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- material substrate - uneven speculation - bad physics - Might we not consider mid-sized planets such as our own, information sinks, based on the variegated materials held in more or less permanent suspension in solid states? Such sinks in their totality characterize the universe as much as plasmas do; plasmas contain little information on the macroscopic scale, more, but not that much more, on the cosmic scale. When matter qua matter is held taut, it functions as a data-bases which may be retrieved, replaced, modified, etc.; in other words, a series of logical operations may be applied - operations which ultimately diffuse due to wear-and-tear, i.e. entropy - but which, in the larger meantime are pro- -uctive of abstract entities that are duplicable, equivalent, and indepen- dent of the material substrate itself. And such planets as our own contain greater degrees of information in relation to the quantification (such is it might theoretically be) of difference; in this sense, organic life con- tributes the most, given its molecular variations and encodings. From this I can only imagine an 'information astronomy,' charting variation, not necessarily physical constitution (but ultimately based on such) within the cosmos - this mapping might, in fact, present us with a more accurate reading of the place and function of organic life in the universe - On the other hand, real-material is obdurate, inert, and mid-sized planets are likely to be relatively barren. Ultimately it becomes a question of order and its constitution; clays, for example, possess some of the characteristics of organic life, with relatively simple structures, while the complexity of mountain chains or crater impact zones are the result of well-understood, non-quantum, non-relativistic, processes. Consider _information_ as that which propagates and transforms from one to another almost-equivalent structure, and _information structures_ are those abstracted second-order structures characterized by difference among almost-equivalent entities. Propagation and transformation imply energy and process; information structures are, in ordinary parlance, data-bases. Propagation and process also imply mappings and equivalences; they are operations upon the environment, as much as within it. They involve epis- temological shifts from organic to non-organic compounds. Such shifts generate epistemologies and second-order epistemologies. It is better to leave this murkiness behind and think of information sinks in general - sinks requiring potential wells, i.e. protective barriers, for their accumulative properties. Without such wells, everything is lost and information remains at the level of the monopole or singular bit. How would we measure in an information astronomy? One can only imagine slight disequilibriums, displacements, of planetary characteristics; one can also look for Gaia structures (organic compounds and their demo- graphics); one might be able to measure the 'roiling' of surface patches or aggregates. In any case, it would be necessary to consider the sun, for example, in relation to information-qua-stasis, given its continuous upwelling processes - the same for plasmas and, in fact, most of the constituents of the universe. And then what? Structure might reside longer in a hard-drive than solar prominence or corona - in which case local time becomes a necessary component (i.e. against the enormous space-time distancings of the universe as a whole). For the past 255 days, we have been following the so-called parallel lines across this terrain; to the best of our knowledge, they have moved neither closer nor farther apart. _
ImPlay01 2006
ImPlay01 2006 An image of womanly flesh from the pages of a famous magazine is divided into 40x40-pixel squares, then sorted according to Hue, Saturation, and Value. Full image, reduced: http://mwp.jaycloidt.com/MPIMAGES2006/IMPlayFull2006.jpg Detail of image, full size: http://mwp.jaycloidt.com/MPIMAGES2006/IMPlayDet2006.jpg mwp
HARMLESS POTTERY SHENANIGANS
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HP and The Privacy Erosion
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2006/000255.html Focus on the Corporation September 29, 2006 HP and The Privacy Erosion By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman It's hard not to be mesmerized by the bubbling scandal at Hewlett-Packard. Former chair of the board Patricia Dunn had the company hire private detectives to track down who on the company's board was leaking information. Those detectives used "pretexting" -- employing a false identity -- to obtain board member phone records, as well as those of journalists covering the company. They also sifted through garbage and considered sending undercover agents into newsrooms. In the wake of the scandal, Dunn and other executives have resigned, and criminal investigations are underway. While the Senate was busy yesterday shredding the Constitution, a subcommittee of the House of Representatives focused its attention on HP. Dunn faced a withering examination. Ten witnesses asserted their Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions. It would be wrong to say this was a waste of the committee's time. The HP tactics were outrageous, and high-profile cases can properly focus Congressional minds on important issues. In the wake of the HP scandal, Congress may well pass legislation outlawing pretexting. This is not a trivial issue. