media life war icmi 2015
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Media LifeInleiding Mediacultuur I 11 War [options]
#medialife #IMCI
options in media life
①war against the machines
②surrender to mediated reality
③become media (and hack life)
gradually easing off the dependency
moving to a deserted /remote placeestablish a new land and don’t tell anyone
moving to a resort without electricity or phones
break your media
be someone new
orjust die
fail Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System tests
“day by day [-] the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are
becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves
to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life.”
1863
“The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants”
”In the context of life, we do not want to be tied uniquely to carbon-based life, or life-as-we-know-it, but we also do not want life-as-could-be to be anything at all. The challenge lies precisely on finding the right amounts of systemhood and thinghood, as well as the interactions between the two, necessary for a good theory of life, real or artificial.”