++++++(O)

DUBtimestretch: Revenant-Lutte-ion: isea98

This is the transitory subject compiled in code: namecheck - Zero/one.
Spinning through the compressed data files of isea98, spectres whisper
between cities. The economy is melting. This is revolution as Indian
Summer. This is velocity as terminal download, an excessive memory that
recompiles and corrupts the clarity of the 'Text', 'Echoes of an
upcoming revolution' using filtered perspectives. This technology
recodes itself, suspending the spectral engine of communism that Marx
and Engels described in their manifesto of 1848.

1848:1968:1998 Don't Believe the Hype - The System is F*CT This is a
propaganda station simultaneously occupied and abandoned as thought
traverses the abyss of the fractured dialectic. The syllogism will not
resolve - there is no future in the new media revolution as TV demands
higher resolution. So already this is a subaltern babble rather than an
homogenous streaming of heterogeneous noise. In the works of artists
like Keith Piper we engage with this de-territorialisation of the
battlefield. History is displaced through the new cybography. The pixel
is shifted like the paving stones of ancient sites to become the missive
of a dubbed generation. This is a generation that prefers to alter
preferences according to the demands of the application rather than
making universal demands on the material or 'real' world.

For this agent, Nu Meeja has been a fertile space for the dissemination
of critical ideas. Not the 'powerful' concepts of revolution perhaps,
but instead the cruel concepts of a world where personal gestures of
revolt are the flava of the day. Nu Meeja is the voodoo rebellion of the
intoxicated other, manipulating the medium to communicate with the
spectres. To sample and redirect an impulse and make imminant a desire
for critical engagemnet with the phantasmagoria. But for some, the
demand is not that the community makes clearer its ground in some
media-evil sense of declaring sides - this is a strategy not suited to
Info War. Media mercenaries are always switching sides, channels of
resistence are implemented through drift and derision rather than
restricted Hegelian economies of The State and its satellite parties or
ideological massives. Forget the revolution - experience the giddy
thrill of nausea.

Neither Evolution nor Revolution Already the flow of ideas through the
approach networks to the isea98 symposium have delivered potential
revisioning of cells. The thematics of a symposium can only ever hope to
catalyse these flows. The eruption is an after effect of activated
flows. The drift of sediment against the apparent order of stasis. So
the computer in the basement is not the powder keg but the Solar Anus
processing the excrement of an excitable minority of dissident dreamers.
Elsewhere the same shit flows. This agent will be departing missives for
Rhizome on Rhizome Raw and here on the isea98 webcast. This agent will
open its ears to the 360 degrees of the revolution. This agent is a
productive unit of a corruptible economy.

Mark Waugh aka anti@lias.