(This strongly relates to the construct of avatars in Second Life; think
of the gnats as prims. Their homeostatic behavior is amazing. Hieroglyphs
of an ancient species... Also check http://nikuko.blogspot.com )
Gnat swarming behavior
The following video was made about 100 meters from the
Books I like and some hardware/software as well (not much)
I'm behind in my reviews; the last few months have been a mess. I may be
missing some books. I may have misplaced. others. I hunger for reading,
but it's all transparent, pathetic, collapsed. There's nothing to say
about reading that
materials below, two tabla/television works
http://www.asondheim.org/fallingout.wav
http://www.asondheim.org/fallingouter.wav ]
[ alan sondheim avatar, some text, tabla, behavior collision
sandy Taifun (Baldwin) avatar, text output, behavior chains
original soundtrack with azure carter, composition
My Lost Films
I made films from 1969-1993; most of them were carried by Canyon Cinema in
San Francisco. The films are all mast prints; I didn't copy them, but
showed the originals, since I wanted to use what little funds I had to
produce more. They were shown periodically at Millennium in New
Limits of the World
Gamespace is bracketed by the _blank_ and the _edge._
Unlike the physical world, gamespace isn't fractal: moving closer
to a surface results in pixel enlargement (or penetration).
This is the blank of gamespace.
The blank isn't unknown; the blank is entirely known.
The
Parable of the return
Having perfected the machine which allowed us to travel backwards
in time, we decided to visit the very origins of humankind, that
savanna where proto-hominids roamed, beginning their conquest of the
flora and fauna of the planet. We returned to a period before the
great
A/Rose for Baudrillard
I have troubled sleep; nightmares become me. Recently I traded in for a
copy of Sartre, Troubled Sleep, signed by him, scrawled signature to a
friend. Barthes was hit by a van I think, all these men and some women but
less women - Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari,
will suffer for you.
thank you, alan sondheim.
nothing is real anymore, is it? is what? is nothing?
i am your electric-onic
i am your electronic buzz bomb
i will kill all of you fuckers. i will kill everyone. don't forget -
when you leave here tonight YOU WILL BE DEAD (honest, I really mean
this more than
Reel Histrionic
In Eloquent Gestures, The Transformation of Performance Style in the
Griffith Biograph films, Roberta E. Pearson describes 'histrionic' and
'verisimilar' codes of acting - a transformation from a melodramatic locus
to incipient realism. She considers them in relation to
Reduced De Montfort University Creative Writing and New Media guest lecture
chat
This is fascinating - I'm always curious how many of
the old IRC commands are retranslated or reinterpreted in these newer
chats 14:52:20
No problem - let me knowwhen to start 29-Jan-2007
14:52:29
***MUZAK**
Delose
On the disaster of the future planet now
...If one person, sane to a degree, may be found willing and ready to
sacrifice his life and the life of others, for his beliefs in the now
and hereafter, the world is doomed.
...And yet it is a commonplace among us that the swarm of men and
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I just received this
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Reviews of books I like in the midst of God my God of Sickness
Reviewing under the sign of fever:
Principles of Stratigraphy, Amadeus W. Grabau, Dover, from the 1924
edi- tion. This was written at the end of the period of descriptive
geology; computers and seismic analyses, tectonics and
Again, this begs the question. It doesn't matter to whether songs or
speech or for that matter hand-clapping; what seems important is where
does the symbolic register originate? What constitutes symbolization.
How songs lead to 'verbs' is just beyond me, and why songs instead of,
say,
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interest - Alan)
Disordered thinking through the origin of language (I'm in quotation) -
... I know this sounds ridiculous - but I'm on to something. If the body
is hairless, then for example mud or blood will 'stick' to it -
Origin of Measurement
There's a hill over there (gestures)
No there's a couple of hills
Wait I'll be right back
It's like skin
I'm uncomfortable skinning around here
I skinned that hill
Btw I'm still working with the .obj files as you can see from the scanner
- one of the things I'm
Forwarding this in relation to what has been called 'the fragility of good
things' - i.e. here the kind of precipice the Net's always been on - and
which all too often we take for granted. Sooner or later we'll be back on
a descendent of Fidonet, if we can afford it, if Verizon allows us...
