Gnat swarming behavior

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
(This strongly relates to the construct of avatars in Second Life; think of the gnats as prims. Their homeostatic behavior is amazing. Hieroglyphs of an ancient species... Also check http://nikuko.blogspot.com ) Gnat swarming behavior The following video was made about 100 meters from the Jorda

Book Reviews - Books I like and some hardware/software as well

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I like and some hardware/software as well (not much) I'm behind in my reviews; the last few months have been a mess. I may be missing some books. I may have misplaced. others. I hunger for reading, but it's all transparent, pathetic, collapsed. There's nothing to say about reading that hasn

Debris from Paris Epoetry performance

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
materials below, two tabla/television works http://www.asondheim.org/fallingout.wav http://www.asondheim.org/fallingouter.wav ] [ alan sondheim avatar, some text, tabla, behavior collision sandy Taifun (Baldwin) avatar, text output, behavior chains original soundtrack with azure carter, composition

roaring burn

2007-05-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
roaring burn roaring doesn't get rid of the nightmare. burned the skin off several in the vicinity. wood screams to the sky burns. ash burns. cinders burn. coals burn. i asked cylinder.node.avatar c.n.a. cna: help me on this one and i'll let you go. now i don't know where they are. roaring bu

My Lost Films

2007-04-20 Thread Alan Sondheim
My Lost Films I made films from 1969-1993; most of them were carried by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco. The films are all mast prints; I didn't copy them, but showed the originals, since I wanted to use what little funds I had to produce more. They were shown periodically at Millennium in New Yor

Limits of the World

2007-04-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Limits of the World Gamespace is bracketed by the _blank_ and the _edge._ Unlike the physical world, gamespace isn't fractal: moving closer to a surface results in pixel enlargement (or penetration). This is the blank of gamespace. The blank isn't unknown; the blank is entirely known. The blank

Parable of the return

2007-04-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
Parable of the return Having perfected the machine which allowed us to travel backwards in time, we decided to visit the very origins of humankind, that savanna where proto-hominids roamed, beginning their conquest of the flora and fauna of the planet. We returned to a period before the great d

A/Rose for Baudrillard

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
A/Rose for Baudrillard I have troubled sleep; nightmares become me. Recently I traded in for a copy of Sartre, Troubled Sleep, signed by him, scrawled signature to a friend. Barthes was hit by a van I think, all these men and some women but less women - Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Lyot

Text from 2 Chicago Openport Performances

2007-03-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
ent i want to thank everyone here for allowing us to present! and Foofwa d'Imobilite and Maud Liardon for their brillians And Azure Carter for her support and brilliance And President bush for making this possible and the Swiss Government for funding this in part and the Alps for just being there. th

Reel Histrionic

2007-02-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Reel Histrionic In Eloquent Gestures, The Transformation of Performance Style in the Griffith Biograph films, Roberta E. Pearson describes 'histrionic' and 'verisimilar' codes of acting - a transformation from a melodramatic locus to incipient realism. She considers them in relation to 'analogica

Reduced De Montfort University Creative Writing and New Media guest

2007-01-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
Reduced De Montfort University Creative Writing and New Media guest lecture chat This is fascinating - I'm always curious how many of the old IRC commands are retranslated or reinterpreted in these newer chats 14:52:20 No problem - let me knowwhen to start 29-Jan-2007 14:52:29 ***MUZAK** 14:52:5

Delose

2006-12-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
Delose On the disaster of the future planet now ..."If one person, sane to a degree, may be found willing and ready to sacrifice his life and the life of others, for his beliefs in the now and hereafter, the world is doomed." ..."And yet it is a commonplace among us that the swarm of men and

Re: Gender and You

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
are condemning. And there's a huge difference. This isn't a discussion, at least not on my end. > but then, I'm not an essentialist and so I don't feel that women need > to speak in a unanimous voice. I just call it like I see it. > As long as the voice is speakin

Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help. (fwd)

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
Please note below - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:42:00 -0700 From: chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Theory and Writing To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Subject: Robert Anton Wilson Needs Our Help. (fwd) I just received this email from James Koehnline an

compressed internet text available

2006-09-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Gzipped Internet Text file http://www.asondheim.org/texts.txt.gz The file was assembled, as below; URLs were eliminated - most of them are out of date. This should create little difficulty (perhaps some slight formatting problems). The gzipped file is 5.9 megabytes and opens to 16 megabytes

