[lbo-talk] theorizing in ASCII

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Nov 11 17:46:08 PST 2005


[nettime has been quiet lately, but this is pretty funny]

Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:41:01 +0100 From: Matze Schmidt <matze.schmidt at n0name.de> To: nettime-l at bbs.thing.net


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ASCII Map "theoretical Mediapractice now" 0.3

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| Interlinking of media |

| practice with explicit |

| political practice |

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WC 2006[1] /

/ /

Riots { Paris Nov. 2005 ==>> Berlin June 2006 ?

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De-Code | "Our Medium

\ | can be every

\ V wall"[2]

ªOur Medium must |

There is no total must[3] be every <---------'

convergence of media network[4]´

in the computer.[5] /

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Production ---> productive term of the media

| instead of operational

| or performatively ![6]

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? <---'---> Theory is media related *practice* _____ [1] FIFA soccer World Cupô in Germany. [2] This was a political graffitti in the city of Kassel (Germany) from the late 1970ies to the early 1990ies. [3] A double anticipating imperative: networks have to become our medium of production, because they are the most developed technological multimedium and this is a must, and therefore a social force, because they are the most developed cultural technical multimedium. [4] Or: Our medium can be every form [5] The computer is *universel* but not *universal*, it can not deal with every media related context in a digital way (the event-problem). This has consequences for the thesis that, with the computer, we knew now - in a McLuhanianistic way of thinking - only formats, which function as manifestations or carriers of the different documents of the mediality, and no more media. Because if seperate media practices fall not into the "realm of the computer" they do not have to be thought compellingly as formats of the data processing of the computer. The Pope of the formats can announce the dogma thus only within the _Church of the Technical Media_ and only in an absolute and absolutistic relationship to the god's son the universal medium computer, along-invented by the priests. [6] Because media are productive, i.e. their products are effects and connections, as well as and because it concerns its production processes as well as the pertinent production conditions which are subordinate to the expropriation on the part of the academic-culturalistic and/or economic elites (consider the bloody media practices of the bourgeoisie in the french banlieus and the answers of local social-starved masses).

Berlin, 10.11.2005 13:01

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