Message-ID: <200103140225.VAA14582@bbs.thing.net>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: <nettime-l@bbs.thing.net>
Subject: <nettime> brief note
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:17:39 -0500 (EST)
- brief note in alphaville, it is the inertness of contemporary space. in blade runner, the inertness ties to the interiority of the biological: replicants, like humans, die. it is this parallel trajectory which defines the issues of identity; if alphaville's paris is a displacement of the real, blade runner's replicants carry the virus of the real's grain. they are just as constituted, constructed, as the humans on the hunt - no more or less. i want to emphasize this granularity or substance as fundamental to culture and organism; origin and speciation in this regard are secondary. this is the movement from modern to postmodern: the displacement of alpha- ville tending towards the pervasive identities of blade runner's inhabita- tions. neither are productions of terminal identity - both are character- ized by alterities which are both familiar and absorbed as the same. _ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net