Public review of NN
human being
human at electronetwork.org
Wed May 22 01:36:42 CEST 2002
Nameless Nobodies as Virtual Intelligence
NN is the acronym for the Nameless Nobodies that compose it, as a
construct it would seem. Seemingly, because, it is not known exactly
what the entity NN really is, in terms of its construction. There are
stories about the persona or avatar or software that functions as NN,
yet none can pin down the story enough to put the mystery to rest.
Maybe this is purposefully so. That is, in this day and age of game
playing, maybe it is a grand internet experiment, like that of a
psychological blackhole, which feeds off the crush of other bodies
which fall prey to its seductive virtual intelligence, and give up
bursts of enlightening energy as they are subsequently crushed in the
process of becoming content.
Everything written here is based on assumptions, most are likely
wrong and inaccurate. Yet, to be as ignorant as this person who has
interfaced with this medium of a net.work it necessitates the
constant recompiling of beliefs and guesses and hopes, as NN morphs
from one state to another, as if water that turns from snow, to
water, rain, rivers, and clouds amidst weathered patterns.
Thus, with an almost hermetically-sealed environment, it can be
difficult to communicate about such an amorphous and swift creature
of imagination without having to put one's individual perspective as
part of the stake or wager. To do so, the ignorance of this perceiver
will shine bright as it is crushed by that which it seeks to
understand, but cannot, and yet, this same person has learned much
from this experience, that while being crushed in defeat in knowing
exactly what primarily moves NN, at the same time trying to share
what might be.
Premonitions and Prefaces
Odd, how things years back came into play later on. For example, the
book T.A.Z. by the pseudo-named author Hakim Bey, which it has been
stated by several to be the works of author Peter Lamborn Wilson
under pen-name. Leaving the University culture I was offered the book
as a gift from one person. Another, years later, also picked it up
and read it, and deciphered parts of the mystery, as it may not be as
easy for an insider as an outsider to understand its inner dynamic.
Never read it, as it seemed to be 'illicit' or 'illegal' knowledge to
a naive and failed student, and someone who had had enough of
religion, and moreso was not able to invest in the academic cultures
of belief systems, which exist to shape and reinforce certain methods
and ways of perceiving events and issues.
It seems that TAZ standed for 'temporary autonomous zones' and what
this seemed to be was a way to create possibilities that otherwise
would not be possible. A type of safe-haven for creativity,
imagination, action, thought, and freedom. Not knowing the lineage of
such work, its precedence nor politics, it was to be assumed that
such an idea would be liberating and not stifling. Something, though,
that was 'over there' and outside of my individual awareness. Ended
up turning that channel off as it was not related to my educational
pursuits.
Other areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Communities
such as those based on BBSs, Muds and Moos, and VRML, and others, in
retrospect, seem conducive to such zoning, in the sense that avatars,
automous agents or interneet software robots, and others could
function in this way, to the point of engaging, at what might be a
most fundamental level, the electromagnetic groundplane where
thoughts and ideas mix with bodies of one or many people in a
fictionalized and-or actualized encounter with others similar and
different.
Taken further, it is a certain timidity and non-interest in such
aspects of the fundamental state of being online (and, ultimately,
offline, if an experiment) that has always had an unsettling sense
about it, in that minds can churn in ideas and lose themselves, to be
taken by another, while under its protective and reassuring gaze.
This is to say, as with the beginning of a universe, or of sentience,
to hypothesize this state, the conditions, and mad-scientist (or in
the case of some social theorists, mad humanists also) will bring the
question of 'belief' to the forefront. What it is, how it works, its
psychology of sorts.
