Jelinek Noble Prize Lecture
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Elfriede Jelinek � Nobel Lecture
Sidelined
Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would
so love to curl up, of course, but what happens to me then? What happens
to those, who don�t really know reality at all? It�s so very dishevelled.
No comb, that could smooth it down. The writers run through it and
despairingly gather together their hair into a style, which promptly
haunts them at night. Something�s wrong with the way one looks. The
beautifully piled up hair can be chased out of its home of dreams again,
but can anyway no longer be tamed. Or hangs limp once more, a veil before
a face, no sooner than it could finally be subdued. Or stands
involuntarily on end in horror at what is constantly happening. It simply
won�t be tidied up. It doesn�t want to. No matter how often one runs the
comb with the couple of broken off teeth through it - it just doesn�t.
Something is even less right than before. The writing, that deals with
what happens, runs through one�s fingers like the time, and not only the
time, during which it was written, during which life stopped. No one has
missed anything, if life stopped. Not the one living and not dead time,
and the one who is dead not at all. When one was still writing, time found
its way into the work of other writers. Since it is time, it can do
everything at once: find its way into one�s own work and simultaneously
into the work of others, blow into the tousled hairstyles of others like a
fresh, even if malign wind, which has risen suddenly and unexpectedly from
the direction of reality. Once something has risen, then perhaps it
doesn�t lie down again so quickly. The angry wind blows and sweeps
everything with it. And it sweeps everything away, no matter where, but
never back to this reality, which is supposed to be represented.
Everywhere, except there. Reality is what gets under the hair, under the
skirts and just that: sweeps them away and into something else. How can
the writer know reality, if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him
away, forever onto the sidelines. From there, on the one hand, he can see
better, on the other he himself cannot remain on the way of reality. There
is no place for him there. His place is always outside. Only what he says
from the outside can be taken up inside, and that because he speaks
ambiguities. And then there are already two who fit, two whose faces are
right, who warn, that nothing is happening, two who construe it in
different directions, reach out to the inadequate grounds, which have long
ago broken off like the fangs of the comb. Either or. True or false. It
had to happen sooner or later, since the ground as building ground was
quite inadequate. And how could one build on a bottomless pit anyway? But
the inadequacy that enters the writers� field of vision, is still adequate
enough for something, that they could also take or leave. They could take
or leave it, and they do leave it. They don�t kill it. They merely look at
it with their bleary eyes, but it does not become arbitrary because of
this bleary gaze. The gaze is well aimed. Whatever is struck by this gaze
says, even as it sinks down, although it has hardly been looked at,
although it has not even been exposed to the sharp gaze of the public,
whatever has been struck never says, that it could also have been
something else, before it fell victim to this one description. It says
exactly what had been better left unsaid (because it could have been
better said?), what always had to remain unclear and groundless. Too many
have already sunk into it up to their stomachs. It�s quicksand, but it
doesn�t quicken anything. It is groundless, but not without grounds. It is
as you like, but it is not liked.
The sidelines are at the service of the life, that precisely does not take
place there, otherwise we would not all be in the thick of it, in the
fullness, the fullness of human life, and it is at the service of the
observation of the life, which is always taking place somewhere else.
