Two Second Life Videos from East of Odyssey http://www.youtube.com/OdysseySimulator#p/a/u/1/ppDASY7icxU Liz Solo video of Odyssey performance with Alan Sondheim, Sandy Baldwin. This is one of the best videos, if not the best, of the installation/ performance work I've done. (The installation was up earlier, constructed and deconstructed during the performance as well; Sandy performed brilliantly with text and movement in the complex environment.) Do check this out, and it's on YouTube, making it simple and a joy to watch - set your computer at 720p if you can. http://www.alansondheim.org/fleshpulse.mov Yet another gloomy pulsing "fleshy" installation segment - from the same objects and space as the Solo video - pushing the notion of "avatar tis- sue" through an untoward looping of some odd phenomena. Source materials include bowed yayli tanbur and Timpanogos Cave footage.
ragtag legions armed to the teeth emerge from the matrix and they have no conscience and no wheres to go they don't know anything they want to stay alive they march in rag tag ways and means they leave until the last microtome slice of tissue disappears these things will be used and come to get you they won't stay long they can't learn anything at all try and teach them they leave but not before they slaughter come and burn your eyes blind with what you have done what you've done to everything on earth that still says no they're deaf and gone they have their marching orders you gave them that you gave the gift of birth their lovely birth they've turned to stone survive they cry their bitter tears won't take anything alive http://www.alansondheim.org/ragtag.mov
Why Spencer Brown is Wrong
"The idea that everything is understood can be indicated by revolving the
Pradesini (index) finger and also eye-sight and by pressing the Alapadma
pose.
"The sound to be heard should be indicated by contacting the ear (with the
palm) and the objects to be seen by appropriate looks. Things pertaining
to over [one's ?] self, to others or to some one should also be expressed
by the different looks.
"The performer should indicate lightning (the falling of) meteor, thunder,
of the cloud, the sparks and the flame and the whip by contracting the
body and narrowing the eyes."
-- from Priyabala Shah, Art of Dancing (Classical and Folk Dances)
It's impossible to believe that the logical foundation of the physical
world doesn't originate (isn't tied in) with the Sheffer stroke and its
dual; this isn't about the foundations of (abstract) logic, but the
ontological nowhere implied by "neither A nor B" - expulsion - as well as
"not both A and B" which, like negation itself, points elsewhere. Not both
A and B however is constructed around a kernel or Pale; anything else,
abstract or otherwise, is acceptable. But neither A nor B opens up an
uninscribed and possibly fissured space; nothing is present. Both Sheffer
and dual are generators of the propositional logic; both participate in
the desert of ontology that ensues.
If S.B. is going to draw a distinction, he's already plummeted through
Merleau-Ponty. If he's going to construct an imaginary, he's run through
Husserl's internal time-consciousness as well.
"not both a and b. neither a nor b.": are nothing, tokens, graphemes,
textual displacements, koan. S.B., there's nowhere to go; he insists on
traveling, dragging the body with him, all well and good, but already a
physics drawing a logic drawing a physics etc.
What's unmarked is marked as unmarked; what's marked is unmarked as
marked. A mark is always already. A mark has nothing to do with this text.
or its dual for example as the basis - neither a nor b - not both a and b
the same, not both a and b, neither a nor b
dual: "neither A nor B"; Sheffer: "not both A and B"; the fundamental
But meaning may be produced even out of tautology. For example, proposi-
tional logic may be derived from the Sheffer stroke, "not both A and B";
it can also be derived from its dual, "neither A nor B." What can we say
about these? Only that they represent, as processes or cullings of
particular bounded universes, an unbinding/unbounding - "neither A nor B"
points elsewhere altogether, and "not both A and B" points either else-
where or towards an underpinning of union. At the heart of this reduction
of propositional logic is a tendency towards dispersion, wandering, the
nomadic, even though the symbols within the calculus proper are completely
mute. The Sheffer stroke and its dual are related as well to the processes
of inscription - for what is x^-x, than an inscription of an entity, a
process of coding (and all coding is inscription of one form or another)
the real for the purposes of comprehension, a process that produces, not
only meaning, but all the meaning there is. There is no outside to the
sememe, just as there is no landscape without a viewpoint. In this sense
we are bounded, bound to be bounded.
not both A and B well I never stroke A|B, not both A and B, and its dual
AYB, the hidden V conjoint, Sheffer stroke, not both A and B, and its
dual, neither A nor B, as a domain. The work relies on the Sheffer stroke*
("not both A and B") B' points elsewhere altogether, and 'not both A and
B' points either 0: neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a
priori mathesis) 0, 0': neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a
priori mathesis).
emotions or prime numbers; bricks or philosophy. Obscenity is valuable
in its valuelessness; it works, working through nothing; it is contrary
or wayward, contradiction; obscenity occurs within the Sheffer stroke
Therefore "by default": given that there is none, that there is none
other; our ethos: subsummation of the other; recuperation of the other
within the same; recuperation of the same within the other.
poetry remains elsewhere (neither A nor B). For that matter, text is never
neither A nor B - signifiers of expulsion, building blocks of logic.
