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<html> <title> Neurosphere </title> <BODY BGCOLOR=#fef3di> <p> <p align=center><b><font size=+1>From the Phenomenology of Perception<br> to the Neurophenomenology of Reception <p></font size></b> <p> <font size=+1>T</font size>echnomedia proposes a communicative system that assumes the assimilation of representation into the technosphere, the neurosphere, and the genosphere. Responses to the stimuli of experiential phenomena are being replaced by study of the neuro-reflexive activities of the brain-as-operating system. This metaphor goes hand-in-hand with the connectionist models being utilized to link everything from the internet to the electrical impulses of the neuron. Networked communities, the emergence of biocomputing, and genetic mapping, represent fields in which information has become essentialism. Evelyn Fox Keller writes that "even while researchers in molecular biology and cyberscience displayed little interest in each other�s epistemological program, information -- either as metaphor or as material (or technological) inscription -- could not be contained." The collision of these disciplines in the fast-growing fields of networking, DNA based computer programming and nanotechnology suggests the reconceptualization of the subject of computing. Rather than the human-computer interface, the thrust of research is bio or neuro-informatics, the constitution of identity not in terms of the relationship between machine and person but of the conceiving of technology within the formation of ideas and meanings.<br> <p> As a historically developing means of control, technology itself is mutating into meta-technology, meta-control. Questions of machine intelligence and political empowerment are becoming questions of artificial life and massive�albeit invisible� parallelism. Subsumed in the immaterial space of information, culture, the sphere of public action, is destabilized as a sphere of knowledge, a sphere of discourse, and a sphere of difference. Ubiquitous computing, the "intelligent ambience," the wired world, only serve to suggest the clear fact that the triumph of technology has already occurred, that the shift from agency to behavior has become the focal point of technology research. Rather than liberating, the trajectory of so much of this work is to map, to record, to simulate, and to produce behavior. The cold war metaphor of command and control and communication (so evident in the work of von Neumann and Wiener) has found new metaphors. Top-down access and software implementations now mediate almost all forms of communication and are implicated as much in the discourses of on-line chats as they are in the development of digenetic therapies. Indeed, the recent debate and legislation concerning network content presupposes surveillance and precititates yet greater hesitations about the first amendment guarantees of free, and not unregulated, speech. But the camouflage of communication policy overshadows more substantive issues concerning information, computing, biology, culture and freedom. <p> © Timothy Druckrey<br> 1995 <p> <hr size=5> <p> More soon <p> </html>