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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: measurements of lights and rods, analog weakness, long glance
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:55:52 -0500 (EST)
measurements of lights and rods, analog weakness, long glance the images below, measurement of lighthouse and vertical iron, labor to be sure, or time, to access them. what about them. they're images of the obdurate, some things that might remain after the nuclear planet, some things that might disappear. i waited until the rotating lantern appeared again, grasping what might be a degree of light or warning. the foam is mostly unicellular. the rocks have been there. again, storms. when i'm in storms, networks and their turbulence are manifest. now the point of all of this, my age. as i grow downward towards death like tendrils grow, i remain unrooted, seek the digital. for some people i have become part historian of this; yes, this was done first x-number of years ago, this was missed y-number of years ago, how blind we all were. but this is not the thing itself, the unutterable revolution that involves everyone on the planet, including those refugees and peoples who have no access to running water, much less digital tools. i want to reiterate, i am not of a generation, i am of a certain age, and that has given me a length of time to err. but there is no worldview associated with that and it's problematic to connect age with such, to create periods of time, as if the world might fall into place, instead of the description ultimately tripping over itself. what i do now, what these images are, mark the present, the moment light flashes against something that registers its presence, that presents itself, not as pre-sent, but as imminent. within the boundaries of physics, we are all imminent, only periods of time and classifications tend towards immanence, and its only these that should be left behind. i'm speaking of presuppositions here, issues of ageism for example which follow me in my daily life. i note how many times i have to insist on the present, on the immediate, how many times i have to insist on my relevance. and this goes against time itself, there is less time to insist on such, and such insistence itself becomes irrelevant. these images are analog because i have little access to digital technology, and if i have such, so many peoples have less. the digital community tends less to deconstruct itself than the older analog artworlds, perhaps because new worlds tend towards closure and uncanny optimism. which might bring up comicons and how they spill over into the real, or hackathons from the other side, how all these communities are flesh and blood and people come together online or in the real obdurate world, coalesce, commune, separate again. these images are analog because they transmit digitally the speaking of the world (within which i am embedded, in which i have no part). like digital media themselves, we are always already undergoing the future anterior of the dynamics of change. like digital media themselves, we are always in the process of disappearance. we are warnings to each other and among each other. and bodies and the ascertainment of rocks. http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1160.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1173.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1177.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1181.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1182.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1238.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1306.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt33.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt36.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt48.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt70.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt76.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bt77.jpg the light. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/15000-scientists-warning-to-humanity-1.4395767 http://www.alansondheim.org/bt77.jpg
