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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Debris Field: Notes on Scatter Semiotics
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 23:08:21 -0500 (EST)
Debris Field: Notes on Scatter Semiotics http://www.alansondheim.org/stairs1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/stairs2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/stairs3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield3.jpg [sc(c)Vcc(t)er]: scatter, splatter smatter, spatter, shatter, spatter and sputter, spitter, spotter, slobber, slather, shudder, stammer --- Splatter/spatter implies liquid, liquidity; scatter/shatter/ imply pulverized matter, small objects, etc. There are exceptions: The villages were scattered on the hillside. Scatter semiotics may imply physics of sand, trajectories of small objects; however it presents itself as an image or temporal cut. Time is inference, reconstruction. The image is that of the _debris field_ - this is what happened here; these are what we think are the events leading up to the evidence; these may be the physics and intentions involved. The dynamics is inferred; unlike splatter semiotics, which investigates an ongoing emission without truth value, perhaps appearing sourceless - without a clear and emerging image or evidence of a state-of-affairs - the debris field resonates with a classical order of the world; the field is encapsulated, possesses a metric and taxonomy, and so forth. Here in these images: An initial event (a car at high speed rocketing up stairs to its destruction) and its debris field (the car owns the debris field, the car is the agent of the field, the behavior-action of the driver is the impulse of the agent). The field is a fossil, an articulation, a material cut into everyday life, part of everyday life, the graphic lineage of the impulse. http://www.alansondheim.org/stairs4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/debrisfield7.jpg