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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: swole: inextricable inability to extinguish the human race
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 23:53:05 -0400 (EDT)
swole: inextricable inability to extinguish the human race death refuses its reversal. death is not a chain letter. if i kill for example, two, and those two were able to kill two each, etc., then it would be a matter of only a few generations to reach the several billion necessary for extinguishing. but in fact every death creates yet another lost potential; the pool is lost. this is the paradox: the inability of the species to extinguish itself by transitive chains, without the aid of war, terrorism, and other forms of slaughter. the difficulty with these? transpeciation. do we really want to indiscriminately take other life-forms with us? the beauty of the chain is that it results in a minimum of damage at each level. disease carries on this work for us. it is disease that has the capability for exponential expansion. but disease is indiscriminate, doesn't work quickly enough, and runs up against good intentions. the very first thing is to eliminate good intentions. good intentions are bad intentions. to save one of us might eliminate an entire species. it returns to the reversal and its inability. genidentity plays a role; to act from the dead upon the living involves a problematic ontological shift. despite humanity's constant efforts, there is no indication of this, not to mention its efficacy. no, we are left with our debris, garbage-animals slaughtering without discrimination, unable to kill off our own for the good of the polis. would that death were action, that death spread like the environmental savior it may well be. germ warfare, yes, but highly targeted. there is no other answer; this is stopgap at best. future life swole mud wasp sea hare swole http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/Members/sondheim/swole.mp4 _