Where one is not. Why insult someone, because he cannot find his way back
to the path of journeying, of life, of life�s journey, if he has borne it
- and this bearing is no bearing someone, but nor is it any kind of
bearing on - has simply fortuitously borne it, like the dust on a pair of
shoes, which is pitilessly hunted down by the housewife, if a little less
pitilessly than the stranger is hunted down by the locals. What kind of
dust is it? Is it radioactive or active by itself, just like that, I�m
only asking, because it leaves this strange trail of light on the way? Is
what is running alongside and never meeting up with the writer again, the
way, or is the writer the one who is running alongside, onto the
sidelines? He has not yet passed away, but he�s already passed the line
nevertheless. From there he sees those who have parted from him, but from
one another too, in all their variety, in order to represent them in all
their credulity, in order to get them on form, because form is the most
important thing, anyway he sees them better from there. But that, too, is
chalked up against him, so are those chalk marks and not particles of
luminous matter, which mark the way of writing? At any rate it�s a marking
out, which simultaneously shows and obscures and afterwards carefully
covers up again the trail he himself laid. One was never there at all. But
nevertheless one knows what�s up. The words have come down from a screen,
from blood-smeared faces distorted with pain, from laughing, made-up
faces, with lips pumped up beforehand just for the make-up or from others,
who gave the right answer to a question in a quiz, or born mouthers,
women, who have nothing for and nothing against, who stood up and took off
a jacket to point their freshly hardened breasts, which were once steeled
and belonged to men, at the camera. In addition any amount of throats, out
of which singing comes like bad breath, only louder. That is what could be
seen on the way, if one were still on it. One goes out of the way of the
way. Perhaps one sees it from a distance, where one remains alone, and how
gladly, because one wants to see the way, but not walk it. Did this path
make a noise just now? Does it want to draw attention to itself with
noises now and not just with lights, loud people, loud lights? Is the way,
which one cannot walk, afraid of not being walked at all, when so many
sins are being constantly committed after all, torture, outrages, theft,
threatening behaviour, necessary threat in the manufacture of significant
world fates? It makes no difference to the way. It bears everything,
firmly, even if groundlessly. Without ground. On lost ground. My hair, as
already mentioned, is standing on end, and no setting lotion there, which
could force it to firm up again. No firmness in myself either. Not on me,
not in me. When one�s on the sidelines, one always has to be ready to jump
a bit and then another bit to the side, into the empty space, which is
right next to the sidelines. And the sidelines have brought their sideline
pitfall along with them, it�s ready at any time, it gapes wide, to lure
one even further out. Luring out is luring in. Please, I don�t want to
lose sight now of the way, which I�m not on. I would so like to describe
it honestly and above all truly and accurately. If I�m actually looking at
it, it should also do something for me. But this way spares me nothing. It
leaves me nothing. What else is there left for me? I am prevented from
being on my way, I can hardly make my way at all. I am out, while not
going out. And there, too, I should certainly like to have protection
against my own uncertainty, but also against the uncertainty of the
ground, on which I�m standing. It runs to make certain, not only to
protect me, my language right beside me, and checks, whether I am doing it
properly, describing reality properly wrongly, because it always has to be
described wrongly, there�s no other way, but so wrongly, that anyone who
reads or hears it, notices the falseness immediately. Those are lies! And
this dog, language, which is supposed to protect me, that�s why I have
him, after all, is now snapping at my heels. My protector wants to bite
me. My only protector against being described, language, which,
conversely, exists to describe something else, that I am not - that is why
I cover so much paper - my only protector is turning against me. Perhaps I
only keep him at all, so that he, while pretending to protect me, pounces
on me. Because I sought protection in writing, this being on my way,
language, which in motion, in speaking, appeared to be a safe shelter,
turns against me. No wonder. I mistrusted it immediately, after all. What
kind of camouflage is that, which exists, not to make one invisible, but
ever more distinct?
Sometimes language finds itself on the way by mistake, but it doesn�t go
out of the way. It is no arbitrary process, speaking with language, it is
one that is involuntarily arbitrary, whether one likes it or not. Language
knows what it wants. Good for it, because I don�t know, no not at all.
Talk, talking in general keeps on talking over there now, because there�s
always talking, talking, without beginning or end, but there�s no
speaking. So there�s talking over there, wherever the others are staying,
because they don�t want to linger, they�re very occupied. Only them over
there. Not me. Only the language, which sometimes moves away from me, to
the people, not the other people, but moves away over to the real,
genuine, on the well-signposted way (who can go astray here?), following
their every movement like a camera, so that it at least, the language,
finds out, how and what life is, because then it is precisely not that,
and afterwards all of it must be described, even in what it precisely is
not. Let�s talk about the fact, that we are supposed to go for a medical
check-up once again. Yet all at once we suddenly speak, with due rigour,
like someone who has a choice, whether or not to speak. Whatever happens,
only the language goes away from me, I myself, I stay away. The language
goes. I stay, but away. Not on the way. And I�m speechless.
No, it�s still there. Has it perhaps been there all the time, did it weigh
up, whom it could weigh down? It has noticed me now and immediately snaps
at me, this language. It dares to adopt this tone of command to me, it
raises its hand against me, it doesn�t like me. It would gladly like the
nice people on the way, alongside whom it runs, like the dog it is,
feigning obedience. In reality it not only disobeys me, but everyone else,
too. It is for no-one but itself. It cries out through the night, because
no-one has remembered to put up lights beside this way, which are supplied
by nothing but the sun and no longer need any current at all from the
socket, or to find the path a proper path name. But it has so many names,
that it would be impossible to keep up with all the naming, if one tried.
