>>>> enormous pocket. There was a purse in it, as big as a bag to
>>>>> Bilbo."Ha",
>>>>> he thought, warming to his new work as he lifted it carefully out, "
>>>>> this
>>>>> is a beginning!".
>>>>> It was! Trolls' purses are the mischef, and this was no exception."
>>>>> '
>>>>> Ere, oo are you" it squeaked, as it left the pocket, and William
>>>>> turned
>>>>> around at once and grabbed Bilbo by the neck, before he could duck
>>>>> behind
>>>>> the tree. (J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, p.34)
>>>>>
>>>>> vulnerabilities
>>>>>
>>>>> âÂÂWe would certainly be happy if we could all get along well
>>>>> together
>>>>> and
>>>>> unite all the forces of anarchism in a strong movement; but we do not
>>>>> believe in the solidity of organizations which are built on
>>>>> concessions
>>>>> and assumptions and in which there is no real agreement and sympathy
>>>>> between members. Better disunited than badly united. But we would
>>>>> wish
>>>>> that each individual joined their friends and that there should be no
>>>>> isolated forces, or lost forces.â â Errico Malatesta
>>>>> âÂÂ
>>>>> At Clemson University Nathan Weaver set up an experiment to figure
>>>>> out
>>>>> how
>>>>> to make it safer for turtles to cross highways. He âÂÂput
>>>>> realistic
>>>>> ÃÂlooking rubber turtles, no bigger than a saucer, in the middle of
>>>>> a
>>>>> lane
>>>>> on a busy road near campus. Then he got out of the way and watched as
>>>>> over
>>>>> the next hour, seven drivers intentionally ran over the turtle, and
>>>>> several more appeared to try to hit the defenseless animal, but
>>>>> missedâ¦.One in 50 drivers ran over the dummy turtles. In itself
>>>>> that
>>>>> ratio might seem âÂÂalthough still awful (and not taking into
>>>>> account
>>>>> drivers aiming for but missing the turtle) not alarming, âÂÂbut
>>>>> consider
>>>>> how long it take a turtle to cross the road and it becomes plain to
>>>>> see
>>>>> that road-ÃÂcrossing for turtles on any semi-ÃÂbusy road means
>>>>> guaranteed
>>>>> death.âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> I have always missed this particular kind of intelligence as being
>>>>> instrumental or maybe at some point even decisive. Yet the fact is
>>>>> that
>>>>> this intelligence has particular technology that ensures that by each
>>>>> small unkind and selfish act it is not an equally small consequence
>>>>> but
>>>>> -
>>>>> due to the fact that the infrastructure (road) forces the tool (car)
>>>>> to
>>>>> follow a particular path - is able to destroy totally that which is
>>>>> its
>>>>> opposite (slow, vulnerable, purposeful).
>>>>>
>>>>> So, although we disperse, diversify and are tactical, we can still be
>>>>> destroyed utterly as in all earlier iterations (from Cathars to 60s,
>>>>> anti-globalization, Occupy, WL, etc). Therefore we need to work on an
>>>>> autonomous trajectory that escapes potential and probable
>>>>> retaliation.
>>>>>
>>>>> WhoâÂÂs we?
>>>>>
>>>>> The Chrysalids, John Wyndham⨠(first published around 1930):
>>>>> âÂÂWhen
>>>>> I
>>>>> was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange
>>>>> because it began before I even knew what a city was. But this city,
>>>>> clustered on the curve of a big blue bay, would come into my mind. I
>>>>> could
>>>>> see the streets, and the buildings that lined them, the waterfront,
>>>>> even
>>>>> boats in the harbour; yet, waking, I had never seen the sea, or a
>>>>> boat.
>>>>> ...âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> On April 1 Olga Sjeremetjev was summoned by the NKVD for questioning
>>>>> in
>>>>> the police headquarters Petrovska street. After waiting two hours,
>>>>> she
>>>>> was
>>>>> invited into a small damp and smokey room and asked to sit across a
>>>>> man
>>>>> whose face was hid in the contours of an army cap. He asked the usual
>>>>> questions. In between were long pauses. No one said anything. She
>>>>> could
>>>>> hear the conversations in the adjacent rooms. People were crying as
>>>>> they
>>>>> were told to pack and leave Moscow in a day, or in two days. After
>>>>> what
>>>>> seemed to her an eternity, he handed her back her passport, told her
>>>>> she
>>>>> was free to leave and maybe she would consider changing her name?
