Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0205192308220.21769-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: a-pp-roach
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:08:34 -0400 (EDT)
. a-pp-roach . thick.entanglement;.one's.body.is.a.mess,.suppurating,.gouged.and.gnawed, crossings.and.isolated.activations,.the.apparent.motion,.texture,.shape... 'what.on.earth?.what's.happening?'.i'm.concerned.with.what.happens.beneath the.surface,.the.coding,.the.treehopper:.slightly.larger:.what.constitutes the.human:.the.explosion.ordinance:.incipient.phenomenology.of.approach. circumventing..what.is.an.approach?.how.does.approach.manifest.itself.to the.subject?.what.is.the.domain.of.the.approach?.what.is.a.domain?.what.is part.of.a.critical.sifting.apparatus..relevance.is.already.a.complex.and noise..as.with.approach,.it.always.a.detour.in.this.regard..the.wonder.is a.washing,.determinate.sublime,.approach.across.the.edge.of.the.theory. diachronic/synchronic.approaches.-.space-time.slices..diffusion.of approach.is.always.already.self-critical,.self-critique;.the.critique.of the.domain..the.phenomenology.of.approach.implies.a.weakness.of.the.case. . approach.of.the.domain..to.the.extent.of.a.phenomenology.of.approach,.the domain.is.asymptotic,.never.fully.approached..the.neighborhood.is faltering.data,.anomaly..the.phenomenology.of.approach.embeds.withdrawal, just.as.withdrawal.implies.approach..every.introjection,.a.projection;.and one.takes.increasing.chances.as.danger.apparently.recedes.by.virtue.of knowledge..how.to.approach.a.snake.or.alligator;.how.to.ward.off.deerflies and.no-see-ums..an.approach.is.always.a.detour.(thus.the.sides,.top.and intention.that.one.approaches,.that.one.makes.the.approach,.that.it.is.is the.escape.or.leakage.of.the.phenomenology.of.approach.into.profession,.my boundaries,.body,.disappear,.absent.themselves,.among.the.thickets)...in some.of.my.photography,.I've.teetered.or.approached.the.position,.say,.of a.woman,.but.it.is.a.fictivity,.an.approach.itself,.tending.towards.the intention.to.investigate,.or.at.least.approach.-.to.testings.of.deeper times. . tilapia.approach,.walking.the.depths.of.the.slough.calling.forth grasshopper.osprey,.hungered,.making.things...under.the.coot,.testings.of deeper.times,.tilapia.approach,.walking.the.depths.of.the.slough. lacewings.mating.-.somehow.to.approach,.partake?.....deeper.lizards sleeping.or.comatose.on.leaves,.imperial.mosquito-fish..refuge.in.leopard frog..refuge.in.apple-snail..refuge.in.crow,.refuge.in.spatterdock, pondapple.night-blooming.blossoms. . thick.entanglement;.one's.body.is.a.mess,.suppurating,.gouged.and.gnawed.- it.really.sits.there,.nothing.happens.to.it.... . _