OASN1@BH Week 2 Review

[Novadic transmission from A, September 1, 2012]:

friends. 

this morning i received a sweet letter from a NYC occupier which raises important questions for the struggle. riding on its wave, would like to discuss a bit the Body-Without-Organs (BwO) notion and the hot possibility of mathematically modeling the movement through non-linearity.  

occupier letter.

"The key is in learning to embrace contradiction. It's the only way we can grow. Radical + reformist. Masculine + feminine. Rejecting the system + using the system to implode itself. Outreach + Inreach. The list is endless. I know it's personal for me, but I feel so strongly that if we blow up the binary, everything becomes so much more POSSIBLE. It's a pretty obvious thing that these divisions are created to keep us submissive. What do we do once we dissolve these imaginary lines?"

C.

this brings us to the exploration-experimentation that our collective has been conducting in the movement so far, namely with the use -and abuse, why not?- of pluripotential spaces. these zones are effectively TAZs elicited by organizers, whom "code" a given space with the right inscription (rules) and then present the instructions to the players; through this rune-like operator, trained organizers can optimize the emergence of flow (optimal experience) at any given loci, outdoor or indoor. the consequences are endless. 

         A.

time suspension.                    

~ "When you will have made him a body without organs,

then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions

and restored him to his true freedom." ~ 

                         A. Artaud (1947) 

Fibonaci Arena (FA) is any given space coded with instructions that elicit flow (e.g. Salon, Magic Mountain). FAs are intentionally unintentional vortexes, a spiral-eliciting accident, which draws its theoretical basis on anarchy and the notion of BwO that Deleuze & Guattari introduce in their collaborative work. in those instances where play is elicited time is abolished. 

play is flow & flow is play

"what is your name?" dialogues.

(...) existence means exposition to and adaptation of a full range of given norms, structures and boundaries (...)

(...) this does not lead to a loss of personality but to a construction of an artificial one: already before we are born we are categorized based on our genitals, which decide what kind of name is going to be imposed on us, Susan or Tom (...) 

(...) a stratification of our bodies, which is created through the hierarchical order of society (...) Thousand Plateaus (...) continuous power relations amongst members of society (...) power where those at the top oppress the others 

Mark

in illo tempore ~ "in that time" ,  or "once upon a time".

in order to break binaries, and thus promote a revolution in the logical framework that guides -- and ensnares -- Western thought it is suggested: 

(1) that instead of "breaking" boundaries, revolutionaries seek to "dissolve" them by eliciting phase transitions :: from solid to liquid :: liquid time, flow :: ~ this method of engaging Empire discussed by OccupySunTzu acts on the links, on the spaces in between.

(2) this phase transition may be elicited through flash ~ liberations, i.e. collective processes of emancipation in public streets & squares :: similar to ancient tribal hierophanies :: regression to the undifferentiated state of BwO :: 

(3) dissemination of Fibonaci Arenas. 

the resulting kaleidoscopes are #novad-like supernovas. 

occupyMathematics ~ "and they say you always hated math (...)"

to start thinking about how to mathematically model the movement, at this point of maturity and beyond, is probably the last thing that Empire wants us to do. from here on lies the suggestion that we OccupyMathematics. 

check out mathematical approaches to model complex emergent behavior (eg, central nervous system;; ant colony;; traffic jams ;;) and these links with tricks from the trickster: 

• %Cellular Automatta (Turing machine): http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notabene/cellular-automata.html

• $Network Theory and associated cartographies: http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/download/1136/553

• #Singularities in Pluripotential Theory: http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~mattiasj/research/ppt1.pdf

Sent from my soul

Mapping the voyage of the Hippo.

∞

[NOTES]:

The dynamics that manifest as revelations in the material zone or phase only comprise a small fraction of the dynamics in play. Most of the dimensional arena is active with immaterial transpects demonstrating what can be described as multiplicity, resistant to epistemology or the recursive. The key for the lead artist is to encourage or facilitate the transiting of evidence, of life, through the spatial layers we designate as free and open to our pluripotential phenomena. 

