Thinking through performance, anxiety and ontology http://www.alansondheim.org/tissue.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/tissue.mp4 Anxiety/loss _taking ontology with them_ Loss of what? nothing. nothing at all. " What happens at the _edges_ of models? Models as gamespace structures. Epistemology of gamespace - online/offline gaming, cosplay etc. Cosplay rules? Rulers? Blankness, substance (fissure, not cut/inscription) - coagulation. " So blankspace fissures; there's nothing there, chimera, uncanny, untoward. But nothing to fracture, no _cuts,_ no neti-neti, neither this nor that. Tissue/fissure: falls apart, dissolves. This is always _uncomfortable,_ almost found-out, almost an invention of a different order entirely. Trump without his clothes. " The same/same/same - the queasiness of it " world _beneath_ quarantine, not adjacent, not inscribed: Quarantine as a state of mind, an ontology of dissolution, of shame - not an inscription of barriers. " - of structurelessness, unstructure - loss of structure, dissolution of memory - " " the deprivation chambers of the imaginary - what's down there, what's all around us? " " can anything be real when there's nothing left to feel - numbness = washing away of memory - what was I doing just now = what am I doing here = what am I doing = what am I = I am ? = erasure " erasure = future anterior = memory is always [becomes] memory of others = others' memory = memory by others " but perhaps. it is inconceivable to _know._" the problem begins for psychoanalysis, psychiatry, somewhere else - some culture on the horizon - not _cultural horizon_ - that gets thrown out. " and how does that work? " " I don't know. I wasn't there. " I don't know. I wasn't there. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
