Does America have a shallow culture? / We have blockbuster summer movies with budgets exceeding two hundred million dollars, I wonder how …
Does America have a shallow culture? / We have blockbuster summer movies with budgets exceeding two hundred million dollars, I wonder how many third world countries have that budget period? And it is not as if there is anything blockbuster about these movies anyway, cgi-laden junk where character development is passed over in favor of pointless everything… / We have a Republican candidate who is not even aware of how many houses he owns (I know how many I own) I guess he lost track around the sixth or seventh one… / We have a democratic candidate who talks alot but never really says anything, his fervor seemingly solely created by pretty blue and white stickers with a catchy phrase. Change takes alot more than words… / Rap rules our songs with lyrics that are about as deep as a puddle. Violent bullshit wrapped in glamor with proposed truth is still just… violent bullshit. / And these are just a few streaming random thoughts from me….
Friends, Will Smith produced his best critical performance in “Pursuit of Happiness”. His character used absolutely every measure at h…
Friends, Will Smith produced his best critical performance in “Pursuit of Happiness”. His character used absolutely every measure at his disposal to get done what only he could do. That is, that true life character acted on his and his son’s behalf in a way that only he could perform. Each one of us has a similar opportunity. I want to see the next President of the United States come from the greatest consensus possible. I recently confirmed my voting status and checked on the delivery date of the absentee ballot. I have just posted three T-shirts promoting this critical joint venture, i.e. voting. I think that I can say without mistake that the general election in the United States has global significance. I have posted the shirts with 0% mark-up as a nod to the level of commitment that I think that it takes for the process to be strong and healthy. I am urging each one of you to remind yourselves and your friends of the critical nature of this looming event and to promote participation in whatever fashion is available to enhance the greatest voting turnout and consensus for this watershed election. Sincerely, / CaseyRampant
I usually do not talk politics…..but when things get out of hand…way out of hand I start to get lippy….....yeah LIPPY…...when the…
I usually do not talk politics…..but when things get out of hand…way out of hand I start to get lippy….....yeah LIPPY…...when the Iraq war was started by the coward and terrorist Bush….I posted to several forms my thoughts and funny things started to happen ….all of a sudden my phone mad funny noises and I was getting calls from all sorts of Govt. agencies wanting me to answer polls and such….I have signed petitions to IMPEACH him from the start…...... / He even admitted to thefact on public Television that he talks to and gets answers directly from His God and also that his attack was a revenge for Saddam having threatened to Kidnap the elder Prez. Bush…...this whole Iraqi act of terrorism has nothing to do with Osama and his group of Taliban…....but that was leading up to the current problem…....... / One of our greatest Presidents was the GREAT BULLY man ….. Teddy Roosevelt…..a man that sarah palin would cause to be doing summersaults in his grave….. / Teddy was an avid hunter. He killed many species across this GREAT PLANET of ours….....BUUUUUUUT not only was Teddy a hunter he was also a consevationist, he started programs to try and conserve our natural resources…...and the wiold animal is on the losing end with MADDOG PALIN…..... / Fred Bear another great hunter I am sure is also rolling over having fits in his grave, as he also hunted all across this great planet and while many a trophy hangs that was taken by the master of the Bow and Arrow…..he too was a conservationist, reminding us always that if you do not take care of the wild it will not be there to take care of you in the future….. sarah palin doenot give a damn about the future of our natural resources and that is proven by the a TOTAL LACK OF CAREING TOWRDS ALASKA’S WOLVES….... A true hunter and conservationist (such as the various American Indian, and Eskimo tribes were) only kills what is needed to feed his/her family or tribe…..animals were not killed and just left laying to rot and possibly cause disease to other animals in the future or to pollute the nearby streams. Actually the NRA should be shunning this woman big time …..... I believe we should all have the right to own guns….but as she is a confessed murderer, even if it is of wolves, it is actually a BIG DARK BLACK EYE for their cause….. Infact, sarah palin should be IMPEACHED from the office of Governor of Alaska and her hunting privileges revoked for the rest of her life….... Are you wondering why I feel this way…...... / Do I hunt? Absolutely, squirrels, pheasant, quail, turkey rabbits,& Whitetailed and Mule Deer, with Smokeless rifle, .50 Cal. blk. powder and bow and arrow…...I how ever do not hunt the animals on the Kansas list of legal to kill and let lay list, ie coyotes, bobcat, prairie dog etc etc etc…....now I also have a cookbook from the North American Hunting Club that has tried and tested recipes for moat all wild animal out there…................I do condone the thinning down (but not the wanton waste caused by just gunning down of animals such as the ALASKA WOLF) of a species if it is endangering local communities and farmers…..but from the reports, palin authorized and joined in the slaughter of wolves from the air for no real reason other than BLOOD SPORT…...... / Prior to a hunt I gave thanks to MOTHER EARTH for the bounty I was going after and promised to not waste it…..and after the hunt ended for that day….I again gave thanks to Mother earth and the great creator for all that had been created for use to wisely use. Teddy Roosevelt & Fred Bear are just two of the great hunters that I think would have a hard time endorsing sarah palin just because of her allowing the slaughter of any group of animals…...the Polar Bear is nearing extinction. Has she done anything to help them…....NO!!!!
