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its actualization - its loss of maschinik autonomy, incurs an internal dialectic: chomzk! m!nzk! z!zek nSk w.h. kalv!n kurt godel klauzl form log!k kataztrof! theor! et numerouz addtl arb!trar! zkemaz + komponentz languaj : =cw4t7abs w!th engl!sh zubt!tlz zubt!tlz : c!nec!ta genre. kontent !d : !art housz \\ m9ndfukc kontent length : 147 m!n - 147k reg!a : =cw4t7abs adm!ss!on : grat!z w m9nd konta!nr \\ 1900 : muz!k aprez la l!teratur : herauzgegen vom !nternat!onalen !nzt!tut 4 ordnung + d!z!pl!n !n kollaborat!on w!th : m9ndfukc.org - m9ndfukcmachtfre! \+\ m!n!zter de b!tztream ag!tat!on --\\ et aprez++ =cw4t7abs adressez dav!d z!karell! - Merci pour la qualit� de votre contribution m0z!lla\4.7 [mak!ntosh ! pPc] 193.229.72.77 >Saul: > >Funny that you bring up Chomsky in this "NOTHING WORSE" context. > >Do you know why there even is a "Chomsky" in the first place? Why is this >particular man so well known and thus in a position to be so revered? > >This fellow was catapulted into the fame (and the all-so-important >say-what-you-want MIT tenure) which permits him the relative luxury of >impressing his personal "ideology" on the world precisely because he held out >the palpable opportunity for "controlling human communications." All of it. > >Yup, Chomsky (or at least his "sponsors") is (are) one of the original "MIND >CONTROLLERS." Yikes! <g> > >He offered the CIA (a reasonable substitute name for the folks who paid for >ALL of the work on linquistics and other "programming" techniques . . . >including such sundries as LSD and "graphical user interfaces" during the >formative 1950's) a *very* juicy and tantalizing potential -- an ultimate >"grammar," which was, it was hoped, "hardwired" into us all. > >DEEP GRAMMAR. > >Now, as you recall, "grammar" is simply another word for "magic" (as is the >word "glamour") and, thus, the Medieval handbooks for "magic" are still >referred to a "grimoires." (OED: a magician's manual for invoking demons, >etc.) Say the "magic" word. Open sesame! Abracadabra!! > >DEEP MAGIC. > >(Reminding us that the "ideologues" and the "occultists" are really the same >"Faustian" bargaineers -- just wearing their hats backward.) > >If (which fortunately for us all, since Chomsky himself admits that he was >100% wrong) you could actually find a "deep grammar" in human-beings, then it >would only be a matter of engineering to discover how to "program" us all. >Find the C++++++ . . . of the human mind, write the code, down-load it and >presto . . . CONTROL. > >Or, as Marvin Minsky (who is currently working on "programming" emotions and >who is still at MIT's Media Lab -- supported entirely by large grants from >"communications" companies) put it at that momentous 1955 MIT conference when >Chomsky's "deep grammar" thesis first burst onto an excited world-stage, >"Perhaps all human problems are just engineering problems. With the right >engineering tools, we could potentially erase all these problems." > >Nice guy. Warm and concerned fellow. Only wants to end human suffering. > >Hmmm . . . will the ironies never cease? > >Best, > >Mark Stahlman > > >_______________________________________________ >Nettime-bold mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold