[1268] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
"Creating Public Production Libraries"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Mon Sep 21 13:26:47 1992
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1992 11:22:50 CDT
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From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
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This is reprinted from _Retrofuturism_ 16, March 1992, a non-copyrighted
'zine which I picked up at commie news ("Community Newscenter") in Ann Arbor.
CREATING PUBLIC PRODUCTION LIBRARIES
An Immediast Project
If literacy measures people's ability to read and write, people living
in information societies are media illiterate - unequipped to decode the
affects of media on intelligence and intimacy and unable to write in the
language of broadcasting. While the media's ecology of coercion assuages
public desire to participate in the media by emphasizing the bottom-line
significance of public polls, Gallup and its pathetic epigones merely
totalize a few public neurons into the status of a collective brain. How
many of your comrades and kin have ever participated in a Gallup poll,
anyway?
Public seizure of all commercial broadcast media establishes what public
production libraries nurture: liberation from advertising, the
decommodification of public attention, the upgrade of public intelligence,
the development of media literacy, the documentation of public productions,
facilitated cultural expression, the termination of covert State action,
violence, propaganda, and media control, and the inviolable ground for a
public media and open state. Such are the aims of all Immediast plans
and projects.
Public production libraries will be built in sisterhood with the public
libraries that now exist. Within each production library will be
the facilities to produce print, audio, visual, and database material.
"Librarians" will serve as technicians, maintenance, and repair people.
Production libraries will give people a larynx through which to speak.
The media seized, corporations silenced, and the State under relentless
scrutiny, we will reconnect and celebrate who we are.
(Retrofuturism / PO Box 227 / Iowa City IA 52244)
(Immediast Underground / PO Box 2726 / Westfield NJ 07091)
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I don't know if either of these groups are on the net - I've seen some
sign of each having an influence on ideas, including the usenet groups
'alt.zines' and 'alt.artcom', maybe a bit here ?
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com
Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 4562