Do you know current Fab Four … ? …..mmmm …. “ The Beatles “ / Well….no…… they were in the past …. “The Beatles “ / But who are the Current…
Do you know current Fab Four … ? …..mmmm …. “ The Beatles “ / Well….no…… they were in the past …. “The Beatles “ / But who are the Current Fab Four … just as popular as “ The Beatles “….. ? / Here is a hint they are not in music but sports … Cricket…. Called the Fab Four. The feared FAB four are the World Cricket heritage and are universally loved by a vast majority over a billion of cricket fans all over the world irrespective of their nationality. The FAB four consists of four worlds leading batsmen in the top band of professional cricket . / FAB Four & Bhaji – Cricket Stars – Please click to see the painting Here is a brief information for the fans. 1. Sachin Tendulkar- Full Name: Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Born : April 24, 1973 is said to be the modern incarnation of great Don Bradman for his explosive batting in Test and one day cricket ; a true brightest star in the stratosphere. Sachin has been the first man to go part 12000 runs in test cricket against the world class opposition Australia. He has scored more than 16,000 runs in One Day Cricket. Sachin Tendulkar has mesmerized fans across the globe irrespective of their country of origin for his sheer class as a top cricketer, a truly likable person and very soft spoken with a great humility. / 2. Rahul Dravid – Full name – Rahul Sharad Dravid Born January 11, 1973 aka The Wall , is a technical sound batsman with water tight defense and makes runs day in and out as a pillar for FAB four backbone and has been ICC top batsman with over 10,000 runs in test and one day cricket. On personal note, Rahul Dravid is a true gentleman and commands respect from peers and colleagues. / 3. Saurabh Ganguly –Full Name: Sourav Chandidas Ganguly Born July 8, 1972,aka Dada is a left hand batsman and most successful captain to galvanise the steel in his team to make them world renowned. Saurabh Ganguly is the opening partner of one day cricket with Sachin Tendulkar as the most destructive and successful openers to thrash opposition bowlers to all corners of the ground. Ganguly has already scored more than 7,000 runs in the test matches and over 10,000 runs in the one day cricket. He is soon to retire. / 4. VVS Laxman –Full Name: Vangipurappu Venkata Sai Laxman Born November 1, 1974 aka Very Very Special youngest of FAB four. Laxman is a wristy willowing magician batsman to hit the best balls with assurance, authority and with no fuss. Once he sets his eyes; he just love to play and exudes class and already scored over 6000 test runs. FAB Four & Bhaji – Cricket Stars – Please click to see the painting This Oil on Canvas art work (165 cm x 120 cm ) shows the FAB four Cricketers in action in highly popular emotionally charged Sydney test match in Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) Sydney Australia in January 2008; which Australia won as their 16th consecutive test match win. Please use larger image for better viewing. In the Sydney test match, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman made centuries and celebrating , Saurabh Ganguly and Rahul Dravid played a great supporting role. Apart from FAB Four this painting also shows the Off Spinner Harbhajan Singh who plays with great passion, a real fighter and great entertainer of fans. Here Off Spinner Harbhanjan Singh is giving a popular commando salute in an entertaining style. There was a big misunderstanding in the match due to the unpopular remarks were misunderstood due to cultural differences and racism charges were fiercely fought and were eventually dropped as clarification came to hand to the ICC appointed judge. The Indian team threatened to pack off and go home. The temperaments kept flared up and in the next test match in Perth Indian team won to halt Australian cricket team at 16 win. This series was also called as the Bollyline Series – I , as compared to infamous Bodyline Series in Ashes history. To see Lovers in Haven 2009 Calender – please click here Artist : Sunil Sharma / Email : sunil-c-sharma@hotmail.com / Web: http://www.redbubble.com/people/sunil / http://sunil.redbubble.com/ Copyright 2008 – Artist :Sunil Sharma / All Rights Reserved. Click to go Sunil Sharma’s web
Obama is officially the next president of the United States. And that is very VERY exciting to me, especially since this is the first ele…