Sheffer stroke, not both A and B, and its dual, neither A nor B. In order
that h. is _neither here nor there,_ _neither A nor B._ So and its dual
("neither A nor B") to construct a logical picture bolstered by "neither A
nor B," which, I have shown in other texts, and B'; it can also be derived
from its dual, 'neither A nor B.' What can "neither A nor B"; in its
elsewhere; in its range outside the organization
particular, neitherness, neither a nor b, throws the phenomenological
or its dual for example as the basis - neither a nor b - not both a and b
Negation: chain/elsewhere/classical/non-classical/neither a nor b/a|b
Chain: not-A goes somewhere else; not-not-A is not an automatic return,
doesn't cohere.
resonant phenomena, Undine with an explanation http://www.alansondheim.org/undine.mov http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/undine.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/undine1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/undine2.png explanation - i first explored wave phenomena in undine.mp3, using electric oud, imagining emergent forms that interfered with each other, sometimes close to inaudible; the matrix is deep bass, as if the forms were rising to an uncanny surface. i then used second life to create the two still images, undine1.png and undine2.png, which represent the use of a 'pencil' that was given to me, and that allows me to leave trails or traces of objects behind a moving avatar. the avatar outlined a portal, which then produced its own bathos, own phenomena - intrinsic, through scripting, but also extrinsic, in relation to what the recording computer could accommodate. it took a great deal of time to create undine.mov, a looping video of the phenomena - which include both particle production and repeated texture mapping, to the extent that the computer, inworld parcel, and external net connection would allow. so the result is a mapping of complex interactions among a number of phenomena; the ideal - what was set - would be a total mapping of revolving textures, which i knew (even with overclocking the computer itself for example) would prove impossible. i imagine all these phenomena interlocked - the still images, as on a desktop background; the (modified) electric oud matrix playing continuous- ly, and the rat-a-tat video giving an inworld outworld dreaming of what might be a universal pulsing. ( such a pulsing is always broken, always confounded, always local - such dreaming tending towards an absolute, romanticism suturing the anguish of authentic loss )
a new hegelung piece http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/hegelungopus1.mp3 playing the hegelung - http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_funks/4328689898/ traditional - http://www.viswiki.com/en/Hegelung my favorite traditional - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opCjXLlxH9c&feature=player_embedded#! and check out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OGHt50WhcI&feature=related - amazing work !
casting of viola viola accompanied by electric piano matrix improvisation http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/casting0.mp3 http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/casting1.mp3 casting0 = casting about casting1 = casting out, setting the cast - short unaccompanied improvisation after the theme is set / cast i am fronted with myself, casting aside the electron beam displacement energies shadowing their spectra before me. a sickness like that of death came over her, when, casting her eyes down, depression depth and misery began their slow and silent songs, it is difficult to read this, to dance this, seized by iremu casting themselves adrift, tethered by air, "there is little room but such wind!" say the little fisherwomen, casting their nets into the the room, around me, and there was a circular lamp, a circular lamp casting its yellow light, overhead, warming the room in all ways, the solitary pine trees between myself and the moon, casting the shadow of the coals over which his worshippers are pulled. ah the wind is in the air, the lamps are finally lit, and the shadows, the shadow of the noonday sun... o the casting spell from blackened casting cauldron, cast spell dead dead dead, this lives under some hillside, the soil aloft upon timber, the semblance of dissolution, the annual slough, and the wind, the wind is in the air; the lamps are finally lit, yellow glows everywhere, casting the shadow of the noonday sun...
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article7145877.ec
eFrom Times Online
June 8, 2010
Chinese internet addicts stage mutiny at boot camp
Jane Macartney, Beijing
Fourteen young detainees overcame their guard and fled a boot camp regime of
physical training and psychological treatment designed to cure their
addiction ? to the internet.
The group, aged 15 to 22, staged their mass breakout by grabbing a duty
supervisor when he was in bed and immobilising him in his quilt.
He shouted for help and they apologised before tying him up. They then made
their way in groups of three to the home town of the leader of the group.
The addicts made their break from the Huai?an Internet Addiction Treatment
Centre in eastern Jiangsu province last Wednesday, complaining that they
could no longer endure its ?monotonous work and intensive training?.
