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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: important things ii
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:29:08 -0500 (EST)
important things ii in 'Important Things' i initiated the move from a poetics of everyday life to a deconstruction of absolutist philosophy; the tension between the two plays out in life, text, image, sound. the experience of the body is the body, the experience of the body is anything which can be reflected, any- thing which cannot be reflected. our death is a sign we cannot speak. your death is that sign of speech, that sign which is any sign. my death is a sign i cannot speak. we meander among signs and voice do we not? in important things i began the project which appears as the object of anita berber. ghosts exist and this is as much in evidence as anything, anysign. let us think of anysign as the bending or devolution of sign; the sivaj below are just such a sign. anysign is neither singular nor plural and replaces anything in the true world, just as anything in the true world replaces anysign given the ikonic thud of sign, voice, body, text, image, sound, life. life is emanent life and tissue-skin emanent is sheave-skin organism. Leon Brillouin in Science and Information Theory, quoted in Patrick Meredith, Instruments of Communication: "There is obviously a certain expenditure of energy in the process of writing, but we find no trace of the energy on the written page. There is no visible negentropy left either, yet the information is there, completely dissociated from these other elements." then reading is the coagulation-energy from the anysign catalyst which is a pharmacopeia of the real. and then anita berber chora-choratic wanders anysign. withdraw the name and the real puckers and withdraws; fluids circulate, and it is clear, among less important things, that 'object of anita berber' construes a proper name only in its abandonment. anysign is crutch, any utterance prosthetic. object of anita berber and ghosts of important things http://www.alansondheim.org/ghosts.mp4 objects of syrup and meditation http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj01.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj02.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj04.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj05.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj06.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj07.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj09.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sivaj10.jpg