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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Uncomfortable notes on the poetics of captured human behavior
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 01:11:37 -0400 (EDT)
Uncomfortable notes on the poetics of captured human behavior:
[for Epoetry 2011]
motion-captured/motion-transformed/behavior-modification:
poetics of movement: vocabulary of movement:
{range of human actions, Laban A} >T> {unlimited range of actions B}
A bound by skeletal connectivity, Jordan surfaces;
B bound by skeletal connectivity, twisted/tangled surfaces
in other words the links in B can bend in any direction;
the links in A are confined by human skeletal potentials + topology
(topological embedding in four dimensions):
think of this as a tensor calculus of human movement
think of this as a topography of flesh and sinew
Ruptures in the calculus:
the tortured or wounded body
the body convulsed in pain
the catatonic body
the terrorized body
the broken or 'defective' body
Ruptures through the imaginary:
the nightmare
the orgasm
hysteria/ boundaries of laughing and crying
the confined body/ body of s/m
the forgotten or abandoned body
the hyper-sexualized body transmitters/ receivers
hallucinations and other phenomena (Dendy's Philosophy of Mystery)
Ruptures of the body invaded by capital:
prosthetics
X-scopic surgeries
rfid implants
Ruptures of the body invaded by the imaginary:
(capital of the imaginary, imaginary capital)
psycho-tropics/overdetermined associations/disassociations
Ruptures of the body by an augmented real:
sports, steroids, body-building, and so forth
Invasions of the imaginary, invasions of capital, of the augmented real,
invasions through the imaginary: invasions or invaginations,
incorporations or intensifications? These terms entangle and return to:
Either the proper body, or the body as heap;
the articulated body, or the dismembered and reassembled body;
the body characterized by a real, or the body chararacterized
by an imaginary;
either the fundamental topography of the body,
or the fundamental topology of the body - invasions, dissolutions,
ruptures.
Ruptures as returns of the repressed:
What lexicons are at work? What economies?
What is it that motion capture captures? What is snared, what abandoned?
What is the vocabulary of behavioral dynamics voluntary, autonomic,
involuntary, intrinsic or involuntary, anomalous and axiomatic,
extrinsic?
In other words: What's going on with us, within and without the world?