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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Legacy Rawrite
Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 19:28:42 -0400 (EDT)
Legacy Rawrite http://www.alansondheim.org/atl091.jpg holding Arjho Carino Turner's faglung http://www.alansondheim.org/atl008.jpg & found on the road with Azure I worry about legacy. I do not worry about my body, headed for cremation. But then, without a site or visitation, what then? But I do not worry about a site. Scatter my ashes but the earth is not a site. Books: I have books, artists books, a theory book (Writing Under), books of 'poetry,' but most of my theory/writing work is online at http://www.alansondheim.org/*.txt - where '*.txt' is a wildcard - for example, http://www.alansondheim.org/n.txt . Video: Most of my video work is disappearing; the EIAJ tapes in storage at various places will continue to deteriorate; my Hi8, 8, and digital tapes are at archives and I assume deteriorating; my films are deteriorating at Filmmakers Coop; my online videos are all short and vulnerable (at http://www.alansondheim.org); there are some scattered films and video elsewhere, also in the process of disappearing. Work I did in the Cave at Brown has already disappeared. Work I did in the old .vrml and other legacy codecs has also disappeared. Work I did for the Texas TI-59 calculator will no longer playback (the rubber rollers are no longer functional). And so forth. Audio: Cassette tapes have survived to some extent in archives, but will disappear; the tapes we made for Spasm are almost all gone. The vinyl records will last. The cds, I believe, will last; there are maybe 10-12 of them, but they're vulnerable. At times they appear on ebay or other sites. The workday sound files at http://www.alansondheim.org/ will surely disappear, and this is where everything is tried out. My own digital archives - which contain around 6000 pieces on hard-drives - will disappear or deteriorate at best. Codework and other: Work is always in facebook, but this is of course very vulnerable. Earlier work was on youtube, but that account has been lost and 80 videos disappeared (I never received a satisfactory answer as to its loss). Work on G+ I'm sure will disappear, probably soon, as G+ seems a wasteland. My own hard-drives - there are perhaps 25 of them - which carries much of this - will deteriorate. I will be less than memory. My name will remain for a while as a placeholder. I will be in others' accounts. Associations, poor as they are, with Vito, Kathy, Foofwa, etc. will last in short term. A few cds will probably be around; cd players are almost extinct. The work in MacGrid, Second Life, and my localhost will all be lost. As it is, I constantly recirculate objects and scenarios. At http://www.alansondheim.org/ I constantly remove pieces to make way for others; it's a commercial site and I pay for the privilege of potential audience. Then there are performances; even their documentation is vulnerable, most of it already lost. I write/play/construct/theorize/perform/cull/code(however poorly)/produce on a daily basis. Sometimes I have a small following, very small, here and there; I'm grateful for that. But most of what I do exists temporarily within a broken horizon that will remain such. There are dead ends everywhere; they will of course increase. There's no room for the work in a fast- forward culture. I always think my dna is mutilated, distorted, that I cannot behave when I attempt to behave. My work is equally unruly. Clearly it belongs nowhere. It's a form of breathing, a life-form tethered parasiticaly to me. It's always on the verge of disappearance. At one point, a friend was printing out the texts I write (the Internet Text, a title chosen for wont of a better term); I saw his shelves were close to collapse. Paper decays; our images and bodies decay; cremation is dispersion, but my body lies elsewhere, on reels, in files, in bindings, on hard-drives. That will take longer to kill off, but that will happen; it is a differance that makes no difference. I keep thinking of the urge to preserve in a violation-fabric of a world, something genetically built-in of course, a form of deep propagation. I have yet to meet a person or site where this isn't on the horizon in one or another form. And many people of course have said there is too much work, everywhere, and with everyone, and especially with me. (I remember On Kawara's daily I am still alive.) The more I produce, the less survives. The more I shore up, the more is erased, abolished. The more I write, the less readers. The more I play, the less listeners. The more video/film, the less viewers. The older I get, the less survives.