http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/zkp/eastedge.txt % draft of eastedge appearance at metaforum ii % % budapest, hungary, 6-7-8th october 1995 % 'how fast are you? how dense?' (so called cyber-slogan, asked by r.u.sirius, editor of reality hackers, former editor of mondo 2000) noise - in hungarian: no ize a year ago we had to state that 'cyberpunk - the subculture - is dead'. (for your information: it has died on 15th may 1989 - if i can recall it properly - on the day time magazine had a cover and special issue called 'cyberpunk'.) nowadays we should say 'internet, internetworking is dead'. i can recall the day when first 'internet is full - go away' signs appeared all around this planet and in this 'virtual' planet. of course by one hand it was a kind of racism, but perhaps we just were just worried about our world with private entrance we've built with very hard work and they come here to play MUD, sell us pizza - and watch us. our main cause is that we do not want any beholder who beholds for the big brother, who peek into our private 'virtual' world. of course we are paranoids - we came here because we are. (otherwise give us an ethernet, log yourself in and we shall tell you what your password is... we could send you fakemail in several ways, we could manage to change domain names in hours so try to get catch us!) % % % net went quantity. quality is a thing of past. but the spectrum is growing. now you have the ability to meet all of your possible dream factories. for example this feature is offered to you by Mircosoft. information is power, media is builded on it, so manipulation is the only weapon. here they come, the zaibatsus, in sight. open the r*ll*ng st*n* magazine and you're sure to find a world wide web site that makes you interested. first statement: information shouldn't be believed without proper clues of source - and source defines its aim of course - therefore we PROMOTE public code encryption and PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY (PGP) for the privacy of person. second statement: there is a demand for a new net, a new net-kinda structure, a pseudo-net, or metanet. accessing the metanet rises the question of privileges, selection, discrimination. what should give you free entrance to a next level? we have to find some kind of 'clean' measure. possibly knowledge? possibly aims? hard to choose, even to have options to choose from. do not forget: we live in the fin de siecle, this world is more than postmodern and 'the world has overturned the threshold' (leonard cohen). our aim is some kind of clarity, we want to avoid digital slime, junk mail and mainstream manipulation. practically - and perhaps the most easyly - pgp-based communication - e-mailing, phoning, webbing - seems to be very ok. this new method should be alternative, not dictatoric (see Mircosoft). take a look at scientists in the late middle ages - they had a well functioning correspondence based network. we have to find our new ways to reach each other. we should keep in mind: internet is lot more about anything than information technology! is the net consists of wires? net is about networking and its people define its entity and these living individuals have a common unconscious that should be called net.god, but nowadays we're seem to be heading for net.bobby.has.died.for.you. the current conquering media interpretes net as a new manipulation channel with new interactive features. interaction is very important in this case, because the back-popping answer reflects the inner desires, therefore improves more efficient manipulating methods. stop! this means that media is a self-projected, self-stimulating expression of desire, so it should not be percepted as an enemy, it is just an alternative way to find happiness, 'peace and unity' (leftfield). "please inform all units that communication has broke down" (british troops, africa, second world war) gigo means garbage in garbage out. diversity is not necessarily equals useless information overflow. net is a hip now. newcomers should be warned where they arrive. net is not a digital heaven. let's have a hegelistic point of view and look at the facts if the military/educational fully functional, worthy, 'dense', anticommercial net is the thesis, the commercial junk mailer, 'fast' net is the antithesis, what should be the synthesis? statement: we promote d-i-y, f-y-i, non commercial actions. we promote diversion, not conversion. we think that there is no global village, just temporarily autonomus zones. we think that confrontation and shocking is needed, hence we do not want to use force. we think that future has already happened: whether it is hardcore with mangas running thru your mind or smoothly mediamanipulated. we think that there are no more sub/countercultures, just parallel cultures. we do not promote conqueror tactics of culture, because integrating means making stuphs equal and democracy means mediocracy. commun-ism is not demo-cracy and demo-cracy is not commun-ism. % % % % % Mircosoft is a registered trademark of multi/overnationalist conglomerates. important: we do not protest against uniform-cultures, we do deny aggression. it is not an enemy, it is an aggressor of sameness, uniformity. hakim bey probably would call it some kind of 'mambo jambo'. it is a metaphor, it is a spell, a magic word. % % % % % personal promotion flies to pp project, kzhely foundation, xybrrrpunk, heath bunting's projects, matthew fuller's projects (especially i/o/d), dASH non-commercial projects, autonomedia projects. --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@is.in-berlin.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@is.in-berlin.de