>>>>>
>>>>> In her diary she writes that she took a tram home, happy to be
>>>>> breathing
>>>>> freely. As she rode through town she kept wandering what the point of
>>>>> this
>>>>> interview had actually been? What purpose does it serve? How does it
>>>>> enable the state to move forward and what does this cost?
>>>>>
>>>>> I would say that I can relate to that and I want can be -temporarily-
>>>>> but
>>>>> part of this kind of âÂÂweâÂÂ. The kind that is able to act,
>>>>> undergo,
>>>>> be,
>>>>> act, question and reflect on the meta axioms and requirements of the
>>>>> situation. At any time. Whether friend or foe.
>>>>>
>>>>> But I am fine with saying âÂÂIâÂÂ, not we, if necessary.
>>>>>
>>>>> In a review of the August-September 2006 Waves Conference, also in
>>>>> RIXC,
>>>>> Riga I argued that two things were becoming painfully clear.
>>>>> âÂÂFirst:
>>>>> the
>>>>> need to organise in some way or another is paramount as the
>>>>> pre-network
>>>>> schemes for influencing government and company policy through public
>>>>> debates and scandals no longer works as there is no more public in
>>>>> the
>>>>> network, only audience going from one daily scandal to another:
>>>>> either
>>>>> we
>>>>> assist policy to ensure that at least some public space survives, or
>>>>> we
>>>>> build our own parallel systems. And the second: while technology is
>>>>> becoming cheap, malleable and potent enough to create parallel
>>>>> infrastructures how do we organise the avant-garde conceptual power
>>>>> to
>>>>> be
>>>>> focused on real, concrete, discrete local and everyday
>>>>> objectives?â I
>>>>> said basically the same in Dortmund: âÂÂIn a digital environment
>>>>> â no
>>>>> memory loss, intricate data-mining, serendipity as default â the
>>>>> question is: âÂÂWhat might be deemed wrong by whom in power three
>>>>> years
>>>>> from now?â surely quite a different set of assumptions. So what
>>>>> to
>>>>> do?
>>>>> If a âÂÂnoâ is a loss of energy, though a balance to the
>>>>> industry, if
>>>>> sparking a debate is a loss of energy, though a process of education
>>>>> large
>>>>> numbers of people, I can only see one course of action that takes all
>>>>> scenarios (utopian and dystopian) seriously and that is building our
>>>>> own
>>>>> mixed reality nation. This gives sense and purpose and positive
>>>>> energy
>>>>> to
>>>>> our young hackers and idealists. Poets, after all, are the true
>>>>> legislators of the world.âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> Reiterating it again: âÂÂAt this very moment in time when
>>>>> technology
>>>>> has
>>>>> become cheap, malleable and potent enough to wire up our own streets,
>>>>> who
>>>>> cares about this bunch of people drawing neat nice lines on worthless
>>>>> paper? How productive it could be to get all this conceptual power
>>>>> focused
>>>>> on real, concrete, discrete objectives. This is not about alerting
>>>>> the
>>>>> public any more. There is no more public. People just go from one
>>>>> scandal
>>>>> to another and could not care less if 12 cameras were installed in
>>>>> one
>>>>> afternoon. This is about us. Saving us a place âÂÂa spaceâÂÂ
>>>>> where we
>>>>> can
>>>>> breathe, discuss, think and dream manic dreams. We have two options:
>>>>> either we assist policy to ensure that at least some public space
>>>>> survives, or we build our own parallel systems. We start Mixed
>>>>> Reality
>>>>> Corporation with about 200 locative artists and become the new
>>>>> Microsoft
>>>>> of the 21th century ourselves instead of helping through all our
>>>>> wonderful
>>>>> unscalable stuff IP become wiser and feeding the machine with all our
>>>>> lovely ideas. Things are serious. This is not a game. Time to
>>>>> organise.âÂÂ
>>>>> (WHEN WIRELESS DREAMS COME TRUE, Mute)
>>>>>
>>>>> That is why I founded Council, theinternetofthings.eu. To be a strong
>>>>> potential building block in this open strategy. If and when there is
>>>>> momentum. If there is, ok. If not, then not. I can not force things.
