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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: death and time's death
Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 13:01:54 -0400 (EDT)
death and time's death one temporality juggles and jumbles another, but when is this occurrence; to the extent that temporality, time, is a representation, it's bound by ordinary linear sequencing in much the same way that deontic or fuzzy logics are bound by binary logic; a fuzzy formula might hold some of the time for example but then this might holding would be suspect to true or false, would it not? just so everything devolves around the dyadic of representations of discrete phenomena. one cannot escape death, even in a digital realm where time clashes against time, time and again: first, the sequence is technology-dependent for implementation; second, it cannot retard the hastening of death for the subject - creator or viewer; third it always flies to an end as the machine is cut off or the sequence is relatively short and unlooped. what's constructed is a myth, the myth, as in Michael Snow, of the continuously walking woman - a myth which is remarkably fragile, unstable; even in sequence.mp4 she moves through a limited number of presentations, the scan happening to catch her at various moments across the field. she moves and continues to move, and, Muybridge-like, the assumption is that the spaces between frames or states is filled. in sequence.mp4, however, there is no filling, everything re/presents itself within the single frame, already the harbinger of death and movement's cessation. small file of walking woman sequence agitated by magnetic field and rotated 360 degrees http://www.alansondheim.org/sequenced.mp4