Andreas Maria Jacobs
w: http://www.nictoglobe.com w: http://burgerwaanzin.nl On 29 Dec 2010, at 09:06, Alan Sondheim <[email protected]> wrote: > > > May E-Poetry Presentation precis (Buffalo, NY) > > I will talk about the fluid semiotics of virtual world productions, in > terms of Kristevan semiosis and fluid logics governing both avatar and > object behaviors through scriptings and 'signage' embedded in > scripts or > within the visible local and fluid landscape itself. I will relate > all of > this to the future of human/organic society on the planet, with or > without > the Internet, and I will do this in fifteen minutes. I would like > audio- > video output for laptop, but will not need online connectivity. > > Theses: > > 1. Culture is always already virtual. Agree, but also a truism > 2. Culture is always already abject and inscriptive. Agree, but what is the point? > 3. Abjection and inscription are entangled, irresolute, corroding both > truth functions and definitions. Agree > 4. Culture is all the way down; every organism is a priori cultural. Agree partly, what are the cultural products of for instance bacteria? > 5. Culture is intimately related to alterity. > 6. Virtual worlds permit logical, physical, organic, sexual, > linguistic, > and psychological flows, without fundamental basis. I doubt that > 7. Virtual worlds are the future of the exploration of inscription, > culture, and the imaginary. Disagree, virtuality leads to nothing at all, more ideology, more make believe and still more nonsensical quasi science > 8. A parabola leads from virtual worlds to the true-real physical > world, > which is already produced, itself as virtual. This makes no sense > 9. Physics is the structure of the true-real physical world. Obviously > 10. The appetition of physical returns us to thesis 1. > Logically > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
