p a n d e m o n i u m
   Tuesday Evening International AOL Chat
                                       Carl (Teaneck, USA),
                                      Jutta (Merida, Venezuela)
                                    Iris (Freiburg)
                                Stella (Mainz)
                              Franz (Merida, Venezuela).

             Space, Time, Labour, Emancipation
16th January, 2001                              (Final, Corrected Version)


WELCOME ....

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panta98:Hi! Carl. Invited the others.
CarlzimC:Hi, Franz, Iris, Stella
CarlzimC:And Jutta?
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CarlzimC:Where's Stella?
panta98:Stella just flew out. Jutta is signing in.
CarlzimC:OK
Einai2000:Carl, good evening! Glad you could make it!
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Einai2000:Hi, Franz!
Einai2000:Stella! Hello!
naranjahit: Hi all
CarlzimC:Glad to be here. I must limit typing and must leave at 8:30 pm Venezuela time
Einai2000:all right, Carl!
Einai2000:Franz, is Jutta having problems to sign on?
Einai2000:Okay...
naranjahit: ok
panta98:No, problem, just wait.
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Einai2000:I read you perfectly well, Stella.
CarlzimC:Yes, Stella
naranjahit:thanks
CarlzimC:Hi, Jutta
Einai2000:Jutta! Hi!
juttaschmi:Hi Carl.
juttaschmi:Hi Iris.
naranjahit:Hello Jutta!
panta98:There we are, our "Blue Angel" is with us today!
CarlzimC:Franz, please introduce the chat
juttaschmi:Stella! It is a pleasure to see you!
CarlzimC:Un plaisir to see all!
panta98:Well, for better or for worse, let's start!!!
juttaschmi:Nice to have you back, Carl!
panta98:Chat Folk, our topic is: "Space, Time, Labour and Emancipation".
Einai2000:all right, Franz. Agreed, Jutta!
CarlzimC:Great to be back.
juttaschmi:Franz, please start.
naranjahit:yes, go ahead, Franz.
juttaschmi:*Iris*.

Introduction ...
 

panta98:We will concentrate our introduction around the two following issues which were voiced in the previous chat:
CarlzimC:Yep, Franz
panta98:"juttaschmi: Now, as we are heading towards another phase of the labour process, time and also space disappear correspondingly. The question is: How is intellectual labour being measured, when physical labour was measured in time parameters? "
panta98:"panta98: I said it on various occasions, Labour = Man = Labouring Man = Alienation. How will Labour fade into oblivion? Only when man itself vanishes; the Truth is as simple as
that! "
panta98:"juttaschmi: Do we talk about "space" and "time" in phenomenological terms? What appears in space and time? The very labour process, so called "History"?
panta98:panta98: And, Thanks God! He, Man, is vanishing at a very high velocity, as far as Motion, Space and Time are concerned! "
juttaschmi:I remember this, Franz.
CarlzimC:Yep, Franz
Einai2000:Same here, please proceed, Franz.
panta98:So, are you all on orbit --- Take off, Scotty, At The Controls, Dr. Spock!!!
juttaschmi:Beam me up!
Einai2000:Beam me "out"...
CarlzimC:I think Man is not vanishing, but changing.
panta98:Yes, Dr. Watson, Agatha, and Holmes, are also with us!!! Carl, as Labour, as Alienation, changing into it's own Nothing. Into Emancipation.
CarlzimC:Homo Hitechnicalis
panta98:Here, we go!!!
juttaschmi:Hunter, too. Gell, Iris?
Einai2000:...& Dahl, aber hallo!
CarlzimC:El guapo, also.
panta98:Before we touch the very crux of the matter, and thereby interpenetrating the very enigmatic existence of Time, at first, let us look at some fundamental issues concerning us, our attitude and expression with regard to Science and Philosophy, and to Labour itself.

panta98:What our Science & Philosophy are all about, see: http://www.oocities.org/juttafranz/eng_1.html . There in 36 lectures, developed between 1998 and 2000 we have posted the fundamentals of Emancipatory Praxis & Theory.

