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RE : OpenSourceCinema.org : http://www.myspace.com/opensourcecinema

OpenSourceCinema.org is a website created to produce a feature documentary on music and copyright.

On the site, you can actively take part in the making of the film by remixing interviews, submitting videoblogs, and editing the script in process.

The film features GIRTALK, LAWRENCE LESSIG, NEGATIVLAND, DJ FOOD, OSYMYSO, JIMMY WALES (WikiPedia) and TONS more.

If you want to add to the film through myspace, include your media in the comments below! We're especially looking for GIRTALK photos and videos - the higher the resolution the better!

Basement Tapes and Open Source Cinema is a co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, and will air on the Documentary Channel and in theatres in the Spring of 2008.

GIRLTALK - CREATION

GIRLTALK - LIVE

LESSIG REMIX

ROOTS OF REBELION

RE : Flagrantly Defiant : A Message From Cloud CuckooLand

RE : Reasons to be Cheerful : Mahotella Queens

RE : BORAT - Our Man From Kazahkstan ...

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RE : THE MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA : Boujeloud CD (SubRosa 243CD)

The Master Musicians of Joujouka are often credited with being the first "world music" group. The Joujouka music for Boujeloud, or the Father of Skins, is frantic and has several movements which would equate to a symphony or the score of an opera if it were European classical music. The festival and ritual originate in the worship of the God Pan. In 1994, Frank Rynne began a two year long project recording the Master Musicians of Joujouka in their village. Sub Rosa released two CDs from these recordings, Joujouka Black Eyes and Sufi to critical acclaim in 1995 and 1996, respectively. This is the third and final CD from these intimate recordings to be released by Sub Rosa.

Boujeloud contains several different renditions of the ritual music Boujeloud. Each version has a widely different character which is determined by the combination of musicians and the spontaneous improvisation of the lead players. Tracks 1, 2, 6, and 8 are flute versions from various combinations of the Masters, while track 3 features the intense sound of the massed rhaitas playing the ritual. There are also songs which are used in lead up to the ritual, and songs that the musicians use to drive Boujeloud/Pan out of the village. The musicians recorded on this CD span four generation of Joujouka masters. Master musician Mujehid Mujdoubi was 83 years old when he recorded his music for this CD: though he had lost the ability to play the double-reed rhaita, Mujehid's lira playing fully demonstrates the musical dexterity which seventy years of playing honed to perfection. The core group who still live and play in the village are widely represented on this CD. The different versions of "Boujeloud" and the related songs allow the listener to experience the melodies and the improvisational nature of Joujouka music played live in its natural setting. These recordings are an intimate and unique experience.

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RE : THE SKULL DEFEKTS ... SEPT 30 9PM 6ODUM CHICAGO, IL

Henrik Rylander and Joachim Nordwall, two gentlemen from Gothenburg, premiere new solo works and a duo project made especially for this Lampo concert -- their U.S. debut and only North American appearance.

Rylander and Nordwall formed the Skull Defekts in early 2005. Their common interest in the power of sound gave birth to a double-headed beast where noise met intense and monotonous rock. Since then, their experiments have reached a form of deep feedbacking and drone magic. Noted recordings include "Open the Gates of Mimer" with Lasse Marhaug and "Yes I Am Your Angel," a new split LP (gorgeous milky white vinyl, yes, you must have it) with Wolf Eyes.

Anticipate warm, disturbing electronic tones, feedback, distortion and deliriousness. Heavily rhythmic, the music rides a consistent beat throughout, as new sounds emerge in and around the pulse of the music.

Together they'll create "The Sound of Defekt Skulls and Intense Cranium Contact (Feedbacking Gothenburg and Chicago)." Nordwall and Rylander will mix found sounds from Gothenburg with new sonic material collected in Chicago. Here, they'll treat these sounds live and blend them into a defekt skull cranium contact session.

Also on the program, Nordwall does a rare solo performance of "I Am The Fire." And Rylander presents his new work, "Power Model X (Motherboard Drone with Live Treatment)." In the latter, conceived as installation and live concert, he uses 11 small mixers and The Henrik Rylander Feedback Unit -- all connected to a large audio mixer -- where each of the mixers is modified with an audio cable from input to output.

