The American intellectual property and copyright regimes have positioned themselves in-dictate over the immaterial vectors of culture, education, and community.
In doing this they have not only secured themselves as exclusive beneficiaries, but have stymied any progression towards a fiscal recognition of cognitive capital. A recognition that knowledge and culture is more akin to the road and highway system, than to golden turds.
For substantial change to occur, one must parch these traditional architectures of capitalism by bearing the foreign fruits from the cognitive land of demand... If it can be made to be free, so shall it must be...for now.
A gift-economy not only incitates the formal inequities from overbearing institutions, but also temporarily inverts the power-structures into the hands of it’s “consumers”. This, if precisely implemented, creates a new and highly superior default.
When this change becomes defaulted and is then stripped away, it fractures what is left of reason from the contemporary condition. In insubordinating reason, a new population of dissonance is propogated in the footsteps of culture’s primordial bridge troll... securing an institutional foundation, from the inside out...
The aim of this project is to force the governing institutions of knowledge and culture into the immaterial vectors they attempt to control... summoning their eminence and impotence to a conscious platform from which the first steps toward the veritable horizon can be seen to be set. Change, mother-fucker...
Proposal:
1.)Construct a book scanner, costing less than $300.
2.)Digitalize entire 1,000 level reading list from any one of Chicago’s major universities (a law school would be fun).
3.)Convert books (with pre-existing softwares) into searchable .pdfs, OCR to texts, and searchable .mp3 files (via highly complex auto-readers).
4.)Distribute.
1.) A book scanner can be constructed using two Canon SLRs, two tripods, a simple lighting setup, free software, and a day spent at Home Depot. Not only will this actualize the scanning of text books, Lumpen Archives, Zines (at 100 times the speed), but other people’s books as well. Simple advertisements within Lumpen or Proximity to “Digitalize Books, Zines, Portfolios, Comics, Archives, ETC.” for a nominal donation, could establish a new fiscal support system for the Public Media Institue.
2.) Digitalizing only 1000 level text books secures a dissonance when the budding young producers are confronted with the reality that they now have to drop $1000 on text books. This is more poignant in effect with freshman, for juniors would feel gifted, not entitled.
3.) Creating searchable .pdf’s and .mp3’s of the texts, not only allows one to google what they’re skimming for, but they can study Proust on their iPod while doing the dishes. Better, cheaper, faster.
4.) self-explanatory...
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