If I were to to say that I was never knowingly cynical would you put me
into a new category of *Denier*?
On 07/03/15 14:33, Randall Packer wrote:
What an extraordinary chorus of voices we have here on the
NetBehaviours List! As a composer, I am interested in how all the
parts harmonize together polyphonically, rub up against each other
contrapuntally, provide a sense of direction and perspective as the
lines & melodies of our utterances collectively play out.
So here is a first pass at some categorical distinctions to provide us
with a “social taxonomy” of net behaviourism: (I welcome all revisions
& additions!)
Enjoy, Randall
*The Alarmists*
@BishopZ >>>>> The Internet of Things will inevitably consolidate
corporate power over our personal liberty.
@Alan >>>> The digital, I think, is unbearably fragile; not only is
privacy lost, but we are not prepared, and can't prepare, for the
attacks and corrosion to come.
@Patrick >>>> I see a more profound short-term sense of (pessimism) in
the youth in my regions of interaction.
@Dave >>>> The new breed of technologies might make it more obvious
that government is entirely obsolete.
@Rob >>>>>>> The Cultural Smog Of The Internet… a paralysing weight
rather than an inspiring force.
@Mez >>>>> Whatever the magnitude/form, online dialogues appear to be
flooded with antagonistic commentary.
*The Cynics*
@Alan >>>>> Do you honestly believe, with all the
hacking/corrosion/cyberwarfare going on, that regulations will make
the slightest bit of difference?
@Edward >>>> But don't hope for too much. They guys with the money
hold all the good cards.
@Isabel >>>>> It's worth being an artist for all sorts of reasons, but
not particularly for social change.
@Simon >>>> jumping on the digital bandwagon seems pointless.
@Karl >>>> there is a word for actor and audience in the social media
realm: prosumer!
@Ruth >>>>> From the perspective of the platform providers, the
purpose of the users actions and interactions is to squirt lucrative data.
@James >>>> the lines (of communication) are already open, we're just
sending information back and forth along them
*The Realists*
@Ruth >>>> Netartizen #tip3 Social media platforms such as Twitter,
Facebook, Tumblr are not public
@Johannes >>>>>>>>> "(I) find the idea of artizen nation objectionable.
@Paul >>>> We all think we're creating important and relevant work but
if the future doesn't come up with a way to extract and preserve it,
then it probably didn't mean that much to them.
@Marc >>>> What future artists need to know is that they can make
their own contexts beyond the given structures, shoved down their
metaphorical gullets
@Edward >>>> I'm not sure I feel like a citizen of the net.
@Isabel >>>> there may be some degree of privilege involved in the
possibility of being/contributing as a Netartizen/Netartisan.
*The Apocalyptic*
@Kath >>>> if there is some pulse in the future which wipes all the
technology we'll be left with a gap from our digital/online years.
let's hope the libraries survive.
@Patrick >>>>> I feel that social media and the rise of infopower like
the Arab Spring and ISIS, big data, stacks and Baynesian algorithms
typify our time.
@Alan >>>> Who will be physical when the land is scorched? And perhaps
more to the point, what are we, as NetArtizens doing/writing/ about it?
*The Hopeful *
@David >>>> Perhaps acting out of ignorance (is) an opportunity to
create something that is truly new.
@Rob >>>> Claiming privatised (network) space for the public that is
(supposedly economically) exploited to give it its value, and doing so
under the banner of art, is a political strategy (for those of us who
like political strategies) that has the potential to wrong-foot
affective capital's enclosures.
@Rob >>> Let's make a net we want to be citizens of, for a while.
@Helen >>>> I have long hunted for a good word for this - for
audiences that are participating in a really creative way in a work -
& i don't just mean the "interactivity" of pressing a button or
something like that. i mean co-authoring in a way that they can insert
their own creativity & alter/influence the work.
@Randall >>> The modern day database, content management system, and
social media offer new ways to fully integrate the artistic process
into a dynamically-shared, distributed network.
@Ruth >>>> NetArtizen #tip1: initiate and participate in equal measure.
*The Poets*
@Bill >>>> would be nice to have MANIC responses
@Ruth >>>> NetArtizen #tip2 There is no one We
@Mez >>>>> N.Et.A[l]rtizen #[s]tip[ewe.lation]3:
S[m]o[dalities+fun]c[t]i[ons_]al[ways]media[ate]platform[at]s.
@Alan >>>>> cultural heritage
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@Dark >>>> *404 FILE NOT FOUND I am still alive *
*The Dreamers*
@Gil >>>>> I find out more about the world we live in from
netbehaviour than from anywhere else.
@Randall >>> Let’s conceptualize an approach to networked systems that
can be expressed with any social media platform we may invent or even
dream of.
@BishopZ >>>> I had a dream one time of teams of artists paratrooping
into troubled areas - delivering theatrical re-interpretations of
local mythology - explaining in local vernacular the torment that
locals faced.
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