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Mon. 9/28/09 6:01pm From: Charles-A.

Welcome to The Media Squat. where Douglas Rushkoff … shares.

Pull up a square of tile and sit your butts down..

Mon. 9/28/09 6:02pm From: Charles-A.

I got a declarative statement right here. :-)

Oy, the Canadian dollar, the Japanese Yen, the Chinese Reminimbi, the Euro and most of the other currencies are faring depressingly well against the US dollar.

I'm a Canadian watching my US real estate holdings shrink almost as badly as they did during the mortgage debacle. <sigh>

Mon. 9/28/09 6:04pm From: Charles-A.

I was watching, and it was fun.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:06pm From: Charles-A.

What about Stewart Brand? :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:06pm From: david

theres no such thing as progression. maintaining our documentation of exploration is the greatest answer.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:08pm From: Charles-A.

Well, that's progress for you. :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:08pm From: chom

the concrete I'm sitting on is cold, Inc.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:09pm From: felipe

I think it is possible to use BRAND in a subversive and positive way.
I ran an artists run project in chile called "Galeria Chilena"
please check this web site:
http://www.lanubeloca.org/Galeria%20Chilena%20Home.html
our gallery was NOMADIC, it logo was a heart that changed with each exhibition.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:09pm From: Charles-A.

Watch out for falling, flailing tautologies.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:10pm From: david

great show by the way!! but isnt that an arrogant way to look at it.
progress mainly about change isnt it?

Mon. 9/28/09 6:11pm From: Charles-A.

My band in Europe didn't have a fixed name. We'd call ourselves by the number of musicians e were able to rouse at the local conservatory.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:13pm From: Charles-A.

Progress is all abut change but change is not all about progress

Mon. 9/28/09 6:15pm From: Charles-A.

I noticed that the Control Data machine at Concordia University was an antique, even then.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:16pm From: david

thats right, "progress" is used as a way to dispose of lessons learned.
exploration is the journey of progress.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:18pm From: Carmichael

I haven't been anywhere or done anything.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:19pm From: david

the tool of influence, to control thought patterns?

Mon. 9/28/09 6:20pm From: Charles-A.

The problem with media exploration is that it stopped being 1:N by the sheer existence of computers. They enabled N:M communication and the changes are still coming.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:22pm From: Charles-A.

We're about to go beyond renting megaphones to the global village idiots.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:24pm From: rushkoff

Doesn't sound so very bad, actually.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:24pm From: Charles-A.

Speaking as a highly skilled, highly paid knowledge former worker, I can attest to the truth of his statements.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:26pm From: Charles-A.

Quaker, Quacker. Its a myth and they repeat it over and over an over.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:27pm From: david

under the influence of the media disregard of the consumer/self.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:28pm From: Charles-A.

Wear these jeans and you'll get and get screwed (not laid :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:28pm From: rushkoff

heh

Mon. 9/28/09 6:31pm From: david

to self destruct!

Mon. 9/28/09 6:32pm From: Charles-A.

Isn't life grand on the treadmill? :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:33pm From: david

but where are you going?

Mon. 9/28/09 6:34pm From: Charles-A.

Its a treadmill. It will ferry me from the nowhere I find myself now to the grave.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:35pm From: Charles-A.

Its not depressing. Its a fact. :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:37pm From: Charles-A.

And the church excommunicated people for usury.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:38pm From: david

not depressives, just maintained progressives.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:39pm From: I seem to be a verb

Nice talk, thank you for it. Reminds me of listening to Bucky, in terms of helping our limited attention and life span view something greater and remember all the obstacles were created by us. I've been thinking a lot lately about how to remove commodified intermediaries between people largely because of your show.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:39pm From: Charles-A.

I'll be you friend because you wear, uh, nothing. :-)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:42pm From: Charles-A.

By Bucky I take it you refer to R. Buckmimster Fuller

Mon. 9/28/09 6:43pm From: Charles-A.

Death Tax = reptilian cognition. (People will always have 100 of IQ,)

Mon. 9/28/09 6:44pm From: non-simultaneously apprehending

You know it! Been reading him and feeling hopeful.

In the bathroom at my job, there's a business magazine with this cover: A dark sky, thunderstorm, caption: "How To Use Fear For Your Business". Wish I was making it up. But, I'm glad it's getting so hyperbolic. It's not a stable form.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:45pm From: Charles-A.

But its a canard. A room wheret hey are holding a Mensa meeting still has an average ID of 100.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:48pm From: Charles-A.

I know "non-simultaneously apprehending". What kinds of bastards read magazines with articles subtitled "non-simultaneously apprehending"/

Mon. 9/28/09 6:49pm From: ?

Ahhh. I know "non-simultaneously apprehending". What kinds of bastards read magazines with articles subtitled "How To Use Fear For Your Business"

Mon. 9/28/09 6:49pm From: lactation consultant

heh heh - the worst of 'em..

Mon. 9/28/09 6:52pm From: Charles-A.

Sucks to be a "lactation consultant" or should that be Sucks on...

Mon. 9/28/09 6:53pm From: david

abstraction till distraction, its a dangerous thing but very powerful<

Mon. 9/28/09 6:54pm From: Charles-A.

Cool stole from school, but its always been hip to be square.

Mon. 9/28/09 6:57pm From: david

not quite

Mon. 9/28/09 6:59pm From: Charles-A.

To the Media Squat, you came, saw and you conquered.

"Ave Rushkoff. Morituri te salutant."

"Ramones" "We Want The Airwaves" "Anthology: Hey Ho, Let's Go.

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