Henrik Rylander (b. 1966, Malmö, Sweden) is an artist, composer and photographer. He has performed in several important festivals and venues, including the Stockholm New Music Festival (2006), Impakt Festival (Utrecht, Holland, 2005), GAS (Gothenburg, Sweden, 2005), Arhus (Denmark, 2005), Sonar Festival, (Barcelona, Spain, 2004) and multiple performances at Fylkingen in Stockholm. Additionally, he has made nine solo exhibitions of his installation work, including shows at Fargfabriken in Stockholm, as well as several shows throughout Gothenburg. Rylander has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, including STIM (The Swedish Performing Rights Society) grant (2005), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (2001), and The Robert Frank Scholarship (1998). He performs in a trio with Pan Sonic, and as part of the improv jazz project Space Is The Place with Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark, Lasse Marhaug, David Stackenas and Paal Nilssen-Love. Rylander also is known for being the drummer and co-founder of the rock combo Union Carbide Productions (1986-1993). In 1992 Union Carbide Productions recorded their last album "Swing" with Steve Albini in Chicago. Rylander lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Joachim Nordwall (b. 1975, Karlskrona, Sweden), the Idealist, began experimenting in sound as a young boy. In 1987, he formed the Alvars Orkester with Jan Svensson in Johannishus, a small village in the south-east of Sweden. Alvars, which mixes electronic sound with interests in psychic broadcasting and EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena), was particularly active within the independent music scene of the 80s and 90s, releasing works in Sweden through the Borft Records label. After a brief hiatus, the group has recently (Jan. 2006) released the "Interference" album on London's Ash International label, showcasing their superb analog sound experiments. From 1998-2005, he was part of the avant punk rock trio Kid Commando, a band that toured Europe several times. Also in 1998, he founded the iDEAL Organization as a platform for his ongoing work as an artist, label owner and festival organizer. Nordwall has collaborated with many artists, including Henrik Rylander, Keith Rowe, Leif Elggren and Mats Gustafsson. He lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.

visit the SKULL DEFEKTS website

RE : Notes on Burroughs (1964) : A Review of "Naked Lunch" by Marshall McLuhan

(excerpt) " 1. Today men's nerves surround us; they have gone outside as electrical environment. The human nervous system itself can be reprogrammed biologically as readily as any radio network can alter its fare. Burroughs has dedicated Naked Lunch to the first proposition, and Nova Express (both Grove Press) to the second. Naked Lunch records private strategies of culture in the electric age. Nova Express indicates some of the "corporate" responses and adventures of the Subliminal Kid who is living in a universe which seems to be someone else's insides. Both books are a kind of engineer's report of the terrain hazards and mandatory processes, which exist in the new electric environment ..."

Read McLuhan's Review of "Naked Lunch"

RE : Sun Ra Documentary : Brother from Another Planet

Directed by Don Letts, this doc was originally broadcast on Friday October 28, 2005 on BBC4 and is available in 4 parts.

View "Brother from Another Planet"

RE : Little Known Musical Gem : Don Cherry and Latif Khan ... Music / Sangam LP

This little gem captures musical innovator Don Cherry playing trumpet, keyboards, gong , bamboo-flute, dousson'doni, and handling all chanted vocals. Cherry is accompanied by tabla master Latif Khan and the performances are absolutely stunning ! Particularly noteworthy are the compositions "Air Mail" and "Sangam".

Don Cherry was born in 1936 in Oklahoma City. He first came to prominence as trumpeter in the bands of Ornette Coleman with whom he played from 1957 onward. He was a member of the "classic" Ornette Coleman Quartet into the 1960s. From 1963-1964 Cherry was one of the co-leaders of the New York Contemporary Five. The next couple of years he spent in Europe, living in Paris and later on in Sweden. At the same time he toured Africa and Asia and became interested in the musical traditions of different continents.

