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by Harwood
C2C Railway Journey <-> ADULT RETURN = The mouth of the Thames to the Tower of London.
I close my eyes and the distribution of animals, objects, motions, events and places flash – red . grey . grey . red – as blood vessels enlarge my eyelids. I remember that some metaphysical poet or another in 1500 + (something) said that if you rub your eyes and see a white light – it is the glow of your soul.
From the random noise of light reflected through the window and over photo-receptors situated in my ocular mechanism (eyes, with intrinsic and extrinsic eye muscles, as related to the vestibular organs, the head and the whole body), my system fails to explore and find convergence.
Even so the variables and structure of the ambient light engage me, as I slowly remember my ability to de-code, acquired from an early scouting lesson in the Morse codec. (1791 – Samuel Finley Breese Morse a painting and sculpture professor with an early interest in Wired Networks). I quickly wrote down the dots and dashes of code entering my much-adorned visual system and it is these notes I pass on.
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use Context;
We exist in a world where powerful social elites live their life through exceptional fantasies – they mistakenly believe they can best safeguard their privilege by hiding their bonsai trees of knowledge in secret societies, under the tomes of law court papers, magic rituals – art – religions, and the use of well tooled-up armies.
Picture •• Newton
pre-requisites of the computer;
1 Money->{Bank_of_england}->{Newton}.
2 Mechanisation.
3 algebra.
use Constant CODE_OF_WAR => “anything taken out of the hands of the many and put in the hands of a few”;
The sands of arabia grown.
The reign of cruelty is begun.
Disguised in charity & pity & peace.
Pity excusing poverty.
Charity excusing wealth.
Peace an armistice of fear
Reproducing the CODE_OF_WAR.
my @Transportation = qw (
!Fast_Cars
Art
Science
Code
illness
Critical_theory
A_chat_in_the_street
Sex
difference
food
Music
); # WHATEVER

Picture •• transportation->old()
Instead of exceptional fantasies mongrels everywhere lust after the experience of transportation->new() while being firmly rooted to the ground. We require transportation->new() from present situations to other states of pleasure and pain. Out of the gutters and into the stratosphere of the imaginary – the vehicle of our transportation is of little consequence.
Our desire is to fly with our own wings forged from the manacles of oppressive abstraction – that is all that is important.
use Constant VISIONARY #(depreciated) => (“the birth of the telescope 1608”) == (“objectification of vision”);
Bobby Reason was born weak from typhus fever and unable to crawl away from his body of infection. He spends his time passing voltage through the pathways of least resistance to help him amplify, copy, and replay sounds. Extending his ears to where his eyes used to be. He forms lenses to put in place of his imagination. Whilst doing so he manages to split light and holds the lower end of the spectrum (radiation) with special tools he forged out of the industrial revolution to replace his hands.
...And after all is done.
He gets out the air-freshener to replace his nose.
use Constant VISIONARY (new->{MUNDANE}) =
(5 September 1951 LEO (Lyons Electronic Office))
==
(computational vision == ‘electronic brain’);

Picture •• Lyons Electronic Office
Bakeries Valuations
Lyons built and operated the world’s first business computer which they called LEO (Lyons Electronic Office). This came into use months before any American computer. Initially intended for in-house use only, the machine caused such a stir that a company was started to build the machines for other UK organisations. Computers were exported to Australia, South Africa and Czechoslovakia when this was still behind the ‘Iron Curtain’.
Refuse reason while resurrecting the dead
Part 1:
Take a data-base of a social atrocity and harvest from it the ages, names and heights of individual victims. From this the computer extrapolates the vital lung capacity for each person. This is converted to cubic litres of last breath of each victim e.g.:
$VitalLungCapcity = ((0.041 * $Height) - (0.018 * $Age)) - 2.69;
$Victim_Breath_LAST = $VitalLungCapcity;
Part 2:
Set up or use a preexisting public address system placed in the vicinity of the atrocity or contextually related area. With the sound radiating up to one mile from the source. Push the sum of all the victims vital lung capacity of air through the audio system;
Example->Srebrenica->Amsterdam->
From reports of the International Committee of the Red Cross we estimate that 8000 Bosnian Muslim men were killed by Bosnian Serb forces.
#We know the ages are from 15 - 70;
#And the height of each individual is between 150 and 180;
$Height = 170; $Age = 35;
$VitalLungCapacity = ((0.041 * $Height) - (0.018 * $Age)) - 2.69 ;
( 3.65 litres * 8000 bodies ) = 29200 litres of air.
#We then push 29200 litres of air through a speaker system in the
#wave form of a scream.
BIT_COMMON <=> CODE_OF_WAR

