Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, at 03:52 AM, Gretta Louw wrote:
> Had another frustrating (yet, fundamentally unsurprising) incident
> since I sent that email in which a museum director matter-of-factly
> told me that all of the greatest artists in history were men
Gn.

> and after I strenuously argued against that, we continued discussing
> the work we were cooperating on… well let’s just say that in the end,
> a few days later, the museum decided that they didn’t have the budget
> after all to acquire the piece of mine that they’d been interested in.
> I wonder what changed?? ;)
No machine learning algorithm could possibly find a correlation... ;-)

- Rob.



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Rob Myers]

Yes I can help if anyone is interested.

Precedent-wise there's -

http://interaccess.org/event/2017/bitcoin-ethereum-and-conceptual-art

Or my own -

http://robmyers.org/art-coins-coloured/

But neither of these are *nothing*. :-)

- Rob.


On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, at 10:36 AM, Edward Picot wrote:
> Great! - I'm not sure where you go with it after that, though.
> 
>  You could offer something non-existent for sale on OpenBazaar easily
>  enough. That would be one option. What appealed to me, though, was
>  the idea of selling shares in a non-existent work of art, in the hope
>  that the shares would keep changing hands and their value would keep
>  increasing, so that if you retained something like a 25% stake in the
>  work, that stake would keep increasing in value too.> 
>  The paradox, of course, would be that by announcing that you were
>  creating a non-existent work of art, and offering shares in it, you
>  would in effect be creating an actual conceptual work of art about
>  the marketing and the market value of art. That's why I thought the
>  images from Curt Cloninger's essay about nothing would be appropriate
>  (for advertising the existence, or rather non-existence, of the work
>  and the availability of shares), because he's investigating the
>  paradox that you can't create a representation of nothing without
>  that representation being a something.> 
>  I expect Rob could advise about how to set up the shares thing.
> 
>  Edward
> 
>  On 15/10/17 16:22, ruth catlow wrote:
>> Not sure this is the best tool
>> https://etherpad.net/p/MarlyStudiedTheQuotations
>> 
>>  but a place to start
>> 
>>  On 15/10/17 16:15, ruth catlow wrote:
>>> I'd be up for thinking this one through.
>>>  Let's do it.
>>> 
>>>  On 13/10/17 20:34, Edward Picot wrote:
>>>> Oops! Apologies for posting this twice. I thought the first one
>>>> hadn't worked.>>>> 
>>>>  On 13/10/17 19:10, Edward Picot wrote:
>>>>> Can't we do something with this? Couldn't we create a conceptual
>>>>> work of art that didn't actually exist at all - we could use some
>>>>> ideas from Curt Cloninger's 'Essay About Nothing' to represent it
>>>>> - and market shares in it via the Blockchain? Proceeds to
>>>>> Furtherfield, unless the value went above a trillion dollars, in
>>>>> which case I want a cut.>>>>> 
>>>>>  Edward
>>>>> 
>>>>>  On 11/10/17 18:56, Rob Myers wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
>>>>>>> Perfectly put Helen!
>>>>>>> Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't
>>>>>>> my idea of utopia.>>>>>> 
>>>>>> """Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again. This,
>>>>>> she supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the most
>>>>>> difficulty understanding. Picard, if that was the man's name, was
>>>>>> speaking with a broker in New York, arranging the purchase of a
>>>>>> certain number of "points" of the work of a particular artist. A
>>>>>> "point" might be defined in any number of ways, depending on the
>>>>>> medium involved, but it was almost certain that Picard would
>>>>>> never see the works he was purchasing. If the artist enjoyed
>>>>>> sufficient status, the originals were very likely crated away in
>>>>>> some vault, where no one saw them at all. Days or years later,
>>>>>> Picard might pick up that same phone and order the broker to
>>>>>> sell. """>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986.
>>>>>> 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Rob Myers]

Administration tokens sound like a good way of funding art then. ;-)

- Rob.


On Thu, 12 Oct 2017, at 07:10 AM, Anthony Stephenson wrote:
> Everyone knows the real money is in administration ;-)
> 
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 7:00 AM,  requ...@netbehaviour.org> wrote:>> 
>> >>>
>>  >>> I have a question brewing - that I want to run by everyone -
>>  >>> about>>  >>> the value of art and artists now and in the future.
>>  >>>
> 
> -- 
> - *Anthony Stephenson*


> *http://anthonystephenson.org/*


>  


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2017, at 12:58 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Perfectly put Helen!
>  Art reframed as a new asset class for fractional ownership ain't my
>  idea of utopia.
"""Marly studied the quotations. Pollock was down again.  This, she
supposed, was the aspect of art that she had the  most difficulty
understanding. Picard, if that was the man's  name, was speaking with a
broker in New York, arranging  the purchase of a certain number of
"points" of the work of a  particular artist. A "point" might be
defined in any number  of ways, depending on the medium involved, but
it was  almost certain that Picard would never see the works he was
purchasing. If the artist enjoyed sufficient status, the  originals
were very likely crated away in some vault, where no one  saw them at
all. Days or years later, Picard might pick up that  same phone and
order the broker to sell. """
- William Gibson, "Count Zero", 1986.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Maecenas

[Rob Myers]

"Look upon my [net]works, ye mighty..."

Here's a list of dead blockchains.

>From 2014.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=588413.0

The list has only grown since then.

I was recently asked to exhibit a project from two years ago that I
couldn't because the service it relied on was no longer operational.

Ken Wark is bearish on "digital collectibles" -

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/85/156418/my-collectible-ass/

But I find the illusion of permanence that millions of dollars of
security a day can give is irresistible. ;-)

- Rob.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2017, at 08:54 PM, John Hopkins wrote:
> On 09/Oct/17 02:22, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> > agree. thank goodness my art is mostly ephemeral & can't be stuck with a
> > financial pin like a dead butterfly ...
> 
> Hah, thanks for that little reminder! Let's hear it for ephemeral
> networked art 
> ("you had to be there" was the best reply I ever came up with when folks
> used to 
> ask "what was that work about?"). OTOH, as a confirmed archivist, I try
> to 
> capture some of those butterflies and stick pins through them -- but that
> effort 
> is absolutely an impossible fight against entropy these days. The archive
> is too 
> large, and formats for presentation are changing so fast. I am teetering
> on the 
> edge of giving up -- right now I'd have to re-code all video works, and 
> completely reformat a 7500-entry blog to 'work' properly with the newest 
> iteration of WordPress. I refuse to go to corporate social media formats
> of 
> distribution. And the 'punishment' of maintaining "a self-maintained
> island of 
> personal research and expression in a sea of corporately hosted and
> filtered 
> content" is getting to be too much. The full-time job has wrung all the 
> resistent mojo outta this former-networker.
> 
> 
> 
> Hard to remember that it is *all* ephemeral. Even the highest wall, the
> biggest 
> museum, and grandest civilization...
> 
> so it goes.
> 
> jh
> 
> -- 
> ++
> Dr. John Hopkins, BSc, MFA, PhD
> hanging on to the Laramide Orogeny
> twitter: @neoscenes
> http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] I hate blockchain plantoids by O’Khaos - that's probably why they are great

[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, reified, transactional model of human
relations is meant to free us from deceit and usury. We are already
homeostats in socioeconomic networks whose restrictions we notice about
as much as a fish notices water. Code at least makes this explicit.
 Plantoid is a way of paying for the creation and exhibition of art - a
 difficult and worthwhile problem - in a creative way. If it is too
 successful it will end up as the economic-aesthetic equivalent of grey
 goo. The anthropocene desert will be filled not with triffids but with
 plantoids and the artisans hired by their code to create their
 offspring. Maybe these offspring will mutate into relational artworks
 that choreograph decorative humanity into their schemes, multitudes
 that dance and sway in time to Lananotation representations of block
 hashes while wishing that they hadn't opposed UBI quite so vehemently.
Or perhaps plantoids are simply oases in the contemporary desert of the
real, depicting something of the moment we find ourselves in between
financial crises.
Some of the real plants are in Terra0...

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, at 12:28 PM, Edward Picot wrote:
> 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 frustration about some of the Blockchain-based
> artworks, unquestionably brilliant though they are, in that although
> they seem to be offering a commentary on the shortcomings and
> limitations of the Blockchain, they seem at the same time to be
> binding us to those shortcomings and limitations, freezing us into
> that world, suggesting that we are all going to be subject to this new
> version of reality and unable to escape from it. Yes, this stuff is
> creeping into every aspect of our culture. Yes, we are all going to be
> touched by it and influenced by it, directed by it, shaped by it, just
> as we are by capitalism, mass marketing and mass media. But no, it
> doesn't define us or completely contain us. We can still be human in
> spite of it. At least I hope we can: and I hope that along with
> Blockchain art and the like, we can still have an art that celebrates
> and explores the bits of existence that the Blockchain and the like
> can't comprehend. Beyond the plantoids there are still real plants.> Edward


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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

(Lots of these links are from the AOTB link.)


"Demo Day" (featuring a project by me) -

https://www.kunstraumllc.com/single-post/2017/09/13/DEMO-DAY


"AOTB EPISODE 6 - BLOCKCHAIN NEWS RECAPPED" -

https://soundcloud.com/artontheblockchain/aotb-episode-6-blockchain-news-recapped


"Why Artists And Art Collectors Love Blockchain Technology" -

http://www.ibtimes.com/why-artists-art-collectors-love-blockchain-technology-2584019


"EXANTE presented its "Artcoin Miner" at Jurmala Art Fair" - 

https://exante.eu/press/news/1144/


"Blockchain and fine art: how the technology could change the art
market" -

https://www.slideshare.net/EXANTE/blockchain-and-fine-art-how-the-technology-could-change-the-art-market


"Decentraland’s First LAND Sale" -

https://blog.decentraland.org/how-to-guarantee-your-spot-in-decentralands-first-land-sale-462050c886d3


Fontus Blockchain VR -

https://medium.com/@bnolan/fontus-501efd5a9b


"‘11440007260768 wayes’: Early Modern Cryptography as
Fashionable Reading" -

http://www.northernrenaissance.org/11440007260768-wayes-early-modern-cryptography-as-fashionable-reading/


Planned economies via Big Data (a la #accelerate) - 

https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/platform-socialism.html
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[NetBehaviour] Art Is

[Rob Myers]

https://i0.wp.com/robmyers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/art-is-2.0.png

http://robmyers.org/2017/07/08/art-is-2-0/

“Art Is”, 2014/2017, DApp.

People have argued about the definition of art for millennia.

We finally have the techonomic means to settle this argument.

In “Art Is”, people can use the Ethereum network to pay to define art at
a price equal to the strength of their certainty in the correctness of
their definition. The results are an economically rational definition of
art, far stronger than discourse paid for by third party cultural
institutions.

The original “Art Is” from 2014 <
http://robmyers.org/2014/07/23/ethereum-art-is/ > suffered from bitrot
so I re-implemented it.

As ever, you can access it via an Ethereum-enabled browser here <
http://show.robmyers.org/artworld-ethereum/dapps/art-is/build/index.html
> and the source code is available in a git repository here <
https://gitlab.com/robmyers/artworld-ethereum/tree/master/dapps/art-is
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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

Mez's work with Google Blocks is awesome -

https://vr.google.com/objects/9Wf573zAEWr


"Aymeric Mansoux: Sandbox Culture: A Study of the Application of Free
and Open Source Software Licensing Ideas to Art and Cultural Production"
-

https://monoskop.org/log/?p=18777


"THE INTERSPECIES-TOKEN GAME: AN ECONAUTIC PROPOSITION" -

http://www.mumbaiartroom.org/projects.php?id=66


"more people preferred the AI images than those created by humans" -

https://www.parkwestgallery.com/art-news-gauguin-art-lawsuit-ai-creates-art-a-vatican-raphael-revelation/42293


Cryptocurrenc y hacker wars -

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/white-hats-step-save-funds-vulnerable-ether-wallets/


"Alphabay and Hansa Seized, Dream Darknet Market Compromised" -

https://themerkle.com/alphabay-and-hansa-seized-dream-darknet-market-compromised/


"“Alice & Bob” is an installation of continually evolving love letters
that uses data from a quantum computer." -

http://annaridler.com/quantum-computing-art/


"Goodbye, Accelerationism" -

https://nishikiprestige.wordpress.com/2017/07/19/goodbye-accelerationism/


Mondo 2000 back issues scanned and uploaded to the Internet Archive -

https://archive.org/details/Mondo.2000.Issue.02.1990


"Teaching Robots to Understand Semantic Concepts" -

https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/teaching-robots-to-understand-semantic.html


"Harvard study, almost 80 years old, has proved that embracing community
helps us live longer, and be happier" -

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/over-nearly-80-years-harvard-study-has-been-showing-how-to-live-a-healthy-and-happy-life/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Old Horizons: Installing Lambda MOO on localhost

[Rob Myers]

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, at 09:40 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the URL!

I've bumped into Perry on LambdaMOO but not yduJ...

> It's amazing how little resources it uses -

It used to need a UNIX workstation, I think. Moore's law in action. :-)

- Rob.
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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

"Do Androids Dream of Electric Copyright? Comparative Analysis of
Originality in Artificial Intelligence Generated Works" -

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2981304


Imogen Heap on the blockchain and music -

https://hbr.org/2017/06/blockchain-could-help-musicians-make-money-again


Art [mostly music] On The Blockchain podcast -

https://soundcloud.com/artontheblockchain


More blockchain collectibles -

http://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks


Learn R in Minecraft -

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2017/06/teach-kids-about-r-with-minecraft.html


"Dutch-Russian cyber crime case reveals how the police taps the
internet" -

http://electrospaces.blogspot.ca/2017/06/dutch-russian-cyber-crime-case-reveals.html


As the 1 percent washes their money through arts funding, artists
respond -

http://www.salon.com/2017/06/18/museum-funding-occupy-museums-debtfair-museum-of-captialism


90s Cyberculture revisited -

http://interactdigitalarts.uk/cyberculture


"A QUICK-AND-DIRTY INTRODUCTION TO ACCELERATIONISM" -

http://jacobitemag.com/2017/05/25/a-quick-and-dirty-introduction-to-accelerationism/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Old Horizons: Installing Lambda MOO on localhost

[Rob Myers]

I run a LambdaMOO instance on my Raspberry Pi. :-)

LambdaMOO itself is still there. The wizards are still fixing bugs, just
with their kids now -

http://nosrednayduj.dreamwidth.org/7245.html

- Rob.

On Sun, 18 Jun 2017, at 04:45 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> 
> Old Horizons: Installing Lambda MOO on localhost
> 
> http://www.alansondheim.org/MOO.png
> 
> [running]
> 
> $ ./moo -l moo.txt Lambda.db output.db.txt 
> 
> @create note
> Usage:  @create  named [name:]alias,...,alias
> or:  @create  named
> name-and-alias,alias,...,alias
> 
> where  is one of the standard classes ($note,
> $letter,
> $thing, or $container) or an object number (e.g., #999), or
> the name of some object in the current room.
> You can use "called" instead of "named", if you wish.
> @create $note called JULU
> You now have JULU with object number #95 and parent generic
> note (#9).
> look JULU
> There appears to be some writing on the note ...
> @read note
> You have no messages.
> 
> alan@alan-Inspiron-1012 ~/sondheim/vr/MOO-1.8.1 $ more
> moo.txt
> 
> Jun 18 18:27:33: STARTING: Version 1.8.1 of the LambdaMOO
> server
> Jun 18 18:27:33:   (Using BSD/TCP protocol)
> Jun 18 18:27:33:   (Task timeouts measured in
> server CPU seconds.)
> Jun 18 18:27:33: LOADING: Lambda.db
> Jun 18 18:27:33: NAME_LOOKUP: Started new lookup process
> Jun 18 18:27:33: LOADING: Reading 95 objects...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: LOADING: Done reading 95 objects ...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: VALIDATING the object hierarchies ...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: VALIDATE: Phase 1: Check for invalid
> objects ...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: VALIDATE: Phase 2: Check for cycles ...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: VALIDATE: Phase 3: Check for
> inconsistencies ...
> Jun 18 18:27:33: VALIDATING the object hierarchies ...
> finished.
> Jun 18 18:27:33: LOADING: Reading 1698 MOO verb programs...
> Jun 18 18:27:34: LOADING: Done reading 1698 verb programs...
> Jun 18 18:27:34: LOADING: Reading forked and suspended
> tasks...
> Jun 18 18:27:34: LOADING: Reading list of formerly active
> connections...
> Jun 18 18:27:34: LOADING: Lambda.db done, will dump new
> database on output.db
> Jun 18 18:27:34: INTERN: 21466 allocations saved, 162995
> bytes
> Jun 18 18:27:34: INTERN: at end, 53135 entries in a 80056
> bucket hash table.
> Jun 18 18:27:34: Loaded protect cache for 128 builtins
> Jun 18 18:27:34: LISTEN: #0 now listening on port 
> Jun 18 18:27:50: ACCEPT: #-2 on port  from localhost,
> port 38643
> Jun 18 18:28:06: CONNECTED: Wizard (#2) on port  from
> localhost, port 38643
> alan@alan-Inspiron-1012 ~/sondheim/vr/MOO-1.8.1 $
> 
> ** LambdaMOO Database, Format Version 4 **
> 
> 95 1698 0 4 2 71 36 38 #0 The System Object 24 2 -1 -1 -1 1 -1 5
> 19 do_login_command 2 173 -1 server_started 2 173 -1
> core_objects 2 173 -1 init_for_core 2 173 -1 user_created
> user_connected 2 173 -1 user_disconnected
> user_client_disconnected 2 173 -1 bf_chparent chparent 2 173 -1
> bf_add_verb add_verb 2 173 -1 bf_add_property add_property 2 173
> -1 bf_recycle recycle 2 173 -1 user_reconnected 2 173 -1
> bf_set_verb_info set_verb_info 2 173 -1 bf_match match 2 173 -1
> bf_rmatch rmatch 2 173 -1 do_out_of_band_command doobc 2 173 -1
> handle_uncaught_error 2 173 -1 bf_force_input 2 173 -1 moveto 2
> 173 -1 bf_set_property_info set_property_info 2 173 -1 118
> builder login last_huh guest_log last_restart_time biglist
> big_mail_recipient limbo registration_db new_player_log
> verb_help core_help prog_help wiz_help shutdown_task wiz_utils
> site_db math_utils set_utils builtin_function_help new_prog_log
> generic_help guest spell seq_utils quota_log you max_seconds
> max_ticks hacker generic_db shutdown_message shutdown_time
> no_one player_db class_registry player_class gender_utils
> trig_utils time_utils editor_help mail_recipient mail_agent
> mail_editor note_editor verb_editor generic_editor match_utils
> object_utils lock_utils gripe_recipients letter dump_interval
> list_utils command_utils player wiz prog code_utils help nothing
> failed_match ambiguous_match perm_utils building_utils
> string_utils news note container thing exit room player_start
> root_class recycler garbage mail_options edit_options
> display_options generic_options maxint minint error newt_log
> toad_log site_log housekeeper network generic_biglist_home
> feature local gopher prog_options build_options generic_utils
> quota_utils paranoid_db no_connect_message sysobj
> byte_quota_utils object_quota_utils server_options
> feature_warehouse builder_help mail_help ftp password_verifier
> new_password_log frand_class mail_recipient_class stage_talk
> pasting_feature core_history matrix_utils force_input_count
> frand_help convert_utils gendered_object 122 1 4 2 5 1 10 2 1 1
> 11 2 1 1 12 2 1 0 1497824832 2 5 1 13 2 5 1 14 2 5 1 15 2 5 1 16
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Re: [NetBehaviour] linux laptops

[Rob Myers]

From a Free Software point of view, anything with radio communication
involved is hard because the chips that do the communication tend to use
proprietary firmware (they are blobs of code with no source available).