RECORDING INFO :

tracks

1. Untitled/Inspiration From Home - 5:46

2. Air Mail - 7:15

3. One Dance - 4:44

4. Rhythm 58 1/4 - 3:18

5. Sangam - 13:23

All compositions by Don Cherry.

Recorded, June 1978 in Paris.

Executive co- produced Martin Meissonnier with Pierre Lattes.

View Don Cherry discography

RE : Karl Bryan and The Affrokats ... Money Generator

It's the flipside of a Burning Spear single but "Money Generator" is a super cool, moody jazz tinged early reggae track on the IRONSIDE Label by the mysteriously named studio band : Karl Bryan and The Affrokats. GOOD CHUNE !

RE : Arthur Lipsett ... new doc about the pioneer Canadian film poet

"Remembering Arthur" is set to debut at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival in September. Check out his films "Very Nice, Very Nice" and "2187" at the NFB.

Born in 1936, Arthur Lipsett was one of Canadian cinema’s most original artists and a key figure in the development of experimental cinema in Canada. Lipsett was hired as an editor at the NFB’s animation department in 1958, working on several films by Norman McLaren. He soon began reworking stock footage into stunning collage films that are harshly critical of contemporary culture. His later films are increasingly metaphysical and are filled with elusive, even opaque cinematic poetry. After leaving the NFB in the 1970s, Lipsett’s output came to a standstill. He took his own life in 1986. Twenty years after his death, it is time for another look at this extraordinary, troubled Canadian filmmaker. VERY NICE, VERY NICE (1961), EXPERIMENTAL FILM (1963), FREE FALL (1964), 21-87 (1964), A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE (1965), FLUXES (1967), N-ZONE (1970).

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RE : Lee "Scratch" Perry ... at the controls Black Ark Recording Studio [1977]

Watch Scratch hard at work recording Junior Murvin with The Heptones and Upsetters at the fabled Black Ark Studio in 1977.

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RE : Tony Conrad ... American video artist, filmmaker, composer and sound artist

Tony Conrad was a member of the Theatre of Eternal Music alongside John Cale (of The Velvet Underground) and LaMonte Young, and has made several recordings with "Krautrock" pioneers Faust. Conrad will be performing an hour-long composition called "In D" on Saturday September 23rd, 2006 at The Music Gallery in Toronto as part of the "X Avant" Festival.

"Tony Conrad is a pioneer, as seminal in his way to American music as Johnny Cash or Captain Beefheart or Ornette Coleman, one of those really savvy Old Guys whom all the kids want to emulate because their ideas, their style are electric and new and somehow indivisible."

Check out Tony Conrad's AMAZING website !

RE : Johnny Too Bad ... The Slickers

Possibly one of the greatest singles to come out of Jamaica in the early 70's. The song, called by some the original "rude bwoy anthem" was featured in the film "The Harder They Come" which introduced the world to the infectious reggae sound. Rumours suggest the group behind the recording was really The Pioneers. Five years later, the Slickers released a dub heavey disco mix album on Wackies that is SUPER RARE today and goes for big bucks on ebay. The backing tracks on the LP were recorded and mixed in the late '70s by Lee Perry at his Black Ark Studio in Washington Gardens in Kingston and at Harry J's Studio. The Black Ark tracks ALL have the classic dense, vibrating sound. The album was fittingly edited at Wackies in the Bronx. Allstar accompaniment is provided by the likes of Augustus Pablo, Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, Earl "Chinna" Smith, Robbie Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chung. It was produced by Earl 'The Rootsman' Chin.

RE : Jason Forest = War Photographer ... Video by Joel Trussell

Jason Forrest used to make music under the moniker 'Donna Summer' but now is just Jason Forrest. He has released records in the US, EU, and Japan. He has been featured in many periodicals* all over the world. His music is a combination of many, many styles of music, all edited into a sort of new rock music. His live shows have garnered him a huge international audience that involve much bad dancing, possibly some blood, and a few shattered laptops.

