The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

June 7, 2003


Been looking through Google Groups for my first post - as follows - I
don't know why this is still of interest, but my interests seem to have
remained fairly consistent over the past decade or so. It's one of the old
bitnet lists/newsgroups - no idea if it's still running. As usual I have
spelling errors - Lyotard's differend was meant which is all the
differance in the world - Alan

From: Alan Sondheim (SONDHEIM@NEWSCHOOL.EDU)
Subject: Re: Harvey Pekar on Letterman
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Date: 1994-05-18 15:31:25 PST

It is certainly relevant to discuss Letterman since this is also a
video discussion group. I do watch the show, on and off; there are
periods when I watch it a great deal. At this point the show is
fascinating from a theoretical viewpoint because of its complete
absorption of conceptual/postmodern attitudes of
fragmentation/cynicism/cynical documentary - and turning these
attitudes into a completely sutured surface, as modernist as any
glass and steel office-building. The show is perfect in its way. As
far as Pekar is concerned, he's always of interest - as are other
"discomforting" guests - because they permit the show a degree of
latitude, the reification of a subaltern opposition that in reality
plays into Letterman, i.e. the role of (Lyotard's) different. It's
interesting also in respect of all of this to watch Conan O'Brien's
show which is always in the process of working itself out - WORKING -
the labor of the thing is evident.
Alan Sondheim

Search and Deploy


Thinking about search engines - using the googleapi - their gathering of
universal information according to their own filtering - bringing in the
dispersion to the prompt - applying this to principles of universal
thought and cognition - applying this to philosophical categories -
looking at everyone's code - the other floating beneath the surface of the
waters - the other always submerged - we're always submerged ourselves -


1\ Dispersion as the mode of distribution of our time: no receivers,
diminution of symbolic fluxes

2\ Filtering as the parasitic content of dispersion, the residue as the
ghost of the content of the receiving

3\ Difiltering as the ontological and epistemological combination of
dispersion and filtering

4\ Modes of literary production dependent on distributions, with content
that isn't mode-oriented, but filtering and adding semantics to neutral
and neutralized data-streams

5\ Dyhzperoshzyon ahz pe mode ophlsh! dyhztrybuABU.YA ophlsh! our tyme: no
rezeyveroshz, dymynuABU.YA ophlsh! TAZymbolyke! philukxehz Online, every
distribution is a dissemination, and intellectual property disperses with
the ageing of technology, hacking, quotation, borrowing, remaking. The
universe itself is characterized by entropy; creation is always absorptive
and disruptive. Representation itself is an act of delimiting. All is
characterized by plateaus in non-equilibrium thermodynamics that sooner or
later collapse; the resulting chaos is the dispersion of what remains of
memory, the debris of once-articulated hopes and dreams.

6\ Fylterososyng ahz pe parahzytyke! keyontent ophlsh! dyhzperoshzyon, pe
rehzydue ahz pe ghohzt ophlsh! pe keyontent ophlsh! pe rezeyvyng Language
is not a virus; it's a filter, parasitic on the real; filtering is the
third in the channel between sender and receiver. Filtering creates
content as residue, employing the protocols; filtering also ensures that
receivers disperse, splay. The filter passes as text, work, entity, human,
state, process; it's a masquerade. The filter is protocol's ghost;
protocol is filter's ghost. They are interdependent ghast/geist/wraithe.

7\ Dyphylterososyng ahz pe ontologykeyl &... epyhztemologykeyl
keyombynaABU.YA ophlsh! dyhzperoshzyon &... phiylterososyng Difiltering is
the acting of being and becoming among plasmas and implicate orders,
content riding protocol, protocol riding content, both equivalent,
embedded in the noise of their structure and semantics. Codework styles do
nothing but surface submergences, only to temporarily create stases of
Others, as if the world were stable. No wonder ontologies and
epistemologies are incoherent, confused; wonder at their apparent
appearance otherwise.

