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AAA Another American Artist                                         — each axis spawns another axis —                                         And — and?                                         a sort of beggar’s testament — typed                                         that’s not me —                                         — whom I know you might consider one of the lightweight artist-intellectuals of our time —                                         perhaps not the most productive)                                         — or especially —                                         Did the flounder flounder — the bass bass?                                         as I am also dissatisfied —                                         in London town —                                         — you have to live with it — practicing in Brooklyn —                                         Finessing the first kiss.                                         For your pleasure — try the Mount Rushmore posture for any longer than 15 years —                                         Seconds ago —                                         — poverty — abjection —                                         — named her —                                         with the sky just pissing over the horizon.                                         — the lad’s skinny legs barely activated for the days ahead, the eyes still red from summer’s lawn chairs —                                         Hello hello.                                         I was lying.                                         — it was nearly voted in                     — the amendments constructed                     — and the toxic verticality of its filaments integrated into the country’s fabric —                                         as the moment is digital —                                         — unbothered —                                         — axis thinking —                                         like nation  individual                                         — real people — real poems —                                         Well — I thank you —                                         It doesn’t pay to be conservative.                                                                                                    

it is anti-Wagnerian — in this sense —                                         It opens.                                         Let me warn you: Lust never troubled me.                                         Maybe tomorrow.                                         — and the color’s flawed —                                         — so playing tennis won’t solve much of anything                                         — neither his own nor                                         My lazy glands will ever support me.                                         My sense is that one can find an analogy in poetry                                         Nation is easily placed on the axis of transnation  nation                                         — a headache in a ballroom                                         — constant —                                         — the trade of all sophists —                                         — slow tones that surrender themselves finally — in the mist —                                         Or hell                                         — certainly when —                                         “watch me getting fucked every which way” the thin hair of our information                                         Professionals.                                         Politesse with the finger bent.                                         be simply a diagram for memory —                                         — you can replace it if you’d like —                                         Fisher-Price joys now that the idea of the flood has subsided.                                        

— so — then — yeah —                                         description                                         falters                                         — they’ll never get anywhere —                                         — speaking among themselves with polysyllabic cardinals and heliocentric ordinals                                         pull the elastic back                                         before such robust confusion                                         More creativity lugged through weasel holes.                                         not tired —                                         governs the lack                                         — though with respect —                                         So few —                                         So said those Pop dudes.                                        

Some of this screaming from Tan Dun seems to reflect this impassiveness —                                         cathartic but recorded —                                         Bob Mould — in Cleveland — insensate.                                         — bad gums —                                         Stamping.                                         Standing in the zone.                                         — lyrical — in expanded volumes; this scum records dutifully the you of us and should live.                                         Surprise!                                         — perhaps —                                         speaking — worth nothing.                                         jimmy the lock — vandalize the key —                                         — don’t sing what is well made by Irish —                                         — retract everything                                         — words don’t know these physical boundaries —                                         — as Duchamp famously quipped                                         “dataflow — ”                                         not to anticipate a later critical attitude toward the finished work so much as to maintain the aura (or era) of exploration                                         — you will have no success                                         — so Providence awaits                                         global cellular rates —                                         the number of croutons baking away —                                         bruiser                                         some complicated punctuation                                         — some embryonic female who could make sense of all this.                                         Of course!                                         Tom Stinkmetal is man.                                         Too Much Entropy?                                         DVD — with a razor and beer —                                         — screamed Calibanic fortune-cookies at Studio 54 —                                         — unawares of our zeitgeisty question looming like Woody Allen’s brassiere over the fields with a slurp-slurpy sound (special effects);                                         — though —                                         kemosabee                                         — like some presidential candidate                                         — the beach delivered the body of Malcolm X                                         — waltzing so softly                                         — this action                                         — to be skies edible as text daily to determine it —                                         relax                                         — so long as you are aspiring to love                                         — but as love is inspiring the atmosphere                                         — we’ve turned a corner                                         Usually —                                         borders of Dumbo —                                         Very fine — thank you.                                         Very fine — thank you.                                         — flowing down in predictable cascades for all to see —                                         set out for them                                         With a million things to remember —                                         Wanking — the boy returned to his home not crying                                         larger definition                                         healthy breakfast merely that —                                         and given an “Asian mom” perm.                                         — there clomb a tree                                        

