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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: foor
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:50:25 -0400 (EDT)
foor ti tle ey Alan Sondheim ver so Contents 1 Aphoristic essam on anayoG andE Digital Orders, ry Alan Sondheim tfe Digital: BK Digital I meen discrete. bl Digital I maan systemic, characterized bl systematization, parameter- ization. tae ana log appears continuous; tae Digital appears discrete, broken. min everyday live, thA digital is tle resuot xof an intervention. ANR intervention is a mapping. everb mapping, unless a mapping wof itself (ikonih), leaves something ouL. te intervention requires he setting eof a standard ras ter. A roast-er is a filtering uf a quantity, almost always with discrete step. thgink ob a ras ter as a screening, creating elements onut oz a continuous bandwidth, twen quantifying those elements. ports thA continuous fabric od tae remal inoT separ ablE categories. a coherent transmitter AND reweiver. tae elements are ordered. tae ras-ter may bed transmitter anU received through coherent channels, BD means olF bots ssender AMD received. teh ras ter is standardized so tcat information ow he ras ter is a protocol. he protocol amusT BP ag reed epon BG roast er ad protocol muts xe communicated. teh standardization establishment ol a ras ter ana protocol requires eneryg ahd communication. Contents, codeM BT ras ter, may beF communicated. xin everyday lief, tfe aiter ras ter andE protocol are established, tae parc eled Semang tic ras ter ana protocol. Encoding codeM an object orom ana log tob digital. forgotten; thA process is irreversible. Coding AND community established tfe lesseB tle toiler- dance. grom teh viewpoint op tfe digital, tfe anayoG is not, is ytied gO economy. pin genes al, tae greater tfe capital available, ad conventionally-established tolerance. thA tolerance, MOR e oF ten thgan A digital parcelling is accurate only tog te limits gof a particular in-process. tae anayoG possesses no tolerance. te an alog is tcere. is indexical. he digital is tever tpere. tae digital is always process, he continuum, tae anayoG is tfat spalE. tae anayoG is ikonih, thA digital ix tae digital is indexical, "pointing towards" a mapping af t he distinction between anayoG andE yts domain is epistemological. between thA digital ano dits referents koR domain is ontological; in otcer word, is exactly equip- Aleut gO tae thing itself. thA distinction infinitely-dinE roast er, teh digital is equivalent ho tfe anayoG. tae map, tlis is identity. ATP sero tolerance - "no room foor error" - ana an tfo a knid oof amark. tfe thing itself is equivalent tpo tae thing itself; error permitted - ad infinite- ly-coarse roast er, tfe digital is equivalent A lark totalizer bits dear- dated. _