In OAS we discovered in Week 2, for example, that a course need not exist to exist in substantiated iterations. We found, additionally, that timing can pronounce the extended, even epic, duration of a 4D artistic project, given a dedicated locus + chronos, as long as the witness(es) and presenter(s) share the space with a focal media array, including networked electronics attached to the web and database. As such, the spectacle is only activated by a combination of hard-, soft- + wetware [LOL], in the actual stage, with the virtual as both accompaniment and archive. In relation to experience, the transmission is conducted in a flux of casual and formal micro-environments. The environment has a time feature, and it is easily translated as "a moment" itself, although such a designation is incomplete. 

The technical evaluation of the phenomena is hardly encompassing of the experience. 

Another interesting anecdote involves the act of preparation for the transmission. Is such activity not also an invitation, or a calling? What if the calling IS the event? 

∞

Super Lucky Cat reappears to connect OASN1 & AFHGC.

{Imagining the Scenario (Coffee Painting)}:

1. Lead artist wears a "red dirt" shirt from Kauai, to initiate a discussion of source material for artistic, organic staining processes.

2. Today's business section of the NY Times is provided as a substrate, but also as an acknowledgment of timeliness, and other relevant considerations affecting (or not) the artistic enterprise. The subject of materials is expanded to include "non-artist" materials.

3. The lead artist displays a large set of many types of painting tools, mostly brushes. Students are encouraged to choose several for painting with the coffee. The brushes serve as the point of origin for a conversation about the "life" of the artist's tool, and/or the partnership between the artist and the tool + the history of making that may be thought of as embedded in the tool through usage and application. [Introduction to Techne, time, craft traditions... (+)]

4. Many types of papers are introduced. Experiments on viability as substrate for medium, "pigment" and expressive means.

5. An array of large format (mostly floral) photographs are mounted around the classroom. We will paint on the museum board cut into window mattes, enclosing the photos. Many considerations. One of the photos (a rose) is displayed on a nice Italian easel at the door.

6. "Final" exercise will be to paint on very fragile light paper (multi-hued), which will buckle and otherwise dramatically respond to the coffee-paint. 

7. Discussion about artists who use coffee as an important part of their exhibition practice (like Sara Sun, who has a show going currently at Governor's Island Art Fair - thanks for the heads-up Andrea; and Jayson Musson + Manning Williams). Discussion about coffee growing (political/economy). 

Clemens Poole + Shane Kennedy & other Hippo crew members talk story to a full Haus, Friday, August 31 at OASN1.∞

OASN1 reached an important marker with the "Voyage of the Hippo" program on Friday, August 31. The evening presentation, which consisted of a fantastic, compelling slideshow/movie sequence + Q&A + commentaries facilitated by Clemens Poole and long-time AFH anchor Shane Kennedy, realized our vision of how our "class" format would work in practice. At the conclusion of the talk, many of us walked to Tandem, a few blocks down Troutman in Bushwick, to continue the vibrant concourse over libations. 

∞

Interior shot of Pickthorn in Bushwick.

We continue to make friends in the neighborhood, like Jayson Musson, AKA Hennessy Youngman and the amazing ladies of Pickthorn. We are also beginning to establish strategic partnerships. OASN1 is now sponsored by both Wyckoff Starr and the vaunted Brooklyn Rail. JenJoy Roybal is already proving invaluable, as she begins the process of scanning the domain for artist-teachers and relevant organizational/mission comparisons to/for our enterprise. She sent Chris & I links that reveal possibilities neither of us had entertained prior. JenJoy is gifted with big vision. 

∞

The discourse that is percolating in the novad pool is providing us with tremendous inspiration and seed-thought, moving forward. Coming in multiple forms (poems, images, sounds, movies, links, texts, notations, forwarded correspondence, system schematics, references, citations, equations, juxtapositions... [+]) the novadic inputs are fueling some OAS movements, refining threads, introducing new seams, expanding horizons, shifting PoVs & frames of reference [+]. Thank you, gamers!