I shout across, in my loneliness, stamping across these graves of the
departed, because since I am already running alongside, I cannot pay
attention as well to what I�m treading on, whom I�m treading down, I would
only somehow like to get to the place where my language already is, and
where it smirks mockingly across at me. Because it knows, that, if I ever
tried to live, it would soon trip me up, then rub salt in my wounds. Good.
So I will scatter salt on the way of the others, I throw it down, so that
their ice melts, coarse salt, so that their language loses its firm
ground. And yet it has long been groundless. What bottomless cheek on its
part! If I do not have solid ground under my feet, then my language can�t
either. Serve it right! Why did it not stay with me, on the sidelines, why
did it part from me? It wanted to see more than me? On the highway over
there, where there are more people, above all more likeable ones, chatting
nicely to each other? It wanted to know more than me? It has always known
more than me, it�s true, but it has to know even more than that. It will
end up killing itself by eating into itself, my language. It will
overindulge on reality. Serve it right! I spat it out, but it spits
nothing out, it�s good at keeping it down. My language calls over to me,
over on the sidelines, it likes best of all to call over to the sidelines,
it doesn�t have to take such careful aim, but it doesn�t have to, because
it always hits the target, not by saying something or other, but by
speaking with the �austerity of letting be�, as Heidegger says about
Trakl. It calls me, language does, today anyone can do it, because
everyone always carries their language around with them in a small gadget,
so that they can speak, why would they have learned it?, so it calls me
where I am caught in the trap and cry out and thrash about, but no, it�s
not true, my language isn�t calling, it�s gone, too, my language has gone
from me, that�s why it has to call, it shouts in my ear, no matter out of
which gadget, a computer or a mobile phone, a phone booth, from where it
roars in my ear, that there�s no point in saying something out loud, it
already does that anyway, I should simply say what it tells me; because
there would be even less point in for once speaking what was on one�s mind
to a dear person, who has fallen down on the case and whom one can trust,
because he has fallen and won�t get up again so quickly, in order to
pursue one and, yes, to chat a little. There�s no point. The words of my
language over there on the pleasant way (I know it�s more pleasant than
mine, which is actually no way at all, but I can�t see it clearly, but I
know, that I too would like to be there), the words of my language have,
therefore, in parting from me, immediately become a speaking out. No, no
talking it out with someone. A speaking out. It listens to itself speaking
out, my language, it corrects itself, because speaking can still be
improved at any time; yes, it can always be improved, it is even entirely
there to be improved and then to make a new linguistic ruling, but then
only to be able immediately to overturn the rules again. That will then be
the new way to salvation, of course I mean solution. A quick fix. Please,
dear language, don�t you for once want to listen first? So that you learn
something, so that you at last learn the rules of speaking ... What are
you shouting and grumbling about over there? Are you doing it, language,
so that I graciously take you in you again? I thought, you didn�t want to
come back to me at all! There was no sign, that you wanted to come back to
me, it would have been pointless anyway, I wouldn�t have understood the
sign. You only became language to get away from me and to ensure that I
got on? But nothing is ensured. And by you not at all, as well as I know
you. I don�t even recognise you again. You want to come back to me of your
own accord? I won�t take you in any more, what do you say to that? Away is
away. Away is no way. So if my loneliness, if my constant absence, my
uninterrupted existence on the sidelines came in person to fetch back
language, so that it, well-looked-after by me, at last came home, to a
beautiful sound, which it could utter, then it would only happen, so that
with this sound, this penetrating, piercing howling of a siren, blown by
the wind, it could drive me further, ever further back from the sidelines.
