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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: intervention
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:37:16 -0400 (EDT)
intervention once I thought that philosophical problems on some level would be immune from, independent of, physical theory - that there would be a residue one couldn't absorb, like a spirit of living organisms or some such - synergy or what have you, synchronicity. now I think that philosophical thought dissolves in what emerges from cosmology or particle physics: what is a red patch for example in relation to dark matter, or the phenomenology of the body in relation to the very stars that gave us our physical composi- tion? discoveries build on discoveries, endlessly divide; tree structures collapse under the weight of inconceivably entangled branches. what emerges is fundamental, our ignorance, however 'our' is ascertained within and without the pathos of language - and however 'ignorance' is wrought on the surfaces of unaccountable and alien sememes. who we are, where are we going, where have we been, how do we move or are moved through time, how is speech possible, why anything - all of these phrases or questions are as emptied as consciousness itself becomes in the face and porosity of the virtual. there is no hope for us, no matter how we retreat to evanescent online worlds that falsely promise exactitude in things ontological and epistemological. nothing is further from the truth, even truth never arrives, perhaps Julu Twine said, in the manner of intervention into this and every other narrative. http://www.alansondheim.org/muti.mp4 - mutoscoped with live video in SL http://www.alansondheim.org/muti1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/muti2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/muti3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/muti4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/muti5.jpg