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Syndicate: draft of text ".....Home" for Syndicate meeting in Budapest |
Dear all, This is the draft of the text for Syndicate meeting in Budapest. Hope I managed to explain some aspects of refugee problem, taking example from Croatia WARART of living. For those who think it's too long, the whole point is: try not to forget them when the thing is over. It's a bit in future, but wars do ask for thinking few steps in further. See you... ana ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Digital nomadism - refugee - displaced person Is this place "Home"? (For all war babies, and Edie with them now) introduction: What to take into account creating of a good strategic game for politiscians, with big credits and a lot of levels, in regard to Home (Clinton - Jelcin 1 : 0) Regarding life in '90s in those areas a new concept, or better disappearance of concept appeared. Most of those I mentioned possibly relating of problems of mobile and identity to both technologies experienced lately on the Balkan, under topic "Digital nomadism-refugee-displaced person-Is this place Home?" in first had a thought that it would be a kind of a metaphor, used for an explanation of phenomenology that strongly connects in a way split realities. But, considering war could be taken even more splitten on with dualities such as secure - unsecure game, digital (so called) immortalism - analogue very mortality, or else, but both possible on creating, which is a consequence of communication, a battle, at least an argumentation. And Home, which could be sawn as in a game of hiding; a place to be taken when temporary switching play off, and where those rules of game doesn't apply. Home as relaxative and secure place. In wars mainly leading war authorities manage to keep this definition. Others thought as that is to be something like "How to explain art to a dead Beuys" theory. Or how to explain to a spoiled child what he has is not to be taken for granted, and Home token in a meaning of a background makes playing possible. Something that is tooken as predemand, unquestionable. When entering the war mostly ordinary people try to keep this concept, and go fight for it. But, things seem more complex than a nice comparison. Generation of '90's to which I belong as well, experienced in a short period both of those very fared away experiences; sudden impact of digital technology, and machine, sometimes not even that, war technology. War technology used in attacks on Croatia was VBR racket technology, "pig" bombs, granates, knifes... As far as I know digital technology hadn't been in some usage, while Internet wasn't used the way today is. Those two realities, one of which was present 1991-1995, and other at the end of that period and after, in latter wars become more interconnected, mostly on one side; infowars that entered net as well, all until recent NATO's high-tech equipment used in analogue. Home and tip "Home" Some explanations of digital nomadism already tooken a war metaphor: "Nomadism introduces a paradigm of chaos and direct response. The warfare model of pitched battle, characteristic to the Western mentalities/culture and older tactics of indirect attack, avoidance, faked retreat and surprise blows are combined here in mixture of response and provocation. The user is invited in new spaces by the apparent submission of the machine, just to be hit back a reaction meant to bring things and the initial point." (Calin Dan, Nettime, Sun. 8 Feb. 1998) The notion can be taken as overgraduated if token in regard with real wars, but speaking truly there could be as well infowar made digital refugees. Although, those experiences in analogue world and digital have uncomparable consequences, and all refugees are dreaming on possibility to reset or switch off, is possible, so would turn all happened to become a illusion, dream or a game of Descartes Evil Demon. And with new switching on start position taken again, if ever decide to play it again. On the other side, the notion of being displaced or non-located is the whole purpose digital nomad's wandering, so is regarded positive. Valorisation premark can not be mediated, because of some terminology overlap; even for digital nomads wouldn't be so comfortable to move with their laptops each day, and stay in some unwanted place. Would be only easier and sublimative to adjust new locating continuing the same action of surfing. So, location is to be regarded important until total entering to digital world or as far it's stabile. And that means at least safe home, society or state, or a totally unsocial position, that could be something like living alone on the Planet. If we would like to describe digital nomadism to a person that is a refugee wouldn't be so hard, the only thing they would got to include in their experienced is; if your wishes where to let you were listened, when putted in a campus. On the other hand, if we tried to explain to a digital nomad meaning of a refugee position would be something like this kind of a program; virus /as an unexpected bad experience/ that subscribes to a tip Home other command and throws each time to an totally unpredictable position. Tip Back can be used only after first move, and can not get to a start position or Home