The Outline of the New Talk
Issues: Semiotics: Virtual: Completely constituted Historic: From synchronic/asynchronic To declarative/performative Safe words Rough spots Interpenetrations: Addictions, defuge Net sexuality: Control Articulations: Broken conceptualisms Emergences, submergences Desiring machines Continuous repetition Wild Theory Third person (IRC, chat) Second person (MOO, talker, MUD) CB radio (eyeballing) First person (ytalk, Iphone, CuSeeMe) The MOO @dig home Scrolling on MOO, MUD, IRC Membrane and Net, implicate ordering Digital reproducibilty and eternity The performed body, body as instantiation Confluence of both beneath the a/sign of desire Lag as breathing, rhythm, hypnotic Smooth or clear passage (Usenet, Worldschat) Constructions of consumption Continuous governance, continuous presence Subjectivity as dispersion, dis/play, splay Continuous enfolding, engendering Wryting oneself in and out of existence Eternal presence in the 'online world' Guaranteed presence in the 'real world' Semantic part-objects interpenetrating applications, protocols Interpenetrations (does it make sense to ask the location Operation of lag (intended and non-intended) Rite (email list, ThePalace) The (textual) lurker The (visible) lurker: slight change of body planes of the mind) There is no Net There is no theory The structure of applications, protocols An issue of epistemology: Different phonemenological horizons An issue of ontology: Qualitative difference in being The _tracing_ of the Net in terms of articulated fluxes: from disorders of the real to dis-ordering the real Rites of passage (logging on and off) The ytalk place ASCII unconscious, projections and introjections To the seamless virtual Operation of seduction Jennifer-Julu as splayed structures across apps, protocols Segmentation, liminal states Arbitrary Jennifer-Julu structures Lag as structuring transfererence Jennifer-Julu as system resonances Net relationships tending towards perception (in-signia) Time on the Net parallel to space in the real Hysteria and the Net: Jennifer-Julu, pushing the boundaries: Representations of the interior of the body Representations of the states of the body (MUD) Language dispersion theories (Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite) But wild theory Place and time of the body: Virtual embodiment, virtual subjectivity: Off-Net beginning with perception On-Net beginning with the signifier With or without lag Reading and writing _on_ the virtual-real body
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