>>>>> Especially not âÂÂsmartâ things :)
>>>>>
>>>>> On the cover of the first issue of the groupâÂÂs publication,
>>>>> Black
>>>>> Mask,
>>>>> in November 1966) is printed Black MaskâÂÂs original manifesto :
>>>>> âÂÂA
>>>>> new
>>>>> spirit is risingâ¦.The industrialist, the banker, the
>>>>> bourgeoisie,
>>>>> with
>>>>> their unlimited pretense and vulgarity, continue to stockpile art
>>>>> while
>>>>> they slaughter humanity. Your lie has failed. The world is rising
>>>>> against
>>>>> your oppression. There are men at the gates seeking a new world. The
>>>>> machine, the rocket, the conquering of space and time, these are the
>>>>> seed
>>>>> of the future,which freed from your barbarism will carry us forward.
>>>>> We
>>>>> are ready -- LET THE STRUGGLE BEGIN.âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> Nestor Makhno, 1926: The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 -
>>>>> April
>>>>> 1918): âÂÂThe fact that we libertarian communists or
>>>>> anarcho-syndicalists
>>>>> failed to anticipate the sequel to the Russian revolution and that we
>>>>> failed to make haste to devise new forms of social activity in time,
>>>>> led
>>>>> many of our groups and organizations to dither yet again in their
>>>>> political and socio-strategic policy on the fighting front of the
>>>>> Revolution.
>>>>>
>>>>> If we are to avert a future relapse into these same errors, when a
>>>>> revolutionary situation comes about, and in order to retain the
>>>>> cohesion
>>>>> and coherence of our organizational line, we must first of all
>>>>> amalgamate
>>>>> all of our forces into one active collective, then without further
>>>>> ado,
>>>>> define our constructive conception of economic, social, local and
>>>>> territorial units, so that they are outlined in detail (free
>>>>> soviets),
>>>>> and
>>>>> in particular describe in broad outline their basic revolutionary
>>>>> mission
>>>>> in the struggle against the State. Contemporary life and the Russian
>>>>> revolution require that.âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> So we need to organize the unorganizable. I have been trying quite a
>>>>> few
>>>>> times and failed until now. But all is iteration and I am constantly
>>>>> finding new allies. And I keep losing old connections like shedding
>>>>> skin.
>>>>> Growing up I suppose.
>>>>>
>>>>> political, personal, spiritual
>>>>>
>>>>> I did know this, Kandinsky said to art critic Sadler who asked him if
>>>>> he
>>>>> had foreseen war as his paintings were so âÂÂwarlikeâÂÂ, that
>>>>> there was
>>>>> a
>>>>> terrible battle going on at a spiritual level. It was that battle
>>>>> that
>>>>> led
>>>>> me to paint this.
>>>>>
>>>>> The key element is that normality has been defined so strict that a
>>>>> lot
>>>>> of
>>>>> human behavior is falling outside of it, or at least people that have
>>>>> less
>>>>> to none filters are feeling as if they do not belong
>>>>> âÂÂhereâÂÂ.
>>>>> Probably
>>>>> everybody at one point or another has these feelings of estrangement,
>>>>> but
>>>>> I believe that there is a group of people that feels like this on a
>>>>> daily
>>>>> basis and as a default.
>>>>>
>>>>> They have no boundaries and find it difficult to create or have a
>>>>> notion
>>>>> of âÂÂselfâÂÂ. They have to deliberately make markers on and
>>>>> around
>>>>> such a
>>>>> âÂÂselfâÂÂ, but the truth is that they donâÂÂt really
>>>>> understand that
>>>>> need
>>>>> to pull strict boundaries between âÂÂselfâ and
>>>>> âÂÂothersâÂÂ. They
>>>>> have
>>>>> grown up believing in a way that there always is a camera on them, or
>>>>> always someone or something present. The concept of âÂÂaloneâÂÂ
>>>>> to them
>>>>> is
>>>>> non existing. In my opinion this is easily explained through the
>>>>> notion
>>>>> of
>>>>> the tribe.
