e=mc^2

Knowledge is predated by information. Information is first input, a channel of energy. Energy is everything, and so knowledge is simply one way of packaging it. 

what is your song

craft an instrument of the finest code, tune it for a range of motion & depth of sound, design a "right" way to play—you've made a videogame

— Iris bull (@ibull) April 24, 2014

information economies

where do we begin to build away from capitalism 

we try to create new economies with crypto-currency

shift away from resource extraction and into resource generation

what is there but information?

digital citizenry and death

Users employ the Internet and various digital technologies to create politics around various consumptive practices. These politics inform both the creation of an activity-based citizenry (you play Minecraft? which server? PVP? oh, you also like Candy Crush…?), and the construction of channels (YouTube, F2P, Steam, AdSense) that generate wealth for real world people. 

These technical and digital—in some sense, virtual—channels transcode the human mind and body of the user into a resource that is more easily harvested over time. 

per/for/man/al/ity

if i knew who was you

i would know the future

no dancing or fantasy

play, but no games

 

layers and layers and layers and layers

rolling into each other constantly

stop, the home invasion

poverty demands you jig

 

privilege upon privilege upon privilege is

wool upon wool upon wool

there is no becoming

for the wealthy, an undoing of infancy

 

the node is and is not

blinking until death

slow collapse, the network

what was virtual becomes lost noise

cool as an organizational principle

When you organize the distribution of resources by culture, then you don’t have a way to protest the misdistribution of resources…. If cool is your criteria for organization, right? It’s very hard to challenge stuff. – @fturner, source

my decolonization project

what does it mean to value, appreciate, feel fulfilled in building of relationship between systems and yourself that is not about power, control, and domination?

what is new media?

New Media is a new category; a new discrete syntax term, the limits of which reflect the limitations of the object-oriented, colonial epistemology that created it.

New Media is a capitalist term; it describes new tools that come about through the process of digitization, the construction of virtual systems, or the organization of digital information. The Internet in its entirety is not “new media”—this network of analog cables and interstellar satellites are seldom referred to this way.