The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

November 28, 2004


''the dvd ''Home Brew'''

the dvd 'Home Brew' just available this evening at the big show
you may buy the dvd 'the dvd 'Home Brew'' for $15.00 post paid.
most of it was shown at the big show and what wasn't shown at the
big show might have been. the big show was terrific.


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Spoons


Cybermind and fiction-of-philosophy, now wryting, began in association
with Spoons, and on the Spoons servers. Malgosia Askanas has been the
major force, I believe, in Spoons - which has brilliantly housed a number
of philosophy lists for years.

The fading of the collective is, I think, incredibly sad, and for me, (I
don't speak for anyone else) reflects not only the growth of the somewhat
protective domains of the blogs, but also the increasing turn to the right
wing in the United States, accompanied by an erosion of discourse. This
erosion isn't only found in enclave-building, acerbic commentary, the
usual disunity, but also in a very real exhaustion: how we can talk, and
talk, and talk...

Alan (below forwarded with permission)


Subject: [HAB:] The habermas list - PLEASE READ
To: habermas@lists.village.virginia.edu
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:43:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "malgosia askanas" <ma@panix.com>

Dear All,

This is to let you know that in about two weeks I intend to close down the
habermas list.  This decision is part of a wider set of decisions having
to do with the present circumstances of the Spoon Collective - which, as
you probably know, has been running this list.

The Spoon Collective, of which I am the sole surviving founder, has been
operating continually for over 10 years.  Of the 8 people who currently
constitute it, 3 have been in it basically from the very beginning, and
almost all the others for almost as long.

When the Spoon Collective was originally created, a crucial aspect of its
life was our own passionate involvement in the lists we created or took
over.  As vehicles for bringing into mutual contact and confrontation
thinking people from all over the computerized world - people from
astoundingly different walks of life and with astoundingly different ways
of thinking, but with a shared passion for more accurate perception and
deeper understanding - these lists seemed to us to present a stupendous
potential for evolving new modes of thought and new modes of life.  And it
is essential to note that when we were motivated by a thirst for new modes
of thought and life, it was for _ourselves_ that we wanted them.  Our
project was not about providing a public or academic or political service,
discharging a societal duty, or providing platforms for this or that
political organization or orientation - rather, it was about changing life
- the life we think and live - right at the present moment.

Over the years, however, our relationship with our lists gradually
changed, and we now find our collective endeavor basically reduced to an
indifferent performance of a not-excessively-bothersome piece of labor.
The reasons for this are undoubtedly complex - the first and simplest one,
perhaps, being that the same group of people has been doing the same thing
for 10 years.  If our goal had been less the stability of existing lists
and more the preservation of our own passion, we probably could have done
better.  In any case, we find ourselves a bunch of burnt out and apathetic
bureaucrats.

I personally find thie prolongation of this situation no longer tolerable
or sensical.  As a result, I have (1) announced that I am quitting the
Spoon Collective; (2) decided to close down a number of lists that I have
been responsible for; and (3) declared the end of the Spoon Collective as
a certain historic formation, and stipulated that the name no longer be
used for whatever the present members may undertake in the future.

I, of course, cannot judge the value of any particular list from any
perspective but my own - and neither would I want to.  Only each of you
can decide whether you value this list enough to step in and recreate it
somewhere else.  If any of you wants to do this, I can make available to
you a copy of the subscription list, a tarred and gzipped copy of the
archive, and software support for a smooth transition.  The present list
will stop operating around December 10th.

A number of the other members of Spoon have expressed an interest in
either continuing their present lists or initiating other collective
projects at Virginia.  We very much hope that no matter what develops, the
Spoon archives, which, in large part, constitute an eminently useful and
fascinating resource, can continue to be housed in their present location.
In addition, a copy of the archives is being installed at the domain
driftline.org, where they will soon be accessible over the Web.  If
anybody would like to house additional copies of the full or individual
archives elsewhere, this would of course increase the goodness.


