Konrad Becker on Mon, 13 Nov 95 22:04 MET


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expanded e~scapism


EXPANDED E~SCAPISM

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The iconography of the old media-underground has become mainstream, selling
softdrinks and jeans, using artist as testpilots for the newer media and as
suppliers of public relation and digital manipulation. 
 Subversive strategies dealing with this phenomenon of ever faster
appropriation of artistic expression by corporate business choose tactical
invisibility and immersion in the age of biocybernetic self-reproduction.
The flooding of signals in cold channels of old media escapes the creative
act of the artistic intervention through the recombination of signs out of
the pink noise of the semiotic ghosts in search of a body. The nets used by
cultural activists as meta-data tools according to a new artistic tradition
of inspired interpretation of data within a panopticum of commodified
worldviews. Guerrilla semiotics replacing pretentious artistic creation with
recombinant cultural synthesis of the techno-voodoo memetic environment.

full e~facts

Political theories always relied on historic facts which can become dull and
questionable with the advance of time and research. Hardly any facts can be
truly verified anyway - so who cares. The only fairly secure facts: birth
and death, (with "-"  in between) produce a shift of interest from facts to
effects.
Furthermore the assumption of solidarity of the working class seems a
hilarious misconception. The association with a class of workers is the
choice of loosers. Human pleasure seeking organisms, born to have fun, carry
the risk of permanent brainstroke in an environment where "enjoying
yourself“ is a political risk. 
The way out of materialism has to be looked for in hedonism. Anyone can
easily agree on feeling well, a global language. Zero Work ethics in full
e~fact  towards the international united hedonistic diversification. 

towards critical hedonism

The change towards an immaterialization of goods: electromagnetic pulses
driving the global banking networks and media-satellites. A change from
body-work to attention span management. Not the inclination for poetry but
the compulsion for complexity reduction spiralizes the information
management into the occult while the mesh of media creates black holes of
attention and sells it off to the wormholes of the commodified supermarket.
Transactions and exchange independently leading to the desubstantiation of
the economic process through immanent conversion of values. "The Economy of
Aufmerksamkeit“: building attractors, dark stars as social sculptures,
mindfocus in telematic flesh, with habits as expensive and sophisticated as
tribal African village fetishes. 
Is the transformation of the economic competition into a battle for
attention a hidden blessing in the powerstructure of the social organism?

tactical synrealism

A constantly different picture, but allways the same. The choice of pain in
the multiple choice emotional drama-trauma and an informational waste
disposal problem. Phase-locked equilibrated paralyzed presence, strange
medial washing detergents in the „immaculate conception“: brainwash taboo.
Breaking control circuits of affirmation and diversion, the standard
solutions selected by the symbol-committee. Storing and retrieving of
complex cognitive material in a hierarchical structure in which the
information embedded in higher stages remains available in less
differentiated states, but not reverse. Artificial environments,
menu-control symbolic orientation systems, watertight pasture for
pattern-processing organisms, the menu-card beyond. Data cooked behind
predefined windows, where interaction is easy.

who is who anonymous

Subjective science and meta-iconoclastic guerrilla in an alliance with
intelligent machines projecting multidimensional transhuman reality. Feeling
machines, to learn from their self-centered graceful existence - as the
barbarians drew their powers from their totem animals. Virtuosity and
distribution challenged by a diffusion of computer and expert systems. Urban
ghostdance in the synagoga satanica of tarantismus technicus, mesmerizing
the dataflux in immediatism. 
Smarter then „artificial intelligence“- more than merely rational and faster
than light, developing and enhancing the human side of intelligence as a
weapon against information warfare machines.

e~scapism

Limited depth perception of relational proportions, perspective, allows for
special effects illusions in the social group. Worldmaps, the tool of power
politics and military intelligence, project proportional distortions of
n-dimensional space onto the plane for propaganda purposes. The ways of life
are marked by representational systems, highly effective inducers with
enforced non-representation of profits. To know which way the wind is
blowing, look at the „center-of-the world“: Seamless parquetry and non-local
tiling of the imaginary space as a telematic menetekel for scotomic
visualization.
Escape artists and hedonic engineering for an anxiously bored society. An
extended ladder being one technical execution of Jacob’s Ladder, the
functional principle visualized in the international symbol for emergency
ladder. The space between this lattice fence becomes footsteps for escape, a
projected vision. Not just up and down, left or right: ana or kata as
proposed by the hyperspace pioneers.
In hyper-contextuality the stand point changes into a line, opinion into a
question of style as everything is connected in the hyperspace-design of the
biomass. Expanding the personal resonance with non-finite resources.
Recombining the children of the synvolution, transcoding synlogistic
permaflux to escape from the vicious circle of coded projections and
perceptions towards a nondeterministic hyperspace.





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