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has earlier petitioned the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission to take remedial action to stop pretexting. EPIC said in an FTC filing that it had identified 40 websites offering to sell phone records to anyone. However, in a world where privacy rights are fast slipping away, there's a lot more that lawmakers should be looking at than pretexting. Digitalization, corporate consolidation, corporate marketers' effort to microtarget potential customers and the expanding demands of the national security state are combining to enable the creation of a Big Brother corporate-state nexus. A few examples: * Phone companies handed over millions of customers' records to the National Security Agency, without being presented with a warrant. "The actions of Hewlett Packard executives, although egregious, pale in comparison to the violation of the privacy rights of tens of millions of American consumers that should be safeguarded by federal law," noted 40 organizations including the ACLU, the American Library Association, the Arab American Institute, EPIC, Greenpeace and the Republican Liberty Caucus, in a letter sent yesterday to the House Commerce Committee. "The history of covert government surveillance of citizens," the groups noted, "has included unjustified spying on civil rights, civil liberty, and peace organizations engaged in First Amendment protected activity." * Thanks to the financial services deregulation bill, giant financial conglomerates are now able to share consumer information between affiliates, and they can even share the information with non-affiliated corporations (unless a consumer affirmatively opts out of such arrangements). * Corporate (and governmental) database managers don't provide adequate security for their own databases. Stolen computers, misplaced disks and lost files make vast troves of personal data potential available to identity thieves -- and those at risk may not even be notified that the data theft has occurred, nor given rights to block access to their consumer credit files. According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, just since February 2005, more than 93 million data records in the United States have been compromised due to security breaches. * The first corporations are now requiring employees to have RFID chips - mini radio transmitter chips -- embedded in their bodies. The theory is they work as a perfect identity card in high-security situations. The worry is that they may give employers the ability to track employees wherever they go, at any time. Finally, there is the phenomenon that Robert Harrow chronicles in his chilling book, No Place to Hide: While there are restrictions on the kinds of information U.S. government agencies may collect on citizens, they are increasingly circumventing these restrictions simply by purchasing data collected by corporations such as ChoicePoint, and many others. "More than ever before," Harrow concludes, "The details about our lives are no longer our own. They belong to the companies that collect them, and the government agencies that buy or demand them in the name of keeping us safe." It's like our lives are being recorded, one activist told Harrow, with an array of corporations maintaining electronic diaries relating to virtually everything we do. "Only we have no control over the diaries," Harrow writes, "and we can't even know what they say about us. And there's no place to hide." It doesn't have to be this way. But it will be, unless people demand restraints on how corporations manage the bits and bytes that record who we are and what we do. Russell
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Oxford Magazine
dear Wryting, one of my gigs for now is Managing Editor of Oxford Magazine, an online journal run by grad students out of Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). for the upcoming 21st issue, we're planning to have a New Media special feature. Yeah, i know the term's archaic in some ways, but regardless, I'd like to see a lot of folks from this list send video work, sound work, interactive work, anything that requires a computer. This is in addition to any poems or essays you might want to send, these being applicable to the special feature or not. While I'm the New Media editor for this issue, please direct your work to the addresses provided below. Pasted below is a CALL that i encourage and even beg you to spread around. Regards, jUStin - - - Call for Submissions Oxford Magazine, Issue 21 http://www.muohio.edu/oxmag/ Submit Poetry, Essays, Fiction, & New Media (for a New Media Special Feature) Deadline: March 1, 2007. Send either email or hard-copy submissions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oxford Magazine 356 Bachelor Hall Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA
new experimental software/literary anthology (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:24:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Robert Horvitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [iso-8859-2] new experimental software/literary anthology Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:56:02 +0100 From: m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [node-l] [the] x [reader] launch 6 october To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x [the] x [reader] Published by x in association with OpenMute Launch 6 October 2006 8.30pm MetaMute, Unit 9, The Whitechapel Centre, 85 Myrdle Street, London E1 1HQ x substance and software Hal Abelson, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang, Florian Cramer, Yves Degoyon, Leif Elggren, Simon Ford, Olga Goriunova, Paul Graham, Graham Harwood, Stewart Home, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Friedrich Kittler, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno Marchal, Armin Medosch, Anthony