As a phone has at least one more channel of radio communication compared
to a laptop, it's even harder to get an entirely free phone.

Strangely it's often the camera firmware that's the problem though. :-)

My personal laptop has a replacement WiFi chip which does use entirely
free firmware. I'm not sure what I'm going to have to do to ensure that
I'm still using a free system when I get a new laptop soon (this one is
six years old!).

- Rob.

On Sun, 28 May 2017, at 07:01 AM, aharon wrote:
> might also interest people here:
> 
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/zerophone/
> 
> is there a workshop in it..? ;)
> 
> cheers!
> 
> ahanox?
> xxx
> 
> May 27 2017 12:51 PM, "aharon"  wrote:
> > Thanks Helen, didn't know of lineageos.org. will try the os..
> > Fairphone.. yes.. I wonder about the price.. out of my range, but is this 
> > difference in price the
> > kind of number, in pounds, euros and other currencies - of a person's 
> > mobile-linked freedom?
> > the price to pay for not working for google's fame and fortune?
> > 
> > cheers!
> > 
> > aharon
> > xx
> > 
> > May 24 2017 1:07 PM, "helen varley jamieson"  
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> i don't know about all mobile devices, but fairphone has a forum of 
> >> alternative operating systems:
> >> https://forum.fairphone.com/c/software/alternative-oses
> >> 
> >> (i don't have actual experience of any of them, i'm just using the 
> >> standard fairphone kola nut OS)
> >> 
> >> h : )
> >> 
> >> On 23.05.2017 23:22, x wrote:
> >> 
> >>> oh.. operating systems..
> >>> just had over a month of being on road and having to keep technologically 
> >>> cheap yet light..
> >>> hence still suffering android..
> >>> 
> >>> am i missing something or there is a complete and utter absence of 
> >>> quality free operating system
> >>> for mobile devices?
> >>> 
> >>> rant apart  if people need a light, Graphical and upto date os for an 
> >>> old netbook laptop etc
> >>> maybe check puppylinux,?
> >>> you can get, in a sense, latest ubuntu or slackware running on an old or 
> >>> new netbook
> >>> without habing to deal with the commandline bits..
> >>> 
> >>> ciao from brasilia.
> >>> aharon
> >>> xxx
> >>> 
> >>> --
> >>> Sent from myMail for Android
> >>> 
> >>> Monday, 22 May 2017, 10:22pm -03:00 from Alan Sondheim sondh...@panix.com:
> >>> 
>  It installed quickly for me. I think there's a way to get a graphic os on
>  it but I haven't tried. Used to use Cygwin and still have it!
>  
>  - Alan
>  
>  On Tue, 23 May 2017, James Morris wrote:
> > It's only really the command line tools (which is still a lot!).
> > 
> > I got quite excited about it at work where I'm using a few BASH scripts 
> > with
> > Cygwin on a regular basis. Unfortunately the Windows 10 Anniversary 
> > update
> > which contains the Linux tools consistently fails to install - and 
> > takes 3/4
> > hour to not install :-(
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On 22/05/17 23:40, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> >> 
> >> Fwiw, one thing worth noting - for those who are using limited memory 
> >> (like
> >> my netbook), Midori's an excellent browser -
> >> Also wanted to mention that you can open up Ubuntu in Win10 - I have it
> >> working there as well. It comes with the OS,
> >> 
> >> - Alan
> >> 
> >> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> >> 
> >>> 
> >>> thanks alan :)
> >>> 
> >>> i have noticed how much less space the OS needs, & how quickly 
> >>> everything
> >>> runs!
> >>> 
> >>> h : )
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 22.05.2017 18:59, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I use linux on my older laptops; it's easy to install; in fact
> >>> I'm on a Dell netbook now with only 2 gig of ram and it runs
> >>> fine. One good thing about the OS is that you can install a
> >>> different one in maybe 15 minutes, so you can tailor the linux
> >>> distro to your needs. Fwiw, I use linux mint for the most part,
> >>> lots of terminal stuff.
> >>> 
> >>> Good luck with this!
> >>> 
> >>> - Alan
> >>> 
> >>> On Mon, 22 May 2017, helen varley jamieson wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> hi everyone,
> >>> 
> >>> more than a year ago i wrote to this list asking for
> >>> advice about buying a
> >>> linux laptop. it took me a while, but i'm now
> >>> happily working with ubuntu
> >>> mate on a no-brand machine :)
> >>> 
> >>> i spent quite a lot of time looking at second-hand &
> >>> B-ware (ex-display)
> >>> machines, & also at new models (lenovo, dell, hp,
> >>> acer, asus, etc etc ... )
> >>> 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Bad Shibe

[Rob Myers]

On Tue, 23 May 2017, at 10:59 AM, Edward Picot wrote:
> I'm a bit late responding to this, but I just wanted to say I liked it. 

Thank you!

> It's a bit of a stretch calling it a novella, when it's only about 5,000 
> words long, and its weakness is that in story terms nothing much really 
> happens, apart from the lead character realising that people are 
> 'tipping' each other to artificially boost their online ratings. Having 

It was originally over 2000 words longer, which meant even less happened
over the course of the story. ;-)

Most of the action is taking place off-screen, and will not come to a
head until a couple of days later.

> said this, what really works is the idiomatic/slang language, 
> reminiscent in a way of Anthony Burgess' book A Clockwork Orange; and 
> through that language a really strong sense of a particular mindset and 
> environment. I also like the fact that a lot of stuff in the background 
> is just suggested, not fully explained - working in the orchard, eating 
> lots of apples, going to school at night because it's so hot during the 
> day, etc. 

Thank you! I'm glad that comes through strongly.

While the story is not a pedagogical argument for or against any
particular politics the background details tend to come from political
and economic arguments of the kind that arise around cryptocurrency.

> You don't have to know about where the terms 'doge' and 
> 'shibe' come from to enjoy the story, but if you do take the time to do 
> a bit of background exploring (assuming you don't know all that stuff 
> already, which I didn't), it certainly contributes a sense of extra 
> depth.

For anyone interested there are some useful sources at the bottom of the
page here -

http://robmyers.org/bad-shibe/

I wrote the story with an index card of Doge grammar attached to my
laptop. :-)

> Also, the central character is very likeable, a sweet kid who 
> wants to get a book of old Green Shield stamps to please his mum, which 
> is rather nice to find in a dystopian story like this.

Yes they are very definitely not the robust individualist subject of
cypherpunk theory and cyberpunk fiction.

As an example of how the details of the story work, Green Shield stamps
( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Shield_Stamps ) are there for two
reasons: they are an example of previous money-like things and they help
to indicate which generation the central character's parent is.

Lina deserves massive credit for illustrating a story whose narrator's
descriptive powers are so limited. I love the details they've
interpreted and added.

- Rob.
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"No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do.
That could be a problem." -

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/


"Models Beyond Understanding" -

https://backchannel.com/our-machines-now-have-knowledge-well-never-understand-857a479dcc0e


"QoW02 Laboria Cuboniks" -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jkE4BAkFek


"Accelerate Marx" -

https://deterritorialinvestigations.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/accelerate-marx/


"Post capitalism system based on Ethereum" -

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6622j8/post_capitalism_system_based_on_ethereum/


"If a currency crashes, its Finiliar will get sick and eventually die."
-

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/arsenal-contemporary-new-york-ed-fornieles-finiliar-926966


Surveillance capitalism's new lure -

https://developers.facebook.com/products/camera-effects/ar-studio/


Hipster AI theology -

https://artplusmarketing.com/in-the-future-philosophers-will-be-gods-2361705f299d
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NO PLATFORM FOR ARISTOTLE -

https://medium.com/@dctvbot/no-platform-for-aristotle-867a04c5da50


Telling children 'hard work gets you to the top' is simply a lie -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/14/children-hard-work-social-mobility-estate-background


How the Six-Hour Workday Actually Saves Money -

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-17/how-the-six-hour-workday-actually-saves-money


Money For Nothing -

https://medium.com/@kindofwater/novarairl-money-for-nothing-48d187e2f856


Loss of Coral Reefs Could Cost $1 Trillion Globally -

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/loss-coral-reefs-could-cost-1-trillion-globally-21347


Jack & The Giant Joint-Stock Pepe: The History & Future of the
Corporation. -

https://medium.com/@simondlr/jack-the-giant-joint-stock-pepe-the-history-future-of-the-corporation-f17d30aff411


Some sort of Google project catching up with blockchain book
registration -

https://medium.com/impossible/lets-talk-about-ownership-6e6c82585472


Some other sort of Google project doing neural network drawing -

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Ghost in the shell

[Rob Myers]

:-D

- Rob.

On Sun, 16 Apr 2017, at 03:24 PM, James Morris wrote:
> #!/bin/bash
> cat < H4sIAKnt81gAA3VNKxbAMAzyuUINrg6xuewCezU7QE1u0Pu7pZ+tpkURIBDymUK+Qz6SCBoYzSIH
> J7uqBSgwv90Grq4a8eCDxlEAi/qrnpHJlWsDWruWL3XQV1dPM8Kt2fSe2Nkj46CIvGsn48MSAQAA
> EOF
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Yes. I put this in my Ethereum Art market contract -

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And while I'm at it, I worked on PostScript viruses in the early 90s -

https://lamehackersguide.blogspot.ca/2017/02/weaponizing-postscript.html


"Rarepepe is the most innovative project in the crypto space…Seriously"
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"Capital Thinks Too: The Idea of the Common in the Age of Machine
Intelligence" -

http://onlineopen.org/capital-thinks-too


Cold Reason -

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/004555.html


Blasphemous images in contemporary America -

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New Black Quantum Futurism book/zine -

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"No more fake orgasms: stop boosting the art world’s self-esteem" -

https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/no-more-fake-orgasms-stop-boosting-the-art-worlds-self-esteem


Downloadable version of "After Us" issue 2 -

https://www.facebook.com/artsciencepolitics/posts/1858434347731962:0


"THE LOW-HANGING FRUIT OF AESTHETIC INNOVATION: TOWARDS A CONTEMPORARY
ART OF THE RIGHT" - 

https://parallaxoptics.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/towards-a-contemporary-art-of-the-right/


"Cash might be grungy, unfashionable and corruptible, but it is still a
great public good, important for rich and poor alike" -

https://aeon.co/essays/if-plastic-replaces-cash-much-that-is-good-will-be-lost


"Exponential growth devours and corrupts" -

https://m.signalvnoise.com/exponential-growth-devours-and-corrupts-c5562fbf131


"HOW TO RUN A ROGUE GOVERNMENT TWITTER ACCOUNT WITH AN ANONYMOUS EMAIL
ADDRESS AND A BURNER PHONE" -

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"DOWNLOAD HUNDREDS OF ’90S RAVE & JUNGLE CASSETTES" -

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"How Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers" -

http://nautil.us/blog/how-classical-cryptography-will-survive-quantum-computers


"Antonopoulos Details Bitcoin’s Two Layers of Protection Against Quantum
Computing" -

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Attacking AI (I discussed this in "Art For Algorithms") -

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Entropy in social networks -

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Technoshamanism -

http://www.goethe.de/ins/br/lp/prj/eps/nsu/en16159670.htm


Limiting free speech because of "abuse" protects the egos of dictators -

http://www.politico.eu/article/court-upholds-ban-on-anti-turkish-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-poem-german-comedian-jan-bohmermann/


"Declare your love on the blockchain" -

http://fabioberger.com/post/2017-02-14-the-love-chain-project/


"'AI brain scans' reveal what happens inside machine learning" -

http://www.wired.co.uk/gallery/machine-learning-graphcore-pictures-inside-ai


"Scientists make huge dataset of nearby stars available to public" -

http://news.mit.edu/2017/dataset-nearby-stars-available-public-exoplanets-0213


"How to build your own bio-bot" -

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-build-your-own-bio-bot


"Finally, someone has a realistic timeline for Mars colonization—the
UAE" -

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/finally-someone-has-a-realistic-timeline-for-mars-colonization-the-uae/


"MEDIA ART AND ART MARKET: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAU WAELDER" -

http://www.digicult.it/news/media-art-e-mercati-dellarte-intervista-pau-waelder/
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AI and Politics -

https://www.facebook.com/groups/aiandpolitics/


"To use a concept from Gilles Deleuze, the Trump Insurgency is a nomadic war 
machine..." -

https://medium.com/deep-code/situational-assessment-2017-trump-edition-d189d24fc046


"How Space Could Trigger a Future Economic Crisis" -

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-19/how-space-could-trigger-a-future-economic-crisis


"Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author?" -

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author/


"Fighting Censorship with ProtonMail Encrypted Email Over Tor" -

https://protonmail.com/blog/tor-encrypted-email/


Recapitulating Ccru 1 -

http://www.publicseminar.org/2017/01/black-accelerationism/


Recapitulating Ccru 2 -

https://c4ss.org/content/47692


"Don’t Mourn, Accelerate" -

http://salvage.zone/in-print/dont-mourn-accelerate/


"MARXISM, ART AND UTOPIA: CRITICAL THEORY AND POLITICAL AESTHETICS" -

http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/marxism-art-and-utopia-critical-theory-and-political-aesthetics-1


"If Your Boss Could Do Your Job, You’re More Likely to Be Happy at Work" -

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2017, at 02:37 PM, Mark Hancock wrote:

> Mark Fisher's passing has been really upsetting, in a way that hasn't
> really had an impact on me with other theorists/writers. Maybe it's
> that we were similiar ages? I only knew Mark through his writing but
> it feels like a rent in the fabric of the model of the world that I've
> created for myself over the past ten years.


Yes it's the same for me.



I don't know what will happen with the k-punk blog. There's the new book
out soon in the links in the meantime.


There's a fund for his family here -



https://twitter.com/RepeaterBooks/status/821697398833553408



- Rob.


