Re: <nettime> The Tactics of Camping

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@neoscenes.net>]

Hi Helge --

> I believe it was Knowbotic Research who recently said that today visibility
> increasingly means administrative availability. Increasing the visibility of a
> given cause and the people associated with it feeds back into the cybernetic
> loop that allows the governmental machine to identify, classify and react
> accordingly in order to perpetuate itself, be it with soft or hard power. I

yes, you can't control what you cannot observe:

This reminds me of the advice from Peter Wilson in the TAZ Manual -- with his 
imperative to small social collectives to stay out of sight, especially out of 
the sight of the media, as the mere attention from those institutions will 
destroy any small localized collective social entity.  since media now means 
corporate cloud-data gatherers who are forced summarily to submit the cloud to 
government inspection at any point, the imperative to stay out of sight and off 
the cloud would seem more essential than ever...  unless you want to invite that 
destructive attention into your midst!  (it would seem that this phenomena has 
something to do with Quantum principle where the observer alters the state of 
that which is observed...)


jh





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