gipsy site

akke wagenaar

1997 a journey along amsterdam dakar delhi london .........    investigates the relation between    technology and domestication    language and mediation    property and power    happiness and religion    time space and freedom what are the roots of the desire to be wired?    overcome all mediation    be present physically    experience everything    immediately and unmediated    without the interface    of language the final confrontation will take place in and on the internet result in http://err.org/akke/GipsySite

if you want to understand the far reaching effects of the internet on human culture and nature you have to go back to the birth of language digital communication implicates a high degree of mediation communication takes place mainly through language body and mind split in an extreme way God is searched for in the net the linear concept of time desintegrates in a large amount of synchronous time bubbles each with their own experience of time time and space separate the connection with the nearest environment is broken everybody wants to be a nomad but is glued to the screen more than ever a deep longing for communication and connection with other living creatures with oneself with God

gipsies and other unmediatised groups nomads the only groups who have escaped domestication the word gipsy has become a methaphor for groups that defy authority and rules in any society or state they enter they are the most despised by all societies they do not ackowledge property "they steal" other groups are the languageless the poor they are free of mediatisation within a world that uses mediatisation increasingly as a (violent) means of power and control there are no gipsies on the net they can not read neither write mediatisation has no grip on them virtual gipsies would defy any rule and be hated would not be able to read or write would not be able to mediatise or be mediatised would steal what they need - from the net, on the net