page, and tip Forward pushes you deeper in a site new tip Home chosen. So, a person is stocked. And can not switch off or reset. Both contemporar wonderers could have similar description of Home as an eventual start point, but moovings are happening for different reasons; one has valorisation remark, the other could be even a pure process addiction. In both cases that mentioned concept could eventually become a start point; as a page someone puts as the first or the first place remembered. But only for a part can be built as a Homepage, but where did all privacy has gone, if that's all? Location: neuro-home, Home, Hometown, Homeland As it seems that would be easy to mediate experiences of one to another, in both ways, we can suppose they are in a way similar. But the problem is, if a person has both of them, and had no others qualitative different, would that similarity make them to become a congruent background for a new kind of a person, or conjuct in a psycho-patological way, that surely depends on compostion of the world. There is a point where all oldfashioned and specialists would agree, considering behaviour of both no-located; because of some characteristics of media, as time (speed) in one or space (place) in another, some counscioussnes of interactivity is missing, so it becomes exteriour. At least comes that Home as a neurocomputation location is at least free of out-of-Home demands to be conquered? But in wars sometime that can be conqered too, not in Home defence, but in ideology wars for sure. Both technologies produce similar psyho-phenomenology, but not the same terminologies are used, and are from specialists regarded as pathological if start to reflect on a behaviour pattern outside of immediate involvance to situation behaviour. Speaking on split realities, some already consider schizoprenic, may be added that in Croatian "not all is at his Home" is used for schizoid person, unstable or at least lost. Seems that the one that can not have a concept of Home can not possibly have a concept of Hometown, Homeland. Traditional and actual Home of migrants and refugees Refugee campuses are non-lands, temporary interzones, holes.No life exists there, only a waiting to be moved further or back, and still dream of an old concept of Home. Image of it, in most cases, unfortunately doesn't coincide with the reality any more. So, both time and space are not coordinated with it. Their position is something like waiting for finding and downloading the page, but 404 or else can appear anyway. And it happens in most of cases, unfortunately. Several scenarios for refugees exist after campuses; they get back and rebuild, but most of them if in a meaning time experienced better life conditions, never want to. A number of them start nomadic life. If nomadic group is formed, for example war/post-war family, problems appear on their integration, as refusal of sedentarisation /alike gipseys/, or they are gethoised, while keeping on one place. They still keep their concepts of Home that include mother-tonque and culture. That first generations of migrants, as professionals state, expresses only temporality and non-interess in space position, so resignance. They do still remember where they belonged, and have a kind of a memory definition of Home, and a nostalgia. Second assimilates and adjust, but live in two worlds, Home concepts, in this analogue one. So, children that are refugees would have, considering those experts notes, be unstable, resignant and no-located, without a stable notion of Home, and as are young would have the problem of the second generation of refugees, split reality. They would hang between their parents definition of Home, wich could include different language and culture, and one in which they are actually raised. Having both traditional and actual concept of Home. Maybe new technology can engrove the problem, splitting reality once again, but maybe it can solve it? Generation that is born in shelters or camps, or in that moovings of families, would probalby be more to make last one decision. They as well are belonging to a first refugee generation, but have no couscience of that position, as are too young. And having time to adjust to another position that some social pedagogs predict will be a problem. I would like to give an example that is connected only to one part of behavioral pattern of children born in refugee campus. Three months after my collegue delivered a child her husband gotten kill in defence of their Home. Although not remembering of staying in a refugee camp, and living at one place for last five years, that litlle girl is packaging her toys in plastic bags each time she is over with playing. As we all know in plastic bags were oftenly all refugees could carry with themselves. All prescioust to them. Identity and rights of Homeless and "Homefull" But, if refugees and displaced persons are born in the war period, that means today have 8 years for Croatia, they don't connect even the first place to the meaning of the word Home. They are even less located, and can not have a concept of space positioning of Home, or images of it, we all do. Speaking other words their "Homepage" has no visuality. Can eventually be changeable first page. Although seems not too important in this period of worst