Because of the recoil of this language, which I myself produced and which
has run away from me (or did I produce it for that purpose? So that it
immediately runs away from me, because I have not managed to run away from
myself in time?), I am chased ever deeper into this space beyond the
sidelines. My language is already wallowing blissfully in its muddy pool,
the little provisional grave on the way, and it looks up at the grave in
the air, it wallows on its back, a friendly creature, which would like to
please human beings like any respectable language, it wallows, opens its
legs, presumably to let itself be stroked, why else. It�s greedy for
caresses, after all. That stops it from gazing after the dead, so that I
must gaze after them instead, and of course in the end it�s down to me. So
I had no time to curb my language, which now shamelessly rolls around
under the hands of the caressers. There are simply too many dead, whom I
have to see to, that�s an Austrian technical term for: whom I have to look
after, whom I have to treat well, but then we�re famous for that, for
always treating everyone well. The world is looking to us, no need to
worry. We don�t have to take care of that. Yet the more clearly this
demand, to gaze at the dead, sounds in me, the less am I able to pay
attention to my words. I must gaze at the dead, while meanwhile the
strollers are stroking the good old language and chucking it under the
chin, which doesn�t make the dead any more alive. No one is to blame. Even
I, dishevelled as I and my hair are, am not to blame for the dead staying
dead. I want the language over there to finally stop making itself the
slave of strangers� hands, no matter how good it feels, I want it to begin
by stopping making demands, but itself become a demand, to finally face up
to, not the caresses, but a demand to come back to me, because language
always has to face up, only doesn�t always know it and doesn�t listen to
me. It has to face up, because the people who want to adopt it instead of
a child, it�s so lovable, if one loves it, people therefore never face up,
they decide, they don�t answer calls, many of them even immediately
destroyed, tore up, burnt their call-up order to sociability, and the flag
along with it. So the more people who take up the invitation of my
language to scratch its stomach, to ruffle something, to affectionately
accept its friendliness, the further I stumble away, I have finally lost
my language to those who treat it better, I�m almost flying, where on
earth was this way, that I need in order to hurry down? How do I get where
to do what? How do I get to the place, where I can unpack my tools, but in
reality can right away pack them up again? Over there something bright is
gleaming under the branches, is that the place, where my language first of
all flatters the others, rocks them into a sense of security, only in
order for itself to be lovingly rocked in the end for once? Or does it
want to snap again? It always wants to do nothing but bite, only the
others don�t know it yet, but I know it very well, it was with me for a
long time. Beforehand there�s first of all cuddles and whispering sweet
nothings to this seemingly tame creature, which everyone has at home
anyway, why should they bring a strange animal into the house? So why
should this language be any different from what they already know? And if
it were different, then perhaps it might be dangerous to take it in.
Perhaps it won�t get on with the one they already have. The more friendly
strangers there are, who know how to live, but are nevertheless very far
from knowing their life, since they pursue their caressing intents,
because they always have to pursue something, the more my seeing no longer
clearly sees the way through to the language any more. Miles and more. Who
else should be able to see through things, if not seeing? Speaking wants
to take over seeing as well? It wants to speak, before it has even seen?
It wallows there, is groped by hands, buffeted by winds, caressed by
storms, insulted by listening, until it stops listening altogether. Well,
then: all listen here for once! Whoever doesn�t want to listen, must speak
without being listened to. Almost everyone is not listened to, although
they speak. I am listened to, although my language does not belong to me,
although I can hardly see it any more. Much is said against it. So it no
longer has much to say for itself, that�s fine. It�s listened to, as it
slowly repeats, while somewhere a red button is pressed, which sets off a
terrible explosion. There�s nothing left to say except: Our Father, which
art. It cannot mean me, although after all I am father, that is: mother,
of my language. I am the father of my mother tongue. The mother tongue was
there from the beginning, it was in me, but no father was there, who might
have belonged to it. My language was often unbecoming, that was often made
clear enough to me, but I didn�t want to take the hint. My fault. The
father left this nuclear family along with the mother tongue. Right he
was. In his place I would not have stayed either. My mother tongue has
followed my father now, it�s gone. It is, as already mentioned, over
there. It listens to the people on the way. On the father�s way, who went
too soon. Now the language knows something, that you don�t know, that he
didn�t know. But the more it knows, the less it says. Of course, it�s
constantly saying something, but it�s saying nothing. And already the
loneliness is taking its leave. It�s no longer needed. No one sees, that I
am still inside, in the loneliness. I am not heeded. Perhaps I am
honoured, but I am not heeded. How do I ensure that all these words of
mine say something, that could say something to us? I cannot do it by
speaking. In fact I cannot even speak, because my language is
unfortunately not at home just now. Over there it says something else,
which I didn�t ask it to either, but it has already forgotten my command
from the start. It doesn�t tell me, although it belongs to me, after all.
