<nettime> the condition of net.time

[brian carroll <human@architexturez.com>]

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 trapped in language + trying to communicate
 - shared meaning - immediate consequence =
 things seem possible, change seems possible,
 things are almost okay

 institutions + ideas = ideologies

 art = architecture = design = thought =
 ideological positioning, 'intelligentsia'

 net.art + net.criticism =/= net.thought

 net.thought =/= intelligentsia

 intelligentsia = bureaucracy of thought

 net.intelligentsia = things figured out,
 things almost okay, just another theory
 around the corner, from the new-comer
 who is 'one of us'

 power = institutional power

 thought is not separated from power, nor
 is net.thought from net.power
 x
 lots of net.art + lots of net.criticism
 + lots of net.'knowledge' = repackaging
 of the old institutional ideologies as
 new net.avant-garde

 the net.avant-garde = ploy for power +
 ideological certainly + expert knowledge
 = net.power

 old.economy + old.avant-garde =
 new.economy + new.avant-garde

 caught in language, symbolic manipulation
 = the trap, discourse as discourse exists
 as commodity, presupposed meaning based on
 opinions, as there is no common knowledge

 disagreement = division = camps of thought,
 nodes of thought, schools of net.thought

 net.thought =/= intelligence
 
 net.thought = deficit of original thinking,
 extra-institutional

 language, logic, truth, identity, belief
 x
 5+billion individuals
 =
 nothing
 =
 no social + no political + no economic power

 keywords, traits, mannerisms, expressionism (!)
 =
 code manipulation, another algorithm
 = 
 addition, multiplication, division, subtraction

 the calculus of ideas =/= ideologies

 ideologies can be controlled,
 ideas cannot 
 +
 people are watching, listening, Halliburton Oil,
 Enron, .Gov, .Mil to nettime's public sphere
 = 
 chance to be heard, hearing what?
 
 repetition, details, small thinking based
 on private spheres, non-shared, fragmented
 identities + institutional power structure
 = 
 controllable perception management,
 controllable thought, no .net worth
 
 mass death, mass inequality, mass poverty,
 mass pollution, mass inefficiency, mass
 of problems + incremental, bureaucratic
 change - realistic possibility of change
 in the short term, sans revolution
 =
 troubling scenario

 civic belief, public service, common
 goals, shared work, pursuits + competition
 + economic capital =/= social change

 institutional agendas = part of the problem,
 bureaucrats cannot fundamentally change
 bureaucracies, only alter them

 change from within systems + going to
 change the larger systems = illusion

 logic = either-or, us-them, black-white

 logic =/= either-or + both-and + neither-nor,
 white, black, and grayscale, color

 logic = identity 

 identity = culture
 
 culture = power + people

 culture =/= public people power

 public = humanity

 private = humanity, gender, sex, race,
 ethnicity, etc. etc.

 either-or logic = competition + opposition,
 protest versus security = clash, violence

 logic = language + truth + identity

 truth = language + reason + faith, belief

 truth = certainty

 truth = belief in what is true

 seeing is perceiving =/= seeing is believing

 perceiving truth =/= net.thought

 anti-this, anti-that, ideological armies
 +
 group mentalities
 =
 power

 group mentalities + ideologies
 =/=
 questions

 ideologies = answers, not questions

 net.art, net.criticism, net.thought =
 answers, expert knowledge =
 net.intelligentsia
 =
 power = ideologies = belief in truth
 =/= public truth

 public truth = larger reality, shared
 by humans as a group

 napster, Aol = net.critism

 net.criticism =/=
 global crises involving
 nuclear war scenearios
 in year 2000 in Middle East

 answers = pro.this, pro.that,
 anti-this, anti-that = either-or logic

 question = 
 larger public sphere
 + language entrapment
 + imperfection
 + ugliness of the text
 + debate, not discourse alone
 - ideological baggage
 = action?

 down with net.intelligentsia +
 (net.intelligentsia = net.theory =
 net.criticism = net.art = same as
 it ever was) + intelligentsia =/=
 intelligence

 intelligence =/= creativity,
 imagination
 
 intelligence =/= morality

 intellectualism = net.thought,
 net.theory, net.discourse

 net.time = net.time + old.logic

 now = chance, change, public,
 future, actions, scale, world,
 shared beliefs = good will -
 violence - incitement -
 + strategy + working together
 x 
 people who believe in this truth

 5+ billion = human public
 home of human public = earth

 public 'we' = humanity
 
 public 'we' also = nettime

 public 'we' =/= net.intelligentsia
  
 net.intelligentsia = nettime network
 as ideological institutional bureacracy
 producing predictable products/commodities

 personal opinion = this, public-private
 concern, belief in possiblity - reality
 of 'discursive practice' + discourse +
 politic of the .net as ideological
 machination x millions of public-private
 spheres + language games + fallibility
 of language, limits of reason
 =
 need for a calculus of shared communication
 =
 human identity, human language, human logic,
 human truth, complex + contradictory, paradox

 hierarchy = flattened, humans are equals
 (men, women, children, ethnicities =/= basis
 for universal equality)

 belief in nettime as place for organizing
 - 
 ideological constructs, running currents
 of the stream, directing discourse, putting
 2 cents in, adding up to lots of ideological
 $ as controllable institutional power for
 leverage.

 change =/= protest - change in logic, thought,
 truth

 change = action + logic, thought, truth +
 protesting for this

 public =/= text

 public = psychology, way of seeing truth,
 perception, and belief + logic + reason
 + intention

 nettime's public intention = net.intelligentsia?

 net.intelligentsia = private power of net.
 individuals presupposing the public, private
 man's history =/= the human story

 net.time = net.space-time to organize
 for change + to deter catastrophe + to use
 this moment to think ahead of the consequences
 of the now, global scale

 net.space-time = localized, insulated,
 not enough = opportunity + moment - action,
 enough to address the scale of issues at
 the time needed to avert larger disasters

 public net.space-time is contracting, not
 expanding = possibilities + space-time
 running out + need - shared reality as
 to the issues, as to the ideas

 need to organize, need to move beyond
 net.time = criticism = net.art
 
 net.time needs net.thought = not about
 the internet, about net worth, something
 more than is put in, something to take
 home, to earth, not to the private flat

 net.time = networked.thought/thinking
 net.time, no longer =/= net.criticism,
 as net.critism is dead, everyone's a
 critic 

 private + everyone = no (public) body

 -human being 

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