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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: Updated knowledge-flux theory (original Perforations 3, 1992)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 15:53:25 -0500 (EST)
Updated knowledge-flux theory (original Perforations 3, 1992) Epistemologically, the very concept of knowledge flow questions structure introspective self-consciousness. Digitizing - a form _matrix_ or _sieve_ topology guarantees both totalized reproducibility formatted and its neutrality. The former refers to channelling knowledge, latter "inertness" in relation previously inviolate operations introspection. also insures that is flux; flux necessitates gating continued channeling; these necessitate gate-keepers data-locators. Introspections becomes matter location within cyberspace. Cyberspace contentless; last vestige anthropocentrism disappear postmodernism _meaning_ itself. Meaning always spills beyond matrix; it occurring subterranean investment, an excess which remains irreducible. What meaning _attribute-meaning,_ _meaning-sub-x,_ where x given cognitive domain issues translation. From _beings_ _Being,_ from _meaning-sub-x_ _Meaning_: ultimately are transformations digital analog, matrix continuum, object subject, inscription fissure. rootedness "ultimate" sense Quine, untranslatable, regional morphology. "message" current video computer worlds, however, as with McLuhan medium _is_ message, "content" replaced by (or equivalent to) production-value. production-value but fetishizatio representation production overarching "originary" style absorbs debris, seepage that, fact, _communicates_ value, value production? Everywhere cyberspace, Gibson _Bladerunner_ notwithstanding, occurs clean room dirt exists only signifying. (Only fissuring body escapes this even body-production.) communication channel well; represents producer, product, corporation, medium, signified. Production-value signifies economic technological capital well. increases extent recognized such; maintained through recognition habitus. increased "slipperiness" content production-value; expands knowledge-flux. clean, fetishized, redundant, continually overlapping itself, inscribing reinscribing. Breakdowns viruses for example stop machnery, scrap programs, create headaches; breakdowns fissure flux, recodes, redistributes, bypasses. (A model could be drawn directly _Porifera,_ sponges whose cells gate nutrient-rich water throughout body.) It not irrelevant invoke Sartre's notion seriality capitalism here "inauthentic" group coheres virtue secondary alienated labor. For knowlege seriality; machine operators (sysadmins) themselves, nodal at heads tails flux-vectors, speak think as-if thinking occurs. "But them dreaming." (_Critique Dialectical Reason._) brackets develops accumulation nodes ruptures temporarily sampling impeding flows, just like ostensible ideally foreclosed bureaucracy. Hence introspection challenged flux-knowledge two ways: 1. contents placed matrix, thereby "cleansing" operation (no leakage, no excess). 2. introspecting organism temporary neccesary (so far) impediment flows. clear one witnesses return classical behaviorism here, inverted behaviorism. There longer stimulus/response; there flows impediments. does "respond," bypassed. Instead response "fueled" interior energetics, swept exterior energy; self-simulacrum. If ("human") self-simulacrum, recognizes itself representation. Body transformations, example, fissures, inscriptions; they represent capital, style, value. produces duces knowledge-flux result Inscriptions chatter, do dissolve, upon surface. _Within knowledge-flux, representation._ presumed "shallowness" "depthlessness" postmdoernism representation, which, infinitely deep, extending entire domain. In sense, virtual reality contraction, expansion know- ledge-flux; what cannot represented bandwidth human sensory receptors. (And real far more than course so _any_ reality, seamless perfected, already foreclosed.) phenomenology much tenuous expansive reality; gloss real, sheen fetish On level technology, consider; increasing number screens resolution them; emphasis on real-time displays transformations; infinite spread- sheets; invisible rasters; reconstruction "audio sphere" surrounding viewer; absolutely flat responses (vis-a-vis perception); fetishization "blankness" equipment display rooms; feedback monitoring responses; calculating speed memorydensities; miniaturization; exponential increase networking with- without immediate environment; continuous "exfoliation" peripheral technologies components; decreased fixed standards combined translation polymorphic environmentally-sensitive standards. will come increasingly inhabit terms time phenomenological horizon organism. "compact," self-(re)produce self-monitor. Any question "intelligence" artificial become new neural networks, vectors, arise. _Porifera_: "Two