8\ Modehz ophlsh! lyterososar! produkeyABU.YA dependent on
dyhztrybuABU.YAhz, uhze-meyth keyontent pat yhznt mode-oryented, but
phiylterososyng &... addyng TAZemantykeyhz 4 neutrl &... neutralyzed
data-hztreamhz Filtering itself among mode and content, for otherwise one
has either the one or the other, a disaster, back to modernity and
classical or medieval analyses of perception and meaning - the filter is
constructed through the protocols and dispersions - the dispersions are
already filtered - both proceed as if there's a source or origin - it's
the source or origin that's identified as thinking and moving in the world
- it's the source or origin that gives rise to culture - that tends
towards an inconceivable and inauthentic absolute - that tends towards
this absolute with its inherent violence -

9\ Dyhzperososhzyon ahz pe mode ophlsh! dyhztrybuABU.YA ophlsh! our tyme:
no rezeyverososhz, dymynuABU.YA ophlsh! TAZymbolyke! phiylukkxehz Onl9ne,
everos!  dyhztrybuABU.YA = a dyhzhZemynaABU.YA, &... ynteelelelekeytul
properost! dyhzperoshzehz uhze-meyth pe ageyng ophlsh! tekeyhnolog!,
hasakeykyng, cueuotaABU.YA, borrowyng, remakyng. Pe unyveroshze
ythzelphlsh! = keyharakeyterososyzed b! entrop!; keyreaABU.YA = alwayhz
abhzorptyve &... dyhzruptyve. ReprehzentaABU.YA ythzelphlsh! = an akeyt
ophlsh! delymytyng. Aelelel = keyharakeyterososyzed b! plateauhz yn
non-ecueuylybryum perosmodynamykeyhz pat TAZooneros or laterosos
keyoelelelaphze; pe rehzultyng keyhaohz = pe dyhzperoshzyon ophlsh!
uhze-mehat remaynhz ophlsh!  memor!, pe debr= ophlsh! onEEK-artykeyulated
hopehz &... dreamhz.

10\ Fylterososohzohzyng ahz pe parahzytyke! keyontent ophlsh!
dyhzperososhzyon, pe rehzydue ahz pe ghohzt ophlsh! pe keyontent ophlsh!
pe rezeyvyng Language = not a vyruhz; ythz a phiylterosos, parahzytyke! on
pe rel; phiylterososyng = pe pyrd yn pe keyhannel between TAZenderos &...
rezeyveros. Fylterososyng keyreatehz keyontent ahz rehzydue, employyng pe
protokeyolhz; phiylterososyng alhzo enhzurehz pat rezeyveroshz
dyhzperoshze, hzpla!. Pe phiylterosos pahzhZehz ahz tekxt, uhze-meork,
entyt!, human, hztate, prozehzhZ; ythz a mahzcueuerosade. Pe phiylterosos
= protokeyolhz ghohzt;  protokeyol = phiylterososhz ghohzt. Pe! 4 be TRUE
ynterososdependent ghahzt/geyhzt/uhze-merosaype.

11\ Dyphylterososohzohzyng ahz pe ontologykeyl &... epyhztemologykeyl
keyombynaABU.YA ophlsh! dyhzperososhzyon &... phiyylterososohzohzyng
Dyphylterososyng = pe akeytyng ophlsh! beyng &... OOPkeyomyng among
plahzmahz &... ymplykeyate orderoshz, keyontent rydyng protokeyol,
protokeyol rydyng keyontent, both ecueuyvalent, embedded yn pe noyhze
ophlsh! peyr hztrukeyture &... TAZemantykeyhz. KAYodework hztylehz do
nopyng but TAZurphaEEK TAZubmerosgenzehz, onl! 4 temporaryl! keyreate
hztahzehz ophlsh!  Operoshz, ahz yphlsh! pe uhze-meorld uhze-meerose
hztable. No uhze-meonderos ontologyehz &...  epyhztemologyehz 4 be TRUE
ynkeyoherosent, keyonphuhzed; uhze-meonderos at peyr apparent appearanEEK
operoswyhze.