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Mark Fisher, 1968–2017 -

https://www.urbanomic.com/mark_fisher/


Mark Fisher RIP -

http://www.ufblog.net/mark-fisher-rip/


Remembering Mark Fisher -

http://thequietus.com/articles/21572-mark-fisher-rip-obituary-interview


Mark Fisher’s K-punk blogs were required reading for a generation -

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/18/mark-fisher-k-punk-blogs-did-48-politics


The Weird and The Eerie -

http://repeaterbooks.com/books/the-weird-and-the-eerie-mark-fisher/


Ghosts of My Life -

http://www.zero-books.net/books/ghosts-my-life


Capitalist Realism -

http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalist-realism


Ccru: Writings 1997-2003 -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ccru-Writings-1997-2003-ebook/dp/B00X96VLF0/


k-punk -

http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/


k-punk.org -

http://k-punk.org/
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"Project Of The Day: Detroit Community Technology Project" -

https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/project-of-the-day-detroit-community-technology-project/2017/01/09


A first look at Artists' VR  -

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/05/arts/art-view-virtual-reality-is-it-art-yet.html?pagewanted=all


The technopagan roots of networked virtual reality -

https://www.wired.com/1995/07/technopagans/


"Most VR is Silly, But It Could Transform How Our Bodies Interact with
Music" -

http://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/future-of-vr-in-clubbing-nightlife-dance-music


All that remains of a 1999 VR nightclub project I helped on :( -

http://web.archive.org/web/20010309105300/http://www.okupi.com/html/3dchat_mos.html


"All Bound For Mu Mu Land" -

http://www.superweirdsubstance.com/klf-justified-ancient-mu-mu-2017/


"How Harambe Became the Perfect Meme" -

https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/498743/


"These Two Google Home Units Have Been Arguing For Days" -

http://www.neatorama.com/neatogeek/2017/01/11/These-Two-Google-Home-Units-Have-Been-Arguing-For-Days/


"Give robots 'personhood' status, EU committee argues" -

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jan/12/give-robots-personhood-status-eu-committee-argues


"Facebook has a mysterious team working on tech that sounds a lot like
mind reading" -

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-building-8-working-on-brain-computer-communication-platform-2017-1


"A Forgotten Adventure With a Telepathic Tribe" -

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/amazon-encounter-explorer-photographer/
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"Top 9 ethical issues in artificial intelligence" -

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence


"The Real Name Fallacy" -

https://blog.coralproject.net/the-real-name-fallacy/


"The Question Concerning Technology in China" -

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/question-concerning-technology-china/


"Fernando Zalamea – Transmodernism" -

http://uberty.org/items/recommended/fernando-zalamea-transmodernism/


"Readers of popular websites targeted by stealthy Stegano exploit kit 
hiding in pixels of malicious ads" -


http://www.welivesecurity.com/2016/12/06/readers-popular-websites-targeted-stealthy-stegano-exploit-kit-hiding-pixels-malicious-ads/


"Artist Walead Beshty Shipped Glass Boxes Inside FedEx Boxes to Produce 
Shattered Sculptures" -


http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2017/01/fedex-works-walead-beshty/


"BRAINFILLING CURVES, A FRACTAL BESTIARY" -

http://www.brainfillingcurves.com/


"Reinventing Horizons: Texts" -

http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?page_id=12


"Want your art featured in the world's first blockchain-focused magazine?" -

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5n990m/want_your_art_featured_in_the_worlds_first/


"a fake stock market to figure out the value of memes" -

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/10/14223264/meme-economy-reddit-stock-market
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It's past time to argue about the definition of "AI" and its political 
relevance... -


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38521403


"Adventures in 3D" -

https://medium.com/@feltron/adventures-in-3d-c3ddb0c60054


"The Utopian Origins of Restroom Symbols" -

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/04/the-utopian-origins-of-restroom-symbols/361162/


"When You Fall in Love, This Is What Facebook Sees" -

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/when-you-fall-in-love-this-is-what-facebook-sees/283865/


"Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News" -

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/


"Lightning’s Elizabeth Stark: 2017 Will Be the Year of Smart Contracts" -

https://cointelegraph.com/news/lightnings-elizabeth-stark-2017-will-be-the-year-of-smart-contracts


"The Cybernetic Humanities" -

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-cybernetic-humanities/


Will Gompertz discovers Geneva Free Port... -

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38167501


"How to Become a Famous Media Scholar" -

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Black Quantum Futurism is totally awesome -

http://www.blackquantumfuturism.com/


Black Quantum Futurism's music is totally awesome as well -

https://blackquantumfuturism.bandcamp.com/


"The real story behind a viral Rembrandt ‘kids on phones’ photo" -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12103150/Rembrandt-The-Night-Watch-The-real-story-behind-the-kids-on-phones-photo.html


"Bitcoin Magazine’s Top 6 Tech Trends of 2016" -

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/bitcoin-magazine-s-top-tech-trends-of-1483044744


"The Dream of Buying a Coffee With Bitcoin Is Dying, If It’s Not Already 
Dead - Bitcoin" -


https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/48o99y/the_dream_of_buying_a_coffee_with_bitcoin_is/d0leosx


"RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY
Post-Blockchain, Experimental Publishing, Open Hardware & Artistic 
Technology." -


https://riat.ac.at/publications/


"Solving Crimes Thanks to Amazon Echo" -

https://www.nextnature.net/2016/12/solving-crime-amazon-echo


"The Instant Rise of Machine Intelligence?" -

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RBloggers/~3/_8WBw9Zki80


Cyber-Mysticism -

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"Rare Pepes on the Bitcoin Blockchain." -

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"Go Pro: The Hyper-Professionalization of the Emerging Artist | ARTnews" -

http://www.artnews.com/2016/03/09/go-pro-the-hyper-professionalization-of-the-emerging-artist/


"On a colony beyond Neptune, memory and experience do not run parallel", 
fiction by Amy Ireland -

http://www.aft3r.us/phix/


"Cyberspace & Ritual Space: Intersections « hyperRitual" -

http://hyperritual.com/blog/cyberitual-preview/


"Bloc by Bloc is a semi-cooperative strategy board game inspired by 21st 
century urban insurrection." -

http://outofordergames.com/blocbybloc/


"A Thousand Reps", Amy Ireland & Linda Dement -

http://runway.org.au/a-thousand-reps/


Sadie Plant's website -

http://www.sadieplant.com/


"The Great A.I. Awakening - NYTimes.com" -

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html


An online course on curating Internet-based art -

https://nodecenter.net/course/curating-internet-art


"Sheaves in Geometry and Logic" at nLab -

https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Sheaves+in+Geometry+and+Logic


"Art UK: An unexpected case study in innovation strategy" -

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Interview with Luciana Parisi -

http://figureground.org/interview-with-luciana-parisi/


"Obsolete Capitalism :: Acceleration, Revolution and Money in Deleuze 
and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus" -


http://obsoletecapitalism.blogspot.ca/2016/11/out-now-obsolete-capitalism.html


A-Frame (Web VR Framework, as if VRML never existed) news -

https://aframe.io/blog/


Getting started with TensorFlow -

https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/


Deep Dream in TensorFlow -

https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorflow/examples/tutorials/deepdream/deepdream.ipynb


It's that time again. ;-) "Is it possible for an AI to create 
revolutionary art?" -


https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/artificial-creativity


"Skintillates: Temporary tattoos with embedded electronics" -

https://blog.arduino.cc/2016/11/15/skintillates-temporary-tattoos-with-embedded-electronics/


Transcutaneous cyborgism via extra senses -

http://www.cyborgnest.net/north-sense


"‘You Hacked’ appears at Muni stations as fare payment system crashes" -

http://new-aesthetic.tumblr.com/post/153774817655


"Things to Know About Web Security Before Trump’s Inauguration: A Harm 
Reductionist Guide" -


https://medium.com/@kappklot/things-to-know-about-web-security-before-trumps-inauguration-a-harm-reductionist-guide-c365a5ddbcb8
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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

90% off Verso eBooks (including "Inventing the Future") -

http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3014-90-off-all-our-ebooks-until-january-1st?discount_code=endofyear2016


New VNS Matrix -

http://www.runway.org.au/32/tenderhex/


Laboria Cuboniks interview -

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/particular-universals/


Laboria Cuboniks interview -

http://cmagazine.com/issues/132/feminisms-of-the-future-now-rethinking-technofeminism-and-the-ma


"How AI is revolutionising the role of the literary critic | Aeon
Essays" - 

https://aeon.co/essays/how-ai-is-revolutionising-the-role-of-the-literary-critic


Machine learning translates bat conversations - 

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-translate-bat-talk-and-they-argue-lot-180961564/


The new blood libel? -

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/let-them-drink-blood/


New community documentation for Urbit -

http://urbit.org/fora/posts/~2016.12.25..06.35.44..a1ec~/
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[NetBehaviour] Links

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"A curated list of awesome TensorFlow experiments, libraries, and 
projects." -


https://github.com/jtoy/awesome-tensorflow


Shardcore's generative art -

http://www.shardcore.org/shardpress/category/algorithmicart/


Web VR fundamentals -

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/vr


Plantoids: The First Blockchain-Based Artificial Life Forms -

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/plantoids-the-first-blockchain-based-artificial-life-forms-1482768916


Ledger cryptocurrency Journal Volume 1 -

http://ledger.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ledger/issue/view/2


Technical developments in Cryptography: 2016 in Review -

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/12/what-happened-crypto-2016


A 3D Printing DAO -

https://news.bitcoin.com/open3d-club-bitcoin-3d-printing-dao/


An Open Hardware U2F dongle -

https://u2fzero.com/


"The Tech behind Bitcoin Could Help Artists and Protect Collectors. So 
Why Won’t They Use It?" -


https://m.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-the-tech-behind-bitcoin-could-help-artists-and-protect-collectors-so-why-won-t-they-use-it


A CCRUish reading list -

https://www.are.na/dillon-votaw/ccrupted-t0sh0kan
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Re: [NetBehaviour] I saw this from Annie. It made me sad...and curious

[Rob Myers]

On 12/12/16 01:24 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote:


let's continue the spirit


+ a Google. Err googol.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] FW: NetBehaviour Digest, Vol 2912, Issue 1

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, at 02:57 AM, ruth catlow wrote:

> On 30/11/16 09:47, Charlotte Elizabeth Webb wrote:

>> Last night I was watching Astra Taylor give a keynote for the 2016
>> Rhizome Seven on Seven event[1], and she made a good point that
>> 'purity' re: Facebook (i.e. not being there on principle) is counter-
>> effective when it comes to political organising, because it is simply
>> where the people are.
> We're people here too ; )

> 



Taylor wrote a book about social media platforms a couple of years ago.
It wasn't very good -


http://robmyers.org/2014/05/29/the-peoples-platform/



But as your smiley indicates, you know what they mean here.  :-)



We have more than enough case studies of social media activism
censorship and fallout to be at least slightly wary, though. The current
round of bannings for right-wing individuals and newsgroups on Twitter
and Facebook is something that the left needs to take as more of a
warning than it seems to be...


- Rob.




Links:

  1. https://vimeo.com/169714504
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Re: [NetBehaviour] The Blockchain- Change Everything Forever - a Furtherfield Film

[Rob Myers]

On 27/10/16 04:03 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> 
> Ben Vickers and I are going to be running a LARP (Live Action Role Play)
> event for /Blockchain Budgetary Bliss /at the upcoming Moneylab
>  in Amsterdam.
> We will be building paper-based Dapps and DAOs (blockchain based apps
> and organisations) for a fictional good cause and thinking about all the
> asymmetries of power at play- should be fun. We'd love it if NBers
> wanted to sign up and participate.

Hey that's awesome. :-)

> Finally, I just want to be clear. We are NOT blockchain evangelists. I
> personally have a bad feeling about this technology. But I also know
> that it's here and that more diverse people need to get into the middle
> of its development to feel its strangeness and scope.

I think that's a good way to be.

The blockchain is only a teletype or an email server, but look at what
past art movements did with those, both in terms of social organization
and political critique.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] neterarti down or a new dawn?

[Rob Myers]

On 27/10/16 12:40 AM, x wrote:
> 
> Any idea/clue/s what happened to
> https://neterarti.furtherfield.org ?

I got the security certificate renewal wrong. :-(

It's now fixed and neterarti is back. :-)

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Re: [NetBehaviour] PeerValue conference review on INC MoneyLab blog

[Rob Myers]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, at 02:54 AM, marc garrett wrote:
> “The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals such
> as universal basic income is that they acknowledge economic inequality
> and its social consequences. However, a closer look at how UBI is
> expected to work reveals that it is intended  to provide political
> cover for the elimination of social programs and the privatization of
> social services. The Liberal Party's resolution is no exception.
> Calling for "Savings in health, justice, education and social welfare
> as well as the building of self-reliant, taxpaying citizen," clearly
> means social cuts and privatization.”

Neoliberal proposals for UBI are obviously Neoliberal and should be
opposed on that basis. But the left's engagement with UBI goes a long
way past that.

"Inventing The Future" pages 118-123 (footnotes 91-119) lays out the
grounds for left UBI clearly. Or I pulled out some quotes relevant to
the above in May of this year -

http://robmyers.org/2016/05/27/left-universal-basic-income/

notably:

"The conservative argument for a basic income – which must be avoided at
all costs – is that it should simply replace the welfare state by
providing a lump sum of money to every individual. In this scenario, the
UBI would just become a vector of increased marketisation, transforming
social services into private markets. Rather than being some aberration
of neoliberalism, it would simply extend its essential gesture by
creating new markets. By contrast, the demand made here is for UBI as a
supplement to a revived welfare state."

This demand is not intended to be made in a vacuum or as an end in
itself. "Inventing The Future" proposes it as part of a broader
political programme, and as an answer to a particular set of
political problems.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, 8 Aug 2016, at 06:45 AM, furtherfield wrote:
> Universal Basic Income Is a Neoliberal Plot To Make You Poorer
>
> By Dmytri Kleiner.
>
> The reason many people on the left are excited about proposals for a
> Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it acknowledges economic
> inequality and its social consequences. In reality, however, UBI
> provides political cover for the elimination of social programs and
> the privatization of social services.
>
> “The notion that we can solve inequality within capitalism by
> indiscriminately giving people money and leaving the provisioning of
> all social needs to corporations is extremely dubious. While this view
> is to be expected among those, like Murray and Friedman, who promote
> capitalism, it is not compatible with anticapitalism.

http://robmyers.org/2016/05/27/left-universal-basic-income/

"""The Universal Basic Income proposed by the Left is different from
that proposed by the Right. Rather than replacing the welfare state it
is a supplement to it.

As Srnicek & Williams note in “Inventing The Future”, 2015 (p.297):

"The conservative argument for a basic income – which must be avoided at
all costs – is that it should simply replace the welfare state by
providing a lump sum of money to every individual. In this scenario, the
UBI would just become a vector of increased marketisation, transforming
social services into private markets. Rather than being some aberration
of neoliberalism, it would simply extend its essential gesture by
creating new markets. By contrast, the demand made here is for UBI as a
supplement to a revived welfare state."

In the footnote to this, they quote Alyssa Battistoni, “Alive in the
Sunshine”, Jacobin 13, 2014 (p.4):

"A UBI programme would ideally involve a transformation of the welfare
state. Programmes that provide services must be kept and expanded – for
example, healthcare, childcare, housing, public transport and internet
access. All of these should be immediate goals of the left, not only for
their inherent good but also because expanding public services is
necessary for reducing overall energy consumption."

And in response to the question of why the rich should be given money as
well as the poor, they respond (p.296):

"As there would be no means-testing or other measures required to
receive the UBI, it would break free of the disciplinary nature of
welfare capitalism."

It is perfectly possible to disagree with any or all of this. That does
however first require acknowledging it. And there’s a lot more where
this came from…"""
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Re: [NetBehaviour] It Had To Be Done

[Rob Myers]

On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, at 09:40 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote:
> Hi Rob, do you mean that the blockchain art is carried within the
> blockchain itself? or does the blockchain contain a reference to the
> artwork, where it exists externally (online/physical). how large is
> each blockchain piece and can it carry other data than hex(?) numbers.
 
In MTAA's original, the flashing sign identifies what appear to be
network cable directly linking two Macintosh computers as the "here".
It's a playful response to the question of where the art is in net art.
 
In my shameless borrowing it's a schematic "block" in an image of the
kind that you get if you google for "blockchain diagram" (see the
"preparatory" folder of the project for ones I didn't use). This is a
slightly more plausible site for some sort of art than a wire, but
only slightly.
 
The Bitcoin blockchain contains a reference to this particular image (in
the block the image mentions), but not the image itself. There are
various systems that work like this:
 
https://www.proofofexistence.com/
 
https://www.ascribe.io/
 
https://monegraph.com/
 
You can upload images and other media into the blockchain, although this
is generally frowned upon as "bloat":
 
http://www.cryptograffiti.info/
 
http://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html
 
Each Bitcoin block at present can store at most 1MB of data. You can put
larger blobs of data into it, split over many transactions in several
blocks, but see above note about "bloat". :-)
 
You can create references to or upload anything that can be represented
digitally, certainly including text, images, sound and video.
Cryptographic hashing is fun. I put the hash of my genome on the
blockchain to prove that I exist:
 
http://robmyers.org/proof-of-existence/
 
putting all 20MB of my genome on there would have been a bad idea for
privacy reasons as well as bloat ones.
 
There are different blockchains that can store different things
(NameCoin for internet address data, Counterparty for generalised
tokens, Twister for microblogging, Ethereum for programs). There are
also much more efficient ways of storing media and having conversations
that nonetheless play nice with blockchains (IPFS, Storj and Swarm are
all good ways of doing this).
 
There's surprisingly little art in the blockchain itself as far as I
know. This is a shame as I find it a very interesting environment
technologically and socially, and prime real estate for net art style
play. I'd be very interested to hear about any projects people have
created or seen.
 
Bonus links to more of my projects and writing on the subject:
 
http://robmyers.org/abcd/
 
http://robmyers.org/category/crypto/
 
:-)
 
- Rob.
 
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[NetBehaviour] It Had To Be Done

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http://robmyers.org/2016/07/26/simple-blockchain-art-diagram/

Simple Blockchain Art Diagram, 2016, digital media. After MTAA ca. 1997.

Very obviously adapted from MTAA's "Simple Net Art Diagram".

Proofs of existence stored in Bitcoin block 422422 and 422423.

More details on the project page.



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Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

[Rob Myers]

On 23/07/16 07:21 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> On 22/07/16 23:26, Rob Myers wrote:
>>  
>> Yes there's a gulf between the world-changing rhetoric and the
>> money-grubbing behaviour that is sadly familiar from past developments
>> in tech.
> WOW that's a thought!
> When I remember the utopian verve with which I embraced the early
> development of the WWW...

