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[context]
---------------------------------------------------------In the context
of the "war of terror", Knowbotic Research investigate legal frameworks
which, often invisibly, inscribe and determine our public fields of
action. KR direct the attention away from the dominant layer of representing
these processes through mass media images, and address directly the
layers of the code of these political inscriptions. The project naked
bandit/here, not here/white sovereign focuses on the sites of detainment
of so-called 'enemy combatants'. It approaches these sites as invisible,
stealth public spaces by uncovering the codes of their inherent mechanisms
of exclusion and inclusion. These sites of detainment call into question
the dominant notions of sovereignty and citizenship which define the
legal status of a person: The (global) sovereign defines detained
persons as 'here' and, at the same moment, 'elsewhere', not anymore
on the territory of the nation state, and thus banned from the legal
framework which the nation state guarantees ('naked bandit'). - 'Naked
bandits' are here and not here: detained in spheres of limbo. The
project investigates the formal mechanisms of such an inclusive exclusion
and the inherent formations of power, and offers hypothetical models
of agency for dealing with their logics.
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[transcode]
------------------------------------------------------ Knowbotic Research
transfers the legalistic codes (or better codes which produce an exemption
from legality) of the inclusive exclusion of the naked bandit by the
white sovereign, into a script code, executable in a Unix shell.transcoding
the inclusive exclusion The 'impossible' translation of the dilemma
of the naked bandit, i.e. being excluded from the legal body and included
in a trans-territorial non-location, - this translation into another
code system opens up an artificial testing ground, a stage to look
for and execute possible exits out of this invisible, coded dilemma.
The shell scripts appropriate the mechanism of the inclusive exclusion
(to define somebody as being here and not here) in order to overcome
it by its own means. In the execution of the following two naked bandit/here,
not here/white sovereign scenarios A, B the potential of escape of
the bandit is installed and enacted.
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[scenarios]
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A:
export white_sovereign='not_here()
{ while [ enclosed ] ; do echo "naked bandit: here, not here";
echo $white_sovereign| sed -e "s/ ( not_here ) /(& \& ) /g">
clone.sh; done; } ; ( not_here ) & wait $!' ; sh -c "$white_sovereign"
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B:
not_here()
{ echo "$! ">.key; here & wait $! ; } ; here() { while [ enclosed
];do echo "naked bandit: here, not here";done; } ; ( ( not_here
) & while true;do echo "white sovereign: naked bandit here,
not here";done )
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