-
Interior and Absence (notes on recent work)
In an attempt to explain my recent work...
This is such an attempt, the attempt already referenced -
Every surrounding space is non-existent, that is, every embedding space
should be construed as invisible, unless vectored outside of the frame -
i.e.
Making a general reply, in regard to cinema, digital, analogic, or
otherwise::
First, There is _no_ cinema; there are discursive practices, fields of all
sorts, with fuzzy boundaries, technologies that come and go, labors and
energies that drive them. 'Cinema' itself already connotes style,
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What is Codework?
Codework is a practice, not a product.
It is praxis, part and parcel of the critique of everyday life.
It is not canonic, although it is taken as such.
It is not a genre, although it is taken as such.
The term is relatively new and should always be renewed.
We are
(The following text is accompanied by images at http://nikuko.blogspot.com
- it represents a condensation of my current work which I think should be
of interest here. - Alan)
Philosophy
1
How to begin philosophy, how to begin the process of philosophizing, an
activity, a form of labor,
Segmund
Everything I've ever thought or done has gone into this movie. This movie
is that political movie situated between Dreyer and Godard, no, between
Bergmann and Godard. For there has to be Godard. Even now, a film which
passes Godard, obliterates reference to cinema. But a serious film.
some british measures, 1844
(somewhere between the long shadow of the medieval guilds and the
dominance of local custom before the automobile and plane - every
mercantile space its customary measure. as international communication
grew, so did the need for standardization. here is britain in
performance text, Sarah Lawrence, 12/08/05
i is cold here are you is cold. arrgh. should there be rhyme? this is
close to the apocalypse. it's daytime in iraq. the 9/11 commission: we
fail. this is live. this is memorex. it's i'm not sure what time in
pakistan. winter's coming in. winter's
Apologies for the constant forwards. The planet is at one of any number of
crisis-
points. At this point we should all join Peta, do our best to pass this
information along, vote and act on it. - Alan
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Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 16:29:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:
Another article that needs further attention; the usual line is that religion
provides a calming effect...
- Alan
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This just absolutely deserves to be better known.
- Alan
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Subject: The Buck Stops with Lynndie
The Buck Stops with Lynndie
By Derrick Z.
, the object containing the
information must retain its configuration for limited periods. Further-
more, [these periods] must be enough for all the information contained to
be retrieved. - Alan Sondheim, artist talk, 1973, in Artists Talk,
1969-1977, edited by Peggy Gale, Nova Scotia College of Art
[digested @ nettime]
Table of Contents:
Childhood home of David Bohm
Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[imitationpoetics] Literary Narcissism and the Manufacture of Scandal (fwd
Reviews of some recent books and then some -
These are texts relevant to net art. Some I have found personally more useful
than
others; this is the result of my own predilection of course. They are review
copies. In some cases, I've failed the te(x)(s)t.
Digital Video Hacks, Tips and Tools for
The Scar of Progress, Los Angeles
Or: the origin of sprawl and the Iraq War.
The Red Cars, an electric railway system, characterized Los Angeles early on. It
was later dismantled. The system led to LA's rapid/rabid expansion. There was
money to be made by busline replacement, even though buses
Anthracite Casualties
The estimates of the number of men and boys dying in the anthracite
minefields of Pennsylvania from the mid 1800s through the first few
decades of the 20th century seem to vary a great deal. The particular
volume illustrated below lists 1622 deaths for the three years
My Sixty-Five Failures
I dread this.
My first failure is an inability to sleep through the night, no matter
what; insomnia and nightmares occur constantly.
My second failure is a failure to relax, to take time out and enjoy
things, to not see the world through pessimistic eyes.
My third
( from an ongoing analysis at
http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/ )
Radio, the World, the Discrete
Not only is radio tremulous in its reception of the stars themselves; it
is also analogic, requiring no decoding; what you hear, what you record,
is what there is. The
This article was forwarded to me by Gerald Jones.
In Brooklyn, I've got WiFi and anyone can use it as far as I'm concerned.
A block away on Bergen is a publicly advertised hotspot. You sit on the
curb or a brownstone stoop and you're on.
