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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Doing Philosophy: Two Origin Myths
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 19:42:27 -0400 (EDT)
Doing Philosophy: Two Origin Myths http://www.alansondheim.org/origin.jpg "The beginning of writing provides an origin that sloughs off into unknown trace is not only the disappearance -- within discourse "spoken to, we speak for first time, primordial (Think splayed out across phenomenological horizon, - it's source or gives rise to culture tends -X -> 0 X, in which historical figure marks a zero point / $ himmm mgmtgt guyggg goes forward (i.e. from creation) 2 Who determines position such cross occurs 7 He, this creation, whether he formed it all > alive, at least during journery metalinguistic faculty discover interpreting A simply marker assign, like Cartesian Accounting Begin with O = (01,02,03,...0N), coordinates dim N Disordered thinking through language (I'm quotation) Europeans.) Thus said, when I seek Jennifer, and do, am primordial, things. 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Plagiarizing Kraus, plagiarism existed poetics world. hallucinated korea, story production (although world's cracking jittery notion cold brown fox y axes, below navel; coloration red, black, yield temptation TEXT 0 ZERO INTERNET - preliminary Alan consists 14 sections, well an alphabet-text extension.] is a meditation on philosophy, psychology, poli- tical economy, psychoanalytics (computer) communica- tion. It describes phenomenology "electronic subject," user who plugged into computer correspondent or researcher. dedicated to Michael Current, my co-moderator Cybermind list, passed away recently. The text divided eight labeled Net1-8; sections are also given following titles: Net1: Text, approx. 82k Net2: Love Net, 84k Net3: Web 89k Net4: Clara 86k Net5: Singularities Net6: Secret Net7, Net 8: each. first three texts form core volume; forms volume. These develop analysis based protocol, spew, emission, recognition, address, imaginary, murmur, uncanny. should be read order; only section traditional form, however. (It returned continuous REWRITE itself others.) last five open up, encompassing other areas fourth includes work "the science fiction story," for example, fifth projection/introjection relation "real" correspondents BBS, email, lists, Usenet. Parts final deal with death, hacking, "stuttering" communication. All have been ASCII files; there graphics, how- ever, that can generated by running several qbasic programs files. I envision single work. style difficult times, format changes radically from one another. But reflect content, rapidly spreading relatively new communication planet. (Incidentally, much applies telephony well.) reader self-generating, if were inner voice. What am attempting new; bear texts, they will prove rewarding. Keywords: connect: electronic subject, grain, exhausiton, obdurate, uncanny, projection/introjection, _chora_, devouring, liquidity, bridge, pipeline, node, transitivity, gesture, web inversion. Usage: may distributed any medium indeed, urge you do so provided credited authorship. would appreciate return comments have. Also, some recommendations: include body message: subscribe cybermind <your email address> FICTION-OF-PHILOSOPHY Louis Althusser: THE FUTURE LASTS FOREVER Mark Poster: MODE OF INFORMATION Guido Ceronetti, SILENCE BODY Alphonso Lingis, EXCESSES COMMUNITY THOSE WHO HAVE NOTHING IN COMMON TeRry Winograd Fernando Flores: UNDERSTANDING COMPUTERS AND COGNITION Paul Virilio, WAR CINEMA Avital Ronell, TELEPHONE BOOK Merlin Donald, ORIGINS MODERN MIND Julia Kristeva, REVOLUTION POETIC LANGUAGE Verena Conley, RETHINKING TECHNOLOGIES PERFORATIONS magazine (contact zeug@pd.org) Benedikt, CYBERSPACE Sondheim, DISORDERS REAL (shameless plug) Pierre Bourdieu, AN INVITATION TO REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY Michel Serres, PARASITE (and anything else get!) Anything P.J. Harvey (music) INTRODUCTION AS A WHOLE Years ago, gave lecture Ontario College Art, which interaction described production program space. space characterized absolute control; responds one-to-one basis input. If enters command, either command carried out, various errors occur. Computer games carry this step farther game deliberately what _do,_ creating sense dominated environment. Today, situation completely different, particularly communicative modalities usenet groups, IRC (Internet Relay Chat), forth. Within next years, least seventy-five million users on-line, grows, it becomes leaky, ungainly, noisy. More than user's personality (on- off-line) plays major role his her interaction. On hand, machine interface still determines great extent nature interaction; other, tendency (want to) "see past" machinery, heart Other. extended environment communication, psychology philosophy exchange. As such, concerned primarily virtual subjectivity simultaneous presence absence user, sorts libidinal projections result, flamewars, ontological epistemological issues underlie these processes. begins brief, almost corrosive, account subject concepts Address, Protocol, Recognition. This "reduces" packets information, sputterings, ontology self Otherness _your_ recognition