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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Enjoy. I kludged. I make mistakes.
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
Enjoy. I kludged. I make mistakes. Some text of Sandy Baldwin and myself kludging through performances - This includes last night's which was terrific at Subtle Tech To. Sandy logged in from Austria, a small village which looked terrific too on Google but the connection was slow on and off, anyway. I did many mistakes. At my end I bounced around. I had: Julu Twine on laptop one, not projected, particles turned off, sound turned on. Alan Dojoji on laptop two, projected, particles on, sound turned off. We were all in the same space. Sandy ran text. Sometimes it showed, sometimes not. I ran minor text. Sometimes it showed, sometimes not. When Sandy's text showed, mine didn't. When my text showed, Sandy's didn't. [2009/02/11 8:04] Julu Twine: second life crashed on the desktop - too much overload [2009/02/11 8:04] sandy Taifun: ok. i'll keep going [2009/02/11 8:04] Julu Twine: coming back on [2009/02/11 8:04] Julu Twine: got kicked off again coming back on [2009/02/11 8:05] Julu Twine: hee hee [2009/02/11 8:07] sandy Taifun: fun! [2009/02/11 8:20] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/02/11 8:20] sandy Taifun is Online [2009/02/11 8:25] sandy Taifun: where are you at? [2009/02/11 8:28] sandy Taifun: ok [2009/02/11 8:30] sandy Taifun: i'm not set up to dance and not send text, but i'm limiting it [2009/02/11 8:31] Julu Twine: can you dance? I see you - [2009/02/11 8:32] sandy Taifun: should be dancing [2009/02/11 8:35] sandy Taifun: where are you by the way? [2009/02/11 8:35] sandy Taifun: aaaaaaaaaaaaa [2009/02/11 8:50] sandy Taifun: i keep bumbping into things and getting teleported away [2009/02/11 8:55] Julu Twine: lways to set a landmark, teleport out of there. nevertheless bound by someone's concept of physics, virtual and otherwise. physics of ostensible three-dimensionality and ordinary phase rules. no magnets but seduction of voice and image beckoning you onward. the performance is a gaping maw in the gaping maw of Second Life. all orgasms possess kernels of fantasy, terror, loss and recuperation. this is a beautiful installation which will be rendered harmless in its absence. the width of a skin is a pixel. the width of your body is four centimeters. [2009/02/11 8:55] Julu Twine: lways to set a landmark, teleport out of there. nevertheless bound by someone's concept of physics, virtual and otherwise. physics of ostensible three-dimensionality and ordinary phase rules. no magnets but seduction of voice and image beckoning you onward. the performance is a gaping maw in the gaping maw of Second Life. all orgasms possess kernels of fantasy, terror, loss and recuperation. this is a beautiful installation which will be rendered harmless in its absence. the width of a skin is a pixel. the width of your body is four centimeters. [2009/02/11 8:55] Julu Twine: lways to set a landmark, teleport out of there. nevertheless bound by someone's concept of physics, virtual and otherwise. physics of ostensible three-dimensionality and ordinary phase rules. no magnets but seduction of voice and image beckoning you onward. the performance is a gaping maw in the gaping maw of Second Life. all orgasms possess kernels of fantasy, terror, loss and recuperation. this is a beautiful installation which will be rendered harmless in its absence. the width of a skin is a pixel. the width of your body is four centimeters. [2009/02/11 9:16] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/06/12 16:40] sandy Taifun: logging out back in a sec [2009/06/12 16:40] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/06/12 16:41] sandy Taifun is Online [2009/06/12 16:42] sandy Taifun: hello alan, plz teleport me [2009/06/12 16:44] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/06/12 16:46] sandy Taifun is Online [2009/06/12 16:53] sandy Taifun: well, complete mess here but i think I can do things - im when you want me to start in [2009/06/12 16:56] Julu Twine: hi sandy, technical difficulties here [2009/06/12 16:56] Julu Twine: had to change laptops at the last minute [2009/06/12 16:57] sandy Taifun: ok. i/m here but my body is only a sort of glow, at least for me [2009/06/12 17:05] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/06/12 17:06] sandy Taifun is Online [2009/06/12 17:08] Julu Twine: start start [2009/06/12 17:13] Julu Twine: weird your words aren't coming thru mine are before yours did mine didn't [2009/06/12 17:13] Julu Twine: 1. The virtual and real are united by inscription: inscription is a form of mark. 2. The body is always already inscribed. 3. A 'metric' is associated with every phenomenology - a certain _tenor_ of behavior, style of inscription. 4. The 'metric' sets forth 'geodesics,' paths of least resistance; it's easiest to construct along them - in which case what might be considered 'corporate style' dominates. 5. There is always the possibility of the cheat, kludge, or hack: a. Cheat: something appearing as more or less than it is, something 'magical.' b. Kludge: making do, using available tech: the clumsy. c. Hack: beneath the surface, something doing something it wasn't 'intended' to do. Along this line: reality was intended to _do nothing_ of course. [2009/06/12 17:14] Julu Twine: 8. Intended or interpreted information: Information is a way of looking at the world; in-formation characterizes the world. The body looks at the world which is of and not of the body; the world is therefore abject, debris - almost, but not quite escaping. What escapes is articulated by mathesis; mathesis is our window on the existent. Mathesis grasps everything and nothing; an equation cannot _directly_ move an object, but describes its structure to the extent that its structure is nothing. Mathesis is what lies beyond the reach of the _gesture._ 9. The ontology of mathesis is neither real nor virtual: Mathematics, in other words, is elsewhere. 10 The more the universe is 'comprehended' in terms of fundamental characteristics, the greater the mathesis required. 11. Eventually mathesis dominates and the use of 'proper models' falls by the wayside. 12. The question: 'How are we' within the alien - i.e. within a knowledge that we occur, inhabit, the alien? [2009/06/12 17:14] Julu Twine: 8. Intended or interpreted information: Information is a way of looking at the world; in-formation characterizes the world. The body looks at the world which is of and not of the body; the world is therefore abject, debris - almost, but not quite escaping. What escapes is articulated by mathesis; mathesis is our window on the existent. Mathesis grasps everything and nothing; an equation cannot _directly_ move an object, but describes its structure to the extent that its structure is nothing. Mathesis is what lies beyond the reach of the _gesture._ 9. The ontology of mathesis is neither real nor virtual: Mathematics, in other words, is elsewhere. 10 The more the universe is 'comprehended' in terms of fundamental characteristics, the greater the mathesis required. 11. Eventually mathesis dominates and the use of 'proper models' falls by the wayside. 12. The question: 'How are we' within the alien - i.e. within a knowledge that we occur, inhabit, the alien? [2009/06/12 17:14] sandy Taifun is Offline [2009/06/12 17:15] Julu Twine: 8. Intended or interpreted information: Information is a way of looking at the world; in-formation characterizes the world. The body looks at the world which is of and not of the body; the world is therefore abject, debris - almost, but not quite escaping. What escapes is articulated by mathesis; mathesis is our window on the existent. Mathesis grasps everything and nothing; an equation cannot _directly_ move an object, but describes its structure to the extent that its structure is nothing. Mathesis is what lies beyond the reach of the _gesture._ 9. The ontology of mathesis is neither real nor virtual: Mathematics, in other words, is elsewhere. 10 The more the universe is 'comprehended' in terms of fundamental characteristics, the greater the mathesis required. 11. Eventually mathesis dominates and the use of 'proper models' falls by the wayside. 12. The question: 'How are we' within the alien - i.e. within a knowledge that we occur, inhabit, the alien? 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