Obama is officially the next president of the United States. And that is very VERY exciting to me, especially since this is the first election that I was old enough to vote in. But I am also saddened by the fact that proposition 102 has all but passed here in Arizona. If you don’t know, prop 102 is the ban of gay marriage and it will be written into the Arizona constitution that “marriage is only a union between one man and one woman.” If this is going to stay, that means I will never be able to marry the woman that I love… My nephew even has more sense of what is right and what is wrong. He is twelve years old and he told me yesterday that if he could vote, he would have voted no on 102 because it is unfair that gay couples are not allowed to marry and have the same rights as heterosexual couples just because they love someone of the same gender. I thought that was absolutely astounding and gave me a little hope for the future of America. Well my hope was building at least with Obama winning and then my nephew saying that. Haha. Well that is my two cents for today.
In today’s time, when aimlessness and defeat often strike down our ability to survive our conditions, we begin to wonder why it is we hav…
In today’s time, when aimlessness and defeat often strike down our ability to survive our conditions, we begin to wonder why it is we have to suffer. In the days ahead we will begin to know more about the struggle to survive which is only a perception of false attitudes and belief systems that have been downloaded without recognition stored within out subconscious. This false sense of struggle to survive is only part of the larger Divine plan to awaken us to the truth of whom and what we are. Without the polarities of life, the ebbs and flows, ups and downs, we would continue to think we are our false selves. The Essence of Being is a collection of art that demonstrates our lightness of being and our forgotten selves. It is through this light that we came into the world and we leave out of this world as infinite beings continuing our creativity with renewed enlightenment realized through constant change. Through this conditioning, we are able to withstand the ups and downs of the illusory world we call reality. The Essence of Being is based upon science and mysticism. Within each painting is sacred geometry, biology and spiritual knowledge to enrich the soul as part of an effort for the viewer to uncover our unlimited potential. As we approach 2012, we are on a fast track to a new world of peace, harmony, love and joy for all.
So, my college operates on the block plan, which means I take one class and only one class for three and a half weeks. Then I have a four…
So, my college operates on the block plan, which means I take one class and only one class for three and a half weeks. Then I have a four day break before taking the next class. It’s pretty intensive, but I also strongly recommend it. Once again, I’m at Cornell College in Iowa, but I know Colorado College (I still remember my application- it’s on Cache La Poudre street, which I thought was cool) also has the same schedule. Anyway, I’m a freshman, so I’ve only been here for a month, but my experience with my first class was a quite positive one. I’m taking International Politics right now (Pol 242, in case you’re wondering…) and it’s a discussion based class. Actually, I think most classes here are discussion based, but 20% of my grade is participation. Apparently I picked a really hard class to have first block. The first week, we read two chapters (about 60 pages) in the Nye book every night. We had a test Friday afternoon, after discussing the last two chapters Friday morning. In the afternoons on Tuesday through Thursday, we played Diplomacy in teams. My partner and I won (: Just thought I’d throw that in there- we were the first team to actually win by the rules of the game (rather than just being furthest ahead) in the history of the class :] The second week was a lot less intense. We still had a crapload of reading to do- I never want to hear about WWI again. We read a small textbook and a million selected chapters from different books and a few other articles on the subject. Again, we had a test on Friday about the stuff we’d covered. But for half of that week we didn’t have afternoon class. (On block plan, the basic schedule is you meet from about 9-11 in the morning and about 1-3 every afternoon, but it really depends on the class.) The third week was even less intense. We read The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright (a definite good read) about 130 pages at a time every night and were done with it by Thursday. Along with that, every day there was a group presenting two articles on different factors that influence terrorism. We had no afternoon class and no class on Friday at all so we would have time to finish up our big papers (another 20% of our grade). He did warn us that it was a front-loaded class. Now I’m at the last three days (starting today, which I’m already done with). We had a test this morning and we’re presenting our paper topics and discussing them, and then on Wednesday we’re talking about the last chapter in the Nye book (it’s about the future) before we’re dismissed forever. It feels like I’ve been here forever. I made Bs on all the stuff I did get back so far… those would be… two tests, a paper proposal, a paper breakdown and an actual paper. I don’t know how I did on