Hi there, I wonder if anyone can do some research and analysis on this - I am too frightened:
http://www.cocacolazero.com/index.jsp#/facialprofiler/ Thanks, Sam. On 10/12/2009, at 1:40 PM, Kevin Hamilton wrote: > Christina and all, > > In any of the advertising for personal music devices or cell phones, > listeners experience private pleasure through the knowing smile, and > perhaps a look up and to the right. > > This I would contrast to what actually happens when one reads or hears > something funny when in public. For example, me on the bus this > morning reading this line from Christina: > > On Dec 9, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Christina McPhee wrote: > >> The mistake is the beginning of the mutation. "In the still cave of >> the witch poesy... " > > Laughing out loud amongst silent commuters, nervous about where to put > my smile and body. > > I'm thinking about all this partly in light of some conversation over > on IDC right now, between Brian Holmes and myself, a few others. As an > instructor, I'm more and more aware of how my students arrive already > trained, configured into a cybernetic matrix. For many of them, their > senses are only sensors, ready to accept symbolic input for the > production of expected actions. (Hell, I'm not much better.) No > documentary is going to reveal the truth for them, there's no > narrative moment waiting for them. They need a new sensory experience, > to have they eyeballs and eardrums reconfigured in a non-programmatic > way. > > The cyberneticist I've been researching, Heinz von Foerster, was a > magician. Literally. Back in the sixties and seventies he would do > magic tricks for the students as part of his lectures on > consciousness. I'm looking for some tricks like that, through the > linguistic and the visual. > > Thus the word games. Searching for ways to use language that produce > transformation without resorting to instrumental manipulation. > > A typology of wordsmiths, magicians of meaning... > > Words that could mean anything but which make us all think we're > thinking the same thing. > [Sarah Palin] > > Words that can mean two things, and everyone's in on the joke. > [Stephen Colbert] > > [Bottom (from A Midsummer Night's Dream)] > Words that mean one thing to the speaker and a different thing to the > listener, but only the listener is in on the joke. > > Words that can mean more than one thing and no one knows which one is > right, producing a plenitude of meaning. > [Stoppard? I don't know, this one is just thrilling though.] > > One such overflow that just thrills me in this way is the piece "A > Letter to Queen Victoria: The Sundance Kid is Beautiful" by Robert > Wilson and Christopher Knowles. > > http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/big_ego/Big_Ego_05-wilson.mp3 > > But I don't know much about it, and frankly I'm a little unsure about > the politics of how this autistic poet Knowles came to work with > Wilson. But there's some overflow here, some linguistic plenitude > through some mistakes and misapprehension. > > Kevin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > empyre forum > [email protected] > http://www.subtle.net/empyre > _______________________________________________ empyre forum [email protected] http://www.subtle.net/empyre