>>>>>
>>>>> From early dawn of men we run in packs and survive in teams of about
>>>>> 30-50. In every tribe you would need some people who would go out,
>>>>> look
>>>>> around and bring things and ideas back home. These early innovators
>>>>> were
>>>>> balanced by other intelligences and ideally thereâÂÂd be a balance
>>>>> between
>>>>> the outer ends of manic boundary less and extremely focused semi
>>>>> autistic
>>>>> and the in between skillets that build and maintained a notion of the
>>>>> âÂÂrealâÂÂ, âÂÂrealityâ and âÂÂnormalityâ that
>>>>> was able to sustain
>>>>> basic humans needs and functions. To each his place in the tribe,
>>>>> ideally.
>>>>> If however such a situation arose every body (literally) felt well.
>>>>> The
>>>>> seer was listened to and the mason build as he saw fit, thus timely
>>>>> shelter from the storm.
>>>>>
>>>>> From time to time the specialists start to build such intricate
>>>>> elements
>>>>> or the innovators bring back home such far fetched ideas that the
>>>>> skillsets in the middle start to adjust what is âÂÂnormalâÂÂ
>>>>> and what
>>>>> is
>>>>> âÂÂstrangeâ and an evolutionary process starts changing the
>>>>> Zeitgeist,
>>>>> the âÂÂfashionâÂÂ, the âÂÂcustomsâÂÂ, in short : the
>>>>> âÂÂrealâÂÂ. And
>>>>> sometimes this process would be a rupture, a real break; war and
>>>>> invading
>>>>> tribes bringing such new world views that a new normal was imposed
>>>>> and
>>>>> the
>>>>> old forgotten but in stories of grandmothers and the artifacts of the
>>>>> time. Once in a while such a rupture became an ontological change as
>>>>> in
>>>>> the âÂÂdeathâ of God for certain tribes. More often the
>>>>> notion of the
>>>>> normal was kept to till it was impossible to keep at the cost of
>>>>> burning
>>>>> even more seers as witches, wizards, heretics, Cathars, hippies,
>>>>> hackers,
>>>>> or any other minority group it could lay their hands on.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are now witnessing such an ontological change, a rupture in what
>>>>> we
>>>>> perceive as normal. The Internet, Augmented Reality, The Internet of
>>>>> Things are all technological toolsets that have been far removed from
>>>>> the
>>>>> first tools that men used to chisel stone. The first chivel to be
>>>>> used
>>>>> on
>>>>> stone was a stone. it only later became a chisel. But it still fit in
>>>>> someoneâÂÂs hand. The feedback was intense and obvious. It was
>>>>> Heidegger
>>>>> who saw that through mechanical engineering and the Industrial
>>>>> Revolution
>>>>> it was no longer a hand applying force but a machine and hands
>>>>> overseeing
>>>>> that machine. This was the start of the substantiation of the space
>>>>> with
>>>>> before that had been of visible mediation and cause and effect. He
>>>>> realized that there was nothing we could do, only wait as the famous
>>>>> last
>>>>> line in Sein ind Zeit goes. He also realized that it was a particular
>>>>> part
>>>>> of the tribe slowly taking up the notion of âÂÂthe normalâÂÂ.
>>>>> It was
>>>>> the
>>>>> specialists who had been crafting and dissecting and splitting things
>>>>> up
>>>>> into smaller and smaller building blocks that at first made no sense
>>>>> but
>>>>> slowly began to offer the possibility of recreating their visions as
>>>>> a
>>>>> layer on top of what the old notion of normal was not hurting it at
>>>>> all
>>>>> but slowly perfecting it, smoothing the edges of every perceivable
>>>>> human
>>>>> act. They offered convenience.
>>>>>
>>>>> The specialist intelligence - an engineering toolset - began eating
>>>>> itself
>>>>> as it found that it had no more real boundaries. After automating
>>>>> work,
>>>>> leisure, administration, governing, it succumbed briefly to the
>>>>> notion
>>>>> of
>>>>> the âÂÂLiving Labâ but soon realized that the last territory
>>>>> it had
>>>>> to
>>>>> conquer was the space in between driving to work and back home:
>>>>> everyday
>>>>> life and living. Like a grin trying out faces it tried out all human
>>>>> forms
>>>>> of organization till it found the space in between where love lives
>>>>> and
>>>>> hope and shame and fear.
