<nettime> digest of flows [buhard, tillett]

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Re: <nettime> Space of Flows:  Characteristics and  Strategies
     "Elnor Buhard" <buhard@mail.com>
     "wade tillett" <wade@thefrictioninstitute.org>

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From: "Elnor Buhard" <buhard@mail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 16:28:40 -0500
Subject: Re: <nettime> Space of Flows:  Characteristics and  Strategies


i have some issues with the concepts of flow described below, in particular
to the claim that they are newly unstable.  maritime flow, and trade routes
in general, are historically quite volatile....  (e.g. trade, language, +
power on the niger river, around the 13th century in present-day mali).
glancing at the record, it seems like flows were just as subject to change,
things were structurally quite similar although admittedly with a much
slower clock speed.

the emergent trend seems to be within the nodes themselves.  in particular,
they are getting much more parallel.  korean corporations that make cars +
tvs + buildings + etc (vs. dutch east india trading company, who were just
into ships).  people that eat diets with 12 different nutritional balances
overlaid (vs. a traditional diet of a staple, like rice or bread, and small
seasonings).   a lifetime with five different jobs, artist writer curator
professor grants manager (vs. a corporate job ladder).  perhaps the
distinction is that nodes now have several different flows overlaid,
crossing through them, the entity is a bustling hive of presences.  this
new music of the individual is not just faster, but filled with instruments
of unprecdented variety, style, origin.


elnor buhard


----- Original Message -----
from: Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.org>
date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:30:46 +0100
to: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
subject: <nettime> Space of Flows:  Characteristics and  Strategies

[This is a slightly revised version of a talk I gave at the Doors of
Perception conference called "Flow: The design challenge of pervasive
computing." http://flow.doorsofperception.com ]


Space of Flows:  Characteristics and  Strategies
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Felix Stalder <felix@openflows.org>
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From: "wade tillett" <wade@thefrictioninstitute.org>
Subject: Re: <nettime> Space of Flows:  Characteristics and  Strategies
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 17:08:19 -0600

nodes can control the rate, the quantity, the quality, the exchange at
specific points only.
also, however, is the possibility of controlling the flows via the
relation of flows to their medium. one can do this by:

*changing the medium (control what the medium can support, control the
code),
*changing the route (the possibilities within the medium),
*or by managing the confines of the medium (the possibilities of the
medium)

regarding the last possibility. in order to create an emergent object
based on flows, a false environ can be constructed in which the limits
of possibility are hidden (well, somewhat) to those within it. the
consumer environment, the free trade environment...
free movement contained in a bubble. a sort of flow terrarium.
(profit is extracted via invisible nodes)

to control the phenotype, one can control the genotype - or one can
control the environment. (for the most effective control - both
simultaneously.)

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