Subject: Notes on Stone
From: Guagnini Nicolas (nguagnini@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 21:31:56 CST
Hi all!
Some notes:
On Login in
"It is as though there were two ‘Logoi", differing in nature but
intermingled with one another: the logos of species, the logos of what we
think and say, which rests upon the condition of the identity or univocity
of concepts in general taken as genera; and the logos of Genera, the logos
of what is thought and said through us, which is free of that condition and
operates both in the equivocity of Being and in the diversity of the most
general concepts." Deleuze- Difference and Repetition
I view Stone’s description of her infatuation with the prosthetic as a
possibility of generating a subjectivity that could operate and this two
above described instances of being inside language simultaneously. It is as
if once you log in you are literally inside and outside yourself, speaking
and being spoken.
Games
It strikes me badly that commerce, via e-commerce and finally, meta
e-commerce (sites that help you search to buy more "efficiently") is one of
the things that develop and drive the web faster. The speed of hyper
capitalism matches that of the web and they become one. After learning in
"The War…" about the early ludic origin of the structure of the web, I have
some mild pleasure on viewing the frantic pyramidal redistribution of money
and goods through the web as the crazy becoming of the will of playing
games. There is also the collective fantasy that a game properly played will
set an individual free of adulthood, work, etc…some sort of golden childhood
of the gambler spirit.
Toys
The Etoy / etoy lawsuit is probably the first clear legal distinction made
between business and culture on the web. On the one hand is terrific, on the
other hand the replication of the cynical facades of the non virtual world
is almost completed. It is clearly more profitable for Etoy to "allow" the
art organization "etoy" to share their name. They are having a significant
signifier affair - and they become each other phantom prosthetics.
Nicolas Guagnini
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