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Random Samplings of Lecture Notes.
Thursday, 10-06-24 6:49 PM
To p~j~ :
Welcome to the VFU* as a student and mentor.
>...I have put my most sincere design students in touch with one
of
> my teachers, and the willingness to respond is not there.
We do not take anyone's inventory at VFU*. The messiah is within
all of us and machinery of unlearning is in place for anyone who
wants it badly enough, but the mass mediation kills it very efficiently
and very early. "
...the way of the TAO is nameless..." but the relationship of the
universal law of cause and effect is clearly observable ...the Father
always precedes the Son ...the image or word of conceptualization,
always comes before the realization and the actualization. In terms
of de-schooling and de-design, the table has been set, all that
needs to be done is to invite the hungry to dinner and the rest
will take care of itself.
However the masses are overweight with junk food (both in mind
and body) and even though they are malnourished and have cravings,
they are to weak to make something real for themselves to eat and
they do not know what it is the afflicts them. Like the living host
of vampires, they simply flounder, but cannot defend themselves.
At first glance it appears like mental laziness, or stupidity,
but to paraphrase the words of Helvetius "...people are not born
stupid, but it takes a lot of advertising dollars to make them that
way...", so it is with the average student. Design students and
students in general are drowning in a sea of information overload
and are the victims of artificial ignorance that creates institutional
codependency and cybernetic narcosis.
The industrial Matrix cannibalizes these hosts that are paralyzed
in their technological embryos.
De-schooling emancipates through enabling the individual to shut
down the info-noize and surf data rather than drown in it. People
talk about "surfing" the net, but very few actually know how to
do it efficiently.
We were pioneers, via our early attempts to pass on to the general
public the tools for media technology navigation,for public access
to public media, of what is now called "information architecture"
i.e. Saul Wurman's work "Information Anxiety"
Our work has been consistently "marginalized, quarantined, homogenized
and then cloned."
If a student has access to this kind of info-aikido, she will be
able to navigate and create opportunities, while others remain sedated
and insensible. However if this knowledge is unavailable ...who
will pass it on.
In this manner the student that is eager to gain employment, may
learn that building bridges, is better than waiting for them to
be built.
Our VFU* foundation course in media technethics is a fast track
through the "Labyrinth of Technology", a road map with GPS, if you
will, that will assist anyone who puts it to practice...it is highly
unlikely that the average student will ever find it, or learn how
to use it by reading the search engine abstracts even in our syllabus
draft notes, as it is that the Karate Kid can get a black belt by
lolling around the video game parlors or navigating their iPod.
It is a very demanding learning curve that yields exponential results
and we cannot see either functional applied technetics and de-design
or for that matter even "efficient" design in Ellulian
terms happening in the 21st CE without it.
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:11 PM,
wrote: Info Architecture "...homogenized and cloned..."
VFU* j~p~ study desk update 100626
RE: Applied Technethics, De-Design and Human Ecological Recovery
to OCAD
MFT_VFU* Bcc et al
p~j~:
> ... but I understand and know the context for action...
... Info Architecture "...Homogenized and cloned..."
...the revealed concealment of true indigenous ancestral wisdom
craft vs. the greenwashing of pop pseudo techno_mysticism
...institutional co-dependency, media addiction and the agendas
of the bandwidth hogs that posture as information providers, but
are basically just junk advertising delivery systems instead?...
is techno_spirituality like collecting baseball cards ... analogue
or digital, 3D or virtual reality?
Does how many gurus you know or know about get you into a special
club, with free travel miles added to your account?
...does artificial intelligence multiply itself in uninhibited
free space, or just mimic and replicate the artificial ignorance
of the telecommunications monopolies that use social engineering
and mind control strategies based on statistical models that are
already corrupted and biased in favor of the corporate and governmental
bottom lines?
What are the technological anomalies of this kind of info. inbreeding?
What is a "yes no"?...in the popular 60's T.V. series "The Prisoner"
the abducted spy claims "I AM not a number, I AM a free man !!!"
...in his Kafkaesque trail every time he speaks he is cut off by
faceless bureaucrats ...in our case what we communicate today in
silence is "...Homogenized and cloned..." and shows up on the next
days front page or is "brain drained" and buried alive...
...we had electrical transit in Toronto and LA 1910, the first
faxes were already in use in the 1860's, solar energy gathering
parabolic mirrors 35ft. across, with steam driven pumps were pumping
1600 gallons of water in 1905...this means that with this technology
alone combined with our current nanotechnology and similar unites
spanning just just 1/1000th of the Arazona/Nevada desert we could
power the entire continental grid for FREE.
...so what happened?
This info. and the ability to find and use it is the essence of
the foundation course in technethincs, an advanced understanding
of media discourse analysis and info. Architecture being just one
of the prerequisites ...but when the student revs up his search
engine to find out about it all they get is Saul Wurman and other
"...Homogenized and cloned..." statistical aberrations with pretty
pictures and what looks like a solution to info overload is just
info overload with pretty pictures
...we can demonstrate with one graphic image, "the demographic
J", what the global ecological problem is and it's solution with
just one word "emmenagogues"
Yet apparent simplicity according to the TAO Te Ching "...is not
EZ. but very difficult"
This is what de-schooling and not it's "...Homogenized and cloned..."
versions is all about.
...can anyone who has never been outside of the military/industrial/governmental/academic
dis-ease establishment matrix really "understand the context for
action", without first understanding that all action in a cybernetic
grid is preprogrammed and that for every plan there is a contingency...that
you are playing chess with a machine and that the only way to win
is not to play at all
...we suggest that the first step in recovery is to get honest
and accept the fact that we do not know the answers, to admit that
we are powerless and to take the cotton baton out of our ears and
put it into our mouths and listen...
We suggest to your design students, that want to know what unadulterated
de-design is actually about and who really want to be active here
in the 21st. CE, instead of just playing with a dysfunctional control
panel from way back in the 20th CE, to register
for our foundation course in Applied Technethics and see what
you see then...
g~k~ (c)2010 MFT - all world rights reserved
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Each study, in the links below, is crafted for
individual students, these notes reflect only a very cursory outline
of subjects touched on, in an entirely oral tradition, during several
meditation walks, lasting approximately three hours each. They are
not intended to be an abstract or outline of the course contents
or structure.
Please Keep an Open Mind - "Find the Gold
and Leave the Rest" - Student input is welcome.
I) Herbal
Birth Control, Minus ZPG, Propaganda and
Greeking in Media
II) Media
Monopolies, Drug Cartels, Artificial Ignorance and the Demographic
J
III) Artificial
Ignorance - Conspiracies that are not Theories
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