Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1102102352320.29254@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: now
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:53:06 -0500 (EST)
now encapsulation of phenomenological presence: always already behind but the command is instantaneous (paralleling loop quantum geometry to the extent that between nows, there is no time). (paralleling a certain positioning within which there never has been time, within the inaccessible singular- ity of now, thinking of husserl of course.) so that we can say, at least on a human scale, the digital represents very little, if anything: only the gaps, sutured by our senses, as if the world were continuous. for us, it is the suturing the constitutes the appearance of the digital; the appearance is neither this nor that. strings or loops or points or wheeler's foam: it always breaks down some- where. and here, it breaks down, invisibly, only in the performative which hangs somewhere temporally invisible. it's of interest, psychologically, to note that the 'now' is always a deferral, a reading occurring after the fact, but collapsed into an/other fact, or rather facticity; further, that such readings are the occasional, among organisms, of gatherings, collocations, collectivities: for neither one nor the other reads each now individually, as if each were fecund with its own history, accessed through the dialectic of historiographies. for who among us could count them, and such counting, such duration, would always be later, not latent, or rather latent to the enunciation, not to the encounter: the encounter itself does not exist. further, the fact is not a fact _of_ the digital; it has no place among truth-tables or other setups. in fact the now is already dead, as if it were alive, a hermeneutics of bluster so to speak, just as the origin is already dead, in and out of enunciation: the now, smeared through the very act of accession, loses its value as a token, becomes - no matter what the history - an absence within the tomb of equivalences. the digital, in being here, is not here: it is nowhere. thus it is always without extrinsic foundation, characterized as well by an intrinsic and logic, displayed, again as always, after a fact which can never appear. k5% yes now > zz */produces the repetitive state of almost-present, almost-presence/* ^C */ends the production/* now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now now */[...] continues for at least 2m within 1/5 second/*