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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:00:33 -0400 (EDT)
arousal certain objects or items on a psychoanalytical scale create arousal; por- nography operates off this principle. the objects or items are presumed human, that is to say, projection/introjection (my 'jectivity') occurs across the threshold of the space between viewer and image. if the items are non-human, one presumes fetishism (with all the overdetermined accom- panying psychoanalytic theory), but this need not be the case: given what elsewhere might be considered dismemberment, but is read here as the dream screen of the sexual, arousal occurs through a litany of movement and geometry, nothing more. it's as if we're imprinted (and i think we are to an extent), as if items appear which construct desire, reproduction, species. the visual in these cases is a zeroing-in. avatrex.mp4 is an item (not a human) which simultaneously projects and falls apart; what arouses are mediated part-objects which seem capable in this respect of standing alone, standing for, standing in-for. i think all of this relates to a potential wellspring of violence; if all that's needed is surface, is the rest of the body to be discarded? an uneasy question, troubling phenomen- ology as well. http://www.asondheim.org/avartrex.mp4