technomadic
notes from the ever-emerging field
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(8 Feb 1996): In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These dreams must now be born anew in us.
You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions of humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes from the air upon which wings beat.
In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in bit-bearing media.
Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires your factories to accomplish.
These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who had to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts.
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
— John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace -
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
— Albert Camus(Source: loveyourchaos, via viva-la-resistance)
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson(Source: newtab)
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There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re the monarch of your own skin—your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.
— Hakim Bey, TAZ (via @entheomusa) -
Moving about freely (aus freien Stucken), on its own head [de son propre chef], with a movement of its head but that controls its whole body, from head to toe, ligneous and dematerialised, the Table-Thing appears to be at the principle, at the beginning, and at the controls of itself. It emancipates itself on its own initiative: all alone, autonomous and automaton, its fantastic silhouette moves on its own, free and without attachment. It goes into trances, it levitates, it appears relieved of its body, like all ghosts, a little mad and unsettled as well, upset, “out of joint,” delirious, capricious, and unpredictable. It appears to put itself spontaneously into motion, but it also puts others into motion, yes, it puts everything around it into motion, as though “pour encourager les autres” (to encourage the others), Marx specifies in French in a note about this ghost dance: “One may recall that China and the tables began to dance when the rest of the world appeared to be standing still — pour encourager les autres.
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5♠7♥
- Cloud: (hung over) hey jenny
- Cloud: you hangin in there?
- Cloud: we had fire dancing, Djs, Cocktails, and all my dreams came true
- Cloud: not a bad birthday party!
- tunabananas: happy birthday luv!
- tunabananas: happy to hear it was a blast ~
- Cloud: ....well minus you
- Cloud: o well
- Cloud: someday soon
- Cloud: are you feeling a bit better Jenny?
- Cloud: hope you got some rest over the weekend
- tunabananas: i wrote 11 pages *shrug*
- tunabananas: weekend means nothing to me
- Cloud: hey!
- Cloud: that is good tho
- Cloud: you got work done
- Cloud: (I know you are sullen about the whole thing
- Cloud: but you are at least closer
- tunabananas: meh
- tunabananas: crazy convoluted essay
- Cloud: maybe you just need a hug?
- tunabananas: moo
- Cloud: moo? you need some milk?
- Cloud: what the hell are you talking about?
- Cloud: you brain has turned to paste!
- Cloud: PARADOX: Art Doesn't Make SENSE Doesn't Make Art
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- Cloud: you are the 7 of hearts and the 5 of spades(*like me!)
- Cloud: meaning the card of: spiritual love and the card of: the wanderer
- Cloud: wow!
- tunabananas: ooh, i love that
- Cloud: ya you're pretty neat!
- tunabananas: according to da cardz newayz
- tunabananas: we is wandering katz
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- Cloud: in your case it has to do with your very free spirit and your mind's acceptance of it's fate= having a battle royal for control
- Cloud: your brain knows that this is good for you
- Cloud: but your spirit is freaking out like a caged animal
- Cloud: (by good for you - I mean in a greater sense over you life time)
- Cloud: so basically your brain knows you need to do this so you make yourself walk this uncomfortable path
- Cloud: all the while your more animalistic half is freaking out because all it knows is the now.
- Cloud: thus your body is making you self destructive because it thinks it's doomed already.
