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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Jigsaw Analysis of Absolute Power
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 23:09:42 -0500 (EST)
Jigsaw Analysis of Absolute Power http://www.alansondheim.org/tyrant.jpg thus. Sat Mar 3 10:52:06 STD 2018 There is no coherent answer or imminent analysis to this state-of-affairs we live - no longer among - but within. Language fails us, as does the entire edifice of pre-digital cultures. Now we are among the numbered in current and future refugee and concentration camps, alive, not by the grace of God (itself a trouble), but through the holes and cracks in big data; as long as we're not noticed, or noticed in a clean and proper way, we're safe. As long as we're not sick, poor, the wrong color or set of beliefs at the wrong time. It's easy to write 1/0 ; those near the roots of the inverted tree of power - inscribe as well. Sat Mar 3 11:11:24 STD 2018 What seems tangled from below seems a mountain forest from above. It's calculation governed by rumor, innuendo, the decaying body capable of annihilating what it see as corrosion, disease vectors, dangers to itself. Sat Mar 3 11:12:47 STD 2018 This is the distance of your clarification? Sat Mar 3 10:52:06 STD 2018 The truth of God, is obviously the truth of the Absolute. Beware of capitals. This is where dictators excel. If you consider Sat Mar 3 10:53:03 STD 2018 the character armor produced as a result of genetic catastrophe = brutality: think of bullying as a fundamental category of existence, dynamics gone awry, so for example fundamental leverage categorizes evolution - those genes and positions are eliminated - one might think of genocide, not production, as the fundamental characterization of the planet. this is where the CAPITALS / CAPITOLS come into play: categories and more categories, absolute inscriptions where fissures might have been the (kinder) (dis)order of the day: percentages, manipulations: for every child clone perhaps we annihilate - make firebreaks into - the rest of the species? The word "rest" already brutal. Sat Mar 3 10:57:05 STD 2018 The fundamental catastrophe of humanity isn't power, but power's consolidation at the top; a dictator is just a person like the rest of us who ingests/ digests/ excretes/: but these are gestures writ large, the Leverage of the Absolute, the command chain: with increased communicative capabilities and environments, the consolidation of power becomes simpler, vectored, easier. So that the movement of a finger for example produces the deaths of thousands: the chains of command produce chains. Sat Mar 3 10:59:39 STD 2018 One man or woman in charge of hundreds of millions? When just a few tens of thousands of years ago, maybe a local group, 100-200 at best? The less THEIR names are known by the man or woman in charge, the more distancing, deflection. An ironic inversion of this: with data banks increasing exponentially, THEIR names and "everything" about them are increasingly known. We are cauterized by digital raster; the rest, the soft tissue, is already blown out. The THEIR. Sat Mar 3 11:02:25 STD 2018 So that order ultimately has NOTHING to do with the body, the needs of the body, and EVERYTHING to do with its dissemination through - not the corridors, but the hierarchical - networks of power that coalesce, and coalesce absolutely. Think of the Internet as more than contributory cause; even Wayback it mirrored the hierarchies of internal computer data structures - no longer internal, but spread, duplicated, organized, armored, privileged. Sat Mar 3 11:04:50 STD 2018 The entelechy of Computation = the entelechy of Life = the finite divisibility of data |1|0|1| . [eof +++] Sat Mar 3 11:09:09 STD 2018 Perfection suffocates as every cultural gesture is a cut or inscription into a sememe that, through digital processes, might be said to prefer closure - to the extent of course that it is incapable of preference, much as we are cultivated to be as well. Sat Mar 3 11:10:34 STD 2018 Given a sufficiently competent raster, this decay, corrosion, is curtailed by simplistic replacement, the nuclear family raising itself, rising again, this time with the nuclear option as well. Sat Mar 3 11:14:15 STD 2018 Sat Mar 3 11:14:16 STD 2018 Sat Mar 3 11:41:10 EST 2018 eof +++