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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Maturing and Raster
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 13:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
Maturing and Raster skunk cabbage* maturing: http://www.alansondheim.org/skunk07.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/skunk01.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/skunk10.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/skunk08.jpg phragmites raster: http://www.alansondheim.org/phragmites.mp4 *I originally shot the shoots; the plant is thermogenic. See for example http://www.alansondheim.org/gladesb03.jpg and Wikipedia articles. I am narrow, minded; it is difficult to follow any stream, much less any particular stream, of thought. On an analog/digital forum I have been reading, there was already a worry expressed, take the division and run with it as if something were being said/done. It's on the edge/verge of nonsense. To be strict with oneself is to mine the sememe, abandon it in large part. What's left is practically non-existent. For example, issues of raster: increase the digital raster to the infinitely, small and create an identity map - that seems simple enough. But then quantum effects come into play - in fact the wave equation collapse enters here as well. Back out and try the other - the digital to the infinitely large. Then one has monotheism, totality. Try from the analog side - nothing occurs. Surely one integrates the digital to arrive at the analogic, but to begin with the analogic? To differentiate it? This might map, but then there is still the question of the raster. The raster? The question of the wave equation again. Try the abacus. Base 1: counting, enumeration, matching one-to-one. Base infinite: each number a symbol, memorization of ideograms. But given infinite memory in the latter, zero memory in the former, they are both procedural; it's just that in the latter, nothing carries. down, increas- ingly fine-grained rasters for example - you can get 44 mhz The abacus constitutes a raster within the real. It can be constructed to any base; I consider an abacus to an infinite base. In this case, every number is a unique symbol. I am sure I am making errors throughout. Nonetheless: With infinitely small beads, with the reign of substance, digital meets analog; the raster is now infinitely fine, and the modeling of the real has become equivalent to the real itself. As above, the ikonic becomes identity, a movement from the equivalences constituting the digital, a movement from the adjudicated (and hence the origins of culture) raster back to relative undifferentiation. consider the important discussion of standardized raster as the function ``intervention'' in everyday life. Sondheim is clear that raster and digital. The crucial step here is the intro- duction of a ``raster.'' The example of a raster, though the notion may be is extended to all raster and standardizing it through some sort of protocol. Nothing's released, nothing's thrown away. The scaffold is a raster. Released from the raster is the raster.