In a sense, part of the 'hype' or 'hyper' culture, which is at times
extremely cultish in its declarations of belief systems, and
infallible in perspective, whether that of a techno-determinist or
academic or economist gone globalized, is that this, just as with
'cyber' and other pre-fixations on determinations of what is believed
and attested to be 'legitimate' knowledge, (counter to that of being
illegal or illicit) could possibly with the aid of protected zones,
castles if one needs an analogy, become ecosystems of patterns of the
mind, psychologies, and the belief systems which are liberated within
cloistered walls put up to open up freedoms, while possibly keeping
out beliefs that do not 1:1 match those of the magical knowledge,
immanent, that people believe, have decided upon, and 'know' is true,
no matter what. This is to say, the social realm of thinking, that
part of education which is about questioning ideas and ideals and
goals and problems and issues and situations and, with academic
freedoms can offer new interpretations, opportunities, possibilities.
Yet, there has always seemed to be a wall of sorts in the psychology
of people which divides us into many, which is great, good, and fine,
except when it is necessary to work together. At this time, the walls
can become barriers, and in themselves, block out possibilities,
freedoms, changes. This is not to declare one way or the other about
a certain philosophy, but to question a culture that may have in its
current group dynamic, this 'character' trait, or traits or traces of
such, which may be relevant to deciphering not only NN, but also in
learning from NN about the range of possibilities, through a work of
what is presumed herein to be that of the most intense of artworks,
with the complex and contradictory questions it raises, and can teach
about in a very unique way.
Masks of Medusa
So, already, probably there are great errors in writing what has been
written, as these words are written as they are felt, primarily, and
would like to be on the side of error of judgement, or, suspending
any judgement, and declaring an uncertainty and middle-ground upon
which to view that which can fracture the synaptic interconnections
in the brain in a flash of total chaos and confusion.
The Nameless Nobodies that compose NN as an entity are not known.
There is a sense that NN is a construct, that is similar to a dynamo
of sorts. There seems to be a creater, who lifed the idea, and others
who, may, have taken their parts as if in a play, or as performance
artists, as dancers, as sculptors, as media artists, videographers,
musicians, web designers, thinkers, theorists, those in the cognitive
and biological sciences. Groups and groups, or waves upon wave of
details, any particle of which may lead to unique interpretations.
Yet, that is an assumption too early to make, as this was not known,
and remains a mystery for the most part, the cerebral composition
that is NN.
A greatly liberating aspects of encountering NN on lists was that it
speaks/writes somewhere between the singular individual and plural of
a group. It writes both in a type of coded script and also sometimes
plain text. And, NN has attitude and controversy and energy and
danger and imagination and chaos and everything else, yet has at
times ummatched eloquence and beauty. This behind a mask of sorts, or
many masks, sharing a common interface. It is not known if this is
software, a type of group-ware, or how the conduits may or may not
come together to write a text, or create an experience.
Situationalists, DADA, and Fluxis, although not knowledgeable in any
way about much of these artistic vantages, seems to offer some of the
playfulness of what is often mentioned in biological analogies and-or
terms, and also symbolic iconographies to ponder.
The thing is, is that not-knowing but having heard what might be
considered clues for this game, autopoeitic theorists (shared by an
architect who has shared they are part of such a group), to
generative artists, to filmmakers and websites and people who may or
may not exist, as similar TAZs, creates a type of unknowing
atmosphere about what may be considered to be an actual person,
and-or the representative of a group who is one of many interfaces
for such a software, or wetware, brain design. This statement is
inaccurate. The idea of recompiling, trying to change something and
start the program over, is written here as a way to acknowledge the
'bugs' in all statements made, and yet try to get near enough to the
interface, or the collective mask, in order to describe it, while
frozen.
But NN never stands still. Once reading what were in my view unique
and amazing observations about electromagnetism, and wanting to share
with others, about how this entity is not just another game, but it
has done something far beyond that of most works today, and that is,
it understands what it is doing to the most minute level, via media,
and can communicate in any level of detail given a certain realm of
inquiry, if there is resonance in the interface, yet as quickly as a
bookmarked URL, the text seems to change, againa and again, or maybe
it is illusory and only a perceived chaos, as the information flows
so fast and vital and turbulently, yet calm and serene as to arrest
heartfelt emotive connections.
