An explanation for what must have looked like
(and I suppose was) a flood of confusing
posts from me yesterday.
I co-opted this newsgroup, retasked the
"Tagging" software and used it on (against?)
another online community. An attempt at a
spontaneous (and unconsidered) "creative
subversion."
I copied a message, from the thread
"Individuality" on the semi-moderated usenet-
style discussion forum, soc.politics.marxism.
I pasted it here into the "Warning! This
forum has been tagged" thread, copied the Tag
analysis of the message, and posted that
into a form letter and back into the
"Individuality" thread on
soc.politics.marxism. I then (quickly)
deleted each analyzed message from Eyebeam,
and did the same process for the next
message, for nine messages.
Accidentally, this resulted in the broadcast
of these cut-and-pasted messages to people
who have decided to receive their Eyebeam
forum through email; I obviously didn't get
to delete those emails. Not sure what the
reaction was to my flood of accidentally-
broadcast, irrelevant conversation about
Marxism and individuality, whose importance
may have been heightened by the confusion,
mystery, and semi-inverted "ignore" subject
heading. Also sending multiple voices (the
cut-and-pasted emails) through my machine-
self (auto-generated eyebeam signature and
i.d.).
Didn't realize the institutional history of
the "ignore this message" thing, which Jeremy
Turner informed me (by phone from Victoria)
was a Rhizome.org convention for drawing
attention to ones' posts (!).
Machine analysis was considered spam.
Moderator of soc.politics.marxism threatened
to ban me immediately if I didn't stop
"spamming." My six-month participation on
the soc.politics.marxism group, responding to
perhaps hundreds of posts, wasn't enough to
gain me a margin for odd behaviour.
BTW, the first message in the thread on
soc.politics.marxism said:
"A community, state or nation does not exist
without individual human beings. Therefore,
"rights" are granted by individuals to create
the community, state or nation."
And the thread can be read (among many other
places) at:
<A Href="http://groups.google.ca/" target="\_blank">http://groups.google.ca/</A>
groups?dq=&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-
8&safe=off&th'e35f2db134472b&rnum=1
My analyses start at message #30 (unless
expirations alter that number). Responses
start at message 41.