My language doesn�t tell me anything, how should it then tell others
something? But nor is it saying nothing, you must admit that! It says all
the more, the further away from me it is, indeed, only then does it dare
say something, that it wants to say itself, then it dares to disobey me,
to resist me. When one looks, one moves further away from the object, the
longer one looks at it. When one speaks, one catches hold of it again, but
one cannot hold onto it. It tears itself away and hurries after its own
naming, the many words I have made and I have lost. Words have been
exchanged often enough, the exchange rate is incredibly bad, and then it�s
no more than: incredible. I say something, and then it�s already been
forgotten from the start. That�s what it strove for, it wanted to get away
from me. The unspeakable is spoken every day, but what I say, that isn�t
to be allowed. That�s mean of what has been spoken. That is incredibly
mean. The spoken doesn�t even want to belong to me. It wants to be done,
so that one can say: said and done. I would even be satisfied, if it
denied belonging to me, my language, but it should belong to me
nevertheless. How can I ensure, that it is at least a little attached to
me? Nothing sticks to the others after all, so I offer myself to it. Come
back! Come back, please! But no. Over there on the path it�s listening to
secrets, that I�m not supposed to know, my language, and it passes them
on, these secrets, to others who don�t want to hear them. I would want to,
it would be my right, indeed, it would go down well, if you like, but it
doesn�t stand still, and speak to me, it doesn�t do that either. It is in
the empty space which is distinguished and differentiates itself from me,
in that there are very many there. Emptiness is the way. I am even on the
sidelines of emptiness. I have left the way. I have only said things after
another. Much has been said about me, but hardly any of it is true. I
myself have only said what others have said, and I say: that is now what
is really said. As I said - simply incredible! It�s a long time since so
much has been said. One�s listening can�t keep up any more, although one
must listen, in order to be able to do something. In this respect, which
in reality is a looking away, even a looking away from myself, there�s
nothing to be said about me, there�s nothing to be said, nothing more to
be said. I�m always only gazing after life, my language turns its back on
me, so that it can present its stomach to strangers to caress, shameless,
to me it only shows its back, if anything at all. Too often it doesn�t
give me a sign and doesn�t say anything either. Sometimes I don�t even see
it over there any more, and now I can�t even say �as has already been
said�, because while I�ve already said it often enough, I cannot say it
any more, I�m lost for words. Sometimes I see the back or the soles of the
feet, on which they can�t really walk, the words, but faster than I have
been able to for a long time and even now. What am I doing there? Is that
why my dear language has lain down some distance away from me? That way it
will, of course, always be faster than me, jump up and run away, when I go
across to it from my place of work, to fetch it. I don�t know, why I
should fetch it. So that it doesn�t fetch me? Perhaps it, who ran away
from me, knows? Who doesn�t follow me? Who now follows the looking and
speaking of others, and really can�t mix up them with me. They are other,
because they are the others. For no other reason, except that they are the
others. That�s good enough for my speaking. The main thing is, I don�t do
it: speaking. The others, always the others, so that it�s not me, who
belongs to it, sweet language. I would so much like to stroke it, like the
others over there, if I could only catch hold of it. But then it�s over
there, so that I can�t catch hold of it.
When will it silently make off? When will something make off, so there�s
silence? The more the language over there makes off, the louder it can be
heard. It�s on everyone�s lips, only not on my lips. My mind is clouded. I
have not passed out, but my mind is clouded. I am worn out from gazing
after my language like a lighthouse by the sea, which is supposed to light
someone home and so has itself been lit up, and which as it revolves
always reveals something else from the darkness, but is there anyway,
whether it is lit up or not, it�s a lighthouse, which doesn�t help anyone,
no matter how hard that man wishes it would, so as not to have to die in
the water. The harder I try to make it out, the more obstinately it
doesn�t go out, language. I now put out this language light mechanically,
I switch to the pilot light, but the more I try to clap myself over it, a
snuffer on the end of a long pole, with which in my childhood the candles
in the church were extinguished, the more I try to snuff out this flame,
the more air it seems to have. And all the more loudly it cries out,
rolling around under thousands of hands, which do it good, which
unfortunately I have never done, I don�t know myself, what would do me
good, so it�s crying out now, so it can keep away from me. It shouts at
the others, so that they too join in and cry out like it, so that the
noise grows louder. It shouts, that I shouldn�t come too close. No one
should come too close to anyone at all. And what has been said should also
not come too close to what one wants to say. One shouldn�t get too close
to one�s own language, that is an insult, it is quite capable of repeating
something after itself, piercingly loud, so that no one hears, that what
it says, was earlier recited to it. It even makes me promises, so that I
will stay away from it. It promises me everything, if I just don�t come
close to it. Millions are allowed to get close to it, except me! Yet it�s
mine! What do you think of that? I just can�t tell you, what I think of
that. This language must have forgotten its beginnings, I�ve got no other
explanation. With me it started small. No, how big it�s grown, I can�t
tell you! Like this I don�t even recognise it. I knew it, when it was just
so high. When it was so quiet, when the language was still my child. Now
it has all at once become gigantic. That�s not my child any more. The
child has not grown up, only big, it doesn�t know that it has not yet
outgrown me, but it�s wide awake nevertheless. It is so wide awake, that
it drowns itself out with its crying, and anyone else who cries louder
than it. Then it spirals up to an incredible pitch. Believe me, you really
don�t want to hear it! Also, please don�t believe that I�m proud of this
child! At its beginning I wanted it to remain as quiet as when it was
still speechless. Even now, I don�t want it to sweep over something like a
storm, causing others to roar even louder and to raise their arms and
throw hard objects, which my language can no longer even grasp and catch,
it has, my fault, too, always been so unathletic. It doesn�t catch. It can
throw, but it can�t catch. I remain imprisoned in it, even when it�s away.
