Renaming Proposition
Might it be possible to rename the wiki? I feel like "wiki" is a poor title also, perhaps we can start some sot of weekly IRC meeting to coordinate work on it. Because something should happen and we need some sort of out-of-band way to communicate. I'm on freenode and irc all the time. See (any of you) soon! -- ?tychoish
Fade from Black
A face flickers into focus. Who is it? Is it you? Me? God? The Narrator? The Author? No.
A face smiles, and speaks:
Here, together, some of us are tracing the possibility of emergent living wisdom. We are characters in a novelization of the world. We conspire to make a novel world real. What on earth can that mean? We're learning to find out. We ...out-t-t...eee...t-t-t...eee...
The face loses form. Digital jitters and slurs remix the last few sounds into break beats and sirens.
CUT
Analog snow; white noise. Shadows in the static; shades of wind, of ocean.
CUT
A face returns, a different face: darker, younger, older, lighter. It looks like home video, for a few seconds, saying something out of context. Every few words, cut to another face, another voice, another fragment of homemade reality.
Are you ready? / Help us / write the stories / of the many / ways and means / of yearning and striving / to make a better world. / Help us / write the stories / of the people / we hope to be- / come / for whom disagreement / is strength and / the radical / differences among communities / are negotiated / into powerful action. /
Are you willing? / Every word / you write / is offered as a gift / to hone the wisdom / of a collective / artifact. / No more / adding to the maelstrom / of mediocre fame -- / instead we labor / incognito / together. / You prune / as much as you add / to my words. / You trust me / to have the courage / to change your expressions / for the better. /
Add new characters. / Change those already here. / Add new conversations, / new configurations / of interactions, / new mashups / of wisdom.
You have / the power.
CUT
A face smiles, and speaks.
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For a somewhat more technical introduction to both the content and form of this proleptic project, see Collab-wiki. Also see Technically.
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