Fwd: executed-coat-thief

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> From: Harwood <[email protected]>
> Date: Sun Oct 5, 2003 10:00:15 AM US/Eastern
> To: Recipient List Suppressed <[email protected]>
> Subject: executed-coat-thief
>
> Forward@will
>
> C2C Railway Journey <-> ADULT RETURN = The mouth of the Thames to the
> Tower of London.
>
> I close my eyes and the distribution of animals, objects, motions,
> events and places flash - red . grey . grey . red - as blood vessels
> enlarge my eyelids. I remember that some metaphysical poet or another
> in 1500 + (something) said that if you rub your eyes and see a white
> light - it is the glow of your soul.
>
>> From the random noise of light reflected through the window and over
>> photo-receptors situated in my ocular mechanism (eyes, with intrinsic
>> and extrinsic eye muscles, as related to the vestibular organs, the
>> head and the whole body), my system fails to explore and find
>> convergence.
>
> Even so the variables and structure of the ambient light engage me, as
> I slowly remember my ability to de-code, acquired from an early
> scouting lesson in the Morse codec. (1791 - Samuel Finley Breese Morse
> a painting and sculpture professor with an early interest in Wired
> Networks)I quickly wrote down the dots and dashes of code entering my
> much-adorned visual system and it is these notes I pass on.
>
> use Context;
>
> We exist in a world where powerful social elites live their life
> through exceptional fantasies - they mistakenly believe they can best
> safeguard their privilege by hiding their bonsai trees of knowledge in
> secret societies, under the tomes of law court papers, magic rituals -
> art - religions, and the use of well tooled-up armies.
>
> On the other hand mongrels everywhere lust for the experience of
> transportation->new() while being firmly rooted to the ground. We
> require transportation->new() from present situations to other states
> of pleasure and pain. Out of the gutters and into the stratosphere of
> the imaginary - the vehicle of our transportation is of little
> consequence.
>
> @Transportation = qw (Fast_Cars Art Science Code illness
> Critical_theory A_chat_in_the_street Sex difference food Music );
> # WHATEVER
>
> Our desire is to fly with our own wings forged from the manacles of
> oppressive abstraction - that is all that is important.
>
> use Constant; VISIONARY (depreciated) = ("the birth of the telescope
> 1608") == ("objectification of vision");
>
> Bobby Reason was born weak from typhus fever and unable to crawl away
> from his body of infection. He spends his time passing voltage
> through the pathways of least resistance to help him amplify, copy,
> and replay sounds. Extending his ears to where his eyes used to be. He
> forms lenses to put in place of his imagination. Whilst doing so he
> manages to split light and holds the lower end of the spectrum
> (radiation) with special tools he forged out of the industrial
> revolution to replace his hands.
>
> And after all is done.
>
> He gets out the air-freshener to replace his nose.
>
> use Constant;CODE_OF_WAR = ("anything taken out of the hands of the
> many and put in the hands of a few");
>
> use Constant;PUBLIC_DOMAIN = "ALL knowledge NO MATTER WHAT, should be
> available to us. Whether nuclear arms manufacture, anthrax breeding
> colonies or the environmental impact of nail-varnish remover in the
> tanning factories of Southend-on-sea Essex U.K.";
>
> Rise up on wings of desire. Fly from rats lice poverty famine &&
> violence - escape the CODE_OF_WAR enter the palace of the
> PUBLIC_DOMAIN.
>
> use Constant;POCEDURAL_CORRUPTION = "mathematical models used outside
> of their purist application follow the agenda of a well aimed machine
> gun"
>
> (hutton enquiry <=> CODE_OF_WAR )
>
> (WTO <=> (Merchandise trade by region and selected economies,
> 1980-2002 Excel format (file size 487KB)) == ((Commercial services
> trade by region and selected economies, 1980-2002 Excel format (file
> size 282KB)) == ((Merchandise exports, production and gross domestic
> product, 1950-2002 Excel format (file size 91KB))
>
> (The Revolutionary Politics of Bar-Charts) == (Towards a critique of
> data-visualization)
>
> It is a questionable assumption that problems in economics, sociology,
> politics, language, law and healthcare can be resolved by
> quantification and computation.