Moore, Peter Norvig, Jeff Prideaux, Thomas de Quincey, Otto Roessler, socialfiction.org, Gerald J. Sussman, Julie Sussman, Oswald Wiener http://x.1010.co.uk _ x proposes a radical, new space for artistic exploration, with essential contributions from a diverse range of artists, theorists, and scientists. Combining intense background material, code listings, screenshots, new translation, [the] x [reader] functions as both guide and manifesto for a thought movement which is radically opposed to entropic contemporary economies. x traces a clear line across eccentric and wide ranging texts under the rubric of life coding which can well be contrasted with the death drive of cynical economy with roots in rationalism and enlightenment thought. Such philosophy, world as machine, informs its own deadly flipside embedded within language and technology. x totally unpicks this Hiroshimic engraving, offering a dandyish alternative by way of the deep examination of software and substance. Life coding is primarily active, subsuming deprecated psychogeography in favour of acute wonderland technology, wary of any assumed transparency. Texts such as Endonomadology, a transcript from celebrated biochemist and chaos theory pioneer Otto E. Roessler who features heavily throughout this intense volume, make plain the sadistic nature and active legacy of rationalist thought. At the same time, through the science of endophysics, a physics from the inside rigorously examined here, a delicate theory of the world as interface is proposed. x is very much concerned with the joyful elaboration of a new real; software-led propositions which are active and constructive in eviscerating contemporary culture. x embeds Perl Routines to Manipulate London, by way of software artist and Mongrel Graham Harwood, a Universal Dovetailer in the Lisp programming language from AI researcher Bruno Marchal rewriting the universe as code, and self explanatory Pornographic Coding from plagiarist and author Stewart Home and code art guru Florian Cramer. Software is treated as magical, electromystical, contrasting with the tedious GUI desktop applications and user-led drudgery expressed within a vast ghost-authored literature which merely serves to repeat over and again the demands of industry and economy. Key texts, which well explain the magic and sheer art of programming for the absolute beginner are published here. Software subjugation is made plain within the very title of media theorist Friedrich Kittler's essay Protected Mode, published in this volume. Media, technology and destruction are further elaborated across the work in texts such as War.pl, Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War, again from Kittler, and Simon Ford's elegant take on J.G Ballard's crashed cars exhibition of 1970, A Psychopathic Hymn. Software and its expansion stand in obvious relation to language. Attacking transparency means examining the prison cell or virus of language; life coding as William S. Burrough's style cutup or riot playback (Stewart Home). And perhaps the most substantial and thorough-going examination is put forward by daring Vienna actionist Oswald Wiener in his Notes on the Concept of the Bio-adapter which has been thankfully unearthed here. Equally, Olga Goriunova's extensive examination of a new Russian literary trend, the online male literature of udaff.com provides both a reexamination of culture and language, and an example of the diversity of x; a diversity well reflected in background texts ranging across subjects such as Leibniz' monadology, the ur-crash of supreme flaneur Thomas de Quincey and several rewritings of the forensic model of Jack the Ripper thanks to Stewart Home and Martin Howse. x liberates software from the machinic, and questions the transparency of language, proposing a new world view, a sheer electromysticism which is well explained with reference to the works of Thomas Pynchon in Friedrich Kittler's essay, translated for the first time into English, which closes x. http://x.1010.co.uk http://openmute.org All press
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Civilized Cages (patting flat)
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262/365, Liz
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Greenville Falls, N.Y. Dec, 1st, 1916. Deer godchild How are you? I am very well and I have ganed 5 Ibs. in one weak which makes me 85 Ibs. which is thot very good in America. Have you had much snow? We have had it considerable hear which has spoylt the skating on Frost Lake which is beehind old Sam Bursars house who is our naybor. I am glad you have a short name, I had ruther be cald Andre than Nickulus, Cristuff or Jean-Marie, but I wood ruther you were cald Bill or Pete or Sniper, but you cant help being what they call you so never mind. I suported you this weak by selling 70 copies of the Greenville Mirror by hand. It is a good paper and shood be patronized. I wakt into Jim Parkers offis he is the editur and sed, Mister Parker, if you have a loose job and no man fer it I am the man you want, and he sed how old are you? and I sed 11. and he sed what you want a job fer? and I sed, O fer a kid I have in France and he sed since I was suportin you if I cood sell 70 copies of the Mirror he wood give me 35 cts. and Mother had give me 15 fer mindin the chikens when she went to Peeks-kill, so I new it would be al-rite, so I sed very well your on. So I took the mirrors and stood on the corner of School street, and bimeby the men begin to come home from the city, and some of them stopt to buy a Mirror and some did not, so I thot I wood make an appeel so I hollered, Buy a Mirror fer a kid in France, and waived