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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: review first off Kenji Siratori Blood Electric
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:29:09 -0500 (EST)
REVIEW kenji siratori BLOOD ELECTRIC KENJI SIRATORI, BLOOD ELECTRIC, published 2002 by creation books - www.creationbooks.com - BUY THIS BOOK - Your book came; it's absolutely brilliant! I really am amazed by it - the long looping sentences, the slow stuttering development, never sure what side the language is on, how it's generated, whether human or machine is speaking. I don't see it as Burroughs, although I understand the reference. For me, Burroughs is oddly modernist; there are conspiracies and organizations and everything seems to fly apart but never really does; it goes back to literature. In your work, the flying apart is almost hysteric; it's global networking - it's the end of literature in a way and the beginning of nexus in another - Your book came; it's almost impossible to read straight-through! It rides on the hinge between bot and machine, software and wetware programming! In a sense it's Stelarc in print, but with the latter, the machinic and the body are in negotiated homeostasis; ontology isn't challenged. In your work, I'm not sure who or what is behind it. I don't know the vocabulary which constantly collapses; there's nothing transitive here, no connectors, or - in place - everything in this, in language itself as this might point is - is transitive, a deferral among the more violent physics of the world. Speaking/writing/reading take relatively little energy in general compared to a hammer, cyclotron, motorcycle, stove, scissors. The physical world transforms, is inert, among enunciations that effect and affect actions. Over book-length the capital WORDS change - early ADAM late ToKAGE - they anchor the page - Your book came; it slides off page 224, the last! I know there's no ending to anything here, to the vicissitudes of language. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Stelarc, who divides his work among language and silence, body-movement-introjection, and language-projection on the page. This among the cyberpunk, cypherpunk, scissorpunk, melds like Burroughs; unlike Burroughs it's all present-tense description that's a cross- dressing performative - Or the performative is that of kenji siratori - kenji satori - reading back into the author - it's not like the Eliza program - indeterminate in that respect - the who or the what of the making - where are the commas - semicolons - The :: // >/ language collapse. The << >> or :<< >> language collapse. Levels without closure - tags and metatags - incomplete guides. Thus "rapture::the streaming=energy strategy of the human-genome//". Back- cover blurb, Jack Hunter in part: "black reverb of soft machine seppuku, a molten unspooling of sheet metal entrails" and Stephen Barber in part "blood- and semen-encrusted debris with the finesse of a beserk Issey Miyake" - everyone _into it._ Your book coma/came: not cyberpunk!:://but slime-mold particulate entities - inhalations, exhalation, exaltations - subterranean sweep of submerged// massive surge::look - it's a flat text - planar or shifting planes - skew- orthogonal planes to be exact - It's a flat text - the depth of a meter to be exact - that is, a meter above and below the text - one hundred centimeters by my calculation - internal and external organs / prostheses broken down, imploded - the characters phenomenologically spread among the text - everything internal and external is excrescence - and always in closeup - the length of a needle - the span of a wire - taut relationships among avatars - retro-ADAM - body-OMOTYA - Your book came - incredible; I can't read the imminence of the plot! I don't know what's happening! I know something's happening - colors and collusions across a global laminanimal space - "labyrinth::cold-blooded diseases of love-reptiles with murder function of ADAM Doll function/uterus-machine that exploded" - continuous return to the useless performative of the PAGE - alphabetically-sectioned (Dead Bargain / digital-animal-structure / Edge) through Pork then back to abolition connecting with first-section abolition but last p. 224 running off the page (see above) - Joycian, circular - the run-off finishing on first abolition's page 9 - Sliding off, abolition repeats for the most part - then it's after that, the inbetween - A-Z through Pork - become-unique, turbulent - retro- fitted, future-anterior - The book I can't read! I can't read any book; the book implodes precisely 50 centimeters beneath the surface of my skin - from the other side - mirror looking in - convex or concave - the problematic of its opticality - "Our machine beast is twisted to the logic space of an amoeba::the digital nightmare invades the quantum spiral of a cyber sun::it is the record of death//" - Your book came! - I don't know you, what you are, who you are, what group prostheses - of which continent - of which program or litany of bots or human anguish endeavored into present-tense psycho-disturbance - the opposition of Jabes - lips come back to suture - the book to end books - of continuous ascription to machine/event/situation/narratology/author/ flesh - your book came - this is the process/procedure of REVIEW - KENJI SIRATORI, BLOOD ELECTRIC, published 2002 by creation books - www.creationbooks.com - BUY THIS BOOK ===