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our next speaker or better performer is
Koko zran Koko is an artist researcher
and University lecturer from Berlin in
her work in and about dig cultures she
combines artistic and activist
strategies to explore for instance new
forms of political self organization
authorship and intellectual property
hacking and women hackers Koko is
co-founder of several collectives such
as women and technology or old boys
network she currently is a research
associate at the University of arts and
Zurich her recent book The Beautiful
Warriors techn feminist practice in a
21st century was published this year in
August today Koko is here to present her
theat performance
lecture a techn feminist comment on the
case of Julian and Wikileaks let's give
a warm Round of Applause to koku
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zank
okay good evening everyone to the
lecture
performance and before I start I would
like to thank not only the people who
helped organize this fantastic event but
in particular also the
curators of the art section who invited
me to speak here
tonight the nine chapters to follow will
take you you on an adventurous trip into
the rearm of zeros and ones of data and
pure information of ciphers signifiers
and
figures on the other side of reality we
will encounter suspected Heroes leaks
and freaks Engineers of Escape who
control our secret
desire on the road to Freedom one has to
make
sacrifices but what remains when the way
gets swampy and forks into Twisted
effective
structures rape can be performed in many
ways and what is
missing what are we actually looking for
has it been lost at
all maybe it just multiplied and stayed
as much as it has gone away who
knows we all create reality collectively
and long ago have become zombies
of
transparency let us assume for a moment
that it would be useful to understand
what information is in
general that might help to clarify what
we are actually looking
for the problem is that information
means different things in different
disciplines and contexts there is no
unifying and generally accepted theory
of
information it can be mathematical
philosophical or
empirical in an attempt to discuss the
most relevant aspects under which
information can be considered one
suggestion is to distinguish between the
structure approach the knowledge
approach the signal
approach the message
approach the meaning
approach the effect approach and the
process
approach that is very promising because
it opens up a whole universe of
different overlapping or mutually
exclusive meanings of the term
information and it seems to be perfect
for the intentional as well as
unintentional production of Mis
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understandings let us have a look at an
example in order to better understand
the various
approaches a simple
sentence julan Assange was accused of
rape on the level of communications
engineering the information is coded
into natural language and to words and
letters it consists of six different
words and the letter A occurs five times
s i u c and e twice and the letters j l
n d o f r p and w only occur
once analyzing the code level becomes
relevant particularly with large amounts
of
information and can help to save
transmission
time on the syntactical level the
structure of information is analyzed in
order to measure the information
content not in terms of meaning but in
terms of purely structural
aspects the focus here is not the single
sign but on the order in which the signs
are
transmitted relevant is the
discriminability and the amount of
information the third level considers
the semantic level
in order for information to become
utilizable the structural and
syntactical information needs to be
decoded and interpreted by the
receiver this is where we shift from the
structural level to the level of
meaning with regards to our example the
receiver needs to understand that Julian
oange is the name of a person a male who
that person is what he is
representing what the term rape means
and what an accusation
is of course it is not that simple the
transformation of structural information
into meaning happens in the number of
complex
steps for the time being it is
sufficient to understand the relevance
of this shift in process from structure
to
meaning
eventually we arrive at the last level
the pragmatic level of information the
pragmatic value of information depends
on the impact the information has on the
receiver the more the information
changes the receiving person or system
the more value it
has therefore information can only have
a pragmatic value if it was not known by
the receiver before and thus means a
gain in knowledge as well as the
reduction of
uncertainty regarding our example the
information that Julian Assange is
accused of rape only has a pragmatic
value for people who are interested in
this person in the organization he's
affiliated with and with that the values
and ideals this organization supposedly
represents the more unlikely it is that
people in a political environment with
respective moral claims are accused of
rape the more valuable the the
information becomes after all an
important part of the information is the
notion of
accusation generally speaking
information unfolds at greatest value
not just through the interpretation of
specific units and strings of
information but rather through the
integration of the decoded Parts in into
larger
contexts this happens on various levels
partly consciously partly
unconsciously by doing this we reduce
large amounts of information by
filtering them according to specific
algorithms related to specific
interests while also connecting the
information with already existing
knowledge this decoding activity is a
subjective process which is why
information can never be neutral or
