The elixir is my love!
Actually, I don't know, obsessive-compulsive disorder coupled with ADAD and neuroticism or none of this - - Alan On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Johannes Birringer wrote: > yes, agree with others here -- > it's wonderful news to hear these writings are being published > congratulations to Alan Sondheim > > (who, in the short time that i have subscribed here, has seemingly > written poems and created art and media works incessantly day > and night, he must have found some elixir). > I underwrite this of course. > > best > Johannes Birringer > > > +++ > > > Alan Sondheim pens WRITING UNDER: SELECTIONS FROM THE "INTERNET TEXT" > > (Please consider buying this - support the press and my work; it has > a great introduction by Sandy Baldwin!) > > http://www.alansondheim.org/Sondheim.jpg > > CONTACT: Abby Freeland, Marketing Manager at West Virginia University > Press, 304 293 8400 x 6, [email protected] > > Alan Sondheim pens Writing Under: Selection from "The Internet Text" > > MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- The Center for Literary Computing and West Virginia > University Press are pleased to announce the publication of _Writing > Under: Selections From the Internet Text_ by Alan Sondheim. This > extraordinary collection of work explores and examines what happens to > writing as it takes place on and through the networked computer. > > Sondheim began experimenting with artistic and philosophical writing using > computers in the early 1970s. Since 1994, he has explored the > possibilities of writing on the Internet, whether using blogs, web pages, > e-mails, virtual worlds, or other tools. The sum total of Sondheim.s > writing online is entitled "The Internet Text." > > _Writing Under_ selects from this work to provide insight into how writing > takes place today and into the unique practices of a writer. The > selections range from philosophical musings, to technical explorations of > writing practice, to poetic meditations on the writer online. This work > expands our understanding of writing today and charts a path for writing.s > future. > > John Cayley of Brown University proclaims Alan Sondheim to be "the poet, > the artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his > work in the life-changing code formsof networked computation that have > the world and its 'genesis redux' in their grip." Christopher T. > Funkhouser of New Jersey Institute of Technology affirms that "anyone > interested in knowing more about (or from) a writer who has practiced and > thrived on the Internet since its very beginnings needs to read this > book." (See below for more.) > > Alan Sondheim is a Brooklyn-based new media artist, musician, writer, and > performer. He is concerned with issues of virtuality, and the stake that > the real world has in the virtual. > > _Writing Under_ is published by the Center for Literary Computing, West > Virginia University. To order this title or to learn more about this book > visit http://wvupressonline.com/sondheim_writing_under_9781935978732#4 > or phone (800) 621-2736. > > Writing Under: Selections From the Internet Text by Alan Sondheim > December 2012/216pp > ePub 978-1-935978-74-9/$19.99 > PB 978-1-935978-73-2/$19.99 > > "Alan Sondheim is one of the precious few who joyfully-and in abject > misery-risks these terrors of writing for us, for our pleasure and our > undoing. What happens? Language disposes of us. As if that were not all > that is required of any writer, Alan Sondheim is also the poet, the > artist, the maker who has most profoundly immersed himself and his work in > the life-changing code-forms of networked computation that have the world > and its 'genesis redux' in their grip." > > - John Cayley, Literary Arts, Brown University > > "Sondheim crafts an often meandering + always introspective recording of > his prodigious on-line output. Birthed [and often remixed] in digital > formats and drenched in anxiousness + desire, his staggeringly open text > gives rise to possibilities of endless interpretation and comprehension, > leaving multiple re-reads a definite must." > > - Mez Breeze, Australian-based writer and practitioner of net.art > > "Encountering Alan Sondheim's work we become aware how versatile a writer > he is. The vast fore-lands of his Internet Text contains an estimated > 25,000 pages of wryting involving - as Sandy Baldwin observes in his > introduction "a phenomenology thick with human perception and intentions > that are bodily, personal, political, and communal." In wryting, Sondheim > produces all sorts of texts - poetry, prose, and the unnameable > compositions existing amidst conditions of material transformations that > merge (with) the physical and technological. Writing Under offers up > generous statements of process, from a self- and other- aware master who > is codework's godcyborg, a limner of psychedelic landscapes in Second > Life, and an inveterate graphophile. This volume radiates foresight, > stabilizing, if only for a moment, the fragility of "tenuously tethered > bits and bytes" that exist in a vast field. For Sondheim, the creative is > critical and vice versa; there's much telling in _Writing Under,_ > projecting insight into the machinery of his oeuvre. Anyone interested in > knowing more about (or from) a writer who has practiced and thrived on the > Internet since its very beginnings needs to read this book." > > - Christopher T. Funkhouser, Program Director, Communication and Media, > New Jersey Institute of Technology > > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > == blog: http://nikuko.blogspot.com/ (main blog) email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ web http://www.alansondheim.org / cell 347-383-8552 music: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rq.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