Yes. I think that the comparison to the early web is pretty much perfect.

The difference being that more people at least played critically with
the web.

> I had thought that the skepticism that Blockchain arouses within me was
> to do with the fact that it converts every exchange into a transaction
> as part of a global market. But you are probably correct- this is pretty
> much business as usual.

Under neoliberalism, every exchange is a transaction in the global
market, Bitcoin just reifies that.

Discuss. ;-)

I have some lovely little Bitcoin badges that say "Free The Markets,
Free The World." I think people genuinely believe that. But as Nick Land
says, the idea of an "individual" in those markets in Bitcoin is the
same as in classical economic liberalism. You are an individual, and so
am I, and so is any corporation that has a Bitcoin address...

>> Possibly a cognitively necessary one.
> What, really, why?

Oh for the people working on writing systems for banks while talking
about freeing society from third party intermediaries. :-)

>> What's new this time around is the full-stack entitlement to passive
>> income and return-on-investment.
>>  
> Yes!

And it feeds into the scams. Oh, the scams. We need to hold a seance to
summon the ghost of Charles Mackay, as it's a shame they missed this.

http://altcoins.com/scamcoins

>> "Financial inclusion" is a strong driver in conventional
>> cryptocurrency - won't someone think of the unbanked?
>>  
> Brett Scott wrote about this here http://www.unrisd.org/brett-scott

Oh I must read that. So many whitepapers, so little time. :-)

There's a digital humanities project to be had in the study of the
language, rhetoric and imaginary of cryptocurrency whitepapers...

>> Recuperation is the fate of any technology under capitalism. What's
>> extraordinary about this particular technology is that it turns so
>> many of its critics into technological determinists.
> I think that this is a function of its inaccessibility too.

Yes that's a very good point.

> Unlike the
> early WWW we (the mass of amateur experimental tech adventurers- of many
> ages and values) can't so easily get our hands on the code. In the early
> 90s I could take a piece of simple html, upload it to a computer and
> then share it around the world we can't mess with BC software in the
> same way...

I simply hadn't considered it in these terms (although I have often made
this comparison for inaccessible *web* technologies). o_O

> OR CAN WE?!
> 
> Rob- perhaps you know of some cut-and-paste DIY resources that we could
> play with together.

Hmm I'm not sure what a good mapping from HTML to the Blockchain is.

Here's the wrong answer to hopefully inspire an objection that can lead
to the right one :-) :

Things Everyone Can Just Do
---

Get a wallet, e.g. -

https://www.bitgo.com/wallet

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.schildbach.wallet=en

https://itunes.apple.com/app/breadwallet/id885251393

Accept Bitcoin:

http://gary-rowe.com/agilestack/2012/01/09/how-to-accept-bitcoins-on-your-blog-with-no-code/


Get Familiar With How Things Work
-

Watch transactions and blocks in real time and analyse them:

https://blockchain.info/

Play with various Bitcoin features in the browser (addresses, units, etc.):

https://bitcore.io/playground/


Learning the Coding Side


Play with generating Bitcoin wallets of various kinds in the browser:

https://www.bitaddress.org/

Play with Bitcoin transaction scripts in the browser:

http://www.crmarsh.com/script-playground/

Play with Ethereum contracts in the browser:

https://ethereum.github.io/browser-solidity

Learn how to set up automatic Bitcoin charge/payment systems with 21
(possibly the most interesting but most complex of these):

https://21.co/learn/intro-to-21/


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Blockchain & Bureaucracy

[Rob Myers]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016, at 08:28 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Another informative blog here from Max.
> http://networkcultures.org/moneylab/2016/07/12/%C2%ADblockchain-bureaucracy/
>
>  It certainly reflects many of my encounters with blockchain-engaged
>  types in London so far.
>  It's hard to overstate the extremities and contradictions that we've
>  encountered in this area
 
Yes there's a gulf between the world-changing rhetoric and the money-
grubbing behaviour that is sadly familiar from past developments in
tech. Possibly a cognitively necessary one. What's new this time around
is the full-stack entitlement to passive income and return-on-
investment.
 
>
>  The threat of this
> "The inability to imagine alternative use cases for p2p distributed
> networks to enable greater financial inclusion, citizen empowerment or
> civil organization will lead to the inevitable commercialization and
> privatization of blockchain, and bankers will fondly remember Bitcoin
> as the greatest gift the hackers ever made."
>
> is a strong motivation for Furtherfield's work in this territory.
 
"Financial inclusion" is a strong driver in conventional cryptocurrency
- won't someone think of the unbanked?
 
Recuperation is the fate of any technology under capitalism. What's
extraordinary about this particular technology is that it turns so many
of its critics into technological determinists. That's fortunately not
the case here.
 
- Rob.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Seapunk piece?

[Rob Myers]

On 21/05/16 06:12 AM, Simon Mclennan wrote:
> Can anyone point me to that excellent piece that historicised sea punk 
> amongst other things.
> About a month or so ago on this list??
> Can’t remember who wrote it, but they did a good job, and I would like to 
> read again if possible.

The only mention of seapunk I can find is from a loong time ago -

http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/joncates/2012-daze-dither-d00m-crashed

Can you remember what else the article was about?

There's also Vaporwave -

http://www.zero-books.net/books/babbling-corpse

- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Potentially Harmful

[Rob Myers]

On Wed, 25 May 2016, at 07:17 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> I recently made an ident for MTV that was shown everywhere apart from
> the UK. This was due to the ident containing "Potentially Harmful"
> content. I've never worked in broadcast before and, whilst I know
> flashing imagery should be avoided, I didn't know stripes were
> disallowed.

I wouldn't have thought of that either but stripes moving at speed will
flash. This is like a car driving through the shadows cast by tree
branches on a sunny day.

> I've described this whole process here
> http://www.hellocatfood.com/potentially-harmful/
> 
> Does this render a lot of glitch art/new media/digital art
> unboradcastable?

You've created art that is resistant to media distribution.

In 2016.

That's awesome!

And potential problems are identified by machine -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harding_test

Which makes this an example of algorithmic critique as well.

So to answer your question - more energetic examples of glitch/new media
would need a certificate.  I wonder if institutions that collect such
art have access to Harding testing?
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[NetBehaviour] More Accelerationist Links

[Rob Myers]

http://www.reinventinghorizons.org/?p=346

"The new realist and materialist philosophy and the new political theory
which it explicitly inspired, assert that reality can be known and that
change is possible. Rather than spell out here what this entails in the
various currents of thought that range from New Materialism via
Speculative Realism to Accelerationism, I would like to look at the
discursive framework and background information that have led to their
engagement with the scientific and (financial-) economic phenomena that
characterize the early twenty-first century. Yet these phenomena are
largely ignored in the everyday academic life of the humanities, marked
for decades now by a conservative philologism and a politically
motivated, yet nonetheless vague and inert theoretical relativism—the
legacy of ’68. In its various guises..."


http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/supercoversations-day-58-mohammad-salemy-responds-to-aaron-schuster-you-cant-ask-everyone-to-behave-ethically-just-like-that/

"What is wrong with these often repeated criticisms is that they measure
Accelerationism with a historical stick inherited from the 20th century.
They miss its philosophical basis rooted in the way a group of thinkers,
defined under the umbrella term of speculative realism, broke with
dominant philosophical norms in the past decade and paved the way for
the development of what by now should be properly called Left
Accelerationism (#LA)."


http://tripleampersand.org/speculative-realism-accelerationism-and-the-in-between/

"...the philosophical, political, and anthropological accounts of why
and how the academic mainstream tries to reject, suppress and at the
same time, recuperate the discourse of accelerationism, and what actions
or inactions by those involved in the discourse contribute to the
success or failure of these strategies..."


http://www.ultra-com.org/project/swoosh/

"Essentially, the happy accelerationist is a health goth minus the goth,
envisioning a sleek future without the ambiguous, dark undertones of
hyper-real dystopia—the swoosh is merely a fragment of our own bright
inheritance, glimpsed from a distance. In the meantime, all we need to
do is accelerate the very dynamics of automation currently underway,
pairing them with social programs like universal basic income in order
to soften the blow of labor redundancy and prefigure the cybernetic
socialism of the future. The accelerationists at least avoid the cheap
optimism of the Silicon Valley douchebag."


http://deontologistics.tumblr.com/post/91953882443/so-accelerationism-whats-all-that-about

"I will point out an important symmetry between the left-accelerationist
views of those like myself, and what are increasingly being referred to
as the 'right-accelerationist’ views of those like Land. We agree on
this much: modernity and capitalism are ultimately incompatible. We
disagree on which one should/will go..."


https://blog.urbanomic.com/cyclon/archives/2012/11/abducting_the_o.html

"...acceleration as a vector of epistemic mediation or global navigation
of concept-spaces which is basically operates as an alternative to
ultra-normative approaches to epistemology. A form of metisocratic
production of knowledge and manipulative abductive inference. [...] Also
at the same time, warning against metaphysically inflating the gestural
constitution of acceleration as a mode of epistemic mediation into a
vapid form of enactivism."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KZVnoRWUc

"Art and Reason – How Art Thinks II"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2AWQ-mvYxs

"Art and Reason – How Art Thinks"
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

On 05/05/16 10:46 PM, Kath O'Donnell wrote:
> Serenity below sounds like IP VLAN address allocation? you manage your
> allocated ranges assigned to you by an organization, which fit in with
> the whole global IPv4/IPv6 range. IPv6 being the expanded range as IPv4
> is running out of spares.

Yes, with the numbers long enough to represent programs. :-)

(Or at least their account balances).

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Capitalism without its values, governance and pathologies

[Rob Myers]

On 06/05/16 03:46 AM, Przemyslaw Sanecki wrote:
> Hi everybody,

Hi!

> from /#ACCELERATE (2013,Williams+Srnicek):
> 
> /
> 
> 03.1 (...) an accelerationist politics seeks to preserve the gains
> of late capitalism while going further than its value system,
> governance structures, and mass pathologies will allow.
> 
> 
> Although, this fragment casts some light on it:
> 
> 03.9 (...) the Left must take advantages of every technological and
> scientific advance made possible by capitalist society. (...) social
> network analysis, agent-based modelling, big data analytics, and
> non-equilibrium economic models (...). The accelarationist Left must
> become literate in  [technical] fields.
> 

They also  quote Lenin:

"Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering
based on the latest discoveries of modern science. [...]"

and say that:

"5. Accelerationists want to unleash latent productive forces. In this
project, the material platform of neoliberalism does not need to be
destroyed. It needs to be repurposed towards common ends. The existing
infrastructure is not a capitalist stage to be smashed, but a
springboard to launch towards post-capitalism."

> I hardly can see anything should be preserved and is intrinsically 
> capitalist gain. What are capitalist gains? I quite blind when comes
> to acknowledge them.

The gross scientific, infrastructural and technological production that
has not been prevented under current-phase capitalism.

All to be "repurposed towards common ends" rather than continuing to
reproduce capitalism.

I can easily see a socialist objection that these forms are the result
of distorted social relations and that post-capitalist production would
take very different forms without those distortions. But these are
resources that could be used to *get* there.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

On 05/05/16 10:25 PM, Rob Myers wrote:
> as it seems to be in Sellars 

Cavell, not Sellars. I will get all the names right in one of these...

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

On 04/05/16 12:18 PM, erik zepka wrote:
> 
> Your point earlier about the problematic nature of normativity I think
> can be approached via a notion of combining normativity with agency. 
> That is, if the Brandomian normativist is also a norm-creator
> normativity becomes a rational construct that a subject works to invent,
> modify and redact.
>
> Between these I think the validity of the norm is found in its
> constant revision - likewise the defense of new rationalism and its
> ties to accelerating the means of both resistance and production
> might lie less in the sort of Adornian critique of instrumental
> rationality (and the move then to poetics and the like) but to a
> pluralization of rationality in the most scientist way possible.

Yes I think Negarastani's essay in The Accelerationist Reader addresses
some of this (and their talks at The New Centre definitely do). But
Malik's essay in Collapse VIII raises the problem of contemporary "Risk
Society" being corrosive to social norms, although I haven't had time to
really look into that.

Pluralistic rationality is very, very far from Twentieth Century
logicism. This is a non-monotonic/defeasible reason.

> I think between Feyerabend and Stengers there might be a nice complement
> to the Peirce/Sellars/Brandom pragmatist continuum - in it we progress
> from rationalism to its revisions to their explosion.  Both (Feyerabend
> and Stengers) having been branded (as always, by enemies) as
> irrationalists, they might be the most persistent exponent of a plural
> rationalism.  Feyerabend at every moment demands debate and overturning
> of the precepts of any rational construct of experimental endeavour
> (having himself - somewhat comparably to Putnam - evolved through
> different positions that he would then come to "refute"/disagree with
> (empiricism, rationalism, eliminativism, anarchic disagreement,
> democratization, abundance), while Stengers evolves directly from the
> laboratory construct to ecology, politics - in a sense skipping
> traditional rationalism to the applied effects of activities.  

Reading about Feyerabend here what immediately interests me is the idea
of (in)commensurability.

> For me this is a strong area of accelerationist tendencies - questions
> like: what would a rationalist ecopolitics look like - how is
> revisionism, plurality and alterity connected - how can technological
> discourse evolve to a rationalist otherness that disagrees in essence
> with the progress of bureaucratic vagueness.

Very yes to all of this. :-)

One of the things I don't understand in neo-rationalism is the scope of
revision. I assume we wish our mistaken and unjust beliefs (and
self-images) to be revised, but is identity ring-fenced as it seems to
be in Sellars and if not where is that kind of limit identified? Would
alterity be normatively revised? If so surely not towards majority
norms. But if away from them then, again as with Sellars, how do we
avoid a consumerist/(neo)liberal demand that people be ever more like
themselves?

> Rob can you say more about the Casper algorithm?

Oops I meant Serenity (so. many. codenames.). Here's a technical
description:

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/53

The problem it addresses is that, as any Bitcoin hater will tell you,
"the blockchain doesn't scale". Rather than try to make it quicker or
more efficient to fetch and store all the information needed to keep
track of the state of the entire world('s worth of transactions) every
ten seconds, Serenity makes it so that you only have to keep track of
the subset of the world('s transactions) that you are interested in for
your own security.

These subsets of the world('s transactions) are known as "shards", a
term taken from traditional databases. Each shard, and the code and
value within it, is isolated from the others unless it takes special
measures to access them. This means that you only need the data for the
shard you are working within, not any others.

If the classic blockchain looks like a post-relativistic universe with a
unified/God's-eye view of the information it contains, a sharded
blockchain looks very much relativistic with local frames of reference.
Local rather than global truth. But the information contained within
each shard must ultimately be reconcilable with the global state. Where
communication takes place across shards, it cannot contradict the state
of the contents of either shard.

So I may be overreaching, but I think this is a nice example of a system
that is locally specific but globally reconcilable. Which obviously
relates to philosophy of science and to neo-rationalism.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Just received word that Harold Cohen died :-(

[Rob Myers]

On Sun, 1 May 2016, at 12:47 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> Rest in peace, very sad.

Yes very sad. AARON (Cohen's project from the early 1970s onwards) was a
singular achievement. Their website has images of  work, and papers
going back to the 1970s -

http://aaronshome.com/aaron/index.html
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[NetBehaviour] Epistemic Accelerationism [Was Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:51 PM, erik zepka wrote:
> 
> And when the questions, as both Ruth
> and Alan have effectively talked about, get to a realm of inhuman
> problematics, ecological, species-threatening, who should advise then? 

Deodands:

https://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/392/deodands-dacs-for-natural-systems

;-)

> We could at least say that for every categorical norm (a type of person,
> a type of organism, a type of biosphere) there's an exception and that
> considering that exception can help expand the norm.

Or create new separate or superseding norms. The revision of norms over
time, and avoiding local contradictions between them, is a key part of
the sources of epistemic accelerationism - Sellars, Brandom, etc. .

The current work on the "Casper" algorithm for Ethereum may end up as a
realisation in code of this kind of local-within-the-global consensus.

> If we imagined an
> accelerationist advisory committee (maybe this is one), whatever our
> question, it might choose to attempt to make accountable whatever
> accelerationism then meant or did - the advisory committee then itself
> might be considered normative, but it doesn't subtract from the fact
> that it might have been a sober move within a given context.

The Manifesto is against *fetishising* democratic proceduralism.

As Ordinaryism points out, sometimes to increase our knowledge we do
have to listen to other people.

But as Big Data point outs, what people *do* is a better indicator than
what they *say*. We are increasingly able to reason about both using
computing machinery. Epistemic accelerationism may ultimately lead to
the automation of philosophy, although this is not a sufficient or
necessary destiny for it.

It would be difficult to regard this as impossible at the same time as
(for example) criticising algorithms for being racist.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:59 AM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> I love those NASA posters and actually have one hanging on my wall!

I imagine ones with a similarly confident visual aesthetic and verbal
phrasing presenting a future in which full automation / post-capitalism
/ etc. have already happened (and were always going to have happened).

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 06:42 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
>>
>> An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls'
>> proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the
>> gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge
>> about the art world, enabling us to understand more about it, and was
>> entirely indigestible by it, making it something other than Contemporary
>> Art.
>>
> 
> - Hans Haacke

Oh yes Haacke is a very good example.