Yours,
-malgosia

urge


did i say dissemination? darwin's dis/ease. i'm too smart, too aware i'm
writing just to continue, assert presence, inscribe. place my mark like
every other smart little boy and girl. graffiti the indefinite walls of
cyberspace. what i say is irrelevant. it's all in the action, spraying
this, that, every other site, building up recognition capital on google.

i want to escape my genes. i can't meditate for more than thirty seconds.
my shakuhachi playing lasts a couple of minutes and i'm on to something
else. i have to leave my mark everywhere. i recognize the compulsion. i
write about the compulsion and against the compulsion.

i'd like to see bush dead. his compulsion ruins the world. i see my ugly
face reflected in his ugly face. i scrawl here; he scrawls there. i scrawl
virtual; he scrawls real. maybe he even thinks about it.

if i don't spray nightly, i'm lost. my body turns against me; my dreams
become nightmares worse than usual, endless, vicious. the flesh deflates,
potency gone; the mind evaporates. i'm aware of the illness. i can
deconstruct the illness. i can work through it and the illness is at the
other end.

the illness is our illness.

contrary to belief, there are no borders to the blog, just boarders. there
are borders on the list. one comes up against another. one response is
always out of control of the other. list territory is psychological
territory, a wager. it is a wager of the real, not of the virtual, but in
the virtual.

it is useless at this end, my end. every publication is another brick,
another ward against death. the recordings, books, videos, anthologies,
magazines, tapes, dvds, cdroms, pile up like debris. i look on one side
and see nothing. i look over to the other side; there's nothing there.

there's the urge and it pushes. it mixes with wonder which is perhaps its
excuse or perhaps what's left of a humanity i want to hold to. but the
urge is a sickness, the sickness of a mad species, a mad specimen, the
madness of the obsessive individual. write or die.

years ago i had up on the wall: i write myself into existence. i write
myself out of existence. the inscription is all there is. the inscription
gives me the fairy-tale, the fantasy, fantasm, imaginary, image, of
survival after death. of promulgation ad infinitum. of gene-pools no
longer at the mercy of the flesh.

this is my politics. it is probably everyone's. we take positions,
backwards and forwards, of withdrawal as well. meditation is a position as
rigid as others. we hold to them. we work with them, work towards them.
we're genetically driven. we're tagging everything in site. we're tagging
everyone and every other. we're tagging the planet, we're sprawl/scrawl.

there's false joy in this. i'm aware of the falseness, crash constantly. i
write another, yet another piece. 'artist' is an excuse for tagging of
every kind, out of control, unstructured, desperate. tagging is an excuse
for inscription, leaving genetic debris, named or anonymous, but always
named, everywhere in sight, in site, in cite. the wonder follows, fallow.

bush kills, bushwhacks. we are responsible for millions of tiny murders,
day by day. powerless, we do the same. every letter is a violence,
occupies space, defends itself, within and without spell-check. it's the
urge. i know it and can't fight it. we're talking, scrawling, unto death.

the light that can be seen and can't be named: the brain shutting down,
just before everything goes black. we'll all be there, emptied out. we're
gone before we started.

    	nm.txt
and !assassinations mc terrorisms !and !assassinations !them !A !fray !is
!a !fight mh missiles !on !the !mossy !sward !there !are !assassins !they
mi to !chiagas !darwin's !disease !also !to !kissing
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arms.at last i came to the eastern blood-sucking conenose and it seemed
pinned down for the moment. this led to chiagas, darwin's disease, also to
kissing and assassin
C:\image\mi.txt - 1 cached - Nov 19
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Corporate Fascist -what everyone else is Crash -not my fault Cybercash
-never safe Cybersex -never as good as the real thing, not real sex Darwin
-someone who says we descended
C:\image\lk.txt - 1 cached - Nov 19
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arms.at last i came to the eastern blood-sucking conenose and it seemed
pinned down for the moment. this led to chiagas, darwin's disease, also to
kissing and assassin
C:\sampler\mi.txt - 1 cached - Oct 13
    	lk.txt
Corporate Fascist -what everyone else is Crash -not my fault Cybercash
-nver safe Cybersex -never as good as the real thing, not real sex Darwin
-someone who says we descended
C:\sampler\lk.txt - 1 cached - Oct 13

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