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Joy Garnett walking batteri >We're all walking batteries, >and the gene material in a dead dog is EXACTLY the same >as it was when the dog was still alive. Dead or alive: same DNA. Ha! transmission along nerve fibres chemical transmission at synapses abbé nollet in eighteenth century paris did party tricks with static electricity descartes - other batteries lack consciousness Joy Garnett walking a batteri >the Equation of Life : >Actually, it could be just our jeans... emanuel swedenborg post retiring from being director of swedish mines and before he experienced the visions that led to his reinterpretation of christianity was fascinated by the idea that different functions of the body were controlled by different areas of the cerebral cortex. percy bysshe shelley and mary shelley were fascinated by `galvanism`. they inadvertently electrocuted the family cat whilst trying to utilize electricity for treating his sister's skin disorder. - - an editor should be respected even feared maybe even disliked by her contributors. her job is to dock their prolixities unify their styles and force them to conform to a consistent and clearly defined vision of the work in hand. it is no job for a democrat. one thinker champions "the construction of autonomous tools" one thinker in just four lines champions the printing press to avoid upsetting the editor and the thermos bottle for no reason. another nominates television but remarks of this pervasive socially transforming invention merely that it provides information influences patterns of behaviour such as sex and crime and has reduced the popularity of live performances. another leading thinker in the course of a long and rambling rant against the whole idea of invention states that he "doesn't think he could hack ... assholes and complacent dopes living hundreds of years". applicable to nettime's constant regurgitation of dubious observations by complacent dopes. eusocial.com -> superb source for male fascist antibodies. pre.konssept!Øn meeTz ver!f1kat!Øn. - Netochka Nezvanova f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.eusocial.com 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold