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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: On Universal Attributes {UA}
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:39:42 -0400 (EDT)
On Universal Attributes {UA} http://www.alansondheim.org/nord3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/nord.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/nord1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/nord2.jpg ON = our neighborhood universe, by projection, on top of, on the bottom of, our universe. NON = not our universe; therefore either N = nowhere if no multiverse or NON = elsewhere, within one or more universe in a populated multiverse ANON = elsewhere, within a designated but unknown universe in a populated multiverse, ANON as in "a not our neighborhood universe" V{ANON,ON} = the set of characteristics of all multiverse universes including our own, which may be written V{(AN,1)ON} which neatly simultaneously emphasizes our home base ("1") as well as V, "all" and note that V and ANON are slippages which may be restrained by relays within AN This is at best a game which depends on the useless clarification of language: nothing lost, and nothing gained. It is a sloppy game: N = "not" but also "neighborhood" and A = "all" but also resonates with the poetics of anonymity which excludes ON, but recuperates it, to the extent that our universe - "The Local" - itself is perhaps minimally accessible and infinitely unaccessible. Rather than continuums (Peirce or other) we might refer to _percolations_ of accessibilities and inaccessibilities. In the meantime, there is _no way whatsoever_ to grasp the immensity (ON) and immensities (ANON) at stake, except by virtue of a poetics of extrapolation and inaccessibility, as if the granularity of percolation were fundamentally irreducible. We are swallowed whole by these considerations, and the languaging, which may appear to possess sense of one or another form, turns out to be nothing more than a _cipher_ that is discernible only by name (ANON, etc.), and not at all, whatsoever, by content or reference. All of this might be rewritten ^ = {[0-9, A-Z]} = in some regular expression, the bracketed terms replaceable by anything whatsoever, and the equivalence or substitution in the third position, emptied of all content. ------------------- [I contribute nothing to thought. [My thinking is the thought of nothing. [An old post-modern ploy contributing nothing. [A digital ploy of insertion and (in)accessibility. [Ignorant depths. ] ------------------ ~~