From: lonsway <lonsway@ibm.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 97 09:13:34 -0500
>-and i'm completely bored with
>the notion that this current technology we are attempting to probe and
>interrogate must be understood through applying 'real world' (what might
>that mean?) models as a frame or filter by which this 'netspace' is to be
>understood. i'm much more interested in how this technology riples
>through, shifts, and realigns the social envirionments that constitute
this
>world, and how these currents might be intervened within and redirected
>toward perhaps some other adgenda (what might that be?)
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> From: Viktor A.Mazin <ppkab@dux.ru>
> Date: 23 èþíÿ 1997 ã. 4:32
> But what kind of 'reality' could replace seductive netspace? I could read
> a book and think about event horizon, I could sleep and see fascinating
> dreams,
> I could masturbate and have amusing fantasies, I could watch movies and
> be
> caught
> by sweet fear.
> Olessia Tourkina
Hope this is not the blidness of the 'solipsism' but I can not see the
incompatibility of fields of daily experience, technology and aesthetics.
I am particulary interesting on the process of the integration of
current technologycal tendencies, psycho/physiological virtues and
the idiomatic. It is extremely interesting to re-examine both
"how technology realigns the social envirionments" and what
the context requests from technology.
I guess it could be productive to follow Greg Ulmer's post from 23.07.97.
>I think of "virtaul" as a modality invented first in
>literature but now, in the context of electronic technologies, requiring
>linguistic conceptualization.
Olessia Tourkina