[NetBehaviour] for Carol Novack
for Carol Novack http://www.alansondheim.org/blanking.mp4 I was working on this, shot with Foofwa d'Imobilite at Eyebeam, when I heard the news that Carol Novack had died. for many of us, this was unexpected and awful, as if the year couldn't end without just one more tragedy. Foofwa and I had talked about our work together, earlier, about issues of pain, wounding, death; I think this piece, made at the time, is all I could do, I speak through image and sound, these words already lost, resting in peace thank you Foofwa and Jamie and Jackson at Eyebeam ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] the-miracle-of-solvency
"The lies which got us to the purgatory we are in, are being told all over again, right now, in every bank in the Western World. Not by accident, but on purpose, by men with calculators and degrees, in the full knowledge of what they are doing, why and for whose benefit. ..." http://www.golemxiv.co.uk/2011/12/the-miracle-of-solvency/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] "Scannerman"
http://www.twitvid.com/02614 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Psychogeodata (1/3)
(For links including the demo links see here: http://robmyers.org/2011/12/29/psychogeodata-13/) tl;dr Psychogeographic Geodata using OpenStreetMap in Python. Download here. Psychogeography is a set of techniques for defamiliarizing the landscape, particularly the urban landscape. It is a way of resisting and critiquing the historically, culturally and politically imposed reality of the built environment. Starting with Guy Debord, psychogeography has since followed the rest of the Situationist's techniques in being recuperated by society. But as Christine Harold points out in "Ourspace", this can be redressed by intensifying the strategies of Situationism into new forms. The town and tube maps used by previous psychogeographers have been replaced in modern experiences of the landscape by Geodata, a mesh of points joined by the lines of streets and accompanied by tagged information describing them for human and machine use. Combinging Psychogeography and Geodata gives us Psychogeodata. Geodata is tied to the logic of Googlization, of making the world rational and tractable for machines within the economy. Its positioning between commerce and consumer makes it ideal raw material for Situationist-inspired ironization. And Geodata, like other forms of information, can be made free. OpenStreetMap is a very successful project that does so. Taking the inhuman logic of Geodata as the basis for Psychogeography allows us to use Graph Theory to examine the landscape mathematically. Graph Theory is also used in Social Network Analysis, and in discussions of the topology of the internet. It is a powerful mathematical abstraction. The randomness, unfamiliarity and conceptual slippage that this provides us with can intensify historical strategies of Dérive. In order to do so we need Geodata (from OSM) and software to manipulate and present it. The software that I have written for Psychogeodata is in the Python programming language. It operates on graphs using the http://networkx.lanl.gov/ library. And the output is rendered using the OpenLayers Javascript library. The first scripts written using the Psychogeodata library concentrate on the mathematics of graph theory. Click on the name of each script to open an example of its output in a new window (which your browser's popup blocker may warn you about): (Disclaimer: This software currently generates paths that may or may not be safe or practical to actually follow. Use your discretion and common sense in choosing which ones to actually travel.) derive - Generates random walks and non-self-intersecting random walks. derive_degree - Generates journeys between high-and-low-connectivity nodes. derive_loop - Generates circuitous journeys based on cycle bases derive_tag - Generates paths between nodes with particular tags. To download the software and for more information, see: https://gitorious.org/robmyers/psychogeodata (Part two of this series will present some scripts based on semantics, part three will cover potential future directions for Psychogeodata.) ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Links
New Harold Cohen site! Still no source code ;-) : http://www.aaronshome.com/ Eighty years before the BBC got hacked live on air: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228440.700-dotdashdiss-the-gentleman-hackers-1903-lulz.html Why you should use the GPL rather than a permissive licence: http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14962950822 "a critique of resistance as sufficient politics": http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/P2pFoundation/~3/6PBzfGFV67g/29 "The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value": http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/ "I’ll put millions of people on Mars, says Elon Musk": http://www.kurzweilai.net/ill-put-millions-of-people-on-mars-says-elon-musk "The mysterious nodding syndrome": http://mindhacks.com/2011/12/28/the-mysterious-nodding-syndrome/ Psychogeophysics: http://psychogeophysics.org/ "Brain Privacy: Inner speech as the basis for artistic conceptualization : Soviet psycholinguistics and semiotics of art": http://churchofcyberpunk.tumblr.com/post/14849528869 "The 40 best Memes of 2011": http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/the-40-best-memes-of-2011 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. http://www.neural.it/art/2011/12/antidatamining_bot_financial_k.phtml ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] OOQ – Object-Oriented-Questions.
OOQ – Object-Oriented-Questions. Jussi Parikka I can’t claim that I know too much about object oriented philosophy. It’s often more about my friends or colleagues talking about it, enthusiastically for or against. Indeed, I have been one of those who has at best followed some of the arguments but not really dipped too deeply into the debates – which from early on, formed around specific persons, specific arguments, and a specific way of interacting. Hence, let me just be naïve for a second, and think aloud a couple of questions: - I wonder if there is a problem with the notion of object in the sense that it still implies paradoxically quite a correlationist, or lets say, human-centred view to the world; is not the talk of “object” something that summons an image of perceptible, clearly lined, even stable entity – something that to human eyes could be thought of as the normal mode of perception. We see objects in the world. Humans, benches, buses, cats, trashcans, gloves, computers, images, and so forth. But what would a cat, bench, bus, trashcan, or a computer “see”, or sense? more... http://jussiparikka.net/2011/12/21/ooq-object-oriented-questions/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] just a little bit farther
yes, Buddhist, and also sexuality and anatomy and hungry ghosts, I felt this was successful in the adhesion of video and text... and then I had to go and write the next text, which denied adhesion of course... thank you ! - alan On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, Mark Hancock wrote: > Really nice Alan. I liked the sense of feeling as though nothing is within > your grasp and yet that last sentence, "remain here, i'll go ahead" such an > act of bravery and yet also despair that we never seem to truly travel with > anyone to the important places in this universe. There's something very > spiritual about the work. Very Buddhist, dare I say? > > Thanks for sharing, as ever. > > M > > > On 29 Dec 2011, at 06:09, Alan Sondheim wrote: > >> >> >> just a little bit farther >> >> http://www.alansondheim.org/clinamen.mp4 >> >> no inside, no outside, no direction, an urgency, a distance >> beyond itself, a diacritical mark, a birth or push, a death >> or pull, just a little more, just an urgency of sight, just >> a sight of urgency, sight for sore eyes, site for soaring >> eyes, just anyway at all, neither here nor there, just a >> swerve and a run, just the running of a swerve, just the >> urgency of it, the disquisitional mark, the dialectical birth, >> just the pull of it, just a little less, just looking about, >> neither here nor there, just a distance a little bit beyond, >> just a sight for sore eyes, just little deaths everywhere, >> little births, bursts or pulls, a little more pull, little >> more push, just nothing, remain here, i'll go ahead >> >> ___ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > ___ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/blogs/alansondheim/ email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rg.txt == ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] just a little bit farther
Really nice Alan. I liked the sense of feeling as though nothing is within your grasp and yet that last sentence, "remain here, i'll go ahead" such an act of bravery and yet also despair that we never seem to truly travel with anyone to the important places in this universe. There's something very spiritual about the work. Very Buddhist, dare I say? Thanks for sharing, as ever. M On 29 Dec 2011, at 06:09, Alan Sondheim wrote: > > > just a little bit farther > > http://www.alansondheim.org/clinamen.mp4 > > no inside, no outside, no direction, an urgency, a distance > beyond itself, a diacritical mark, a birth or push, a death > or pull, just a little more, just an urgency of sight, just > a sight of urgency, sight for sore eyes, site for soaring > eyes, just anyway at all, neither here nor there, just a > swerve and a run, just the running of a swerve, just the > urgency of it, the disquisitional mark, the dialectical birth, > just the pull of it, just a little less, just looking about, > neither here nor there, just a distance a little bit beyond, > just a sight for sore eyes, just little deaths everywhere, > little births, bursts or pulls, a little more pull, little > more push, just nothing, remain here, i'll go ahead > > ___ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] my writing of infinite depth
my writing of infinite depth = my writing is my most important medium. it lacks the seduction of image and sound, of performance and the smell of bodies; it lacks the arousal accompanying the dreams or deliriums of the residue of flesh. instead, there is always a substitution: that of the body flailing behind the horse-drawn cart, bouncing from field to field, until not even the bones are left, just the broken skein of tissues that once harbored thought. it's here in this delirium that thought is born, out of exigency, out of urgency, before its disappearance into the lost furniture of the world. but it's where depth occurs in my work; nowhere else are wonder and beauty at a loss, leaving the breaking structures intact in their lack of choice. if you want to know me, the writing is the only path that carries sense, not sensibility. i leave behind a broken family. i refuse to heal. i refuse the scars they insist upon me. i refuse their trappings of shame and guilt. i move towards the theoretical move, aware that theory, too, is a body in a field. it is that move which occasions wayward and untoward loss, from which there is no cure, that move which immures in the heat- death of the universe, as if that were imminent and immanent. to awaken is to witness death, and slaughter, and extinction, the natural disordering of things. there are witnessed and unwitnessed disorderings, and the former tend towards retardation, holding back until the wreckage passes. that is called scar tissue, is called history, is called culture, and from there the uncanny simulacrum of order emerges. hands tear at each other in collaboration or enumeration of firsts which form nothing more than holarchy, which were never ordered in the first place. the cardinals gave way a long time ago, and ordinals, ordination, is a matter of clutching. in the midst of all of this, turmoil is manifest, clutching is localized, and only the dream of the transfinite continues the grotesquery of hope, that evil will be sutured shut before the fall. examine all of this from the viewpoint of any species hopelessly on the way to extinction, and what's left of the world falls apart; memory no longer encompasses, and the trace is irretrievable, consigned to the dead-end holographic without illumination in sight. i live there, i inhabit that, this, and it is here, there, that the world purveys truth, irretrievable and immersive as well. such is the thing that it rings; for every truth, there is a collapse of infinity, and for every falsehood, there is the unbearable richness of being. to write this is to recognize its invisibility, the impossibility of illustration in any medium other than the forest of symbols always already in the process of burning to the ground. visiting hours are any time in the day or night. i live only for them, awaiting the rotting of my mind. in my eye, jennifer and julu, nikuko and travis, honey and alan, accompany me, their organs, bones, and flesh already fallen by the side of the road that is, in reality, a plain, open in every direction, neither going nor indicating anywhere, any thing. my little band of characters is in the process is dissolution. my little world becomes a world of stories and no audience, my audience becomes a world of stories and no audience. one no longer speaks with smashed mouths, writes with smashed fingers, sees through the eyes of the death of the other, dreams or hears that way. it is always ultimate writing because it is always urgent. it goes nowhere because there is nowhere to go. destinations fall off the map which has disappeared. every dream is a dream of death, every gem outlives the decay of a pion, bringing misery in its wake. there is less and less time to tell stories. did i say audience. was there any: 'my writing is my most important medium.' nothing else speaks. i write in an unknown tongue. = ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
