Hi Rachel<div><br></div><div>This sounds great, I'd love to come to the reading group, can't make Friday this week, please let me know what future dates for it will be. What are you reading first? I love Caliban and the Witch and would love a chance to talk with others about it, really looking forward to reading the other stuff on your list.</div>
<div>I hope you're fine </div><div>X</div><div>Lottie<span></span><br><br>On Monday, 9 April 2012, wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">“And you all know security, Is mortals' chiefest enemy”.<br>
Hecate, Macbeth<br>
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So the problem with the MF narrative of a 'networked insurgency' is of<br>
course that it is predicated on, and therefore anticipates, the kind of<br>
smart-city network technology that IBM and the Olympic machinists would<br>
want foisted upon us in their over-securitised cybernetic nightmare. The<br>
school of thought that says revert, infect, hack or parasite the<br>
technology is one i have sympathy with - create conditions for The Glitch<br>
- but mostly as a theatrical proposition.<br>
<br>
1. If we created a non-rational Moving Forest map that was layered with<br>
geo-fictions, obscuring the surveillance friendly panoptical tendencies of<br>
all electronical mapping devices, then that might be more interesting.<br>
Camouflage. Anyone interested to design such a map?<br>
<br>
2. Also, the 'insurgent' suggests a binary oppositional narrative of good<br>
vs evil - however, MF recognises that our wost enemies are usually<br>
ourselves as Macbeth proves. MF is an associative artwork of dissonant<br>
dissensus, insurgents can be at odds with each other as they move towards<br>
the Castle. As long as there is movement.<br>
<br>
3. Also, networks don't always have to be predicated on the electronic.<br>
To uncover/read city infrastructure we can use material that is close to<br>
us and everyday, to make relationships and associations through simple<br>
actions, for example London's reading groups and walking groups such as<br>
the Wetherspoons Underground SykoGeosofy Club which meets on occasion to<br>
follow the various routes of London's many underground rivers. Over the<br>
years river infrastructure has been built on, replaced in parts by the<br>
London Underground. In turn a further layer of infrastructural formatting<br>
is laid congruently with the railtrack in the copper cabling used for high<br>
speed telecommunications. Copper was one of the 7 metals that alchemists<br>
used (gold, silver, mercury, copper, lead, iron & tin). Before its highly<br>
conductive properties were discovered in electromagnetism it was used to<br>
craft mirrors and was associated with love and attraction. The spikes in<br>
copper trading prices have resulted in a spate of copper theft around<br>
London including the Barbara Hepworth sculpture 'Two Forms (Divided<br>
Circle)'<br>
<br>
4. So base metal can be transformed into 'gold'. These small associations<br>
of associative drifts are what will shape the Moving Forest in July and<br>
beyond. To this end I propose 'Hecate's Prophecies' Reading Group and<br>
invite all the witches on the list to attend. The intention is to explore<br>
the idea of the self-fulfilling prophecy, a key Macbethian theme and also<br>
the core principle of cybernetic systems. The reading list is currently:-<br>
- The witches soliloquies in Macbeth<br>
- Caliban and The Witch by Silvia Federici<br>
- Witch Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Murray<br>
- On Seduction by Baudrillard<br>
- A General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss<br>
- Zeroes + Ones : Digital Women and the New Technoculture by Sadie Plant<br>
<br>
Any more suggestions welcome, and any satellite groups encouraged.<br>
The first meeting is being prepared for Friday 13th April at the Autonomy<br>
Club at Freedom bookshop, Angel Alley, Whitechapel.<br>
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rachel<br>
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