panta98:Although our Science and Philosophy include, can take into consideration, any form or whim of official Society, whether it is patrian bare-faced lies, ideology, newspeak, ignorance or mediocrity, -- and we can identify and understand all of the above mentioned as irreal, absurd and perverse entities--, ...
panta98:Too fast, Stella?
naranjahit:no it is ok, thanks
panta98:... nevertheless, we do not act as sell-outs, turn-coats, lackeys or henchmen, that is, with them we do not enter into rotten compromises, into gentlemen agreements, into a "Social Contract" of whatever nature.
CarlzimC:Add religion, Franz.
panta98:Yes, Carl. I must admit, we were very careful till now, very considerate: we have exercised "scientific politeness", "philosophic correctness", cyber netiquette. But, what did we reap all across the globe? I need not portray the reaction, in everyday life, you all know it all too well.
panta98: Yes, Carl, especially the Nigerian Muslim variety of religion.
panta98:Proceeding ... The truth of the matter is that we are sick and tired of "newspeak", of talking about a "financially challenged", when somebody is simply a "bum", a "wretched of the earth"; of somebody who is "mentally challenged", when (s)he is simply an idiot, a moron, is crazy, ...
juttaschmi:Agreed, Franz.
panta98:... of somebody who is "physically challenged" when in reality, (s)he is naturally maltreated, is a physical invalid, a human wreck, a Vietnam vet. In fact, everywhere, on Internet, in the schools and universities, in everyday gaff, "newspeak" reigns already since ages.
juttaschmi:Newspeak is an obstacle to thinking.
panta98:Carl, is it not like that in the USA nowadays?
juttaschmi:It probably is like this all across the globe, Franz
panta98:D'accord!
CarlzimC:Islamic fundamentalists may start a Jihad and the result may be the destruction of the whole Muslim world.
juttaschmi:If you don't apply the proper terminology, you are "out like south".
panta98:Excellent, Carl.
panta98:Certainly, in future, we could spare ourselves the intellectual "time" and mental "space" of indulging in such "politeness", etiquette and "correctness", in useless, senseless, absurd consideration and reconciliation. Soon, when we have our ID's, our "chips", even this will not be possible anymore.
Einai2000:Agreed Jutta, and it's the inherent aspect of "official" terminology/method/"scientific approach" at university, too.
juttaschmi:This is a mayor point and pain for us, Iris! -
juttaschmi:I changed colour.
CarlzimC:The NWO is starting to give false sympathy to Iraq, then follow with war
juttaschmi:Franz, we have to apply our own concepts, I agree.
Einai2000:I changed my colour and face ;-)
panta98:Yes, Iris, about that I could sing the "Thousand-And-One-Night" gaudeamus igitur here at the University.
Einai2000:But please proceed, Franz -
juttaschmi:Iris looks like Anthony Hopkins these days, Carl and Stella.
juttaschmi:Proceed, Franz.
panta98:Proceeding ... Thus, using our own language, our own expressions, we will now simply get down to some own urgent tasks, to our emancipatory subjectives, objectives and transjectives.
panta98:In this "spirit", we will proceed now. We will call wine, wine; a spade a spade; a bum a bum. And we don't care, who likes it or doesn't like it.
naranjahit:I like that!
panta98:On all scientific and philosophic counts, "space" and "time" are superstructural, ideological fabrications of ruling ideas, of ruling classes, of all ruling ages. Labour gave birth to Time and Space, produces them, and reproduces them.
panta98:Even the very philosophic titans, the gigantic ideologues of Labour, Capital and Reason, Kant, Hegel, Marx and Engels, had stated this ruling, ideological fact expressis verbis, in unequivocal terms.
panta98:Me too, Stella!!!
CarlzimC:Time is money
juttaschmi:Exactly so, Carl (el guapo).
panta98:Yes, Carl.
panta98:Who cannot even read and understand his/her very own ideologues, and cannot even comprehend his/her very own ideology, well: May the Good Old Lord, Big Brother, Bless Her/Him! May (S)He Rest In Peaceful Ignorance!
panta98:May (S)He Enjoy Grand Education, the Great God, the Great Idea, the Great Man, the Great Race, Great History! How can (s)he understand anything about "space" and "time", about Kantian "intellectual categories" or "universals"?
juttaschmi:No easy road to emancipation, Franz.
juttaschmi:We have to oil our brains. Oil for the lamps of our own illumination.
