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From: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (obqvrf qernzf naq grpuabybtvrf)
To: surfpunk@osc.versant.com (SURFPUNK Technical Journal)
Subject: [surfpunk-0095] SOURCES: PERFORATIONS 5; Drum; SCREAM BABY; Legal Net News
@ I've lost 10 minutes of work because of the nVIR virus
@ on the copy of CricketGraph I once used. I lost one
@ whole week of work (2400 minutes) helping figure out
@ why Windows, Novell, and Dr Dos wouldn't work
@ together. Files were lost, machines crashed, device
@ drivers kept stomping one another. The problems were
@ fixed in bug patches from the manufacturers.
@
@ -- Karl Lui Barrus <klbarrus@owlnet.rice.edu>
@ [from a long cypherpunks posting]
You may remember, I have great respect for the Public Domain group in
Atlant that publishes PERFORATIONS. Drum is new to me. I've enjoyed
past issues of SCREAM BABY; the evolution of their copyright policy is
a major thread, if not the raison d'etre, for the zine. Legal Net News
is nicely done, and references a lot of other internet resources. -- strick
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From: Mike Mitten <gnome@noel.pd.org>
From: Chea Prince <cprince>
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: PERFORATIONS 5, "bodies, dreams & technologies"
The word "virtual" has been the subject of such a large degree of hype
that it is difficult to use the term without cringing at the
trendiness of its sound, and yet, despite its status as the premier
buzzword of the nineties, it continues to suggest a relationship
between consciousness and electronic space that is rich and
descriptive. Just beneath the term's slick corporate gloss is a leaky
matrix of nested meanings that invoke key dimensions of the emerging
culture of the 21st century: artificiality, simulation,
representation, mimesis, prosthesis, multi-dimensionality,
multiplicity, hyperness, velocity, otherness, the mechanical, the
machinic, high technology, and, by extension, digitalization, fractal
scaling, transpositionality, and networking.
A close reading of this complex system of semiotic flows reveals a
thoroughly mapped, but unstable network of faults along which the
domains of the human and the machine are collapsing into each other
with increasing speed. Taken together these faults constitute the
"new edge" of U.S. culture where separate consciousnesses are
continually merging into an ever more sexed, violent, hallucinogenic,
and media-saturated conflation of mindscapes. This evolving,
networked collectivity is marked by a growing obsession with
the traces of the transformation of the human into the cyborg, and
seems enthralled by recycled transfiguration myths often overwritten on
the electronic skin of the textual/cultural body with the neon intensity
of transient, kaleidoscopic tattoos. Easily distracted, the
individual elements of the collective gaze hypnotically surf available
information channels grabbing frames in real-time from first one, then
another, of the latest technetronic updates to the new suit of
animated tribal scarrings.
Fixation on new and improved, bigger and better, longer-living bodies
facillitates acceptance of devices first constructed as attachments to
the body, then redesigned for incorporation into the body via
implantation, or nerve/machine integration (e.g., artificial hearts,
prosthetic limbs, hearing aids, etc.), as a welcome blurring of the
boundary between humans and machines. As the boundary becomes more
blurred, the domains begin to blend. It is easy to imagine a future
in which implantation follows a (plastic) surgical model in which purely
corrective measures become the foundation for supplemental, elective
procedures.
With the aid of future developments in present technologies--artificial
intelligence, bio-chips, synthetic neurons, nanotechnology, artificial life--
the body's rate of absorption of the machine will only increase causing rapid
advancements in cyborgization. How will these fields re-define
already complicated issues of embodiment? How will cyborgization
affect changes in social/cultural orientations toward real and virtual
phenomena? Which is the metaphor--the body or the machine?
PERFORATIONS 5, "bodies, dreams & technologies", will collect and assemble
memories, stories and fantasies exploring the relationship between the human
and the machine, and the impact of this relationship on the creation of
present and near-future cultures. We value noise, chaos, fluxus, anarchy,
dada-streams, nonhierarchalization, improvisation, conflict, discontinuity,
experimentation, invention and wild speculation. (We also tolerate more
reasonned presentations as long as they avoid being too priggish.) We are
looking for material--drawings, photography, text, hypertext, computer
graphics, animation, audio and video--that is explicitly experimental in
the approach taken toward these themes.
ALL SUBMITTALS SHOULD INCLUDE:
the author(s) name address and phone number
ADDRESS INQUIRIES AND SUBMISSIONS TO:
PERFORATIONS 5
c/o Public Domain, Inc.
P.O. Box 8899
Atlanta, Georgia, USA 30306-0899
NOTE: SUBMISSION MATERIALS ARE NOT RETURNABLE UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY A
SASE.
CONTACT:
Chea Prince 404.633.8022
Anne Balsamo 404.894.8923
Robert Cheatham 404.377.5114
or Email queries to perf5@pd.org
PERFORATIONS is a publication of Public Domain, Inc., an Atlanta based
non-profit arts organization. Partial funding of PERFORATIONS is provided
by the Fulton County Arts Council, corporate and individual sponsors.
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To: surfpunk@versant.com (Squiggle Rot Thirteen ;)
From: Justin Mason <jmason@iona.ie>
Subject: Scream Baby -- The Hum Drum Issue
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 17:23:42 BST
In case you don't know, Scream Baby is the output of one
BladeX, based somewhere in Texas. I think a few SB backissues
are to be found in the eff.org gopher area; they're very
intermittent, but they're very cool stuff, one of the best
e-zines on this here net... just hard to get. Check out the
licensing! -- justin.
[forwarded from FringeWare -- see below for sub details]
From: dh644@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (R. Patrick Jones)
Subject: Drum. Volume 1. Number 1.
Date: 22 May 1993 18:33:11 GMT
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The Hum-Drum Issue
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| Cyberlicious <tm> | Editor : Blade X | "Did you know that wixer |
| No more PO BoX! | bladex@wixer.bga.com | is German slang for a |
| No more BBS! | Neo-Wobblie Node # 269 | penis?" -- Pacoid |
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"With the advent of digital writing and digital text reproduction, will
literature -- and the culture based on respectful care for the word --
be eroded?"
Michael Heim, p. 3, "Electric Language: A
Philosophical Study of Word Processing", 1987.
SCREAM BABY POLICIES
"Some people just don't get it"
DISTRIBUTION : Permission is granted to freely re-distribute this
publication via digital means. You are allowed to, but not limited to,
forwarding copies to your cyber-buddies; posting to newsgroups, message
bases and mailing lists; making available for file transfer on ftp sites
and BBSs; and, <censored> the SPA, you can even copy that floppy. No
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will apply to issues distributed in this fashion.
However, the license to create hard copy print-outs remains restricted.
Despite my previous protests, objections, and explicit denial of
permission, many have confessed to printing hard copy versions. So,
recognizing the indaubtable will of the people, I am amending the
restrictions......again. <*sigh*>
You may print hard copies of each issue of Scream Baby, if and