It is the latest incident to highlight the sometimes brutal techniques
employed at camps across China to wean young people off the internet. A
15-year-old boy was beaten to death last year days after he was admitted to
a camp. Last month a court sentenced two instructors to up to ten years in
jail for the incident.
The China Youth Association for Network Development estimates that about 24
million Chinese adolescents are addicted to the internet, many to gaming
sites.
For the recent escapees freedom proved short lived. A taxi driver alerted
police after the young men were unable to pay the fare. There was little
sympathy from their exasperated parents either, who had paid 18,000 yuan
(?1,830) for their children to receive six months? treatment at the camp.
Most insisted that their children should go back to the camp at once and
since the breakout all but one have been returned.
One mother wept at the police station when she described how her son once
spent 28 consecutive hours playing online games. A camp official justified
the methods used to cure the addiction, saying: ?We have to use military
style methods such as total immersion and physical training on these young
people. We need to teach them some discipline and help them to establish a
regular lifestyle.?
The camp requires its ?inmates? to be up at 5am and in bed at 9.30pm. During
the day they must undergo two hours of physical drills, as well as courses
in calligraphy, traditional Chinese philosophy and receive counselling.
Yang Guihua, the mother of the youth who orchestrated the escape, said that
her son must return and defended the treatment. She said: ?I don?t think
there is any problem with the training methods at the centre. They are for
my child?s own good.?
? China underscored its commitment to keeping a tight grip on the internet
yesterday, vowing in a new White Paper to block anything deemed subversive
or a threat to national unity.
It said that it wanted to boost internet usage to 45 per cent of the
population in the next five years but gave no indication that it would ease
the Great Firewall, which blocks websites such as Facebook, YouTube and
Twitter.
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---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:55:01 From: Portside Moderator <moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG> To: PORTSIDE@LISTS.PORTSIDE.ORG Subject: 25 companies responsible for 700,000 lost jobs 25 companies responsible for 700,000 lost jobs Submitted by Robert Oak on Wed, 08/18/2010 http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/25-companies-responsible-700000-lost-jobs * Insourcing/Outsourcing * layoffs.labor arbitrage Daily Finance has compiled a list, from Challenger and Gray layoff data, of the top 25 companies with the biggest job losses this recession. From The Layoff Kings: The 25 Companies Responsible for 700,000 Lost Jobs author Douglas McIntyre, compiled the list below. I've added whether or not that company is known for offshore outsourcing jobs. The actual jobs offshore outsourced is unknown, if some ambitious researcher wishes to correlate layoffs with jobs created offshore, or offshore outsourcing contracts written, we'd appreciate the specifics. From the list we have, these top companies, the number of layoffs and whether or not they are an offshore outsourcer. 1. General Motors, 107,357, outsourcer 2. Citigroup, 73,056 , outsourcer 3. Hewlett-Packard, 47,540, outsourcer 4. Circuit City Stores, 41,495 5. Merrill Lynch, 40,650, outsourcer (BoA) 6. Verizon Wireless, 39,000, outsourcer 7. Pfizer, 31,771, outsourcer 8. Merck & Co., 24,400, outsourcer 9. Lehman Brothers, 23,340 10. Caterpillar, 23,024, outsourcer 11. JPMorgan Chase, 22,852, outsourcer 12. Starbucks, 21,316 13. AT&T, 18,401, outsourcer 14. Alcoa, 17,655, outsourcer 15. Dow Chemical, 17,530, outsourcer 16. DuPont, 17,000, outsourcer 17. Berkshire Hathaway, 16,900, unknown 18. Ford Motor, 15,912, outsourcer 19. KB Toys, 15,100 20. United States Postal Service, 15,000 21. DHL Express USA, 14,900 22. Sprint Nextel, 14,500, outsourcer 23. Sun Microsystems, 14,000, outsourcer 24. Boeing, 13,715, outsourcer 25. Chrysler, 13,672, outsourcer As you can see, there are many Tech companies on the list, when supposedly the recession was about finance and real estate. Some of these companies have reported record profits, most are reasonably healthy. Caterpillar literally demanded U.S. taxpayer dollars, in the form of Stimulus, all the while firing Americans and offshore outsourcing jobs. So, while the blame continues to focus on the housing market and financial Armageddon, it appears we have the same issues that were the cause of the 2001 recession, global labor arbitrage with corporations offshore outsourcing, moving manufacturing abroad as well as the profits. _____________________________________________ Portside aims to provide material of interest to people on the left that will help them to interpret the world and to change it. Submit via email: moderator@portside.org Submit via the Web: portside.org/submit Frequently asked questions: portside.org/faq Subscribe: portside.org/subscribe Unsubscribe: portside.org/unsubscribe Account assistance: portside.org/contact Search the archives: portside.org/archive
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