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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Cascade of Intervals
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
Cascade of Intervals http://www.alansondheim.org/whelk.jpg (channeled whelk) http://www.alansondheim.org/whelk.mp4 (channeled whelk) Peirce's continuum, spread-out, multi-dimensional, everywhere intervals, tessellations, cellular automata, nothing calculated, striations, shift-riding media surfaces. Intervals as subsets or transgressions of intervals, intervals as porous or dynamic; whatever is constructed is always already under erasure, literally forgotten, compressed; Adorno's aphorism is the kingdom of the spew and the forgotten; the turn of the aphorism is the content of the future. It's impossible to hold back, think, in a fast-forward dis/continuous morphing circuitry that is not delirious or where delirium corrodes dis/continuously. Wittgenstein's TLP was characterized by reduction, yes, but also dispersion, not-this/not-that; today it bypasses the narrativity of PI, and that's important in terms of a phenomenology of dissipation and limited resources. The painful move is the recognition that history too has limited resources, that historiography as well is a study of dissipation, that blankness characterizes this dissipation, that history is the locus of reading, not writing. Cascade is always in flux, garbage, and irruption, none of the conceptualism of category theory, more of the massiness of big data in feed-forward mode. Unruly cascade always breaks off, seeks like-minded lower levels, gathers dust it's kicked up in cycles of conquest, corral, release, losing it. Can one think of the universe in this fashion? Does the cascade seal off, expand, fissure, divide? Are the divisions similar? Is fissure self-similar? Are the divisions entities? Are entities defined by symmetries and potential wells? Are potential wells entities? What are the commonalities of potential wells? Are they referents? Are they tethered cascades? What are entities? Are entities under erasure? Are protons? Are cascades built on a foundation of rubble? Is rubble cascade? Granularities? Are there ways to think of this or through this, ways to short-circuit the deluge of metaphors? Are metaphors useful as parallels or inherently violent? Are cascades violent? I think of the collocation, cascade -----of ===========the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~teetering ______________________________uncanny