[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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