Which is natural to say for self-selected secret judges on which legitimacy I naturally cast doubt. But as I said, I am willing to good advice from everybody and everybody includes those at any Star Chamber! :)
> Op 29-okt.-2014, om 20:07 heeft Patrice Riemens <patrice@???> het volgende geschreven:
>
> 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.” :)
>>
>> 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 âbecomingâ. 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
>>>>>> âbecomingâ.
>>>>>> 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 âam I the bad guy hereâ?
>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> âWe 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
>>>>>> â
>>>>>> At Clemson University Nathan Weaver set up an experiment to figure
>>>>>> out
>>>>>> how
>>>>>> to make it safer for turtles to cross highways. He âput
>>>>>> realistic
>>>>>> Âlooking 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 âalthough still awful (and not taking into
>>>>>> account
>>>>>> drivers aiming for but missing the turtle) not alarming, âbut
>>>>>> consider
>>>>>> how long it take a turtle to cross the road and it becomes plain to
>>>>>> see
>>>>>> that road-Âcrossing for turtles on any semi-Âbusy road means
>>>>>> guaranteed
>>>>>> death.â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whoâs we?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Chrysalids, John Wyndham⨠(first published around 1930):
>>>>>> âWhen
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> ...â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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 âweâ. 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 âIâ, 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.
>>>>>> âFirst:
>>>>>> 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: âIn a digital environment
>>>>>> â no
>>>>>> memory loss, intricate data-mining, serendipity as default â the
>>>>>> question is: âWhat 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 ânoâ 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.â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reiterating it again: âAt 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 âa spaceâ
>>>>>> 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.â
>>>>>> (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 âsmartâ things :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On the cover of the first issue of the groupâs publication,
>>>>>> Black
>>>>>> Mask,
>>>>>> in November 1966) is printed Black Maskâs original manifesto :
>>>>>> âA
>>>>>> 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.â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nestor Makhno, 1926: The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917 -
>>>>>> April
>>>>>> 1918): âThe 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.â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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 âwarlikeâ, 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
>>>>>> âhereâ.
>>>>>> 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 âselfâ. They have to deliberately make markers on and
>>>>>> around
>>>>>> such a
>>>>>> âselfâ, but the truth is that they donât really
>>>>>> understand that
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> to pull strict boundaries between âselfâ and
>>>>>> âothersâ. 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 âaloneâ
>>>>>> 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 thereâd 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
>>>>>> ârealâ, ârealityâ and ânormalityâ 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 ânormalâ
>>>>>> and what
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> âstrangeâ and an evolutionary process starts changing the
>>>>>> Zeitgeist,
>>>>>> the âfashionâ, the âcustomsâ, in short : the
>>>>>> ârealâ. 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 âdeathâ 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
>>>>>> someoneâs 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 âthe normalâ.
>>>>>> 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 âLiving 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?â, the first steps towards the ultimate
>>>>>> disciplining
>>>>>> of the body, home, street as âsmart cityâ; 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 Ciscoâs 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, ocdâing on itself in ever stronger attempts to
>>>>>> gain
>>>>>> control over the âhappeningsâ of life, as we have seen to
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> extent
>>>>>> of defining the ânormalâ 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 âCloudâ. 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):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> âIt 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).â
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This once human - shamanistic - capacity for translation, has become
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> âcapabilityâ, 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> âIn a report in this weekâs 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 [...] âThe 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.â
>>>>>> Trust requires love:
>>>>>> âIn a springtime sort of story, researchers say theyâve
>>>>>> used
>>>>>> advanced
>>>>>> scanning methods to pinpoint the region of the brain where feelings
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> trust arise.â .. âTurns out those emotions are nestled in
>>>>>> the same
>>>>>> area as the most powerful springtime feeling of all â
>>>>>> love.â [...]
>>>>>> ââLove is a primitive, basic, emotional affective
>>>>>> state,â he
>>>>>> said.
>>>>>> âSo is trust. Trust is something that a child has for its mother
>>>>>> or a
>>>>>> lover has for a lover.ââ
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>> Letâs 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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