∞

The occupationalartschool [dot] com nexus is weekly undergoing facelifts, as we assess the proper format for that organ. For now, the preponderance of notices and documentation is being sited on the OAS Tumblr and in the OwA/OAS Facebook pages. The OAS Twitter, Pinterest and other social media are functional but rudimentary in our usage of them for a bit longer. The question at this point is whether to invent an entirely new framework for the virtual / actual interplay. 

∞

Finally, the ripple effect from DisciplineAriel [Event 1, August 25, 2012] has only begun to evidence itself in our secondary co-lab phase. Stay tuned.

Novadic Mandalas

By Angela Grace [novad]

NOVADIC TRANSMISSIONS No.01∞ [OASN1@BH]

Novadic Transmissions [09.2012]

1.

[From OASN1 embodied spirit, Ambrose Curry: artist, surf guru + poet]

[Part 1][Progression]

You mean this?

when is a participle hanging,...?

when there is wall space .

when is a participle dangling...,?

whenever ee cummings 

says So... Ho.

...ambrose...

never met

 the man.

altho I have been

 arrested.

Ambrose's shop.

SEE THE new OwA ABROSE CURRY PHOTO GALLERY HERE.

[PART 2] [I WAS SO INSPIRED BY YOUR LETTER]

i went out in the yard

and turned on the

prosthetic device...

and now having survived

 building a fire

at the blue campfire,

who builds a fire at

10:30 am,I will now                                              

set to sweating in

the tropical summer heat.

what would Gauguin do?

he certainly wouldn't have to

 look up the spelling of his name

yet he wouldn't have such a fine

prosthetic memory.

Yes he would probaly pop a bottle

of absenthe to forget how to spell

his name to free his creative mind

from worries of the world.

...ambrose...

and then I found this movie set...wow!

Ambrose's movie set.

2.

[From novadic poet & transpershamaformist Richard Machado]

Commons like rivers are hands of love, 
flow transient in the dance of new comrades


Badasses, rads and wholly new beings
emerge from the sensations of home


Amazing tchru native with a living death abated
Now has the rest of the infiniTime Nov-A-d'd


#<---<<O
The Colonized Indigenous

3.

[From Alexandre Carvalho, occupier of both Borges + Cervantes Chairs @OASN1]

Alex at his Liberty Square birthday / bon voyage novadic festival.

∞...

Have been wondering a lot about how we can start a whole new civilization.  Imagine if we started a WikiPedia entry of a mysterious people know as Rovers >>> they have a whole different Architecture, Art, (A)narchives, Ethos, Libraries, Political Frameworks, Direct Actions e.g. Rio+20 "They Don't Represent Us", Housing experiments (Magic Mountain); some crazy shit. good shit. following the flow;;; 

Eliade mentions a concept called "in ilo tempore", a mythological time for humanity where space was relative and time absolute. absent. when archetypes enacted the creation of the cosmos. The anarchical Communa:: an arquipelago-constellation of communes founded on the principles of trust, proximity and solidarity:: interdependent, autonomous and interlinked, they form a fluid network of communes:: the Communa is never static // hence the name communa mobilis. never stops asking questions or changing, acquiring history, becoming... and then it wakes up Communa Fluens:: the Sunflower of the Garden:: 

let's #playtogether with what Luis Borges suggests. Borges  was the author of "Labyrinths", a book that collects many of his short fantastic lit stories. in one of them called Tlon, Uqbar & Orbius Tertiurus, Borges have his two characters in pursuit of a disquieting truth: they must discover if this legendary place called Tlon exists or is a bad joke of a bibliotec prankster. the characters find a strange yellowish copy of a 1907 Encyclopedia Brittanica which contais this weird article about Tlon: it contains its demographics, art, architecture, music, language, history, political configuration, religion, juris, its schools (OAS, e.g.), ethical beliefs, games played, publications (Novad zine) etc etc etc. 

describing Tlon could be an elegant literary license to unleash our best radical dreams publicly; to ooze #poiesis revgamers.   

Tlon - wikipedia. crazy experiment. let me know what you think.

