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Let's talk about these fingers ....
The grand dame of cyberfem VB has deep rooted her fingers in the dirt..
if ever a network to be re-constructed, it has to go underground, it has
to be communicated in silence (as the most advanced form of
intelligence), again, we find ourselves in deep forest, dark forest, in
"deep doll space zero"(gashgirl aka dollyoko).
Then, Jaromil alarmed us, " Just like network routing algorithms were
inspired by ant scenting patterns, we are witnessing a moment in history
in which the mainstream industry with all its techno-poetic powers have
embraced the patterns of Mycelia."
oh oh! need to join bubbleclub, "start your living culture at home"....
I am off , who can babysit my compost worms?
over
sl
On 28/06/18 15:43, Alice Famer wrote:
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"It was women’s fingers that enfolded the data-corpse into the fabric
of the world. Sadie Plant tells us that these fingers are like a
spider’s spinnerets, extruding digital silk, weaving the history of
networked technology, which at its core is a cunning practice of
emasculation: ‘cyberspace is out of man’s control, [it] destroys his
identity...at the peak of his triumph, the culmination of his machinic
erections, man confronts the system he built for his own protection
and finds it female and dangerous.’ For Plant, man sentenced himself
to annihilation when he let the feminine hydra of digital technology
out of its black box. Now, it is everywhere, slyly completing its
task. Cyberfeminism is an occult form of warfare. It understands about
‘cyber - space’ what Cixin Liu’s ‘dark forest’ theory understands
about the cosmos: all existence is determined by hostility and so the
highest form of intelligence lies in occluding one’s coordinates. The
hypothesis explains why the universe, statistically full of life, is
dead silent. It is not because, as is commonly thought, life has not
found a way to communicate, but because it understands that silence is
the most advanced form of intelligence. Our physical and virtual
spaces, which are increasingly inseparable, are alike a dark forest,
where every step must be taken with care, as revealing one’s existence
portends annihilation. The most desirable skill, the most coveted
trick, and the most longed for disposition can only be this—a fluency
in the trading of secrets. The skills we need to strategically deploy
concealment, de-concealment and re-concealment."
this is from Bogna Konior's "Ancestral Cyberspace: On the Technics of
Secrecy"
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584d3a10be6594f67565c0a0/t/5b34c37a0e2e7239ad7bc9ee/1530184579239/AncestralCyberspace.pdf)
thinking about how the warfare of cyberfem (i think this itself is
leading 2 discussions on Gender Accelerationism (G/ACC) and LesbiaNRx)
functions within networks specifically.
Hacking, ddos attacks, patchwork + weavinggg
On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 5:35 PM Shu Lea Cheang <shu...@earthlink.net
<mailto:shu...@earthlink.net>> wrote:
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dear All
threads entangled deeper into Mycorrhyizal networks that Simon
meticulously argued.
As a moderator for the first time of such 'old fashioned' mailing
list, (and let's leave it text based forever), I am feeling an
indescribable tension, anxiety as I check in on admin page to
'pass' the sporadically incoming postings...
the roots have no bound composting (thus renewed) underground...
and how do we follow? cross-path?
Let me try -
We have checked ourselves into the 90s of its online communities
which parallel to artistic intervention on the Net at the time,
but existed as a society on its own, multiple mini-societies,
mainly local (unlike the known international ones we refer to,
spectre, nettime, to name a few), some archived, some legendary...
bring it up to date, the current 'warred' zone of local social
media, sign in to wechat in China and whatsup in the States, has
to echo these 'scenes' of the 90s.
I do not want to lose Alice Famer's references on
patchwork/weaving as we got 'sidetracked' and 'righttracked' to
mycelium..
thanks to dollyoko's taking us back to real (small) spaces of
"deep social experimentation and collaborative creativity",
somehow i connect these days with occupied squated space, move in
and takeover... Jaromil can possibly echo these days with
Amsterdam stakeout of a time? not to fall into any nostagia or
romantic about it... collectives get dissolved, creativity fights
over credits, and ultimately who's doing the dishes? taking out
the garbage?
Much thanks to Jaromil's summing of past 3 weeks... there are so
many quotes of the contributors, each can lead us to 'rabbit
holes' as dollyoko dares us to venture in???
again-
I am standing still in this junction with walkers in all
directions, that particular center of the universe in Shibuya's
transit exit.........
the swarm of thoughts from outer universe hitting at you... spores
falling like spring snow, invasive as they are.
help me through this last few days of June..........
many thanks
sl
On 27/06/18 09:56, Simon wrote:
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Dear <<empyreans>>,
On 26/06/18 06:37, Shu Lea Cheang wrote/quoted:
I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature.
Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
information-sharing membranes
Mycorrhyizal networks became entangled in the underground theatre
work of Minus Theatre. But for reasons that rather go against
those adduced in and around CMNs here, in their emphasis on the
gains to be had, got from, harvested off the literal and
metaphorical fungolalia and fungalia. The gain, for example, of
communication: what if--we speculated in the spectacles we
made--communication were not the point, but an
exploitation-abstraction layer covering over--a too-human
groundcover--the /work/ of decomposition? What if communication
is /in /and an /excess/ of this work? And what then if the
scatter, crackle and static of languages were the condition of
their significations? The breaking-down, the waste itself, the
soil, ground? Such work--of decomposition--would not be valued
according to elements and minerals /liberated/ but would be
valued in and through itself, as forming the maternal matrices in
indeterminacy, inaction, asignifying, across inorganic and
organic strata. Decomposition lays waste: elements are understood
to be liberated and the value is in this breaking down, giving
off phosphorescing halos in an excess of incandescent energy
illumining the dark, not a light dispelling it.
best,
Simon
http://squarewhiteworld.com/
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