unique organizational attributes define have played major roles poriferan success. These features channels, _aquiferous system_ (and _choanocytes_), totipotent nature sponge cells." ... "Increases size surface area accomplished folding wall into variety patterns. Furthermore, variation overall shapes results different growth patterns various environments. This general plasticity fact most individual capable radically altering their function needed compensate part absence tissues organs. aquiferous system brings though close responsible food gathering gas exchange." "The volume moving sponge's remarkable." (Brusca Brusca, _Invertebrates._) *The Gate-Keepers (Routing Service Community) exist double bandwidth: channels before them, apparatus decision-making. insert withdraw filtration flow, retaining re-entering. Temporary skeins matrices beck call; ordered reordered, events described, descriptions circulate entities. node moment intensification, vortex machinery. passes elsewhere, duplicates reduplicates belong community; perhaps unionized. They share customs; information shuttles between them. Information leverage, input output; scrip. Quantity enters picture flee again. control flight; exile. exiles, existing margin social body. Paradoxically, up evidence senses. screen momentary, souvenir best, brief unwieldy turbulence current. identity, identity-flux. see depth; feel it. depth real. lexicon operations. fear admire viral attacks. follow virus machine, observing duplications erasures. aware, else, long complex history. witnessing beginning life, literal life organization proper Ridding themselvs virus, Interspecies communication. Other forms ensue. ghosts; program ectoplasm. Languages develop collapse beneath ride higher, forgetting assembly codes saturating electronic. called "speech." concerned nothing else except incoming. Their bandwidths shudder occlude: information, control; needs controlled; charge? Everything shifts another level; levels, intensities. Sensory reduce! senses necessary; bits fly every diretion, coherent. insist coherency things; margins mesh, operations; things devolve against exigencies starvation, geopolitics, militarisms all sorts. remain distance depth. Whispers along pipeline, rumors. rumors bodies, flesh translated symbolic. Rumors necessary. gate-keeper perfect sphere; spread lightning, static discharges across Pathways separate forever, rejoin. sphere engorged, never devoured, devouring. float above surface; rings hollow resonances entering information. keepers make decisions. shuttle. seized. *Questions M. Chaput* "Objects can apprehended aesthetic technical wholes; been fragmented. "It possible master composition thorugh old semantic procedure component parts, structure,system, product. Instead, we find superimposed multitude mutually unintelligible codes. Each field has own code, synthesis necessary apprehension any particular reached common labor specialists, putting grids another's disposal hope resisting few moments continental drift reshaping world science. "In impossible synthesis, everyone left grasp whatever his competence allows deal element less secret deep-lying layer. "As move outer strata, shell towards kernel, faced reading after another" "until reach structural core. vain, pursue chimera encyclopaedic ledge, unless restrict ourselves anonymous realm data banks like. loss mastery important mustrely considerable degree magnification, causes partial blindness." ("From Socrates Intel: Chaos Microaesthetics" _Design Modernism,_ ed. John Thackara, London, 1988.) if were "structural core," material substrate integral software interfacing used organism; interconnected others, functioning; states components substrates indiscrete, irretrievable; flow-formations traveled, redundant form, media copper, gold, silver, air, glass, vacuum carriers (neither wave-form nor particle) electrons, holes, photons; structures surrounded guard-structures, potential wells (preserving internal coherency) infiltrated antibiotics (protecting decay); bounced planet; relativistic, particularly regard stasis "operating" partially linked (as case infinitesimal degree) (sensory) "contents" flow-formations; network duplicated reduplicated expanding data-bases, there, modified, returned, reassigned speciation; core" became transport (on order molecular); cores" (except trivial sense) "fields knowledge"; best part-objects, momentary flux-states; strata simultaneously "shell" "kernel"; "layers" diffuse, non-hierarchical; "competence" layers non-secret, erotic-pornographic open; "chimera knowledge" "Once loaded (if still use such "metaphysics") operates combinatorics, micro indi- vidual. Only when operating instructions applied micros identical, multiple." (Chaput, op.cit.) loading continuous; partial, blind; "moments"; "individualities" flickered random receptors, organic _longings_; occurred body, gates open, everything flux... +++