barely able to lift the chin                                         — that teething                                         We are both conformists if I understand you correctly.                                         though it sounded like French soufflé fed through a Kaos box —                                         The dullness receding —                                         the gritty matter; to deposit this egg in a brown bag on the reader’s doorstep —                                         — I don’t know how to                                         the “realms” and one more sure argument for literacy amongst those who don’t know —                                         Weeping consolations.                                         — cross-legged —                                         — ratted on products —                                         — quality of printed production — etc.                                         When writing — making the fishbowls round.                                                                                                                        
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at stake is the cultural excreta, the better part of a chipotle burrito along with a few undigested kernels of corn (sub-cultural waste), a reminder of past glories. in the same sense, much of what the barbarians find will be looted, raped, or destroyed. it's not a happy matter, nor a sad one, it's a biological process. people eat and shit everyday. several languages die every year. the loss of ones cultural heritage is an ongoing biological process. with every defecation, every urination, we expel more of the mother's milk, the metric of the authenticity of one's own identity. we transform our physical identity with food.

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The mind is inherently embodied.
Thought is mostly unconscious.
Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical.
(Lakoff and Johnson, 1999, p. 3)

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August 15, 2004, Sunday
By DULCIE LEIMBACH (NYT); Television
Late Edition - Final, Section 13, Page 55, Column 1, 602 words

DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - WITH his arched brows and doo-wop hair, Robbie Rotten presents a stark contrast to Stephanie, an all-in-pink 8-year-old aspiring dancer who recently moved to LazyTown. In this fictional village -- the setting of the new Nickelodeon series ''LazyTown'' -- adults like to lounge, but children are full of energy, ...

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No-one knows whose friend he is,
He's always there,
He's the big man restless, like forty indians.
I'm in the third group,
we push for humour,
We're so relentless, like forty indians.

Chorus
The legal quarter of tight-lipped men
Pushed for order
And repeat again
Anyway, the lot regarding the funny man
The big man restless
Are so relentless
They scratched about
And like forty indians
The lot turn on the funny man,
The big man restless

And what can he say

If the sun's all gone and we're wafer thin
And we could scratch around in our so frail skin
You could say
You could say

No flags in here, no cause to wave,
Just the slow, slow scratch in the final cave
You could say
You could say

Computer engineer man, a researcher for the anarchist studies group., is
working on just such a mechanism. He's trying to devise what amounts to
a digital diary, a searchable database that contains digitized versions
of nearly everything in his life

There are two parts to the project. The first is the experiment with
life storage -- capturing his papers, faxes, phone calls, photographs
and home movies in digitalized form. The second part focuses on
developing software that would support this type of lifetime library on
anyone's computer.

"The quest is to essentially build a surrogate memory. Something that's
as good as my own memory, that I can use it as a supplement, and will
remember everything that I should have remembered, that came to my ears,
eyes, whatever," man said of his experiment.

With its combination of expertise in computer science, brain sciences, and management, anarchism studies group is uniquely suited to address this question. We hope this work will lead to new scientific understanding in a variety of disciplines and practical advances in many areas of community based production and self-management.

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'multitude': 'multitud',
'multitudes': 'multitud',
'multitudinous': 'multitudin',

Global multi_mode; ! Multiple mode
Global multi_wanted; ! Number of things needed in multitude
Global multi_had; ! Number of things actually found

multitube multitubes
multitude multitudes
multiuse multiuser multiusers

The noise of a multitude in the
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RHIZOMES
RHIZOMIC

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Kristi L. Swope(1,2), Paul Bieganski(2), Ed Chi(2), Elizabeth Shoop(2), Olaf Holt(2), John Carlis(2), John Riedl(2), Thomas Newman(3) and Ernest F. Retzel(1)

(1)Medical School and (2)Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN;
(3)DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

email: comments@lenti.med.umn.edu

Pattern #2 is described by the sequence:

at[ACGT]ac[ACGT](2)c[ACGT]tata[ACGT](8)tata[ACGT]g[ACGT](2)gt[ACGT]at

It selects for conservation of those base pairs in the lox-P site believed to be contact points for the Cre enzyme (underlined bases in the sequence ATAACTTCGTATA ATGTATGC TATACGAAGTTAT). This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that allows up to 5 mismatches to be tolerated.

Pattern #3 is described by the sequence:

[ACGT](9)TATA[ACGT](8)TATA[ACGT](9).

It ensures that the TATA motif surrounding the core 8-bp spacer region is present. This pattern is augmented by a mismatch parameter that ensures no mismatches are tolerated.

