Atdtda22: [42.2ii] The empty suburban lamplight, 614

[grladams at teleport.com]

Can we reflect on this for a moment. I've been experiencing anxiety about
"the system" of digital technologies. The digital content people who are
evil want to see us pay-- alot-- for each time we hear a song, read an
article, talk to one another, while the social level playing field
democratic people want us to be able to find these things without obstacles
too high for anyone to overcome cheaply. The evil ruling class of digital
technologies makes us have to buy a lot of gadgets to hook together an
experience that exists almost for free in the analogue or public form,
a-and click on a cart and whip out our credit card to download it to a
device we'll have to view with a viewer. Buy the cord, the set, the cable,
the storage medium, the container.. No matter that it can be distributed
far from it's shelf in the Patent office or Microfilm box.. I'm interested
in the implication of making it unprofitable for the powers that be. I
think this and the posts earlier on the loss of the disapearing free
treasure trove of digital content on M&D make me want to say thank you to
all the list for distributing free treasures. May it continue, 

Jill
 

Original Message:
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From:  kelber at mindspring.com
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 22:58:39 -0500 (EST)
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Atdtda22: [42.2ii] The empty suburban lamplight, 614
It's not so much electrical light, as it is the controlling of light by
"the system," that's evil.  Edison profiteering by being the servant of the
ruling class, at the expense of renegades like Tesla.  And in GR, Byron the
Bulb haplessly struggling to give electricity over to the people by making
it unprofitable for the powers that be.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>


>Once again, I'll risk reductionism by suggesting:
> 
>Natural light is almost always a positive in AtD.
>Electric light is almost always not. 



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