Re: <nettime> Fw: Interlude: Heidegger summarizes signal from 2 decades of nettime

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

This may sound far off, but there are wider analogies that may hint to 
solutions.

(some) drugs are sanctioned (illegal, regulated) because they have 
significant effect on human behavior. Air pollution is regulated because 
it adversely affects people. Sex is (more or less) regulated, because it 
has huge influence on human behavior.

There is little difference between bypassing cognition by deluge of 
information piped through mechanized hoses, and displaying porn on 
screens in packed public transport. The latter is regulated, the former 
is not. It's time to ask the question: why?

I know the answer - it's because the former is the most brilliant 
brainwashing technique ever invented.

> There is good reason to view humans and technology in context of other
> networks I think, networks overall, rather than just focus on "cyber" or
> computer/digital/virtual phenomena.  Networks are very boring in this
> sense, like networks of cells, networks of roads, networks of bowling
> leagues, soil bacteria, protein networks, squirrel communication
> networks, networks of printing presses.  Maybe this is the "primordial"
> something that ought to be hearkened back to somewhat.  Certainly we are
> facing some harsh limit-points of various reality networks (pollution,
> temperature, brain chemistry, other resources) where "cyber" isn't an
> instant solution.

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