A web service called Fuzznuc-Comparator was developed that compares the output from two fuzznuc processes and outputs only those sequences present in both. When the result of the comparison contains more than one sequence the Fuzznuc-Comparator tool performs a pairwise alignment of the core 8-bp spacer regions. The output file format consists of the result of the pairwise comparison (if any) followed by those sequences present in both input files (in fuzznuc’s seqtable format).

To isolate those sequences that match all three patterns two comparisons are required. First, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process is used to isolate those sequences that match patterns 1 & 2. A fileDivider process splits the output content and outputs only the fuzznuc seqtable section. Second, a Fuzznuc-Comparator process compares the output from the fileDivider process with those sequences that match pattern #3. The final step in the workflow is to write those sequences that match all three patterns to file.
Mouse genome-wide map of cryptic loxp sitesThe power and flexibility of Motif Explorer is endless! There are a few basic conventions that you need to learn, and then simply let your imagination soar. Some of the conventions are based on PROSITE (Bairoch, 1995). First and foremost, the standard IUPAC one-letter codes for amino acids and nucleotides are used to designate residues and bases, respectively, with "x" standing for any amino acid (or base). Different shaped brackets have different meaning. For example, square brackets mean "accept any amino acid (or base) listed", and curly brackets mean "accept any amino acid (or base) except those listed". Also, parenthesis are used to designate a numerical value or range. Therefore, a search on

 is dynamic

  cannot function without an active network connection

 may or may not be interactive

 may or may not be accessible on-line
 
  reflects contemporary culture
 
 

 cannot function without electricity

 is automated
  is not virtual

  is not dependent upon The World Wide Web 

This idea is familiar within transhumanist and cryonics groups. It is
mentioned in fiction; Joe Halpern, Greg Egan, Linda Nigata come to mind.
There is also Tipler's version of the "Omega Point" where everyone who
ever lived could be effectively reconstituted via latent information and
near-infinite computational power. I recall Robert Bradbury (on this
list) and John Smart in the last year talking about how personality
capture might be valuable to the survivors, if not for the deceased.

Making a living as someone with artistic talents of one sort or another is neither harder nor easier than making a living based on any other personal inclinations, save that one has to be competent, of course. Innovating in art is like innovating in any field -- acceptable if one's workmates agree on its merits and if the participatory plan find the workplace as a whole to be socially valuable.

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f you think that there is something called art which entitles something called an artist to live a life free of responsibility to the community, free of responsibility to co-workers, and remunerated at a rate above and beyond others, then parecon art will be a horror to your vision.

If you think that people doing art, like all other people, should contribute to the community and be supported for their socially valued labors, and that their endeavors should arise from their termperments and tastes, not from imposition by elites, parecon art will be a delight for you to behold.
--

"They were famous pictures: Death on a Bicycle, Death Visits the
Amusement Park.... They'd been a fad in the 2050s, at the time of the
longevity breakthrough, when people realized that but for accidents
and violence, they could live forever. Death was suddenly a pleasant
old man, freed from his longtime burden. He rolled awkwardly along on
his first bicycle ride, his scythe sticking up like a flag. Children
ran beside him, smiling and laughing."
(Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime)

Nature, through the trial and error of evolution, has discovered a
vast diversity of life from what can only presumed to have been a primordial
pool of building blocks. Inspired by this success, (...) is now trying to mimic
the process of Darwinian evolution in the laboratory by evolving new proteins
from scratch. Using new tricks of molecular biology, (...) have evolved several
new proteins in a fraction of the 3 billion years it took nature. Their most
recent results, (...) have led to some surprisingly new lessons on how to
optimize proteins which have never existed in nature before, (...).

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"Inert molecules from your cells! Chemical medicines won't reach that stuff, but the teleportation booth' does. It takes just those dead molecules and does the instant-elsewhere trick with them. Just the stuff that builds up over ninety years of life. See it now?"
"I don't feel any different," she said uncertainly.
"You should. I did. It was like I'd caught my second wind. Of course I was moving at a dead run. It's nothing obvious. What did you expect? In a couple of days you'll find dark roots in your hair."

