2.26.2004
here is an explanation of how to use 4-track machine as loop setup.
2.24.2004
the observer and fortune both report on a recent pentagon report admitting possibility of (predicting?) dire consequences from global warming. commentary here from tom englehardt. mainstream media coverage must be seeking shade.
related: "A report published by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in the UK estimates that if nothing is done to stop global warming, economic losses from extreme weather will be larger than global GDP by 2065." --earth crash earth spirit
well, the weather futures market should take care of everything...
ah but probably not the peak of global oil production: "Energy forecasts call for Saudi Arabia to almost double its output in the next decade and after. Oil executives and government officials in the United States and Saudi Arabia, however, say capacity will probably stall near current levels."--today's nytimes
related: "A report published by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) in the UK estimates that if nothing is done to stop global warming, economic losses from extreme weather will be larger than global GDP by 2065." --earth crash earth spirit
well, the weather futures market should take care of everything...
ah but probably not the peak of global oil production: "Energy forecasts call for Saudi Arabia to almost double its output in the next decade and after. Oil executives and government officials in the United States and Saudi Arabia, however, say capacity will probably stall near current levels."--today's nytimes
2.22.2004
"music activism" site: downhillbattle.org. includes a music player, check it out.
also, illegal-art.org
also, illegal-art.org
2.20.2004
with just what is our soul built...
at open-source audio, nestled right between Laurie Laptop and Leadbelly.
music for the people.
at open-source audio, nestled right between Laurie Laptop and Leadbelly.
music for the people.
2.19.2004
Morning. Darkness. Silence. Waking. Small, already lively gestures. The new force is ready. The bomb primed. Joy offered. What is to be done? Yes, undertake something and in a big way. Go beyond the seas, construct, discover . . . Enthusiasm elicits, at dawn, the return to the world; the world and I have returned to the morning of creation. Omnipotence: everything again becomes possible. Magnificence: this capacity tends toward greatness.
Which? Where, how, and for what? So, at the moment of deciding, while remembering history, which only makes great things from the dead, from the feet to the eyes and from one shoulder to another, my body, made for greatness, mourns for greatness. Present in my body, evident, invading . . . unused.
The body does not form grandeur, does not show it, gives it nothing social or historical, except through crimes and lies: neither the victory that tramples a thousand vanquished, nor the excellence that deposes the cohort of the mediocre.
And, from infallible experience, since my violent, weighty, demanding childhood, grandeur lies in me and dilates. Every day then, it awakens a ready energy, as it has for several decades, to go forth at the first call, attentive watcher, loyal servent, devoted unto dying, but obeying only greatness.
This free, early omnipotence, this immense demand, can be exhausted in a work; but this work only rarely achieves greatness and doubtless anonymously, because it is not a question of me, but of the work that produces and will give birth to me. Thus, the unusable power remains intact, youthful and fresh even in old age. Virginal, to be precise. It sings the Magnificat.
Now nothing can make an exception of this experience. Doubtless, everyone, one day at least, experiences this formidable dilation of his being--in explosive volume, strength, and potential--this free break, this unemployed greatness, that remains virginal no matter what one does, the infinite regret of remaining to one side: the infinite possibility of learning.
Why stubbornly refuse to call this vacant intensity, potential world and thought right in the middle of the body, which is like a rose window or a small sun, the soul?
--Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge
Which? Where, how, and for what? So, at the moment of deciding, while remembering history, which only makes great things from the dead, from the feet to the eyes and from one shoulder to another, my body, made for greatness, mourns for greatness. Present in my body, evident, invading . . . unused.
The body does not form grandeur, does not show it, gives it nothing social or historical, except through crimes and lies: neither the victory that tramples a thousand vanquished, nor the excellence that deposes the cohort of the mediocre.
And, from infallible experience, since my violent, weighty, demanding childhood, grandeur lies in me and dilates. Every day then, it awakens a ready energy, as it has for several decades, to go forth at the first call, attentive watcher, loyal servent, devoted unto dying, but obeying only greatness.
This free, early omnipotence, this immense demand, can be exhausted in a work; but this work only rarely achieves greatness and doubtless anonymously, because it is not a question of me, but of the work that produces and will give birth to me. Thus, the unusable power remains intact, youthful and fresh even in old age. Virginal, to be precise. It sings the Magnificat.
Now nothing can make an exception of this experience. Doubtless, everyone, one day at least, experiences this formidable dilation of his being--in explosive volume, strength, and potential--this free break, this unemployed greatness, that remains virginal no matter what one does, the infinite regret of remaining to one side: the infinite possibility of learning.
Why stubbornly refuse to call this vacant intensity, potential world and thought right in the middle of the body, which is like a rose window or a small sun, the soul?
