Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0903140151250.18547@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: ~.sig
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:51:35 -0400 (EDT)
~.sig so the sign of the body is the body of the sign, the sign-body or body- sign, and these are meaning by virtue of the signature but doesn't this collapse with the incipience of death - meaning towards non-meaning as asymptotic towards death - when does meaning collapse - disappear - what constitutes the falling-away of meaning - the disappearance of locus - it's towards classical physics that one takes comfort in the return - the replete or fecund sign - let's say signifier, pointing-towards - but there are many histories - let's say an infinite number - intrinsic pointers - at the other end, defuge, exhaustions - let's say, from the appearance of the subject - the apparency, appetition, of one - singularity reined in by virtue of the corral of the sign-body - what appears to be genidentity - it's here that the masquerade begins - all those tendrils towards death - what happens when the subject loses the fecundity of origins through its disappearance - from the viewpoint of the subject, the world is over- wrought - now one might turn towards the virtual or inscribed body - a collocation of confused signifiers - the mind and its disappearance - eternity inhabits the virtual - that's the _subject_ speaking - death comes but death comes about - when signs come and the signs are unnamed - when the signs are innumerable - when the signs are a-signifying, inert, obdurate - when the signs are speechless - then death appears - death appears without significance - the anguish of death is this - the lack of significance - abject spew of the lack - neither this nor that - not both this and that - but one's not around for any or all of this - the anguish of death is this - that one's not around - neither for the news or the weather - http://www.alansondheim.org/sig1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/sig2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/sig3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/sig4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/sig5.png the ~/accident http://slurl.com/secondlife/Odyssey/48/12/22