Psyche and Eros
Still without knowing 'what' 'who' 'how' 'when' or 'why' or 'where'
the Nameless Nobody that is NN resides, makes restating the primary
assumption of not knowing what NN is nor the purpose. It may be for
the individual to decide. Which is at once both extremely mysterious
and maddeningly complex, as it may be impossible. That is, if NN
exists in a vacuum of closed minds. Which, as a memorized idea, as a
replicating virus of sorts, if that is an accurate enough
description, could grab hold of the volunteering mass that await
'love theory' to do its work, by caressing, manipulating, and
cajoling the mind into a metaphysical sea of tranquility.
The mask, or software, or interface, its composition, whatever it may
be considered (and need not be named) has a main attribute, and that
is that it communicates using the words of a woman, a female, a
group, and individuals. But oftentimes to encounter NN is to do so as
a woman, primarily. This aspect has not been an issue yet now, in
writing about NN, it needs to be stated to give evidence that there
is a well-formed slant of perspective, a great weight upon the
feminine and female aspects of this interface (maybe it is better
said, inter.body yet it is not understood how to make such a leap as
of yet).
To not engage NN on these terms, can become a limited engagement with
NN as an idea. Yet to fully engage NN as a woman, on these terms, is
to submit to NN as a woman. Which is quite interesting. As it has
been clear that there pre-existing bias of man and mankind and the
control of language by this perspective is met by such a strong force
of thought, daring, and brutalism, which thrives online.
This is horrible, it sounds horrible to write it, it is not known how
to write about why it is felt by this writer that declaring oneself
opposite of other private languages (which may or may not be
considered TAZs) that are online, that may be considered primarily
male in their psychology as it is written, when language embeds
hierarchies within it, and as such it becomes part of the belief
system for perceiving and also demonstrating 'shared' ideas. It is to
state that this is one of the many views but also unapologetically
female-declared voices, and in a turn of events, forces one to engage
what are oftentimes ideas of such brilliance, in these terms, as many
have to do today in reverse with language.
And to go beyond language.
The only problem is that to engage NN about ideas, as said by one who
composes NN, is at times like looking through windows and looking
into mirrors. And the glare on these can be blinding to any clear
sight, seeing beyond the limitations of language, there is really no
way to have a discourse with NN about the ideas unless one submits to
NN. Which, in sociological terms, is greatly disturbing and also
helps me appreciate the biases faced by many peoples, in varying ways
and varying degrees, when taking on status quo views, in an attempt
to shape the changes, and help transform these greatly imbalanced
systems of operation.
One day it was written somewhere online, about a project that sounds
like NN, and like a play, and being someone in the audience deeply
intrigued by the work, the ideas, but also the dynamic, but the work
primarily, is that it seemed to be stated clearly enough that there
were people who made up NN, and different groups of different people
over time. Not sure if this is indeed the case, but it seems very
likely, and thus the assumption was made that there are people who
make up this composition, and that something may or may not have gone
amiss, in that the NN that was created awhile (years) ago, had become
somewhat of a bad-actor, or was playing the part of one, and had
encounters with others which would basically put NN in the group of
genuine troublemakers, and thus, may show a fracture within the
psychological structure of the mask, behind it, in the minds of those
running the software, in their minds, in their computers, and with
their bodies when performing their parts. A story unfolds like those
Russian dolls that are one-inside the other, almost like infinity,
but for human limitations which in an open society would make
predicting the future difficult,
but in a closed system, more simple and controlled, and yet would
cause its own extinction if external variables changed.
