nettime: gipsy site

[akke@Desk.nl (akke wagenaar (http://err.org))]

dear family/friend/colleague

gipsy site

1997
a journey along
amsterdam
dakar
amsterdam
delhi
amsterdam
budapest
amsterdam
london
amsterdam
hull
amsterdam
berlin
amsterdam
beijing
amsterdam
   investigates the relation between
   technology and domestication
   language and mediation
   property and power
   happiness and religion
   time space and freedom

what are the roots
of the desire to be wired?

   overcome all mediation
   be present physically
   experience everything
   immediately and unmediated
   without the interface
   of language

the final confrontation will
take place in and on the internet
result in http://err.org/GipsySite

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if you want to understand the
far reaching effects of the internet
on human culture and nature
you have to go back to the birth of language

digital communication implicates a high degree of mediation
communication takes place mainly through language
body and mind split in an extreme way
god is searched for in the net

the linear concept of time desintegrates
in a large amount of synchronous time bubbles
each with their own experience of time

time and space separate
the connection with the nearest environment is broken
everybody wants to be a nomad
but is glued to the screen more than ever

a deep longing for communication and connection
with other living creatures
with oneself
with god

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gipsies and other unmediatised groups  nomads
the only groups who have escaped domestication

the word gipsy has become a methaphor for groups
that defy authority and rules in any society or state they enter
they are the most despised by all societies
they do not ackowledge property
"they steal"

other groups are the languageless  the poor
they are free of mediatisation within a world
that uses mediatisation increasingly
as a (violent) means of power and control

there are no gipsies on the net
they can not read neither write
mediatisation has no grip on them

virtual gipsies
would defy any rule
and be hated
would not be able to read or write
would not be able to mediatise or be mediatised
would steal what they need - from the net, on the net

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if you would like to be updated
during my travels
please reply

akke wagenaar




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