it in there faces, and you shood have seen them buy! Enneway I guess the Mirror is a good ole paper, when all the men had come home I thot I wood take the papers to the folks that wernt on the street, like the schoolmaams and the sisters. Well most of them hot fine exept miss Leigh the Sunday school teacher, and she sed the Mirror was a low down politishuns sheet and I sed buy it fer Lily Blanche her help, and she sed what are you so ankshus to sell papers fer? And I sed how do you expect me to suport a kid in France if you peeple wont help out? and she sed the Lord will provide, but I told her I wood ruther do it myself; and she said I guess He's doin it threw you, so at last she forkt up, and I went home at 6 o'clock, but I tell you I had a prety tuf day. Say how is your mussel? Have you enny brothers and sisters? I have five, they are Amanda aged 16, Cecilia aged 10, Myra-Louise aged 7, Molly aged 6, and Heloise aged 5. I come between the fust too. Dad wanted to call Heloise Omeega after Alfred and Omeega in the Bibel, but Mother sed that was foolish and I guess it was, cause there was no boy to be Alfred excep me, and I was alredy James, so he give it up. Sid Perkins is suportin a girl in France and hes auful rich, and dont have to work to keep her goin. Gee, Im glad your a boy, girls is al-rite in there line but I woodnt adop one fer love or money. Can you here the shootin from where you are? I have seen the new American submareen and it is a fine bus, I tell you if ever the Yankees come runnln over there you wont see Kaiser Bill fer dust. Do you like prisners base? What grade are you in? Well, hoping you are well and that some day we will meet somewhere in France, I will close. Your affecshunate godfather, James Prendergast Jackson Jr. P.S. If ever we go to war, and I inlist and go to France I mite take you back to New York on firlow. 16 Dec. 1916. Dear Benefactor, I thank you with the bottom of my heart for your kindness unto me. Maman and me have been so content to receive your letter and your donation generous! Your succour will sweeten the times difficult that we are traversing; and the silver[1] you send will permit me to eat of the meat and be forceful to aid maman she has so much of labor and of pain! I will tell you, dear benefactor, that I am not the most robust But I take the oil of liver of cod-fish all the days for make myself high and good-carrying.[2] Yes, dear benefactor, I will forget never what you do, and all the nights I make a prayer for you be happy in the life. I cannot to read your letter very well alone, because I know not sufficient the English. But I have one aunt, she is dead, she know very well the English, and she teach me of it and my great sister also; she is a dactylographer,[3] and she know the English very perfect, and she me aids so I do mistakes not at all. And I serve me of the dictionary also. Maman say your letters will make complete my education. But some words I comprehend not. What is, for example, the kid? I search and I see only it is the offspring of a goat. I am sure in the book is the mistake, for my dear godfather will not make the pain to me and my Maman in calling me the offspring of a goat. Dear godfather, I am also surprise that you be so much heavy. I have 11 years like you, and I am only 39 kg heavy. But in Amerique, Maman tell me, all is big, big! It is droll, so big little boys. Sometimes I ask myself if you are veritably a little boy. Perhaps it is to make laugh you tell me you are one infant. Perhaps you are the old gentleman. Tell m
Re: My laptop is a swirling cloud of matter
Charles Baldwin wrote: For non Top Secret information, NISPOM prescribes overwriting data in 3 passes: with a character, then its complement, and finally with a random character; e.g., overwrite first with , followed by , then 1001 0111. Gutmann suggests overwriting data in 35 passes (or any number of passes) will not necessarily make it harder for laboratories, using a type of scanning electron microscopes say, to recover data from magnetic storage media. He also suggests that the methods that the DoD actually use are different to those that they recommend themselves, in order to make it easier for them to retrieve data from the hard-drive of a member of the public, should they wish to do so. The DoD also recommends deguassing the storage medium with a permanent magnet to saturate it with a unidirectional field. Certain magnetic remnance persists. There is no "zeroisation." My laptop is the peak of a wave. My friend and I had a conversation the other day that bordered on absurd. Of course, we both are interested in computing developments and read much of what is available freely (there being some journals that , of course, not published in full -- only abstracts -- on the Internet.) I told my friend that I was pointlessly stopped by three police cars several nights ago. I was told that my license was likely fake, and that there was no record of it. I asked if the officer(s) had scanned the national database, and was told that my license did not appear in any national database. And so on. I was then asked to wait for a bit while "it was checked out." After sitting in my car for approximately 20 minutes, I was allowed to leave, with the first police officer saying, "Well, you can go. But just don't get pulled over. Otherwise you'll have to go to court ..." This was a bit odd, but at least I could go home, you know. Anyway. I told my friend all of this over Instant Messenger, and we joked about him keeping a record, just in case I really did not exist, somehow, and I said, well, they could always degauss your hard drive and shred it it into pieces and melt it, but there's always that possibility that the atoms are quantum-entangled in such a way that more sophisticated analysis could extract data, all a joke, but -- then I mildly wondered and mused on this application of physics -- At any rate, I am pretty sure I exist, although not formally in the NETWORK of police-car computers. Maybe. So, hello, and, if the magnetic does not persist here, perhaps it does persist in some imprint of what did exist here but light years away from here and --- that's too much for me to notate; too much distance to travel -- before sleep. -brnet
