Thanks!, Comments below -
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, none wrote:
A few pre noting notes:
Hopefully something might be relevant here. Not entirely comprehending
the context apart from - giving a talk.(??)
Giving a talk, which will skitter across the notes; I've never been able
to "read" a talk, or even write one.
However, I did do that silly human thing of checking for a pattern, and
staying with it. Perhaps it could be more riveting to read from and
out such patterns..? I'd do in a personal text, not someone else's..
Which
kind of takes us right into the pattern/thread that seems to Be..(?)
There are patterns, cross references; I think a major trope for me is
entanglement, maybe Buddhist depending-arising.
The focus seems to be of examples to do with mashing edges and
totalities of stuff.
And problematizing edges and totalities, as well as structures within and
without boundaries and totalities.
In a sense, without having the totality, the edges might be well
hidden, and by focusing on such endings of things - they seem to require
a perception oriented in absolutes.
Which is where the idea of blankness comes in, endings are always
problematized, at this point even in cosmology.
(An absolutive oriented programming..? ;) )
It seems to have a territorial oriented perception - of spaces,
endings, and edges. These corners are being put together, brought
together as a sort of collage(??). I think am trying to say that each
action of bringing these edges together - perhaps a Surge in the Notes'
own vocabulary - has a unique collection of these ends.
The Surge references the overcoming of all (scientific, biological, etc.)
knowledge, as such grows exponentially. The corners are always a
melange, abject, as far as culture's concerned. I wouldn't think of
collection (which implies data-bases, etc., and some degree of
exactitude), so much as collectivities.
Hence, it seems that each note can be an example - or Is an example(??)
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of an edges surge. Here are a few examples:
When speaking of life and death (in virtual worlds), it seems to take
these as binary objects, oppose to one another - hence by putting them
together, the edges become apparent. (this perception is based on
language of "death and "life", rather than a softer focus such as a
process of living, etc..)
Life and death in vr is always a question of representation, as well as
the death of software (or users) itself - for example, the 'body bags' in
many of the MOOs which were abandoned as their subcribers went elsewhere.
It _is_ always a question of process, but in the real world, death is a
finality, and how does one represent this? Think about it? How can death
and pain, in this regard, be represented, without turning to cartoon
images, etc.?
Dance/movement as a practice that brings together the virtual and the
physical realities. Or the sense of them. Again there is a sense of
edges coming together to form a new element/thing.
When one of my avatars moves in, say, Second Life, it's movement is
almost always a movement translated from physical dance, physical
dancers,
using software and topological remappings in mocap. But I'm always aware
of the physicality involved, even in virtual worlds - there's a kind of
trail of flesh...
Glitches - visuals(?? I assume here that we talk of visual ones, could
be all sorts though..) that are made when an edge of code meets an edge
of electronic/electric element/s.
Visual, but also crashes, logging-out of users, etc.
Language and its entangled limits. (i am not sure how this terminology
operates. however, in my mind, this seems to be of a linked nature with
the sense of digital/virtual - often used with a language for its
program - and its intrinsically linked edge - ie. the materiality of a
device/network line, body, etc..)
Yes, here -
The surge ofcourse is an absolute, and ISIS offers a new
absolutativeness. In a sense, ISIS is a sort of an embodied surge,
bringing together the ends of terroristic perception meshed with an
abosolutist historical perception, and statist/nationalistic edges,
coming from breaks and breaking the Sykes/Picot borders and colonial
assumptions - all occurring at the edges of deserts which meet fertile
lands.
The surge is two-fold, the absolute, but also the growth of knowledge -
and the tension or torsion between the two regions -
(Perhaps ISIS should be declared a Sondheim performance gone a bit
glitchy..?)
Would NEVER want to be associated that way! :-)
I could go on with examples, including the sense of elements going
Wrong -
ie breaking and by default new corners come together to form a
malfunction sense? (again, wrongness might require a sense of
totality..) Clutter as sense of things coming together, focusing on the
perceptions that rise via the sort of new body that comes out..?
Clutter also as something which can't be mapped, which escapes mapping...
In that sense, - new body that comes out - I thought that perhaps the
terror algorithm was/is a bit illustrative..? Almost decorative as such?
Just wonder how it might be if it was a terror oriented programming
language.. Or even much more interesting, I think, a terror calculus -
hence allowing new terror formations to be..?
There is a terror calculus, I think, which is the 0/1 section of the text
- it leads nowhere, only to collapse and absolutist division.
Also, talk of computer kind of languages.. Perl and language, and human
language.. Perhaps there could be a perl for camels? A perl that
perhaps is a camel? Or camel oriented? Might be a perl that's hardly
thirsty? Or a perl that is for deserts?
Hey.. Hope this somehow assists in something - or some process - been a
pleasure to delve into! :) Many THANKS for sharing, Alan!
Thank you so much for the close reading; as i said it's really useful,
it's rare to have such feedback, and I'll use it at the talk.
Cheers, and best!
Alan
Cheers and ciaos!
ahanonexx(??)
