tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43630992025338029332024-02-20T17:07:21.797-08:00Geoffrey Peerson LeedFile // Market Optimization Bureau //
PERSON OF INTEREST //
STATUS: Observation Operative (O.O.) // CLASS: subversive // METHOD: literary-artistic // MEANS: print // INFRINGEMENTS: p.e.o.p.l.e / M.V.R. // Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-33419136853648215682014-11-27T12:56:00.001-08:002014-11-27T12:56:11.790-08:00Exhibit 1.7<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"It occurs to me that the artist’s role is, essentially, only
this: to communicate a distinct impression of <i>overabundance. </i>No matter how long a life you’re given, no matter how storied your many creations, you must
show how much, inexorably, you will leave undone. The true artist: not one who <u>accomplishes</u> but one who <u>begins</u>." <i>--Private Papers</i></span></span></b> <br />
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things to seep together, and it belied the stringent solidity of maps." <i>--Private Papers</i></span></span></b><br />
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</xml><![endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-50079308935212327232014-11-27T12:52:00.001-08:002014-11-27T12:52:56.469-08:00Exhibit 1.5<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"He felt that he had no life to lose. He was no proper self
and therefore no proper death, symbolical or actual, could await. He’d let slip
somewhere, or had had torn from him, the I of identity. He was a blowing dust
that got in under doors."</span></span></b><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> --Private Papers</span></span></b></i><br />
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</xml><![endif]-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-2188300426706113712014-11-27T12:51:00.001-08:002014-11-27T12:51:30.878-08:00Exhibit 1.4<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"What is fame, what is posterity, compared to the secret
irrevocable glory of having had one’s work?" </span></span><i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">--Private Papers</span></span></b></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-70564931894104893462014-11-27T12:49:00.001-08:002014-11-27T12:49:29.753-08:00Exhibit 1.3<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Still, always, even in the quiet of your room you face the
onslaught. Endlessly you work to clear your vision against the day’s
overcrowding. You seek a single sheer coherent narrative of thought, the
prolonged extension of a tone amid the broken broadcast noises, antic and
ever-changing. You school yourself in history. You labor to remember:
underlying the current complexity is woeful oversimplification. Meanwhile you
will know the truth by the serene simplicity of its surface."<i>--Private Papers</i></span></span></b>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-62996157021359927162014-11-27T12:44:00.001-08:002014-11-27T12:50:10.225-08:00Exhibit 1.2<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">"Always, everything we see challenges us to understand. The
extent to which we take up the challenge by our own wits and without resorting
to prior interpretations is the extent to which we escape oppression." </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">--<i>Private Papers</i></span></span></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-68162057555308371852012-10-10T23:15:00.000-07:002014-11-27T12:57:52.594-08:00Exhibit 1.1<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"<u>PREMISE</u>:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">1. Neuroplasticity & the social circuitry of the Network are analagous phenomena.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">2. The Network has become in a real sense the societal brain.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">3. The science of neuroplasticity holds that the individual can change his/her own behavior & thus consciously reshape the cellular function of his/her brain for the better. This however is not easy once deleterious behavior has become ingrained (foreshortened attention spans, etc.).</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">4. Changing ingrained societal behaviors -- as in working to shape the societal brain as it manifests through the Network -- is <u>magnitudinally harder</u> than the already hard task of changing individual behavior.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">5. This is the moral of much dystopian literature.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">6. If one is concerned about the ways the Network & related digital technologies are changing individual & societal brain function; if one feels, intuitively, the value in questioning such qualitative change; if one sees the benefits of skepticism & caution when confronted with the utopian claims of the technocracy, then one may try -- as an <u>individual</u> wholly capable of modifying <u>his/her own behavior</u> -- to resist.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><u>PROPOSAL</u>:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">7. I, a single neuron in the societal brain, refuse to be rewired.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">8. I dread & resist the digital 'renaissance,' the effects of which are: disempowerment of the individual, fragmentation, reductivism, algorithmical & statistical hegemony, total corporate conquest, the annihilation of privacy, the supremacy of advertising, the wholesale dependency on seductive machines, the furtherance of the new despotism & of tyrannical organizations, etc. etc."</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">--<i>Private Papers</i></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4363099202533802933.post-26490972222199946482012-10-10T22:40:00.000-07:002012-10-10T23:15:41.658-07:00Exhibit.1.0<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Daily we hear it said that history is over, that all is future now. The only response to this is to set about the work of remembering. One owes it to oneself, if not to the unknown numbers of persons in one's own position, to pause and formulate in one's own words the nature of the situation. So, for whomever may find this after my death, at the earliest beginning of the long-forestalled reconstruction, listen: We have seen the deliberate draining away of significance from the works and traditions of Western Civilization. This due to the abandonment of historical perspective and the total supersession of individualism as a cultural value. Furthermore, the loss of civic aspiration -- that age-old emphasis on the importance of municipal, <u>civilizational</u> centers of knowledge and achievement -- has left us absent an infrastructure that is anything more than barely functional. Futurity, Collectivity, Technology (social, interactive, virtual, interplanetary), the Network, Objectivity, Plutocratic Aspiration, Market Optimization -- these are the ultimate values and aims of the age. All things serve these or else perish in Irrelevance."<i> --Private Papers</i></span></span></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com