CarlzimC:Yep. Today, ineffective thinking is killing people
panta98:Exactly so, one must not be a "bum", but must sit on one's bum, and think and study consciously.
CarlzimC:Hallelujah, I'm a bum.
juttaschmi:Mine hurts already!
juttaschmi:No Carl, you are "financially challenged" (Newspeak). ;-)
panta98:People don't even know that they are being killed, to be killed, they must first have lived! Who lives? Do Billions live?
Einai2000:(please All, save the chat. The message come in here with some delay, I would not be surprised if I will get kicked out)
juttaschmi:True. To die, you must live first.
panta98:Yes, I'll save it, I forgot!!!
juttaschmi:We will, Iris.
Einai2000:...will have to read back, please proceed
panta98:Proceeding ... As far as we are concerned, "Space" and "Time" are and do exist in the "stenchy" "dark holes", in the obscure, stinking, contaminated "pot-holes" of arid, vile Patrian Labour, in its putrefied Alienation, in its irreal, irrelational, irreversible, surreal farce, in its macabre, sordid, perverse "world".
CarlzimC:I've been saving chat
naranjahit:stenchy?
juttaschmi:As such, they surely do exist, Franz.
juttaschmi:stinkig, Stella
naranjahit:ok
juttaschmi: :-)
naranjahit: :-)
Einai2000:...ok, back.
panta98:Proceeding ... Hence, like the billions, Space and Time ARE, in the sense, that they ARE NOT; they exist in a way that they do NOT EXIST. This is their monistic "essence", their dualistic "existence".
CarlzimC: 8-)
panta98:They live in war, and they rest in peace, in their very own formal-logical Non-A, in their Parmenidean Globe, in their Godly One-And-All. There Time, as Money, as Capital, devours Space, annihilates Labour itself, alienates "Man", crushes labouring "Man".
CarlzimC:Time = motion
CarlzimC:Space = distance
panta98:Yes, Carl. And above, is your: Time = Money!
panta98:There Space and Time function, they produce Motion, they reproduce themselves; there, they prostitute Labour, they whore Capital.
panta98:There they beget Man Himself, at least, all those who consider themselves to be among the 'chosen few', the creme de la creme, the Men and Wo-Men, who form part and parcel of His-Story.
panta98:On this level of identification, essentially, scientifically, naturally, we can handle "Space", we can touch hell, can live physically "East of Eden", can spatially move to Mars and back to Earth. On this plane, even Nixon and the kids can play the "War Of The Galaxies" Game.
CarlzimC:On the Mideast forums, both sides, even teenagers, mostly talk religion. Get nowhere
juttaschmi:Time and space do matter in the process of producing profit. Time as the measurable entity by which to calculate the exchange value of a commodity, and space as a variable that is important in the distribution section.
panta98:Of course, Jutta, we'll come to that just now!!!
juttaschmi:ok
CarlzimC:Time and space = marketing tools
panta98:On this degree of differentiation, existentially, philosophically, socially, in the Patria, we can move in "Space and Time" to hell and back, anywhere, anytime, for that matter.
juttaschmi:Yes, you could say so, Carl.
juttaschmi:To hell and back = to work and back. ;-)
panta98:It is not "Armstrong" who like a madman was jumping spatially around on the Moon, it is NASA and the Pentagon which spatially-temporally are marauding, pillaging, colonizing, socializing, galacticizing Luna, for the welfare of future Lunatics.
panta98:Over the millennia, the very same thing happened here in slave, feudalist and capitalist geolatry, in merciless natural exploitation, so, why not also in "future" intellectual lunatry, that is, why also not elsewhere in the formal-logical galaxy?
CarlzimC:And Mars too
juttaschmi:Hang on hang on, Franz and Carl. I think the "space" colonization has also to be analysed in other terms and parameters than time and space.
panta98:Yes, Mars-idolatry -- Marsatry!
