nettime unstable digest book

[Bjørn Magnhildøen]

nettime unstable digest, vol 1-90
archive of the Nettime unstable digest, a weekly anthology of codework
collected by Florian Cramer, Alan Sondheim & others


root at digest:/# unstable
zsh: command not found: unstable

root at digest:/# man unstable
No manual entry for unstable

root at digest:/# apropos unstable
unstable: nothing appropriate.

root at digest:/# ls unstable
ls: unstable: No such file or directory

root at digest:/# which unstable
unstable not found

root at digest:/# killall unstable
unstable: no process killed

root at digest:/# su unstable
Unknown id: unstable

root at digest:/# ifconfig unstable
unstable: error fetching interface information: Device not found

root at digest:/# ping unstable
ping: unknown host unstable

root at digest:/# ssh unstable
ssh: unstable: Name or service not known

root at digest:/# mount unstable
mount: can't find unstable in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

root at digest:/# modprobe unstable
FATAL: Module unstable not found.

root at digest:/# whois unstable
No whois server is known for this kind of object.




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                                                       Alan Sondhem


Introduction and Removal


OR:


Unstable Digest: unstable - on and off again, from here and there
digest - essence or summarization, culled from numerous sources


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nstable igest book

what are the sources? numerous email lists, emails, newsgroups,
the effluvia of online and offline communication.

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, I propose to jst incligests. Instea, I propose to j

what happens to the sources? they're modified or not, they're decoded or
encoded, their partially coded, they're used or not used, with permission
and without permission.

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are the sources open sources? they may be treated as open sources,
they may be modified or unmodified, they're something-or-other,
this-or-that, most often ASCII texts, let's say for the purposes
of this that they're texts -

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igests. Instea
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what do you propose? that the texts are interesting, that they fascinate or
seem relevant to writing or reading or speaking or
performing or living any number of ways, and what we propose then
is to take these texts, that we've found, or that have been sent
to us, or that we've culled, or for that matter, that we've written,
and assemble them in a single post.

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what is the name of the post? the name of the post is the Unstable
Digest, ultimately assembled by Florian Cramer, literally assembed
programmatically through a series of perl scripts which automate the
assembly process.

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what is really the content of these posts? why should they be of interest
to anyone? they're dealing with the real grit - the dirtiness of abstract
code, of writing, the clay of the cuneiform - they're dealing with codework,
 messy code and its interaction with 'surface' texts (neither code nor text
are surface), they're presenting lists, grids, graphs, knots, conundrums,
they're fully 'readable' in the traditional sense, they appear close to
illegible perhaps or totally unreadable, they're so simple a child could
write them, they're so difficult, no one could write them, the same with
reading.

nt: can't fin in /etc/fstab /etc/mtab

and? I live in wonder, I want to be able to say, 'this is fantastic,' to
have this response - whether or not I know the details, inner workings,
luminous contents of the works, whether or not I know the writer/creator,
whether or not I know, in fact whether the creator is a program/machine or
a human sitting at hir typewriter in an unheated loft -

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- and perhaps to think to myself, I mean, this sentence is dragging, I want
to be able to consider or release myself, to a future of writing which is
not necessarily interactive, but which is always inscriptive, inscribing,
as in cuneiform - a future of writing of (perhaps) a dying species, or a
species reborn -

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- and perhaps I want to be able to recuperate such works at this point,
since time is evanescent, machines and programs and technologies are
evanescent, so this is a kind of scribbling, by something or other, of or
within this moment -

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and the beginning and ending of the Unstable Digest? just as you've seen,
it happened, it was a happening, began slowly ended slowly, if in fact it
has ended at all -

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- although I am not sure there will always be letters, characters; that
there will always be readers, that there will always be this or these
species on this or any planet, that this might not be anything more than a
paean to extinction -

- nonetheless a celebration -


OR:


Alan
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Amusingly, this was the result of my first attempt of replying to your
request with a zipped attachment of all unstable digests:

Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2005 um 00:29:10 Uhr (+0200) schrieb Mail Delivery
System:
> This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
>
> A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
> recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
>
>   noemata at kunst.no
>     SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data:
>     host mail.kunst.no [80.232.36.38]: 550 This message contains malware
{Exploit.IFrame.Gen}
>
> ------ This is a copy of the message's headers. ------

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isbn-10 82-92428-44-5
isbn-13 978-82-92428-44-3

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