In particular, Haacke's "Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate
Holdings, a Real-Time social System, as of May 1, 1971" was indigestible
by the artworld of its time, -

http://collection.whitney.org/object/29487

It was originally excluded from an exhibition. But as the Whitney url
indicates has since been recuperated.

Another work that exposes aspects of the artworld economy is Douglas
Huebler's "Variable Piece no.44" (1971) -

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/huebler-variable-piece-no-44-p07234

It's more open to the "art about art" charge than Haacke's work of the
time, but is still an exposure of the hidden workings of its chosen system.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist health policy

[Rob Myers]

On 29/04/16 01:41 PM, Edward Picot wrote:
> The Royal College of Physicians have just announced their approval of
> e-cigarettes.

There was a controversy about them in the States recently -

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/e-cigarette-flavoring-chemicals-linked-to-respiratory-disease/

http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/09/how-the-media-totally-exaggerated-study-on-risk-of-popcorn-lung-from-e-cigarettes/

Whether this is an example of media pressure on research or of misplaced
moralising I don't know.

"Popcorn Lung" is a very media-friendly name for a nasty disease...

> [...]
> 
> But that's typical of new technology, isn't it? It gives with one hand,
> and takes away with the other.

Absolutely.

Another example is that health tracker information is now being used in
criminal cases:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2014/11/16/fitbit-data-court-room-personal-injury-claim/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

On 24/04/16 04:52 PM, Gretta Louw wrote:
> Death to the ludicrous, imperialist notion of 'mastery'!

>From the Manifesto:

"14. [...] Real democracy must be defined by its goal — collective
self-mastery. This is a project which must align politics with the
legacy of the Enlightenment, to the extent that it is only through
harnessing our ability to understand ourselves and our world better (our
social, technical, economic, psychological world) that we can come to
rule ourselves. We need to posit a collectively controlled legitimate
vertical authority in addition to distributed horizontal forms of
sociality, to avoid becoming the slaves of either a tyrannical
totalitarian centralism or a capricious emergent order beyond our control."

"21. [...] This mastery must be distinguished from that beloved of
thinkers of the original Enlightenment. The clockwork universe of
Laplace, so easily mastered given sufficient information, is long gone
from the agenda of serious scientific understanding. But this is not to
align ourselves with the tired residue of postmodernity, decrying
mastery as proto-fascistic or authority as innately illegitimate."

I allege that what is under discussion here, however unfortunate the
label and however incompletely, is the concept of "justice" rather than
that of "domination".


But Patricia Reed is also critical of this element of the Manifestio in
their response to it ("Seven Prescriptions For Accelerationism"),
arguing that:

"...the undertones of a revised Modernism peppering the Manifesto are of
deep concern: they leave untouched the violence and injustice inherent
to the universalist repercussions of the Modernist project untouched."

and:

"While the Manifesto admirably takes on the full scale of global
reality, a more nuanced version of universality (not to mention
questions of global justice) needs to take root if the ideas driving
Accelerationism are to contain the seeds of an ethics that embrace
non-totality and the constant struggle for inhuman (epistemic) revisionism."

Srnicek & Williams take up Reed's "situated universality" in their
follow-up to the manifesto ("Inventing The Future") by again referring
to the negative model of neoliberalism.

As well as critiquing the Manifesto, Reed addresses some of its critics:

"There are several aspects of the Manifesto to debate, confront, refute,
argue and so forth; but to deny the possibility for a politics of such
scale tout court (a scale we seem to have no trouble swallowing in the
context of the omnipotence of the global neoliberal economy) is as
totalising and absolutist as the claims made against the projected scale
of Accelerationism."


Laboria Cuboniks embrace this scale in the Xenofeminist manifesto,
writing of:

"...a future in which the realization of gender justice and feminist
emancipation contribute to a universalist politics assembled from the
needs of every human, cutting across race, ability, economic standing,
and geographical position. No more futureless repetition on the
treadmill of capital, no more submission to the drudgery of labour,
productive and reproductive alike, no more reification of the given
masked as critique."

and a Promethean feminism:

"In the name of feminism, 'Nature' shall no longer be a refuge of
injustice, or a basis for any political justification whatsoever!

If nature is unjust, change nature!"


(Xenofeminist music is a thing:

https://soundcloud.com/yoneda-lemma/sets/d-n-e )

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 24/04/16 03:22 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote:
> 
> I just watched Ruth's work again, I like the reflexion it brings, how it
> articulates all these times.

Yes it increases our ability to reflect on and dare I say reason about
this. Which is Accelerationist-y. It's a very eloquent work however one
looks at it.

> What did I get out of the examples Rob gave in his article? They are
> almost all art, just art, as far as I can see. Objects, you can show and
> sell. They function mostly in the Artworld. Holly Herndon and probably
> also Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke seem to be a bit different in
> the sense that they also engage with other domains and feel "whole".
> They reach out.

This is an interesting contrast that I'd like to unpack a bit. :-)

The "After Us" magazine cover, "On The Necessity of Art's Exit From
Contemporary Art" book cover and Holly Herndon album cover are graphic
design there to illustrate products rather than be presented as art in
themselves.

Of the images of artworks in the article...

"Acceleration" incorporates imagery from the computer simulation of a
solar neutrino event at Sudbury Neutrino Observatory. It was drawn in
pen and ink, to resist any accusations of techno-fetishism.

"Cybersyn Control Room" is the mock-up of an environment intended to
help respond to the needs of a transitioning socialist economy.

"Final Machine" contrasts Louis Althusser's work with a CIA
indoctrination lecture and the script of Miami Vice.

"Index: Incident In The Museum" is part of a Marxist critique of the
artworld as a site of class struggle.

"The Promise Of Total Automation" has been curated to provide different
perspectives on its subject.

The "Xenofeminism" GIF is a playful but conceptually dense detourned
image of feminine artificiality, power and order.

The "Additivism" image is again quite compact - art, Cthulhu, global
warming, 3D printing and oil in a single coherent image.

And careful web searches indicate that the entities named in O(rphan)
D(rift>)'s "Hybridized" video have long since escaped it.

So at the level of *content*, these all reach further to varying degrees.

That they contrast with more participatory or performative art
illustrates a paradox of political art - *form* can be more effectively
political than content.

I'd argue for the political role of form in these works as well. But the
fact that despite this they can all be contained by the contemporary
artworld (even Cybersyn's control room was the subject of an art show)
indicates just how difficult seeing beyond its confines will be. What
knowledge could be sufficient to achieve this?

> Please diversify examples ...

I don't think it's a good one, but... On the level of propagandising for
Left Accelerationism, I think something like these NASA posters might be
an example of how to make the idea of a specific better future seem
possible -

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 24/04/16 01:49 PM, Pall Thayer wrote:
> It just occurred to me that this artwork has already been suggested by
> Kurt Vonnegut in Rabo Karabekian's "Windsor Blue Number Seventeen".
> 
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 2:18 PM Pall Thayer  > wrote:
> 
> Based on my understanding of Accelerationism, I would think that the
> ideal "Accelerationist" artwork would be work that you get typical
> art-investors to pay a shit-load of money for but that is inherently
> ephemeral so that no portion of the original "investment" can ever
> grow or even be recouped.

The art market recuperates the ephemeral (and even the actively hostile)
and turns doing so into a mechanism of exclusivity.

Whether it's carefully recovered documentation and certificates, or
restricted access to remote locations and fleeting events, exclusivity
is a source of value in the art market.

So trying to not create, or to actively destroy, value in the art market
is a good way of creating value in the art market. This is a challenge
for epistemic accelerationists seeking to exit the contemporary artworld...

An ideal Accelerationist artwork would have been the Guerilla Girls'
proposal for a gallery to make its finances public as "the work" (the
gallery declined). It would have been a critical exposure of knowledge
about the art world, enabling us to understand more about it, and was
entirely indigestible by it, making it something other than Contemporary
Art.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Rob Myers]

On 24/04/16 02:42 PM, BishopZ wrote:
> My name is Bishop Zareh and I don't know much about the topic, but like
> what I have read so far.
> 
> I really connected with the 3D Additivist Manifesto and its description
> of a Junk Body, the body left behind by technology and obsolescence -
> the biological equivalent of Koolhaus' Junk Space - a shopping mall
> forever under construction.

I'm a bit biased regarding Additivism because a descendant of my Urinal
(3D model by Chris Webber) is in the still for the video. :-)

They have a Facebook group that has lots of good stuff as well (linked
from their website).

Their mention of "The Radical Outside" ties in with themes of exit and
escape that some other Accelerationists have been criticised for. They
seem much more grounded in the *negative* consequences of technology and
the concept of the Anthropocene than the more Cosmism-inspired branches
of Accelerationism.

> Visually, the images associated with these works are the most
> distinctive aesthetic to come from theory journals since Glitch. I
> created a pinboard for
> them: 
> https://www.pinterest.com/eduatx/accelerationist-additivist-accelerationism/

Hey that's really good! Some great examples.

> I see a lot of connection to Virilio's work. Even before Dromology, in
> War & Cinema Virilio writes about the apparatus of perception control.
> As we move from Mass Media to Mass Technology, the same apparatus
> appears. The Internet's always-on resilience is also a product of
> military invention. Left Accelerationism seems to make a call to action
> towards creating a beneficial technology with remnants of the corrupted
> commercial systems.

Yes that's a good characterisation.

> Are they attempting a middle path between the extremes of "use the
> API" and "get off the grid"?

Maybe it's API hacking? Or a mash-up:

"3.1 [...] an accelerationist politics seeks to preserve the gains of
late capitalism while going further than its value system, governance
structures, and mass pathologies will allow"

That "further" isn't one of technology-for-technology's sake, rather
it's the creation of:

"3.19 [...] A positive feedback loop of infrastructural, ideological,
social and economic transformation, generating a new complex hegemony, a
new post-capitalist technosocial platform."

I'd emphasize the "social" part of that. I'm sympathetic to criticism of
these goals as a bit lofty or abstract. There are some suggestions in
the MAP for how to achieve them, and "Inventing The Future" goes into
great detail about them.

> From Alan's question:
> 
> does accelerationism deal with issues of pollution, extinction, and
> so forth? Can one wait for accelerationism? Has one already waited?
> 
> My guess is that they also split a middle path between Kurzweil-style
> utopian futurism and doomsday dystopia. Saying something like, The
> future is set, we are going there anyway, lets just get on with it
> already. I could be completely wrong.

Yes a positive and realistic middle path into a better future. As the
MAP ends:

"The future needs to be constructed. It has been demolished by
neoliberal capitalism and reduced to a cut-price promise of greater
inequality, conflict, and chaos. [...] The future must be cracked open
once again, unfastening our horizons towards the universal possibilities
of the Outside."

There's that Outside again...

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

On 25/04/16 06:16 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> A few pieces and others we did that might be germane -
> 
> [...]
> 
> Accessgrid pieces - in which we used a multi-channel linux conferencing
> system to bounce signals around the world creating video echos of
> speech/ sound/movement; the delays were on the order of 1/10th second.
> (around 2008)
> 
> Early synthesizer work in which we used patchcords to overload video or
> audio synthesizers (including one we built) to create chaotic emergences
> (similar to 'animals' in turbulence) that we'd build on. (around 1970)
> 
> Foofwa's dancerun work performing marathon movements/vectors through
> cities dancing all the way followed by television crews and people who'd
> join and drop out. (past decade or two)
> 
> My own overloading work in virtual worlds creating anomalies and
> artifacts and zeroing in on them until the suicide crashes take place.
> (past few years)
> 
> My audiotape piece involving a large stage, tape emerging from one
> machine at twice the speed the other's picking it up, with feedback
> loops - time gets drawn out, tape pools on the floor, things go out of
> control, performance stops. (1980 or so)
> 
> Stelarc's wiring/writing himself into the Net, nodal-Stelarc. (twenty
> years ago)

Ping Body! I was part of Stelarc's tech support for the performance at
the ICA in London at the time. :-)

> Chris Burden's early performance work heading towards the bring of
> catastrophe. (1970s)
> 
> Raves. Speedmetal. Current punk debris. Parkour.

That's a wonderful list of work. The elements of these that I feel speak
most to accelerationism are their embrace of complexity and their
intensification of knowing/transgressing of systems.

That knowledge/transgression as craft comes through in Benedict
Singleton's writing about traps and the cunning needed to escape them
(invoking the classical Greek Metis, to go with Prometheus who we've met
already ;-)).

"The intelligence at work in the construction of the trap is most aptly
described as cunning, and it extends to activities that we can broadly
describe as “technical” more generally. Many are the observers who have
seen in this the paradigm of craft more broadly writ, the ability to
coax effects from the world, rather than imposing effects on it by the
application of force alone. Following the grain of wood, knowing the
melting points of various ores, the toughening of metal through its
tempering: all these are not domineering strategies, exactly, but
situations “in which the intelligence attempts to make contact with an
object by confronting it in the guise of a rival, as it were, combining
connivance and opposition.”"

http://www.e-flux.com/journal/maximum-jailbreak/
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Rob Myers]

On 27/04/16 01:27 PM, John Hopkins wrote:
> On 27/Apr/16 12:14, Rob Myers wrote:
> 
>> The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the
>> mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental
>> and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the
>> Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced.
> 
> *Emphatically NO*
> 
> Examine the total infrastructure demands of the existing 'space'
> industry (and the military-industrial system that drives it.
>
> Cost one of the Mars rovers, and it will begin to give you a sense of
> infrastructure scope that a *single* device can involve. And the 'other'
> hidden costs from the whole mining infrastructure (you gotta build the
> damn robots *here*, and the oil that drives all of that...

Absolutely, and then add on the entire infrastructure demands of rare
earth mining and refining and distribution for, say, twenty years.

*but*

Then ramp it down as it's moved offworld, to the point where it's less
than when we started.

> There is *NO* way that off-planet *anything* is cost effective in *any*
> way. Nor will it ever be environmentally sensible!

You're not alone in arguing that:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-25716103

But:

http://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/save-environment-mining-asteroids.html

> Do a quick calculation how to get materials back to earth -- just the
> deceleration and landing infrastructure costs *per gram* are out of this
> world...

Just solar sail the refined minerals back to Earth's gravity well then
aero-brake them (using ablative shields made from refining by-products)
into the ocean for pickup.

Whee!

(I have a dystopian short story where the target is the tundra...)

> (I just heard a 1955 Sci-Fi bubble make a HUGE 'pop'!)

Yes it's a bit Lensman. :-)

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, at 05:15 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> So is this the accelerationist aesthetics question?
> 
> Q. How can we as artists and people use the logics & tools of automation 
> and markets as part of making better art and better life for us all?

That's a big question about a bg question. :-)

* To answer the Q directly, the Plantoid DAO is a good example of doing
this. (For those unfamiliar with DAOs - they are "Distributed Autonomous
Organizations", code that runs on the Blockchain and controls resources
in accordance with its programming.) Plantoid's programming is intended
to try to ensure that art is made and exhibited and that artists are
paid for doing so. A charitable trust could do the same, but a DAO is
cheaper, easier to set up and run, and for those of us interested in
technologically inflected art it's easier to integrate directly with our
work (or vice versa).

I'm very suspicious of using the Blockchain to make digital art into
quasi-property forms (Monegraph etc), but this would be a way of making
new markets to pay artists for the currently un-monetizable.

And Azone's use of prediction markets (essentially betting on probable
outcomes of real world events as a way of getting people to commit their
best guesses about them) shows that the form of the market doesn't have
to be directly part of the global economy, or unironic, to possibly be
useful.

* To answer the question-question, certainly 1970s and 1990s
accelerationism was about abandoning oneself libidinally to the
deterritorialising processes of the market and its development of
technology. But Srnicek and Williams don't mention markets in the MAP,
and theirs is a surprisingly traditional Marxist project at heart with
post-capitalism as its goal.

Automation in the sense of AI-style software and 3D printing-style
manufacturing processes can give artists greater rational knowledge of
and productive power over their art (epistemic accelerationism).
Automation accompanied by UBI can free them from the busy-work that so
often has to support art-making, allowing those artists who really don't
want to manage AIs to work more on what they want to work on (left
accelerationism).

But automation can also displace, rather than supplement, aesthetic and
critical work of many kinds. Certainly it can perform the production of
kitsch, and ultimately at least probably the production of
contemporary-art-style works. Deep Dream, Style Transfer and other
techniques (that I am arguing are technically competent, rather than
critically interesting as "art") already do the former, Jonas Lund's
"The Fear Of Missing Out" and my Curatorator are harbingers of the
latter.

* There's also "how can art help bring about a positive
post-work/post-capitalist future?" and "how can artists gain the
knowledge they need to exit the straitjacket of contemporary art?". They
share the second half of the question, and the spirit of the first half.

At base, the question these questions all branch off from *may be* "how
can artists selectively avail themselves of developments in technology
and thought that are not immediately opposed to capitalism as part of
making better art and better life for us all?". 

> Left Accelerationists are critiqued as these social-power-tools (of 
> automation and market-forces) are seen as inherently dehumanising and 
> destructive of solidarity and freedom?

As I say, Srnicek and Williams don't mention markets in the MAP, rather
they say:

"8. We believe that any post-capitalism will require post-capitalist
planning."

Hands up who *isn't* wary of planning? :-)

I'm torn between"

a) "Red Plenty"'s and 1970s NATO documentation (e.g "Soviet Planning
Today") of the failures of Soviet planning and the apparent
unavoidability of some form of prices and incentives in an economy.

b) the fact that Google appears to have solved the "pricing problem"
with its PageRank algorithm, and the assertion in the Heidenreich's
paper in the Money Lab Reader (
http://networkcultures.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MoneyLab_reader.pdf
) that money can be replaced by a matching algorithm.