His new album “Shamelessly Exciting” is now available everywhere. You can also find it at our webshop for only $8 with 2 exclusive tracks! Reviews and articles are popping up in magazines such as Entertainment Weekly, Vice (album of the month), XLR8R (interview with Hank Shocklee), Blender, Go Mag, German Rolling Stone, and many, many more. It was released Oct 3rd and comes as 12” or fancy packaged CD by Sonig records.

The fantastic War Photographer video by Joel Thrussell has been named video of the year by Res magazine, and top 5 by Pitchfork. It's been downloaded more than 300,000 times.

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RE : Stop-Rokkasho.org ... video by RYOICHI KUROKAWA

Ryuichi Sakamoto launched stop-rokkasho.org in response to the opening of a nuclear reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho in Japan’s northern Aomori Prefecture. Music and video for the Rokkasho awareness campaign are available on stop-rokkasho.org and via podcast from the iTunes Music Store.

music: Ryuichi Sakamoto, shing02, Fennesz

video: RYOICHI KUROKAWA

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Stop-Rokkasho www.stop-rokkasho.org

Ryuichi Sakamoto www.sitesakamoto.com

Ryoichi Kurokawa. www.ryoichikurokawa.com/

Ricky Franco and The Lula All Stars 13.05.06 @ Lula Lounge...

Here's a song by Ricky Franco and The Lula All Stars recorded and edited by Dan Donaldson [aka omnivore.ca] at Lula Lounge May 13, 2006. This is without a doubt the hottest collection of musicians in Toronto. Make a note to yourself to catch them LIVE this Summer !

Brion Gysin Biography by John Geiger ...

The multimedia artist, poet and novelist Brion Gysin may be the most influential cultural figure of the twentieth century that most people have never heard of.

Gysin (1916-1986) was an English-born, Canadian-raised, naturalized American of Swiss descent, who lived most of his life in Morocco and France. He went everywhere when the going was good. He dabbled with surrealism in Paris in the 1930s, lived in the "interzone" of Tangier in the 1950s and traveled the Algerian Sahara with Sheltering Sky author Paul Bowles before moving into the legendary Beat Hotel in Paris.

Gysin's ideas influenced generations of artists, musicians and writers, among them David Bowie, Keith Haring, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Genesis P-Orridge, John Giorno and Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. None was touched more profoundly than William S. Burroughs, who said admiringly of Gysin: "There was something dangerous about what he was doing."

It was Gysin who introduced the Rolling Stones to the exotica of Morocco and took Stones' guitarist Brian Jones to Jajouka where he recorded the tribal musicians performing the Pipes of Pan. It was Gysin who provided the hashish fudge recipe published in Alice B. Toklas' cookbook, promising "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." It was Gysin who introduced Burroughs to an automatic writing method called the cut-up, a literary progenitor to sampling. And it was Gysin who developed-with Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine-a device that allowed people, with the flick of a switch, to access altered states of consciousness without drugs.

Working with the authorization of Gysin's literary executor, William S. Burroughs, John Geiger has produced the first-ever biography of the painter, poet, piper Brion Gysin.

Visual Complexity ...

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web. I truly hope this space can inspire, motivate and enlighten any person doing research on this field.

Not all projects shown here are genuine complex networks, in the sense that they aren’t necessarily at the edge of chaos, or show an irregular and systematic degree of connectivity. However, the projects that apparently skip this class were chosen for two important reasons. They either provide advancement in terms of visual depiction techniques/methods or show conceptual uniqueness and originality in the choice of a subject. Nevertheless, all projects have one trait in common: the whole is always more than the sum of its parts.

Rare Funk Liberation ...

Awesome rare funk comp that features the smokin' track "The Bull is Coming" by Lee Fields and the Devil's Personal Band.

Odds and Ends ...

Most pieces grow out of wind-swept silence, sometimes gathering the force to transform into typhoons of feedback (see "Howling Objects"), but most of this sound barely brushes across the leaves, turning all into Aeolian harps. "Analapos '70", named after an instrument Suzuki built himself, echoes like Watazumido Shuso's bamboo flute drawing its breath through Aphex Twin's ambient hull, an aural free fall that lets the body blow about, weightless. As Jim O'Rourke nicely put it, Suzuki's music "reminds us that we don't need to rush to feel alive, don't need to 'be somewhere' in the next 15 minutes, because we're already 'there', all you have to do is listen."