>
>
> sub WhyIsTheBlackManPoor{
>
> foreach(@PoorBlackMan){
> $Embedded_Culture = &Calculate_cultural_context; # returns
> IMPOSSIBLE
> $Economic_Poverty = &EveryRichFatBloatedArseLickingWanker; # returns
> CODE_OF_WAR
> $NaturalResources; # Depreciated
> }
> }
>
> (pre-requisites of the computer) == (Money, mechanisation and algebra);
>
> We need wings to investigate procedural corruption wherever and
> whenever it takes place.
>
> Critique the mathematical formulae (formulation of statistical data)
> that are used to report on the psychosocial sphere in the media, and
> on the bottom of bills sent through our doors.
>
> - Language as Data:
>
> Mary, Queen of Scots' head fell ceremoniously from her shoulders into
> a basket. Peterborough, England: 8:30am on 8th February 1587. From
> under her skirts ran a small dog. The seed master of the modern
> English Bull Terrier. Mary's plot against Queen Elizabeth I was
> discovered by comparing her secret communications with a word
> frequency table of English, derived from Arabic learning.
>
> Paranoid social elites on the way to or from war have always composed,
> spawned, coded systems by which they and their minions may sleep
> better at night.
>
> Language as Data, a mathematical study of the periodicity or norms of
> word use in a language. In English text generated from some none
> linguistically impaired peoples, 'the' makes up 6.18 percent of the
> corpus of English words. We find that 43% of the corpus is pronouns,
> conjunctions, other function words and a few common verbs. Word
> frequency is used to inform religious scholars of who authored various
> parts of various bibles and to inform search engines of content words
> in web sites, AI development and in detecting the normalcy of > language.
>
> Critique_it!
>
> The exceptional fantasies that the social elite has been living
> through have spawned strange and bewildering hierarchies of knowledge
> and war. We need to squash these at the level of algorithm and
> representation. The algorithm creates the scaffolding on which the
> author of a knowledge based system hangs himself.
>
> Pre-flight checklist:
>
> A critical theory of media systems ecology. To enable and locate
> weaknesses in systems that keep us grounded. Or look for possibilities
> for new flight paths.
>
> Data-visualization revised.
>
> Aesthetics of computer-code formation (experiencing the sheer beauty
> of elegant mathematical patterns that surround elegant computational
> procedures). How these aesthetics - poetics motivate peoples or allow
> for the formation of amnesia in the construction of oppressive
> abstraction.
>
> (Oppressive abstraction) == (History-> from the personal plunging in
> of the knife to missile guidance systems)
>
> The bomb seen from the point of view of the pilot is remarkably
> beautiful->{oresome} == OPPRESSIVE->{abstraction}.
>
> History of computing - both hardware and software from the
> VISIONARY->{depreciated} -> (the Birth of the telescope) -> to the
> present. The economy and cultures of key algorithms and hardware.
>
> Subroutine(Descartes@Waag->{Amsterdam} - the executed coat-thief & the
> birth of hardware){
>
> Did Descartes' feet, in ancient times, meet the hand of Rembrandt?
>
> 1630 - anatomical investigations - de Waag
>
> erysipelas (skin disease)
> |
> infection
> |
> Marin Mersenne (tells) ->Descartes (goes to Amsterdam)
> |
> de Waag
>
> The French man - sniffs and swallows in Amsterdam's butchers' stalls
> purchasing carcasses for our dissection.
>
> SEEK:
>
> (practical therapeutics) <-> (from his rational reform of
> philosophy.)
> |
> find the cure for Marin Mersenne in 7 years
>
>
> "the body as a machine animated by soul" == 'culture of dissection'
>
> Sawday places Descartes in Amsterdam (by then becoming one of the
> major centres for anatomy in Northern Europe) during the early 1630s
> at exactly the same time as Rembrandt, and allows the ghostly spectre
> of a possible meeting between the two deliciously haunting his
> description of the centrepiece of Rembrandt's painting:
>
>
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