11.14.2005
the revolution will be txt msged
I can't type, having spent last night in the ER letting a plastic surgeon remove a plank of wood which entirely punctured the base of my thumb. So... the basics of the blogpost brewing in my head...
1. flashmobs
A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. —v., —adj.
I seem to recall that the code the Axis powers never broke during WWII was Navaho. And todays code? Never mind lol, rotflo, btw, 2moro. The Parisian suburbs have given rise to the back-to-front (envers) coded language Verlan. (arabic reads right to left as well... and then the whole concept of 'backwardness...' ) While most French people are familiar with the basics – woman (femme) becomes meuf, bloke (mec) becomes cem, cops (flicks) turns into cuf– but as soon as whole phrases are turned back-to-front, only clan members stand a chance of comprehension... meaning the cufs reading txt msgs are locked out.
3. spread of mobs from city to city we are seeing now in france - not sure how to call it, network epidemiology of ... err... crowds movements? anyhow, I'm saying, the spatial nature or the mob has changed too.
EQUALS: this is not your reup's social resistance movement. The battlefield is shifted to... I dunno. Some cute pomo poco techno-cultural space. It would make a lovely dis, what with all the history of semiotics and linguistics and france, and all that nice city planning stuff about george haussman remaking the city into a modern riot-proof capital in the 1800s.
1. flashmobs
A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. —v., —adj.
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2. verlanI seem to recall that the code the Axis powers never broke during WWII was Navaho. And todays code? Never mind lol, rotflo, btw, 2moro. The Parisian suburbs have given rise to the back-to-front (envers) coded language Verlan. (arabic reads right to left as well... and then the whole concept of 'backwardness...' ) While most French people are familiar with the basics – woman (femme) becomes meuf, bloke (mec) becomes cem, cops (flicks) turns into cuf– but as soon as whole phrases are turned back-to-front, only clan members stand a chance of comprehension... meaning the cufs reading txt msgs are locked out.
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3. spread of mobs from city to city we are seeing now in france - not sure how to call it, network epidemiology of ... err... crowds movements? anyhow, I'm saying, the spatial nature or the mob has changed too.
EQUALS: this is not your reup's social resistance movement. The battlefield is shifted to... I dunno. Some cute pomo poco techno-cultural space. It would make a lovely dis, what with all the history of semiotics and linguistics and france, and all that nice city planning stuff about george haussman remaking the city into a modern riot-proof capital in the 1800s.
