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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: THE CLARA
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:20:51 -0500 (EST)
THE CLARA http://www.asondheim.org/portal/clara The economy of the special effects apparatus from the 1930s gives way to the digital; the digital isolates those moments of the image that speak all too easily, as if they weren't speaking at all. The beautiful woman is isolated and framed by a device capable of addition or subtraction of the potential screen, the imaginary, positioned. The apparatus as in Godard displays itself, inhales/exhales the graphic-in- residence. This is the smallest conceivable way to waylay the wayward viewer. One looks over the shoulder of the apparatus; hopefully the framing is still a long way off - the result clearly one of an infinite field of the social, of perception itself - or, in a sense, the inverse of the vanishing-point in perspectival configurations. (The social reveals itself, an emblem.) http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/polypore/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/book/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/book/talks http://www.asondheim.org/portal/clara ===