[-empyre-] Netopticon and the cops - asymmetry in play

2011-01-28 Thread Simon Biggs
http://www.fudzilla.com/home/item/21694-fbi-swoops-on-anonymous Just as in the UK as it is in the USA - except there the FBI has failed to make any arrests. I wonder how long the UK authorities will be able to keep those it has arrested and whether they will be able to proceed with any criminal

[-empyre-] Netopticon as Matrix

2011-01-28 Thread Lichty, Patrick
One point that comes to mind with the idea of the Netopticon is that we could see it like a huge apparatus resembling Indra's Net in terms of the online set of architectonics. But on the other hand, what is just as important is the binding points of the net to the frame in which it resides, or

Re: [-empyre-] Indra's Net

2011-01-28 Thread davin heckman
I also think that the various strategies of resistance, the more I think about them, are not without their own problems. In reflecting on Simon's discussion of anonymous in a parallel thread.. it is interesting to think about how anonymity works as an appropriate response to ubiquitous

Re: [-empyre-] Netopticon as Matrix

2011-01-28 Thread De wraak van Baltassar Geraards
Hi Indra's web is also a Hindi / Budhist metaphoor of the 'world' as experience It is actively fooling perception of its existence and tightly binds the experiental state of 'being' to the mind. In trying to escape the migthy Indra, companion of Rama, the first ruler, one had to face

[-empyre-] Netopticon as Matrix

2011-01-28 Thread Cynthia Beth Rubin
What I find interesting about Patrick's post is that he is focusing on cameras, which record actions but not discourse, leaving actions open to interpretation. Still images become the frozen moment (Susan Sontag) and bits of documentation float with no context. One might argue that context is

[-empyre-] networking art + postmedia

2011-01-28 Thread Heidi May
I wanted to bring up one more topic for discussion as we wind down this last week. Joseph had mentioned that he made several pages of notes before preparing his ideas and questions for this week, and, well, I too found the previous week's discussions to be full of ideas to expand on. The