>>>>>
>>>>> As this intelligence could always count on the support of the middle
>>>>> as
>>>>> it
>>>>> was the perfect middle, the epitaph of normal : who does not want to
>>>>> feel
>>>>> safe, happy, secure?âÂÂ, the first steps towards the ultimate
>>>>> disciplining
>>>>> of the body, home, street as âÂÂsmart cityâÂÂ; cameras
>>>>> everywhere,
>>>>> automated entrances to public transport, elimination of cash money,
>>>>> energy
>>>>> management as a way to fight Climate Change, children playing within
>>>>> line
>>>>> of sight of caretakers, banning of smoking (with emerging debate on
>>>>> banning it in cars and homes), were not seen as invading a private
>>>>> space
>>>>> to such an extent that it was a rupture with ordinary liberal
>>>>> capitalist
>>>>> society.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of the defining qualities of the specialist is that he needs
>>>>> protection. As his or her gaze is on the detail, someone has to watch
>>>>> his
>>>>> back. Industry and states provided this protection alongside with the
>>>>> briefings and the funds. This, however, is about to change. The
>>>>> obsessive
>>>>> worry and attention to perfectionist detail has, as we have seen with
>>>>> the
>>>>> NSA revelations, lead to an ever growing paranoia of security
>>>>> services
>>>>> an
>>>>> pillars of the state that can no longer be stilled by any piece of
>>>>> data
>>>>> or
>>>>> any snippet of information. Equally the full monitoring schemes are
>>>>> driving the costs of hardware, software and infrastructure so down
>>>>> that
>>>>> sharing and collaboration through open source is fostering the
>>>>> realization
>>>>> that what the SAP, Siemens and CiscoâÂÂs of these world are doing
>>>>> is
>>>>> not
>>>>> rocket science. Their bloated balances are the result of decades of
>>>>> isolating data in IP, patents and copyright. Yet what have they build
>>>>> after WW2 that is so exciting? More planes, cars, computers, nuclear
>>>>> plants and stuff for wars that keep blowing up people? Big deal. As
>>>>> it
>>>>> turns out these things can be build in different ways.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is a parallel process running alongside this specialist
>>>>> expertise
>>>>> running amok, ocdâÂÂing on itself in ever stronger attempts to
>>>>> gain
>>>>> control over the âÂÂhappeningsâ of life, as we have seen to
>>>>> the
>>>>> extent
>>>>> of defining the âÂÂnormalâ as that sphere where every tiny
>>>>> detail is
>>>>> in
>>>>> process and every object on the planet is individuated either in a
>>>>> giant
>>>>> Object Name Server (GS1) or in IP to every edge (IPSO alliance) or
>>>>> any
>>>>> combination of this together with RFID and NFC resulting in every
>>>>> object
>>>>> and item being digitally approachable in the distributed local grid
>>>>> as
>>>>> well as in the âÂÂCloudâÂÂ. That parallel process is the
>>>>> awakening of a
>>>>> combined and shared intelligence of that other outer end on the
>>>>> spectrum;
>>>>> the manic mind. It has been fueled by and has itself helped to build
>>>>> that
>>>>> open white line engulfing the planet: tcp/ip where still no King,
>>>>> Tyrant
>>>>> or Tycoon can make bytes go faster (at least for the moment). In
>>>>> under
>>>>> twenty years any mind capable of sharing has shared and fueled
>>>>> sharing
>>>>> as
>>>>> a new default. To keep to yourself the minimum of necessity and share
>>>>> all
>>>>> other resources with other so no one needs to be in want.
>>>>>
>>>>> So now I want to make the case that this sharing is the new default
>>>>> and
>>>>> that this is facilitated by that very framework the specialists have
>>>>> build.
>>>>>
>>>>> A Gramscian moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> Are we going to stand aside, bitch and moan and grumble and lose this
>>>>> shot
>>>>> at full traceability and transparency like we lost his notion of
>>>>> hegemony
>>>>> to the extreme right wing that is now reaping the rewards of fully
>>>>> using
>>>>> it? Or are we going to get together, share resources and build the
>>>>> building blocks on the cheapest ecology of hardware, software,
>>>>> database
>>>>> storage and analytics ever? Yes, bad magic, yes watered down alchemy.
