[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Ready to Delete the Border

[jonathan jay <jonathan@speakeasy.net>]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, fran ilich wrote:

> Ready to Delete the Border
> By Fran Ilich
> 2:00 a.m. Aug. 23, 2001 PDT
> http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46234,00.html
>
> Many people have thought of us, borderhackers, as people who are against the
> new world order.

> Boundaries and limits are meant to be broken by human endeavor; they're OK
> as inspiration sources (factories of human energy that will take you to the
> next level of the videogame). But then again, didn't the Berlin Wall teach
> us of the damage of keeping people apart, of splitting the world in regimes,
> races and classes -- when at the end we're all human beings?


-= Fran, as a border-deconstructing techno hacker, you may be particularly
intriuged by XTime, a temporal border deleter.  XTime is a new computer based
decimal time tool for trancending time zones, as well as the present global
double day.

-= 180 degrees from GMT, XTime is keyed to the anti-prime meridian running on
anti-empire time, powered by chi, a new tempo of time.

-= please check out www.xtime.org, and then set asside 14.4 minutes (one kilochi
= 1,000 chi; 1 kx = 1,000 x)to dream up a new XTime application specific to
BorderHack as an intellectual exersize for your border deleting entourage.

-= If you would then get back to me with your reflections as to how XTime and
your de-bordering project might cross-fertilize, that would be mighty cool
indeed. I am looking for a beta-test community for XTime, and your
borderpiercing crew might just be ripe for XTime.

-= tnx for your considered responce.

best,
jonathan jay



> Last year ­- the first Borderhack -- we tried to penetrate and understand
> the border with a very critical mindset, acknowledging the strange
> attractors that keep the people from both sides of the border together and
> at the same time apart.
>
> If one thing is true, it's that the border isn't as real as when you are
> next to it. It doesn't matter if there are laptops or ISDN lines and a lot
> of campers. The rusted metal borderwall goes all the way into the Pacific
> Ocean, the helicopters fly in the skies, the border patrols are everywhere.
>
> So this is Borderhack. Hacking the border. Don't be misled; hacking is not
> destroying. Hacking is done in order to get to know the system better. The
> system is always repaired by people who understand the system.
>
> Borderhack is a camp where the world of technology and the Internet -- tools
> that are known to break borders and erase limits -- meet with the world of
> physical borders and passport handicaps. Hacktivists, Internet artists,
> cyberculture devotees, border activists, electronic musicians and punk
> rockers are ready to delete the border on Tijuana-San Diego if only for a
> few days, with java applets, port scans, radio, microwaves, ISDN,
> face-to-face communication, technology workshops, presentations, music
> events.
>
> And ready to delete the border.
>
> (Editor's note: Fran Ilich founded Borderhack in 2000).

-- 
jonathan jay Seattle

============================ 2001.08.25 52:206.XT =============================
                    don't have the time? try xtime instead!                    
                             http://www.xtime.org/                             
===============================================================================


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