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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: The Seminal Cinema: Codework petit a
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 02:37:05 -0400 (EDT)
The Seminal Cinema: Codework petit a http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-objet4.png http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-a.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-petit.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-objet1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-objet2.png http://www.alansondheim.org/codework-objet3.png Going through the older essays on codework, I'm drawn to the concepts of 'smear/smudge/splurge/smatter' as codework dissolves in terms of the _discrete symbol_ to various modes of decay; now I think of it as _dreamwork,_ the production of the dream through smeared codes, not through anything axiomatic, nor through clean and proper, i.e. runnable, language. Then codework also appears as part-objects, object petitioned ah, the route of the circle, the circumambulation; like the sm objects I wrote about so long ago, such part-objects either latch onto and modify or mollify fluid texts, or they create such texts, dissolve within them. The kn% date for example is performative, reminiscent of performance, and even within _this_ short test, it functions as a reminder or marker for the specificity of time guided by a universal and exhausted clock. The part-object of codework supplies a phenomenology of embedding or self-embedding - a horizon construed as a self-horizon, one in the form of a mobius topology, transforming and returning within itself; I think of the 10 oxherding pictures which portend stages on the way to and from enlightenment for example, without any such, or with the presence of annihilation and emptiness at the heart of things. The background of codework is uncanny; otherwise, it's flat-lined code or a picture. The uncanniness is a diacritical mark, as if something has occurred in the midst of, or through, non-occurrence. The body reads and renders codework as such, and codework _now_ disappears to the extent it's codework; it attaches to image, sound, dynamics, video; *** System shutdown message from marcotte@panix5.panix.com *** System going down at 01:00 Per MOTD, panix5 will be down this morning for up to 20 minutes. it is always an approach for or within the duratoin or dwelling, habitus of a body that is striated from the moment of birth; the body of course is always already on the way to, among, decay, and just as the universe unfurls in the form of granularities and percolations, so there are strange attractors within the trajectory of the body - these are the dynamics that constitute our lived world. The attractors from this viewpoint are codework as well, the working out of momentarily stabilizing and dynamic chaotic structures; the world, in other words, is filled and fulfilled by codework which constitutes itself. *** System shutdown message from marcotte@panix5.panix.com *** System going down in 10 minutes Per MOTD, panix5 will be down this morning for up to 20 minutes. *** System shutdown message from marcotte@panix5.panix.com *** System going down in 5 minutes Per MOTD, panix5 will be down this morning for up to 20 minutes. [08:44 PM] Disconnected from in-world Voice Chat [09:45 PM] Connecting to in-world Voice Chat... 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[09:55 PM] Connected [10:11 PM] Cannot cross into non-existant region [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the part-object of the blank [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the curlicue of the blank [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework of the existent [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the part-object of the codework [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the part-object of the slow decay [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the part-object of the catastrophe [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the catastrophe of the blank [10:13 PM] Alan Sondheim: the catastrophe of the codework [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the catastrophe of the existent [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the part-object of the catastrophe [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework of the catastrophe [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework of the codework [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework of the meat [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the meat of the catastrophe [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the meat of the codework [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the blank meat [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the meat which is named blank [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the blank of the soma-meat [10:14 PM] Alan Sondheim: the soma of the codework [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework-somatic [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the blank-somatic [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the codework of the blank-somatic . catastrophe [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the catastrophe [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the blank [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the soma [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the code/work [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the work of the code in the somatic [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the work of the code in the chaos . of thecatastrophe [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the work of the meat [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the meat work [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the escape and the blank [10:15 PM] Alan Sondheim: the flying blind ======================================================= ======================================================= ======================================================= ======================================================= =======================================================