Vizzy a Throblit of Ekskybalauron
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Re: My laptop is a swirling cloud of matter
A couple of more things. The programmability of materiality is in essence the Métier of the material sciences. It has spawned the metrology industry, whose tool-box includes real-time feedback, self-modifying parameters along with a whole host of control structures for the sustaining of any number of values-within-a-range. This goes from your simplest steel spring to your most advanced interferometric laser positioning systems. (i'm not a science writer, or much of any other kind either, so please bear with me). what i'm looking at is this: The outer limit of logical depth, however, >> is physical complexity. Despite the physical Church-Turing thesis, which >> posits that we can model all entities algorithmically, physical hardware >> proves to be incomputable. Instead, it is the non-programmability of this physical dimension that enables the spaces and images of >> computability. This physicality is an absolute depth and the basis against which value is measured, copyrighted and marketed. while this may be true in an absolutely theoretical sense, human industry can make a pager that will last hundreds of years under optimal circumstances. The reason I use the example of the pager is because when you look at production stream-lining and efficiency techniques like the 6-Sigma model, If you look at the history, and a 6-Sigma Consultant I know told me about this, Motorola dropped back to like a 4-Sigma model on certain products like pagers, because we don't really need a pager to last for 200 years, on the other hand, Air Traffic control needs to be about a 9-Sigma, 98% perfection is still a bunch of dead bodies on the runway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6-sigma I guess what I'm saying is there are levels to these things. Now I'd like to look at Wellstone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter but it hasnt been invented yet. hehe I don't know Charles, Seems like what you're talking about is entropy and the embedded legacy detritus of production processes. In the Semiconductor industry, we call this "Defect Density". We endlessly chart it, map it, scream at it, marvel at it, etc. Its always a mystery until you find the slightly deformed HMDS lid cover rubbing for .5% of its travel creating a fine mist of metallic particles which are being carried up onto the robot finger 6 feet away because of the incidental accoustics within the machine. Complexity isn't really value in that context. Its a liability. The total infrastructural footprint of the instrumentality needed to produce X product for X price is hindered by its own complexity, its own overhead of variables. Culture is similiar, as the complexity of legacy structures as our planet gets older makes it more and more difficult to act without getting caught in a nexus of physical and psychological domains which are completely ancillary to the intended form. What this reminds me of is Korzypski's model with strings. You want to play a sonata in Africa over the radio, but you start a war instead. Its the non-linearity of actuality. Fractuality. Meaning is monstrous. or plateau'd in D+G terms perhaps, though that's a metaphor of convenience. Here's Spintronics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spintronics and here's one of the holography drive companies: http://colossalstorage.net/ I think the material/cultural doman UNTO itself is pretty predictable. You set up checks, you takes measurements, and you "drive" complexity like a car. when It starts to go off the road, you investigate why and you adjust whatever physical or programming parameter it takes to achieve the goal. this is everyday stuff. When you say your laptop is the peak of a wave what it makes me think of is that classic sort of pop-science book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_shock Toffler also uses the wave structure to decrypt culture and material culture. "Ride the Wave" which leads to our web-surfing metaphors. I guess maybe this was the whole tongue incheek thing you were going for. I mean I can see you snickering to yourself. Saying what is the most complicated way I can say, "I am web-surfing today." Thats funny! maybe you werent thinking that at all. anyway. The Thermal Architecture bits made me think of this: Fire and Memory On Architecture and Energy Luis Fernández-Galiano Translated by Gina Cariño In Fire and Memory, Luis Fernández-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold to warm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what he calls a "metaphorical plundering" of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and in particular of ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire in the origins of architecture and moving to its symbolic representation in the twentieth century, Galiano develops a theoretical dialogue between combustion and construction that ranges from Vitruvius to Le Corbusier, from the mechanical and organic to time and entropy. Galiano points out that energy, so important
