[NetBehaviour] uncanny 1920 (revised)

[Alan Sondheim]

uncanny 1920

(replacing the other version, which was a Win10 numbering system
that only worked in some apps. apologies, these should be fine -
the others have been removed.)

around the coherency of those very old Nova Scotia photographs
I've presented and worked with, in Halifax, talking about
absence, the photographic paper itself, the eerie reflections of
silver salts (?) rising to the surface, that odd purple, the
disappearance of - not only detail but - distance itself, think
of a chora calmed by solitons, smoothed and uncanny fabrics -

http://www.alansondheim.org/19201.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19202.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19203.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19204.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19206.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19207.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19208.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/19209.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192010.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192011.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192012.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192013.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192014.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192015.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192016.JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/192017.JPG

i thought i'd learn something from this, contemplation of a past
known only to my father's generation, blurred memories of Mrs.
Greenbaum and her chauffeur across the street, the small home,
dark stucco, the large black car, my Grandpa Weiss and Aunt
Bertha living down the street a short distance, the enormous
tree in the backyard where beings lived, the attic where things
acquired a life of their own, an antique set of Indian clubs,
the pillars and the front porch, the duplex next to my cousin
Cathey, or did we, then moving from Reynolds Street to Ford
Avenue, an Avenue in name only, and later the floods came and
the old photographs there washed away like so many otherings in
my life

and so far from the porousness of the nation-state caught in a
valley (Wyoming, the state's named after us), the physicality of
the surrounding mountains and winding roads across them, the
smog, unions, strikes, death (when I was in Sydney, N.S. it
seemed all too familiar) - it was always a question of _site,
cite, sight_ - so images from the underside of the nation-state,
counterfeiting what it's always already been like for most of us
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: David and Bathsheba

[Edward Picot via NetBehaviour]

Alan,

Thanks for your continued interest in these! The theme of Jesus being a 
Jew comes up again later on.


Edward

On 05/04/2019 15:29, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
Love this! Especially the end. I wish more people would remember Jesus 
(Christ??!!!) was a Jew.
Then three's this - NATHAN: I don't know much about God, David, any 
more than you do, but I don't think he's generally impressed by 
melodramatic displays of self-abasement.
and what's astonishing is the manner in which self-abasement goes hand 
in hand w/ furious and brutal power world-wide. O, thinking of 
sacrifice or those leaders now, on the verge of being deposed, calling 
elections illegal or fraudulent or fake, whatever. As if one couldn't 
possibly step down, as if the commons didn't exist, etc. etc. There's 
something in our primate skulls that not only seeks power but holds 
onto it at all cost, no matter the results. I keep thinking of Syria 
but I don't have to look any farther than gerrymandering here or the 
increased battle against women's rights, or the rights of people of 
color, or the rights of people to believe whatever they want, the 
rights at this point of just about everyone except straight white 
males - and to what end? Who's getting hurt? Rationality has nothing 
to do with it. I keep thinking as well of billionaires who never have 
enough money, etc. What do they think they need when they get up in 
the morning? That they don't have? I know too well how naive these 
questions are, but there's something nagging at the core of them. - 
Alan, mulling over your text. So much of the OT is just about how most 
people behave when they have a few weapons and the chance. Not so 
different in the NT, but the tone's different. That was forgot within 
a century or so. Then we Jews were caught out. Where I grew up in 
Wilkes-Barre, PA, they continued to be caught out in my lifetime. 
Self-abasement's a wonderful source of power. -


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:56 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour 
> wrote:


Dear all,

'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of
view of
a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't
believe in
God, or can't work out what he's playing at.

There are fourteen of these plays, and the eighth is now online:
'David
and Bathsheba'.

http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/08davidandbathsheba.html (or for the
full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)

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[NetBehaviour] uncanny 1920

[Alan Sondheim]

uncanny 1920

around the coherency of those very old Nova Scotia photographs
I've presented and worked with, in Halifax, talking about
absence, the photographic paper itself, the eerie reflections of
silver salts (?) rising to the surface, that odd purple, the
disappearance of - not only detail but - distance itself, think
of a chora calmed by solitons, smoothed and uncanny fabrics -

http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(1).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(2).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(3).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(4).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(5).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(7).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(8).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(9).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(10).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(11).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(12).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(13).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(14).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(15).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(16).JPG
http://www.alansondheim.org/1920%20(17).JPG

i thought i'd learn something from this, contemplation of a past
known only to my father's generation, blurred memories of Mrs.
Greenbaum and her chauffeur across the street, the small home,
dark stucco, the large black car, my Grandpa Weiss and Aunt
Bertha living down the street a short distance, the enormous
tree in the backyard where beings lived, the attic where things
acquired a life of their own, an antique set of Indian clubs,
the pillars and the front porch, the duplex next to my cousin
Cathey, or did we, then moving from Reynolds Street to Ford
Avenue, an Avenue in name only, and later the floods came and
the old photographs there washed away like so many otherings in
my life

and so far from the porousness of the nation-state caught in a
valley (Wyoming, the state's named after us), the physicality of
the surrounding mountains and winding roads across them, the
smog, unions, strikes, death (when I was in Sydney, N.S. it
seemed all too familiar) - it was always a question of _site,
cite, sight_ - so images from the underside of the nation-state,
counterfeiting what it's always already been like for most of us
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries: David and Bathsheba

[Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour]

Love this! Especially the end. I wish more people would remember Jesus
(Christ??!!!) was a Jew.
Then three's this - NATHAN: I don't know much about God, David, any more
than you do, but I don't think he's generally impressed by melodramatic
displays of self-abasement.
and what's astonishing is the manner in which self-abasement goes hand in
hand w/ furious and brutal power world-wide. O, thinking of sacrifice or
those leaders now, on the verge of being deposed, calling elections illegal
or fraudulent or fake, whatever. As if one couldn't possibly step down, as
if the commons didn't exist, etc. etc. There's something in our primate
skulls that not only seeks power but holds onto it at all cost, no matter
the results. I keep thinking of Syria but I don't have to look any farther
than gerrymandering here or the increased battle against women's rights, or
the rights of people of color, or the rights of people to believe whatever
they want, the rights at this point of just about everyone except straight
white males - and to what end? Who's getting hurt? Rationality has nothing
to do with it. I keep thinking as well of billionaires who never have
enough money, etc. What do they think they need when they get up in the
morning? That they don't have? I know too well how naive these questions
are, but there's something nagging at the core of them. - Alan, mulling
over your text. So much of the OT is just about how most people behave when
they have a few weapons and the chance. Not so different in the NT, but the
tone's different. That was forgot within a century or so. Then we Jews were
caught out. Where I grew up in Wilkes-Barre, PA, they continued to be
caught out in my lifetime. Self-abasement's a wonderful source of power. -

On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:56 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> 'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
> Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
> Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of
> a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in
> God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
>
> There are fourteen of these plays, and the eighth is now online: 'David
> and Bathsheba'.
>
> http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/08davidandbathsheba.html (or for the
> full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
>
> Edward Picot (http://edwardpicot.com)
>
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[NetBehaviour] State Machines book launch@furtherfield Commons, April 23, 2019/

[marc.garrett via NetBehaviour]

Furtherfield is honoured to invite you to the book launch of:
State Machines: Reflections and Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship, 
Finance, and Art.

Join editors Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich.
Contributors Max Dovey and Helen Kaplinsky.
Respondent Ruth Catlow for short presentations with plenty for time for 
discussion.

Today, we live in a world where every time we turn on our smartphones, we are 
inextricably tied by data, laws and flowing bytes to different countries. A 
world in which personal expressions are framed and mediated by digital 
platforms, and where new kinds of currencies, financial exchange and even labor 
bypass corporations and governments. Simultaneously, the same technologies 
increase governmental powers of surveillance, allow corporations to extract 
ever more complex working arrangements and do little to slow the construction 
of actual walls along actual borders. On the one hand, the agency of 
individuals and groups is starting to approach that of nation states; on the 
other, our mobility and hard-won rights are under threat. What tools do we need 
to understand this world, and how can art assist in envisioning and enacting 
other possible futures?

Book contributors: James Bridle, Max Dovey, Marc Garrett, Valeria Graziano, Max 
Haiven, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Francis Hunger, Helen Kaplinsky, Marcell Mars, 
Tomislav Medak, Rob Myers, Emily van der Nagel, Rachel O’Dwyer, Lídia Pereira, 
Rebecca L. Stein, Cassie Thornton, Paul Vanouse, Patricia de Vries, Krystian 
Woznicki.

LOCATION: Furtherfield Commons, Finsbury park, London
DATE: Tue, April 23, 2019, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Register (for free) here - http://bit.do/eNyqp

Also - go here to get hard copy or Digital version - http://bit.do/eNyDv

Marc Garrett

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Art, technology and social change, since 1996
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Re: [NetBehaviour] bees on the balcony :)

[Helen Varley Jamieson]

i've tried garlic water in the past with pretty limited results;
cleaning with warm mild soapy water seems to be more effective altho
maybe because i'm physically removing the little critters. i haven't
tried tobacco - don't have any! & not many friends who are still smoking
but i'll find someone to cadge a ciggie off & give it a go. thanks,

h : )

On 04.04.19 18:11, Ricardo Ruiz via NetBehaviour wrote:
> you can infuse some tobacco in water during 24 hours and spray it over
> the plants
> no damage for the plants or its flavour
>
>
>> Em 4 de abr de 2019, à(s) 12:49, Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour
>> > > escreveu:
>>
>> Garlic mixed with water spray is an old folk remedy for aphids,
>> though ymmv. 
>>
>> -- Paul 
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>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 9:43 AM Helen Varley Jamieson
>> mailto:he...@creative-catalyst.com>> wrote:
>>
>> just wanted to report some good ecological news: moving the
>> insect hotel to the sunnier end of the balcony has had a pretty
>> immediate effect - lovely black and dark orange native bees are
>> busy coming in & out of the little bamboo tubes & doing their
>> things inside. thanks for the tip, mez! :)
>>
>> not so great is the population explosion of aphids on the basil &
>> little black fly thingies on the mint & the rucola. hopefully my
>> digital control methods (slaughter by finger squishing) & some
>> water spraying will stop them from getting out of control until
>> the ladybirds & hoverflies discover this new fast-food outlet ...
>>
>> h : )
>>
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