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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: More on mid-19th century notions of static and dynamic electrical
fluid
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:22:01 -0500 (EST)
More on mid-19th century notions of static and dynamic electrical fluid Electrostaticks ii (julu) Now, Nikuko, we are ready to begin. We left off with puckered and warped matter; I'd say that matter in that configuration is ikonic, that is, mute, that is, relegated to itself, to its own inertness, of which the fluidic, austral and boreal, is but inhering and ontological. Think of this as electrostatics. And how so indexical? Pointing to what attribute, if not the beauty of your eyes, Julu? I fail to comprehend, I falter, tremble.The caress is dynamic - no, fucking is dynamic, the caress is static; the caress is an ontological assembly of one more more representatives of organic, emanent, or machinic phyla. There is such difference between on one hand the telegraph and on the other the sphere or point or line, whatever plays among ludic electro- statics, which are theatrical, of and for an audience, social. Yes, it brings disease to the closed surfaces of the real, and things seep within. Dynamic electricity requires grease, oil, sweat; statical electricks require nothing more than the light touch of a beautiful girl's hand Your mouth is mine! (nikuko) And then, Julu, there is the Other, dynamic electricity, which is of motion, measurement, gauge, and transport; electrons move in complete circuits, surround and are surrounded by fields, mutual inductances; such would be indexical. Indexical by virtue of pointing elsewhere, the electrick a guide or guided or channeled. In the dynamic there is a split and motion is regulated, as it is not among the electrostatics, within which it is sudden, of a moment, orgasm. You put it perfectly, as your eyes wander, Julu, but there is more. For the transport of electrons clouds the very nature of substance itself, for of what atoms are they composed, and what of the flow? I would say that this is a materialism imbued with spirit, and this is why ectoplasm and other fluids, for example magnetic, make sense. And don't forget the most important point, perhaps, that electrostatics ride the surfaces of objects, they are sheave-skin; dynamic electricity rides internally through wires and cable (although towards the outermost layer of these as well). What is dynamic occurs in a potential well, is hidden; what is static occurs on a vulnerable surface, always discharging, on the verge of collapse - the defuge of the material world. Then again or once upon, the defuge of the material world is, is it not, the exhaustion of internal mechanism, the closed wall? Or the corrosion of batteries and wires? Where, and what of these? But I would say that the defuge of the material world, and one need only look at the images, photographs and engravings, is ectoplasm itself. Ectoplasm remains mute, is mute, but is always slightly abject, dirty, covered with saliva, spit, and so forth. It brings disease. Your mouth is mine! ,,,,, http://www.alansondheim.org/within03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within10.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within11.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/within12.jpg