I am the prisoner of my language, which is my prison warder. Funny - it�s
not even keeping an eye on me! Because it is so certain of me? Because it
is so certain, that I won�t run away, is that why it believes, it can
leave me? Here comes someone, who has already died, and he talks to me,
although that is not planned for him. He�s allowed to, many dead are
speaking now in their choked voices, now they dare to, because my own
language is not keeping any eye on me. Because it knows, it isn�t
necessary. Even if it runs away from me, I won�t slip through its hands. I
am at hand for it, but it has slipped through my hands. But I remain. But
what remains, the writers do not make. What remains is gone. The flight of
fancy was cut. Nothing and no one has come. And if nevertheless, against
all reason, something that has not come at all, a little would like to
remain, then what does remain, language, the most fleeting of all, has
disappeared. It has replied to a new situations vacant advert. What should
remain, is always gone. It is at any rate not there. So what is left to
one.
Translation from German by Martin Chalmers
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2004
Elfriede Jeline
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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: arc.hive@anart.no
Subject: Re: [_arc.hive_] Fwd: dyne:bolic 1.4 codename LUMUMBA
I've been using this all day on a Compaq laptop from the disk.
The WinXP harddrive becomes read-only, but I've connected into my lan network
and can transfer files that way through DSL.
Works excellently!
- Alan
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, ][m e z ][ wrote:
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>> dyne.org productions proudly present:
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>> :::::::::...:::::: version 1.4 :: codename LUMUMBA :::::
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>> 100% FREE MULTIMEDIA GNU/LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM
>>
>> RASTA SOFTWARE FOR THE FREEDOM OF CREATION
>>
>> the complete system is free to download and copy, go on
>> ____ _ http://dynebolic.org _ _____
>> ___ __ http://dynebolic.org __ ____
>> __ ___ http://dynebolic.org ___ ___
>> _ ____ http://dynebolic.org ____ __
>> and redempt yourself from closed source software
>> ISO CD image of 610Mbytes
>>
>>
>>
>> :: WHAT IS DYNE:BOLIC ?
>>
>> Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable cd, containing a whole
>> operating system that works straight from boot, without the need to
>> install or change anything on the hard disk.
>> If you like and want to have it on harddisk you can simply copy the
>> /dyne directory on your computer: the simpliest installation ever!
>>
>> Dyne:bolic is user-friendly: recognizes your hardware devices (sound,
>> video, firewire, and USB), and offers a VAST range of free software
>> applications for multimedia production, audio and video manipulation,
>> sound composition and synthesis, 3D modeling, photography, peer2peer
>> filesharing, web browsing, desktop publishing, word processing, cd
>> burning, email, encryption, remote conferencing, funky games, a world
>> atlas navigator and even more.
>>
>> Advanced features include: a complete environment with the most advanced
>> multimedia applications available on GNU/Linux, automatic clustering
>> joining
>> the CPU power between any other dyne:bolic on the local network,
>> capability
>> to work well on old PC (Pentium1 64Mb) and even XBOX game consoles,
>> support
>> to save and encrypt personal data and settings on a usb key.
>>
>> Dyne:bolic is shaped on the needs of media activists and artists to
>> promote free speech as a tool for the production and not only the
>> fruition of digital and analog informations.
>> It takes birth as a grassroot effort to spread free software and the
>> spirit of sharing information and knowledge.
>>
>> for more information see:
>> http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=features with screenshots
>> http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=press past reviews
>> http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=docs the manual and wiki
>>
>>
>>
>> :: WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE?
>>
>> This release provides a major upgrade to software included and adds
>> new useful applications, plus fixes some important outstanding bugs.