CarlzimC:Yep, Jutta
panta98:Of course, seriously we can discuss the above, can study Einstein, Max Planck, Tesla, Don Albert; scientifically and philosophically, we can argue valid issues within the valid parameters of this specific level and degree of History.
Einai2000:This is getting most interesting, please proceed. Agreed, Jutta!
panta98:Later, Jutta. In the discussion period!
panta98:Just don't forget the theme, please.
juttaschmi:As you have indicated on various occasions (07/11/2000 for example), the whole labour process is exceeding itself, and so it won't "galacticize" in the sense of labour and the production of profits anymore.
juttaschmi:ok Franz

panta98:proceeding ..... No problem. But this is not the only reality, the only world, our only private, absolute knowledge.
panta98:Now, coming back to Jutta's question: "How is intellectual labour being measured, when physical labour was measured in time parameters?
Einai2000:thank you, Jutta ;-)
juttaschmi:You are welcome, my dear Iris.
panta98:Within the Fatherland, Labour -- and its labour products, of whatever genre, including Man, -- is -- and can only be -- measured, -- valued, whether use-valued or exchange-valued, -- within socially necessary space-time paraameters.
panta98:It just depends on what degree -- or on which degree -- we are measuring the exchange values of unfolding Labour and its manifolding products. Physical, Intellectual and Rational Labour have different levels and degrees of space-time parameters.
panta98:For example, in "primitive productions", due to the still social character of Labour, the degrees of the time parameters for natural exploitation were set by chance, by trial-and-error, by ancestral habits, customs, rites or magic.
juttaschmi:Exchange values can only be measured in time/space parameters.
panta98:Just now, Jutta. D'accord!! Already twelve thousand years ago (in time parameters), in the Middle East, when professional artisans and peasants had lived side by side next to each other, primitive, petty commodity production had emerged.
juttaschmi:ok
panta98:There, here, "Time" -- a certain degree of rotational time -- beecame extremely relevant. The agricultural products of a farmer's day's work was exchanged for the artisan-type products of a weaver's day's work.
panta98:As Labour became more organized, over the centuries, became more capitalized, became a higher form of its own existence, things changed, hence, also the temporal parameters changed.
panta98:Ever since the 14th century, in Europe, Labour became "socially" recognized, that is, it became Private Labour. This the very "law of value" assured, insured.
juttaschmi:exactly so, Franz
panta98:Yes, Jutta. Days of Labour became equivalent to Labour of Socially Average Productivity. Labour-Time = Social Productivity. Time became Money, Capital.
panta98:Not forgetting that commodities are goods possessing use-value, and that they are being produced by human labour for exchange, thus, we know that the value of wares are measured by the natural quantity (a spatial parameter) of labour socially ( in time ) necessary to produce them.
juttaschmi:And time and FORCE, labour-force, went together in this labour process, being the latter one a kind of "energy".
panta98:Yes, now you come to our central theme. ... Logically, In the industrial epoch of "to produce, to sell in order to buy", the (exchange) value of any commodity is determined by the average labour-time socially required for its production. This "labour-time" is the "time" which we experience. As "labour creatures", as "labouring men", as labour products, we have no other time.
juttaschmi:Truly so, Franz.
panta98:The commodities are changing, they reach higher levels, higher degrees. Even the "space-time" of NASA is "labour-time", is a certain degree of "Time", is "physical-intellectual-(rational-)labour-time".
juttaschmi:Exactly.
panta98:And how does Labour, on the degree of Capital, within spatial-temporal parameters, move, produce, reproduce, eliminate, alienate itself?
Einai2000:...please slow down a bit, Franz... thanks.
juttaschmi:Perhaps, at a certain point, commodities won't even be commodities anymore - no more determined by space and time parameters.
panta98:Yes, Iris. It gets complex, complicated -- more incisive, more precise! Agreed, Jutta.
naranjahit:interesting point Jutta
panta98:Firstly, in spatial terms, in "Big Fish Devours Little Fish" fashion, in Labour devouring itself, in competition with itself, Labour concentrates, centralizes, merges, globalizes itself as Capital. In fact, it devours its own space parameter, destroys it.
juttaschmi:Ever less TIME is being needed, to produce ever more sophisticated commodities, with ever less exchange value (as precisely determined by time).
panta98:Secondly, Labour's Rest and Motion, the Organic Composition of Capital, the Relation between Constant (A) and Variable Capital (Non-A), in Hegelian Dialectical Inexorability, as a result of Intellectual Labour and Property, is reaching absurd "Absolute" standards.