Any-way: yes neoliberal markets and "Risk Society" are corrosive to
solidarity and freedom. (And to norm propagation, which may be a problem
for Brandomian epistemic accelerationists.) The embracing of Universal
Basic Income in "Inventing The Future", the follow-up to the MAP, is
designed to address this. And it would materially support intersectional
and more radical social politics.

It is for the modesty of this objective compared to, say, welcoming
Skynet that the MAP has been criticized in this sense. :-)
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Rob Myers]

I'd hope my use of sound effects would indicate a lack of entire
seriousness.
 
But to run with this idea for a minute...
 
The initial environmental cost of shipping robots offworld to move the
mining and refining there would very quickly become a net environmental
and political gain. Strip mining, resource wars, refining within the
Earth's atmosphere would all be reduced.
 
Transitioning to higher technology economies reduces fertility rates, so
this would reduce new bodies over time.
 
Maintaining industrial society (with a reduced carbon footprint!) would
maintain more existing bodies over time than simply waiting to drown or
starve. This includes netbehaviourists... And turning the profits into
UBI means that we aren't just treated as surplus population to be
mourned properly when it's the economy rather than the environment that
no longer supports us.
 
So while (as with everything we are discussing) I am not entirely
convinced by asteroid mining, I'm also not entirely convinced by initial
rejections of it for environmental or philosophical reasons. it's not a
simple environmental nightmare or offence against the natural order. The
latter would be promethean anyway. ;-)
 
Art can have an impact here. The popular imagination can be seized by or
turned against these possibilities
 
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, at 12:05 AM, Annie Abrahams wrote:
> a nightmare
> you can't be serious Rob
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 7:21 AM, John Hopkins
> <chaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 26/Apr/16 21:39, Rob Myers wrote:
>>> "One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in
>>> platinum and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to
>>> a global boom in wealth, which could raise living standards
>>> worldwide and potentially benefit all of humanity."
>>
>> Which means more effing bodies on the planet which means a dirtier
>> nest. You know what goes into prepping the machines to get to an
>> asteroid? You know what energy goes into raw ore refining? I presume
>> this is a joke? or?
>>
>>  Might as well start reading vintage L. Ron Hubbard...
>>
>>  ...
>>
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[NetBehaviour] Asteroid Mining For UBI

[Rob Myers]

I'm not back just yet but -

https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740

"One solitary asteroid might be worth trillions of dollars in platinum
and other metals. Exploiting these resources could lead to a global boom
in wealth, which could raise living standards worldwide and potentially
benefit all of humanity."

Accelerate!

"However, behind the utopian rhetoric and dazzling dreams of riches lie
some very real problems."

Screech!

"There is a balanced, pragmatic approach that will promote commercial
and profit driven activities, while also producing tangible benefits to
all of humanity.

Importantly, this pragmatic approach has a well established precedent
that has existed for nearly 40 years. And this comes not from a social
democracy or left-wing ideology, but was the brainchild of a
libertarian, Republican governor of Alaska, Jay Hammond.

That model is the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC) created in
1976, and its unique “citizen’s dividend”. The APF is a resource wealth
fund, which derives its revenue primarily from leases on oil fields."

Vrooom!

Universal Basic Income, so named because it's based on income from the
universe? ;-)

- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

On April 24, 2016 1:08:38 PM PDT, Anthony Stephenson  wrote:
>Doctors, lawyers and anyone who knows that what the market will bear
>sometimes knows no limit, will only contribute this disparity until,
>let’s
>say, a personal version of something like Chile’s Cybersyn is made into
>an
>app freely available to help each citizen of the world.

I like this example. Cyberstride (the part of Cybersyn that provided feedback 
on a given enterprise's day-to-day performance) was a simple Bayesian filtering 
algorithm. This would fit on a smart watch now with plenty of room to spare. 
Cybersyn was part of a project to enlarge the socially owned sector of the 
economy, using less than cutting-edge technology. Accelerationism needn't be 
techno-hype...

In contrast to quantitative projects like Cybersyn, one of the key proposals of 
the follow-up to the "Manifesto For An Accelerationist Politics" is support for 
universal basic income (as part of the welfare state). This would free people 
up more to concentrate on the qualitative aspect of things...

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Re: [NetBehaviour] aesthetics examples ... forked from : Re: Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On April 24, 2016 3:22:53 AM PDT, Annie Abrahams  wrote:
>
>What did I get out of the examples Rob gave in his article? They are
>almost
>all art, just art, as far as I can see. 

I'm going to respond to this (and Ruth's comments) after I'm back from 
hyperreality on Tuesday. I need access to my Laptop. :-)

This is an awesome discussion.
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Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Rob Myers]

On April 21, 2016 10:27:26 AM PDT, ruth catlow  
wrote:
>
>This is less about speed (as distinct from Futurism) than it is about 
>rates of change.
>
>The technologies that we use are bound up with with advanced
>capitalism. 
>We watch our political and social infrastructures unable to evolve fast
>
>enough to solve the wicked problems - for environment, democracy, 
>justice and a good life- than they create.
>
>I think we can take two attitudes
>
>1) Save ourselves! Take what we can carry, run for the hills and build 
>the best fortresses we can with people whose values we share.
>
>or
>
>2) coordinate and collaborate in the higher interests of all living 
>beings - constantly working out who and what these are- and using all 
>means at our disposal.
>
>I like the idea of living in the hills.
>But not under siege, and not in earshot of future generations of 
>bemused, brutalised, alienated people.
>
>The dominant model of global coexistence is that of endless economic 
>growth and Neoliberalism (the (increasingly automated) marketization of
>
>everything). This  tends to centralize power and resources and renders 
>less effective the usual ways of blocking and resisting; of work-based 
>and traditional-identity based solidarity.
>
>Instead Contemporary Accelerationism suggests (I think) that we use in 
>new combinations all the tools, tactics, and knowledges in an attempt
>to 
>perform a series of judo moves (using the force rather than resisting 
>the force), or to sling-shot our way through the mess we are in.

Yes definitely 2. :-).  This is wonderful description of the spirit of 
contemporary left accelerationism.

>As always, there needs to be a way to accommodate the visions and
>madcap 
>schemes of all sorts- many islands rather than one land mass as Paul 
>said. That's why this discussion here and now.

Yes absolutely. My first thought on reading some of the MAP was "this has the 
potential to be a bit totalitarian". Srnicek & Williams very thoroughly 
address how to ensure an open society in their follow-up. Reflecting what you 
wrote above, they do this in part by reference to neoliberalism, ironising its 
negative examples of international movement and regional mutaton into positive 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism

[Rob Myers]

Some of the epistemic accelerationists are interested in the work of the 
philosopher Robert Brandom, who talks about rational, revisable norms. There's 
been some criticism of that from the point of view of "Risk Society" (Suhail 
Malik in Collapse Journal VIII).

I'm uncomfortable about normativity. But I suspect that normativity is 
unavoidable, so if I had to have it I'd rather it be easily revisable.

On April 23, 2016 6:12:31 PM PDT, Simon Biggs  wrote:
>This quote from Marx and Engels certainly describes current management
>practices. I have experience of management workshops where the socially
>and psychologically disruptive methods outlined in the quote below are
>promoted and explicitly employed. The aim is to keep workers on their
>toes - constantly off balance, not certain where next they will be
>required to jump. It’s quite nasty and all done in the name of economic
>efficiency. The workers are considered as a raw resource, that can be
>made redundant if they don’t do what is required of them, whether they
>are an administrator, researcher or Professor. It is pure McKinsey
>poison and they predicate it on pseudo-science - which makes it even
>worse because the theory is so flakey. The latest wheeze is to employ
>neuro-science to validate their practices.
>
>Foucault would role in his grave - but I imagine he would also role in
>his grave if he read the Accelerationist Manifesto. I’ve not read it,
>but the quote Ruth gave from Gottlieb’s review makes it sound like the
>other side of the same coin as McKinsey. It is also promoting normative
>values, just with a different character. I’m pretty sure I’m not an
>Accelerationist (or that I consciously subscribe to any other ism).
>
>best
>
>Simon
>
>
>Simon Biggs
>si...@littlepig.org.uk
>http://www.littlepig.org.uk
>http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs
>http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs
>http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> On 24 Apr 2016, at 01:08, Michael Szpakowski 
>wrote:
>> 
>> Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
>> "The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the
>instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and
>with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes
>of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first
>condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant
>revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social
>conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
>bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen
>relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
>opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before
>they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
>profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his
>real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." <>
>>This does the *descriptive* job as well as anything written since
>and it still stands perfectly well...
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerate Marx [Was: Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

In terms of the economic analysis very little.

In terms of the wider "left" regarding that economic analysis as relevant or 
basing any real political ambition on it, an awful lot. That's what 
contemporary left accelerationism is a critique of.

The project outlined in "Inventing The Future" isn't an "if I want it, it is 
so" one, it's a serious long-term effort to put socialist ambition back on the 
table in politics. Changing the world *is* hard work, and this is a suggestion 
for some strategies to actually do so.


On April 24, 2016 3:03:48 AM PDT, Michael Szpakowski <szp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Hi Rob, everyone, yes - I chose that particular passage because it is
>so clear. It raises the question "What's new?". The historically
>progressive role of the bourgeoisie in terms of constantly
>revolutionising production is an absolute given in Marx.
>Equally given and ubiquitous is his back of the hand, swatting a
>mosquito, demolition of the "if I want it, it's so" utopians - Fourier
>and his conversion of the oceans into lemonade being a particularly
>brilliant example,  but it applies equally to Owen, Proudhon, Kropotkin
>and others... The accelerationists strike me as a version of the
>utopians but nearly 180 years too late ( and there is such a strong
>temptation to quote Marx on"the first time as tragedy, the second time
>as farce" that I'm going to yield) What characterises them is a
>profound *mistrust* of ordinary people  -the Owens, the Fouriers 
>were great system builders -*they* and only *they* would bring
>enlightenment with their precisely ordered and often deeply odd
>systems. The key thing being the they were the great enlightened
>ones.Don't get me wrong -I'm all for dreaming and artists in particular
>do that well, they are often the storm petrels, the windsocks, of
>impending social change. But when hen we mistake our dreams and our
>systems as a substitute for the hard business of actually changing the
>world , when we fall in love with our own cleverness, the problems
>start. Cambodia stands as the most terrible practical warning here.
>michael
>
>  From: Rob Myers <r...@robmyers.org>
>To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
><netbehaviour@netbehaviour.org>; Michael Szpakowski <szp...@yahoo.com> 
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:58 AM
> Subject: Accelerate Marx [Was: Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationism]
>   
>There's also the discussion of machines in the Grundrisse, which the
>"Accelerationist Reader" book starts with as "Fragment on Machines"
>(from "once adopted into the production process of capital, the means
>of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is
>the machine" here:
>
>https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm )
>
>This is probably where Left Accelerationism originates as an attitude
>towards and seeking to work through or escape the process Marx & Engels
>describe below.
>
>What's particularly interesting in relation to "Inventing The Future"
>is its discussion of automation and free time. And it touches on the
>quality of the alien in a way that might, in a funhouse mirror way, be
>recognizable in *some* other post-70s Accelerationism.
>
>
>
>On April 23, 2016 8:38:21 AM PDT, Michael Szpakowski <szp...@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
>Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
>"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the
>instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and
>with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes
>of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first
>condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant
>revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social
>conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
>bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen
>relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
>opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before
>they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
>profaned, and man is at last compelledto face with sober senses his
>real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."   This does
>the *descriptive* job as well as anything written since and it still
>stands perfectly well...Sent from my iPhone
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[NetBehaviour] Accelerate Marx [Was: Re: Accelerationism]

[Rob Myers]

There's also the discussion of machines in the Grundrisse, which the 
"Accelerationist Reader" book starts with as "Fragment on Machines" (from "once 
adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes 
through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the machine" here:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm )

This is probably where Left Accelerationism originates as an attitude towards 
and seeking to work through or escape the process Marx & Engels describe below.

What's particularly interesting in relation to "Inventing The Future" is its 
discussion of automation and free time. And it touches on the quality of the 
alien in a way that might, in a funhouse mirror way, be recognizable in *some* 
other post-70s Accelerationism.



On April 23, 2016 8:38:21 AM PDT, Michael Szpakowski  wrote:
>Marx & Engels on accelerationism in 1848:
>"The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionising the
>instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and
>with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes
>of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first
>condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant
>revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social
>conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the
>bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen
>relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and
>opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before
>they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is
>profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his
>real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
>This does the *descriptive* job as well as anything written since and
>it still stands perfectly well...
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

One of the things that critics of accelerationism often do is to call
for.accelerationism.

Increasing our knowledge of the present in order to transform it is
promethean. And unless these new technologies are magic they will be
detourned from existing ones. The merely oppositional left has had a
long run. Visions of a better future may be something that help us get
to...a better future.

:-)

On Sat, 23 Apr 2016, at 06:54 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Here Baruch Gottlieb reviews “Inventing the Future”by Srnicek & 
> Williams  (co-authors of the Accelerationst Manifesto)
> https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/inventing-future-beholden-present-review/2016/04/08
> 
> He says
> 
> "visions or projects for teleportation, nano-surgery and socialist Mars 
> colonies, are not going to convince capitalists to stop attacking 
> socially produced value every way they can. We need more fundamental 
> knowledge about how the present is reproduced in this first place, the 
> legacy of colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy and slavery in the very 
> devices we use to understand such things, and we need social and 
> cultural technologies to integrate that consciousness into new 
> behaviours, new sociabilities, new modes of exchange."
> 
> 
> On 23/04/16 13:15, ruth catlow wrote:
> > So is this the accelerationist aesthetics question?
> >
> > Q. How can we as artists and people use the logics & tools of 
> > automation and markets as part of making better art and better life 
> > for us all?
> >
> > : )
> >
> Tom said
> >
> >>>> when it appeared that the prognostications of the first wave of
> > accelerationists had partly came true: namely, that the accelerations
> > inherent in capitalism, specifically the tendency to mobilize more
> > surplus labour and resources at greater rates of efficiency and
> > abstraction, would exacerbate the system's inherent contradictions to a
> > catastrophic point. Only partly came true though: the system did not
> > collapse but massively reorganized itself (all those would-be John Galts
> >  suddenly all too happy to accept government bail-outs, massive
> > expropriation of assets from the poor). This required a recalibration of
> >  the theses of that first wave of accelerationists, a recalibration that
> >  perhaps either is reflected in art, or in which<<<
> >
> > The unfettered development of automation and market-forces is 
> > currently seen as the preserve of people on the political right (who 
> > seek to preserve the status quo or enhance their wealth and power). 
> > But who may at some points ask for time-out (and bail-outs) in order 
> > to re-set their position of advantage.
> >
> > Rob said
> >
> > If I was trolling I'd argue that if you're on the left you're either a
> > conscious or an unconscious accelerationist. But it's possible to do
> > things in an un-Accelerationist way - it's not an inescapable or
> > inevitable cultural condition.
> >
> > Yes, this is why I declared myself an Accelerationist- it was not a 
> > proud declamation (a la 'I'm a feminist and I'm proud') more an 
> > admission (a la, the declaration at meetings of people participating 
> > in the 12 step programme).
> >
> >  What I think is worth reflecting on (even if only idly) in this
> > discussion is whether there is anything in one's own life or work that
> > this strategy would be productive for. What could each of us better
> > understand and reason about (in some sense) so as to be able to better
> > change it?
> >
> > Both these points indicate something that Left Accelerationism has been
> > criticised for from various angles - it is a *selective* acceleration.
> >
> >
> > Left Accelerationists are critiqued as these social-power-tools (of 
> > automation and market-forces) are seen as inherently dehumanising and 
> > destructive of solidarity and freedom?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23/04/16 02:49, Rob Myers wrote:
> >> On 22/04/16 03:27 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> >>> Not that we all need to be in an unending frenzy of communication and
> >>> exchange. More that we have ever-more nuanced ways to sense the
> >>> significance of different kinds of participation: in a loop of 
> >>> unwitting
> >>> participation and active collaboration and organisation.
> >> I think this (and Simon & Pall's conversation) raises two important
> >> points about "Accelerationism".
> >>
> >> The first is that contemporary society appears to have speeded up
> &

Re: [NetBehaviour] Accelerationist aesthetics

[Rob Myers]

On 22/04/16 03:27 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> 
> Not that we all need to be in an unending frenzy of communication and
> exchange. More that we have ever-more nuanced ways to sense the
> significance of different kinds of participation: in a loop of unwitting
> participation and active collaboration and organisation.

I think this (and Simon & Pall's conversation) raises two important
points about "Accelerationism".

The first is that contemporary society appears to have speeded up
anyway. We can debate whether progress or the economy has stalled, but
our experience of life seems to involve the compression of time by
technology and by socioeconomic demands.

The obvious critic of this kind of speed and acceleration, as Paul
mentioned, is Virilio. Who I think relates speed to power in a way that
makes sense of our experience of it as disenfranchising.

Wanting to slow down from *this* kind of acceleration isn't a bad thing
and is in fact the end point of MAP/Fixing The Future -style
Accelerationism: let's get the machines to do the busy-work so we can do
something actually useful with our time instead.

