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Looking backwards to go forwards, we seeded the potential for becoming beside
ourselves - becoming multiple, partial and parallel - in the floating worlds,
the hanging gardens of MOOland, unfurling without scaffolding from multiple
centres (bridge building machines, an abyss before us), we made acephalic or
hydra (no heads or many - it works the same) entities living in spaces with no
geolocation and no maps (though we tried in vain to to lay the grid of a fixed
XYZ onto a runaway textuality going out, north, left, down, into, through,
round - "a triumphant X on a mobile map” - ).
“ media effects [media-affect], to have meaning and significance, must be
located within an embodied human world “
… when the screen signals no carrier, my hands become cold, the uplink is
severed, my heart begins to beat again only when the modem sings its birdsong
and connection is made. my consciousness becomes oceanic in the flow.
I’ve been reading alot about breathing, corpomateriality, intra-action and
corpo-affective actions in Magdalena Gorska’s Breathing Matters. Which connects
to the idea of the para-human as articulated by Brian Rotman in Becoming Beside
Ourselves. All this is related to the splitting, shimmering, vibrating,
iterating of the self (in my case through episodes of panic.)
"the intra-active relationality of corpomaterial processes is a matter not
merely of “internal” dynamism but, as Stacy Alaimo (2008, 2010) articulates –
[ … ] of trans-corporeal character. Using the concept of trans-corporeality,
Alaimo proposes thinking about human embodiment in terms of “entangled
territories of material and discursive, natural and cultural, biological and
textual” (2008, 238). Such an entanglement is dynamic, and within it the mutual
constitutiveness of bodies and environments shows the ongoing changeability,
mutual relationality and transformations of nature and culture (e.g., the
relationality of genetically modified food, bodies and environments). What is
at stake in Alaimo’s approach, however, is not the mere assimilation or
comparison of human corpomateriality with non-human nature but the need to
rethink concepts of materiality and nature as well as of the notion of “human”
itself. As Alaimo argues, “dwelling within trans-corporeal space where ‘body’
and ‘nature’ are comprised of the same material, which has been constituted,
simultaneously, by the forces of evolution, natural and human history,
political inequities, cultural contestations, biological and chemical
processes, and other factors too numerous to this list, renders rigid
distinctions between ‘mind’ and ‘matter’ impossibly simplistic” (2008, 257).
For Alaimo, the “‘material world’ ... includes human actions and intra-actions,
along with the intra-actions of man-made substances, all of which intra-act
with natural creatures, forces, and ecological systems as well as with the
bodies of humans” (2008, 259)."
Back in the day, I often found myself dissociating in the static of the
real/virtual split, not able to become data and flow, and never ever again able
to live the fiction of unity - forever caught in a loop of
deterritorialising/reterritorialising. panic driving the desire to unify, panic
driving the production of multiplicities. These days, a keyboard of dirt, with
a microbial network, connects me to my extensible selves. to expanse. (thinking
of a scandi-noir show now where humans were becoming-root, tree, network -
eventually, with fingers in the dirt, they became part of the forest,
fingers-becoming roots).
this is all rather a ramble, and condensed because time …
…………….
Skinwalking through melting permafrosts, beds of bleached sea antlers, carpets
of heat-felled bats, walking with gender as a liability, black lives
unmattering, the human-gun assemblage targeting aberrant subjects, sterile
insects crawling over beached black whales, Antarctic krill becoming
imperceptible, frakked wastelands, icebergs calving stillborns, plastic bags
gathering in the gyres becoming-microbial.
treechangers flee the city to seed the mycelial networks of utopian retreat.
They grow dank warm skins of green velvet, nodal,
drink the mother, the kool-aid of awakened consciousness.
feed on mossbodies
harvest wild yeasts from rarefied hinterland air
with local inflections
deranged hippy nodes make lovely compost for co-option…
while they are sleeping the uplink activates, the market streams through their
dreams and nano aliens trade on cellular information
their flickering REM eyes flood the dark pools with encrypted instructions and
rumourware.
the mushrooms glow at night.
and
S E N D
the traffic is dense in the pulse
the warm machine awaits your intention.
The rapture never comes.
V + F
We had a dream last night
・・・--------☆ Ø ☆--------・・・
Virginia Barratt
Doctoral candidate, University of Western Sydney, Writing + Society Research
Centre
ph: +61 435925245
w: virginiabarratt.net
e: virgi...@virginiabarratt.net
monstering the logos eros
・・・--------☆ Ø ☆--------・・・
I acknowledge the traditional custodians, past and future, of the land on which
I live and work.
> rehearsal of a network - [week 4] (Simon)
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> From: Simon <swhtay...@zoho.com>
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> Dear <<empyreans>>,
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> On 26/06/18 06:37, Shu Lea Cheang wrote/quoted:
>> I believe that mycelium is the neurological network of nature.
>> Interlacing mosaics of mycelium infuse habitats with
>> information-sharing membranes
>
> Mycorrhyizal networks became entangled in the underground theatre work
> of Minus Theatre. But for reasons that rather go against those adduced
> in and around CMNs here, in their emphasis on the gains to be had, got
> from, harvested off the literal and metaphorical fungolalia and
> fungalia. The gain, for example, of communication: what if--we
> speculated in the spectacles we made--communication were not the point,
> but an exploitation-abstraction layer covering over--a too-human
> groundcover--the /work/ of decomposition? What if communication is /in
> /and an /excess/ of this work? And what then if the scatter, crackle and
> static of languages were the condition of their significations? The
> breaking-down, the waste itself, the soil, ground? Such work--of
> decomposition--would not be valued according to elements and minerals
> /liberated/ but would be valued in and through itself, as forming the
> maternal matrices in indeterminacy, inaction, asignifying, across
> inorganic and organic strata. Decomposition lays waste: elements are
> understood to be liberated and the value is in this breaking down,
> giving off phosphorescing halos in an excess of incandescent energy
> illumining the dark, not a light dispelling it.
>
> best,
> Simon
> http://squarewhiteworld.com/
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