Fwd: RHIZOME_RAW: WARWAR, WARWAR

[Frederic Madre]

>From: "Miklos Legrady" <design@myna.com>
>Subject: RHIZOME_RAW: WARWAR, WARWAR
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>In reply to >kapitalizt kultur konziztz ov repetizion<
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>I was a kid in a middle class environment growing up among people who were afraid of,
>in denial of physical violence, too gentil to know how to deal with the neighborhood bully, the aggressive streetPerson, or that mugger in the alley.  Seeking as a youth to preserve self respect and dignity, I kept an eye on violence in it's shifting forms through my life.   I wrote my Master's thesis on feminism and gender power relationships, worked as bouncer in Alphabet City, have stepped in to defend my friends in life-threatening confrontations and either chilled the scene or fought and won, and only at times of real need. So let's say I know what violence consists of, both at the physical and psychological level.
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>In a cyberSpace reading, my opinion of the email >kapitalizt kultur konziztz ov repetizion<
>and the way it was repeated is that this is an an act of intellectual violence, a physical affront, an internet blow.  There is a pattern of it elsewhere;  the palais-tokyo@pleine-peau.com list consists mainly of stuff like the example below;
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>etoy = kolaboratz u!th korporat fasc!zt konglomeratz
>kulpable ov memoc!de. eg. ARS ELECTRONICA. nettime. rtmark
>dusz > etoy = 0+1 korporat \ male fasc!zt konglomerat
>kulpabl ov memoc!de
>=cw4t7abs = kontra demokrass!
>+ addtl mute med!a male fasc!zt zpektaklz
>\ korporat fasc!zt maneuverz
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>psychoBabble is digital noise, and it can drown out info, corrupt credibility and in general maintain a level of mental confusion. Sometimes it may be necessary to go through that, to be a brat in life and just annoy the shit out of people, but as far as I'm concerned, little kids should play elsewhere, it's a waste of time.
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>What's annoying about it is the extreme boredom of intellectual discontinuity.  As though chanting a mantra in order not to think, maintenance of that psychological state which seeks to communicate in icons of confusion is simply an avoidance or denial technique.  Some who suffers a psychological blow or humiliation in life react to it by a sulky withdrawal, then a form of ego suicide, a refusal to participate in the archetypal activities of a human such as intellectual activity.  All this applies if the subject is an adult. If a child or teenager, then those emails are within the paradigm level of children and thus perfectly normal behavior, but still annoying.
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