participation or my last test, my presentations and how I’ll do on my paper re-write, but I think I’ll be okay. Another reason I’m not sure I picked the best first class is that we didn’t have a midterm or a final, so I don’t know how I’ll handle that next block. I’m taking Art and Culture (Art 151) next block, which fulfills my freshmen writing requirement. All in all, I like how focused I can be. I also feel like though I have a lot of work, I have a lot of time, too. The schedule makes it really hard to procrastinate, but I don’t think that’s a bad thing at all. All in all, I think I’ve had a good educational experience in my first block here. The thing is, you shouldn’t be deceived by my ability to write all that. I was barely paying attention the whole time. My life still revolves around my love, even though he’s back in Texas, and that’s the reason I’m here right now. Wednesday, right after class gets out, I’m taking the shuttle to the airport and going home. Of course, I’ll be going to my parents first, but I’ll see him or kill something or someone or both. I’ve never been away from him this long. I’ll only get to stay for a few days. / But that doesn’t matter right now. / What matters is that I’m going home. And I’ll never be away from him this long again, because I had to come here a week early for orientation. I’m trying to get comfort from that, but I know when it comes down to it, it won’t help me at all. I just need to be home. I just need to not be away. / I’m going home. I’m not leaving til Wednesday and I’ve already started packing (: I’m so happy. It’s like I’ve been on autopilot and I’m finally coming back. And I know that it’ll always be that way until I’m home again. But I can do it, because I have forever ahead of me. On an unrelated note, I hope my dog missed me.
“Desperately Seeking the Spider, Sir Ghostte MacWeb” / . / “‘©omputer mediated communication’ (henceforth, CMC)”, has social scientist bu…
“Desperately Seeking the Spider, Sir Ghostte MacWeb” / . / “‘©omputer mediated communication’ (henceforth, CMC)”, has social scientist busily considering its “possible impact on social organization (Diani, Mario: “Social Movement Networks”. Culture and Politics in the Information Age, ed. Frank Webster. Routledge. London. 2001. 117-128).” This is different, odd communication when compared with “public and private, and direct and mediated communication.” / . / Either we will… or we will just transfer all our international squabbling into outer space, read the replies, generally, when with 1969, we had gone to the moon, and The Western Australian offered cadet-journalism or trainee-reporters, candidature for short answers to: What now, that we have gone to the moon? Cyberspace is the new playground: all its depths and variations, our projections. Therefore, traffic; exhibits, tap roots, all, deeply political and social: nothing “inherently oppressive […] automatically emancipatory, (Warf, B And Grimes, J: “Counterhegemonic Discourse And The Internet.” The Geographical Review. 87, 2. n. d.. 250-27)” the tussle between philosophical and political thought. Therefore its utility in counterhegemony, cyberactivism “on behalf of the disempowered (Ibid.)”: the possibility, too, of such, but of Judas-sheep taint. All the progressive uses: “confrontation of nomadic power … rhizomic power structures … the local becomes the global. (Ibid.)” ––From the bedroom one writes upon the night sky come down onto the screen, no more need of an airplane scribbling with its exhaust, messages soon blown away. / . / The U.S. Department of Defense linked computers designed to make the transmission lines withstand nuclear attacks in 1969. In 1984, this, Arpanet, encompassed the scientific community, linking five supercomputers. Private access systems next supplemented this with public networks: “CompuServ; Prodigy; America Online (Ibid.)”. All this accounts for our Internet at home, together with the convenient utilization of “existing telephone, fiber-optic, and satellite systems […] technological innovation of packet switching (Ibid. 259-60)”. Messages decompose as the molecules did in the Star Trek transporter room; they transmit and reassemble “virtually instantaneously (Ibid. 260)”, as do the molecules of Captain Kirk at some location of coordination. / . / Still, is the Internet describable as a bin; its stink depending on what is put in. What the Internet cannot do is speculate, imaginatively extrapolate; associate; become postmodern: think as if concepts potentially fit directions in any of all possible compass points. ––Unless: programmed so as to particularly associate, given the concept, word, with another stipulated word(s), selection of, design, image… One example of stated potential to fit directions in any of all possible compass points is, it informs of the Internet, what it cannot, does not, do. Some things highlight even if, superficially, no more than coincidental. / . / The U.S. Department