Check your local library for this one ...

The book concentrates on the generationof modernist and postmodernist techniques and tropes among artistic practices and discourses. Some are soundful in themselves; others are contingent on ideas of sound, voice, and aurality.1 As products of the new possibilities for hearing and as functional constraints for actually doing so, these techniques and tropes pertain to three main practical areas: the early development of sound within and across artistic practices, the response and accommodation of sound within artistic practices, and the use of ideas of sound within the development of important tropes within the arts. It would be a mistake to put too much stock in abstract categories because when they are examined in their historical contexts, techniques, tropes, and practices overlap, mediate and influence one another, and, most important, alternate quickly and exist simultaneously. The main ones discussed here are noise, auditive immersion in spatial and psychological domains, inscription and visual sound, the universalism of all soundand panaurality, musicalization of sound, phonographic reproduction and imitation, Cagean silence, nondissipative sounds and voices, fluidity at the nexus of performance and objecthood, William Burroughs's virus, and the bodily utterances of Michael McClure's beast language and Antonin Artaud's screaming.

2 ' Must See ' Docs : Death In Gaza & My Architect

In spring 2003, award-winning filmmaker James Miller and reporter Saira Shah, set out to take a first-hand look at the culture of hate that permeates the Middle East. They captured the lives of three Palestinian children growing up in the bullet-riddled streets of Gaza. Although James and Saira had planned to film the lives of Israeli children as well, in the midst of production, Miller was shot to death by an Israeli tank, falling victim to the very conflict he covered.

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11. Nathaniel travels the world visitng his father's buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father's contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.

Edward Tufte's "Envisioning Information"

This book celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information. The book provides practical advice about how to explain complex material by visual means, with extraordinary examples to illustrate the fundamental principles of information displays. Topics include escaping flatland, color and information, micro/macro designs, layering and separation, small multiples, and narratives. Winner of 17 awards for design and content. 400 illustrations with exquisite 6- to 12-color printing throughout. Highest quality design and production.

The Fabulous Counts !!!

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Re: [MCLUHAN-L]Circumambient Peripherisation...

QUESTION: Did James Joyce write the impenetrable Finnegans Wake as an elaborate joke? I heard that when critics called it a masterpiece and praised it for its complexity, he couldn’t stop laughing. “FINNEGANS WAKE was Joyce’s final and most controversial work. He began writing it in 1922 and didn’t finish it until 17 years later. From 1924, instalments of the work appear in various publications under the title Work In Progress. “The first half of the 20th century can be characterised as ‘science split the atom and Joyce split the word’ and this is particularly applicable to Finnegans Wake, where every word and phrase is loaded with meaning. “The title itself is a complicated pun fusing Finn as in the French fin – ‘end’ with ‘egan’, sounding like ‘again’, together forming the paradoxical ‘end again’. “Wake refers to a party for the recently dead, but it is also a joke because the dream content of Finnegans Wake takes place during Finnegan’s sleep. “The book starts by using the second half of the final sentence of the book: ‘riverrun, past Eve and Adams, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth, Castle and Environs.’ “The level of wordplay gets no easier, continuing ‘Sir Tristram, violer d’amores, fr’over the short sea, has passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war; nor had topsawyer’s rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County’s giorgios while the went doubling their mumper all the time’, etc., etc. for 388 pages. “Its impenetrable language has led many to regard Finnegans Wake as a joke. The author’s brother, Stanislaus, said it was either ‘the work of a psychopath or a huge literary fraud’. “Oliver Gogarty, a literary critic and friend of the author, called it ‘the most colossal leg-pull in literature’. “Ezra Pound wrote: ‘Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clap can possibly be worth all that circumambient peripherisation.’ “No one will ever know if Joyce meant the book as a joke. But, having spent half his adult life writing it, if it was written as a joke it was one of the most complex, thoughtful and literary jokes ever...

