inspiring video Alan!!!!!! I was just talking before with Daniel about "boomerang" by Serra and Holt
thanks Annie On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 4:55 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > Thank you so much! I've been trying to write like this for a while, a > dialog with dictation and dictation's errors and where they lead/live - as > a way of 'doing' theory. > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxQ5uS92Rc was working with a similar > approach (no bots here, just dictations) in real time and interlocked > programs. > > Best, Alan > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 7:00 AM Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > >> dear Alan >> >> your "next theoretical installment" yesterday was a wonderful start into >> the Klaus day; >> probably the most humorous and scrupulous text & reflection on doing >> things (such as writing) & >> on not answering to yourself or others, you've shared with us in a while, >> I enjoyed it much >> regards >> Johannes Birringer >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on >> behalf of Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> >> Sent: 06 December 2020 06:06 >> To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity >> Subject: [NetBehaviour] 12:43 AM next theoretical installment: >> >> >> >> 12:43 AM next theoretical installment: >> >> http://www.alansondheim.org/ohtheory.jpg >> >> So I immediately came into the back room and decided that I would >> dictate as usual we're not as usual what this piece is going to be >> which was a kind of theoretical demonstration and reply to someone >> who thought what I was usually doing is poetry. I never think of >> my work or almost never think of my work as poetry. Unless it is >> rhymed. It seems to me that it's a way of doing philosophy and >> Theory without having to call on the minions of references that >> appear in ordinary theoretical discourse. I am answering to no >> one. I'm not even answering to myself. I am not questioning anyone >> else or critiquing anyone else. I am critiquing or questioning >> only my help. It is a way of proceeding with an inner dialogue >> that obviously references in my own mind the reading or work that >> I am doing in terms of more traditional Philosophy. For example >> now I have been looking at Saint Anselm has logic. I've been >> looking and thinking a little bit about Whitehead. I've been >> thinking and looking at the talmud. These are just older antique >> references but they form a kind of constellation that I can >> proceed from. I'm also thinking about electrical circuits and the >> way that circuits and their notes add up to in various ways in >> various configurations various numbers of branches. There's always >> an electrical connection. What we do is based on electrical >> connections. From one end of a wire to another there are things >> going on internally that are fairly well understood but the >> information that might be carried by this things might not be that >> well understood. There is also a grounding a cable that is dropped >> from the circuit that can drain it almost immediately. All >> information is lost. This is what's called the fragility of good >> things. It's something that appeared as a phrase in catastrophe >> Theory. Catastrophe theory. In particular a book by Arnold that >> used it as a way of indicating that whatever goes on properly is >> only a minuscule microscopic or less amount of what can >> conceivably go on. Popularly more things can go wrong as I can go >> right. To go right is a knife-edge no matter how right is defined. >> So this was not the topic of what I came back here to think about >> and to write to you about. Back here or means back into another >> room where I have Solace and quietude and the ability to think >> through these dialogues. Which are monologues. Although they may >> not seem as monologues. When I came back here to dictate the >> dialogue or the monologue however I found that what had happened >> was as a result of fatigue and exhaustion and anxiety and >> depression and a Wandering mind was I forgot the topic I had >> initially intended to discuss. I still no longer remember the >> topic. I don't remember a single bit of what I was going to talk >> about. So that philosophy that philosophical direction is lost and >> replated replaced that's that. That's single philosophical >> direction is lost and replaced by this enormous influence of wrong >> directions. Sorry immediately came into the back room and decided >> that I would dictate as usual or not as usual what this piece is >> going to be which was it kind of theoretical demonstration And >> reply to someone who thought what I was usually doing is poetry. I >> never think of my work or almost never think of my work as poetry. >> Unless it is rhyme. It seems to me that it's a way of doing >> philosophy and theory without having to call on the minions of >> references that appear in ordinary theoretical discourse. I am >> answering to no one. I am not even answering to myself. I am not >> questioning anyone else or critique in anyone else. I am >> critiquing or questioning only myself. It is a way of proceeding >> with an inner dialogue that obviously references in my own mind >> the reading or works that I am doing in terms of more traditional >> philosophy. For example now I have been looking at Saint and Selms >> logic. I've been looking and thinking a little bit about >> Whitehead. I've been thinking and looking at the Talmud. These are >> just older antique references but they form a kind of >> constellation that I can proceed from. I'm also thinking about >> electrical circuits and the way that circuits and their nodes add >> up to in various ways in various configurations to it various >> numbers of branchings. There's always an electrical connection. >> What we do is based on electrical connections. From one end of a >> wire to another there are things going on internally that are >> fairly well understood but the information that might be carried >> by this things might not be that will understood. There is also a >> grounding a cable that is dropped from the circuit that can drain >> it almost immediately. All information is lost. This is what's >> called the fragility of good things. It's something that appeared >> as a phrase in catastrophe theory. Catastrophe theory. In >> particular book by Arnold that used it as a way of indicating that >> whatever goes on properly is only a miniscule microscopic or less >> amount of what kind conceivably go on. Popularly more things can >> go wrong than can go right. To go right is a knife edge no matter >> how right is defined. So this was not the topic of what I came >> back here to think about and to write to you about. Back here >> means back into another room where I have solace and quietude and >> the ability to think through these dialogues. Which are >> monologues. Although they may not seem as monologues. When I came >> back here to dictate the dialog or the monologue however I found >> that what had happened was as a result of fatigue and exhaustion >> and anxiety and depression and a wandering mind was I forgot the >> topic I had initially intended to discuss. I still no longer >> remember the topic. I don't remember a single bit of what I was >> going to talk about. So that philosophy that philosophical >> direction is lost and replated replaced that's that. That single >> philosophical direction is lost and replaced by this enormous >> affluence of wrong directions. The world is constructed of bubbles >> of wrong directions. Some of them work momentarily like the >> viruses. Some of them don't work at all. If there were going to be >> a >> >> It would begin now as such. And as you can see that has occurred. >> And will come to an end. If you deconstruct all of this you'll see >> the organization that underlies this and every aspect of a very >> problematic world it might in fact just touch on to the edge of >> our real one. Or at least the only one we know. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > > > -- > *=====================================================* > > *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel > 718-813-3285**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut > gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* > *=====================================================* > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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