Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.56.0308182023200.16899@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: phenomenology of the numb(n).exe, of some others
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 20:23:41 -0400 (EDT)
phenomenology of the numb(n).exe, of some others http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ *.exe the programs devour the (x,y) coordinates returning and inputting the color values Point(x,y). the image reconstitutes itself. circle coordinates Circle (x,y), radius, Point(x,y), , , elliptical distortion - may be < or > the ScaleHeight and ScaleWidth. beyond the image, an infinite exterior of black (0,0,0) or white (255,255,255). in this manner the _exterior_ interrupts the _interior,_ constructing the _binary_. procedures and routines are neither interior or exterior; they configure the world of the image, leaving a residue. they take residence elsewhere. the resulting _flux_ of the image is the result of devouring. think of the image as fractionated - internals and externals. devouring occurs in digital waves across the limits. the tangential escapes; the sign-sine operates from normalization, scanning Width and Height. what is exterior is never recorded; it is left to the _imagination_. what is interior is fully recorded; it is interpreted by the _fancy_. the semantics are always in dialog, as semantics always are. the image: what of it? easily readable. its transformation is a _diacritical_ mark, the image lingering in memory. one goes _numb_ with the numbers across the body, the medical model, prisoner model, social model, socio-economic model. the _skein_ of the stationary body. or the fractionation of the x-nor or not-x-nor logical inversions of the pen-writing _degree ground zero_ of contradiction, unspeaking, mute. and the superposition or projection of the mute. 'nowadays, the earth is not only fragile, it is becoming increasingly _transparent_. one sees through it or beyond it, there's no end to it, this sight.' ___