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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 Revised
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 07:49:58 -0500 (EST)
Debris Field: Notes on Scatter Semiotics Revised "Truth is inseparable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come." - Adorno Mythologies of spew, avalanche, granularity, pour. http://www.alansondheim.org/uv30.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/uv20.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/uv29.jpg [sc(c)Vcc(t)er]: scatter, splatter smatter, spatter, shatter, sputter, spitter, spotter, slobber, slather, shudder, stammer, skipper, swatter, swabber, swapper, [...] Splatter/spatter imply fluidity; scatter/shatter imply hardness, hardening (shattered glass), sinter, pulverized matter, small objects, etc. There are exceptions: The villages were scattered on the hillside. Scatter semiotics - the trajectories of sand, powder, fragments, small objects, part objects, marbles and avalanches; however for us 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 (a narrowing of focus); _these_ may be the physics and intentions, micro- histories involved. The dynamics is inferred; unlike splatter semiotics, which considers an ongoing emission devoid or emptied of truth value, perhaps appearing sourceless - without a clear and emerging image or evidence of a state-of-affairs - the debris field appears to resonate with a classical order of the world; the field is encapsulated, possesses a metric and taxonomy, and so forth. Consider the ipseity of the world, the trace, ./traceroute : traceroute: panix.com has multiple addresses; using 166.84.1.1 traceroute to panix.com (166.84.1.1), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 panix1 (166.84.1.1) 0.034 ms 0.073 ms 0.018 ms The vector narrows; everything operates as it should, the car carries itself up the stairs, what exfoliates collapses. Ipseity, selfhood, individual identity: the collapse. Thusness, things as they are, the obdurate, granular, hardening, the car which is not a car, the structure or confabulation of things, the skein of things and structures, the skein of momentum, tensors, the shattering of the encasement or embodiment that constitutes the cage or three-dimensional Jordan surface surrounding the occupants of a vehicle or somewhat coherent moving structure as a vector transport sufficiently slow in relation to c that relativistic effects play no role. And 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. (See below.*) The debris field may be the image-imaginary of splatter semiotics; splatter semiotics may be the loosening of debris; neither may involve the other; they may be entangled, inextricable; they may be separable according in terms of set theory, or inseparable in terms of fuzziness, dynamics, fast- forward dynamics processing. There is no there there; there is always there there. Null and void, replete; particle and wave, incomplete. The mythology: Debris || classical physics, Newton; +/- tending towards digital Splatter || fluid dynamics, Irigaray; +/- tending towards analog Debris ~ inscription, set theory, statics Splatter ~ fissure, same-same, dynamics * 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 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 8c8 < skipper, swatter, swabber, [...] --- > skipper [...] 44c44 < surrounding the occupants of a vehicle or somewhat coherent --- > surrounding the occupants of a vehicle or somewhat coherent 57c57 < semiotics; splatter semiotics may be the loosening of debris; --- > semiotics; splatter semiotics may be the loosening of debris;