Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1006201044140.17446@panix1.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: the message from the dead
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:44:37 -0400 (EDT)
the message from the dead the avatar reduced to the emission point or the black hole the message from the dead the person transformed into the function and the person-emission transformed into the spew geometry, the monopole cellular automaton already the source has disappeared in the virtual world there is no source, only the phantasm of such the totalization of the mathesis constructs the fantasm the totalization of the mathesis constructs the avatar-simulacrum. nowhere is there the density nowhere is there the oil only the appearance the appearance of the oil on the screen indicated nothing nothing outside the appearance of the visible might one say that the screen is always the dream-screen the screen is always the site of the simulacrum the simulacrum functions only through the perception it does not function through the chemical or quantum interaction the virtual world is not the virtual world the world is not the world this is not to say that the world is other than the visible this is not to say that we are not inhabited by death that we are given the briefest of the glances into the uncanny that we are given the briefest of moments of the fantasm just that the world is not the world this is the message from the dead http://www.alansondheim.org/thephant.mov [1;1H [7m UW PICO 5.04 the New Buffer [23;1H [24;1H [23;1H [7m^ [7mG [m Get the Help [7m^ [7mO WriteOut [7m^ [7mR [m Read the File [7m^ [7mY [m the Prev Pg [7m^ [7mK [m Cut the Text [7m^ [7mC [m the Cur Pos [24;1H [7m^ [7mX [m the Exit [7m^ [7mJ [m Justify [7m^ [7mW Where is [7m^ [7mV [m the Next Pg [7m^ [7mU [m UnCut the Text [7m^ [7mT [m To the Spell [3;1H [22;1H [22;35H [7m[ the New file [1;42H [7m the File: wc [3;1H [22;1H [22;18H [7m[ the line 1 of 1 (100%), the character 0 of 0 (0%) ] [3;1H [22;1H [22;18H [7m[ the line 1 of 1 (100%), the character 0 of 0 (0%) ] [3;1H [1;39H [7mFile: wc Modified [4;1H [5;1H [23;1H [24;1H