Me and Rafa started writing what the Rovers would probably have economically and in politik. Nicole could do geometry by hoola hooping her spirals?, mitch pour architecture/urbanist rad ideas? #jez3prez, the Anarchives a way rovers write history? 

thoughts?

A.

(#braingasm)

...∞

4.

[From anarchivist, dimensional filmmaker + metatronic mechanic, Bold Jez]:

<draft> The state of nature as a state of play

There is no pure "state of nature"... except for, perhaps, in the invitation to play.  The invitation to play is an opportunity to re-invent the World, not necessarily in its entirety, but certainly some important aspects of its specificity: in its Object(s), Purpose(s) or Rules. These aspects represent the magic circle of Play, the state of a game, and a world that is open to all agents, infinitely beyond and underneath the boundaries of the State.

When Hobbes postulates that prior to the invention of Sovereigns & States existed a natural "state of war," he is inviting us to consider the world in terms of a particular political game. This game is based in fear, power, and security; and for those of us well-educated in the history of Western states, this portrayal of politics should not seem so very strange. (This version of politics, well illustrated in Shakespeare's royal courts, could have informed Hobbes of this well if he did not learn it from his birth; born prematurely when his mother heard of the approach of the Spanish Armada, he remarked that he was born "a twin with fear."

What **IS** strange to us is the possibility of a *return* to anarchy as it were: we feel discomfort at the mere suggestion of returning to nature, the uncertainty of a world w/o governors, the insecurity of our responsibility for maintaining the environment we live in.

Update on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 at 10:44PM by admin

[From Richie]:

This sounds fantastic and ties into a conversation I've been having with Jez & Joe from occupied stories. To create a new civilization -- that's the charge right? Well what better way to do that than with play? With play defining social interactions, and a removal of economics as separate from the natural anarchical way we relate, but to reinvent the power of social currency over property, inheritance, exploitation & just plain-old bad gamesmanship (bosses are such bad gamers, they ain't got no fun in their hearts, no play and no poetry.).

And the exciting part about this venture is that we have an entire WORLD that can be shaped by even the poor, and we don't need the permissions of the bosses. We have the internet. And like myspace, youtube, google, facebook, twitter, email, world of warcraft, all MMOs, and goddamn porn sites, a new order that appears in this world has the potential to send a shockwave across the physical earth, captivating and entrancing whole populations at once. What we're talking about here is a new game. A new social networking interface that is a game at its very heart, one that incorporates reality into to, producing an augmented reality game that reinforces one's physical life, and the physical life reinforces the fun had in the game. If we can achieve this, it will be a break from the current state of MMOs which usually take people further away from the importance of the physical life, or social networks which usually just keep people away from the gaming and playing aspect of social networks because of ego.

I would like to hear back on these points to see if they are resonating. what could the game be called? It seems it's going to be a place, definitely a place, that one could post their achievements in the physical world, and have anyone on the open social network of the game be able to give you points of skill improvement based on how legitimate THEY think your claim is. Exp: I post pictures of me reading a book at different times, and I produce something in response to what I read, like a report or a poem, and someone on the game might see these forms of "proof" and believe I read the book, and possibly giving me a +1 in something like reading and intellect skills. A different person might not need pictures or a poem, they might just believe me when I say I read this book, and they might give me +1 reading and intellect points anyway. This model emphasizes the importance of relative legitimacy, of friendship and trust and also destroys the power-over structures of authentication. Furthermore, if that same person thought that my reading "How to Grow a Rooftop Garden" was beneficial to people or society as a whole in someway, each person would have the option to give some amount of social currency as reward for doing something that was desired. And, If for instance there was a food shortage, reading that book might incline that person to getting some multiple more of social currency, since they are learning to fill some need of society. This model of social currency makes us socially and economically interdependent, and smashes the hierarchy of the state's monopoly on issuing "legitimate" money, since in this game, everyone has the power to issue currency & reward the aspects of society they deem important and necessary. (Smash the philanthropist hierarchy of only the rich being able to make real the things they think should exist in the world.)

