[rohrpost] textz.com newsletter november 2001

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   textz.com newsletter november 2001
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          we are glad to announce that we have finally released the first
          plain ascii versions ever of empire by antonio negri and michael
          hardt, abfall fuer alle by rainald goetz and to have done with
          the judgement of god by antonin artaud. there is of course much
          more, and even more is obviously missing. to contribute a text
          to our engine, all you have to do is mail it to inbox@textz.com



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            10 of our most popular textz in october
            10 of our least popular textz in october
            10 of our textz that still need some editing
            10 of our shortest textz

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          napster was only the beginning

          an introduction to textz.com [updated version 0.5.5]

          a spectre is haunting the corporate world--the spectre of
          organized world-wide file-sharing. mp3, to name the most common
          synonym for the becoming-distributor of millions of former
          customers, has clearly shown that the flows of digital data are
          much more driven by people and popular protocols than they are
          determined by legislation, ownership or the new global rules of
          the corporate-political. napster has reverse-engineered the
          ideology of a whole industry, and it has finally proven its
          total, complete and absolute obsolescence. today more than ever,
          the nets are zones of excess, immune against the business model
          of electronic scarcity. the transnational companies that are
          trying to break up the file-sharing networks have declared a war
          they will never be able to stop. there are going to be thousands
          of napsters. textz.com is not even zero-point-five of them.

          we are not the dot in dot-com, neither are we the minus in e-
          book. the future of online publishing sits right next to your
          computer: it's a $50 scanner and a $50 printer, both connected
          to the internet. we are the & in copy & paste, and plain ascii
          is still the format of our choice. it shouldn't require a plug-
          in to read a book on the net, nor should it require a credit
          card. the text industry is a paper tiger. along with the mass
          erosion of their proprietary rights goes the vanishing of their
          digital watermarks. packed today, cracked tomorrow. whatever
          electronic gadgets they will come up with--they are all going to
          be dead media on their very release day. forget about your brand
          new kafka dvd. i already got it via sms. one shouldn't expect
          the 50 million former users of napster to be digitally
          illiterate: they won't judge an e-book by its cover.

          this is not project gutenberg. it is neither about constituting
          a canonical body of historical texts (by authors so classical
          that they've all been watching the grass from below for almost a
          century of posthumous copyright), nor is it about htmlifying
          freely available books into unreadable sub-chapterized hyper-
          chunks. texts relate to texts by other means than a href. just
          go to your local bookstore and find out yourself. the net is not
          a rhizome, and a digital library should not be an interactive
          nirvana. the conceptual poverty of today's post-academic, post-
          corporate public online services--and we haven't seen dot-museum
          yet--is not and has never been a desirable alternative to the
          dystopic vision of a future controlled by the super-pervasive
          data-streams of the emerging military-entertainment complex.
          there are still other options. nostalgia is slavery. stay home,
          read a book.

          information does not want to be free. in fact it is absolutely
          free of will, a constant flow of signs of lives which are
          permanently being turned into commodities and transformed into
          commercial content. textz.com is not part of the information
          business. they say there was a time when content was king, but
          we have seen his head rolling. our week beats their year. ever
          since we have been moving from content to discontent, collecting
          scripts and viruses, writing programs and bots, dealing with
          textz as warez, as executables--something that is able to change
          your life. this is not promotional material. facing the unified
          principles of information--the combined horror of global
          communication and so-called guerilla marketing--there is no more
          need for media theory or cultural studies. the resistance
          against corporate culture can itself no longer remain in the
          cultural domain. you make a mistake if you see what we do as
          merely apolitical.

          we are studying the coils of the serpent, watching the walk of
          the penguin, mapping the moves of our wired enemies.
          intellectual, digital and biological property--cornerstones of
          the new regimes of control--are the direct result of organized
          corporate piracy. they are not only replacing such dubious and
          obsolete notions as freedom, democracy, human rights and
          technological progress. all these new forms of ownership are, in
          the first place, attempts to expropriate people's work, data and
          bodies--just as the they begin to acquire, for the first time in
          history, the technical means to organize them in a radically
          different way. today's global media and communication
          conglomerates are mafias, and we shouldn't count on what's left
          of the national governments when it comes to fighting back.
          "humanity won't be happy until the last copyright holder is hung
          by the guts of the last patent lawyer." napster was only the
          beginning. the nineties of the net are over. let's move on.