CarlzimC:Yes, Jutta; e.g., industrial diamonds can be produced on some planets using their atmosphere
CarlzimC:at no cost
panta98:Agreed. It (the relation) threatens to strangle growth, which reaches stagnating giga-heights, consequently, it is eliminating Space and Time, Motion itself, hence, it annihilates Alienation, Labour Itself.
panta98: Thirdly, and what about Nature, about Physical Labour, about the nearly 6 billion human commodities, the natural resources? Progressively, they are being destroyed, eliminated, decimated, pauperized, returned to dust and ashes. Labour begins to devour itself, starting with its own rattish tail.
juttaschmi:Good example, Carl, and thanks, Stella.
panta98:Yes. Carl.
panta98:Fourthly, Labour, at its degree of Capital, reaches accumulative limits; is suffocated by its own spatial parameter of expansion and by its own temporal parameter of breath-taking technological growth.
juttaschmi:"Growth", Franz, what exactly is "growth"?
panta98:To say it in a more simple fashion ...
panta98:In other words, its average global rate of profit is diminishing; devouring the small fish and its big counterparts, killing its physical labour reservoirs, destroying itself, destroying Capital in wars and space exploration, are all just worsening its death agony. Homo sapiens sapiens is fading away, fading into Magellanic cloudy oblivion.
panta98:Finally, fifthly, globalization, the perverse socialization of production, the introduction of intellectual production, demonstrates the self-decay, the destruction of the superstructure of Labour, of "society", of Man, of the "labouring animal", of Alienation itself.
juttaschmi:I agree to your analysis, Franz. The progressive destruction of labour, capital, commodities, labouring man - all aspects of the same thing - is in full swing, so to speak.
CarlzimC:Homo sapiens may form cyber-colonies
panta98:With that, we have completed the verification of my previous statements: ....
CarlzimC:Internet communities to survive
juttaschmi:- This would already be another kind of "homo" then, Carl. Homo planetaris.
juttaschmi:Homo community.
panta98:.... I said it on various occasions, Labour = Man = Labouring Man = Alienation. How will Labour fade into oblivion? Only when man itself vanishes; the Truth is as simple as that!
CarlzimC:Yep, Jutta. It's starting today
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juttaschmi:(Iris! - How are you?!)
panta98:And, Thanks God! He, Man, is vanishing at a very high velocity, as far as Motion, Space and Time are concerned! And, now, let's chat!

THE DISCUSSION ...

juttaschmi:Reinvite Stella please.
CarlzimC:Yes, please.
Einai2000:I tried to reinvite her.
Einai2000:yes, I'm trying to contact her. At least, she's listed, Franz.
CarlzimC:Hey, guys. The President of the Congo was just killed.
juttaschmi:What?
Einai2000:Stella just told me that she is trying to rejoin us. Hang on...
juttaschmi:Ok, Stella will join us in a minute. Franz, please proceed.
CarlzimC:I sent Stella a message on ICQ
juttaschmi:Or do we start the discussion now?
panta98:Which Congo, Carl?
panta98:Kabila?
CarlzimC:I'll check the news. Please wait
panta98:OK! Carl.
CarlzimC:Kabila
juttaschmi:Kabila was killed?!
CarlzimC:Yep.
CarlzimC:Yep. Coup
panta98:Jutta, please continue here ....
panta98:juttaschmi:As you have indicated on various occasions (07/11/2000 for example), the whole labour process is exceeding itself, and so it won't "galacticize" in the sense of labour and the production of profits anymore.
CarlzimC:What will it do - Kill Congo Presidents?
juttaschmi:Okay. The problem is, that the only thing I can further state is, that we would be talking about a process that is not to be captured in space/time parameters, and also not in "production", "labour", "capital", "nature" and "society" parameters either. ...
