Comments for Bilateral http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral /// art / exchange / events / re-enactment /// Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:59:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Cold Turkey by Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3479 Lucas Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:16:25 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3479 and again: <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3234/3047231233_62b4b2dfe6.jpg" alt="dilbert addicted to the internet" /> and again:
dilbert addicted to the internet

]]> Comment on Knowing Your Shit by lauren http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/knowing-your-shit/#comment-3478 lauren Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:52:45 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=152#comment-3478 i'm so glad that shit brought you out of your 'maybe i'll stop blogging' revery. even just for a week :) i’m so glad that shit brought you out of your ‘maybe i’ll stop blogging’ revery. even just for a week :)

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3464 Lucas Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:17:30 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3464 Oh, as is often the case when you start planning something silly like this, things keep popping out of the woodwork. Like this excellent episode of South Park entitled "The Day the Internet Stood Still". It is very funny, and rings true for me! The internet is a "good", like fruit or vegetables, and it's scarcity sends people out onto the streets in a quasi riot. They all pack up their cars and drive to "Californie" where they have heard there is some internet to be had. It's the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath" rel="nofollow">Grapes of Wrath</a> all over. Great stuff. <a href="http://gawker.com/380877/south-park-the-day-the-internet-stood-still?autoplay=true" rel="nofollow">http://gawker.com/380877/south-park-the-day-the-internet-stood-still?autoplay=true</a> Oh, as is often the case when you start planning something silly like this, things keep popping out of the woodwork. Like this excellent episode of South Park entitled “The Day the Internet Stood Still”. It is very funny, and rings true for me! The internet is a “good”, like fruit or vegetables, and it’s scarcity sends people out onto the streets in a quasi riot. They all pack up their cars and drive to “Californie” where they have heard there is some internet to be had. It’s the Grapes of Wrath all over. Great stuff.

http://gawker.com/380877/south-park-the-day-the-internet-stood-still?autoplay=true

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3461 Lucas Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:01:20 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3461 Bridget: "i have a theory that the internet is primarily about loneliness" - interesting! can you elaborate on that? Yes, I agree - I will make a postal address where people can get in touch. I think I will send a lot of postcards that year, and make some nice long landline calls. Regarding the "rules" of the whole thing - I am thinking to convene a committee of representatives to help me work them out. Like, what about all the computers that are embedded in the world around us (ATMs etc)? Should I relinquish them too, and go back to the passbook? What sort of support will there be for my girlfriend, who is going to forever be fielding calls and messages for me? How should I manage that? And so on... Amanda - thanks for the link to Binary, I'll check it out! Bridget: “i have a theory that the internet is primarily about loneliness” - interesting! can you elaborate on that?

Yes, I agree - I will make a postal address where people can get in touch. I think I will send a lot of postcards that year, and make some nice long landline calls.

Regarding the “rules” of the whole thing - I am thinking to convene a committee of representatives to help me work them out. Like, what about all the computers that are embedded in the world around us (ATMs etc)? Should I relinquish them too, and go back to the passbook? What sort of support will there be for my girlfriend, who is going to forever be fielding calls and messages for me? How should I manage that? And so on…

Amanda - thanks for the link to Binary, I’ll check it out!

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Bridget http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3434 Bridget Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:47:11 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3434 lucas i think you should post a PO box or some other contact point - just so that you don't fall into the abyss. when i was in japan i didn'thave a phone - just the internet - and that was my umbilical cord definately. Maybe, the computer is just tv, a bit more interactive maybe - but essentially an 'infotainment' tool. I did go to Tokyo (via ferry 36 hrs) with no phone or computer and only a small journal with dates, times and home phone numbers in. i managed in that massive metropolis for a week just fine.i have a theory that the internet is primarily about loneliness. I could not do it - houses without internet seem unutterably primative to me. even though i am a recreational user - not a hard core junkie like your bloggy self. lucas
i think you should post a PO box or some other contact point - just so that you don’t fall into the abyss. when i was in japan i didn’thave a phone - just the internet - and that was my umbilical cord definately. Maybe, the computer is just tv, a bit more interactive maybe - but essentially an ‘infotainment’ tool. I did go to Tokyo (via ferry 36 hrs) with no phone or computer and only a small journal with dates, times and home phone numbers in. i managed in that massive metropolis for a week just fine.i have a theory that the internet is primarily about loneliness.

I could not do it - houses without internet seem unutterably primative to me. even though i am a recreational user - not a hard core junkie like your bloggy self.

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Amanda http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3420 Amanda Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:42:37 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3420 I recommend viewing "Binary" before you cut the chord. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5994487871037605434 I recommend viewing “Binary” before you cut the chord.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5994487871037605434

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by mayhem http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3419 mayhem Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:23:02 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3419 I just told my annual review panel that I thought that FACEBOOK was really helping me to feel connected to my department...... am I seriously traj or what? why isn't your nanna on the internet? I thought it was made for OAP's I just told my annual review panel that I thought that FACEBOOK was really helping me to feel connected to my department……

am I seriously traj or what?

why isn’t your nanna on the internet? I thought it was made for OAP’s

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3414 Lucas Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:44:00 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3414 "You wont be able to keep us cyborgs updated though will you!" ...precisely, Mel! My hunch is that there is indeed another world out there beyond the online! (My grandma is living proof!) You cyborgs will (or won't) find out what I'm up to. It's my mission to accept that fact and let it go (it's hard!). It's hard to give up on the idea of "everything is always accessible" which I now take for granted (and which causes emotional meltdown when the umbilical cord is unexpectedly cut). Thanks for the link to City of Bits! I'll check it out. Yeah, back in 95, folks were dreaming of the kind of immersion we now "couldn't do without". “You wont be able to keep us cyborgs updated though will you!”

…precisely, Mel! My hunch is that there is indeed another world out there beyond the online! (My grandma is living proof!)

You cyborgs will (or won’t) find out what I’m up to. It’s my mission to accept that fact and let it go (it’s hard!). It’s hard to give up on the idea of “everything is always accessible” which I now take for granted (and which causes emotional meltdown when the umbilical cord is unexpectedly cut).

Thanks for the link to City of Bits! I’ll check it out. Yeah, back in 95, folks were dreaming of the kind of immersion we now “couldn’t do without”.

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Mel Curtiss http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3410 Mel Curtiss Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:15:06 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3410 Funny, I'm right now reading City of Bits: space, place and the infobahn. Published in '95, it reminds me of the hyperreal hyperbola that was so prevalent then - oooh! full immersion baby! I myself suffer terribly because of my computer - but - would find your experiment a bit too daunting! I wonder what you will find out about space, in terms of the way it is altered by 'new' technologies. You wont be able to keep us cyborgs updated though will you! Funny, I’m right now reading City of Bits: space, place and the infobahn. Published in ‘95, it reminds me of the hyperreal hyperbola that was so prevalent then - oooh! full immersion baby! I myself suffer terribly because of my computer - but - would find your experiment a bit too daunting! I wonder what you will find out about space, in terms of the way it is altered by ‘new’ technologies. You wont be able to keep us cyborgs updated though will you!

]]> Comment on Cold Turkey by Lucas http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/cold-turkey/#comment-3393 Lucas Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:22:14 +0000 http://www.lucazoid.com/bilateral/?p=151#comment-3393 mayhem! great to hear from you. yeah, KIND OF admirable. Lizzie points out that it would be far more admirable to just "cut down" rather than go cold turkey. But I dunno - I am attracted to the idea of going back to, say, 1993, that blissful time in the past before I got my first email account... yeah, no doubt social and job opportunities will be lost... but what might emerge in their place? mayhem! great to hear from you. yeah, KIND OF admirable. Lizzie points out that it would be far more admirable to just “cut down” rather than go cold turkey. But I dunno - I am attracted to the idea of going back to, say, 1993, that blissful time in the past before I got my first email account… yeah, no doubt social and job opportunities will be lost… but what might emerge in their place?

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