Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.44.0210222121190.17119-100000@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: MATERIAL-REAL
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:21:32 -0400 (EDT)
MATERIAL-REAL ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 20:54:07 Drive: C: Sector: 265 ---------------- text, "she said." Just as quotations slip laterally in the sentence, there is also a slippage in depth, for example, as Nikuko replies. @wet Nikuko. Nikuko is wet, dripping urine through her white cotton panties. We understand the oddity of this proposal, but we have been dealing with formally performative language for the past few years, in order to look at issues of virtual subjectivity, interaction, projection and introjection on the Net. We worry about being taken seriously, not as broken sch ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:07:52 Drive: C: Sector: 266 ---------------- izo- phrenics. put mouth on panties. You drink urine of Nikuko. "Performative" can be considered in any number of ways. For example, there is a _trace_ function in the Julu program Jennifer has written, a function which produces a text representing parent/child processes in unix, choices made by the user, manipulations by the program itself. The function produces a file, .trace, which, when reversed, is legibile. The .trace file accumulates, carrying the history of repeated usage; here is an examp ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:08:05 Drive: C: Sector: 267 ---------------- le: hairpiece:sure thing:Julu:leg: Come home with me, hairpiece, julu-of-the-fast-crowd! Your dirty arm is in my black neck HaPPINESS:Yes:Alan:: Your psychotic head is in my sexy head Your your penis seeps into my head - turning me Julu-Jennifer Hole:YES!!:Julu:nail: Your poor urine is in my depressed nail Devour poor urine julu-of-the partying Hole! Nikuko ...:never!:Nikuko:hair:hair Your linen leg is in my wanton hair Your passion seeps into my hair - turning me Julu-Jennifer dirty:yeah:Nik ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:08:17 Drive: C: Sector: 268 ---------------- uko:ear: Your psychotic eye is in my velvet ear Devour psychotic eye julu-of-the partying dirty! Note the stick-like or _anime_ figures at work, distributed authorships and anatomies. look panties. You see nothing special. So that "performative" language has three constituents: 1. Its usual site and analysis as speech act or performative in tradi- tional linguistics (and all the accompanying critiques); 2. Referencing programming language, which is always performative; thus "echo `date`" call ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:08:27 Drive: C: Sector: 269 ---------------- s up date which echo then sends to the standard output; 3. _Any_ statement, say, in a chat (IRC, talker, MOO, MUD, chat, etc.) environment, which both _constitutes_ and _constructs_ the subject/user; without the statement, the subject/user disappears for others. There is thus the constructed/constituted subject - who is, by virtue of protocols, always already _well-defined,_ and the subject on the other/ near side of the screen - who need not detain us: one might in this fashion call the "real" or ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:08:31 Drive: C: Sector: 270 ---------------- "physical-real" subject the _virtual subject_ by virtue of his or her dis/appearance in relation to others on the Net. Avatars are always disturbances, always irruptions of language, a lang- uage portending _the raveling of existence and essence,_ for these terms meld within each other, tangled in avatar-sites/sights/citations. @create $thing called begging. You have a $thing called begging with object number #75438. (Now we call _these_ avatars _emanants,_ since they are more deeply em- bedded ---------------- Date: 10/22/02 Time: 21:08:39 Drive: C: Sector: 271 ---------------- ====