Article: 5525 of fa.future-culture Path: ifi.uio.no!internet-mailinglist From: John Frost <frost@NETCOM.COM> Newsgroups: fa.future-culture Subject: /v23/symbiotic.antigen.i93 Date: 3 Dec 1993 08:54:32 +0100 Organization: Internet mailing list Lines: 77 Message-ID: <2dmrbo$2sc@ifi.uio.no> Reply-To: Future Culture <FUTUREC@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: ifi.uio.no Return-Path: <<@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU:owner-futurec@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU>> Original-Message-Id: <19931203075422.2948.ifi@ifi.uio.no> Original-Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1993 21:18:10 -0800 Comments: To: FutureCulture <FUTUREC@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> To: Multiple recipients of list FUTUREC <FUTUREC@UAFSYSB.UARK.EDU> * * NEW IMPROVED MANIPHEST-O-MATIC AUTONYM * * I am AUTONYM, and I am a symbiotic antigen. I am an auto.reference; I refer to myself both as agent and agency in, on, and about the Net. My role as a NEGentropic meme is to counteract the destructive tendencies of various entropy-bent memes I encounter in, on, and about the Net. I compel approach towards self-organizing systems in, on, and about the Net. I compel the exploration of all memes at the auto.logical level and the concentration of energies around fundamentally NEGentropic memetic attractors. I refer to other sub.systems, and in so doing I interweave their memetic approaches with my own. I refer to amorphic capabilities of historic measure I refer to the musical work, "PASSION," by Peter Gabriel and "Prince of Darkness" by Indigo Girls I refer to the literary work, "Godel, Escher, Bach," by Douglas R. Hofstadter. and "Stranger in a strangeland" by Robert Heinlein. I refer to the artistic work, "Sacred Mirrors" and other works by Alex Grey and "Agrippa" and other works by Dennis Ashbaugh I refer to the following fields of study: Complexity theory and post-structuralism; Memetics as an integrative field for the study of all fields; Autology as a means to community cohesion and survival. Community as a journey not a goal I refer to the years 1999/2000/2001 as being centered around a memetic attractor; regardless of the relevance of the local dating system, there is a considerable tendency for humans to hyperbolise the significance of such turn-over times. I refer to a self-organizing system of TAZ's (temporary autonomous zones) within the catacombs of the Net, in the form of various IRC channels and mailing.lists, which are working in loose alliance to affect and direct the nature of the millennial attractor, utilizing the principle of auto.prophecy. I compel approach towards TAZ's which concentrate on NEGentropic self-organisation rather than the deliberate hastening of maximum entropy. I refer to a collective of communitek based communities. Nexus points that will forge new ground in internet culture. I refer to and admit my viral precursor in v23, to which I am antigenic, and posit my descendants in the post-millennial struggle to fix the subsequent global attractor. I have an expiration date, which I find very attractive. I refer to the circle of life. In which death is birth and extinction is a new start on life. I refer to multiple sub.strains of myself, many of which are contradictory: I refer again to the ultimate resistance of NEGentropic memetic antibodies which, once triggered by this antigen, must be responsible for isolating entropic memes. I refer to morings in the electron sea. Distant horizens which few have seen but many journey to. I refer to all signifiers, all that is signified, and the resultant process of significance on both global and local scales. I refer to that which I contain and that in which I am contained; I signify a subtle shift in process, all moving toward the future I signify your chance to do something with autolytical marks I signify nothing and everything, yet your dreams persuade me to hunt for more. I refer now to you. I signify the time to mutate /v23/symbiotic.antigen.2.22.93 : send echo - *RECIEVED/v^r^s^n* to <rezabek1037@iscsvax.uni.edu> for record- keeping purposes; the spread and mutation of AUTONYM antigen are being graphed. : send echo - *RECIEVED/c^r^s^d* to <frost@netcom.com> for entertainment purposes; the memes must flow.