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CarlzimC:Or trivialize itself?
CarlzimC:Hi, Stella
Einai2000:Back again, Stella!
naranjahit: hi all
juttaschmi:Hi Stella.
panta98:Let's continue, guys! With all due respect for revolutionaries and the African 'deceased", nothing out of this world really happened; probably, only a killer was killed --- Hegelian Double Negation, back to the Synthesis, a new Affirmation of Global Political Domination!
juttaschmi:I'm afraid you are "right", Franz.
CarlzimC:The issue is the system of killers as the heads in Africa
naranjahit: What were you talking about?
panta98:I see nothing, Stella. Change your colours, please, not your philosophy!!!!
juttaschmi:Stella, I said: "The problem is, that the only thing I can further state is, that we would be talking about a process that is not to be captured in space/time parameters, and also not in "production", "labour", "capital", "nature" and "society" parameters either. ..."
CarlzimC:I think it's related to your discussion, Franz
juttaschmi:Stella, be a Chameleon and change your colour, please.
naranjahit:yes
juttaschmi:Please explain further, Carl.
panta98:Stella, Kabila in the Congo, the President, just got killed, in a failed military coup!
CarlzimC:Death squads at the top
juttaschmi:What we call the "New World Order" -how many have there been? - is just setting the stage for the process to go into another stage.
panta98:Continue, Carl & Jutta, please. Iris, where are your 'famous" questions, we are in your region!
juttaschmi:Africa is but a horrible field of experiments in order for the "new homo" to take off.
CarlzimC:NWO = death squads = the new labor = alienation. Correct?
panta98:Homo what, Jutta? Homo who?
juttaschmi:Correct, Carl.
juttaschmi:I don't know if it is homo at all, Franz. A matter of definition, I guess.
panta98:No homo anymore, after this all, there won't even be an "after", no "the day after".
Einai2000:The problem is, Franz, I don't know how to put the question - maybe, by which parameters could we possibly talk about a "transformation" process? Transformation "into" "what"? Sorry, I don't know...
CarlzimC: Homo dummkopfalis
juttaschmi:Agreed, Carl. Homo destructionis.
juttaschmi:dumbfolks and dummkopfs.
CarlzimC:=destructionalis
Einai2000:Excellent, Carl and Jutta :-)
juttaschmi:Thank you, Iris.
juttaschmi:This is the big question: TRANSFORMATION INTO WHAT?!
panta98:"Trans" surely, Iris. Trance, no. Form, Formation, no. Another Bezug, Relation, Iris, a bit of "-cending".
juttaschmi:Do we get any clues from the current destruction process as to what other kinds of processes "exist"?
panta98:A bit of "sense", "incense". Transincense!
CarlzimC:Transformation into mind controlled robots with a few exceptions
Einai2000:Or maybe we would have to analyse "more" or "other" than "another" kind of process?
juttaschmi:There are clouds in my brain tonight - too many cigarettes and incense sticks, Franz.
panta98: Trans-in-sense, Transcendence.
juttaschmi:But Carl, the mind controlled robots have been there all along the process. They have just "improved", we might say.
CarlzimC:Jutta, do you smoke cigarettes?
Einai2000:I spare you any comment on the clouds in my brain, dearest Jutta.
juttaschmi:I actually do, Carl.
panta98:OK, jokes aside.
CarlzimC:Please quit. Critical.
panta98:Your question is very serious, and complex.
juttaschmi:I'll give it a thought, Carl. Please proceed, Franz.
CarlzimC:Yep, Franz. Carry on
Einai2000:Ok, Franz, please comment on Jutta's observation above, please, on the possible clues we could perceive from the "current" destruction process...
panta98:Form, morphe, is an idealist, spiritual category. To transform, is to change the form, logically changing Form A into Form Non-A, that is, Alienation, Labour.
juttaschmi:What other kinds of processes are we dealing with, Franz?
CarlzimC:Natural processes. e.g., Tesla free energy
juttaschmi:Transformation remains within the boundaries of a given process.
panta98: Existential, qualitative, superational, rational, relacional ones, for example, just to mention a few.
panta98: Labour cannot change its form, embedded in Space and Time; it cannot transform itself radically, it cannot change beyond the limits of A and Non-A.
