PK Vita: Chronology Selected

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2008

(Paul Knatz)
Selected Chronology
c. 1965:

Started thinking about art as complex information: increasingly distinguishing data from information

First noticed Shakespeare's juxtaposition of the redundancy of the Fair Love and the oxymoron of the Dark Lady as a meta-oxymoron

Simultaneously noticing an analogy between their contrast and the ageless struggle between Realism and Nominalism, between authority and experience

1969:

Short stories found level of invention still not fathomed by publishers or public: for exampleFirst Week [see PaulKnatz blog]

1970:

Encountered Ivan Illich and his models for Learning Webs in Deschooling SocietyFounded the Free Learning Exchange, Inc., emphasizing that the public networking of learning opportunities likewise mapped the public networking of all public informationAny public information system that doesn't note all the information is fraud: easily falsified (if civilized humans could only be got to pay attention). (Licensing teachers disempowers parents, licensing doctors dis-empowers all other (unlicensed) healers ...

1982 ...:

NovelsLike my short stories, (like my scholarship,) my novels match contrasting abstractions: God / Lucifer, entropy / negentropy, heaven / hell, evolution / extinction, learning / inertia ...

1995:

Knatz.com

1999:

Invented MacroinformationWhile my Macroinformation.org remains a victim of federal censorship, see my Macroinformation blog: http://macroinformation.blogspot.com

2004:Spun Knatz.com sections off into new independent domains: deschooling materials went to InfoAll.org; macroinformation materials went to Macroinformation.org.

Lost my beloved friend, helper, patron: Catherine. She decided that 96 was old enough, and took off: orthogonally.2006:I added a new domain: AgainstHierarchy. The NYU sections collected all my complaints against my fraudulent graduate education, and In a masterpiece of post-Swiftian irony I told NYU that they were running out of time in which to take responsibility. On the fine morning of October 13 I went to the door to try to help a man who appeared confused and lost: the sheriff's men teamed up with an FBI posse in flak jackets, armed with assault weapons, put me on the ground, trussed me, and made off with me, leaving the armed thugs to steal my computers, my back-up disks, and to go through any of my personal records they felt like. I'd told NYU that I still held documents in evidence against them: nothing like interfering with evidence.2007:A federal court censored all my NYU materials. In fact all my internet files got destroyed: 5,000 of them, including my art gallery. Some of my materials are personal, but most of my web publications are public services.

If Americans, and the world, remain ignorant of how institutions, including universities and governments behave, it's not my fault. It's true over my struggling body: and mind.2008:After thirteen months (of a fifteen month sentence) I was cast out onto the street, broke, but not broken. I'll republish as soon as I trust I can without getting assaulted again.

2008 04 16 I developed this section in 1995, expanded it a bit around 2001, and had done little to update it at my arrest in 2006. Now there's a great deal to add. Bear with me. Email me and I'll tell you how you can help.