objective so this was what the
information scientist had to say let's
keep this in mind for a moment while
having a look at the organization that
has already been mentioned in relation
to the accused
person
the organization that claims to open
governments
worldwide the organization that
publishes secret information news leaks
and classified media from Anonymous
sources International nonprofit ongoing
since
2006 a digital platform enabling
whistleblowers to unleash material to
exercise Free Speech online and even was
nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in
2011 the organization that exposes
transgressions on the part of
governments multinational corporations
and individuals which has confronted
some of the most powerful by unveiling
their Biggest Secrets corruption in
Kenya collateral murder in Iraq Afghan
war diary cablegate guantan Mo Bay human
rights violations the secret Bibles of
Scientology Icelandic financial crisis
tox toxic dumping laugh parade accident
riots in Tunisia Syria files NSA spying
on Partners female voters in Turkey
Hillary's dirty laundry and so
on I quote from the
website one of our most important
activities is to publish original Source
material alongside our news stories
though so readers and historians alike
can see evidence of the
truth evidence of the truth information
is evidence is
truth evidence is
truth truth is
truth a powerful imagery to uncover the
truth shining the light of Truth into
Dark Places thanks so much for doing
this for us Li ating Us by giving us the
truth who else could be more right than
the one who holds the truth in his very
hands at his
fingertips sunlight is the best
disinfectant
right an organization Invincible led by
a captain fearless and well prepared an
uncensorable system for untraceable Mass
document leaking residing at undisclosed
locations keeping no logs and using
military grade encryption to protect
sources and other confidential
information Innovative secure and
Anonymous its technical infrastructure
is hosted in a bombproof nuclear shelter
protected by law and concrete insured by
some extra secret files just in
case a Wiki suggesting collab
collaborative eff for a panel of peers
we are many why not Legion comments and
edits are not welcome so it's because of
the rapid growth you know who should
deal with all that mess and what could
that do to the internal structure the
culture of communication maybe it's not
just cash flows concealed all along the
way that's none of your
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business uncensorable from
outside
and who ensures the sun will shine who
is the master of this infection who
decides what the world needs to know
what we need to know it is him Julian a
the very same the heart the soul the
brain of this organization its founder
philosopher engineer manager
spokesperson promoter Finance here and
all the rest he makes up the rules and
makes them
happen autocracy here I come the sole
decision maker at the top and no
instance to control
him what information do you need to
avoid
self-deception your restless mind will
never find the Peace of knowing unlike
Donald Rumsfeld who famously said I
quote there are known knowns there are
things we know we know we also know
there are know known unknowns that is to
say we know there are some things we do
not know but there are also unknown
unknowns there are things we do not know
we don't know end of
quote the organization that generates
public feelings and powerfully so either
you hate it or you love it either it is
the source of Hope for Change or the
source of love lasting evil you fighted
or
supported flows of effects render him a
hero or a villain and his organization a
revolution in the media ecology or an
anathema to Global
Security a fair number of people who
have spoken are publicly even want to
see him dead how flattering right wiers
for example who should know better
wasn't he on their
campaign against Hillary and all the
many who do love him the information
partisan do they know
why journalists and media organizations
politicians and academics intellectuals
and artists celebrities and pop stars
all want to be associated with him
demonstrate their solidarity and
admiration Provide support moral and
material social movements NGS human
right rights protesters activist groups
and file sharing communities Information
Age pioneers and ideologues
why do they all Express their particular
feelings even though these are uniformly
rooted in their own individual causes
and systems of
belief a central figure of digital
resistance one has to ask resistance
against what what kind of resistance and
not least of all Fighting what for what
is the ideology behind the
organization's
operations what is the political
motivation one would like politics to be
more pure than oneself and feels
Vindicated when this wish cannot be
fulfilled and here is somebody who
sacrifices himself for the cause
whatever that may be
the Allure of the betrayed and the
traitor The Liberator and the Le
revolutionary with his baggage of
effective
flows supported by different forces that
outpour their feelings on different
facets of the story be digital rights
freedom of expression internet
censorship International legal issues
National Security civil rights
whistleblowing against multinational
corporations and
governments privacy and the list is
endless maybe the man and his
organization are an empty signifier
filled ideologically to reflect the
discursive mood of
anyone but let's broaden the perspective
a little bit and have a look at the
culture this organization is part of the
larger context it is embedded
in it is India that gave us the
ingenious method of expressing all
numbers by means of 10 symbols where
each symbol has a value of position as
well as an absolute
value 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 and