>> Since the enormous success of the previous release, the suggestions
>> of a growing number of users and the dedication of currently active
>> developers Jaromil and Smilzo lead to this very stable release.
>>
>> Everyone is encouraged to upgrade! here the complete ChangeLog:
>>
>> = 1.4 major update "LUMUMBA"
>> - Pure Data equipped with all major extensions:
>> PDP, PiDiP, RRadical, grid, pique, bonk, choice,
>> fiddle, freeverb, zexy, GEM-0.90, OSC and more
>> (10x to Aymeric, Derek, Frank, Yves, Tom and PD!)
>> - Blender-2.33a + Yafray-0.0.7 + Python game engine
>> - LiVES 0.9.1 with Ogg/Theora and _many_ other codecs!
>> - FreeJ-0.7.1 "BIKO" - RASTASOFTWARE!
>> console remote controller (VJ over Ethernet) and
>> Procedural Video Scripting: evolution from NLE systems
>> - updated Linux 2.4.26, Alsa, OpenMosix and SquashFS-2.1
>> with improved efficience and wider device support
>> including Zoran devices and most video boards
>> - Xbox support up to recent versions and cromwell bios
>> - Python is included with GUI extensions
>> - Fix to modem connection, now fully functional
>> - new software: Jamin-0.8, InkScape-0.39, poedit-1.2.5,
>> KPhone-4.0.2, TimeMachine-0.2.4, tftp-hpa-0.38,
>> Bomb-1.26, Pure-Ftpd-1.0.20, mlDonkey-2.5.22,
>> Circle-0.41c, Aqualung-0.9b2, FLAC-1.1, iftop-0.17p1,
>> Emacs-21.3, Seq24-0.5.2, Thunderbird-1.0,
>> Chestnut-dialer-0.1, libtheora-1.0a4
>> - Mobilemesh wireless adaptive routing daemon
>> see /usr/mobilemesh (10x to Elektra)
>> - updated software: FreeJ-0.7.1, MuSE-0.9.1,
>> ImageMagick-6, LADSPA, Jack-0.98.1, Blender-2.33a,
>> Cinelerra-1.2.1, Gaim-1.0, GQview-1.4.3, isolinux 2.10,
>> GEM-0.90, pd-0.37-4, Audacity-1.2.2, LiVES-0.9.1,
>> BlueFish-0.13, EffecTV-0.3.9, MPlayer-1.0pre5,
>> QJackCtl-0.2.10, Hydrogen-0.9, SDL-1.2.7, png-1.2.7,
>> Xfe-0.72, libFOX-1.2.9, Firefox-1.0, Rezound-0.11.1beta,
>> ogg-1.1.1, vorbis-1.0.1, Hydrogen-0.9.1, mjpegtools-1.6.2
>> - new games: Eboard, Racer and Eat The Whistle!
>> tk-solitaire and Starfighter-1.1.1 plus the juicy
>> updates for Wesnoth-0.8.6
>> - more documentation in the dynebolic user's manual
>> - lectrobrain :: thk03
>>
>> In case you have a DOCK (/dyne directory copied in your harddisk) you
>> should
>> upgrade it by using the one in this release - or when you boot the CD
>> just
>> answer YES when you'll be prompted to upgrade.
>>
>>
>>
>> : THIS IS RASTA SOFTWARE !
>>
>> This software is about Resistance ina babylon world which tries to
>> control and limit the way we communicate and we share informations
>> and knowledge.
>>
>> This software is for all those who don't want to afford the latest
>> expensive
>> hardware to speak out their words of consciousness and good will, still
>> offering a complete operating system with more features than some other
>> proprietary system affected by viruses and full of spyware.
>>
>> This software is free, Jah Rastafari Livity bless your freedom!
>>
>> You should share this software for the good of yourself and your
>> people, respect others and let them express, be free and let others
>> be free. You are welcome to redistribute dyne:bolic in any way you
>> like, to your friends and neighbours, to anybody who needs or is just
>> curious to try, as you wish.
>>
>> The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery. This
>> software is not a business. This software is free as of speech and is one
>> step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom. This software is
>> dedicated
>> to the memory of Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Marthin Luther King,
>> Steve
>> Biko, Walter Rodney, Malcom X, Mumia Abu Jamal and all those who still
>> resist to slavery, racism and oppression, who still fight imperialism and
>> seek an alternative to the egemony of capitalism in our World.
>>
>>
>>
>> :: CONTRIBUTE TO DYNE:BOLIC !
