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unselfishness, there you see plainly the recursion, it's considered a virtue because.. in view of.. yes, unselfishness. and so, selfishness is a virtue in view of selfishness, etc. and, virtue is a virtue in view of the virtue? virtue is the positive, productive property of a view - the view's production. but it doesn't mean you can avoid it. there's virtues of your body, as long as you have one. and virtues of having, as long as it's possible. and virtues of the possible, as long as it's not impossible. virtues of the impossible? via negativa. prime numbers are what remains. are they selfish or unselfish? :) positive or negative? you can follow them a bit via the positive, which is like the virtue of a view, formula, though quickly you're replacing algorithms with heuristics, which is more of a mess, like the layered virtues of our reality, the real being transcendent, unending streams, and you find yourself jumping from this to that all the time, not selfish-algorithmic (producing) or unselfish-heuristic (seeking), but let's call it dancing since there are movements and, well, the thing is still alive though with no reason, and not producing or seeking, still views you can't avoid, going through the steps. eurythmics is at the end, or the beginning, not the body's algorithms (production system), or it's intentionality (heuristics), the virtues of having a body, having a view, not selfish, not unselfish. no virtues, no views, but still a text, still here though not what it is (produces) or what it means (seeks), it's still written, in virtue of the iso-8859-1 charset two-faced bastards, so maybe we're talking dialectics too - the protocol (selfish) and the exchange (unselfish) - still, the user. [us·er2 (ÁÆzÃr), n. Law. the exercise of a right to the enjoyment of property]. my body, my propery, the body of this mail. again, the protocol's from, to, subject, body, this is the body. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net