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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: blank phenomenology
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 11:06:32 -0400 (EDT)
blank phenomenology ( http://www.alansondheim.org/blanks047.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/blankn.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/blanks046.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/blanks050.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/blanks051.jpg ) a question for us, of annihilation, and it is the question that defines us, not the emptiness of an answer, or an answer dissolved and lost in the cataclysm of history. and all history is local history. the blankness, pursuant to speech, the chora, but already the collapse of speech, memory of the signifier, no distinctions will be crossed, we scrabble keeping the edge of the game going and going, we are ontologically emptied, projecting into nothing, we beseech the same vacuum, beseech the same. suppose The Writing of the Disaster were no writing at all. suppose it were a blank page. we perform and i'm trapped; younger people go to edgier concerts, our music is edgy; older people won't go; younger people want to hear younger people. i'm invisible. my sex is a blank; while i wait for a stroke, i wait in absence. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, "Now every sensation has a degree or magnitude whereby, in respect of its representation of an object otherwise remaining the same, it can fill out one and the same time, that is, occupy inner sense more or less completely, down to its cessation in nothingness (_=0=negatio_). There therefore exists a relation and connection between reality and negation, or rather a transition from the one to the other, which makes every reality representable as a quantum. The schema of a reality, as the quantity of something in so far as it fills time, is just this continuous and uniform production of that reality in time as we successively descend from a sensation which has a certain degree to its vanishing point, or progressively ascend from its negation to some magnitude of it." we descend from blank to blank; the null set will not be a condition or a quantity or the absence of such quantity or a contract of such absence. it is hard to disentangle the violent marked death of an other elsewhere on the planet, from the blank which is a pretense of a real always descending. the chain of being is a disappearance. reading a text, this or an/other, is a retardation, of course, of the inevitable; subject to imminent flow, the phenomenology of history, it is displaced from itself, elsewhere - the elsewhere is embedded in the writing, what i might call the cicatrix of the abject. we do not write the abject, do not write within the abject. we defend within the cicatrix. it is within the position of the _game,_ to create the clean and proper body of the text, of the island of temporary life; and it is the _corporate_ that skims the abject, buries it with enumeration. one might think that the numeric is the serration, the raster, of the blank. 'one might think' - 'one is permitted to think' - 'one is thinking now' - 'now is the time for thought' - 'for thinking through blankness' - 'through the throwing up of hands' 'in the face of' - 'for awaiting the stroke' - 'of midnight' - 'of the brain' - 'of the short-circuiting of the brain' - 'of the short-circuitry of the brain' - the blank short-circuits the abject; the abject short-circuits thought, thinking; 'one might think' [...] 'that thought proceeds in health' - 'that all thought is healthy thought' - 'things fall apart' - the blank when we see nothing in the sky or air or water, when there is no data, when noise circumvents data, when the rules of the game and gamespace disappear, when the edge of the gamespace forms a nub or lip, when there is catastrophe. or the blank when there is no witness and therefore no death, when there is a foreshadowing of the unremarkable. or when the 'therefore' no longer carries weight or consequence, when the 'therefore' is no longer in passing, or history - this writing always already in a state of dissolution, just as, in English, 'always already' is marked as a blank phrase, that old and therefore outmoded theory, theorizing, just as 'theory' draws, no longer draws, a blank or blanks. i would say 'i await you,' 'i am waiting'; i would say many things, but doesn't saying depend on a permanency, a seeing of the forever-world, isn't it a breathing in an air cleansed of impurities, in a polluted air, an irretrievable air? what of this air, what of the space of this air? (of of this text, what of the space of this text?) -------------------------------------------------- here is the game of translucence: body of which we can say _x,_ but only a body-in-passing, translucent if translucent, troubled, and there were no tomorrow pitched in relation to the other, two translucent, bound - as well as body (metaphorically) into the translucent, of here and there opaque, they murmur we are all avatartist, visible, transparent, invisible, translucent, transparent, here translucent, there to: opaque, there writing opaque, this, writing us, translucent or transparent to invisible light. translucent window viewing animated cartoons. work has stemmed this. surfaces), translucent, glowing. textured, planar default simple surfacce crinkled black with a translucent window for viewing the animated video playing upon their convoluted surfaces), some translucent, and some translucent, troubled, and there were no tomorrow surfaces, translucent or transparent to invisible light. body (metaphorically) into the translucent. Fundamental rules of the translucent, of here and there opaque, they murmur we are all avatartist, the sward, mobile and translucent; Julu says more organism! more organism! Laboratory to the invisible, transparent, physical, translucent, and forgotten. words lose tongues... My sward, mobile and translucent - Julu the future, translucent life-forms-media almost translucent, hardly transparent. Deeper voice gives everything away term, translucent, flailing across Websites; email loses internal flow as translucent jade with a faint ringing, the delicate sound of fine steel torn burrow within a future translucent. Then will I bill myself upon the Net, I notice my skin's translucent and not very funny at the moment. I'm covered They are transparent, translucent, now. Are you sure that they are transparent translucent now? o dark forest, in search of Indian Pipe pale and translucent near the burials, translucent paper of precisely the right color, neither too yellow nor too the recommands as looser, the result of at least a translucent net and a 19th-century science for an example; ghosts are translucent but everyone and all of this reflects a position of waning articulations, translucent through your gaze - you are transitive, translucent - you are given or entity grounded in the translucent. An image is never a map; a map crinkled black with a translucent window for viewing the animated Project: An enormous translucent plasticine sphere 300m in diameter will was crinkled black with a translucent window for viewing the animated black with a translucent window for viewing the animated crits. I was projector crank side crinkled black translucent window for viewing body (metaphorically) into the translucent, of here and there opaque, they murmur we are all avatartist, translucent, transparent, neither deep-time nor anything more than surface. translucent or transparent to invisible light. the sward, mobile and translucent; Julu says more organism! more organism! Laboratory to the invisible, transparent, physical, translucent, and forgotten. words lose tongues... My sward, mobile and translucent - Julu unsolid, translucent, the promise of comfort within translucent cartoons, blood battles are forgotten as a torso sputters, of translucent beauty transparent beauty suddenly becomes translucent; walking through snow, one recites the attitudes. In cyberspace, the skin is as smooth as the skin, translucent close closer now: pixel- mania, ? day, Julu... tongues... translucent /Julu translucent (cause my holes through my skin are space) emergence. i am in am thinking of you inn these translucent plane, glowing with translucent window viewing animated cartoons. work has stemmed this. surfaces), translucent, glowing. textured, planar default simple surfacce for example. Actions on IRC on the other hand are translucent statements translucent. They appear where nothing has appeared. They realize a dream and as if it were translucent and i am invisible in their midst. i must learn this translucent land and there's almost no one else around, you translucent Julu close, i produce nothing, i wait, i await, now: pixel-mania, ? day, Julu... tongues... translucent /Julu the sward, mobile and translucent; Julu says more organism! more organism! Laboratory to the invisible, transparent, physical, translucent, and forgotten. words lose tongues... My sward, mobile and translucent - Julu disappoint listener date translucent impregnated sustains point, ruins scream. plate: transform, translucent. icon; senses translucent or transparent to invisible light. now: pixel-mania, ? day, Julu... tongues... translucent /Julu fine-grained opaque or almost-translucent parchment made from lambskin or pixels.