>>
>> IF dyne:bolic can be useful for you, you can also be useful to
>> dyne:bolic! consider the possibility to get involved with
>> development, contribute artwork and ideas, help with debugging and
>> documenting and anything else can come to you in mind.
>>
>> ->>>> BUG REPORT ONLINE INTERFACE: http://bugs.dyne.org
>> ->>>> JOIN OUR MAILINGLIST: mailto:dynebolic-subscribe@dyne.org
>> ->>>> CONTRIBUTE DOCUMENTATION: http://lab.dyne.org/DyneBolic (wiki)
>>
>> Furthermore, please consider that the dyne:bolic project is an
>> indypendent effort relying on support from non-profit, grant-making
>> and business organizations willing to sustain development of free and
>> opensource software like this.
>>
>> Dyne:bolic relies on support from individuals like you to preserve,
>> protect and promote the freedom it gives to its users.
>>
>> This new release opens a donation round which is much needed at the
>> moment
>> so please show your appreciation with a small act of generosity! thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> :: GET SUPPORT AND CUSTOMIZED VERSIONS
>>
>> The dyne:bolic team is also offering commercial support: we can provide
>> workshops, consulting services, customisations, setup and warranty for
>> fitness to a particular purpose.
>>
>> If you need commercial support on dyne:bolic this is the way you can be
>> 100%
>> sure it will work for you.
>>
>> In fact, this is the sustainable model we are building around dyne:bolic
>> to
>> support our development and further research: we are following the best
>> knowledge here principle and offer customisation and special support
>> packages.
>>
>> For more informations see http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=cust
>> and our workshop offer http://dynebolic.dyne.org/index.php?show=workshop
>>
>>
>>
>> :: DEVELOPERS TEAM
>>
>> Denis "Jaromil" Rojo - mantainer of dyne:bolic, HasciiCam MuSE and FreeJ
>>
>> Alex "Smilzo" Gnoli - mantainer of the Xbox dynebolic kernel
>>
>> Silvano "Kysucix" Galliani - developer of FreeJ
>>
>> Antonino "Nightolo" Radici, Luca "Rubik" Profico
>> and Angelo "Pallotron" Failla - developers of MuSE
>>
>> Federico "Bomboclat" Prando and Francesco "C1cc10" Rana for the bolic1
>>
>>
>>
>> :: THANKS, WAVES AND CHEERS
>>
>> Thanks to the many people developing day by day the whole GNU/Linux
>> system,
>> they are thousands all around the world and it is impossible to include
>> all
>> of them here. ONE LOVE!
>>
>> Special Thanks to the OpenMosix project, Tom and the Blender crew,
>> Salsaman
>> for his valuable developments on LiVES, Dmp for the suggestions about
>> Xbox,
>> the amazing PD crews, Phillip Lougher for his great results in SquashFS
>> 2,
>> Albi for his suggestions and friendship, the linux-audio-dev programmers,
>> the Twibright labs for Links2, the Xiph.org foundation, the squatters in
>> A'dam and all others mentioned thru past present and future documentation
>> of
>> dyne:bolic!
>>
>> Great respsct to all dyne.org hackers, the FreakNet medialab and the
>> autistici/inventati collective, ECN.org and italy.indymedia, the ASCII,
>> the #mdp slum and the irc.freenode.net #dyne IRC channel, Metro
>> Olografix,
>> the Hackmeeting community, radio Ondarossa, New Global Vision and the
>> great
>> dynebolic mailinglist community.
>>
>> Thanks and greetings also to the individuals helping developers with
>> their
>> genuine solidarity, ospitality and humanity: Andrea Mayr, Armin Medosh,
>> Jo van der Spek, Reni & Jogi, Matteo "blended" Scassa, Robert De Geuss,
>> Gaby Wijers and many others understanting how much this is important to
>> have
>> keep such a project going.
>>
>> Thanks, A thousand flowers will blossom!
>>
>>
>>
>> :: DISCLAIMER
>>
>> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>> it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
>> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
>> your option) any later version.
>>
>> This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
>> WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
>> General Public License for more details.
>>
>> You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>> along with this program; if not, write to:
>> Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
>>
>> Several redistributed binaries are copyrighted by the respective authors,
>> it is documented in the accompanying manual of the distribution.
>>
>> dyne.org is available to provide the source of the included binaries
>> upon request, all the included software can be redistributed under the
>> terms of the GNU GPL license and, in some cases, the X/BSD license.
>>
>> For more informations refer to the web pages on http://dynebolic.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> - --
>> jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
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