Picture •• Spanish Journalist One of Two Journalists Killed in US Army Attack on Journalist Hotel in Baghdad
The bit-commons:
When new common cultural spaces open up in the public domain as they did with the internet in the 1990s, those with the proprietary right or economic might usually attempt enclosure. This activity acts as a raw siphon of economic value as well as associating with the enforcers of enclosure the powers of boundary. (inside, outside, entrance, exit)
At first, experimentation is pursued in all directions until the pathways of least resistance are charted and turned to profit – at which time generalised investment becomes scarce – investment being redirected to deepen and widen the channels of least resistance to profit. This receding wave of investment from the experimental – leaves behind islands of adventure to be colonized by artists, deviants, outsiders, asylum seekers, immigrants, pirates and the insane.
People adopt many strategies to keep their islands open and free at these moments of enclosure, they start creating protocols and formats collectively. Sailors of these isles start transporting ideas of freedom, bounty and hope to foreign ports attracting new settlements.
use Constant => BIT_COMMON
- ALL knowledge NO MATTER WHAT, should be available to us. Whether nuclear arms manufacture,
- anthrax breeding colonies
- or the environmental impact of nail-varnish remover in the tanning factories of Southend-on-sea Essex U.K.;
Rise up on wings of desire. Fly from rats lice poverty famine && violence - escape the CODE_OF_WAR enter the palace of the BIT_COMMON.
use Constant POCEDURAL_CORRUPTION => “mathematical models used outside of their purist application follow the agenda of a well aimed machine gun”
(hutton enquiry <=> CODE_OF_WAR )
(WTO <=> (Merchandise trade by region and selected economies, 1980-2002 Excel format (file size 487KB)) ==
((Commercial services trade by region and selected economies, 1980-2002 Excel format (file size 282KB)) ==
((Merchandise exports, production and gross domestic product, 1950-2002 Excel format (file size 91KB))
(The Revolutionary Politics of Bar-Charts) == (Towards a critique of data-visualization)
It is a questionable assumption that problems in economics, sociology, politics, language, law and healthcare can be resolved by quantification and computation.
sub WhyIsTheBlackManPoor{
foreach(@PoorBlackMan){
$Embedded_Culture = &Calculate_cultural_context;
# returns IMPOSSIBLE
$Economic_Poverty =
&EveryRichFatBloatedArseLickingWanker;
# returns CODE_OF_WAR
$NaturalResources; # Depreciated
}
}

Picture •• BushBlairWar
We need wings to investigate procedural corruption wherever and whenever it takes place.
Critique the mathematical formulae (formulation of statistical data) that are used to report on the psychosocial sphere in the media, and on the bottom of bills sent through our doors.
Language as Data:
Mary, Queen of Scots’ head fell ceremoniously from her shoulders into a basket. Peterborough, England: 8:30am on 8th February 1587. From under her skirts ran a small dog. The seed master of the modern English Bull Terrier. Mary’s plot against Queen Elizabeth I was discovered by comparing her secret communications with a word frequency table of English, derived from Arabic learning.
Paranoid social elites on the way to or from war have always composed, spawned, coded systems by which they and their minions may sleep better at night.
Language as Data, a mathematical study of the periodicity or norms of word use in a language. In English text generated from some none linguistically impaired peoples, ‘the’ makes up 6.18 percent of the corpus of English words. We find that 43% of the corpus is pronouns, conjunctions, other function words and a few common verbs. Word frequency is used to inform religious scholars of who authored various parts of various bibles and to inform search engines of content words in web sites, AI development and in detecting the normalcy of language.
Critique_it!
The exceptional fantasies that the social elite has been living through have spawned strange and bewildering hierarchies of knowledge and war. We need to squash these at the level of algorithm and representation.
The algorithm creates the scaffolding on which the author of a knowledge-based system hangs himself.
While Oliver Cromwell discusses the new Levellers’ constitution for England (at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Putney, Surrey) with factions of the New Model Army, Descartes pays a call on the sickly young mathematician Blaise Pascal.
(Pascal Programming language)->{honour}
for (mechanical calculators).
Descartes wants to speak to Pascal about his vacuum experiments, but, seeing how weak he looked, Descartes volunteered some medical advice:
return (bed-rest and a lot of soup (force bouillons));
In this city’s dark gates – the tree of knowledge leads to this
mansion built on misery.
Here the dress code of secrecy cloaks the flesh in fear.
This is how the proprietary city gets built,
Hidden in every proprietary street,
In every proprietary house,
In every proprietary possession we meet.
NO to TAX (True Levellers 1647)->{Diggers}
!=
(Public money being spent on proprietary systems)
Rise again the true Levellers-republic, rise on wings of knowledge flowing in the domain of the many.
For heaven is more knowledge then one man can muster in a lifetime.
For hell is more knowledge then one man can muster in a lifetime.
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