of Defense started the sphere rolling in 1969, the same year of reaching the moon. If this were unconnected than this proves that the protesting students were correct. The world could end next week! Quite a bit, one would not yet die of, by next week, easily available. ––The U.S. Department of Defense made being wary: anticipating a nuclear attack, a matter of strategy! In the 50s America was worried of nuclear attacks from the USSR. They actually suspected the USSR of performing nuclear test explosions on the dark side of the moon. Stirling Colgate even “launched with great secrecy” —The Death Star:_ television, in The Universe -- a satellite in 1967, which would detect gamma ray bursts, which were let off during nuclear explosions. Gamma rays can penetrate 3 or 4 inch lead walls (estimated: the narrator suggesting size by holding his fingers apart): for those environmentally conscious. So many nuclear bombs were tested that Ban the Bomb! nuclear disarmament groups appeared world wide, all branded Communists! This was before computers, internets, but figures were passed around on flies about how much cancer would increasingly become part of our lives, seemingly eroneosly, seeing all ours are caused by cigarettes!. The figures claimed for the 90s was already very high. It could be because the last one exploded for experimentation was by the French some time ago, that they do not talk anymore about the Cancers the bomb explosions were supposed to cause. The others were the Indian and Pakistan military\political demonstrations, and USSR’s nuclear plant. You wonder whether the cigarette monopolistic take-over from the gamma-rays cause of cancer can be, cited as a botanical triumph over physics! ––Provided it is not a case of the plant being infected by the fallout. / . / The other thing that highlights is that this approach toward what was later styled “information superhighway” was, initiated in 1984, as though to not disappoint Orwell. Already described, is how Internet messages and Star Trek transport travelling analogize each other. The use of “virtual” is didactic \significant: the constant not quite real reminder: if it were, Captain Kirk, we! would really be able to travel that way: except even though Star Trek helps illustrate the decompose \reassemble action, it is nothing but fiction, as portrayed. This difference also informs of the difference between reality and virtual reality: Star Trek, in that way, irrelevent. / . / [Once, reading Time Magazine, thinking of Rothmans or Coca cola, came the question, how could one improve an already successfully selling cigarette or drink: whatever. The answer was: create your own opposition across the street and make it PR like it were your enemy. There was a chill.] I knew that US \USSR each received German scientists that worked on the project that sent rocket bombs to Britain: they built the moon projects. ––Was the Cold War, at the highest level, virtual? A fictitious animosity with real players: the few instead of the many? / . / What the Internet does not do is that which –– when you cogitate, it seems constructed otherwise instead –– to do that which serves commodification. To create scenarios to inform what could have aided the Internet, had it veered to being constructed as stations of freedom of information units, instead, that is. Counterpart values emanate \avenues automate for environmental activists, for example, (the Net is not Green subservient \is at the bid of potential murderer or victim, even) to use. / . / The conservation groups\activists, are also enthusiasts, chasing the hot steps of some yet recent event, still feeding the imagination: conservation erstwhile, still, a governmental enterprise; will be after they take their gadgets home. Some cynic would not say this to a young face. Governments have been running conservation movements also before the Greenpeace group, appeared. It is to them, we owe the pleasure, the presence of the many National Parks, well known in Australia and the US. British Colombia has always had a programme for replanting trees for trees cut down. Australia has a similar policy. In a way Greenpeace movements are selective, in that they select ecological sites to advocate preservation in almost counterpart logic to why the timber industry chooses sites for lumber. Groups down south, for example also make videos to illustrate the picturesque scenery where their houses are, where they do not want industry and big business. This is no more than healthy democracy in action, even were there no environmental groups. But it also evades the fact that such, even better might have been the case, before their own houses were there. The humans did hunting and gathering then; only invading the vicinity seasonally, leaving the place ecologically sound. Have environmental activists ever studied the sites they choose to protest on, for example, to see whether their presence would harm the environment? / . / “They