me responsible Net-presence. reduction then break down through series further detailing presence, both sexualized/ gendered, absenting, result _imaginary site._ Almost all "short-waves, long-waves." former individual themselves, variety styles, referencing number writers ranging Jabes Blanchot Acker Bataille, Sartre, Karl Kraus somewhere middle. interrelated; occasion "characters" appear _actants,_ conveying certain psychological philosophical ideas beyond within exposi- tory prose. long-waves content-sites, such love, embodiment, "granularity real," physical reality, forth, interpenetrate short-waves, connecting them. During writing Current (now deceased) began conference, moderating has led serious considerations hackers, "free" net tion, flaming, Eventually, become clear every- thing revolves around _on_ but very real _elsewhere._ So evolved more perhaps dominant modes _being_ millennium. Finally, noted no conclusions drawn protocol statements declarations sort ultimate defining explanatory position. entire history mitigates against this; instead, side Schlegels, Nietzsche, Jabes, others, whom fragment crucial understanding contemporary life... wish thank Chris Keep, Robert Withers their help encouragement. published Perfor- ations Crash (Thread Waxing Space). Hielo. INDEX.TXT INTERNET.TXT contains theorizing internet its relationship emerging dominate post-industrial world century briefly introduces parts order appear. presents overall theory midst inter- net. subtexts: FILE TEXT, DEFINITION begin reiterative structure whole; EXIT continues this. Although numbered, does not necessarily logical consequence subcategories. TERMINAL ECHO precedes composition reflects same concerns. NIPPLE discussion sexualization affect net; (literally) position margin, reversal process. ...PORTIA... process guise fiction. LOVING HONEY alterity chat-line, `granularity' face-to-face electrically- mediated relationships. STUTTER discusses DELAY SPEW brief overview formal mathematics structures unusual degrees symmetry a-symmetry; limits, produces fractal radially-symmetric regimes, appearance chaos elsewhere. underlying symmetricizing operations useful thinking later texts. skipped over necessary. GLOBAL paper Public Domain group, theor- izing identity technology. <> LOVE ON MORE texts; continuing raised HONEY. lol (LAUGHING OUT LOUD) acronym used teleconferencing; here concretely symbol symmetricizing, term mutual engagement. follows thread started NIPPLE, PORTIA, HONEY, others. THREAD carries mode, act composi- tion decomposition. DEATH completes mode cooling down. <<Supplementary Texts: <<IRRESOLUTION NEW COMMUNICATIONS ORDER examines future <<hysteria instantaneous. <<LISTING SIDE JOANLESS transforms hallucinatory <<the face negation RL (real life). <<THE END WORLD end world. <<AN ATTEMPT INDUCE SORCERY construct <<inhabitation imaginary. <<HONEY I, INHABITING THIS NETWORK WHICH FEAR MAY ELSEWHERE DYING <<is thinning eternal love myself. <<HYSTERIA DRIVER /INTER/NETWORK USE THEORIZING <<and hysteria again. <<JOAN.NOVEL uncanny narratology denouement <<ellipsis murmuring memory. <<DRG.TXT addiction JOAN initial supplement, finality. <<<*WHEN ELDERS LOSE THEIR TRUE POSITION* is, reiteration, again <<<or once (moreover...) fantasm real. <<<USER.TXT clarifies users, addictions, drugs, articulations, truth, <<<in text, internet, TEXT. <<<ABSOLUTE PLEASURE IMPENETRABLE BEAUTY TIFFAY, <<<ineffable sublime, ah Lyotard... <<<THE FORM RADICAL PRESENCE CREATED ALONE, presences <<<of lovely, of... <<<Note: vary slightly.>>> <<<<*WEB TEXT*: SEE SEPARATE TABLE CONTENTS.>>>> 0. Prolegomena: iterative internet. Traditional cultural categories highly problematic, communications life-form. instead EMISSION, SPEW, ADDRESS, RECOGNITION, PROTOCOL. essay, always preliminary, proceeds numbered paragraphs, rewrite. 1. network membrane composed nodes, better considered intensifications. An intensification possesses interactive emission. emission inputs/outputs, introjections/projections: -jectivity. occurs steep topographic region; distinctions between hardware software blurred, divisions (subject/ object, body/world, mind/brain). 2. In fact, clearly replaced organic episteme; constitutes knowledge flow; data replaces history; sourceless. Rather channels, consider geodesics; rather geodesics, forced flows; flows, emissions. 3. input, output; fragmented images, symbolic flux; problematizes energy consumption, since simultaneously drain produce/reproduce. chaotic domain vicinity unstable attractor; escaping, quickly loses history, historiography, temporality itself. Close speed light, exists temporal 4. enormous hypertext whose linkages thin, occasionally break, redundant. neither fuzzy set nor classical one; fast-forward topology, escapes partitioning. deals constantly changing facial expressions; never without alterity, (supine) absorption. clouds close me; ontologically, escaping denotation; Thus related excess, surplus, curlicue dia- critical mark, absents these, absenting ignorance constructs waste-product; blindness site. 5. To hold onto part body, sever part, construe re- devour it, tear surface off: searches skinned (which murmur memory pain), articulation truth one's own lost good search out bondage, restrains absent +++