Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0208152251590.7039-100000@panix2.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: The 165 Character Manifesto
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 22:52:17 -0400 (EDT)
The 165 Character Manifesto All too often, we hear that postmodernity has eliminated, or at least called into question, the relationship of natural world, wilderness, to manageriality. This is prefabricated on assumption no longer can nature be taken for granted, in-itself primordial. Instead, world fabricated, constructed, managed, undergoing continuous cultural transformation - augmented by global communications systems. I wish propose an 'other hand,' however - one based both atmosphere and cosmos. Clearly, atmospheric pollution, stratospheric extends vertically; doubts it reaches ionospheric levels, even if so, inaccessibly-high finite vastness universe beckons beyond. Consider this, then consider traumas earth itself earthquakes other 'natural disasters,' latter hurricanes example human activity. From above, from below, volcanos, magmas held taut within mesh universal chaos. Human encroach; have not yet contaminated stars, earth-orbital trash infinitesimal danger, compared errant asteroid. The point? That artificial are porous, species-dependent terms, sun clearly indicative our own miserable fabrications... There remains wilderness preserved, avoid this uncomfortable conclusion 'annihilation limit' seems a far easier, almost comfortable, way, deal with what appears slaughter... _