are cutting down too many trees,” answered a question in 1968, said then to be the first person ever, to come out with, immediately, asked by a Mr. Walsh, a tailor, in the shops that were above Albert’s Bookshop in Forrest Place, before it became what it is, now. He said he especially asked people who read many books, what is the most significant thing to say to the world, today. He was pre-Greenpeace, or he would have been pleased to have encountered a beginning just reading the newspaper. This person who answered the said question, above, keeps reminding me of his linkage to the first Greenpeacer , as though implying all else, asleep then. We weren’t with those two without navels, either. All we can/should, do is decide whenever we do, knowing, without knowing, we could even be voting against ourselves; knowing nonetheless we want it green! anyway. / . / What would automatically highlight the Internet to be openly usable, by any, would be to create a site to besmirch the environmental activists: money could hit that site often enough to make the complaints \comments seem widely shared. This, also stipulates that the McSpotlight web-site, “launched (Pickerill 20)” against McDonalds, could have succeeded in convincing the people, if not the court, even if the rhetoric was false. / . / Imagine also, had, instead, the preliminary keyboard maneuvers, reached the catalogue of say the Library of Congress or that in Oxford, that the next few steps would lead from index to page to paragraph, to print. Think in terms of a technology that seeks to trek, negotiate the ends of the universe! There is the potential for the computer to be able, via satellite-link, to log on to the tapes that constantly film Earth –– they brag the ability to read the stud poker hands on the deck of a ship –– press rewind and focus, to observe what we did do in the backyard last weekend. / . / Diani, using the term, “CMC”, of the various that refer generally to that technology, writes of users as “social movements and the emergence of virtual society (Diani 125-6).” CMC will have an expansive effect on what human beings do, workplace as well as self: getting many identities. CMC will develop “cultural and ‘socio-spatial enclaves (Diani 125)”, political, social participation, there still dispersed face-to face networks. But it is still foggy whether CMC will cause any type change in communities, or discursive \consultation based innovation into democracy: when will we vote with our computers; maybe we can all vote for what they conveniently —I think so! -- term conscience-vote: in fact, the computer makes it viable/proper that the nation take over the voting from parliament and the representative becomes the ‘servant/postman as the Hamilton than Jefferson version (they have always kept quiet about there being two kinds of representatives offered, when conceived: it seems Hamilton got killed in a duel.) It is easier for us to vote than them to gather to the right and the left of the chair, and be counted. Let them watch the votes come in, instead of us, on what we decide, despite their natter, despite again, having lobbied support, in the first place. / . / Internet discussions omit personal identities; participation is irregular; relationship, uncommitted; get involved only to the dyadic, triadic extant. A WELL network suggests “virtual networks operate at their best when they are backed by real social linkages in specifically localized communities, while their capacity to create brand-new ones is uncertain (Diani 126).” ––This, interesting, saying no more than we know, it’s good meeting on site: don’t know, otherwise. Finally, CMC, is “heavily correlated to class and status (Ibid)”: more involved with social control agencies, like the Army, governments, corporations, citizens’ organizations. If this were, put at the beginning of the article, it would have sounded like sometimes we do get around without thinking to collar the bell round the damn cat. Despite the above, the news is CMC is spreading. The feel is: how long can CMC “remain inaccessible” in low-income areas? CMC may cause power-holders to witness their vertical growth, itself horizontally spreading wide. The virtual social community is mainly sympathizers, at the professional level: this mostly when causes with expansive support, the radical, revolutionary element, low. Issues cause\ grade how, identities glue. The environmental activists share a collectivity, the necessary amount of shown trust, is little. A virtual community is possible, here, even without direct ties. / . / Contrary are participatory movement organizations. Their contact is direct, face-to-face; they recruit, capture commitment; indulge in “potentially high risk activities (Diani 126).” They are supported by face-to-face interaction, which “requires a level of trust and collective identification. Diani ends stating CMC expectations to be “mostly ‘community networks’ or ‘virtual