Wifi is still obviously for the wealthy - PDAs w/access
The Power Vacuum / Vacuum Power
In 1975, within a small but important cultural institution, a small group
of men laid down the law. (Alan Sondheim)
Front cover: Stark: white letters on black background:
THE ESSENTIAL CINEMA: / Essays on the films / in the collection of /
Anthology Film
Short bibliography on analytical/digital thinking vis-a-vis semiotics.
Most of this material is fairly old; use with care! The concepts are
there, hovering in the background, however.
Barthes, Roland, Elements of Semiology, Noonday, 1967. As with S/Z a 'lit-
erary' semiotics, not so useful
THE RIGHTEOUS KEEP THE BRAINDEAD ALIVE
Empty stage. In the center, a wooden chair and table. There is a glass and
pitcher of water. A desklamp provides the only light.
(long pause)
(Jennifer enters from stage left, sits down. she is wearing a red-
brown dress and sandals. her
Aphoristic Essay on Analog and Digital Orders
The digital: by 'digital' I mean 'discrete.' By 'digital' I mean
'systemic,' characterized by systematization, parameterization.
The analog appears continuous; the digital appears discrete, broken.
In everyday life, the digital is the result of an
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, [windows-1252] Bj=F8rn Magnhild=F8en wrote:
You're right about the entities; I should have stated at x, y, z, are
independent, classical Aristotelian entities.
But isn't this where meaning is produced, contrary to eg. a tautology?
So it would be to go to the source of
Whew... I find any limitation of art re: definition problematic to say the
least. The same with kitsch; there is a real class consciousness here that
makes me uncomfortable. Look at Bourdieu's Distinction. It's art, period.
It may not be art you like and it may be in fact art that you or I
Book Review of Books Mostly Liked
This is written in a more traditional style, in the hopes of greater
distribution, and readership, and in the hopes it will be of greater use.
I already reviewed Bunt's Islam in the Digital Age for RCCS and will send
that out in the future, when it's published
I recently reviewed a book on news blogging, and the following, as with
much on the Net, seems to indicate corrosion already setting in. - Alan
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Codework Self-Negated
If not for self-negation, codework remains within formal structures,
broken, chaotic, or otherwise. It's semantics that opens up the universe
of discourse; at the same time, semantics shuts down or bypasses the
structures. The problematization of language rises by itself
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Spoons
Cybermind and fiction-of-philosophy, now wryting, began in association
with Spoons, and on the Spoons servers. Malgosia Askanas has been the
major force, I believe, in Spoons - which has brilliantly housed a number
of philosophy lists for years.
The fading of the collective is, I
General Principle of Narrative (Violence) Under Capital
1. The general principal of narrative under capital is _withholding._
2. In withholding, information, which would propel the narrative forward,
is withheld in order to lengthen, not enrich, the diegetic flow.
3. Within capital,
Books I like and reasons to read them
- This is one of my columns reviewing recent purchases, trades, arrivals,
found books, bound and unbound books. While I'm writing it, I'm listening
to 'embedded' reporters make their ugly one-sided reports from the troops
in Fallujah. I broke down earlier.
I think this is a cultural document of the first order. And frightening
and strange, strangely frightening.
Before the Stalinist knocks begin at the door here, I want to say I don't
endorse this at all. But it should be read.
- Alan
english aljazeera net:
Full transcript of bin Ladin's
Apologies for cross-posting.
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UPDATE:
Call for Papers
Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness
Open Issue (Fall 2004)
ISSN: 1471-5597
Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2004.
_Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness_ is an interdisciplinary
ejournal
and journalistic expertise. Do
check out this book; it gives one both guidelines and a sense of hope in
terms of the future of free information and information-dissemination.
Vel, Alan Sondheim, BlazeVOX, 2004. I had to put this in; it's the second
publish-on-demand work I've had, and looks
It's not only what moves people these days, but how people are moved, and,
to be honest, how one wants to move them. It's a question on the one hand,
of course, of political/political economy, especially for some of us,
bandwidth/distribution economy - but it's also a question of language and
Books I like and the reasons why -
I've been traveling and working for the past couple of months; here's the
latest - texts and others I'm fascinated by -
Google, The Missing Manual, Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly:
This is the third book on Google help that O'Reilly's published, and
anyone read all of Volney? I'm fascinated by this work, which I'm
dipping into - I'm sure it's been republished - it's available all over
the Net - influenced the Shelleys - he knew Washington - hysteric
romanticisms, orientalisms, fantastic accounts, dialogs, everything -
Alan Sondheim, recent work
Books I like and highly recommend!
The following are books I've read or am currently reading, mostly the
former. They're wonderful and I think are definitely worth your attention.
Two books that bear comparison, both from Salt
Catherine Daly, DaDaDa and
Loss Pequeno Glazier, Anatman,
collaboration
la the enemy, espionage, each reading the other, of public arrive at
everything through collaboration, discussion, lb you'd be surprised
collaborative work series into a hypertext collaboration list or
co moderate or begin or end collaborationsinside of me it /*in*/
where i
There are so many books...
I would offer - definitely:
Koran, Bible, Analects - at the least. I don't think it's possible to
understand contemporary culture and fundamentalisms without them.
There's a series of Verso books - the No-Nonsense Guides - I've read the
one on Islam, which brilliantly
BOOKS I LIKE - some reviews of books I've been reading and using:
Degunking Windows, Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann, Paraglyph Press, 2004 .
I use both WinXP and Linux for multimedia work; recently, I've also been
using an old Win98 machine which I put on the network here (DSL + WiFi). I
Table of Contents:
Re: Code and its Double (in relation to brain asymmetry)
Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Code and its Double (in relation to brain asymmetry)
Alan Sondheim [EMAIL
this is MAPS for you
you should read this MAPS because they will try to stop this MAPS you have
no idea how hard it is to get this MAPS through to you you should invest
in this MAPS because they would not make it so hard if it were not so good
and you know hard is best because it is best for
Blue Moose performance, Morgantown W. Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004
*/multi-stream audio-video accompaniment/*
tao and nonce nonce tao tao it's dark in here
can you hear me can you hear me
i'm not at all comfortable at the moment
i'm not sure what 'im going to do but there are
there are errors at
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the purpose of a corporation is to maximize profits for its officers.
there is no other reason for the existence of a corporation. a corporation
is not bound by any regulations it can avoid. a corporation, like water,
finds its way towards the maximum. a corporation should have no regard
Empire
We are the first successful Empire in a century. We are the world's first
and last Superpower. We are not Amerika or Amerikkka. We are America. We
are proud of what we do. You are weak and we are strong. We are the
proudest people on earth. We own you. We control your economy through our
nettime's not famous for its humor but google's automatically-generated
portal news page produced the following today -
Sci/Tech
425m-year-old penis found Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago
A 425-million-year-old fossilised penis, the oldest one yet recorded, has
been discovered by scientists.
Our Quiet Lives...
This is the safety zone. Within these borders... Everything else outside -
corruption, decay. This is safe for us. Love at the barricades. What
happens outside the frame. The frame problem - not to adjust the real, but
to keep it out. The problem with everything real.
Go
I find the following strangely disconcerting, as a major linux provider
slides out from its customer base. For some this would indicate a growth
and maturity of the community - for most of us, it already implies a
problematic development of open source community.
- Alan
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humans slaughter
slaughter humans slaughter Wrong boolean value
'false' false What if humans treat and
slaughter the animals humanely? Regardless of how well the
animals are treated, I believe that it is wrong true
PETAs Answer to Animal Slaughter: Eat Humans
Instead.
Is the Internet Dying?
Recently there has been a great deal of discussion of Is the Internet
Dying which is a very controversial issue. Some say the Internet is dying
and will not survive. Others say the Internet will continue forever and it
is fine. I think the Internet is going through
it) - at least check it out through the
O'Reilly site.
A final note - a plug for O'Reilly in general. If you haven't explored
their publications, you're missing what are probably the most intelligent
computer-oriented books around. And oddly enough, they don't tend to go
out of date!
- Alan
This reminds me of a model I was working on around 1992 - which was one of
radiations/flows - using the electromagnetic spectrum as an example -
what's interesting here is that the flows are uncontained, i.e. there are
nodes/intensifications and limited bandwidth, but there's no 'container' -
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