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AN ADDENDUM:
What sjude's posting didn't quite explain is that it included actual
writing/role "assignments." In other words, all those "YOU ARE"
statements are directly directed at... "YOU!!!!"
You can RESPOND to this in a PARTICIPATORY fashion and say, YES, I'D
LIKE TO BE..." and give us a short sample of rant, complaint or other
text -- just a couple paragraphs, no problem... Respond to rusirius
and stjude, both of us @well.sf.ca.us.
Then we'll talk about particular assignments to move the plotline
along, and about your own input, once you get into the groove of the
role and the story. By reading the writing/role assignments posted
here and by reading the plot, available in the reference library on the
WELL (just gopher it) you'll have all the info that you need to
participate.
Many of these roles require only one piece of writing, some of them
fewer than 500 words. So COME ON, YOU LAZY PROPELLER HEADS... this is
an opportunity to exercise your wit and your sense of the ridiculous..
in a very subversive context... in broad strokes or with great
subtlety... and to put yourself or your favorite real or imaginary
group or project into the near future history of the world...
So here's a repetition of some of Jude's posting with some additions:
WRITING/ROLE ASSIGNMENTS
TECHNO REVOLUTIONISTS
You are a born anarchist hacker rhetorician w/ enough techno knowledge
to moneky wrench a bit in the digital realm.
You are a technically proficient cypherpunk with an earnest yet flashy
writing style
You are a generalist hacker/cracker who can write technical material
and engage in colorful email exchanges.
You are a hacker genius who can figure out ways to do things that
simply can't be dome, and can talk about it in a reasonably accessible
way. Or maybe you're the near-cartoon brilliant NERD, lving the
Vampire shift on caffeine and canned corn. With an entirely fictoidal
posse of nastyass teeners with whom you concoct pranks.
You're a black post-riot grrrl, Sub Rosa, with the most popular online
pirate multimedia show in the world.
You're a vile revolutionary psycho into media piracy and advocating
direct technological attacks on the government.
THE "MAN"
You are a puritanical nut who likes to write personal threat notes
You write official statements for the forces of purity and repression
You're Vice President Tipper Gore on a rampage.
JOURNALISTS
You are good at compiling data on a subject and making it readable.
You are a mainstream journalist or a techno-newsletter writer or both.
(with Extropian tendencies_ (into media piracy)
You are a detail-oriented hard-tech journalist with wit and style
You are a detail-oriented science writer specializing in biotech, with
wit and style
You're a business journalist
You're a serious mainstream journalist witha left-liberal agenda
monitoring social and cultureal trends
You write for TV Guide
You're a conservative columnist
You're a mainstream "liberal" columnist fed up with total media
violence and anarchy
You're a Goddess-pagan oriented writer ready to shill for a religion
based on bodily fluids
You're a Gonzo "rock" culture journalist of the wickedest sort.
You are a music/art writer/critic with a good sense of the ludicrous
TECHNICAL
You're a how-to, hands-on phreaker, intruder or media pirate and you
draw DIY circuit diagrams, maps and step-by-step instructions.
You are a technician who can write instruction books, draw diagrams and
the like and make it entertaining.
You're into "industrial" performance art, multimedia and special
effects...
Keep in mind that boring-sounding detail-oriented pieces pay three
times as much as the other ones, if that's a factor for you. also,
there's tremendous flexibility in all of this for people to mutate
their roles, and add new ones. Our goal is to write 1994-1997 in July
and 1998-2001 in August and then add change and improve...
R U Sirius June 22, 1994