Lot of 49 projects and artworks

[Natália Maranca]

The system we are using now is, to me, what WASTE can be in a world where
the mail system is dying. Now, instead of diverging from the U.S. post, we
can diverge from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, using darknets, as Tore said (if I
actually understood the concept).

Guy said:

> Of course, there will be exceptions to this but part of the appeal of
> W.A.S.T.E. to me is that Pynchon romanticises communication to the point
> where you think it might used to achieve something rather than exchange
> trivialities... is this making any sense?
>

" 'The salvation of Europe,' Konrad says, 'depends on communication, right?
We face this anarchy of jealous German princes, hundreds of them scheming,
counter-scheming, infighting, dissipating all of the Empire's strength in
their useless bickering. But whoever could control the lines of
communication, among all these princes, would control them." (CofL49)

Strikes me as kind of historical, but this was true to physical mail (not
only for the aristocracy, but also for real people) until not very long ago.

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 6:49 PM, <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:

>  I also think that kids raised on the computer as entertainment and quick
> wiki-fact provider, wouldn't be inclined to sit there and read an electronic
> doorstopper, when entertaining blogs(now)or v!
>  ideos (eventually) were available on the same device.


 Well, I'm used to doing everything in a computer ever since I was born, but
I still hate the Kindle idea. Not because I would get distracted, I often
sit in front of a computer to read (especially when reading Pynchon). But
because I really like the feeling of holding a book, the smell, all that
stuff. Also, as you've said, having a Kindle isn't accessible. Bookstores
are closing because of online book-selling in the US and Europe, maybe, but
this is very distant to us here in Brazil, where more than a quarter of the
population is functionally illiterate and only a fifth of the population has
a computer at home.

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Natália
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