tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3229544428886743325.post767485062422766256..comments2010-03-25T13:01:39.878+01:00Comments on Project CLOSER (closAR): Reading: Archive and AspirationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3229544428886743325.post-23944772180076900922010-03-11T11:37:53.739+01:002010-03-11T11:37:53.739+01:00I'm sitting next to you, but this is for refer...I'm sitting next to you, but this is for reference as well as partial summary of what I read yesterday.<br /><br />"INFOWAR" (ARS Electronica 98) had a few articles that could give some inspiration for the subversion/power area.<br /><br />Information Warefare: A New Challenge - Shen Weiguang (p. 60)<br />This article defines some criteria for information warfare and its goals (ex: "to achieve informational supremacy" and to "knock out or modify the enemy's decision-making powers and the activities depending on them"). It also touches upon the progression of kinds of wars with certain technological advances, and how this war of the minds is now taking place in invisible space. Also how the nature of war is becoming more complex: no longer is it a "just" or "unjust" war, and the people who can participate has also opened up.<br /><br />"Coercion and Countermeasures: The Information Arms Race" - Douglas Rushkoff (p. 218)<br />Rushkoff argues that humans have already lost the InfoWar, and that communication dies when it becomes information. Broadcasting, programming, and "interactive" media are all one-way distribution of static content.<br />"Like lovemaking, communication is a living exchange between equal partners... When equals are communicating, nothing is fixed."<br />The internet at first seemed "sexy because people and their ideas could co-mingle and mutate," however even that has fallen short: "Instead of forging a whole new world, the World Wide Web gives us a new window on the same old world. The web is a repository for information. It is dead."Conconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16171862826330497088noreply@blogger.com