Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.63.0608141136250.15666@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: model model model
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:36:44 -0400 (EDT)
model model model http://www.asondheim.org/tre.mp4 short video of stills from scanner to Geomagic to Blender and spherical mappings; last night the rationale behind these came clear in a dream; this morning disappeared; the tree maps onto the tree; within the real; the optical apparatus; the digital maps onto the digital; protocol between the two; but that the digital spews into the analogic; returns to the dream as dismembering, disassem- bling, dissembling; that the tree is a world; of numerical values; that these values are cauterized; extruded from irrationals; that they never return; that they themselves are taken apart; reconfigured; that the infinite journey of such mappings is inherently uncanny; that the real gnaws always already at the digital; the tree is the tree of the imagin- ary; as in Saussure; Wittgenstein's family of usages; what is a family?; what is familiality?; familiar?; that the totality of such mappings is the result of extrusions, collapses, creations, annihilations, duplications; that it is the result of totality, overall operations; that no bit or byte is singled out from any other; that these computations are plankton-maw; that nothing is distinguished precisely _in order to distinguish_; that what emerges is close to the perspective-sublime; black-hole vanishing- point; that there are trees of numbers and numbers of trees; that there digital hands and handsful of digits; model model model.