extensions’, (e)ven transnational networks (Ibid).” ––Then, repeats, “effective mobilization” will follow “bonds and solidarities (Diani 126)”; presumably, there being more now, to: nothing brand-new, forthcoming. / . / Pikerill makes a point of stressing there are all kinds of tasks, skills, and needs on CMC. She goes through various types that react to CMC. There is the one who knows not how to use the technology, thinks it all right for others to, but deems other communication, preferable. This one is termed the consumer skeptic. There are six other types in all, roughly the street, desktop, and cyberactivist; information gatherer, and on-line coordinator (Pikerill, Jenny: “Spreading the Green Word? Using the Internet for Environmental Campaigning.” ECOS. 21 (1) 2000. 15-24). Environmentalists activist have many resources to cite, when working their website, “including homepages for the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, Friends of the Earth, advocates of sola energy or sustainable develop bvb ment, and the like (Warf and Grimes 265).” / . / The website is active. We have to choose the site we want to “experience (…) read, listen/view or ‘chat’ (Smith, Scott. ”Surfing the Green Web: Communication and ‘the Environment’ in Online Australia.” Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy. 98. Feb. 2001. 51-65).” We arrive at the website; we are the audience. We choose to. We ‘surf the web’. We have a lot of deciding to do as the page speeds up/ down, at the pace we manipulate the mouse, page up/page down. The website is the micro of which the macro is the World Wide Web, which is “as historically and culturally determined as any other (Ibid).” It is constructed as the rest of society by gender, race and class; as is environmentalism. Hierarchies that have formed reality also built up the web, with that extra conjoint: the total media in one, unfolding hierarchies and discourses as it steadily keeps opening itself at our instruction. / . / ––An “ideological struggle for meaning within an articulated textual logic (Smith 54).” In visuality now, is centered cultural and historical change. No more is imagery merely the illustrated of the text; the text itself is visual: culture becoming a matter of how one sees; letters, numbers, also assuming the status of sculpture. “Andrew Ross […] has proposed a method of analysis of images […] from the work of Susan Sontag […] ‘ecology of images’ (Ibid).” There is political meaning in images, good/bad, and positive/ negative. How can types of representation brand with political meaning the kind of information that tells about ecological matters? What influences do images have on the given information? ––Provide, that is, the “overall textual knowledge of the communication (Ibid).” / . / Internet has shown itself very useful to Ragtag alliance as well as to other issue groups, as indigenous groups, women’s group’s, as well as environmental groups; “whose concerns traverse diverse spaces (Pluriels, Mots. Only reference =:htpp//www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/ MP180gr. html 19/3/2002).” Information is widely shared out in-between citizens and activists as well as such community action groups as demonstrations, which have been helped with online organization. ––(I)ncreasing possibilities for translocal synergy (Ibid).” The Internet is useful in that it is widely available, as it is cheap; cheap, compared with the potential of its message distribution, if not all have it around to utilize. Its ability to communicate translocally to diverse other people “allows individuals and community groups to reduce the influence gap between themselves and wealthier organizations (Pluriels n pag).” / . / The Zapatista struggle for the rights of indigenous people started the “origin for anti-globalization Net activism (Ibid).” When the Zapatista invaded towns in Chiapas supporters distributed first-hand reports of the ensuing conflicts over the Internet, and lists, sites and conferences dedicated to Mexican democracy were established […] referred to as ‘mass verification process unprecedented in the history of media. / . / International pressure stopped a 1995 government counter-attack. The Zapatista movement extended from providing local solidarity “into an electronic fabric of opposition to much wider policies (Ibid).” In 1996 Zapatista, using the Internet organized several large meetings; continental and intercontinental, gathering interested parties in global networks of movements to counter neoliberalism. One more group that charted the beginning of both, Ragtag and Net activism, was the World Trade Organization’s proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment, opposition. It would have been able to sue governments for passing protective trade, environmental or labour legislation, if they prove to hamper their free capital flow. It gave them the right to venture anywhere in the world “to commodify resources