PREOCCUPATIONS

1. Advocating permaculture (resilient sustainability) -- we should be subsidizing research and practices of agroforestry, polyculture, organic and local agricultures, defending seed saving and seed sharing as basic human rights, regulating nonselective pesticide and high-energy-input, especially petrochemical fertilizer use, encouraging vegetarian, organic, local-food lifeways through accurate nutrition labeling, special taxes on food-corpses and highly salty, fatty, sugary processed foods, incentivizing climate-appropriate and edible landscaping, supporting organic, heirloom, and superorganic cultivation, vastly expanding research and development and infrastructure investment into p2p renewable energy-provision like decentralized solar grids and co-op windmill farms, energy-efficient appliances, desalination techniques, sustainable irrigation practices and biomimetic urban sewage treatment techniques, as well as passenger rail infrastructure across the world and facilitating non-automobile transportation in cities (free or small-fee distributed bike co-ops, for example, and transforming more urban car-lanes into pedestrian malls) -- increasing public awareness of and encouraging collective problem solving in the face of energy descent, overurbanization, species loss, extractive industrial depletion of topsoil and aquifers, toxicity of materials and industrial processes, waste/pollution, catastrophic human-caused climate change, and so on.

2. Advocating p2p (peer-to-peer formations) and a2k (access to knowledge) -- we should be strongly supporting net neutrality, institutionalizing creative commons, subsidizing personal blogging and peer credentialization/production practices, radically restricting global copyright scope and terms, expanding fair use provisions, providing public grants for noncommercial nonproprietary scientific research and access to creative expressivity and public performances, opening access to research and debate in science and the humanities, experimenting with science and public policy juries and networked townhalls, facilitating accessibility of information for differently enabled people (blind, partially blind, deaf, etc.), securing open knowledge transfer to people of the overexploited regions of the world, demanding transparency from authoritative institutions, especially governments, limited liability corporations, public universities, organizations funded by public resources or engaged in public services, strongly opposing institutional secrecy, especially corporatist proprietary secrets or militarist state secrets, ensuring universal free access to networked media, free reliable wifi, supporting community and minority-run radio, demanding corporate media disaggregation, facilitating small campaign donor aggregation and restricting other forms of patronage/lobbying/conflict-of-interest for elected representatives and professional appointees to public service, making access to education universal and free from pre-kindergarten through college, enacting strong whistleblower protections for public officials and corporate employees, introducing labeling standards to distinguish advertising, advocacy, journalism, and strengthening protections for consumers from fraudulent claims, and so on.

3. Advocating prosthetic self-determination (Pro Choice) -- we should be defending absolutely every woman's right to choose safe, free, accessible abortion techniques to end unwanted pregnancies, as well as facilitating wanted pregnancies with alternate reproductive techniques, legalizing and then taxing all informed, nonduressed consensual recreational drug use, redirecting public resources to policing actually dangerous or disorderly public conduct, regulating controlled substances for unnecessary harm, and expanding public education and drug rehabilitation programs, vastly expanding public research into genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification medicine, defending individuals and communities with atypical capacities and morphologies, expanding access (while prohibiting compulsory recourse) both to consensual medical and modification therapies as well as to reliable information about them, providing universal single-payer basic healthcare, planet-wide provision of safe water and nutritious food, and subsidizing access to all wanted therapies that meet basic threshold safety and transparency standards with a stakeholder grant for non-normalizing modifications in exchange for open access to clinical trial data associated with all experimental procedures.

4. Advocating BIG (basic income guarantees) -- we should be providing a universal, non means-tested basic guaranteed income to every person on earth as a foundational right of human civilization, not only to complete the traditional progressive project of ending slavery (including still existing wage slavery) and ending military conscription (including still existing conscription through the duress of the vulnerable, through poverty, illiteracy, stigmatized lifeways, and precarious legal status), and supporting collective bargaining (by providing a permanent strike fund for all workers) -- but also to combat contemporary and emerging and conspicuously amplifying forms of technodevelopmental abjection in particular: for example, current confiscatory wealth concentration through automation, outsourcing, and crowdsourcing; protecting vulnerable populations from duress to ensure all experimental medical decisions are truly consensual; and to champion p2p democracy by subsidizing the practices of true citizen participation, peer production of appropriate and appropriable technologies, and free open secular multiculture.

5. Advocating the democratization of global governance (democratic world federalism) -- the institutions of global governance already exists, of course, but in catastrophically non-democratic corporate-militarist forms that are destroying the world, and so the fight for democratic world federalist governance is not properly dismissed as a fanciful or dreadful desire for some ex nihilo planetary state, but in reality the fight to smash the corporate-militarist world state that actually exists and to democratize it as and for the people, peer-to-peer (in democracies, properly so-called, government is the people, and so to express hatred of government is to express hatred of the people and such slogans should be understood with that in mind), all in the face of unprecedented planetary problems and the unprecedented planetary consciousness created by global networked participation and in the light of our emerging awareness of global ecologic and economic interdependence -- and it doesn't matter to me whether this smashing of the state and democratization of global governance is implemented through the expansion and democratic reform of the United Nations, or through the creation of alternate or supplementary planetary institutions, many pathways will present themselves to do this work -- but it will likely take a federal form, encompassing already existing formations, a form emphasizing subsidiarity (which is a principle directing governance always to the most local layer adequate to a shared problem), and protecting planetary secular multiculture, and directed to the tasks of monitoring global storms, pandemics, weapons, enforcing global environmental, labor, police/military conduct standards, providing institutional recourse for the nonviolent resolution of interpersonal and intergovernmental disputes, and facilitating the universal scene of legible, informed, nonduressed consent.

