Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1201181458440.6482@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:59:57 -0500 (EST)
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? blue sky could be filled with anything http://www.alansondheim.org/CLOUDLESS.mp4 filled with clouds. CLOUDLESS. not 'the cloud' - i.e. 'STORE YOUR DATA IN THE CLOUD.' but 'a cloud' - i.e. 'STORE YOUR DATA IN MY CLOUD.' 'DON'T STORE YOUR DATA IN THEIR CLOUD.' too much of this! clouds aren't clouds: they're corporate repositories! they're physical locations, hardware, servers and routers and hard drives OWNED BY CORPORATIONS! more lies and a language of obfuscation! there is no 'cloud' in my sky. if there were, it would be 'my cloud.' i am a person, not a corporation, and i cannot understand: how can anyone own a cloud? populate a cloud? but i'm told it's 'THE CLOUD' much like 'THE GODHEAD.' they play off that. they play off everything! CORPORATIONS' HAPPY DESIRE: TO APPEAR NATURAL! then corporations become part of a landscape. they are wilderness! they are resources! they are plants! animals! they are mountains and valleys! THEY ARE PERSONS! THEY CAN VOTE! THEY ARE THE VERY CLOUDS IN THE SKY!