Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.00.1206132058560.9027@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Looking Easier Than Reading
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:00:23 -0400 (EDT)
Looking Easier Than Reading The physicality of the anomaly always asserts itself, even down the hierarchy of protocol layers. Google is everywhere, tabulating these and others; sometimes the real takes over when processing slows and crashes; I had one such crash during the making of the image. But the obdurate is there, among the remnants of sex, which are not there, and death, which is: that is the only equation, and one that persists in existing until life is eradicated. We can't place our bets because there will be no one to collect. Many such images as these are on many such planets, however ephemeral; even Mars has its markings. If a tree falls, it falls, and it's gone, just as the sound is gone. These gasped at zero to forty miles an hour and the next time the configuration will be different, as it already is, fading, history is fading. The truth, Badiou, is that books don't live forever, and Google's privacy is a sham. Anyone can burrow the database from within; we all live in tunnels beneath the firewalls where there is nothing done, nothing to be done. A friend of mine constantly takes notes to use against people. Badiou takes notes to how how the world's held, but the world's held up by philosophy in both senses of the phrase, just not in the physical. It's on the way out. We're on the way out, we're already "that class," as my grade school teacher said, implying we'd live forever in infamy. She's dead now, everything in the world is different and sattered, shattering. If you're born in the middle of it, you die in the middle of it. We're just desperate to keep alive, we dream of sex and fantasy, in the imaginary, die, in the real, and grovel in surplus in the symbolic. These images are tombstone, graves, they're beneath the ground, on the bridge they're struggling. I do philosophy this way because it's easier to read. http://www.alansondheim.org/sub1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/sub7.jpg