Media LifeInleiding Mediacultuur I 11 War [options]

#medialife #IMCI

options in media life

①war against the machines

②surrender to mediated reality

③become media (and hack life)

gradually easing off the dependency

moving to a deserted /remote placeestablish a new land and don’t tell anyone

moving to a resort without electricity or phones

break your media

be someone new

orjust die

fail Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System tests

“day by day [-] the machines are gaining ground upon us; day by day we are

becoming more subservient to them; more men are daily bound down as slaves

to tend them, more men are daily devoting the energies of their whole lives to the development of mechanical life.”

1863

“The upshot is simply a question of time, but that the time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and its inhabitants”

”In the context of life, we do not want to be tied uniquely to carbon-based life, or life-as-we-know-it, but we also do not want life-as-could-be to be anything at all. The challenge lies precisely on finding the right amounts of systemhood and thinghood, as well as the interactions between the two, necessary for a good theory of life, real or artificial.”