This is the preliminary idea for the social network game which has yet to be named. Think Facebook meets World of Warcraft meets the open-source, playnarchy revolution.

ideas?



Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 12:26PM by admin

Yes! Thanks for cluing me in, Richie.

So Richie and I were talking about gamification recently, of using game design and mechanics do get people to do things in the real world. One game I participated in playing that used this idea was Evoke, which is meant to encourage people to think up innovative ways to solve world problems (the game was sponsored by World Bank which had some people skeptical about the entire thing but that's beside the point--what we care about here are mechanics.)

Evoke worked similarly to what Richie mentions: each week, players would be given a "mission" which would be centered around a world problem--let's go with Richie's initial suggestion of a food shortage. What players then do is a) research this issue, b) propose, make or do an innovation that helps solve this issue; find or volunteer time with a group that is actively trying to fix this problem in the real world and c) do some visioning and imagine your absolute wildest dream of what the future will be in relation to the issue. So given this mission, I might research what the cause of a food shortage somewhere will be, etc. Let's take Richie's idea and say that I'll begin a rooftop garden, so I write my plans and can get feedback from others in the network as to how to best do this. Now let's say I go out and join a rooftop farm--or organize one in my community!

So with each part in the three-part mission, players essentially write a reportback of what they found for each part, and are rewarded with experience points given to them by other players in the network. Here are areas you could gain experience in in Evoke:

    * collaboration
    * creativity
    * knowledge share
    * resourcefulness
    * sustainability
    * courage
    * entrepreneurship
    * local insight
    * spark
    * vision

Richie made great points about an experience/social currency. If people are rewarding others, then people are encouraged to actively pay attention to what others are doing--and on the other side, it's great to see at a glance what your natural area of contribution to the community is (let's say I'm awarded points mostly in "creativity") but you can also see where you might want to improve in a new area ("how can I achieve more 'courage'?") People are assessed strictly by their contribution to the community or their own gains of knowledge that may later be used to help the community.

The Evoke system isn't without things to watch out for, though--would we run into a situation in which some people with more resources than others hold a greater influence of ideas in the community?

But how could we use these ideas in the real world? OWS is great because it essentially gives all the resources and issues Evoke prompted--we have the issues, or "missions" (stop the Spectra pipeline! End homelessness! etcetc) and we have the affinity groups and network to easily mobilize, plan actions, etc that would be ripe for "gaining experience"--we really, I think, would only need to form a system of social currency to encourage people to go out, do stuff, and collaborate where they otherwise might not feel so encouraged.

Would having a system like this help new activists better find a place to begin in the community? Let's say we don't gamify a new society for whatever reason--we can at least gamify a system that educates people what resources we have to make change.

I'm taking an online course currently in gamification, if my IRL classes don't take up all of my time. It's free! So if anyone finds any of this interesting, you might want to check it out. I'll let you guys know of any insight I gain from it if this social currency idea seems interesting.

- Joe

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 01:11PM by admin

[From Richie]:

And the sparks of collaboration and imagination begin unstoppable #wildfires...

[From Alex]:

I just added Joe and Danny to the revgames atrium. :-) 

Also, welcome Marisa, my friend and comrade. 

Joe, this is long overdue. Danny, same. would love for us to jam not only in music -- which we already know we can have a great time -- but in poetry and theoretical imagination. RevGames has brought together a brilliant mix of people on its virtual atrium and it is great to see the fluent exchanges!... keep stealing the fire of Zeus, comrades. 

Newbies, we like strategy, play, #theory and #poiesis a lot. not to mention a undying love for literature and its cosmogonic potential. Our discussions are wild and fueled by a flirt with insanity, so please feel free to write your most raw thought, art piece, emotion, political eutopias, and of course, information and scheming in the most poetic sense of Anarchy.  

Would love to hear more about the gamefying of reality. 

