Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0604281540490.19815@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: what happens to signifiers - channeling -
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:41:12 -0400 (EDT)
new old work... a few years ago... http://nikuko.blogspot.com what happens to signifiers - channeling - ah... in relation, just finished Shaping Things by Bruce Sterling, wrote a long review, what I find amiss in prediction or description or teleology, always, without fail, not just hear - any mention of utopia - my own work included - my 'futurologies' - the discounting of, inability to account for, the inertia of human behavior, the let-it-be which continues in fact to let-it-be, or the not-in-my-back-yard - what speaks, describes, is enunciated, always unforeseen consequences - not to mention effects of sickness, ignorance, addictions, territorializations - even now you might want to check out Viktor Papanek's Design for the Real World - but bottom-up just won't cut it - we're no longer interested in materiality - the dusk of the pre-electric - let's lead the way in the middle of the night - illuminated - electric torches - we're ahead of everyone - the tunnel's at the end of the light -