Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0603261353440.12657@panix3.panix.com>
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: Annoying
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:54:06 -0500 (EST)
Annoying Quite a while ago, I sent out an 'annoying egrets' video - egrets stirring up the bottom muck in a wetlands, with their feet and wing-beating. Here is some similar Canada goose behavior, with a body-rocking motion. Annoyance seems to be a close tethering between hunter and prey, within or across species, light or heavy. It involves an unexpected disruption of every-day routines on an insistent basis that demands attention; the attention is often an irritant on the part of the prey, whose habitus is broken. While annoyance may be novel or protean, it may gain ground with repetition, resulting in an action of some sort on the part of the prey, simply to discontinue the stimulus. Annoyance corrupts routine; it is Serres' parasite gnawing away at the etiquette of life. It may be creative or deadly, or both; at the heart of creation, one finds violence. Ultimately, promulgation of the species or individual is impetus, to the benefit of the neuro-physical and physical life of the hunter. However, annoyance is always a dangerous game; it is a wager that nothing worse will occur, that the hunter will survive. It defines the edge or lip of the real; beyond annoyance is love on one hand, but wanton destruction on the other. http://www.asondheim.org/geeseannoying.mp4 _