--Michel Serres, The Troubadour of Knowledge
2.12.2004
ivan illich, _toward a history of need_
-thesis: 'use values are inevitably destroyed when the industrial mode of production achieves the predominance [of] radical monopoly.'
-creation of needs... requirement of all activity to be official, sanctioned, within the sphere of commodity production... 'overwhelming reliance' on consumer goods: 'market dependence'... creation of 'need-satisfaction relationships' [cf _anti-oedipus_]... subjects defined by, ones perception of ones own rights and needs derived from, 'professional hegemony'...
-use-values destroyed... autonomy lost... impossibility of satisfying need outside 'radical monopolies' that control modern markets [anti-markets--delanda]... standardization of culture... 'rigid interdependence of needs and market'... what were once everyday functions able to be accomplished 'autonomously' now are experienced as situations of LACK, requiring the intervention of need-producing specialists, fillable only with consumer goods and services. e.g., everyone defined as sick and in constant need of medical attention... passage from democracy to oligarchy
-counterproductivity [cf _anti-oedipus_: systems depend on their own poor functioning]--'beyond a certain level of intensity, medicine engenders helplessness and disease', b/c people don't [desire doesn't--deleuze] fit the 'calculus of needs'... derives from 'congestion' (e.g. traffic snarls, the inevitable result of more and faster cars that thwarts the supposed goal of those cars: getting somewhere faster) and from 'paralysis' (dependence on commodities yields greater congestion)... [anti-market capitalism ensures its own continuation by its own disfunctionality. that is, foundational principles like efficiency and productivity prove impossible to live up to--commodities (goods/services) become ever-more efficient and yet this efficiency counteracts itself, meaning the demand for efficiency can never be met. efficiency as a goal can never be met, greater productivity is (will be) always required.]
-liberty (protecting use-value) vs. right (protecting access to commodity).. rights end up 'smothering' liberties (b/c needs that destroy use-values produce rights which are then sanctioned and legitimated leaving liberties to fend for themselves having no measurable market value)
-illich calls for: 'convivial austerity', i.e. limiting concentration of power [similar to delanda when he argues for regional markets--both speak of a certain threshold--for delanda beyond that threshold power (the ability to control market flows) becomes too heavily concentrated--for illich, 'radical monopoly'... also: "new rational cynical competence' among citizens [contrast with _anti-oedipus_: schizophrenia]
-thesis: 'use values are inevitably destroyed when the industrial mode of production achieves the predominance [of] radical monopoly.'
-creation of needs... requirement of all activity to be official, sanctioned, within the sphere of commodity production... 'overwhelming reliance' on consumer goods: 'market dependence'... creation of 'need-satisfaction relationships' [cf _anti-oedipus_]... subjects defined by, ones perception of ones own rights and needs derived from, 'professional hegemony'...
-use-values destroyed... autonomy lost... impossibility of satisfying need outside 'radical monopolies' that control modern markets [anti-markets--delanda]... standardization of culture... 'rigid interdependence of needs and market'... what were once everyday functions able to be accomplished 'autonomously' now are experienced as situations of LACK, requiring the intervention of need-producing specialists, fillable only with consumer goods and services. e.g., everyone defined as sick and in constant need of medical attention... passage from democracy to oligarchy
-counterproductivity [cf _anti-oedipus_: systems depend on their own poor functioning]--'beyond a certain level of intensity, medicine engenders helplessness and disease', b/c people don't [desire doesn't--deleuze] fit the 'calculus of needs'... derives from 'congestion' (e.g. traffic snarls, the inevitable result of more and faster cars that thwarts the supposed goal of those cars: getting somewhere faster) and from 'paralysis' (dependence on commodities yields greater congestion)... [anti-market capitalism ensures its own continuation by its own disfunctionality. that is, foundational principles like efficiency and productivity prove impossible to live up to--commodities (goods/services) become ever-more efficient and yet this efficiency counteracts itself, meaning the demand for efficiency can never be met. efficiency as a goal can never be met, greater productivity is (will be) always required.]
-liberty (protecting use-value) vs. right (protecting access to commodity).. rights end up 'smothering' liberties (b/c needs that destroy use-values produce rights which are then sanctioned and legitimated leaving liberties to fend for themselves having no measurable market value)
-illich calls for: 'convivial austerity', i.e. limiting concentration of power [similar to delanda when he argues for regional markets--both speak of a certain threshold--for delanda beyond that threshold power (the ability to control market flows) becomes too heavily concentrated--for illich, 'radical monopoly'... also: "new rational cynical competence' among citizens [contrast with _anti-oedipus_: schizophrenia]
2.10.2004
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