Computers, video, radio, printing presses, synthesizers, fax machines, tape recorders, photocopiers--these things make good toys, but terrible addictions. Finally we realize we cannot `` reach out and touch someone'' who is not present in the flesh. These media may be useful to our art--but they must not possess us, nor must they stand between, mediate, or separate us from our animal/animate selves. We want to control our media, not be Controlled by them.

You can't get sick from too much knowledge--but we can suffer from the virtualization of knowledge, its alienation from us & its replacement by a weird dull changeling or simulacrum-- the same ``data,'' yes, but now dead-- like supermarket vegetables; no ``aura.''

Hakim Bey

We need to invent virtuous revolutionary radical machines to place them in the nodal points of the network, as well as facing the general intellect that administers the imperial meta-machines. Before starting this we need to be aware of the density of the 'intelligence' that is condesed in each commodity, organization, message and media, in each machine of postmodern society. ''

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