and labour, and have access to markets in as many places as possible (Ibid),” on their own terms. / . / Interestingly, this very last, is what colonization/imperialism was about on the receiving end. What goes around comes around. Also, Zapatista is, firstly, the name of the tyrannical government. When they talk about the power of corporations and about government surveillancing CMC, and you know money can accommodate itself, it is that the Zapatista government did not do what the corporations can. ––Given the McSpotlight event, corporations are on the ready for immediate reply with sites to counter bad PR, soon \already hiring disorientated whizz- sharp-shooter- ex- activists. I also noticed how World Trade Organization’s MAI followed hot behind the Zapatista movement’s Internet organized meetings; continental, intercontinental, gathering interested parties in global networks of movements to counter neoliberalism. This, significant, due to previous reading showing how the first reaction to Marx’s CAPITAL was the Pullman Company in the US, becoming the first corporation. When the unions started, they called them communists, among other things. They would know, corporationing, comunism. / . / Koestler wrote The Ghost in the Machine to bespeak the human element in science, which also spies on the soul in the body and the essence of things; the capital, heart, brunt, yolk; the feeling of a place; love (which can knock you over \leave you yet, looking; you can tell when there’s love in a home. The spider is not the person at the website. The person exists \does not exist. The person sits there. The person is in the Net, in the website; is dismembered, is naked, has no body: is also the person who has always wondered whether he did have a soul. Somebody has called cyberspace, pornographic; schizophrenic. Nothing there relates to a whole body (Amiran, Eyal. and Unsworth, John. Eds. Essays In Postmodern Culture. Oxford University Press. 1994. p.??), comes from a whole body. “(T)here is a gap between this information and the old forms of knowledge […] the old certainties […] partly the flood of information […] destroyed the certainties of the modern period (Myerson 14).” Having cashiered modernism, the human now faced the tornado of effervescent budding, modernism’s doubted certainties now open to the chance \permutation other. / . / It is as if abstraction has congress; we obey the word, the presence whence as unseen. It, electric; spiritual: what would D H Lawrence not write about it! In a sense, this, wanting to know, answered by over-information. We saw this during the Vietnam War, perhaps used strategically. Apart from the televised, constantly incoming footage of nose-close, focused film, of jungle \ soldiers \ medics \ stretchers; two-, four-, six- soldiers, make-do stretchers: news, talk shows, Presidential addresses, special interest(s), debates, pecking order tussles between the political boys; “not a week goes by (which TIME magazine was that?)” without a new book out about Vietnam. More effective, than if so, strategically scenarioed: no critic now, adequately informed. Such, be the above complaint of the missing human dimensions than link, the able counterpart, equal to the situation. / . / Military history, records that was no leadership equal to the situations in Galipolli or Singapore, in 1914, 1940: the former needing a madness of a charge of a light brigade going uphill with a modicum/null, chance of success/glory (about the same time the Irish were adamant, if nothing else they wanted to bleed for the cause; some similarity read in Australian laments in not making it to previous wars to be seen shedding blood for, therefore, their country, here); or a Caesar-way; to dig inwards, maybe; to topple them down the high ground, even: TV showed him build, such; free to think so to do. / . / We communicate with Internets like they were modified telephones: the visuality does not yet allow face-to-face while ‘chatting’, as was the future, now is the case, for telephones, but a keyboard replaces the few numbers; it is already joined to music and film. The screen is like a page on an endless scroll of film on which you do not write, but imprint. The letter you press on the key imprints itself on the screenpage. You do not really press a letter. There is a letter imprinted on a square digit, which is actually, linked to an electric impulse, linked soon to one impelling the letter you pressed to appear on the screen. The thing is ‘A’ does not come on the screen because you pressed ‘A’ on the keyboard: that only happens because a direct link was organized so that only that would happen, then. Somebody’s CMC could be tampered with so that a rose appeared each time an ‘A’ was pressed. The ghost is what people always think is in unfamiliar houses, places: the CMC is a machine without a ghost; like the fountain pen: the person decides its use.
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