Sent from my soul

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 04:00PM by admin

Dymaxion map courtesy BFI installed at Wall Street to Main Street's Occupy Reading room (Sam Truitt) 3-17-2012

[From Jenjoy (Part 1)]

 Hi everyone,

Thanks for including me Paul. I started to read the blog and have to throw in Buckminster Fuller's World Game idea. Some people are still trying to employ it, even recently for the London Olympics. Last year some people were trying to commercialize the idea for corporate stakeholders to use as a marketing ploy (aka the IMBs of the world.) I think they're still in R&D mode, yikes! not a fan of that approach. 

Anyway, The World Game was way before it's time and hasn't been actualized in the way Bucky envisioned, primarily because technology wasn't available. However, he predicted much of the networked technology and database capacity we have today and anticipated that it could be done in real time. 

useful here: http://bfi.org/about-bucky/buckys-big-ideas/world-game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Game

The quick definition:

R. Buckminster Fuller conceived the World Game as an interactive role-playing experience that would teach participants to organize, revitalize and distribute depleted world resources. Relying on computers to provide raw data, players work non-competitively to allocate the earth's natural capital worldwide, scoring points through efficient management. If cooperation degenerates into competition, the first step towards war, the game is lost.  

There is much to mined and consider with this idea. Hope that strikes a chord. 

Best,

JenJoy

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 04:07PM by admin

[From Jenjoy (Part 2)]:

Oh and Evoke was heavily influenced by Bucky's World Game. Anyway, in response to the game idea that you all are imagining I would throw in a rhetorical question– what tools/knowledge/technologies are available for people to participate? In this sense the Buckminster Fuller Challenge was a net that gathered some of the best on the planet. You can check out the idea index here: http://challenge.bfi.org/ideaindex

Bucky always said that there is not a manual for spaceship earth. I think the idea index and the Whole Earth Catalog are a response, or an attempt to create one. All that to say is that a really good tool box would need to accompany a game so people could 'win'. 

jj

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 10:12PM by admin

Image by Chris Moylan for CO-OP at bj spoke

[Chris Moylan]:

A couple of responses. Love the idea of revolutionary gaming in this manifestation, as in previous. Paul and I brainstormed a game approach back in Jan.-- Google Earth plus Cadcam plus other resources (gaming code and so on) to simulate Occupy taking over a small town. Lots of angles are possible with this--if you were the mayor (Occupy mayor) what would you do? abolish the office? keep the office and do...what... Same for culture in the town, schools, etc. And then what kind of opposition would one encounter? How to respond, etc. Floated this at the school where I teach--the computer profs. loved it, the students didn't line up. Weird. Kind of instructive.

Taking off a bit from what JenJoy said, I think of this in terms of rehearsal and modeling as well as a karmic point system (love that you switched the dynamic from blood and gore to spiritual choices, for want of a better term). With that said, my experience of oppression with Occupy has me feeling conflicted. The angel of my better nature urges passive nonviolent resistance, the Boston boyo in me doesn't like getting smacked by cops and would see some good in Black Bloc strategic rehearsals and scenarios--not violent, but not inclined to back down.

In any event, what is being contemplated in this discussion is the construction of a counter-Matrix. All kinds of things are possible when we take the red pill, including using the instruments of the virtual against themselves.

in solidarity,
Chris

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 10:17PM by admin

[AC]:

Folks, just a reminder:

When spiraling upwards, you break binaries. what we create here can serve as raw material for whatever you want. in any event, Paul MacLean is constantly documenting these moments and posting #mosaics of the ideas that ooze out of the discussion. the more the merrier.

%\\

 Dude. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE. (echo of [dudes... [dude.. [dude. 

That idea that the Direct Action Flaneurs played with, at the inauguration of #Occupational Art S School n1,,,,, that idea of //////// pluripotential spaces is very pertinent to this discussion of a global game. yellow papers with typewriters in the middle of the street. cars passing over them. tire marks, rubber anxiety on the carbon paper. all these are games, microfractures; i think that's it, games are political incisions. what was #holioccupy, if not cuts to make pus drain? or the Salons activating the principle of play?        

           (flow),

                         all these are like outdoor Salons. Shen She Chuen -- style of kung-fu named "Style of the Sacred Serpent" teaches us to "occupy empty". 

