[rohrpost] textz.com newsletter november 2001
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Thu, 01 Nov 2001 19:00:16 +0100
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textz.com newsletter november 2001
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we are glad to announce that we have finally released the first
plain ascii versions ever of empire by antonio negri and michae=
l
hardt, abfall fuer alle by rainald goetz and to have done with
the judgement of god by antonin artaud. there is of course much
more, and even more is obviously missing. to contribute a text
to our engine, all you have to do is mail it to inbox@textz.com
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see below:
10 of our most recent textz
10 of our most popular textz in october
10 of our least popular textz in october
10 of our textz that still need some editing
10 of our shortest textz
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napster was only the beginning
an introduction to textz.com [updated version 0.5.5]
a spectre is haunting the corporate world--the spectre of
organized world-wide file-sharing. mp3, to name the most common
synonym for the becoming-distributor of millions of former
customers, has clearly shown that the flows of digital data are
much more driven by people and popular protocols than they are
determined by legislation, ownership or the new global rules of
the corporate-political. napster has reverse-engineered the
ideology of a whole industry, and it has finally proven its
total, complete and absolute obsolescence. today more than ever=
,
the nets are zones of excess, immune against the business model
of electronic scarcity. the transnational companies that are
trying to break up the file-sharing networks have declared a wa=
r
they will never be able to stop. there are going to be thousand=
s
of napsters. textz.com is not even zero-point-five of them.
we are not the dot in dot-com, neither are we the minus in e-
book. the future of online publishing sits right next to your
computer: it's a $50 scanner and a $50 printer, both connected
to the internet. we are the & in copy & paste, and plain ascii
is still the format of our choice. it shouldn't require a plug-
in to read a book on the net, nor should it require a credit
card. the text industry is a paper tiger. along with the mass
erosion of their proprietary rights goes the vanishing of their
digital watermarks. packed today, cracked tomorrow. whatever
electronic gadgets they will come up with--they are all going t=
o
be dead media on their very release day. forget about your bran=
d
new kafka dvd. i already got it via sms. one shouldn't expect
the 50 million former users of napster to be digitally
illiterate: they won't judge an e-book by its cover.
this is not project gutenberg. it is neither about constituting
a canonical body of historical texts (by authors so classical
that they've all been watching the grass from below for almost =
a
century of posthumous copyright), nor is it about htmlifying
freely available books into unreadable sub-chapterized hyper-
chunks. texts relate to texts by other means than a href. just
go to your local bookstore and find out yourself. the net is no=
t
a rhizome, and a digital library should not be an interactive
nirvana. the conceptual poverty of today's post-academic, post-
corporate public online services--and we haven't seen dot-museu=
m
yet--is not and has never been a desirable alternative to the
dystopic vision of a future controlled by the super-pervasive
data-streams of the emerging military-entertainment complex.
there are still other options. nostalgia is slavery. stay home,
read a book.
information does not want to be free. in fact it is absolutely
free of will, a constant flow of signs of lives which are
permanently being turned into commodities and transformed into
commercial content. textz.com is not part of the information
business. they say there was a time when content was king, but
we have seen his head rolling. our week beats their year. ever
since we have been moving from content to discontent, collectin=
g
scripts and viruses, writing programs and bots, dealing with
textz as warez, as executables--something that is able to chang=
e
your life. this is not promotional material. facing the unified
principles of information--the combined horror of global
communication and so-called guerilla marketing--there is no mor=
e
need for media theory or cultural studies. the resistance
against corporate culture can itself no longer remain in the
cultural domain. you make a mistake if you see what we do as
merely apolitical.
we are studying the coils of the serpent, watching the walk of
the penguin, mapping the moves of our wired enemies.
intellectual, digital and biological property--cornerstones of
the new regimes of control--are the direct result of organized
corporate piracy. they are not only replacing such dubious and
obsolete notions as freedom, democracy, human rights and
technological progress. all these new forms of ownership are, i=
n
the first place, attempts to expropriate people's work, data an=
d
bodies--just as the they begin to acquire, for the first time i=
n
history, the technical means to organize them in a radically
different way. today's global media and communication
conglomerates are mafias, and we shouldn't count on what's left
of the national governments when it comes to fighting back.
