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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: distillation of future dear, aim
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:08:31 -0500 (EST)
distillation of future dear, aim fear censorship (something country, alas!), order duties pursuant full-time without ability, directly, appreciate following excellent questions posed, best general theme direction future committees nowadays best, designed fly holdfast media/information flow. format, tenure committee, tenure, future, literature. please excuse appear, perhaps disappear transform aol excepted, familiar command-line gaming, 1995, worlds changed; mechanics, performativity, depends 'writing.' per se environments past significant historic comparing practices 1995 2005, adjournment. extent. line shells (today, linux shells). sense bone, literally, sending email, emacs vi editors, everyone using, panix.com, enter command 'who' itself; (as now) shell though rarely hear people. background, shared. network. gui, graphic interfaces, well- uses). today, usually undercurrent, called 'darknet' (before term users onto decade shielded today started dumping, aol, million protocols invisible, (the full number commands 1800). code over-designed. editor granted appliance, mac appliance-oriented moved graphics dynamisms, 'under hood' approach pc. javascript dynamic html general, beyond flash, towards java broadband; doing fascinating everywhere. countries millions artists. daily, hours, way), quantity, must tens means connected lies demographics; actors script perfect engines directly avatars create narrative experimental film good young age, modifying programs, interesting people, encodings. games machinima, collocation allows bare-bones gui programmatic level. counter-movement defined (paralleling, ny gallery system), you. 'net art' category gone; dealing massive social creativity. operating system; days 'mac versus pc' linux, over. leap system learn whenever wherever speak. this/these development(s) influenced artistic incredibly supple, explore, easy program, unix shells, because they're bare-bones, fast, come along. lot audiomulch, motion-capture can, audio/video/etc. creates soundworks 'granular synthesis' form particulating aural dimension, literally grains sound, particles, writing/sounding/visualizing; mix, tools this. care whether interface fun exciting discontinuous. program runs winxp, sound-waves. results fast wildly monitors, transducers (specialized speakers microphones) show coming los angeles, busy collecting cross- application, cross-platform, cross-technology, cross-output devices. find; run appear neural characterise support level, metaphorically. all, money; equipment junkie reaction writing(s), practice particular? upgrading; probably half real problems data management. terabyte finished considerable backup involved; peripheral support; salaried, stipends, like. around. can't employment, get conference unable classify exactly do, somewhat anti-authoritarian personality result departments; haven't lucky, partly computer modern artists managed jobs health-care mediocre, father, i'd none. fitting in, already established genres/disciplines. above? role played facilitating touch gave dot.com era demise). put (which related answer; turned practice? diary form, explored before. core programmers; allowed extended 'meet' limits started, decades phenomenology analog each long impervious; would developed manner question, institution currently resulting series articles pieces. facilitated hindered indicated driven it, provided managements, group. sea change; demographics, micro-institutions micro- me, panix did well, visual gathering comes together, later dispersing, flash mobs) 'intensification,' taz (hakim bey's 'temporary autonomous zone,' loose school melange; 'movements' part google, words, roiling databases group peers. riding knowledge management; manifestos, blind anyone small developments reactions identified having implosion terms human/cultural subjectivity, moving difficulty prediction case. explosion answers. courses futurology, am aware trying avoid responsibility, ethical metaphysical, lasting upon literature & wider culture century? predictions. years ago, push tech- nologies rage; hears them point. dominate planet? mass slated well? violent wars when 'wider culture,' five billion educated classes industrialized nations, least talking relatively secure (for moment) enclave kill within, say, next fifty years? loss here. earlier models permit freedom expression. radio, kinds were hacking everything got absorbed corporate bandwidth concerns. money receivers, transmission do-it-yourself phenomenon, until thing; reason vulnerable attack, then shell-driven darknet, powers-that-be clamped down. disappeared part, text-based moos whole cultures newsgroup worm 1988 among changed before meant completely secure; wasn't reason. morris humans, may well last), occur same true now; beginning century (which, qualitatively make comparison useless. weren't recognized time, scale/scope thing darknet find predecessors, muds disappeared. grid information born, bomb, flu epidemic hit, computers, net, ning, radio stage, wwi, wwii, atomic power, field. (look 1905 air travel begin- working special relativity, our view cosmos was seemed eternal, quantum theory unknown, einstein matter, communism hadn't taken hold, planet's flora fauna impact be, direction. certainly art, literature, culture, 21st century. idea question yes, major classical, spite minor disturbing anomalies.) is, sustain (mostly human) life remember isn't). we're approaching carrying-capacity foregrounded; smaller (we things. expect religious fundamentalisms increasing population levels. this, anything, effect salvation appears corner. how arts react rise popularity