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Simon
Why is the conversation here “far and few” you ask? Perhaps because the message
does not (only) reach its intended destination. Perhaps it reaches no one. This
list blocks all of my posts with attached pictures, sound files, and and
detournment (perhaps because that breaks the constraints and protocols of the
list).
Far and few between each post is almost nostalgic in its epistolary model of
communication. Here I am writing to you — addressed to you by name // and the
others (unknown to me) are functioning like surveillance (silent auditors who
may never read these posts — who can keep up with the overflow — not even the
NSA). And, I imagine someone reading the posts and archiving and organizing
them. Unknown to the senders.
For more than a decade I had no TV, only emergent-internet (The Well — who here
was on that precursor of the internet?) and dial-up service (for 2 decades),
and no cell phone (for 5 decades). Phone machines (a radical innovation) and
letters with the copy shop and coffee house essential to the archive. Mailings
were everything (see my Networked Art — for how robust those networks were). We
had video machines, networks, and electronic music/media. It just was not
tagged, mined, and surveilled successfully.
This list may be preparing us for a past as prologue. To avoid both monolithic
spectacle, and a return to the other forms of e-say writing …
C
On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:03 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
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Psychologically, how do we deal with this -
FBI has information indicating Trump associates communicated with suspected
Russian operatives to possibly coordinate release of information damaging to
Clinton campaign, officials told CNN. [www.cnn.com]
Or this -
https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/information-war-begun/2017/03/22
And how can we involve empyre subscribers in the discussion?
I appreciate everyone who has contributed to this discussion on
empyre. But I wonder why, when discussions - noisy and often
off-track - on Facebook, can continue with high-speed ferocity for
a seemingly endless amount of time / number of posts - where here,
where there's opportunity for reflection (admittedly without the
cleverness and grandstanding), posts are far and few between?
Comments appreciated!
- Alan, thanks -
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