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Apparently Rob has not read the first part of the WKPD entry about the
_original_ set-up of the Star Chamber, and focuses on its later, probably
unavoidable perversion.
;-)
Cheerio, p+5D!

> 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. – 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 – aletheia as
>>>>>>> told by
>>>>>>> Heidegger , for example – there is an open space in the woods.
>>>>>>> These
>>>>>>> spaces harbor the notion of ‘becoming’. 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
>>>>>>> ‘becoming’.
>>>>>>> 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 ‘am I the bad guy
>>>>>>> here’?
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “We 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.” – Errico Malatesta
>>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> At Clemson University Nathan Weaver set up an experiment to figure
>>>>>>> out
>>>>>>> how
>>>>>>> to make it safer for turtles to cross highways. He “put
>>>>>>> realistic
>>>>>>> ­looking 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
>>>>>>> missed….One in 50 drivers ran over the dummy turtles. In
>>>>>>> itself
>>>>>>> that
>>>>>>> ratio might seem –although still awful (and not taking into
>>>>>>> account
>>>>>>> drivers aiming for but missing the turtle) not alarming, “but
>>>>>>> consider
>>>>>>> how long it take a turtle to cross the road and it becomes plain to
>>>>>>> see
>>>>>>> that road-­crossing for turtles on any semi-­busy road means
>>>>>>> guaranteed
>>>>>>> death.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Who’s we?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Chrysalids, John Wyndham
 (first published around 1930):
>>>>>>> “When
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> ...”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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 ‘we’. 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 ‘I’, 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.
>>>>>>> “First:
>>>>>>> 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?” I
>>>>>>> said basically the same in Dortmund: “In a digital environment
>>>>>>> – no
>>>>>>> memory loss, intricate data-mining, serendipity as default –
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> question is: “What might be deemed wrong by whom in power
>>>>>>> three
>>>>>>> years
>>>>>>> from now?” surely quite a different set of assumptions. So
>>>>>>> what
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> do?
>>>>>>> If a ‘no’ 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.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reiterating it again: “At 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 “a space”
>>>>>>> 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.”
>>>>>>> (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 ‘smart’ things :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On the cover of the first issue of the group’s publication,
>>>>>>> Black
>>>>>>> Mask,
>>>>>>> in November 1966) is printed Black Mask’s original manifesto :
>>>>>>> “A
>>>>>>> new
>>>>>>> spirit is rising….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.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nestor Makhno, 1926: The Russian Revolution in Ukraine (March 1917
>>>>>>> -
>>>>>>> April
>>>>>>> 1918): “The 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.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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 ‘warlike’, 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
>>>>>>> ‚here’.
>>>>>>> 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 ‚self’. They have to deliberately make markers on and
>>>>>>> around
>>>>>>> such a
>>>>>>> ‚self’, but the truth is that they don’t really
>>>>>>> understand that
>>>>>>> need
>>>>>>> to pull strict boundaries between ‚self’ and
>>>>>>> ‚others’. 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
>>>>>>> ‚alone’
>>>>>>> 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 there’d 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
>>>>>>> ‚real’, ‚reality’ and ‚normality’
>>>>>>> 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 ‚normal’
>>>>>>> and what
>>>>>>> is
>>>>>>> ‚strange’ and an evolutionary process starts changing the
>>>>>>> Zeitgeist,
>>>>>>> the ‚fashion’, the ‚customs’, in short : the
>>>>>>> ‚real’. 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 ‚death’ 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
>>>>>>> someone’s 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 ‚the normal’.
>>>>>>> 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 ‚Living Lab’ 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?”, the first steps towards the ultimate
>>>>>>> disciplining
>>>>>>> of the body, home, street as ‚smart city’; 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 Cisco’s 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, ocd’ing on itself in ever stronger attempts to
>>>>>>> gain
>>>>>>> control over the ‚happenings’ of life, as we have seen to
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> extent
>>>>>>> of defining the ‚normal’ 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 ‚Cloud’. 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):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “It 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).”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This once human - shamanistic - capacity for translation, has
>>>>>>> become
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> ‘capability’, 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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ‘In a report in this week’s 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 subjects’ interchanges
>>>>>>> – until
>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>> decision about trust occurred even before the latest interaction
>>>>>>> was
>>>>>>> completed.’ [...] ‘The 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.’
>>>>>>> Trust requires love:
>>>>>>> ‘In a springtime sort of story, researchers say they’ve
>>>>>>> used
>>>>>>> advanced
>>>>>>> scanning methods to pinpoint the region of the brain where feelings
>>>>>>> of
>>>>>>> trust arise.’ .. ‘Turns out those emotions are nestled in
>>>>>>> the same
>>>>>>> area as the most powerful springtime feeling of all —
>>>>>>> love.’ [...]
>>>>>>> ‘“Love is a primitive, basic, emotional affective
>>>>>>> state,” he
>>>>>>> said.
>>>>>>> “So is trust. Trust is something that a child has for its
>>>>>>> mother
>>>>>>> or a
>>>>>>> lover has for a lover.”’
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>> Let’s 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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