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- 5timuli0
Donna toucha ma monkee.
- flavorful0
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- francoisfido0
IF on television we are directly addressed as a national audience— our pattern of entertainment programmed for us by professionals.
THEN on the internet we are individually subjected as an international audience—our pattern of entertainment programmed for us by invisible collective forces.
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The social implications and it's effects on the passive individual are identical. Results served by a search-engine's 'open' field, pre-determined hierarchies of information, evermore individualized targeting based on our forgotten history of past pages viewed—we may navigate through this information freely but we remain addressed directly—Google-ads with an ever-sharpening aim.I contend the potential for radical and transgressive types of interactivity and online production;
Rather than to be limited by the popular routes which direct you as a sheep within in a herd, one should break with their own routine pattern of viewing at every step. Truly meaningful sequences may be formed through a conscious lateral drift across the net's surface—only through the active use of one's imagination may one benefit from an individualized surf of the web.
And rather than blindly subscribing to overly-repeated methods of online production, it is necessary to consciously manipulate these popular forms in which we partake to our own ends. Only then may our actions on internet be individually revolutionary.
- francoisfido0
IF in television—a country who equips itself with the necessary transmitters and technology to go in for television, begins to spray or flood the territory which it declares its own. Not having it's own programmes, it goes into debt culturally and financially to its neighbours, close or distant, who already possess the same system of spraying or flooding.
THEN on the internet—an individual who equips themselves with the necessary technology (website, tool or technique) from which it begins to spray and flood. Not having their own programme, they go into debt culturally to their neighbors, close or distant, who already possess the same system of spraying and flooding.
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'Before sending out an image, perhaps we should ask what image, or an image of what?'With the democratization of image-making, publishing and broadcasting it has become imperative for auto-critical modes to be considered. Online formats have become flooded with content born of negligible aesthetic judgement—notoriety cultivated not by value but scandal, with huge audiences feeding this kind of replication. If the public is now at the 'crossing point between the departure and arrival of information', it can only be up to them to criticize each other. If it is true that 'information in general has something to do with cancer', then we are sick with diseased forms of information, spreading across the web's entire surface and entering our own bodies in the form of fundamentally crippled methods.
It is possible however that this technology provides us with an ideal environment for those to create content which breaks the binding spell of media domination, a parallel stream of user-generated content which is not fatally reductive or blatantly spectacular. The representation of this editorial inversion is now critically at stake.
- francoisfido0
IF television is too big in relation to a film, which is smaller, everyone living in a small place—a hundred people during six months. In such a place you can change.
THEN the internet is too big, but a specific website with it's own programme and group of people focused on telling a specific story—demonstrating a certain method of ideologic production. In such a place you can change.
=The web is a great overwhelming network of servers and individuals, diffused over nearly the entire planet a natural precondition of which is our alienation from the whole. Our screens isolating us by its inhuman element, we are degraded by our relative and collective anonymity.
It is then necessary that we create our own smaller sections generating alternative forms of communication—to create three or four internets. Bringing the right people together, paying attention to our positions as viewers and producers. Not fixed in stubborn positions of immobility—but seeking a changing of places, where our own ignorance as communicating subjects is conceded.
A thought typed and instantly published in relation to an audience gives us a reflective distance to our own words—simultaneously opening up the potential for others to provoke ideas into new territory. Not to have the last word, but the first—the goal must be only to obtain the real passage of a signal.
- neue75_bold0
“A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.”
- neue75_bold0
I'm just happy to be here...
- and you can't take that away from me..neue75_bold
- I'll be in here, surrounded by barbed-wire and ill-will, covered in my own feces, vomit and tears...neue75_bold
- neue75_bold0
sorry to hear that kelpie, indeed, onwards and upwards, get yourself to Londontown, where opportunity abounds...
- francoisfido0
oh, hi!
- neue75_bold0
congrats moth!
- neue75_bold0
I am a self-practicing few...
- neue75_bold0
who is my "internet self"?
- neue75_bold0
it's nice to connect with someone who actually gets it, over here on internet 4...
- neue75_bold0
you guys are missing out...
- neue75_bold0
fag painted..
- neue75_bold0
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