zero this new arithmetic with its alien
Sanskrit figures was an Infidel system
which posed an extraordinary threat to
the Western World it was not until the
15th century that the requirements of
merchants and trading forced the church
to eventually give
in the one of the new arithmetic was
very different from the old straight
line which had figured as both a number
and the ninth letter of the Roman
alphabet Western philosophy is supposed
to be an elucidation and confirmation of
the unity of one a number that had been
held in great esteem for long before
there was one male God to the ancient
Greeks one was everything and anything
first and last past best and good
Universal and
unified it was the symbol of existence
identity and being strictly speaking
there was nothing else to be anything at
all was to be
one while a Sanskrit one functioned in
relation to the other eight digits on an
equal basis the Roman and the Greek one
was taken to symbolize any individ uated
and indivisible entity nevertheless the
new one could easily be subsumed into
the old
Paradigm the zero however posed a real
threat when it first appeared in the new
string of infidel figures the old church
fathers did everything they could to
keep it
out while 2 3 4 five and so on could
still be thought of as multiples of the
one zero was
Unthinkable if it wasn't something it
couldn't be
allowed then again the church could
hardly be seen to protest too much about
something that as far as they could see
wasn't really there at
all if s was nothing it should be as
easy to absorb as the Sanskrit one had
been and sure enough zero was eventually
appropriated as a sign of
absence
nonbeing and
nothingness thus the ancient Unity of
something and nothing could be
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maintained
a binary code always consists of two
symbols that configure that code since
light's introduction of the binary
system in the late 17th century logical
operations have been conducted on the
basis of an alternating status that is z
and
one such binary codes can be technically
reproduced by electronic or Optical
signals the information saved in this
way can be processed with complex Al
algorithms on integrated circuit as used
for example in computer processing units
computer scientists usually assign the
state of electrical potential to one and
its leg to
zero the status of on or off is the
smallest unit of information a bit one
bit can be zero or
one complex information can be mapped bi
logically combining several of these
simple
figures so it takes two to make a binary
but all these pairs are two of a kind
and the kind is always a kind of one one
and zero make another one male and
female Aid up to men there is no
equivalent for females no Universal
woman at this side the man man is one
and one is everything and a female has
nothing you can see woman functions as a
whole a Gap a space a nothing that is
not the same identical identifiable a
fault a flaw a lack an absence outside
the system of
representations and auto
representations laon lays down the law
and leaves no doubt when he
says there is woman only as excluded by
the nature of
things she is not all not whole not one
and whatever she knows can only be
described as nonn
knowledge there is no such thing as the
woman where the definite article stands
for the
universal she is no place like home
nothing of her own other than and the
place of the other which writes Lon I
designate with a capital
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O the nothing the zero is meaningless
but it generates endless new meanings
when combined with on in a binary system
both figures are equally important one
might
think it was as early as the 19th
century that a woman namely the m
mathematician and writer a Loveless
rebelled against the zero being nothing
insisting that it must be something even
if it was not a
quantity and she was right in terms of
the pragmatic roles they play the zeros
and ones of machine Cod do far more than
hark back to the binaries their logical
symbols
represent if zero is supposed to signify
a hole a space or a missing peace and
one is the sign of positivity digital
machines turn these binaries
around zeros now have a place and they
displace the phallic order of
ones in both electronic systems and the
punched cards of weaving machines a
whole is one and the plank is zero in
which case there are two missing
elements if missing is where either can
be said to go no longer a world of ones
and not ones or something and nothing
thing and GAP but rather not holes and
holes not nothing and nothing not Gap
and
GAP SRA was always something very
different from the sign which has
emerged from the West's inability to
deal with anything like that like zero
is neither something in particular nor
nothing at all and is certainly the case
that with or without the signs that
represent them as inert
negativities
hes themselves are never simply absences
of positive
things this is a purely
psychoanalytical
myth
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whether they are gathering information
telecommunicating running washing
machines doing sums or editing videos
all digital computers translate
information into the zeros and ones of
the machine
code these binary ditches are known as
bits and strung together in bites of
eight the zeros and ones of machine code
seem to offer themselves as per perfect
symbols of the orders of Western reality
the ancient logical codes that make the
difference
between on and
off right and left form and matter mind
and body white and black good and evil
right and wrong life and death something
and nothing this and that here and there
inside and out and active and passive
true and false yes and no sanity and
Madness health and sickness up and down
sense and nonsense West and East North
and
