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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: true world newsreel
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:39:01 -0400 (EDT)
true world newsreel The newsreel of part-objects, snippets of radio communication as heard, stuttered stories which remain incomplete, deferred, a call for help from a vessel, things burning, missing, people with guns, raptures, misrecogni- tions, what makes the night go faster in Brooklyn New York and everywhere. This is the truth of cinema, raw-fed documentary. If there were a narrato- logical ground, this would be it; if there were recuperation, this would be the initial stages of constitution. Everything defers to raw data, which, by a circuitous route, announces itself, establishes sequencing by repetition. Every inscription is unique, of a sort or type, typed. The lexicon of events is narrow. Listening reveals nothing but whispers that there is nothing to be revealed, or what is present is of revelation. What remains to be said or inscribed is the coagulation of culture. Every culture has a theory sifting coagulation; such a theory is culture. There is no gainsaying this, no way to make headway, no events; there is voice. http://www.alansondheim.org/newsreel.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/news2.mp3