Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-10-02 Thread ruth catlow
Hi Annie, Edward, Alan and Rob Many many thanks to you all as always for your help processing this stuff. Some thoughts in no particular order: Annie, I share many of your misgivings. Like many blockchain projects Plantoid asserts all kinds of equivalences between living and machine systems t

Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
It depends, doesn't it, on what is meant by 'infallible'? They're corruptible in terms of value and in terms of use; it's the old use/exchange value conundrums here. They're corruptible because they're not ideal; a prime number isn't corruptible, but protocols are. What if a "distortive inter

Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Rob Myers
Entities of code and rules are incorruptible and infallible (so it is said), they are not subject to distortive interventions by debased human institutions. They have no soul, it is true, but they also do not weigh on ours. They are Spirographs, not Stormbringer. The blockchain's metronymic, reifie

[NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-28 Thread Edward Picot
Annie, I love this response! - and I think you've really latched onto something here. '/Being made of code and rules is not the same as//having a soul... //Plantoid seems to be conservative, reinforcing the characteristics it//started with...' /There's a real sense of claustrophobia and frust

Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-26 Thread Annie Abrahams
hi Antye, it wasn't, but it is now (quick post) https://aabrahams.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/understanding-block-chain/ hugs to you Annie On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:36 PM, AG Forever wrote: > annie is this letter somewhere online ? > i have a few blockchain folllowers on twitter like to send them

Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-26 Thread AG Forever
annie is this letter somewhere online ? i have a few blockchain folllowers on twitter like to send them hugs sound & curation AGF: @poemproducer / .com sound wave : antyegreie.com > On 25 Sep 2017, at 19:07, Annie Abrahams wrote: > > This email is there to try to pen down some of my very vis

[NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

2017-09-25 Thread Annie Abrahams
This email is there to try to pen down some of my very visceral negative reactions to *Plantoid - The Birth of a Blockchain-Based Lifeform* (p 51 -61)in *Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain* https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/products/100826