South and they made a lovely couple when
it came to
sex men and woman male and female
masculine and feminine one and zero
looked just right made for each other
one the definite upright line and zero
the diagram or nothing at all penis and
vagina thing and whole a perfect
match I can see the difference the
difference of what the difference
between the zero and the one a
difference is visible because the signs
are not the same as always there must be
two terms to represent or precise L to
form a
difference a difference can't exist on
its own a difference has no self no
identity when it came to sex the ciphers
became connected to the male and the
female identity a shift from Pure
difference to naturalized binary a
difference like between two Sexes I'm
irritated what would that differ signify
have to do with sexual
difference in a society which privileges
the glance where the psychic structuring
of the infant is triggered by the
pictorial phenomena no equivalence can
be found concerning gender as may be
suggested by the picture of two
ciphers as soon as a baby is born the
first examin and clans checks whether it
is there or not the m
organ yes or no related to a pictorial
phenomenon now the only thing that
counts is whether there is something to
see and there seems to be something
missing with the
Sero what makes the woman in this
respect it must be at the same time a
visible and identifiable image of one
sex as a visible absence in this image
which sticks to her image as the
invisible why not admit that we are
blind for the invisible sexual
difference as between a zero and a one
because we always have to see pictures
and that means something
else the only thing I can see is an
image what seems to be invisible in the
image is the representation of the
so-called Pure or sheer
difference again the picture is neither
the signifier nor the difference but
instead consists of data and data
consist of pure
differences thinking of the picture of
the female sex is not is it soon turns
out that we've left the sector of
visibility and reached invisibility
because what makes this picture so sexy
I suggest its invisible Parts especially
the absence of a
penis we'll try to zoom in on this until
we finally reach the zone of signifiers
which seem to be able to produce an
exciting variety of hallucinatory
effects wanting to see the image of a
difference itself would mean one wanting
to see The Impossible image of
perception and the unconscious
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itself now let's translate these very
abstract considerations into a more
specific
context and I start to read the Cyber
feminist Manifesto for the 21
Century we are the modern [ __ ] positive
anti-reason unbounded Unleashed
unforgiving we see art with our C we
make art with our C we believe in Chans
Madness Holiness and poetry we are the
virus of the New World Disorder
rupturing the symbolic from within
sabots of Big Daddy Mainframe the
clitoris is a direct line to the Matrix
VNS metrics Terminators of the moral
codes mercenaries of slime go down on
the alter of objection probing the
visceral Temple we speak in tongues
infiltrating disrupting disseminating
corrupting the discourse we are the
future
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[ __ ] the Australian artist group Venus
Matrix can claim to have been the first
to add feminist fuel to the Flaming
ambus of digital Network
Technology with their cyber feminist
Manifesto for the 21st century published
in
1991 they declared war on the
patriarchal system governing the world
governing through technology governing
technology their Battlefield was to be
the imaginary space emerging from
Network computers cyberspace the space
where all identity consists of nothing
but zeros and
ones the as yet unexplored possibilities
of digital Network Technologies
stretched imagination and language to
the Limit and they called it cyber
feminism a catalytic moment a collective
mematic mind virus that mobilized geek
CS everywhere and unleashed the
blasphemic techn poro Cod that made
machines pleasurable and
wet it was the desire of wiess metric to
contaminate sterile technology with
blood slime [ __ ] and Madness and to
repurpose technology for anarchic
feminist aims they considered themselves
machine lovers power hackers mercenaries
of slim and called for resistance
against the old Dom minent Big Daddy
main frame before most people even had
seen a
computer their weapon was poetry
language crafted to create a science
fiction scenario in which the future
would be onm populated with countless
and unnamed
genders technology as a way to dissolve
sex and
gender see IIA the [ __ ] Intelligence
Agency on a mission to emancipate zeros
and ones from the clutches of info
capitals data miners unleashing a
feminist toxoplasmosis of Rage into the
masculinist data
space as they claim in retrospect with
the manifesto began a hypersal attack on
the gendered regime of technological
gatekeeping via ludic linguistic incur
ions into the new digital
fortresses where machines were enslaved
to the patriarchal overlords of Commerce
science and educational
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institutions back then Digital Life was
not real life as it is now what once was
the future is our present and obviously
these techno utopian expectations
haven't exactly become our
reality we have made ourselves at home
in the 21st century but 25 years after
the Cyber feminist Manifesto was ejected
into cyber universe and the mercenaries
of slime started their hyperal game it
turns out that the folic power of Big
Daddy Mainframe not only rules Supreme
it is ever expanding into an all
embracing control
Society one has to ask what happened to
cyber feminism has it
failed what is between your legs now
zeros and ones liberated data digital
slime the war machine still awaits your