CarlzimC:Examples, Franz?
juttaschmi:The problem is, that I am still stuck with the labour/space/time parameters, and it is hard to transcend them, indeed.
CarlzimC:It can change its form in cyberspace
juttaschmi:Probably NASA could help here ...;-)
CarlzimC:Cyberspace = No space and time
panta98: It can only transform, develop, grow, become bigger, greater, --- nothing else.
CarlzimC:Not in Cyberspace, Franz
juttaschmi:And Hegel: Alles was entsteht, ist wert, daß es untergeht - all that comes into being, is worth vanishing.
juttaschmi:No problem with that one.
panta98:Even on TV, on Internet, Larry King has a Cyberspace, telling us that he must now go to commercials; also that his Time, in terms of Cybertime is up, and that Greta will soon be there.
CarlzimC:Larry King's illusion, Franz
CarlzimC:He was on TV, not true cyberspace
CarlzimC:e.g., there is no difference in space and time on this chat
panta98:Yes, Carl. Larry fits somewhere in Cyberspace, with his programme in CNN, and he is limited by some Cybertime. On Internet it is the same. You buy a "space" -- a .com, and your time on Internet is up, when you don't pay the annual fee.
panta98:On Internet, also Space and Time are Money!!!
juttaschmi:You seem to have a point there, Franz. How can we truly be/exist/transcend as space- and timeless?
CarlzimC:Now I understand. That can be overcome. There are true free ISP's
CarlzimC:But their service is not free, so you gotta be a tekkie
panta98:They will soon give up the Cyberghost too -- when Big Brother has taken complete control of the Net --- after all, he created it, Big God!
juttaschmi:Simon might be the first one of the Crew to transcend in this sense, Carl ...
panta98:Probably, jutta.
CarlzimC:Jutta, we all have to some degree
juttaschmi:He is everywhere and nowhere in "milliseconds", in fact, he is omnipresent and omniabsent at the same "time".
CarlzimC:Same with us, Jutta
panta98:Carl, to transcend, we have to surpass capitalist, global wares, goods, and the Internet is produced by Labour, and it is a merchandise.
CarlzimC:Not the entire Internet
panta98:I saw a film, The Sphere, there three people had their own Internet.
panta98:What they thought happened, and they could communicate with hell, heaven and purgatory, all at once, all together.
juttaschmi:Franz, if this whole thing is going to make sort of a "qualitative jump" into something else, without labour/profits/space&time, would we still have to say, that the latter ones are "contained" in it (aufgehoben, as Hegel says)?
panta98:Which Internet not? Ethernet?
CarlzimC:All are the same, anyway
panta98:Ether Physics Net?
panta98:Well, Bill will have to introduce us to that transcending net!
CarlzimC:In Mideast chat rooms, there are encounters between Israelis and Palestinians - impossible otherwise
panta98:Iris, coming back to your question, now covered by a smoky blanket.
CarlzimC:otherwise
Einai2000:Yes Franz, the movie... And what they thought was or corresponding to reality, however, finally they came to the conclusion that them, the "human Being" must reject the "Sphere"... Ok Franz, please proceed...
CarlzimC:Barriers are becoming a joke
juttaschmi:Agreed, Carl.
CarlzimC:Franz, please continue
panta98:Your question is complex, because it cannot be asked in spatial-temporal terms.
Einai2000:Excellent question, Jutta!
panta98:Our brains are so concocted, so compact, so consolidated, that we can only think and ask questions in such terms.
juttaschmi:Capital at this stage does not know any barriers, neither economically, nor politically, nor socially - space and time parameters are changing in this respect, too.
Einai2000:...Unfortunately so, Franz.
CarlzimC:Agreed, Jutta
panta98:There is where we go along, Jutta.
juttaschmi:Of course, I know, that we are dealing with something neither aufgehoben nor not aufgehoben.
juttaschmi:But how do we "think" or grasp this?
panta98:We can only imagine any change, motion, growth, development, in spatial-temporal categories.
