Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0712050101510.2219@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Image
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:02:09 -0500 (EST)
Image What sort of object is my mandala-image? Certainly not symbolic; while elements represent, the mandala-image itself stands for nothing, neither power nor deity, fecundity, rebirth, emptiness. Nothing stands for empti- ness; nothing stands in for emptiness. And certainly not ikonic; nothing is there but the image within an aegis or indifferently existing. Then again, not indexical; let's say it's eaten, ingested, but there's no pointer, anything like that. Let's say it's of the true world, the image itself, and let's say it's the becoming of the subject, placed under erasure by the subject, placed under erasure by nothing, then of the gone world, then of nothing. Let's say there's neither mind nor emptiness, uncertainly not inherently existing image. Let's say the image is of the imaginary, that the true world is of the imaginary, but the imaginary has no inherent existence. Let's say the true world is under erasure, that whatever clings, clings to erasure. Let's leave it, but not leave it at that. There were eyes in the walls. There were eyes in the table. There were eyes in the telephone. There were eyes in the keyboard, eyes in the computer, eyes in the mousepad. There were eyes in the ceiling, eyes in the floor. There were eyes in the clock that said tick-tock.