of Balkan wars, it is notables those kids will soon start to use net, and probably even that way enlarge nomadic experience. In soon those Bosnia kids and Kosovo ones will accompain to a new generation of persons that would have problems in Home location. Today's technology position of Kosovo is irrelevant to the discussion, as probabably those children whose parents were masakred would be exported, as most of those before were, to more developed states. And with nomadic experience of digital kind they would make stronger argument that the idea Home as an oxymoron. Two kinds of questions could immediately arise to them; what a tip Home means, and similar what is a Home page. Ideas of Home, although were different till today, personal, hardly communicable, would start to differe even more between related people, if would be eventually created. After those immediate questions would probably arise when comparation made with those that could create a concept. With ones that include space-location. So, next question will arise; why among all places that is so glittering on those net presentations their "start point" was the one it was. Final one would be in choosing a set to which a rule applies; as with viruses attacked, those refugees had been attacked for a simple reason of more or less accidental inclusion in an unwanted and noninteded set by some formula, they can not create. As belonging to a certain set named nation, certain space position as well /not all-Balkan refugees are nation connected/, or just time they were born. For those born now problem, I hope, would be unknown. But as war are suceeding each other, that "chosen" set is only spatialy moving, so sucedds in time. Would be better opposite, I think. If the only notion of Home would be the remark only written in documents for identity, what would even that place have to do with the identity, as has on mine temperament and a bit agressive mediterranean behaviour, and inborn localpatriotism? Without an identity of Home, who can define a Homeland? That kind of identity would be created differently, and could be even digitaly created. In a way open. So, finally, while navigating possibilites of eventual space locating, among all other offered, would probably become horny about actual movings in, as well. Would world be prepared on that? Statistics made by foreign instances in Croatia state that 70% of high school students, means those who could use net on their universities or elsewhere, already want to go out of the country, and moreover; they want to do that immediately. From the position of post-war rebuilt, denationalisation processes, poverty, unemployment, post-traumatic-syndromes, and all others, those places really look as promised lands. But these students still do know the meanining of an idea of Home, even could not be satisfied with current state of it's broader definition, for example Homeland, or Hometown. But generations to come would not be the one that could take that into account in trying to fulfill their desires. They would not be able to create those concepts. Unlocated and those that can not recognise Home concept have only gender border for becoming a Global person, Home-concept-less as totally Home-full, their Home can be all. If that is a new ideology, which in fact went in total opposition with all wars on Balkan ideologies (which was atomisation and parcelisation, cleaning of tribes, but as well nacistic superhuman conquering with elimination of others), borders should be opened for those people. If not, this ilussion that can ruin stability of young generations gots to be dismissed. But, if that's not the illusion, but goal contemporarity puts, I did find myself when told "Refugees as heritage of emotional impotence of the whole planet. Rarely first refugees happen, they are a consequence mostly of long-sufferings. Noone leaves Home with the first syrene, or with a belief that will stop", to my dear friend Zvone in an e-mail, that this problematic is to be shared. For that reason obligation for them goes on all. And future will shaw that, what we saw was a large moving of refugees, after that before that cleaned tribes, but will probably see much more of, with a war/post-war consequences conjucted with a digital experience. The one would not be so time coordinated, but would be mass as well. Not mass created by others, pushed out, unsatisfied by others /political, economical, historical/ decisions, put impossible to create deeper relations to that, always on the surface of happenings. So what it comes to be; would those moves to be regarded as legal when current percentage of 60% of persons nomadic/refugee position becomes enlarged with a new population? Or would that be democratic? (But if not; how to re-establish a meaning of Home to them, if we count they are not traditional nomadic culture, but a sociological as well, but shorttime phenomena? Are we at least obligated to consider with Homeless who can recognise meaning of concept Home to those who will possibly never be able to form it. Something like Home concept agnostics. And while try to care for their current life in awful conditions, not to forget their future.) ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/east/ to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress