Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0205262243450.16578-100000@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: more of the same misery -
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 22:43:59 -0400 (EDT)
more of the same misery - codes and broken codes */messy code, many-to-many, one-to-many, extension and collapse /* messy computing */code appearing in the text, denigrating, obscuring, constructing, repeating, the text/* three levels of protocols */within the natural, withiin the communicative channel, communication/* tending and intending (unintending, tending, intending) */tending - autonomous running, intending - presenting, constructing, continuously transforming, unintending - of the natural, nowhere and nothing/* the parasitic intention and messiness */intending to create noise, to create, to interfere; not quite getting it right/write; what a bother; this is really getting in the way/* sexuality, language, and body */sexual language, language of physiological response, body bound by response, hieroglyph of the body/* mime.mov - inserted body into the corpus */male and female nudes, miming and normal and highspeed, one to another 'event,' indecipherable event, the body as cipher, at highspeed the language compressed, traced/* seals.mov - inserted corpus into the body */male and female nudes, writing ideograms on each other, one after the other, sealing the bodies with hanko (seal), nudes coming together, smearing the ideograms, they're erased, their trace is left/* still thinking the same old lines, going on and on, there's no send in sight, in the site, in citation, as if something's not quite right, as if i'm missing the point... _