Herb Johnson Settlement !!!

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Introducing Keena !!!

Re: Great googley moogely ! : Frank Zappa - King Kong (1968) BBC Studio Session

"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST..."
- Frank Zappa

Re: Contact TORONTO Photography Festival 2006 :

TRANSIT SHELTERS QUEEN & SHAW | SHELTER | JOHN OSWALD | MAY 1 - 28

" Out on the street, both the city and the eye can play tricks on you, and this boundary between reality and illusion is the starting point for the Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist John Oswald ’s works at Queen Street West and Shaw Street. Oswald ’s transit shelters demand a second glance, a verification of what you are seeing, or what you think you are seeing. For his project Oswald draws on the venerable history of trompe l ’oeil and directs his consum- ing interest in the character of crowds to the innocuous space of the transit shelter. Oswald collects images of people, portraits of friends and strangers that contribute to his various explorations in perception, movement and digital recreation. Drawing on his extensive image archive, Oswald reworks shots of individuals into larger scenes, amassing diverse and startling crowds. In a range of configurations and levels of transparency, figures glance out from the space of the shelter. We glimpse the city beyond the floating figures,but the trick is that the view through the shelter is part of the photograph; Oswald makes visible the vista usually obscured by advertising. This subtle slip between fact and fiction is an appeal to reflect upon the role of images in the apprehension of both the city and its inhabitants, to question assumptions and to take seriously the multiplicity of the crowd in all of its permutations. "

Re: [MCLUHAN-L] ... under Android Meme conditions.

"The effect of electric technology had at first been anxiety. Now it appears to create boredom. We have been through the three stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion that occur in every disease or stress of life, whether individual or collective. At least, our exhausted slump after the first encounter with the electric has inclined us to expect new problems. [p.39] ... Shock induces a generalized numbness or an increased threshold to all types of perception. The victim seems immune to pain or sense." [p.53] - McLuhan, UNDERSTANDING MEDIA, 1964, pp.39 and 53

Meanwhile ... Eric McLuhan says in The Electric Language that the Internet is proprioceptive, or mime-without walls. I would rather say it is the after-image of the proprioceptive (or "virtual" proprioceptive - note I have proprioceptive squared in the ground section of the Kroker quadrant ratios). I use the term "virtual" to indicate that the cognitive activity is between the four bodies (Chemical, Astral, TV, and Chip) - the cheap version of this understanding is suggested by the statement "the Android Meme is not talking to us but to its own constituents").

The effect of reading UM is, in the end, anemic, for the later end of Generation X and its successors because the book is limited to a vocabulary of the "senses and their extensions". This does not grab the attention of those born into a world where "everything's disappeared".

Bob Dobbs

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Hayles : THE REGIME OF COMPUTATION and "Writing Machines"

15 code and language operate in different ways 16 language no longer distinct trait of society – language plus code is 17 worldviews – related to MAKING STORING TRANSMITTING computation takes place in non-computer areas 19 from Wolfram – computation doesn’t just simulate behavior, it generates it 20 is computation a metaphor or mechanism? 23 computation privileges emergence of complexity from simple rules and elements 25 emergence – dynamical hierarchies 27 in Regime of Computation – code is the discourse system that mirrors what happens in nature and that generates nature itself 28 no one has yet to show how complex dynamics in simulations can progress 31 intermediation as complex and entangled interactions complex feedback loops involved 32 like in remediation 33 intermediation, however, represents interactions, not a particular medium 34 Kittler focuses on media, not subjects Hansen borrows from MacKay to connect information w/meaning – embodied subjects 39 speech writing code encounters 40 via Saussure and Derrida - code exceeds speech and writing 41 since computers are basically simple, where does the complexity reside that makes code represent a complex world? 43 unlike their theories, w/computers materiality matters to code 44 does it make sense to use signifier and signified w/code?

My canvasses are surrealist, and to call them 'theories' is to miss my satirical intent altogether.