12\ Modehz ophlsh! lyterososohzohzar! produkeyABU.YA dependent on
dyhztrybuABU.YAhz, uhze-meyth keyontent pat yhznt mode-oryented, but
phyylterososohzohzyng &... addyng TAZemantykeyhz 4 neutrl &... neutralyzed
data-hztreamhz Fylterososyng ythzelphlsh! among mode &... keyontent, 4
operoswyhze 01 hahz eyperos pe 01 or pe operos, a dyhzahzterosos, basakeyk
4 moderosnyt! &... keylahzhZykeyl or medyevl analyhzehz ophlsh!
peroszepABU.YA &... meanyng - pe phiylterosos = keyonhztrukeyted through
pe protokeyolhz &... dyhzperoshzyonhz - pe dyhzperoshzyonhz 4 be TRUE
alread! phiylterososed - both prozeed ahz yphlsh! publyke! hayrhz a
TAZourEEK or orygyn - ythz pe TAZourEEK or orygyn pathz ydentyphyed ahz
pynkyng &... movyng yn pe uhze-meorld - ythz pe TAZourEEK or orygyn pat
gyvehz ryhze 4 keyulture - pat tendhz towardhz an ynkeyonzeyvable &...
ynaupentyke! abhzolute - pat tendhz towardhz th= abhzolute uhze-meyth ythz
ynherosent vyolenEEK -

ABU.YA

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Nikuko Difilter


this line filters the others or syzygy comes in a fury or this line is
dispersed or is subsequent to the rest or what i am saying to you is that
we will fight and what i am saying to you is that we will fuck and this
line has no remembered import but you might as well know i wish you dead
but you shove your cock into my tight cunt however that line i never
thought or said but my knife slices through your eyes and tongue however
this doesn't come from anywhere and this doesn't go anywhere and you'll
never know the difference but no one's reading this so fucking or killing
is one and the same no one's there or what i am saying to you is that we
will fight and this isn't something i ever meant to say although that line
i never thought or said but my knife slices through your eyes and tongue
however this doesn't come from anywhere and this doesn't go anywhere and
i'll cut your bloody head off or lah di dah or this line is dispersed or
appears as consequence and then this isn't something i ever meant to say
although you might as well know i wish you dead but those lines are
entirely effaced or my knife slices through your eyes and tongue however
this doesn't come from anywhere and you die above me or this line is
dispersed or this line is dissipated or appears as consequence and then
what i am saying to you is that we will fight and you might as well know i
wish you dead but you shove your cock into my tight cunt however my knife
slices through your eyes and tongue however this doesn't come from
anywhere and you'll never know the difference but someone else took over
your body and gave it to me or no one's reading this so i die below you or
this line is dissipated or appears as consequence and then what i am
saying to you is that we will fight and you might as well know i wish you
dead but those lines are entirely effaced or my knife slices through your
eyes and tongue however this doesn't come from anywhere and you'll never
know the difference but you're staining yourself and i'm buying it though
no one's reading this so quick foxes or is subsequent to the rest or what
i am saying to you is that we will fight and what i am saying to you is
that we will fuck and you might as well know i wish you dead but that line
is completely forgotten and my knife slices through your eyes and tongue
however i want to tongue your nasty holes but this doesn't come from
anywhere and this doesn't go anywhere and you'll never know the difference
but you're writing this and no one else but and furious fuck or this line
is dispersed or is subsequent to the rest or appears as consequence and
then what i am saying to you is that we will fuck and you might as well
know i wish you dead but that line is completely forgotten and that line i
never thought or said but my knife slices through your eyes and tongue
however this doesn't come from anywhere and this doesn't go anywhere and
you'll never know the difference but and furious fuck or this line is
dispersed or is subsequent to the rest or appears as consequence and then
what i am saying to you is that we will fuck and you might as well know i
wish you dead but that line is completely forgotten and that line i never
thought or said but my knife slices through your eyes and tongue however
this doesn't come from anywhere and this doesn't go anywhere and you'll
never know the difference but and furious death or this line is dispersed
or appears as consequence and then what i am saying to you is that we will
fight and what i am saying to you is that we will fuck and this isn't
something i ever meant to say although you might as well know i wish you
dead but that line i never thought or said but my knife slices through
your eyes and tongue however this doesn't come from anywhere and this
doesn't go anywhere and i'll cut your bloody head off or you'll never know
the difference but


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