intention but never forget the
flesh walking backwards into the future
we need to remember we need to
understand what we are
missing critical analysis Can you feel
it where does it reside in your body
maybe it's time for something else
something better something more
hard-hitting a new future that is not
contend with us lying to
ourselves come on it's not about them
it's about us it's about you and me
forget Nostalgia forget the good old
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times this is a story in which
technology plays an essential role in
most stories about technology male
heroes are the agents be it in the role
of hacker villains Freedom Fighters
Engineers genius inventors or
entrepreneurs and frequently so in
combination with nonhuman
entities if women occur at all then they
are found at best helping organizing
managing and promoting managers and
users if you will of what men have
created in the world we live in we
rarely have a chance to to live outside
technology simply returning back to
Nature what would that be but technology
is a medium of power it is not neutral
as some suggest just as information
isn't as we have seen it is not about
the good use and the abuse of Technology
we rarely take the time to think about
where it actually comes from and what
values inhere to
it a techn system is never merely
technical the way it functions in the
real world has technical but also
economic organizational political and
cultural
elements technology is part of culture
gender roles and sexual divisions are
innate to such a
system artifacts are designed in
particular ways they embody power they
are shaped by gender relations meaning
and
identities hierarchies of sexual
difference profoundly affect the design
development diffusion and use of
Technologies therefore technology always
reflects gender divisions as well as
other
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inequalities since the term technology
took on its modern meaning its
association with men has been taken for
granted since then technology is a key
source of Man's power and the defining
feature of
masculinity the rise of Engineers as a
white male middleclass Elite with
exclusive rights to technical expertise
involved an ideal of Manliness
characterized by the cultivation of
bodily prowers and individual
achievement it has been sold to us as
meritocracy meaning power has to reside
in individuals purely on the basis of
ability talent and
achievement a philosophy like this takes
pleasure in omitting that not everyone
has an equal opportunity to take part in
the competition in the first
place at the same time femininity has
deliberately been reinterpreted as
incompatible with technological
Pursuits
what did we hear earlier a new gendering
of Technology a decided shift in the
woman machine relationship because of
the shift in the nature of
machines zero is now having a place
displacing the folic order of
ones unfortunately this had turned out
to be no more than abstract Theory while
technology is celebrated as out of
control it is still controlled by men
digital technology is not did not
liberate women as cyber feminists have
hoped Big Daddy Mainframe rules
Supreme nonwhites non- males
non-heterosexuals are still largely
excluded from the creation of the very
technology that shapes us and our
world capitalist logic drives technology
like never before and we find ourselves
in the clutches of an all embracing
control society which is rooted in the
Greed for power and more
profit pessimistic fatalism would be in
order if we wanted to give in and let
patriarchy just reproduce itself on all
levels but we don't want to give in not
yet now we have brand new feminist
principles of the internet a more sober
attempt to consider technology as
possibly helpful for empowering women
and quea people to engage what was once
not so long ago the space for techn
feminist Utopia has become an
environment in which we need to
establish codes of conduct and safe
spaces in order to protect our privacy
and security and to challenge once more
cultures of sexism and discrimination
understood as part of a Continuum of
resistance in other spaces public and
private and in
between that is where we start again or
continue feminists showed how the public
and the private are mutually formed and
how gender is fundamental to all spe
aspects of social
life technology and Society are bound
together inextricably
and Technology itself is malleable
therefore we can conceive of a mutually
shaping relationship between gender and
technology in which technology is both a
source and a consequence of gender
relations without doubt technology could
contribute to redesigning gender
equality but for that it would to have
be it would have to be based on
different set of values what is needed
is a new imaginary different from the
material reality of the existing
technological
order for the time being we have to deal
with surveillance and exploitation and
with men harassing women online trolling
doxing spamming cyber
stalking gamer game gamergate was not an
exception but rather the tip of an
iceberg the EXP expression of a broad
techn culture in which men including the
younger generation think they are the
norm and the rest is the rest and the
other not worth caring
about attacks threats intimidation and
policing experienced by women and queers
are real harmful and alarming and they
are part of the broader issue of
gender-based
violence ingrained spheres of
masculinity are still ubiquitous within
all techn
cultures no wonder our new Heroes turn a
blind eye to the issue being deeply
entangled
themselves reproductive and genetic
Technologies still make up the Last
Frontier of man's domination that has to
be overcome in the meantime female
bodies are still desired by males to
spread their
genes what does your body know that you
