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Modern techno-mythologies assume that more information and more connections will literally make more sense, extending all the way to the post-human desire to transcend the meat entirely and evolve into pure code. But even before before porn and spam turned obfuscation into a profitable business model, the noise and bugs of the meat were already embedded in the code. From the supernatural mass murder which inspired the Arts of Memory to the atomic alien conspiracies that spawned the Web, information technology has always been paranoid. | Modern techno-mythologies assume that more information and more connections will literally make more sense, extending all the way to the post-human desire to transcend the meat entirely and evolve into pure code. But even before before porn and spam turned obfuscation into a profitable business model, the noise and bugs of the meat were already embedded in the code. From the supernatural mass murder which inspired the Arts of Memory to the atomic alien conspiracies that spawned the Web, information technology has always been paranoid. | ||
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This talk covers several thousand years of information technology, focusing on strange threads of symptom and haunting woven into the history of mnemotechnics. How does ancient gnostic cosmology influence the way we use computers? How did magicians, junkies and sexual deviants give us computers, programming and rocket science? How did a cave in Kentucky became the blueprint of cyberspace? How did a moth presage y2k and terrorist paranoia? How is the crashed flying saucer at Roswell tied to the origins of hypertext? | This talk covers several thousand years of information technology, focusing on strange threads of symptom and haunting woven into the history of mnemotechnics. How does ancient gnostic cosmology influence the way we use computers? How did magicians, junkies and sexual deviants give us computers, programming and rocket science? How did a cave in Kentucky became the blueprint of cyberspace? How did a moth presage y2k and terrorist paranoia? How is the crashed flying saucer at Roswell tied to the origins of hypertext? | ||
These weird errors and coincidences | These weird errors and coincidences cannot be cleansed from the history of our memory machines, because memory itself is buggy. It operates by associative logic, making unexpected squirms and jumps, revealing poetic truths about the world without concern for linear reason. We cannot escape into the clean world of information and code because the messy conspiratorial logic of sex-dirt is in fact the paranoid logic of code. | ||
All of this will be examined through the gnostic allegory of the 1983 Disney movie, Tron. | All of this will be examined through the gnostic allegory of the 1983 Disney movie, Tron. | ||
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Jason loves studies. He received his degree in Religious Studies and Art from the University of California and his MFA in Critical Studies and Integrated Media from CalArts. He has now integrated his studies of religion, art and critical media, and he can relate all of it to the movie Tron. He thinks this is a pretty clever way to make use of his education. | Jason loves studies. He received his degree in Religious Studies and Art from the University of California and his MFA in Critical Studies and Integrated Media from CalArts. He has now integrated his studies of religion, art and critical media, and he can relate all of it to the movie Tron. He thinks this is a pretty clever way to make use of his education. | ||
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* When: | * When: Wednesday, '''September 19''' 2007, 8:00 PM | ||
* Where: Metalab, [[Lage|Rathausstrasse 6]], 1010 Vienna | * Where: Metalab, [[Lage|Rathausstrasse 6]], 1010 Vienna | ||
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