The second is that Accelerationism isn't a historical epoch like
postmodernism or globalisation. It's a *strategy*.

If I was trolling I'd argue that if you're on the left you're either a
conscious or an unconscious accelerationist. But it's possible to do
things in an un-Accelerationist way - it's not an inescapable or
inevitable cultural condition.

What I think is worth reflecting on (even if only idly) in this
discussion is whether there is anything in one's own life or work that
this strategy would be productive for. What could each of us better
understand and reason about (in some sense) so as to be able to better
change it?

Both these points indicate something that Left Accelerationism has been
criticised for from various angles - it is a *selective* acceleration.

> I am currently showing a live networked video piece, I created with
> Gareth Foote, called /Time is Speeding Up/ at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre
> up in Scunthorpe as part of the show We Are Not Alone. I have no idea
> whether this is an Accelerationist artwork.

It's increasing our ability to perceive and reason about our situation,
so quite possibly.

> I agonized about the aesthetics of the work- at first- so un-"cool", so
> un-cyber - because the humans are so alive AND they make the work.
> But now I'm really happy with it and would like to assert a place for
> this almost folksy aesthetic (rather than a rush to slick, black
> fluidity) in post-capitalist art.

Bladerunner's lived-in street-culture future is paradigmatically cyber,
but I do know what you mean. The work is qualitative (or has a strong
qualitative element), and this is in contrast to the strong quantitative
bias of shiny information graphics and *some* proposals for
Accelerationist aesthetics.

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[Rob Myers]

I think Haraway is a good historical example. Their Cyborg Manifesto was
written against sclerotic essentialist-/eco- feminism and amidst the
decline of left politics in the US during the Reagan era. They take the
Cold War figure of the cyborg and re-purpose it to critique all of this.
There are strong parallels to Srnicek & Williams' current argument that
"folk politics" is insufficient to bring about political change.
 
I don't think that Accelerationist aesthetics are even slightly resolved
yet, and that's a good thing. In "Accelerationist Art" I mention some
examples and possibilities, particularly art that tries to exit the
confines of Contemporary Art's simulacrum of freedom. Maybe we can come
up with something here. :-) In general, Accelerationist aesthetics would
presumably be about increasing the capabilities of our reason in/via
art, which I think would require increasing the capabilities of our
perception. One view of this would be something like Cultural Analytics,
the ability to deal in millions of images or other cultural/perceptible
phenomena at a time. But then there's the singular power of myth and
icons/iconography to guide and organise our thought and perception.
Which brings us back to the quarantine zone in which we can look at
Hyperstition...
 
I think that a) and c) are good positions to combine. If they lead to
b), that's great. If not, hopefully understanding why not will lead to
positive action in other ways.
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 06:25 AM, dave miller wrote:
> I don't understand what accelerationism is yet, as I need to read a
> lot more - and a few times - and let it sink in. I find it hard to
> understand, to be honest.
>
> I'm interested though in the connection with Donna Haraway's Cyborg
> Manifesto
>
> And I'd like to know more about the accelerationist aesthetic, what it
> is, and why.
>
> I'd like to know the general view from people on this list - as we are
> all new media/ net art/ media techy types , who have been
> experimenting with art, networked technology and politics for ages, is
> this something we should
> a) take very seriously
> b) embrace
> c) be sceptical of?
> d) be scared of?
> e) wish that we'd thought of
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Rob Myers]

Regarding poetry and Acceleration, here's an interview with Amy Ireland
about Xenopoetry (via Nick Land) -
 
https://www.academia.edu/24546212/Poetry_is_Cosmic_War_Interview_
 
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 08:16 AM, Paul Hertz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Paul Hertz and I am a hodge-podge of contradictory and half-
> ass[ed|imilated] philosophical viewpoints. There serve me well for
> making art, but less so for staking out any sort of theoretical terra
> firma. Given a choice, I would prefer islands to continents and
> slowing down to accelerating (an issue Virilio discusses in some
> depth). I might also prefer to set my path through the thicket of
> theory by tracking poets rather than philosophers. Assemble the tropes
> and consistency be damned!
>
> -- Paul
 
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Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Rob Myers]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 06:06 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
> 
> does accelerationism deal with issues of 
> pollution, extinction, and so forth? 

Additivism is directly concerned with these.

Contemporary Left Accelerationism is a resource for dealing with them if
one wishes to do so. "Inventing The Future", the follow-up to the
"Manifesto For An Accelerationist Politics", has been criticised for not
taking an explicit enough stand on this, but it is designed to create a
political environment in which people have the resources to address
issues such as environmental devastation in a serious way.

90s-style cyberculture accelerationism was very much in favour of them
(regarding "The Terminator" as a manifesto rather than a warning).

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Re: [NetBehaviour] My name is [Your Name Here] and I am an Accelerationist

[Rob Myers]

Heya.

My name is Rob. I'm not (yet) an Accelerationist, I just play one on the
Internet. As part of which I've written about Accelerationist themes for
Furtherfield over the last couple of years. Most recently about
"Accelerationist Art".

On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, at 02:37 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> Hello,
> My name is Ruth Catlow,
> and I am an Accelerationist.
> 
> Back in 1996 
> (to be continued)
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Re: [NetBehaviour] review: Monetise Your Privilege with Schizo-Art Bollocks

[Rob Myers]

On 2016-03-22 04:04, marc garrett wrote:

Hi Nathan,

Thanks for posting this review of yours on Netbehaviour.

All I can say right now (but will likely say more) is, Wow! This work
sounds not only tedious, but also decadent and shallow, and reliant on
other people's conditions of not being able to fight back, against a
privileged form of exploitation. Thanks Nathan - an article that
needed to be written so the emptiness in the mainstream art world is
challenged.


Definitely a project that gets the ethics/aesthetics equation very badly 
wrong.


"“money talks nonsense” and it is the cognitive labourer’s job to 
produce meaning-as-value from it" has legs.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] seeking advice on linux laptops & text animation software

[Rob Myers]

On 2016-03-22 06:41, helen varley jamieson wrote:

hi everyone,
 i am seeking advice on 2 questions:

 firstly, i need to upgrade my laptop & have decided to make the
transition to linux. mint has been recommended to me for the OS. does
anyone out there have any advice regarding choice of hardware? ideally
i want a small laptop with a dvd drive, ethernet port, & separate
audio in & out ports.


No DVD drive (I use an external one) but I've been using ThinkPads 
running Debian GNU/Linux for several years now.


Adding GNU/Linux to an old laptop is usually a good way of extending its 
life *if* the hardware is fully supported.


The only problem with laptops for GNU/Linux are generally graphics 
acceleration (Intel graphics tend to be good for this) and Free wifi 
drivers (if you're not worried about this it's much easier, although I 
just have a replacement wifi board in my current laptop that works 
entirely with Free Software).



 secondly, i'm working on an installation which includes projected
animated text. previously i've done this in a basic but effective way
with powerpoint. this time, i want more control over the animations
than powerpoint allows, and it needs to be a looping video as it's
going to be left running on its own. can anyone recommend a good
software for text animation? (preferably open source).


Depending on the text and the time investment, Blender can be good for 
creating and editing animations. It's not always the easiest software to 
use though.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] linux programs

[Rob Myers]

On 2016-03-22 09:53, Alan Sondheim wrote:

Have a question myself. There was a program for the Zaurus, Calculon,
which is an n-dimensional graphing program; it can handle apparently
any number of dim. - at least through 5. So there are 3-d slices of
whatever objects one is examining. The program disappeared along with
Zaurus - does anyone know of something that might do this, other than
say Mathematica or Matlab (which cost). It obviously runs incredibly
lean. Has anyone ported Calculon to other distributions? Etc.


I don't know about Calculon but there's:

SciLab - http://www.scilab.org/

LabPlot - https://edu.kde.org/applications/science/labplot/

Gnuplot - http://www.gnuplot.info/

Octave - https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/

R - https://www.r-project.org/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

[Rob Myers]

On 2016-01-21 10:20, aharon wrote:

On Thu, January 21, 2016 17:50, helen varley jamieson wrote:
following people is a bit unintuitive; isn't there a way to follow 
someone

from a post?


Hi,

just an idea. perhpas adding the quitter theme could make the interface
more twitter-like/familiar..?
https://github.com/hannesmannerheim/neo-quitter


If it's the one used at - https://quitter.se/robmyers

What do people think?

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

[Rob Myers]

On 2016-01-21 09:50, helen varley jamieson wrote:

following people is a bit unintuitive; isn't there a way to follow
someone from a post?


Sadly not (with this theme), you first have to go to the user's profile 
page by clicking on their name above the post.


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

[Rob Myers]

On 20/01/16 08:44 PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
> I don't find any "follow" button. I want stalk a lot of great ppl :)

At the top right there's a carefully hidden "Subscribe" button on
people's profile pages (e.g. https://neterarti.furtherfield.org/marc ).

There's a block button under that as well for the opposite scenario. :-)

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Join Neterarti - it's like twitter but for art.

[Rob Myers]

On 19/01/16 08:51 AM, dave miller wrote:
> The Flickr @ handle thing doesn't work (is there an equivalent?) but the
> hash tags do #.

@mentions do work, but you need to know the user's name (and server if
they're on a different one).

> Can we do same things as twitter? Direct messages?

DMs work, there's a "Private" lock icon under the message field on a
user's page if you go there.

> current trending subjects? 

There's a simple "trends" word cloud on the right sidebar on /main/public.

There's bookmarks, events, and polls, which people are making good use
of already.

The API is the same as Twitter's old one, so apps and bots can talk to
the system as well.

If anyone has any questions, support requests or concerns please ask me
here or at https://neterarti.furtherfield.org/rob

:-)

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[NetBehaviour] Links

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"[T]he really dangerous forgers are the ones who can infiltrate and
corrupt the core of the knowledge system upon which the art world relies" -

http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-really-dangerous-forgers-are-ones.html


From WIMP to ATLAS: Rhetorical Figures of Ubiquitous Computing -

http://computationalculture.net/article/from-wimp-to-atlas-rhetorical-figures-of-ubiquitous-computing


Artificial Rhetorical Agents and the Computing of Phronesis -

http://computationalculture.net/article/artificial-rhetorical-agents-and-the-computing-of-phronesis


Techno-Optimism and the Way to the Age of Abundance (an accelerationist
interview) -

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/techno-optimism-and-the-way-to-the-age-of-abundance-an-accelerationist-interview/2016/01/15


"Why Paul Mason is wrong: you can’t innovate away social oppression " -

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/why-paul-mason-is-wrong-you-cant-innovate-away-social-oppression/2015/12/30


"The Bitcoin block-size spat" -

http://www.ufblog.net/crypto-comedy/


"Prior to functional, distributed crypto, ‘property’ was nothing but
confused political pleading. Now it’s something else." -

http://www.xenosystems.net/quote-note-211/


CORA the tortiose -

http://cyberneticzoo.com/cyberneticanimals/cora-cyberneticanimals/cora-the-tortoise-m-docilis/


Bogdanov and Socialist Ecologies -

http://syntheticzero.net/2015/12/30/bogdanov-and-socialist-ecologies/


THE DIGITAL MATERIALITY OF GIFs -

http://newhive.com/shashashasha/digital-materiality-of-gifs
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Curatorator

[Rob Myers]

On 05/01/16 02:31 AM, dave miller wrote:
> Hi Rob
> I'm curious - what's happening here and how does it work?

What's happening:

This is a sketch of a system to operationalize curation. It's an
automatic curator, or at least an automatic curation tool. Feed it an
artist's name and it recommends a show of similar artists, explaining
what makes them similar.

How It works:

The blog post is the output of a script that finds similar artists to a
specified artist (in this case Andy Warhol) using the artsy.net api :

https://developers.artsy.net/

Artsy is an art information site that classifies and tags artworks with
a set of tags they've called "art genomes", like "music genomes" -

https://www.artsy.net/categories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_Genome_Project

So the script takes the specified artist name, hits the artsy.net api to
find the artist that artsy's database thinks are the most similar, and
gets their information.

It then uses the tags to identify which artists are the most similar to
the specified artist, and lists them in decreasing order of similarity.

And finally it takes a count of all the tags and uses the most common
ones to describe what the show is about.

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[NetBehaviour] Curatorator

[Rob Myers]

http://robmyers.org/2015/12/30/curatorator/

"Operationalizing curation, after a presentation by the excellent
Mohammad Salemy.

The source code uses artsy.net’s API to find and rank similar artists
and extract their shared themes.

Here’s an example:

Andy Warhol..."
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A new replacement for VRML -

https://aframe.io/examples/showcase/helloworld/


"This Ruthless Art Game Will Judge Your MS Paint Masterpieces" -

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-ruthless-art-game-will-judge-your-ms-paint-masterpieces


"Using Lasers to Temporarily Neutralize Camera Sensors" -

http://www.naimark.net/projects/zap/howto.html


"Database leak exposes 3.3 million Hello Kitty fans" -

http://www.csoonline.com/article/3017171/security/database-leak-exposes-3-3-million-hello-kitty-fans.html


"National Security Implications of Virtual Currency" -

http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1231/RAND_RR1231.pdf


"Researchers Solve Juniper Backdoor Mystery; Signs Point to NSA" -

http://www.wired.com/2015/12/researchers-solve-the-juniper-mystery-and-they-say-its-partially-the-nsas-fault/


"Notifying Our Users of Attacks by Suspected State-Sponsored Actors" -

https://yahoo-security.tumblr.com/post/135674131435/notifying-our-users-of-attacks-by-suspected


"DID THE UTOPIAN PIRATE NATION OF LIBERTATIA EVER REALLY EXIST?" -

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/did-the-utopian-pirate-nation-of-libertatia-ever-really-exist


Vaporwave research paper -

https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaporwave/comments/3xr6cl/remember_the_vaporwave_research_paper_its_done/


Analyze history/news as a database -

http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.ca/2014/05/worlds-largest-event-dataset-now-publicly-available-in-google-bigquery.html


"Meaning + Beauty in Data Vis and Data Art" -

http://lisacharlotterost.github.io/2015/12/19/Meaning-and-Beauty-in-Data-Vis/

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Fog

[Rob Myers]

On 26/12/15 03:12 AM, mario santamaria wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> ++ The fog machine is running… ++
> 
> The new Public Safety Act in Spain (Gag Law) limits the right of protest
> and demonstration. It also punishes the communication and dissemination
> of unauthorized protests.
> "Fog 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

On 14/12/15 08:24 AM, ruth catlow wrote:
> On 13/12/15 23:23, Rob Myers wrote:
>> [Self Promotion] "Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to
>> demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright" -
>>
>> http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-encounters-common-property-2
> Oh this is wonderful!

I've seen the prints and they look great. :-)

>> Classic AARON drawings for sale -
>>
>> http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/visit/bookshop/arnolfini-limited-editions-1/limited-editions
> Art history!

I own an earlier one that I sniped on eBay a couple of years ago. It's
about the only original work I own since I drank what turned out to be a
very valuable bottle of Becks. :-(

Cohen's papers are well worth a read, the early ones are very far ahead
for the time -

http://www.aaronshome.com/aaron/publications/index.html

> Horses as precursors to Mercedeses

Horses in Neuromancer always seemed to be an index of something I
couldn't quite work out. But then I was used to Michael Moorcock's
"Jerry Cornelius" stories so that really didn't worry me.

>> "Fine Art And The Blockchain" -
>>
>> https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/fine-art-and-the-blockchain-b429ffc2451c
> They're all wearing suits! Is this how it goes?

Even faster than the web... ;-)

>> "Non-standard P2SH scripts" -
>>
>> https://medium.com/@alcio/non-standard-p2sh-scripts-508fa6292df5
> Source of future meditation

Bitcoin slowly advances towards the condition of Ethereum.

You can try out Bitcoin's Script language (without going near the
blockchain) here -

http://www.crmarsh.com/script-playground/

Voting systems are currently very popular in the crypto space. It's
always about coercion in some form...

>> "AFROFUTURISM RELOADED: 15 THESES IN 15 MINUTES." -
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/mark.dery/posts/10153247518172918
> Sounds great- good images. Did anyone go?

Sadly not me, wrong city and time. I don't know if it's archived at all.

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"Is there something unethical in contemporary criticism?" -

http://thepointmag.com/2015/criticism/when-nothing-is-cool


"Pirate politics: from accelerationism to escalationism?" -

http://copyriot.se/2010/01/13/pirate-politics-from-accelerationism-to-escalationism/


"Towards a decentralized architecture with FOAM + the Blockchain" -

http://archinect.com/features/article/142920059/towards-a-decentralized-architecture-with-foam-the-blockchain


"Why 18th century books looked like smartphone screens" -

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2014/02/_thats_one_of_t.php


"Prime Minister of Pontinha Discusses Naming Bitcoin as Official 
Currency" -


https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/disruptekinfo-prime-minister-of-pontinha-discusses-naming-bitcoin-as-official-currency


"The quantum computing era is coming… fast" -

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/13/the-quantum-computing-era-is-coming-qubits-processors-d-wave-google?CMP=share_btn_fb


"Ceptr is a framework for distributed semantic computing." -

http://ceptr.org/2015/04/08/47/


The network of smell -

http://odornetwork.com/network/index.html

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Re: [NetBehaviour] This morning's backup...

[Rob Myers]

On 13/12/15 03:07 AM, marc garrett wrote:
> This morning's backup...
> [...]
> /media/marc/marc_linux/usr
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.doubleTwist
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.fseventsd
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.Spotlight-V100
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.TemporaryItems
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.Trash-1000
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.Trashes
> /media/marc/marc_linux/._DIWO Research 2014.docx
> /media/marc/marc_linux/.DS_Store

This filesystem has been used on both MacOS X and GNU/Linux.