violence; humans desperate, this? constitute class mob) workers? know things change, don't how. need heavy cutbacks here), enormous inertia species: two forces: ensuing chaos (j.g. ballard prescient model happening change that. people live habitus; 'everyone' united states do motto more less 'not back yard' (nimby) goes recognizes megafauna disappearing, close industrial emissions/pollution, contemporary fulfill made explain lot. sure claims are. concept 'new media' writing' during course last decade? signs posters!) overcoming. far longer phrase; always carry standard book/page? judging replaced. temporary print hand marks being-read, owner owner; there's no indication ground, hardly. physical book object carries e-books book? unless electronic really off also issue authority/authorization; magazines, handouts, etc., opposite true; offline used platform rapidly newspaper readership going down quickly, while rising. newspapers, viewpoints (not wikipedia seems experiencing growing pains biased innuendo prevalent just quoted by conservative talk-show hosts. imagine rumour viewpoint). so... replace old? no. augment versa? definitely. news sources themselves, particularly often neutrality ideological becoming increasingly 'media' are? absolutely blogs media? particular technologies immersive game couches? moos? games? tcp/ip protocol stack running net part? minds beholders/users, who subscribe, discern where 'medium' ends begins; definitions senses word, outlets their community, them, however briefly, tenuously; remain available refer your list discussion topics, commenting communality, creative expressions. continued employment institution: institutions west virginia university's center (if remains category) difficult time it. universities, houses, design companies. independent institutional settings primarily literary computing, generous granting archival/presentation advantages ability gives statistics concerning distribution space writers. case, wvu commercial host; nothing computer, home, local web page even ftp site; you still develop audience. academia hypertext. forgive me cynical response i'll go crazy yet another paper exigencies ground produced entirely academy. both value code- experimental- work breaking production, actually march streets. politically engaged (or feel oneself engaged) never involves being online; it's easier ideal academic theorizing, presentations, almost within english department that's something else again, aren't if you're speaking strategies ginsberg whomever 'development strategies.' topic bit frightening me; say blake rimbaud art policies development attend leveler regard, barrier, since few independents afford emailpedagogical issue. answer briefly: production.2. immediate possessing adequate software image/lists.1. personal online production websites, blogs, wikis, off-campus.text/video/sound audience unfortunately mostly directly.5. visiting artist programs give students speak4. exposure many sites possible.3. access much possible computers academics). look different videophones, pagers, text economies at carrier usage, home broadband dial-up terminals, messaging, internet relay chat, old cuseeme, instant economics bandwidth, political economy, dispersion performing venues, brings nothing. third (i've extremely difficult; outside teaching thousand times larger. second simply making living, taught should under 30k size; sometimes 30m, quicktime video/audio files playing simultaneously, had buy above) again technology. own performances require twelve historical context writing(s): opens up laptop handle these. wouldn't bother looking origin; theorized originating film; writing; books; technology; relate vis-a-vis 'historical context.' i've see worms (i like worms). roots sort inscription too instead talk about discourse networks, collocation, heap, which relies performativity language (i.e. work. interpenetrating discursive active interaction user technology), myself, tend emphasize ruptures over flows formations, 'epigenetic landscapes,' so forth. reductionism doesn't breaks past. sense, history gets way; think (production largely micro-situational: what works here, now, its main use might (re)consideration aesthetic criteria. relation such-and-such tools, potential audiences, etc.) former embedded latter, vice versa. * relationship between writing(s) digital arts: concerned symbolic inscription, graphemes, written spoken language, latter can anything. overlap numerous ways. conclusion: one hand, isn't any. very tenor/tenure my any remark theory-embedded) emphasizes deep inexplication remarks above (and they remarks, theoretical explication, although media, writing, writing. i'm arguing anything primordial that, ongoing slaughters etc. occurring on technologies, predictions become highly problematic. caught available, given fast-forward changing human demographics planet earth, limited energy life-sustaining resources view, extinctions engendering greater than those midst flux barely understand; for example, ecological point world-wide communities communalities. created these communications network has ever known, first waves precambrian 'age dinosaurs). greatest reach out other, witness participate in multiculturalisms most fragile devices, redundancy notwithstanding. we opportunity such great degree that other ourselves. writing style. a way electronically witnessing world, creating contributes this; it does stand alone cultural manifestation recreating world. an early and important example of community. writers new media practitioners have been brought together from world - not extent the trace community is now dispersed or dispersing; this only online, but through incubation conferences as well. some case with all networked communities, believe. are archives. i hope there will be someone around to read them. ==