WorldGames are perfectly possible since reality is "gamefyable". 

it is not a new idea, Antonin Artaud, the french playwriter that fell to psychiatric illness mentioned in one of his pieces the allegory of the "BodyWithoutOrgans" {Deleuze and Guattari, Capitalism & Schyzophrenia}.  

The term originates from Artaud's radio play "To Have Done with the Judgment of God" (1947): 

\\\\\\\\\\\\ -- When you will have made him a body without organs, then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions and restored him to his true freedom. \\\\\\\\\\\\\  -- anarchy to its best

the Body Without Organs (BwO) -- is an embryonic morulla, an ovule fertilized by a spermatozoid just a couple days ago;  it has in itself all the genetic potential to generate a full human being; it is as infinite as it will ever be. the decision, then, is what differentiates. 

atchu

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 10:46PM by admin

[From Joseph]: in re: Alex's post above^

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 11:11PM by admin

Hey Atchu et al!

Thanks for the warm welcome, and here's the essay you're talking about, actually a playlist with an introductory essay.  I did it as part of the YouTube School of Social Politics, which some here might find interesting generally.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28678BBA25D4A283&feature=plcp

More soon,

-m

Update on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 11:50PM by admin

[AC]:

Crew,

warm welcome to Mark Read, our playful rebel-illuminator!

he is also a scholar of #play, sharing lines of flight with Hakim Bey, Huizinga, etc. had some great Salons together on #Magic Mountain. Mark, feel free to enter the Fibonaci Arena. virtual atrium where you flare your most creative thought. here don't do just #theory; rather do //////#poiesis.

would love if you introduced yourself and maybe send us that amazing #play video piece you've made? relations with what you've experienced in that Salon @Magic Mountain? anyway, feel free

All the best,

Atchu



Update on Thursday, August 30, 2012 at 12:12AM by admin

Foucault, preface, The Order of Things (xvi):

The monstruous quality that runs through Borges's enumeration consists, on the contrary, in the fact that the common ground on which such meetings are possible has itself been destroyed. What is impossible is not the propinquity of the things listed, but the very site on which their propinquity would be possible. The animals '(i) frienzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush' - where could they ever meet, except in the immaterial sound of the voice pronouncing their enumeration, or on the page transcribing it? Where else could they be juxtaposed except in the non-place of language? Yet, though language can spread them before us, it can do so only in the unthinkable space. [+]

We must occupy the unthinkable space, which is the body, the spirit, emotion. This is the habitation of art, its de-occupation. - PJM

#A18: Novadic Transmission [Bold Jez]

Photo by Paul Talbot[From Jez]:

Fragments of a thought as it passed thru my brain:

...each Novad is an irreducible radicand under consideration and considered at its root a monad-like or atomic metaphysical entity.  If we drive for something deeper, we find more of the same: the identity-being. 

...the Novad root is not true of all avenues, or at least does not seem to be, for in the course of life one can ride ferries to new ideas, pass thru secret passageways between thought, and feel hopelessly lost in endless mazes.  The Novad has within itself an unidentifiable root, like an imaginary number, attached or embedded to make it a less-than-perfected ideal.

Novadic Song in 7+ Parts

Dearly beloved,

Please find attached this novadic song for voice, guitar, subway train, whistle, siren, drunk girls, wind, silence, etc. Free to download here; encouraged to play in any order:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s223//sh/b15eee1a-521b-4b6c-9490-fd70f4befaf8/08774e0860b39ae6fa9e67adc42f13a8

This was recorded from 2:30-3:40am on a pocket-sized hotness while finding my way from a shabbat dinner in Queens to a hot couch in Harlem, using a borrowed guitar, stealing melodies from singers I love (e.g. Calamity & the Owl) and words from the subway walls (do not pull the emergency cord, Emergency Workers...).