cannot find out there in the
net the following information has been
taken from a police report that was
produced in 2010 in
Stockholm the condom ab7 525
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g00001 was continuously damaged at the
front the edges of the damage have been
examined using a
microscope the examinations did not
indicate that the damages were caused by
any kind of tool however minor scratches
were found in the area close to the
damage perpendicular to its longitudinal
Direction further laboratory tests have
shown that damages were caused at the
rear part of the condom by a knife and
with scissors and part of it was ripped
off the damage caused by ripping off a
part of the condom bore the strongest
resemblance to the surface of the actual
damage while damage is caused by
scissors and knife resulted in very
minor
scratches the appearance of the front
damaged part of the condom is shown in
image one
hypothesis the damage of the front part
of the relevant condom was caused by
ripping off a part tests and
examinations have yielded the finding
that this hypothesis is true by a decree
of plus
two the possibility of obtaining the
same results in another hypothesis is
true if another hypothesis is true is
estimated as minor
in other words the condom was damaged
intentionally this police report was
based on information and evidence which
were provided by the injured person with
the intention of having the responsible
perpetrator held accountable for his
deeds a search for justice and for
truth when the condom broke or got
ripped apart the information could
Escape leaks ensure that information is
not contained or controlled not used for
conspiracy but rather that it multiplies
and thus
survives just like the self selfish Gene
it will find for itself a new survival
machine a hosting body where it lives
until it is passed on to the
next thus information will live forever
unlike any individual
being when he is dead one day the
information will still be
alive if you strive for immortality let
the information go and make sure the new
host will
perform Offspring on all continents that
is what the man is striving for the more
there are the more vital the information
will
be the stronger will win as he always
did and anyone who wants to have sex
with a hero better isn't
screamish on his mission to set
information
free he will show neither sympathy nor
Mercy
some things need to be brought into the
light of day we want to know the truth
we demand openness and transparency we
want to experience things ourselves and
other people as they really
are there should be no suffering no
resistance no otherness nothing
unfamiliar May the light of sameness
shine on all of us creating trust
through more transparency
this is the slogan communicate share
information so I can trust you but isn't
it the opposite transparency instead of
trust trust means a lack of
information it is a state of knowing and
not knowing if I already know it all
trust is no longer
necessary so who whom should we trust
who is Noble enough to deserve a
secret
politics so we are told relies on
non-transparent communication like any
other strategic game such as commercial
Enterprise for that matter are the only
ones who are not required to be held
accountable politicians and
corporations that makes no sense the
freedom of knowing is that of
controlling not of
trust everything needs to be brought
into the life of
day publishing all information however
is just one out of many ways to deal
with it apart from the fact that it's
not possible anyway the inconvenient
question remains what information at
which moment and from whom if it is not
related to a political goal transparency
becomes an end in itself an ideology and
we its zombies
with transparency as the new imperative
how do we distinguish between advantages
and disadvantages between accountability
surveillance and privacy
Invasion liberating public data and
protecting private
ones all data are made of a similar
substance and follow the same logic who
might be able to stop the flow once it
is flowing who would want to interrupt
the Continuum to crack and leak and
disrupt the flow of capital no
way the tyranny of intimacy is taking
over not even politicians can escape
they are not evaluated on the basis of
their deeds what is of Greater interest
is the person
itself which forces them to pose and to
pretend what used to be the public space
now is filled with with private matters
disclosure of the person instead of
public
interest what once used to be space of
common Action Now is the space of
exposure of course transparency does not
uncover the true reality of things do
you want to lift the mask and learn the
secret most likely it's not part of the
data set and I have to admit there is
pleasure in exposing
myself if I exhibit myself I do
exist the more I show and share the more
attention I will get yes everyone is his
or her own advertisement so is it good
or bad to share all
information what do they get those who
have all the information more complex
and confusing worlds that's for sure
stored data does not change unlike my
untrustworthy memory and if we take the
Technologies of surveillance and
transparency into our own
hands no more asymmetrical relationship
means no more power over others no more
strategic games and no more
lust we have to take the risk that
beauty vanishes once unveiled
naked information is incapable of
generating a
myth I live of that which others do not
know about me and will I ever know
myself in contrast to calculating
thinking is not self
transparent there's nothing more in
transparent than the subject to
herself no matter how much data I have
have and share information is just
information only once you know what you
are looking for The Surge can
begin thank
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