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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: SOME THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE CONSTERNATION
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:27:25 -0500 (EST)
SOME THINGS THAT MIGHT CAUSE CONSTERNATION THINGS CANNY: mechanical linkages, reach of the body, phenomenology of liquid, phenomenology of solids, particle phenomena, physical labor, future (things coming forward) INFERENCE astronomy, cosmology, extractive industries, bubbles, extraction-past (reconstruction of past things) THINGS UNCANNY: elsewhere from the body, phenomenology of gas, phenomenology of plasma, wave phenomena, past (presence of non-presence) INTERNAL, ABJECT, INVISIBLE hallucinations, dreams, farts, coughs, sneezing, heat, cold, pain, sickness, hypnagogic imagery, trance phenomena, orgasm, "emotions," "sensations," "thought," voice, voices, spells, speaking in tongues, music, song INFERENCE, INTERNAL pain of others, heat and cold of others, epidemics, pornographies, voices VISIBLE fire, lightning, melting, evaporating, St. Elmo's fire, static electricity, magnets, compass, clouds, fog, rain INVISIBLE trance phenomena, orgasm, "emotions," "sensations," "thought," voice, voices, spells, speaking in tongues, music, song INFERENCE, VISIBLE source of streams, rivers; source of rain; source of (evidence of) wind (INFERENCE, INVISIBLE) INTERNAL, VISIBLE sperm, menses, shit, piss, tears, phlegm, sweat, spit INFERENCE, AUDIBLE, INVISIBLE echoes, thunder, bolides THINGS IN INTERNAL-ONTOLOGICAL MAGIC: transformations: ontological (man into beast), epistemological (appearance of fangs) substitutions: always already transformed (candelabras with arms)