>>>>> All
>>>>> true. But if the we that I outlined is not invested and actualized in
>>>>> it,
>>>>> it we will lose the opportunity that we can either at one point break
>>>>> it
>>>>> (owning it) or fullfill it in such a way that we leave some notion
>>>>> of
>>>>> becoming, so space for real magic to occur or to hide herself
>>>>> thoroughly
>>>>> for a while.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hellekin pointed me to SCIENCE, MEANING & EVOLUTION: THE COSMOLOGY
>>>>> OF
>>>>> JACOB BOEHME By Basarab Nicolescu. Foreword by Joscelyn Godwin
>>>>> Afterword
>>>>> by Antoine Faivre Translated from the French by Rob Baker, 2013):
>>>>>
>>>>> âÂÂIt is natural to define the different levels of reality
>>>>> according to
>>>>> our own level, in the way they are experienced by our body and our
>>>>> sense
>>>>> organs. We are not the centre of this succession of levels, but the
>>>>> natural system of reference. With respect to ourselves, we can
>>>>> recognize
>>>>> the existence of levels which are nearer or farther away. In any
>>>>> case,
>>>>> we
>>>>> are those who, alone among the other natural systems of the planet,
>>>>> seem
>>>>> to be equipped with a capacity for translating this information
>>>>> between
>>>>> levels. This capacity for translation, associated with the scientific
>>>>> study of natural systems, allows us to pass beyond the modern
>>>>> illusion
>>>>> of
>>>>> a single level of reality, an illusion which has as its source the
>>>>> taking
>>>>> as absolute the information given by our body or our sense organs
>>>>> (and
>>>>> also, of course, the extension of these perceptions by various
>>>>> measuring
>>>>> instruments).âÂÂ
>>>>>
>>>>> This once human - shamanistic - capacity for translation, has become
>>>>> a
>>>>> âÂÂcapabilityâÂÂ, a set of functional descriptions of agencies
>>>>> of Big
>>>>> Data.
>>>>>
>>>>> It is not something good or bad. It is the condition of our
>>>>> situation.
>>>>> We
>>>>> either play it or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> âÂÂIn a report in this weekâÂÂs issue of the journal Science,
>>>>> Dr. P.
>>>>> Read
>>>>> Montague Jr. and colleagues at the BCM Human Neuro-imaging Laboratory
>>>>> and
>>>>> California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., describe
>>>>> where
>>>>> and
>>>>> when trust is formed between two anonymous people interacting via
>>>>> functional magnetic resonance imaging in machines more than 1,500
>>>>> miles
>>>>> apart. They found that as the interaction continued, the trust
>>>>> response
>>>>> occurred earlier and earlier in the subjectsâ interchanges
>>>>> â until
>>>>> a
>>>>> decision about trust occurred even before the latest interaction was
>>>>> completed.â [...] âÂÂThe study was made possible by
>>>>> hyperscanning or
>>>>> hyperscan-fMRI, a breakthrough that allowed Montague and his
>>>>> colleagues
>>>>> to
>>>>> synchronize the scanning of two interacting brains.âÂÂ
>>>>> Trust requires love:
>>>>> âÂÂIn a springtime sort of story, researchers say theyâÂÂve
>>>>> used
>>>>> advanced
>>>>> scanning methods to pinpoint the region of the brain where feelings
>>>>> of
>>>>> trust arise.â .. âÂÂTurns out those emotions are nestled in
>>>>> the same
>>>>> area as the most powerful springtime feeling of all âÂÂ
>>>>> love.â [...]
>>>>> âÂÂâÂÂLove is a primitive, basic, emotional affective
>>>>> state,â he
>>>>> said.
>>>>> âÂÂSo is trust. Trust is something that a child has for its mother
>>>>> or a
>>>>> lover has for a lover.âÂÂâÂÂ
>>>>> Yes.
>>>>> That is how simple it is.
>>>>> Love brings trust. Love negotiates trust.
>>>>> Trust builds relationships. Relationships are embodied in people:
>>>>> middle
>>>>> men. Love builds trust, trust builds bureaucracy. Love builds trust,
>>>>> trust
>>>>> builds boredom.
>>>>> Three cheers for boredom.
>>>>> LetâÂÂs hear it for some peace and quiet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stir it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Big thanks to J.Period & K.NAAN, The Messengers.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rob, ASCII please! This is unreadable :(
>>>>>>
>>>>>> kisses,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> asb
>>>>>>
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