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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: on alias, aliasing
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:13:12 -0500 (EST)
alias Alias - One has an alias - the connotation is that of subterfuge (but not necessarily). Feynman writes about alias as a question of raster - think of alias, aliasing, as the return of the repressed of the real - what can't be accommodated is transformed by the upper ceiling of the bandwidth into rhythmic structuring - of course if the unaccommodated - one might say unaccountable - is itself within a relatively steady-state. Look for alias / aliasing in the real, for the location of what might pass for primordial - what whispers in spite of everything. Aliases and rhythm - but given the potential of alterity, a face without content, a face elsewhere than the Other - the rupture itself, aliasing itself, may take on the appearance of a masquerade (i.e. of the second order). Hence what is apparent may be the extrusion or residue of insufficient bandwidth, and if we generalize, we might find that the appearance of the real is always already alias, construed as appearance, forced into its return. Is sampling always inadequate? Don't we make these decisions in the first place, in relation to human perception? Think of the alias as a wound - wound as gateway - or diacritical mark. Here is where the digital meets the analog - or at least where catastrophe meets emission - where emission is channeled... There is something deep here, more than meets the eye ... ========================================================================= Thus - to a future editor: I am writing as quickly as possible before I die. For example, the concept of 'alias' I employ here might well lead to a phenomenology of the imag- inary. But who has time to complete this? Furthermore, my work is full of misspellings, errors of grammar, confusions and awkwardness of style. I hope these will be corrected. I am blind to them. Even with copy-editing, I am blind to them. But they are present as the real is present, and as such, are erroneous; they conjure only what the alias permits. The sememe is catastrophically shattered in such, and most likely in all, instances. So the act of correction must be an active one - not merely copy-editing, but editing for content, deep-editing, correcting faults, and restoring the texts to their (non-existent and accurate) originals. There is something deep here, more than meets the I ... ========================================================================= ( see http://nikuko.blogspot.com )