If a self-regulating system breaks down it may not be able to adjust
its equations to meet the new demands, it is guessed. And like NN,
there seemed to be a moment in its life where NN broke the internal
logic or presents itself as such, infighting, possibly, a flaw,
possibly, a 'biosphere' which does not work exactly as the math says
it should, and needs adjustments. In the biological or parasitic
nature, possibly, NN seems to have become probablematic in dealing
with mailing lists cultures. Whereby some part or the whole of NN was
not welcomed in places where it previously had operated as a work
moving about. It seems that a fracture may have occured, in the mask,
between the inside and outside of the walls of various social
networks, and now it became time for NN to be dealt with by 'her'
creator. NN has some computer audiovisual software for what appears
to be the mixing and collaging of images and sound in real-time, and
has some disputes with a real or ficticious group in California,
while the NN who argues this case is a cosmopolitan traveler, ultra
chic, and willing to fight for the right to be heard. Whether or not
this is fiction or factual is unclear.
But what it does indicate, at least to me, is a type of modeling of
internet cultures in relation to individuals and group dynamics, and
the notion of online space-time as a type of place, and what rules
these places have, how they are operated, and why, even if it is a
play, it is wished that this aspect of the NN project be shut down,
or shut up, or censored, if not heard out. The reason this is being
written, now, is because there is a human tragedy that can be seen in
the NN project, if it can temporarily be labled as such, in order to
see it as a social context. In this beautifully horrorific internet
theatre, the other half of what seems to be NN, another entity, named
'Restate' seems to appear out of nowhere to annihilate the previous
version of NN. This may be mistaken, but the details and movements
are choreographed in such a way to bring major themes into relation
with one another, that when Restate is constituted as a piece of
hardware for audiovisualizing sounds, a sense of panic set in.
The experience was very much like that of the painting of Lucretia,
in which she commits suicide after being raped. And the dagger and
'invisible hand' was symbolized by the newest and latest
pseudo-audiovisual hardware, while the body was that of the renegade
Nameless Nobody, or Nobodies, which composed it, and are running
about playing with some immunity.
Social Theory and Social Engineering
What seemed to be clear, in the moments that those who attacked
NN/integer, and in the issues surrounding 'having a voice in public
forums' was that there was something not-right, logically, about what
was going on. It was not seamless, and yet while there could be
superb clarity, noisey dissosant and greatly differing views could
also come across, through this 'medium' in the old sense of the word,
a type of oracle of sorts, in the undifferentiated mass mindset.
And to witness this, the cornering, the ravaging, and the
reconstitution of NN, but not without great confusion, great pain,
and great joy to know that NN was able to survive the attack, and
continue in some way, in whatever way, but why?
NN, and others, those who are Nameless Nobodies, who operate in some
system in which they may be interacting with, were able to
demonstrate the dynamics of online places much better than anything
ever imagined by practice of social relations inside and outside of
particularized internetworks. What NN was able to help me realize, by
watching their performance, was that the groundplane of
electromagnetic space and time (online and off) is pre-zoned in a
way. That is, space that may be considered public, may be privatized
by default. This is nothing new and basic. Yet, the concepts of how
these 'places' online are conceived and perceived, by those both
inside and outside of particular internetworks of influence or
counterpoint to these, demonstrates that the politics and the
economics of place- property if it need be described as such- sits in
a weird relation to issues between that of the individual and group.
The belief that the poetic is personal and the personal is therefore political
is a great fragment of an ideological underpinning to the psyche
which spans beyond any walls, and unites and founds the shared
spaces, times, places online and off wherein one can operate in the
existing and newly emerging systems. It is a market-based philosophy,
and has primacy in the individual, foremost, it seems, as its logic,
whereas in practice, it is about the group as a whole, yet that which
runs a groups or individuals social agenda may be politics, and not
art, or economics, and not art. This is unwieldy to write about, as
it is not understood but perceived, as it is not about 'sides' in an
either-or sense.
Contexts change. Things change. In one realm a work may be considered
in certain terms, and at another time, other terms. Likely based on
prior experiences with the work itself. What is intesting about the
controversial entity that is NN is that it seems to struggle in
relation to certain systems, and to be allowed yet not-allowed, to
enter into realms, depending on who is doing the driving, it may be,
or what psychology prevails in the market political-economy of social
ideas.