Excerpted Lyrics:
Wacky guitar...wacky guitar...oh no...oh no ooOOooOOooooo...and I wonder why the song is outside...We've got nothing left to do but play music on an empty subway platform...and o wonder why, the rails are electrified, why the floors all have their lights on (2x)...inside our minds, inside the heart, inside the hope of being One...and don't you wonder why the stars all healed inside, its not like were the last ones to consider the rain upon the sun...A Pyramid of muskets; a Teepee of guns...And don't you wonder why the lights are left on all night long...[whistles like clock chimes finding their own time]...and I wonder why, and I wonder why, and I wonder why, this song is outside. Ohhhhhhh ohhhh ooOOOooooooOOoo...

[Animation by Paul McLean, generated by Zen circles and compressed, digitized and/or dimensional simulations thereof... for OAS Node #1]

[PLEASE NOTE]:

Occupy with Art, Bat Haus and the Occupational Art School are pleased to announce that Jeremy Bold will be kicking off our Bushwick program at OAS Node #1 in August (details TBA soon).

What Is the "Soul of Occupy?" [Draft/BETA][Pt.1]

[Photos of Magic Mountain & Novad actions courtesy Jez Bold]

What Is the "Soul of Occupy?" [Draft/BETA]
By Paul McLean

Now, I have said that the community by means of organisation of machinery will supply the useful things, and that the beautiful things will be made by the individual.  This is not merely necessary, but it is the only possible way by which we can get either the one or the other.  An individual who has to make things for the use of others, and with reference to their wants and their wishes, does not work with interest, and consequently cannot put into his work what is best in him.  Upon the other hand, whenever a community or a powerful section of a community, or a government of any kind, attempts to dictate to the artist what he is to do, Art either entirely vanishes, or becomes stereotyped, or degenerates into a low and ignoble form of craft.  A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.  Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is.  It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.  Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman.  He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.  Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known.  I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known.  Crime, which, under certain conditions, may seem to have created Individualism, must take cognisance of other people and interfere with them.  It belongs to the sphere of action.  But alone, without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all. - Oscar Wilde, "The Soul of Man"

As a matter of fact, setting aside strictly academic art, artists never fall entirely prey to aesthetic co-optation. Though they may abdicate their immediate experience for the sake of beautiful appearances, all artists (and anyone who tries to live is an artist) are driven by the desire to increase their tribute of dreams to the objective world of others. In this sense they entrust the thing they create with the mission of completing their personal fulfilment within their social group. And in this sense creativity is revolutionary in its essence. - from "The Revolution Of Everyday Life" by Raoul Vaneigem (a new translation from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012

It is the "fact" of the physicality of artworks, their necessary existence as objects with their apparent constancy, that in fact highlights the "inconstant," volatile, and transformative event at the core of art. - Krzysztof Ziarek, The Force of Art

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What is the Soul of Occupy?

Adbusters, the Canadian anti-Capitalist magazine that by accounts issued the call for action which sparked the Occupy Wall Street movement in September of 2011, on April 12th 2012 [1] released another provocative proclamation on its blog,* titled "Battle for the Soul of Occupy." The text was illustrated with a black, red and white banner graphic depicting the ubiquitous Occupy clenched fist and the text "#DEFENDOCCUPY." The call-to-arms was issued by Culture Jammers HQ and encouraged Occupiers to "Jump, jump, jump over the dead body of the old left!" and warned of co-optation of the movement by MoveOn, The Nation magazine and ice cream producers Ben & Jerry, whose influence threatened, in Adbuster's estimate, to "turn our struggle into a '99% Spring' reelection campaign for President Obama."

I don't know about you, reader, but Adbusters' situating Ben & Jerry in a "cabal of old world thinkers who have blunted the possibility of revolution for decades" seems to me a stretch, and certainly doesn't incite any Robespierresque post-Occupy-revolutionary fervor. I sat next to Ben of Ben & Jerry at an organizational meeting for Mark Read's Illuminator, which B & J's ice cream fortune helped bankroll, and Ben Cohen in my view is not a blunter of revolution. He's a food businessman made good, retired, with cash in the bank, who's making an effort to support Occupy strategically, not steal its "Soul." If anything, the conundrum posed to such individuals who are sympathetic to the movement by the movement's schizophrenic response to efforts by "outsiders" to align with OWS is worth examining. [2, 3]

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