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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: imaginary world
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:15:16 -0400 (EDT)
imaginary world imaginary world inhabits true world. true world is neither true nor false (nor much of anything). think: competing neural regimes < self/I > < discrete representations > data- substance or beginning with neural flux (within which the discrete emerges): neural regimes collapse (think of catastrophe theory short-cuts) what is the I but linguistic shifter/generator (therefore one might say _the_ linguistic shifter): here's your coagulation, assignment, direct address (think of direct address as proper name or natural kind). what emerges from the buzz of the world: discrete representations, _as if_ coagulations from the O/other side. what is absent: the buzz, neural networking/phase transitions (quantum on up) producing information vis- a-vis the _subject_ (I as subject, subjected-to). collapse is to the discrete, intensification, as if essence were culled. the buzz tends always on the far or lower side towards decay, corrosion, defuge, subject, subjected-to abjection. on the upper side, discretion, competition, processes surfacing when necessary, pulled from or by the buzz - buzz equivalent to the superstructure of the world. the true world appears with the removal of the lens from the eye and the subsequent temporal split, redefined as inscription. or not. consider the < self/I > < discrete representations > as the _waist_ of the buzz - any narrower and the system (channel, spew, flux) collapses. think of < self/I/discrete representations > as _body._ then perhaps neural regimes < body > data-substance. it is not too far an extension: < < neural regimes / body > < body / data-substance > >; since this is metaphor, not mathesis, it bifurcates into two models: a. < neural regimes / body / data-substance > (within which body includes an imaginary> and b. < neural regimes / data-substance > (mixed epistemologies/ontologies of true world inscriptive processes, demateriality, emphasis on gestural logics, emptiness). thus materiality is the available technology of true world. materiality occurs within the waist: this is the 'level' or holon of every-day life. [ 'true world' is misnomer: it implies duality, rectitude, the purity of 'the fragility of good things,' ration, logic, ratio. misnomer: it implies world, totality, absolute, one, monad, null, emptiness, range, closed manifold, language, planet. misnomer: 'it' referencing the discontinuity of the phrase, seepage, placement, shifter, particle, production. 'true world' is placeholder under erasure, sentence-space. 'true world' is neither true nor world, full or empty, fecundity or emptiness, creation or annihilation, creativity or death, negation. 'true world' is neither neitherness nor neither-both-a-and-b, i.e. sheffer-stroke and its dual. 'true world' however does not inhabit or draw forth negation. what a mixture of writing and substance, virtual space and time, abject plasma, inconceivable corrosion, loss of bodies, inscribed and uninscribed slaughters turned around, inverted, con-figuration, cul-location. 'true world' is the flattened world, defuge, what happens after after hours happens all the time. ] ( 'true world': find another phrase. ) http://www.alansondheim.org/snaps for new images of interest