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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: complicated
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 15:00:59 -0500 (EST)
complicated http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated3.png http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated5.png http://www.alansondheim.org/complicated6.png sheaves of sources within the localhost, the net, the object, the theaterical screen, the history of the image, each the presence-control of the other, each watching among the others, then from different programs, I'd say different ontologies well, yes, all within the digital and therefore these things are resting within dynamic files, a way to think about them, but beyond that, well I mean there might be changes, not within the files but they might be generators I'm getting confused now, it's complicated, for one thing the sources range from computer to computer but there are operators standing by so to speak/see, gathering, augmenting, so they're in different places sometimes images generated from within or fabricated from template which might or might not be illustration or drawn from memory of life, sometimes flesh and blood performers, or performers within the aegis of flesh and blood, what then, or there might be the avatar in front of it all who is constantly intended but then released to the manipulated ghosts of others who performed the gestures given to hir, so there's an economy of gifts and uncanny depths at work here, or projections from uncanny depths, if you were there you could walk among all of this create your own projection, which in memory fills out, a sail blown by the wind, a backlit sail, you can see the sea in the distance, there are clouds in the sky, and from any angle angle or angel for these beings come through any plane or solid that's projected, remember the dream screen, that illusion of theory and theoretical illusion, or the world of the book and other configurations, it's complicated and we might want to look instead for bardo world generations, projections, and their completions, and in the long run whether or not we go with an ontology of emptiness makes absolutely no difference in this world or any other, or even within the illusion of a world or the illusion of emptiness itself, you're not really going anywhere here but the wagon seems to drive itself, the energy in this part of the country is most likely from coal or nuclear, you can't really tell from the stacks, no residue within or among the virtual the figures are complicated, ctenophores, mavens of distributed intelligence, knots, ganglia, not the condensations we take for intelligence, but the displacements, that other figure forming the basis of dreams, these aren't dreams but the processes at work convey a certain similarity and the uncanny again, then layers gleaming, none of them testimony of the witness, none of them speaking from volition, that's the diacritical always already elsewhere, increasingly itself embedded in the machinery, when the world of the book for example becomes the world itself, precisely in a dynamic symbolic, incipient consciousness, embodiment, so these are, among other things and processes, thought thinking itself, it's complicated so how the world is, this is that, this is it for the duration of the period of complexity and its momentary consciousness "Colonial critique is complicated, and somewhat enabled, by the fact of Fri Feb 4 14:35:03 EST 2000. This is complicated, he said, trying to make this complicated. Years ago I wrote an article for _Obscura_ on the sou esentations complicated technology. complicated themselves Video vi Video these themselves embedding a esentations complicated technological the embedding p esentations complicated technology. complicated themselves video vi e in is complicated embedding (singula th ough the a ity-eye beginning) thei e in is complicated embedding (singula was simply memorized by the telegraph operator.)) It was just as complicated meltdowns modelling, thresholds loopings loopings, robust by simply memorizing the telegraph operator. It was just as complicated as anything else you'd find in these parts." for example or something else entirely, it's complicated