[alt-media-res] Fw: [Mute-social] Launch: [the] xxxxx [reader]
zoe
zoe at esemplastic.net
Tue Oct 3 17:07:23 BST 2006
I won't be at this,
but would be if I was not a total groupie to the biggest noise in new
english folk music who are launching their new album that same night
(www.bellowhead.co.uk)
xx
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josephine Berry Slater" <josie at metamute.org>
To: <mute-social at lists.metamute.org>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:37 AM
Subject: [Mute-social] Launch: [the] xxxxx [reader]
> x____
>
> [the] xxxxx [reader]
>
> Published by xxxxx in association with OpenMute
>
> Launch 6 October 2006 8.30pm MetaMute, Unit 9, The Whitechapel
> Centre, 85
> Myrdle Street, London E1 1HQ
>
>
> xxxxx substance and software
>
> Hal Abelson, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang, Florian Cramer, Yves
> Degoyon, Leif Elggren, Simon Ford, Olga Goriunova, Paul Graham,
> Graham
> Harwood, Stewart Home, Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp, Friedrich
> Kittler,
> Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Aymeric Mansoux, Bruno Marchal,
> Armin
> Medosch, Anthony Moore, Peter Norvig, Jeff Prideaux, Thomas de
> Quincey, Otto Roessler, socialfiction.org, Gerald J. Sussman,
> Julie
> Sussman, Oswald Wiener
>
> http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
>
> xxxx_
>
>
> xxxxx proposes a radical, new space for artistic exploration,
> with
> essential contributions from a diverse range of artists,
> theorists,
> and scientists. Combining intense background material, code
> listings,
> screenshots, new translation, [the] xxxxx [reader] functions as
> both
> guide and manifesto for a thought movement which is radically
> opposed
> to entropic contemporary economies.
>
> xxxxx traces a clear line across eccentric and wide ranging
> texts
> under the rubric of life coding which can well be contrasted
> with the
> death drive of cynical economy with roots in rationalism and
> enlightenment thought. Such philosophy, world as machine,
> informs its
> own deadly flipside embedded within language and technology.
> xxxxx
> totally unpicks this Hiroshimic engraving, offering a dandyish
> alternative by way of the deep examination of software and
> substance.
>
> Life coding is primarily active, subsuming deprecated
> psychogeography
> in favour of acute wonderland technology, wary of any assumed
> transparency. Texts such as Endonomadology, a transcript from
> celebrated biochemist and chaos theory pioneer Otto E. Roessler
> who
> features heavily throughout this intense volume, make plain the
> sadistic nature and active legacy of rationalist thought. At the
> same
> time, through the science of endophysics, a physics from the
> inside
> rigorously examined here, a delicate theory of the world as
> interface
> is proposed.
>
> xxxxx is very much concerned with the joyful elaboration of a
> new
> real; software-led propositions which are active and
> constructive in
> eviscerating contemporary culture. xxxxx embeds Perl Routines to
> Manipulate London, by way of software artist and Mongrel Graham
> Harwood, a Universal Dovetailer in the Lisp programming language
> from
> AI researcher Bruno Marchal rewriting the universe as code, and
> self
> explanatory Pornographic Coding from plagiarist and author
> Stewart
> Home and code art guru Florian Cramer. Software is treated as
> magical,
> electromystical, contrasting with the tedious GUI desktop
> applications
> and user-led drudgery expressed within a vast ghost-authored
> literature which merely serves to repeat over and again the
> demands of
> industry and economy. Key texts, which well explain the magic
> and
> sheer art of programming for the absolute beginner are published
> here.
>
> Software subjugation is made plain within the very title of
> media
> theorist Friedrich Kittler's essay Protected Mode, published in
> this
> volume. Media, technology and destruction are further elaborated
> across the work in texts such as War.pl, Media and Drugs in
> Pynchon's
> Second World War, again from Kittler, and Simon Ford's elegant
> take on
> J.G Ballard's crashed cars exhibition of 1970, A Psychopathic
> Hymn.
>
> Software and its expansion stand in obvious relation to
> language. Attacking transparency means examining the prison cell
> or
> virus of language; life coding as William S. Burrough's style
> cutup or
> riot playback (Stewart Home). And perhaps the most substantial
> and
> thorough-going examination is put forward by daring Vienna
> actionist
> Oswald Wiener in his Notes on the Concept of the Bio-adapter
> which has
> been thankfully unearthed here. Equally, Olga Goriunova's
> extensive
> examination of a new Russian literary trend, the online male
> literature of udaff.com provides both a reexamination of culture
> and
> language, and an example of the diversity of xxxxx; a diversity
> well
> reflected in background texts ranging across subjects such as
> Leibniz'
> monadology, the ur-crash of supreme flaneur Thomas de Quincey
> and
> several rewritings of the forensic model of Jack the Ripper
> thanks to
> Stewart Home and Martin Howse.
>
> xxxxx liberates software from the machinic, and questions the
> transparency of language, proposing a new world view, a sheer
> electromysticism which is well explained with reference to the
> works
> of Thomas Pynchon in Friedrich Kittler's essay, translated for
> the
> first time into English, which closes xxxxx.
>
> http://xxxxx.1010.co.uk
>
> http://openmute.org
>
> All press/review/sales enquiries please address to m at 1010.co.uk
>
> Launch directions:
>
> >From Aldgate East tube head down Commercial Road and further
> left into
> Myrdle Street.
>
> >From Whitechapel station turn left out of station, left again
> into New
> Road and then right down Commercial Road until Myrdle Street.
>
> Buses 205, 25, 254 and D3 run nearby
>
> Map: http://tinyurl.com/jny5v
>
> apologies for x_____ posting
>
> mail m at 1010.co.uk to be removed from the xxxxx list
>
>
>
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