Lewis LaCook
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Re: Re: Some thoughts on computer security and the living dead


you know, it IS quite a strange schism, the way the authorities see bio vs electro experimentation===

but watch out for those fungi, my man...lol

bliss
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Steve Kudlak wrote:

>
> Fun with words. Can I play?;) After one faux pas a couple more
> would be fun. My thought it is that "virus" was a reasonable
> way to look at it, but of course it stretches a whole lot.
> Although the image is enticing. You have a piece of code that
> carries instructions that has does act like a biological virus.
> But in other ways it is vastly different. For example computer
> viruses often have things like "mailing engines" thar allow it
> to send out copies of itself and a variety of forms. Or in case
> of some it can be dormant until activated. This is strange in
> the bio-image. It is like having a mini-brain that would for example
> if it existed in the biological world might act like this. Mark
> catches
> a virus from Steve. It somehow already has a mini-brain in it that
> gets mark to write a bunch of letters, sigh them in Steve's
> handwriting
> and style or lack thereof;). It might even make Mark's memory
> work better!
>
> The interesting thought which comes into my mind when reading Mark's
> essay is not whether I agree with it or not. It is the idea thar our
> society has "electrotechnophilia" and "biotechophobia" . I can easily
> plan to build all sorts of electronic devices that people interact
> with and that could change their interactions with the world in all
> sorts of ways. If I try to do this by some biological or chemical
> mechanosm, even at a lowest level as we see with the CAE case I am
> apt to have the authority of the state come down on me in a very
> intense way. Heaven forbid I should grow certain species of fungi
> and share them with friends. It is very odd that an embryo that is
> created to a fertility clinic and will be thrown away anyway can't be
> used for stem cell research on any piece of equipment that has been
> bought with one cent of public monies.
>
> Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
>
> setup
>
>
> > Right-to-Life
> >
> > The term "Virus" is meant to associate a dead thing (and not really
> dead
> > having never been living) with a living biological body. A
> so-called
> > computer virus is linked to biology in language (and in reality)
> only
> > insofar as biology is made dependent on digital technology. The
> virus is
> > not neutral, and is seen as an attack on supposed life systems which
> are
> > widely viewed as, but are not either, neutral (techno culture). The
> > CorporateState defines the virus (with help from lots of
> technophiles),
> > while claiming that its own technology is a natural living organism
> with
> > an inherent right-to-life. It is interesting to note the ongoing
> case in
> > Florida involving a Husband's attempts to disconnect his wife's
> feeding
> > tube. Jeb Bush, the State and other interests have stepped into the
> > matter by declaring the case an issue of right-to-life vs. the
> so-called
> > right-to-die interests. What is omnipresent, but largely invisible
> to
> > mainstream debate (at least within the conservative bound!
> > s of mainstream media) is the tendency to naturalize medical
> technology
> > itself. The technology itself becomes an invisible life force to
> which
> > bodies must obey (or defy). The feeding machine is viewed as a
> neutral
> > (and natural) necessity, and in the minds of right-to-lifers stands
> in
> > for God itself. To cut the body from the machine, that in fact
> lives for
> > the body, is seen as cutting the body itself. To kill the machine
> > becomes confused with (and then practiced as) killing the body.
> Computers
> > are not alive, they are not human, they cannot contract "viruses,"
> they
> > cannot be "attacked," "terrorized," or "infected," unless they are
> alive,
> > unless they are human, unless their "infections," and "attacks" are
> > indistinguishable from human infections, attacks, etc. Techno
> culture
> > makes it possible for the murder of thousands of humans to be
> discussed
> > in the language of "surgical strikes," and "smart bomb technology."
> > Techno culture also makes it possible for the pentagon to use!
> > the language of "Terrorism" when speaking of a virtual sit-in!
> > , or sim
> > ple hacker prank.
> >
> > Vampirism
> >
> > "Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking
> living
> > labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks." - Karl Marx
> >
> > Computer networks are reproduced and modified continuously to work
> with
> > and to facilitate the trading of information (Capital) to predefined
> and
> > often highly secure locations. In this narrow system anything that
> slows
> > the speed of supply and demand is perceived as an attack on the body
> of
> > capital, therefore, dominance is needed, the body must be regulated
> to
> > ensure the continuity of power relationships within the system. The
> blood
> > supply must not be interrupted for vampires are relentless, don't
> die very
> > easily, and often have very little sense of humor.
> >
> > Sweden’s not a target
> >
> > Technophobia is often described as an irrational fear of technology,
> and
> > yet a hammer is technology. Technophilia is described (much less
> often)
> > as an irrational adoration for technology, and yet a needle and
> thimble
> > are technology. The fact that fears aroused by forks and spoons, or
> > driving a car for that matter, are not spoken of as technophobia
> (any more
> > than irrational love for these things are spoken of as technophilia)
> > reveals a primary myth about technology: Namely, that technology
> acts
> > independent from human social systems, that technology is “out
> there”
> > working for us (or against us) toward some utopia (or dystopia). A
> hammer
> > or needle and thread are pretty benign in their effects on global
> power
> > structures, but if they were not we’d have
> reverse-hammer-engineers and
> > needle hackers. A network "attack" is possible only when the power
> > relationships guarding a network are so solidified, predictable and
> > controlled that anything counter to it is defined as dang!
> > erous and alien. Dangerous? perhaps, alien no. Violent Domination
> and
> > violent resistance always work hand-in-hand, which goes along way
> toward
> > explaining why the U.S. is a primary target for terrorism and
> Sweden’s
> > not, why the New York Times web site is a target for hackers and
> > crackers “Joe’s homepage” is not.
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Dream Politics: Randomness in Network Art


Dream Politics: Randomness in Network ArtLewis LaCookhttp://www.lewislacook.com

INTRODUCTION: Stochastic Computing

Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

Everything in nature is perfectly real including consciousness, there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Not only have the chains of the Law been broken, they never existed; demons never guarded the stars, the Empire never got started, Eros never grew a beard.

No, listen, what happened was this: they lied to you, sold you ideas of good & evil, gave you distrust of your body & shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization & all its usurious emotions.

There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin--your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.

Hakim Bey, Chaos, The Temporary Autonomous Zone

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Computers have a difficult time with spontaneity. By themselves, they're as predictable as any fundamentalist. This is what makes computer programming possible, the assurance I have that the code I write will be executed exactly as I wrote it. If I write a conditional loop, my computer will make a decision based on the parameters I feed to it; it won't take into account the weather, nor its own emotional state, nor will it ever be hung over from ten too many Guinesses and perform the function haphazardly from behind the haze of a violent headache. Computers, it would seem are very clean machines, not subject to noise or entropy. What you code is what you get.

This, naturally, hasn't stopped humans from introducing randomness into the computer. Most high-level programming languages have a function to simulate random numbers; and, while said numbers are very often predictable, the results can sometimes seem just as authentically random as more adroit sources of randomness. "True random numbers, captured in the wild, are clearly superior to those bred in captivity by pseudo-random generators