CarlzimC:How can we change this?
juttaschmi:(For Carl: "aufheben" = sort of being contained and negated "at the same time")
panta98:Anything else, for us, generally, belongs to nothing, to nothingness, to the unthinkable, to craziness.
CarlzimC:Thanks, Jutta
juttaschmi:You're welcome, Carl.
Einai2000:Yes, most probably we don't "think" it either, Jutta.
juttaschmi:We have reached the limits of thinking, definitely.
panta98:Your problem, Iris, is first to transcend the spatial-temporal barriers, and then ask the question.
juttaschmi:Thinking has to do with Intellect (& Reason), and is bound to the limits of the labour process and it's parameters.
panta98:Not, in cowboy, Texan style, first shoot and then ask questions!
juttaschmi:*booooomm*
juttaschmi:?
Einai2000:Well, then I fear it will take me some time to ask any question which might make some sense, Franz. Terrible.
juttaschmi:Have I shot and then asked the question, Franz?
juttaschmi:I'm afraid so.
Einai2000:No, it was me, Jutta.
juttaschmi:You can call me "the Texan" from now on.
juttaschmi: ;-)
Einai2000:Call me by any name, I can take it...
juttaschmi:Anthony.
panta98:"Thinking", yes, Jutta. Our Philosophy has no problem in asking non-spatial-temporal questions. I could ask Iris' question!
juttaschmi:Hopkins.
Einai2000:for instance.
panta98:And it would be even an answering question!
Einai2000:Do so please, Franz
Einai2000: fine
panta98: The emancipatory, transcendental Answering Question is: What is  NEITHER Labour (A) NOR Capital (Non-A) ?
panta98:The Questioning Answer: What is!

panta98: Identified, in other words, "What is" =  HISTORY ! This is what comes "after" the "Patria", "after" Labour; What is  = HISTORIC EMANCIPATION.

Fading Out --- Bye .....
CarlzimC:He guys. Gotta leave for a while. I'll return.
Einai2000: All right, Carl. See you later on.
juttaschmi:Please come back later, Carl.
juttaschmi:We need your input!
panta98:But, let's explain all these much simpler, so that we all could also enrich each other!
panta98: It's too complex for a chat!
Einai2000:I fear so, Franz.
naranjahit:the problem is I am dead tired!
juttaschmi:I am having difficulties, too, Franz.
juttaschmi:And Stella is falling asleep. It is late.
naranjahit: ... clouds and nothing else...
panta98:Yes! Poor Stella.
juttaschmi:I would like to make a suggestion:
Einai2000:Shall we resume then next Tuesday? What do you suggest?
panta98:I myself have immense difficulties, due to exactly the space - time barriers.
juttaschmi:I will give this all another thought, and prepare a little introduction for next 'time".
panta98:Could we stop here, and Jutta introduced this topic next time
Einai2000:This is fine with me, JuttaFranz&Stella.
juttaschmi:Agreed. I would resume the time/space problematic within our general context, "labour".
juttaschmi:Carl, what do you think?
naranjahitOk, that sounds interesting Jutta
panta98:Carl, agreed?
Einai2000:Carl has gone already?
panta98:OK!
juttaschmi:Perhaps we all can give "time and space" another thought, and continue next Tuesday.
juttaschmi:I think Carl is not at his computer, he said he will be gone for a moment.
Einai2000:Probably he has stepped out and remained online, yes, Jutta.
juttaschmi:Yet he is still online.
juttaschmi:So, Iris and Stella: Can you help me next Tuesday with the introduction?
naranjahit: Ok, then have a good night!
Einai2000:Talk to you tomorrow, Jutta&Franz
panta98:Bye!!!!
juttaschmi:Goodnight, dear Stella!
panta98:Bye!!!!
juttaschmi: Byebeybyebye
Einai2000: Goodnight Stella, take care please...
naranjahit: Send the chat please, I don't have all
panta98:Take Care!!!!
juttaschmi: Byebye Iris. We'll send the chat, Stella.
Einai2000: And JuttaFranz, please say goodbye from me to Carl!
naranjahit: Bye!

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