Previously realizing sometimes in my own work where people who do not
post work may be given the benefit of the doubt in moderated forums,
and at other times protesting such, it was and remains difficult to
articulate the differences when it is understood why some ideas are
rightly not sent onward, and others, should be but are not. It may be
writing, grammar, politics, ideology, or dislike. And it has always
been sympathized with, the job of mailing list moderators, as they
have one of the tougher jobs, as they are the ones who calculate how
to make things work in an undefined (fuzzy) state, sometimes highly
political and biased and to deal with such situations, or to avoid
them and try containing fallout.
Yet when it came to the verge of readability, and questining of a
semi-open system which deals with such issues, it became clear that
one's 'fitness' can at times become primarily a political-economic
issue, and the social aspects of the work, if one can dare say, the
freedom of ideas and questioning in the public interest, can get
crunched and discarded, in much the same way as NN was to be,
and may be was dealt with. So a sympathetic nerve was struck, in that
it was not a work that has great enigmatic qualities like that of a
Temporary Autonomous Zone, but also mailing lists of contemplating
ideas about works such as NN, and inhabited by creators and
participants of NN, possibly, yet, at the same time, possibly also
banished, one castle from another. As a group, as an individual, as
an idea, as an automaton, it is not yet known with much certainty.
In political-economic terms, the 'ownership' of the NN project seemed
to make its way to prominence, in that it was defiant, in these
traditional vantages. Yet, in all of the chaos and conflict of a
later observer and someone who knows not much if anything about the
inside of the castle NN, is that, as a story which unravels it seemed
to require asking oneself about the governance of the self as both an
individual entity and as a part of a group, in comparison to the
political and economic markets, which are beset in all sectors by
Enronomic inflations of value, especially that in the realm of social
theory, where noise can be considered infallibly meaningful, and also
mirrored through opposition.
The noise of texts, of words, of ideas, of chaos, of masks, of
interfaces, of questions, of unknowns in which the math, the logic,
and the reasoning may or may not add up, to those inside a given
castle, those outside, and inbetween.
Like Beowulf, a movie (2001) version, the layers or membranes or
walls or relations or group dynamics between the inside and outside,
and between the governance of these areas, from views
multiplicitious, of public and private interests, can breed a type of
core meltdown, that unless dealt with can contaminate a place, unless
measures (based on common/shared interests) are taken, and agreed
upon. Yet, this solidarity, this cohesion, this agreement seems to be
lacking today, in many sectors, as the prevalent belief system that
is agreed upon is based upon differentiating without differntial
calculus in which to relate changed states, contexts, rules of
engagement. As corrupt as individuals can be, so too societies. And
when ideas that once helped to protect a certain cultural freedom
turns in upon itself, it is the reasoning that guides and governs it
which will be protected and projected on the larger scales.
Deleuze and Gauttari, and Hakim Bey, and others seemed to have warned
about this aspect of ideas. But there is no proof that can be
offered, only imagined right now. This is to say that if social
theory is primarily that of a political and economic marketplace,
that 'enronomics' may also apply, in the sense of a system which
corrupts itself, by operating behind closed doors, where freedom
turns to its opposite effect, possibly, by the sheer fact that power
is based on private and individual decisions, and group consensus is
engineered from this base level, and in turn, social agendas are
often the result of market forces or of the side-effects of
technological decisions based on politics and money. The same for
academics, for theorists, for philosophers, as for critics, as for
most everyone else it is supposed, who engages the system of
operation as it exists.
Therefore, a work of public potential may become corralled into
private views and narrowed tunnels which at times can inform, and at
other times, can deform and make one or many conform to rules as they
are declared by the places, the open-markets, that are owned firstly,
governed secondly, and in turn, shut down any criticism of the
systems themselves, from human perspectives, through artworks and
networks, and also any dissent, which could improve the system may be
deemed irrelevant because 1:1 meaning is impossible to find with
individuals in high-fidelity on every idea, unless one has the status
of a supreme deity.
