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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Cradled Cone and Mocap Dance Symbolic
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:42:35 -0500 (EST)
Cradled Cone and Mocap Dance Symbolic Change in the air, towards metaphoric content: Foofwa d'Imobilite and Kira Sedlock within Gary Manes' altered motion capture system operated by Azure Carter and Alan Sondheim. These ride above the ruined hands of a West Virginia mummy within a cone cradled by the same. Everywhere there are Poser image particles as usual; what occurs is a metaphoric atmosphere, muted and reduced 3-d sememe. http://www.alansondheim.org/airagain_013.png http://www.alansondheim.org/airagain_014.png http://www.alansondheim.org/airagain_015.png Weakening is always implied by the construct or rearrangement of the mythological 'book of nature,' which is a priori unread and unreadable. Weakening is an insertion of the symbolic; deconstruction is the prying- away of the same. Deconstruction of deconstruction is meaning. If I add, I am makar, in harmony, creating poetics. If I create a poetics I am already inscribing. If I am inscribing, I am transforming from shifter back into body. The deconstruction of the deconstruction of the body is the meaning of the body. Weakening is thinking about all of this. Even in virtual worlds, weakening is this thinking implied by careful arrange- ment. Careful arrangement implies inscribing if not writing, writing if not reading, fabulous matrix of the writer. Think for a moment of an inscribing which is not (formally) performative; create a distinction. Then this inscribing is a weakening among the (formally or potentially) informative. (Unless potential performance is always of the mind and kinetic performance is always of the body.) Think of the weakening of a species of theory in an account of weakening, as if something is being released (nothing is being released). Think what this species of thinking might or might not do. === | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | To access the Odyssey exhibition The Accidental Artist: | http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22 | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | sondheim@panix.com, sondheim@gmail.org, tel US 718-813-3285
