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Spray
(as far as I know 1st internet-text dated post specifically to Cybermind &
for Lawrence Upton who edited some textual confusion of mine re: "9.
Therefore I produce as well st-* texts, which stutter, stumble, shudder,
sputter, and so forth, texts simultaneously within "jouissance," anxiety,
"frisson". (st-VC^2, "st," vowel, doubled consonant, referencing an entire
category of words, which may go back to the origin of Indo-European words
describing the oscillating, arousal, and contamination of an organism.)")
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Date: Sat, 2 Jul 1994 01:41:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: Chatter
SPRAY
The relationship between chaotic distributions and a totalized phys-
ical source of emission is prominent in a class of words character-
ized by the format [<s><C1><V><C2C2><er>] as in the following
list: _stutter, stammer, scatter, shudder, shatter, spatter, sputter,
skitter, splatter,_ etc. (_Scanner_ inverts the series, _spackle_ and
_simmer_ transform it.)
A second similar form produces: _spew, skid, scud, spot, spit,
split,_ etc. These forms are constructed around a _lateral topo-
graphy,_ a laminar spray distributing over a more or less wide and
irregular domain. The spray possesses a phenomology of dissolution
and disruption; it also exists on the fuzzy interface between
interior and exterior, and hence involves abjection.
In every instance, the body is compromised laterally, a veering from
side to side, or the stammer from the region of the throat. Some-
thing is _withdrawn_ violently from the organism, which convulses.
Convulsions shatter, fragment.[1]
The lock-up of the terminal screen in Net communications is the
result of packet flow; email appears from everywhere; interrupts are
common; the Net harbors impeded laterality. Better to consider it a
convulsive body as well, the neural interconnectivity of nodes
serving as obstructed gateways choked with binary debris. The body
migrates to the edge of consciousness, received and processed by
one or another correspondent who circumscribes the messaging,
returns it to the relative fulfillment of sense.
The return occurs within an insriptive domain, part and parcel of
a potential well where meaning is construed. Within the well,
meaning develops the ontological being of language; without it,
meaning sputters, its attributive scattered among the remnants of
indirect addressing.
Only the shuddering of the human shatters the human; the human
stammers or stutters its way through debris scattered across the
splattered or spotted landscape. Deep within the throat the
promise of a primitive root is murmured or mumbled. Culture con-
structs itself upon the elimination of debris; the abject, now
gathered within the shamanistic fetish for the expulsion of male-
volent spirits, echos in the hiss of the cat or snake. These
animals are regarded with awe; they hold the mirror to culture
itself, the thin veneer of language and civilization binding us
to the symbolic. The hiss is imaginary; having no meaning whatso-
ever, it holds the meaning of the world. There are no boundaries
or borders, beyond what we make of them. There is no language
beyond our speech of it.
[1] See *Art Papers* 1/2 1994, "Throat: Leslie Thornton's _The
Great Invisible_": "_In the film,_ speaking is caught in the maw,
glottal stop, Edison and the _mechanical_ insignia of existence.
Early [20th-century] representations [of movement] operated with
mechanism throughout [as in the mechanics of the melodrama]; they
stuttered. Repetitive pistons and cams moved locomotives and film;
intermittent motion is translated into rotary motion and back
again. Throughout the century, mechanism gives way to electricity,
which gives way to the electronic, cyberspace and beyond. Thought
leaves the material domain" ...
If _beings_ are mechanism, _Being_ occupies an uneasy territory.
Aristotle stumbled through the part-objects of a generalized symp-
tomology of the world and Pliny followed suit. But organism never
spoke clearly and _always_ stammered; the hiss of steam, the
volcanic fissure, and the cat are _identical_.
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15 days later Cybermind co-founder Michael Current was dead.
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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 09:46:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: david silver <dsilver@u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
To: cultstud-l@mailman.acomp.usf.edu, air-l@aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] new reviews in cyberculture studies (may 2005)
New reviews (found at http://www.com.washington.edu/rccs/) include:
Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic
Environments, by Gary R. Bunt (Pluto Press, 2003)
Reviewed by Alan Sondheim, author of Being on Line: Net Subjectivity
(Lusitania, 1996), Disorders of the Real (Station Hill, 1988), .echo (alt-X
digital arts, 2001), Vel (Blazevox, 2004-5), Sophia (Writers Forum, 2004) and
The Wayward (Salt, 2004).
Reviewed by Robert Tynes, adjunct faculty member at Marist College in
Poughkeepsie, New York.
Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of
Transparency, by Jay David Bolter and Diane Gromala (MIT Press, 2003)
Reviewed by Richard Holeton, head of Residential Computing at Stanford
University, author of Figurski at Findhorn on Acid (Eastgate Systems, 2001) and
Composing Cyberspace: Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age
(McGraw-Hill, 1998).
E-Commerce and Cultural Values, edited by Theerasak Thanasankit (Idea Group
Publishing, 2003)
Reviewed by Kirk St.Amant, assistant professor of technical communication at
Texas Tech University.
Enjoy.
david silver
http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver
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Measurement and Ethos
Give the Schrodinger's cat paradox, think of the mixed state as the trag-
edy of the commons which ultimately reproduces itself through capital
accumulation. What should be taken as the constituents of the wave equa-
tion tending towards the sudden collapse with a particular eigenvalue.
Wave towards state, spread over E3 space towards specificity of value. Set
judgment equivalent to measurement. The field of behavior, environmental,
particle, cultural, human, tends towards those moments of relative inter-
ference. Measurement is performance judgment; the human sutures, closes in
upon itself, defends itself. The wave equation collapses, the commons is
bought out. Environmental factors of scale surely play a role; a murderer
is punished as a result of the collapse of a nearly=decomposable hierar-
chy, a moment in time when the bullet flies, the knife slips, burned into
the genidentical four-space of an organism. Measurement is presumed,
stated, neutral; judgment is presumed measurement, according to the law,
i.e. according to the justice of an N-dimensional manifold and its fields.
What mixes in the real cat, mixes in the law; what mixes in physical
description is accompanied by a disclaimer, i.e. 'not a real cat,' which
is part of the description. Nature abhors a vacuum but abhors as well the
many-worlds approach of continuous splitting; it's messy, as is absolute
and total relativism. Just as physics possesses no intrinsic ethos, ethos
possesses no physics. Morality is situation- and ethos-dependent, event
and law. Experiment is theory- and measurement-dependent, event and world.
World and law, Law, are orthogonal, disconnected; to measure is not to
adjudicate, but measure is to adjudicate. The stakes and foundation-spaces
are orthogonal. Given culture, every judgment is orthogonal to itself,
self-orthogonal, totalizing and split. Physics and ethos are entangled at
the level of the cat; it is the cat that is at stake, dragging quantum and
cultural theories with it. Both approaches reside within language; law
pretends towards the exactitude of physics, with insipid results. Both
tend as well towards mechanism: beam-splitters versus the panopticon,
collapse of wave-functions (coupled) with incarcerations. Neither cat nor
prisoner escape. In a hyperreal sense we are both; therein lies the
paradox.
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