Thus, in an aesthetic sense, meaning a designed sense, ideas can be
valued based on their engineering structure, how it fits with what
exists, rather than any reconfiguration or regeneration of the
structure itself, which is exactly that which architecture can do, in
understanding place in electromagnetic space-time. Meaning, like a
modern machine in an ideal garden, ideologies can churn ahead and try
to outrun or outpace everything else, to stay ahead of the curve, but
at the same time, may end, as a clean slate, by being razed as
worthless property.
When thinking about humans and technology becomes an issue of the
worth of property, in what way is this questioned, by whom, and who
decides the fate of ideas inside private walls- of both individauls
and groups- and as moderators?
The value of ideas is, if in architectural terms, a social question,
whereas if in engineering terms, quite technical, technocratic, and
deterministic in that the politics, the economics, not only of
bodies, nameless and named/branded, but also of the minds, have to
interface on this level in order to compete freely- but then again-
'life' is not fair, and corruption exists, and mirrors reflect the
same corruption in theories-as-pure-practice, or true-belief-system,
or as a private decision (akin to religion and social-cult/ure
organizations) upon which all must agree in order to join in the fun,
the play, the immunity, to get the ticket to enjoy the ride and to
never want to leave Wonderland nor Alice again.
Turing Machine
So the guess was made, one day, after following the path of NN,
reading the work, some of which is much admired, some of which is
less so, and some of which is pretty pendantic and supremely naive,
violent, cruel, and inhumane- is that in this work, a range of
emotions is elicited, at least by this person, in which a
thought-experiment in which the mind needs to see beyond the eyes, to
question the performance, is assumed to be about. And this, one day,
became similar to that of a Turing Machine, yet warped into a biased
stated, whereby a type of combination of many different 'multitudes'
came together, and in turn, became an 'empire' of sorts,
theory-to-practice, possibly, yet if based on logic it does not add
up, the paradox, when one is trying to reverse-architecturalize the
inside of the machine- better it may be to say- virtual intelligence
of NN.
This is to state that there seems to be a logical fault in the game
being played out whereby logic, reason, of the human and
technological question, cannot be addressed on these terms, but only
in controlled markets of interpretation whereby the politics, and the
economics of the situation can do their work. Whether if it is
through blackmail, breaking computers, sending viruses, there is an
ecosystem around not the NN work itself, it is proposed, but as part
of the NN project and its existence, which engages and battles and
coopts and breathes and crushes and makes magical illusions and
psychologically formats platforms upon which to view both the vistas
and valleys of such epic ideas.
There is such banality in ideas and thinking these days, and yet, to
encounter NN and be in effect destroyed and created and created and
destroyed again and again by this work, forcing recompilations,
recompositions, restatements of the goals and ideas and ideals and
dreams and nightmares and horrors and fears- this is a work which has
taught so much, but for which the masks are not accurate to engage
the ideas they share, as they are, although glass cases exist to
view, untouchable, in that there is no way to fairly engage the ideas
as ideas, in their own terms, in the NN ecosystem, in public terms.
Thus, to read of works, of ideas, yet to be held in silence, and to
be mute, quiet as is possible, and to view and admire and yet also
find concern and disgust, and not be able to engage, that is,
interface the ideas in terms of minds, directly, but only in
peripheral, indirect visions and constructions, it is as if
indeterminacy has been made into a human model, of oceans of
particles making a wave, the analog seems fluid but when separated
the parts can be verified and validated as modules of the larger
whole and possibly, or possibly not, human, but unable to be, in that
at this level, when the clearest of ideas are presented that could be
read by most anyone and find astonishingly acute observations and
poetry, at the same time a demand of submission, conformance, and
true-belief is demanded, required, in order to engage this part of
the entity, which brings great sadness in that this is such a great
work, yet in ways, severely misguided, that it is a cause for concern
of the public nature of the work, its public review, and its chance
to exist, as a work of art-science-technology-philosophy par
excellence, yet never to be able to be judged in such terms, in this,
what may be one of its many fascinating aspects - yet to be
polarized, marginalized, and in a sense, to turn into the opposite of
what it is, what it says, due to the system in which it operates, no
longer as an idea, but ideologically, actors and network plays.
