Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0208021531340.1045-100000@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: eyelash
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 15:31:48 -0400 (EDT)
eyelash ...that voyeurism is not about sex but about knowledge and there is a critical moment which the voyeur experiences, which galvanizes hir, the moment of imagined voyeurism, of the visibility and viability of the object. the voyeur relies on a preparation, the geometric assertion, with which s/he bolsters hir desired implosion. so it would seem that the net makes voyeurs of us all; we constantly wryte ourselves, thus hiding the voyeuristic self further because voyeurism is so diffuse and constant, any voyeur here, anytime, by looking out the window and seeing what our lives can only guess. the voyeur gains knowledge about the private habits of those s/he watches. a slightly different aspect of voyeurism; you on the contingent moment, the unexpected naked body in the window, and i, on the voyeur-life, we are inseparable because the voyeuristic relation is naturally a thwarted sexual act of voyeurism to be "successful"; the sexual need plays out as the voyeur is ruled by the watched, in a sense - spellbound, as you say. and it is this submission to the watched which impels the voyeur to know theoretical interstices, ontologies, epistemol- ogies, real and virtual. the compulsive voyeur may ask: "why do i do it? why do i torture myself?"; here (and elsewhere) we diverge; the voyeur's transgressive moment is amplified and clarified in the voyeur life. that way of living is all there is for them. the theoretical they produce is simultaneously a devouring and inscribing of the world that otherwise would not exist, everything out of sight impossibly trembles. damaged life held together by a skein of mucilage and damaged life? the quota is a measure, in fact, of damaged life, of life that refuses damaged life consciousness of throughout the broken measure of cyberdamaged life. phenomenology is always already a masochism or always already constructed in webpage or screen; it splays into littoral, to ash. .net splays mesh across the same imaginary, it blooms, disperses, splays across domains and definitions. it processes desire, acts as consort to voyeurisms splaying the residue or information concerning a particular user - hir flesh. being splays, displays, called sight, site, citation. voyeur /a.txt:1 /an:8 /ba:1 /bb:1 /c.txt:1 /dd:6 /ee:9 /ff:14 /hh:1 /i.txt:1 /jk:1 /jm:1 /jp:1 /jr:1 /ju:2 /jv:1 /ke:1 /ki:1 /kk:1 /kw:4 /kx:2 /lg:1 /lk:26 /lp:2 /ly:1 /lz:1 /me:2 /ml:1 /net2.txt:1 /net6.txt:2 /p.txt:2 /s.txt:1 damage /weather:3 /am:1 /ba:3 /bb:1 /book1:1 /book2:2 /c.txt:1 /cancer.txt:1 /cc:1 /dd:4 /e.txt:1 /f.txt:1 /ff:1 /i.txt:1 /ii:1 /jj:2 /jl:1 /jp:2 /jt:1 /jv:2 /jx:1 /kd:1 /kg:2 /kh:1 /kj:2 /km:1 /ko:2 /kp:2 /kq:1 /kr:2 /ks:1 /kt:2 /ku:1 /kw:2 /ky:1 /lb:2 /lk:1 /ln:2 /m.txt:1 /mc:2 /me:4 /mf:1 /mg:1 /mi:1 /mj:2 /mk:1 /ml:1 /net10.txt:1 /net11.txt:3 /net12.txt:1 /net14.txt:1 /net3.txt:1 /net4.txt:1 /net6.txt:2 /net7.txt:1 /o.txt:1 _