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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: a field so vast the other is lost in details
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
a field so vast the other is lost in details apropos of writing online sceptical persuasion then also called investigative from its activity investigating and inquiring suspensive feeling that comes about inquirer after investigation aporetic either as some say fact it puzzle over investigates everything or else being at loss whether to assent deny sextus empiricus outlines scepticism edited by julia annas jonathan barnes cambridge 2000 i cannot stress too strongly however for life we have seen develop both place movement are indispensable order store information book mind computer memory one must be almost certain will stationary yet retrievable later date this occur object containing retain configuration limited periods further more these periods enough all contained retrieved alan sondheim artist talk 1973 artists 1969 1977 peggy gale nova scotia college art design 2004 unlike dogmatists work continuous within diffused sites applications networks inter intra nets pdas cellphones wireless bluetooth satellite radios cable televisions an incandescent high speed apparently but not really unlimited names movements critiques sources files coming going circulating decaying disappearing reappearing transforming new media codework hypertext blog moo forms problematized liminal subject fast forward taxonomies access modes appear mean such writings first mediated technological apparatus including power grid second in between process stasis production distribution stasis virtual objecthood nomadic vicissitudes empire moves site updated disappears uses legacy technology processing available only few requires corporate acquiescence tools network grids free software hardware programmers who eat sleep sometimes distributes through pre existing channels channel production once distributed texts which collocation ordered collection ones zeros pluses minuses any dyadic differentiation modification others vulnerable characterized imminent access byte whatsoever individual 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