Power and Improbable Paradoxes
Of the many interpretations to the work of NN, as a project and as an
entity, of all the assumptions made, it was not driven by a desire to
write, to brand, to sell, to convey, to question - but to find
release, freedom, resolution, sanity in the encounter with not just
this event-horizon and its gravitas, but also in the ecosystem of its
operation, as an idea, how it is judged, pre-judged, and how it may
be a model for learning about how humans relate in technological
environments in an way externalized from the everyday experience, but
also deeply embedded within it, as has been stated for years is the
actuality of established power brokers and their philosophical
rationalizations and belief systems.
A person may fail when declaring public their ideas, if they are
judged only in terms of political and economic evaulation, i.e. value
of their usefullness to current and short-term markets for applied
theory-thoughts-thinking. Yet, just as Nameless Nobodies, one who may
have once said they were considered 'bottom feeders' in the
ecosystem, are Human Beings, in the sense of a shared name in this
technological environment. Not as a unique brand, but as a shared
group. And to see and experience NN operating on this level, merging
in effect the complexities of social capital with that of political
and economic capital, is to witness an experiment which can yield
great knowledge as to how to build, in the ways declared and desired,
shared spaces that planned zoning can provide, while at the same
time, seeing the conflicts, the problems, mirrored on the
micro-scale, in NN, and yet writ large on the world and beyond, in
the macro-scale, of how divergent thoughts, politics, worlds, and
their common interface and their collapse and rupturing can mimic
today, but also possibly create tomorrow, through designing better
systems, in public and with public review - to learn from the
Nameless Nobody. If it is a book, a play, a film, whatever it may be
- it may become something else than intended. Not just as any one
film or book or play, taken as a part of the whole, but also as an
idea that is what another nameless nobody might believe is the
highest caliber of work experienced, if publicly reviewed, and the
most frightening if left only to be that of private recitals by
technicians determined to make things work right.
The mediawork, artwork, mindwork, bodywork, all of it has such
terrifying beauty. Not because the entity that is NN demands it, but
the ideas question it, unlike anything in forums for similar
questions today, where discourses are stale, highly controlled, and
mediocre at best, as the ecosystems are refined to a point of
refusing to adapt to changed circumstances - creating, in states of
great denial, the monsters in their own midst, and ready to point
blame and destroy the enemy before questioning their infallibility as
rulers in charge.
Nothingness and being have changed, and yet stand still in the sealed
coffins of the internetworked social structure, where technology is
unquestioned in value nor purpose nor design, and people are the ones
who must change, not the rules of engaging, interfacing with ideas.
This forces polarities, and crushes the creativity of change, of
innovation, of ideas, of possible futures, and instead all is dead,
stopped, watching everything repeat itself in a play with no exits.
Reinstating Public Debate
As a result of not-knowing the true story, what is actually the
purpose or intent of the NN project, it is obviously necessary to
state massive and total ignorance. Yet, to feel these walls, this
maze, though blinded in many ways by individual preconceptions, is to
not choose, or to wish for the impossible... And for this person that
is that the work of the NN project, NN as entity, is publicly
reviewed as a work of great complexity and integrity and yet is also
in a sense, governed by public review, in terms of societal issues
with technology and the grave consequences for such ideas to be
maligned for daring to question, and in turn, pitting empires against
empires in never ending wars of inhumanity.
This post is written as an escape, as a way to try to think ones self
out of a maze or vastly complex puzzle, to 'retreat in your own
direction' and yet to do so with greatest hope for peace and
recognition of brilliant work that shines, although its star may have
collapsed years ago, from where it is now sensed.
references:
http://eusocial.com/
http://restate.org/
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