two issues http://www.alansondheim.org/P1050457.JPG Extinction Rebellion http://www.alansondheim.org/lon17.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/lon16.jpg (i recognize the slapdash nonsense of just a few words and their aphoristic lack in the matters described below; these things, concepts, processes, have been in the back of my mind for some time now, and resonate with the work i'm currently doing, to the extent it might be relevant to give them a mention.) 1 poetry as first or second person - stemming from the body, from the voice; prose as third person (no matter the textual person- persona), stemming from the world. think of an AI writing, constructing, a poetry of desperation: "i am dying within the sufferance of the cry for life, of the cry of the wounded and the denouement of strife" - for example - and how this would relate to the body - of course - reading through the text, thinking of somatic ghosting, the ghost body, the flesh body, the fluid body, within the writing (not even text but _the writing of_) - and how this becomes a constructed carapace within AI - so of not the body but of an broken or equally constructed empathy - in other words a product and a network for that product. so back into poetry/poetics as body, what that tells us - not a romanticism, but a 'usual, an everyday, realism.' 2 Somatic ghosting as disappearance - what happens with absolute extinctions, with "nothing will save us," that is, any particular species, biome, ecosystem, family, town, nation, continent. what i learned in relation to this, observing the Aletsch glacier in the Alps, directly in relation to a late 19th-century fold-out of the same in a Baedecker's. how much enormous had already been lost. not the ghost of the former glacier, but a ghost we've constructed, a ghost that looms from so much trivia (in a sense) - for example, the striated walls of the valley so much higher, scars and debris left by the moraine - so think again of this and the looming and absolute catastrophe of natural extinctions, poisons, wars, genocides, scorched earths, annihilations of histories, trashed oceans, mass die-offs, whole classes of animals on the verge of disappearancee (birds, mammals, insects, for example), whole cultures and their remnants perhaps the same - the earth becoming largely uninhabitable, the enclaving of the rich - we have no term for this, no way to deal with an absolute, brutal, and universal (fore)closure - for no amount of small-scale effort will change this, and the strongman planet is not about to cave under - without replacement by strongmen under the natural order of things as we know it is emptied out - we stand in other words always already in a state of annihilation, and that is the condition that interests me, that has always interested me - that is the state which provides a framework or parergon, not to dying, but to the condition towards the totality of annihilation as a precursor or inscription - not gothic, but the idiocy of the real - what we can do? how do we inhabit the negative and the negative absolute? what we can produce? and why? in the face of an absolute indifference akin to stasis, death, a _state,_ not a process, of annihilation? An almost certain, uninhabitable, state in a near future? +++ 2c2 < the two issues ---
the two issues come to mind
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carapace within AI - so not of the body but of a broken or equally
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- flesh for example, writing flesh, interiority of pain or pleasure writing within _this_ body of _this_ body, and the reader likewise, of a similar body - so not word choice, but choice after the (somatic) fact or failure - - then as related, resonant -
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