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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 02:30:42 -0500 (EST)
- notes for upcoming talks w/ miekal and and azure in minneapolis - in real life one begins with the real and moves through the semantics, sememe, signified; in virtual life, one begins with the signified, moves through the sememe, semantics, to the real - analog <> digital <> analog in virtual life, enunciation is the totality of presence bottlenecked to the replete on the other side; in real life, enunciation is the residue and diacritical of presence. in virtual life, intention and presence are coeval; in real life, they are disparate and bound. online presence is consciously performative by virtue of the sign; offline presence is performative by virtue of differentiation from substance (performance = differentiation) in real life, one is always already continuous and coextensive; in virtual life, one is broken, jump-cut, renounced by EOF or kill/delete. virtual life, like the dream, controls the mise en scene; real life exhausts and tires in its obdurate or 'idiotic' transformations. in real life, the granularity of distance; in virtual life, the inertia of lag. in real life, granularity is stochastic; in virtual life, compression codecs. in real life, the quantum/subatomic structure of non-distributive logics and superimposition is technical and distant, with peripheral effect in the classical/aristotelian life-world; in virtual life, the protocol level is continuously effected, just beneath the surface of rep- resentation. in real life, the inertia and 'rigid designation' of the proper name; in virtual life, the fluidity and gaps among logins, passwords, avatars, and names. in virtual life, the digital life of binary oppositions; in real life, the analog life of gestural superimpositions. in digital life, there is nothing whatsoever between position or array x and position or array x+1 - between 0 and 1; the other is foreclosed. in digital life, there is no truth, only coherent performativities; in the real, the truth is messy, noisy, analogic, irreducible, fuzzy. in analog life, wear-and-tear, life-span, half-life, noise; in virtual life, eternity, the 'clean and proper body.' in analog life, identity; in virtual life, equivalence. ii collaborative projects - open to the world - anyone could write to them. 1. loveandwar: development of a 'novel' in the form of 5 backbones/pages; these hold html code as well as text. characters and substructures. 2. the yours - open - similar format - 4 pages; one with flash, one with image, one grey, one white - meandering micro and macro textualities. 3. lost project - open - names and lost objects separated - one writes to one page 'through' a stuttering ('broken') portal. the lure, the inescapably lost object. 4. traceroute project - over the millennial hinge - 24 hours - gathering traceroute logs from all over the world. inscription machines linearities - trunk/single-branch structures in 1-2; some cross-referenc- ing among backbones and projects. bottom-up governance - anyone could write - the texts were collected in order. plural modalities of literature - summarizations, returns to themes, branchpoints, 'external' content. non dhtml/dynamic web aesthetic orientation. almost no rupture, hacking spam. writing and 'wryting' - enunciation of the body. iii wryting: manifestation of the body through bones, backbones, codework. codework: 'the computer stirring into the text, and the text stirring the computer.' 'anything combining tokens and syntax to represent a domain.' the implicate order of text and program. issues of wryting - impediments to reading - urgency coming through the noise - modalities of inscription "I" - dissemination across lists, protocols, etc. - use of catalyst programs - programs and performative languages - empathetic magic - date = Sat Feb 16 02:18:44 EST 2002 so that 'date' functions as temporally ikonic - equivalent to its residue/ result all those tools used at the prompt - potential and unlabeled spaces - fuzzy decodings - the reader's production of the text - the resonant text - _