Oh for filesystems with multiple forks again...:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(file_system)#Apple

:-)

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[Self Promotion] "Jerwood Encounters: Common Property seeks to
demonstrate how artists engage with and relate to copyright" -

http://jerwoodvisualarts.org/jerwood-encounters-common-property-2


Classic AARON drawings for sale -

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/visit/bookshop/arnolfini-limited-editions-1/limited-editions


"Catastrophe by default: Artificial Intelligence and the end of humanity" -

http://seizureonline.com/catastrophe-by-default-artificial-intelligence-and-the-end-of-humanity/


135 Free Philosophy eBooks -

http://www.openculture.com/free-philosophy-ebooks


"Fine Art And The Blockchain" -

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/fine-art-and-the-blockchain-b429ffc2451c


"Non-standard P2SH scripts" -

https://medium.com/@alcio/non-standard-p2sh-scripts-508fa6292df5


"Open Supply Blockchains" -

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/open-supply-blockchains/2015/12/07


"AFROFUTURISM RELOADED: 15 THESES IN 15 MINUTES." -

https://www.facebook.com/mark.dery/posts/10153247518172918
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[NetBehaviour] Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace—Stephen Wolfram Blog

[Rob Myers]

A good grounding of Ada Lovelace's realised (first computer programmer)
and thwarted (first tech startup CEO) achievements in the primary
documents -

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2015/12/untangling-the-tale-of-ada-lovelace/

"This is effectively the execution trace of a program that runs for 25
steps (plus a loop) on the Analytical Engine. At each step, the trace
shows what operation is performed on which Variable Cards, and which
Variable Cards receive the results. Lacking a symbolic notation for
loops, Ada just indicated loops in the execution trace using braces,
noting in English that parts are repeated."
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up'

[Rob Myers]

Society may produce exceptional spaces though?

On 12 December 2015 03:31:08 GMT-08:00, ruth catlow 
 wrote:
>I like his final statement- that the Internet is the same as society- 
>not an exceptional place.
>
>
>On 12/12/15 11:24, marc garrett wrote:
>> I've just copied this from the Nettime list,
>> and thought others here may be interested in the subject...
>>
>> wishing you well.
>>
>> marc
>>
>> < 
>>
>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/pirate-bay-founder-peter-sunde-i-have-given-up
>
>> >
>>
>> Pirate Bay Founder: 'I Have Given Up'
>>
>> Written by JOOST MOLLEN
>>
>> December 11, 2015 // 02:26 PM EST
>>
>> "The internet is shit today. It's broken. It was probably always
>> broken, but it's worse than ever."
>>
>> My conversation with, Peter Sunde, one of the founders and
>> spokespersons of The Pirate Bay, did not start out optimistically.
>> There's good reason for that: In the last couple of months, the
>> contemporary download culture shows heavy signs of defeat in the
>> battle for the internet.
>>
>> Last month we saw Demonii disappear. It was the biggest torrent
>> tracker on the internet, responsible for over 50 million trackers a
>> year. Additionally, the MPAA took down YIFY and Popcorn Time. Then
>> news got out that the Dutch Release Team, an uploading collective,
>> made a legal settlement with anti-piracy group BREIN.
>>
>> While it might look like torrenters are are still fighting this
>> battle, Sunde claims that the reality is more definitive: "We have
>> already lost."
>>
>> Back in 2003 Peter Sunde, together with Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid
>> Svartholm, started The Pirate Bay, a website that would become the
>> biggest and most famous file-sharing website in the world. In 2009,
>> the three founders were convicted of "assisting [others] in copyright
>> infringement" in a highly controversial trial.
>>
>> Sunde was incarcerated in 2014 and released a year later. After his
>> time in jail he started blogging about the centralization of power by
>> the European Union; ran as a candidate for the Finnish Pirate Party
>> during the elections to the European Parliament; and founded Flattr,
>a
>> micro donation system for software developers.
>>
>> I wanted to speak with Sunde about the current state of the free and
>> open internet, but this conversation quickly changed into an
>> ideological exchange about society and capitalism -- which is,
>> according to Sunde, the real problem.
>>
>> The following interview has been edited for clarity and length.
>>
>> **MOTHERBOARD: Hey Peter, I was planning on asking you if things are
>> going well, but you made it pretty clear that that isn't the case.**
>>
>> Peter Sunde: No, I don't see any good happening. People are too easy
>> to content with things.
>>
>> Take the net neutrality law in Europe. It's terrible, but people are
>> happy and go like "it could be worse." That is absolutely not the
>> right attitude. Facebook brings the internet to Africa and poor
>> countries, but they're only giving limited access to their own
>> services and make money off of poor people. And getting government
>> grants to do that, because they do PR well.
>>
>> Finland actually made internet access a human right a while back.
>That
>> was a clever thing of Finland. But that's like the only positive
>thing
>> I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the
>> internet
>>
>> **So, how bad is the state of the open internet?**
>>
>> Well, we don't have an open internet. We haven't had an open internet
>> for a long time. So, we can't really talk about the open internet
>> because it does not exist anymore. The problem is, nobody stops
>> anything. We are losing privileges and rights all of the time. We are
>> not gaining anything anywhere. The trend is just going in one
>> direction: a more closed and more controlled internet. That has a big
>> impact on our society. Because they are the same thing today. If you
>> have a more oppressed internet, you have a more oppressed society. So
>> that's something we should focus on.
>>
>> But still we think of the internet like this new kind Wild West
>place,
>> and things are not in chains yet, so we don't care because everything
>> will be OK anyhow. But that is not really the case. We have never
>seen
>> this amount of centralization, extreme inequality, extreme capitalism
>> in any system before. But according to the marketing done by people
>> like Mark Zuckerberg and companies like Google, it's all to help with
>> the open network and to spread democracy, and so on. At the same
>time,
>> they are capitalistic monopolies. So it's like trusting the enemy to
>> do the good deeds. It is really bizarre.
>>
>> **Do you think because a lot of people don't consider the internet to
>> be real or a real place, they care less about its well-being?**
>>
>> Well, one thing is, we have been growing up with an understanding of
>> the importance of things like a telephone line or television. So 

Re: [NetBehaviour] Bitcoin arrest Australia

[Rob Myers]

On 2015-12-10 06:34, Martin Zeilinger wrote:

Hi Dave,
I wasn't aware that Steven Wright was arrested, just that his home was
raided. What I found interesting about that is that the raid seems to
in response to his position that cryptocurrency should be treated as a
proper currency for tax purposes, rather than as a taxable intangible
asset.


If they are looking for Satoshi then, like the doxxers at Gawker and 
Conde Nast, they are probably looking in the wrong place -


http://motherboard.vice.com/read/satoshis-pgp-keys-are-probably-backdated-and-point-to-a-hoax

- Rob.

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Galleries and digital work

[Rob Myers]

On 03/12/15 07:34 AM, dave miller wrote:
> "What if an artist’s work doesn’t fit - architecturally, conceptually,
> traditionally - within a gallery’s programme? Increasing numbers of
> artists working in socially engaged practice - where communities and
> individual people, often unrelated to the arts, form the material and
> outcome of a practice. Many are involved in this work as a reaction to
> the elite audiences who still mostly attend art galleries in the UK.
> Performance and moving image have long been difficult to place in
> galleries - from audience low engagement to alienating and uncomfortable
> display methods - with digital work almost entirely ignored"
> 
> http://www.artquest.org.uk/articles/view/the_gallery_problem_or_what_artists_can_do_when_their_work_doesnt_fit_in_ga

Reading the article they're historically literate so I wonder what
timescale they regard the rise of social practice as covering. The
art-and-social-practice of the 60s and 70s managed to produce fetishes
for the gallery for example.

The mentioned report -

http://www.axisweb.org/features/news-and-views/beyond-the-gallery/validation-beyond-the-gallery/

sounds interesting but it requires Flash to read.

- Rob.

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[NetBehaviour] Shareable Readymades

[Rob Myers]

I've finally written up "Shareable Readymades" -

http://robmyers.org/2015/11/25/about-shareable-readymades/

And I also found some nice examples of them in the wild -

http://robmyers.org/2015/11/24/shareable-readymades-watch/

- Rob.
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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

"The Copy Bombs are my way of contributing to the free culture movement
by encouraging the public to share images, audio, text and video in an
unhindered way." -

http://www.hellocatfood.com/copy-bomb/


"Ten graphs on organisational warfare" -

http://blog.gardeviance.org/2012/03/tens-graphs-on-organisational-warfare.html


"a world with no corners in which to hide" -

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/19/simon-denny-gchq-apple-campus-zappos-architecture-doughnut-holacracy


"THE SECOND LIFE ART WORLD ISN’T PUSHING HARD ENOUGH" -

http://juicybomb.com/2015/11/18/the-second-life-art-world-isnt-pushing-hard-enough/


Software recreation of visual artistic style -

http://www.deepart.io/latest/


A detailed study of the graphics techniques in Grand Theft Auto V -

http://www.adriancourreges.com/blog/2015/11/02/gta-v-graphics-study/


Art's economic exceptionalism and the state of Marxist art history -

http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/art%E2%80%99s-economic-exceptionalism


Advice from the artworld's most controvercial economist -

https://www.artsy.net/article/elena-soboleva-advice-from-the-art-world-s-most-controversial-economist

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Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling digital art

[Rob Myers]

On 02/11/15 04:51 AM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
>> Or you can sign prints or provide certificates of authenticity -
> That still goes falls in line with the value being based on scarcity.
> Each of the digital prints is still as authentic as the one before it.

vs.

>> You could crowdfund the edition and have the prints as backer
>> rewards at various levels.
> On a separate level I have some problems with crowdfunding
> campaigns. When artists are exchanging making unique art for $10 I
> think it undervalues the artist. (I promise that I don't see problems
> in everything!!!)

and:

>> You could also sell shares in a work/project/edition in return for e.g.
>> sponsorship mentions at shows (like at the end of a crowdfunded movie or
>> book).
> I understand what you mean, and in time I will use crowdfunding as a
> way to fund my general artistic practice, but in this case I want to
> be able to sell physical art in exchange for money money money and
> have the interaction stop there.

so: as there is market demand, you are looking to sell digital art
physically in some way that (quite rightly) does not undervalue your
work and that (also quite rightly) does not seek to impose artificial
scarcity on the work as an extrinsic driver of value?

and: this shouldn't be a flattened or reduced version of the work into
traditional media where it is time- or software-based.

I mean you could sell DVDs / Memory sticks with virtual machines or
videos on and accompanying certificates of authenticity (probably less
ornately than -
http://cremasterfanatic.blogspot.ca/2007/10/cremaster-2-on-sale-at-sothebys-new.html
).

You could also sell password access to resources on a server / in an
encrypted torrent.

And then give people instructions to pop it on a tablet, flat panel PC,
or wall-mounted monitor.

Crypto sign things for added now.

None of these need to be limited edition. If people still want something
exclusive and you don't want to restrict the work then I recommend the
dedication/patron/sponsor list approach.

I'm sorry if this is still all totally wide of the mark. :-)

- Rob.

PS -

>> (I've met some of the people from ascribe but don't have any
>> involvement with the project. Other services are available etc.)
> I spoke with them a few months ago as well. In fact, I recommended 
> that they talk to you ;-)

Oh hey thank you! I must chase them up now I think about it. :-)


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Re: [NetBehaviour] Selling digital art

[Rob Myers]

On 01/11/15 03:23 PM, Antonio Roberts wrote:
> 
> My motivation behind this decision was my belief that the value of an
> artwork should not be based on scarcity.

+1

> If I had used expensive
> materials or if making multiples was labour intensive then I could see
> more justification in raising the price and producing less. However,
> in my case they were relatively inexpensive digital prints and so
> making multiples was less of a problem.

Treat it as tipping or patronage in return for a touch of the artist's aura?

> This presents a problem if I want to make more money from things like prints.

You can always do prints with those nicer materials (archival paper/inks
etc.) and charge more for those.

Or you can sign prints or provide certificates of authenticity -

https://www.flickr.com/photos/http_gallery/22348355411/

There are several startups that do blockchain-based editions of digital
works. ascribe for example:

https://www.ascribe.io/

(I've met some of the people from ascribe but don't have any involvement
with the project. Other services are available etc.)

that takes the prints out of the equation altogether. :-)

> Crowdfunding (patreon, kickstarter etc) has been suggested in the past
> but that is more about supporting the artist, not about making money
> directly from the artwork itself.

You could crowdfund the edition and have the prints as backer rewards at
various levels.

Crowdfunding works best with things that are events with a narrative
people can get involved with, so you'd probably need to do annual or
biannual crowdfunding events for projects or (groups of) editions.

You could also sell shares in a work/project/edition in return for e.g.
sponsorship mentions at shows (like at the end of a crowdfunded movie or
book).

- Rob.

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[NetBehaviour] Links

[Rob Myers]

"Saga is an embeddable platform that could change how artists display
their work online" -

http://www.factmag.com/2015/10/27/mat-dryhurst-saga-framework/


"BY-3D? Creative Commons Attribution and 3D Printing" -

https://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/22679-by-3d-creative-commons-attribution-and-3d-printing.html


"The Future of Culture is a Web of Cooperative Economies" -

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/as-excessive-capitalist-systems-and-modern-computers-meet-their-limitations-many-desire-a-new-7be61f597a68


"The Blockchain: A Promising New Infrastructure for Online Commons" -

http://www.bollier.org/blog/blockchain-promising-new-infrastructure-online-commons


"FarmShare is a decentralized platform for community-supported
agriculture (CSA) organizations, using the blockchain to tokenize shares
and enable community governance." -

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/farmshare-at-callicoon-ny-art-walk-this-saturday-12-8pm-3904b426d420


"FOAM is a decentralized architecture office (ĐAO) working to apply
blockchain technologies to the production of the built environment." -

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/foam-a-tropical-mining-station-f61bf7b1c8ca


"A Decentralized System for Education and Assessment" -

http://otlw.co/


"Holberton School to Authenticate Its Academic Certificates With the
Bitcoin Blockchain" -

http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/holberton-school-authenticate-its-academic-certificates-with-bitcoin-blockchain-2065768.htm


"Certificates, Reputation, and the Blockchain" -

https://medium.com/@medialab/certificates-reputation-and-the-blockchain-aee03622426f


"Group currency generated and distributed among social networks" -

http://www.ourfabriq.com/


"Blockchain Governance DApp" -

http://boardroom.to/


Blockchain voting -

https://medium.com/@DomSchiener/publicvotes-ethereum-based-voting-application-3b691488b926


Automating writing in Emacs -

http://sachachua.com/blog/2015/01/developing-emacs-micro-habits-text-automation/


"Let's Encrypt - It's happening" -

https://lolware.net/2015/10/27/letsencrypt_go_live.html


"Inside the Secretive World of Tax-Avoidance Experts" -

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/elite-wealth-management/410842/?single_page=true
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Re: [NetBehaviour] Know Your Filesystem (and how it affects you)

[Rob Myers]

On 21/10/15 03:15 PM, Dave Young wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the quote & question! To draw a minor correlation between my
> text and this Illich quote – Illich wrote Tools for Conviviality in the
> early 1970s, the same time the first GUI (Xerox Alto, later Star OS)
> operating system was being developed.

Heya.

I loved the article, really good.

Xanadu was started a decade before the Star project, and Computer
Lib/Dream Machines was published in 74. There may be something to the
idea of epochs, or at least eras. :-)

> What I wanted to get
> at in the text was that any interface acts as an enclosure: it presents
> options to the user, but in the end these parameters are designed and
> constrained - some possibilities of user-responses/interactions must be
> omitted, and we shouldn't readily consider these omissions to be inert
> gestures but moments where interaction is governed. 

Does this relate to the idea of "affordances"?

> I think the
> interfaces of Android, iOS/OSX, and Windows have been moving towards
> what Illich might have considered a “man-made shell” for quite some time
> already - our shifting perspective on the filesystem is to me emblematic
> of this. The more we find ourselves within this shell, perhaps the less
> we consider our devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc) as tools? I have
> the impression that, when it comes to tool-use, a sense of
> agency/ownership is important. I think we are really losing the
> entitlements that come with user-agency and tool-ownership as a
> consequence of these 'smart operating systems' and their reluctance to
> share their dirty laundry (filesystems, background processes,
> data-caching, and so on) with us - should we ask them to.

As we lose the ability to exercise our freedom we also lose the
awareness that we can?

I agree very much that filesystems are a site of history and politics
and a fit subject for critique. I'm really glad to see this article and
discussion.

UNIX's file/directory system is no more "natural" than DOS/Windows'
version with the slashes going the other way. They and the desktop
file/folder metaphors contrast with other historical filesystems: BeOS's
database, VMS's versioned file system, the Lisa's search system, the
original Mac's flat list of files. It's more weird that UNIX won than
that other systems do it differently.

At the same time that apps and search are firewalling users from
filesystems more and more, Git, Urbit, IPFS, and other modern
distributed/versioned/cryptogrphically secured filesystems are putting
filesystems beyond the control of locked-down software and making them
truly distributed tools for storage and communication. Escaping the
lockdown in this way is good, at least relative to that lockdown.

On a related note, where has "View Source" gone in mobile web browsers?

- Rob.

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