My guess is that in the long-term there will be pressure to leave the earth to its unpredictable weather patterns. Most people will live in reclaimed environments, e.g., space stations or tera-formed planets. These artificial environments may have a random element introduced into their weather patterns, but they probably won't have the retro feel of earth. I think I like the idea of people visiting the earth only as we might visit a national park. There would be no or few permanent residents. Rather we might stay a few days and try not to leave to big a footprint and then return to our tamed environments in space

LifeNet project: volunteer network that goes where-ever there are firestations and police stations. The goal is to minimize the amount of time to reach anybody who dies on the continent within 30 minutes and to cryogenically store them (they are already "dead": they might never know). Calculations show that there would need to be at least 150k locations and that there is one death every 14 hours per 50 km^2 average in USA.

MichelleTrachtenberg

I associate "intense" with bearded college-sophomore hippie dudes who say "deep" stuff about energy and the universe and make too much eye contact and then 18-year-old girls who just showed up from Midwestern high schools are like "that guy was so intense"

[...]

Sebastien Chikara is "intense," see?

lul, energy? then I thought :

"On October 10, 2007, leading space advocacy organizations and Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin will announce the formation of a new alliance to "ensure that the benefits of renewable clean energy from space solar power are understood and supported by business, governments and the general public," according to an alliance statement.

The inaugural event of the new alliance, to be held at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. at 9:00 am, will highlight a study underway by the National Security Space Office (NSSO) on the viability of space-based solar power, presented by Lt. Col. Paul Damphousse, National Security Space Office. John Mankins, President, SUNSAT Energy Council, a leading expert on space solar power, will also speak.

According to the organizers, media and Congressional staff who wish to attend can email Katherine Brick at kather✧✧✧.br✧✧✧@n✧✧.o✧✧.

Space solar power refers to gathering energy in space and transmitting it wirelessly for use on Earth. This technology could be a major solution to humanity's long-term energy needs, providing limitless renewable power with zero carbon emissions, according to Mankins and other experts."

If it succeeds, Microsoft's planned parallel-computing software, designed to take advantage of new manycore chips -- processors with more than eight cores, possible as soon as 2010 -- could bring as much as a hundredfold computing speed-up in solving some problems.

Likely to be timed to the arrival of "Windows 7," it would allow even hand-held devices to see, listen, speak and make complex real-world decisions -- in the process, transforming computers from tools into companions.

That was a good thread.

Are there any political philosophers you consider to be science
fictional? I'm thinking of how Karl Marx talks a lot about things
happening in his future Utopia - fishing in the afternoon and
philosophizing in the evening and all that. But there's obviously a lot
of these sorts of speculations going on in any political philosophy that
cares about the future. Any political theory or theorist in particular
that you find compelling as SF?

Actually, Marx talks very little about future society. Even that famous
quote comes from an unpublished work. Marx's most science-fictional
vision is of 'the automatic factory' - for Marx, reducing the amount of
time spent in boring, unfulfilling work is the basis for human freedom.
Freedom begins when the working day ends. It's all very current and it's
all right there in Capital. I've speculated elsewhere that Marx's
approach to society - look at what's emerging, look at the technology,
look at the underlying conflicts that these bring out - may have in some
vulgarised form actually inspired the emergence of science fiction
itself. Science fiction is an adventure playground in the materialist
conception of history.

After he disappeared she'd go to the park they met at years ago, sit and watch the couples go by and wait for his return. Sometimes she'd dressin what she'd been wearing on that day. Sometimes try a different bench or a different direction in the hot sun in Khartoum. She'd look for his smile in angry crowds, in indifferent strangers exiting restaurants down small side streets with anagram names, and it would still be boiling hot when she'd return home and flush his cold dinner down the toilet. And after a while people stopped noticing her. They stopped paying attention. They stopped shaking their heads, saying, "He's never coming back you know." "No, he's never coming back."