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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Sim Rehearsal
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:08:56 -0500 (EST)
Sim Rehearsal Sandy Baldwin / Alan Sondheim rehearsal for Simulationists performance @ I Am Columbia Sim NW, Second Life http://www.alansondheim.org/simrehearsal.mp4 deconstruct the landscape in a literal Derridean fashion meld avatar, object, background, foreground, physics, into Heisenbergian panoply of inexactitude transform the phenomenology of relevance theory deconstruct the avatar body in terms of occluded dynamics, manifest destination, imperceptible transformations "THE GREATEST HAS NOTHING WITHOUT. IT IS CALLED THE GREAT UNIT. THE SMALLEST HAS NOTHING WITHIN. IT IS CALLED THE SMALL UNIT. "NOTHING CAN BE ACCUMULATED THAT HAS NO THICKNESS, YET ITS SIZE BE THOUSANDS OF MILES LONG. "BOTH HEAVEN AND EARTH ARE LOW. MOUNTAINS ARE AS LEVEL AS LAKES. "THE SUN AT NOON IS DECLINING. THE CREATURE JUST BORN IS DYING. [...] "THE SOUTH IS WITHOUT A LIMIT AND HAS A LIMIT. "I GO TO-DAY TO THE STATE OF YUEH AND ARRIVED THERE YESTERDAY. "CONNECTED RINGS CAN BE SEPARATED. "I KNOW THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD IS NORTH OF YEN AND SOUTH OF YUEH. [...] "MOUNTAINS BRING OUT MOUTHS. "WHEELS DO NOT PRESS THE GROUND. "EYES DO NOT SEE. "DESIGNATION NEVER REACHES ANYTHING. THINGS NEVER COME TO AN END. [...] "THE SWIFTLY MOVING FLYING ARROW IS AT TIMES NEITHER IN MOTION NOR AT REST. [...] "A WHITE HORSE IS NOT A HORSE." From The Works of KUNG-SUN LUNG-TZU with a translation from the parallel Chinese original text, Critical and Exegetical Notes, Punctuation and Literal Translation, The Chinese Commentary, Prolegomena, and index, by Max Perleberg, Hongkong, 1952.