          a.s.ambulanzen, berlin/germany, october 2001

          no copyright textz.com



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          raoul vaneigem: the revolution of everyday life
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=vaneigem+life

          hakim bey: a war in heaven
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=bey+war

          jacques derrida: gespräch über kino
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=derrida+kino

          marion von osten: fight back the determinator
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=osten+determinator

          rainald goetz: abfall für alle
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=goetz+abfall

          stephan geene: des hiérarchies plates
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=geene+hierarchies

          tom holert: mikro-ökonomie der geschichte
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=holert+geschichte

          antonin artaud: to have done with the judgement of god
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=artaud+judgement

          franco berardi bifo: panic war
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=bifo+war

          michael hardt / antonio negri: empire
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=hardt+negri+empire



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          douglas adams: the hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=adams+guide

          kathy acker: the language of the body
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=acker+language

          a.s.ambulanzen: feminists like us
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=ambulanzen+feminists

          noam chomsky: on the bombings
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=chomsky+bombings

          klaus theweleit: twin towers
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=theweleit+towers

          theodor w. adorno: on popular music
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=adorno+music

          cia: psychological operations in guerrilla warfare
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=agency+operations

          stephen hawking: a brief history of time
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=hawking+history

          sun tzu: the art of war
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=sun+war

          adilkno: cracking the movement
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=adilkno+movement



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          franz kafka: ein junger ehrgeiziger student
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=kafka+student

          serge daney: the t(h)errorized (godardian pedagogy)
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=daney+pedagogy

          stephen pfohl: the cybernetic delirium of norbert wiener
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=pfohl+delirium

          franz-josef strauss: die zeit der entschiedung ist da
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=strauss+zeit

          bruce sterling: the manifesto of january 3, 2000
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=sterling+manifesto

          guy debord: preface to the third french edition of la société...
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=debord+preface+third+french

          friedrich kittler: phänomenologie versus medienwissenschaft
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=kittler+medienwissenschaft

          felix reidenbach: entpolitisierte kulturkritik und der krieg...
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=reidenbach+kulturkritik

          saskia sassen: the topoi of e-space
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=sassen+topoi

          roberto ohrt: asger jorn, guy debord und die si
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=ohrt+jorn+debord



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          james joyce: ulysses
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=joyce+ulysses

          herman melville: moby dick
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=moby+dick

          neal stephenson: snow crash
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=snow+crash

          d.a.f. de sade: justine, ou les malheurs de la vertu
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=sade+justine

          william gibson: all tomorrow's parties
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=gibson+parties

          lautréamont: les chants de maldoror
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=lautreamont+maldoror

          gilles deleuze: spinoza
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=deleuze+spinoza

          stephen king: the library policeman
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=king+policeman

          ralf reinders / ronald fritzsch: die bewegung 2. juni
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=reinders+fritzsch+bewegung

          jacques derrida: mémoires
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=derrida+memoires



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          theodor w. adorno / max horkheimer: tierpsychologie
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=adorno+tierpsychologie

          elektro music department: two words about the internet
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=elektro+internet

          anti-pop consortium: tragic epilogue
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=consortium+epilogue

          d. diederichsen: das netz als technologie permanenter inklusion
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=diederichsen+netz

          ulrike meinhof: brief aus dem toten trakt
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=meinhof+brief

          félix guattari: vers une ère post-média
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=guattari+ere

          paul garrin: the disappearence of public space on the net
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=garrin+disappearence

          comité d'occupation de la sorbonne: télégrammes
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=comite+telegrammes

          joseph jean rolland dubé: livraison gratuite
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=dube+livraison

          my bloody valentine: loveless
          http://textz.com/index.php3?text=valentine+loveless


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