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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: An emblem
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 20:26:57 -0400 (EDT)
An emblem analog--abject (hidden <> flight) flesh silence | {stench, odor} emptiness mind discrete--pure (visible <> embrace) mind speech | {scent, smell) Let analog resonate 0, that is substance with no premise, project. Let discrete resonate 1, that is inscription with project, maintenance. Think analog resonating nothing, discrete resonating. Then _1_ draws _0_ out. The Emblem is always discrete, the analog(ic) always approached asymptot- ically, from the other side. Analog as release of emblem, discrete as emblematic release. The abject of the analog is hidden (passively or actively); it harbors flight, flight-from skittered across substance surface, flight-towards oozed beneath it. The abject is desired, uninscribed death, defuge. And that is what there is. Analogic: of the flesh, stench, silence, noise, parasite, emptiness of mind. The visible of the analog is embraced (passively or actively), embrace- from as inscription, isolation, purification, distanced, the blemish of the body in-visible, sutured over, cosmeticized, cover-up. And embrace- towards, arousal within the visible, inscribed and introjected objects- objectifications. And that is what there is. Discrete: of speech, discursivity, talk, fecundity of mind. Among visible and abject, emptiness. Among analog and discrete, emptiness. Analog and discrete sutured at the limits--the inscription of analogic, abjection of discrete. Culture exists, exhausts, exhumes, at the junction; the junction is driven by impulse, exchange and use values (regimes), arousal, rite, contract, the letter, annihilation. The letter is always under erasure, granular, memory. (_Desire_ of flight and embrace.) On _the one hand_ dyads are always suspect, problematic, under erasure, abject; _on the other_ dyads are originary _wherever, whenever there is origin._ Think of _originary fields,_ not points; areas, not vectors; temporalities, not time; infinitesimals, not 0. Think of emission and absorption spectra; particle annihilation and creation: "The world is _not_ locally realistic." (Nielsen and Chuang, Quantum Computation and Quantum Information.) nothing among nothing ======================================================================= (for Philadelphia show music: http://shows.dmusic.com/ then to Fire Museum Label Showcase Parts 5 and 6. 5=guitar, 6=keyboard.)