* === Culling/Rawriting Legacy: Calligraphic Legacy Applications and the Scrawl strange attractors, and the general miasma of Legacy as my code Legacy as these machines transmit in less than a second more than I can Legacy as my code disappears through miasma. Legacy through corruption of code ##cull-1 === Culling/Rawriting legacy: in legacy systems are in my clean room: "I sometimes think: O.K., so maybe you won't leave a legacy to the world, No, it's the legacy, the grit of text, recording, television, audio, vid- Palestinians. hidden_ legacy; now Jews are assumed assimilated, hiding Then there is almost always older and legacy software, abandoned corners What's left of my texts will be read like legacy hieroglyphics, I'll be _hidden_ legacy; now Jews are assumed assimilated, a legacy of hatred, the Jews representing the _stain_ of Celine is a all a legacy can provide - a hope for the living, a guide for their immor- all space A the One unnnh, with, should the was sound support the legacy, and blighted legacy of war, destruction and Peace and Harmony occurs with at 58 i begin to wonder: what legacy will i leave behind? be our theme Tis the legacy we often leave,. to all be variations. This is also related to legacy systems in computers - the brought participates how very same legacy as code eyes your chislenko's work on legacy systems; work uniting agents, cyborgs, bodies, data. _when_ is a stuttering legacy of routers which may or may not dung-heap of of a legacy, punctum, the imaginary of the punctum earth, my legacy. It is what will bring splendor and misrecognition to eliminated but indicated by the numbering. The whole is a sad legacy of email, discussion groups, etc. Along with the BBS, there are other legacy ents. And this is the legacy, in fact, of this entire century in our West face innocence made world. [it even legacy maybe charged man gotten years files, legacy systems, walking paths worn from decades of obsolescence from alansondheim.org, someday you'll be my legacy, you'll have from site to site, is updated or disappears, uses legacy technology or general miasma of legacy, my code disappears - hate crimes, digital eternities mutilated by legacy softwares and dead have already made their way into the world. It is slaughter, leave some sort of legacy behind - indicative of the quiet slaughters that form a legacy of survival. Theory legacy as my code organism. it both blank, beyond, both after or legacy behind- aegis think that's p oblec' no one will read this in any legacy software legacy software system definition. hinge, radically greened legacy, you 'can't linkage mice life,' 'pinkpinkpinkthing' maintenance, of legacy softwares dead symbolization, thinking-through offline mutual creating and of a legacy, punctum, special holocaust, nomadic vicissitudes empire moves site updated disappears uses legacy of a legacy, punctum, special holocaust, or bricolage compounded out of legacy software and other broken systems parallel-pen telegraphy and spark-grids; one might think of legacy systems potential punctum possibility, but a legacy, punctum, wanedhaat proffers legacy. splendor your sleazy remembered, submiitting, part of a legacy of "pure thinking" that same of legacy as my code too my eyes take your from cocaine, sanity sets aright depression truth there is - this, Julu, is my legacy - shifted, sleazy personages, twilight beware proffers legacy. splendor slaughter, in many cases legacy hunting. It causes enormous pain; in sonic exploration of the yacht legacy Cave spheres, walls, make marxism abjure, gives legacy, my code submissions, legacy "pure thinking" valery testing ideas, "space" that constructs a legacy of hatred, the Jews representing the stain of the Jew in every one of us, the dirty dung-heap of of a legacy, punctum, the birth in the body (and the crooked hook-nosed Jew leaves the legacy the ground, leaving behind this archival legacy the legacy So I insist on writing which occurs within a lateral theorem or axiom of the world's worlding - unlike truth this, legacy this is my legacy, this is what i bring forward from the future to withdrawal harnessing of into a miasma of the of ember legacy tree, virtual, cleansed, hairless, no, it's the legacy, the grit of what's left of my texts will be read like legacy hieroglyphics, i'll be dead." **cull-2 "*And the older I get, the less performance, less structure, less venue, less discourse, less community; the older I get, the less survives." **cull-3 for Azure Carter +++ eof