"humanity won't be happy until the last copyright holder is hun=
g
by the guts of the last patent lawyer." napster was only the
beginning. the nineties of the net are over. let's move on.
a.s.ambulanzen, berlin/germany, october 2001
no copyright textz.com
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10 of our most recent textz
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raoul vaneigem: the revolution of everyday life
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dvaneigem+life
hakim bey: a war in heaven
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dbey+war
jacques derrida: gespr=E4ch =FCber kino
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dderrida+kino
marion von osten: fight back the determinator
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dosten+determinator
rainald goetz: abfall f=FCr alle
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgoetz+abfall
stephan geene: des hi=E9rarchies plates
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgeene+hierarchies
tom holert: mikro-=F6konomie der geschichte
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dholert+geschichte
antonin artaud: to have done with the judgement of god
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dartaud+judgement
franco berardi bifo: panic war
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dbifo+war
michael hardt / antonio negri: empire
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dhardt+negri+empire
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10 of our most popular textz in october
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douglas adams: the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadams+guide
kathy acker: the language of the body
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dacker+language
a.s.ambulanzen: feminists like us
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dambulanzen+feminists
noam chomsky: on the bombings
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dchomsky+bombings
klaus theweleit: twin towers
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dtheweleit+towers
theodor w. adorno: on popular music
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadorno+music
cia: psychological operations in guerrilla warfare
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dagency+operations
stephen hawking: a brief history of time
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dhawking+history
sun tzu: the art of war
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsun+war
adilkno: cracking the movement
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadilkno+movement
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10 of our least popular textz in october
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franz kafka: ein junger ehrgeiziger student
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dkafka+student
serge daney: the t(h)errorized (godardian pedagogy)
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddaney+pedagogy
stephen pfohl: the cybernetic delirium of norbert wiener
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dpfohl+delirium
franz-josef strauss: die zeit der entschiedung ist da
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dstrauss+zeit
bruce sterling: the manifesto of january 3, 2000
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsterling+manifesto
guy debord: preface to the third french edition of la soci=E9t=E9=
...
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddebord+preface+third+french
friedrich kittler: ph=E4nomenologie versus medienwissenschaft
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dkittler+medienwissenschaft
felix reidenbach: entpolitisierte kulturkritik und der krieg...
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dreidenbach+kulturkritik
saskia sassen: the topoi of e-space
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsassen+topoi
roberto ohrt: asger jorn, guy debord und die si
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dohrt+jorn+debord
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10 of our textz that still need some editing
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james joyce: ulysses
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Djoyce+ulysses
herman melville: moby dick
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dmoby+dick
neal stephenson: snow crash
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsnow+crash
d.a.f. de sade: justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dsade+justine
william gibson: all tomorrow's parties
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgibson+parties
lautr=E9amont: les chants de maldoror
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dlautreamont+maldoror
gilles deleuze: spinoza
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddeleuze+spinoza
stephen king: the library policeman
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dking+policeman
ralf reinders / ronald fritzsch: die bewegung 2. juni
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dreinders+fritzsch+bewegung
jacques derrida: m=E9moires
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dderrida+memoires
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10 of our shortest textz
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theodor w. adorno / max horkheimer: tierpsychologie
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dadorno+tierpsychologie
elektro music department: two words about the internet
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Delektro+internet
anti-pop consortium: tragic epilogue
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dconsortium+epilogue
d. diederichsen: das netz als technologie permanenter inklusion
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddiederichsen+netz
ulrike meinhof: brief aus dem toten trakt
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dmeinhof+brief
f=E9lix guattari: vers une =E8re post-m=E9dia
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dguattari+ere
paul garrin: the disappearence of public space on the net
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dgarrin+disappearence
comit=E9 d'occupation de la sorbonne: t=E9l=E9grammes
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dcomite+telegrammes
joseph jean rolland dub=E9: livraison gratuite
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Ddube+livraison
my bloody valentine: loveless
http://textz.com/index.php3?text=3Dvalentine+loveless
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