Reviews of books I like in the midst of God my God of Sickness

2006-09-22 Thread Alan Sondheim
Reviews of books I like in the midst of God my God of Sickness Reviewing under the sign of fever: Principles of Stratigraphy, Amadeus W. Grabau, Dover, from the 1924 edi- tion. This was written at the end of the period of descriptive geology; computers and seismic analyses, tectonics and satel

Re: Disordered thinking through the origin of language (I'm in quotation)

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
Again, this begs the question. It doesn't matter to whether songs or speech or for that matter hand-clapping; what seems important is where does the symbolic register originate? What constitutes symbolization. How songs lead to 'verbs' is just beyond me, and why songs instead of, say, foot-sta

Re: Disordered thinking through the origin of language

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Sondheim
rt.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for n

Disordered thinking through the origin of language (I'm in quotation)

2006-09-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
(apologies for two posts in a row, but this has 'gone' somewhere of interest - Alan) Disordered thinking through the origin of language (I'm in quotation) - ... "I know this sounds ridiculous - but I'm on to something. If the body is hairless, then for example mud or blood will 'stick' to it -

origin of Measurement, language

2006-09-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
Origin of Measurement There's a hill over there (gestures) No there's a couple of hills Wait I'll be right back It's like skin I'm uncomfortable skinning around here I skinned that hill "Btw I'm still working with the .obj files as you can see from the scanner - one of the things I'm interes

Congress Poised to Unravel the Internet (fwd)

2006-08-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
Forwarding this in relation to what has been called 'the fragility of good things' - i.e. here the kind of precipice the Net's always been on - and which all too often we take for granted. Sooner or later we'll be back on a descendent of Fidonet, if we can afford it, if Verizon allows us... -

Interior and Absence (notes on recent work)

2006-08-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Interior and Absence (notes on recent work) In an attempt to explain my recent work... This is such an attempt, the attempt already referenced - Every surrounding space is non-existent, that is, every embedding space should be construed as invisible, unless vectored outside of the frame - i.e. p

re: Cinema

2006-06-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Making a general reply, in regard to cinema, digital, analogic, or otherwise:: First, There is _no_ cinema; there are discursive practices, fields of all sorts, with fuzzy boundaries, technologies that come and go, labors and energies that drive them. 'Cinema' itself already connotes style, 'se

Re: Cinematic video

2006-06-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
radition, if such it is, at all - there are cinemas of the 20th century surely but I'd be hard picked to define any of them. As far as 'cinema' goes, I think the word itself carries too much baggage. - Alan blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see

Re: calling all lurkers

2006-06-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
neral directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the ne

Commentary, Visuddhi Magga

2006-05-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Commentary, Visuddhi Magga "Next, after he has put on his waist cloth as one who hides an abscess, and tied his waist band as one who ties a bandage on a wound, and robed himself in his upper robes as one who hides a skeleton, and takes out his bowl as one who takes out a pan for medicine, when

What is Codework?

2006-05-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
What is Codework? Codework is a practice, not a product. It is praxis, part and parcel of the critique of everyday life. It is not canonic, although it is taken as such. It is not a genre, although it is taken as such. The term is relatively new and should always be renewed. We are suffused

philosophy

2006-05-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
(The following text is accompanied by images at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - it represents a condensation of my current work which I think should be of interest here. - Alan) Philosophy 1 How to begin philosophy, how to begin the process of philosophizing, an activity, a form of labor, th

Segmund

2006-04-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
Segmund Everything I've ever thought or done has gone into this movie. This movie is that political movie situated between Dreyer and Godard, no, between Bergmann and Godard. For there has to be Godard. Even now, a film which passes Godard, obliterates reference to cinema. But a serious film. We

Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -

2006-04-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked - Interagir, Avec les technologies numeriques, Nouvelles de Danse, 2004. This is a Belgian journal special issue devoted to dance and technology; there are articles by Johannes Birringer, La Danse et la perception interactives), Sa

some british measures, 1844

2005-12-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
some british measures, 1844 (somewhere between the long shadow of the medieval guilds and the dominance of local custom before the automobile and plane - every mercantile space its customary measure. as international communication grew, so did the need for standardization. here is britain in 184

performance text, Sarah Lawrence, 12/08/05

2005-12-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
performance text, Sarah Lawrence, 12/08/05 i is cold here are you is cold. arrgh. should there be rhyme? this is close to the apocalypse. it's daytime in iraq. the 9/11 commission: "we fail." this is live. "this is memorex." it's i'm not sure what time in pakistan. winter's coming in. winter's c

Re: Ticky tacky

2005-11-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, amanniste wrote: > Ticky Tacky > > I am seeing a lot of digital video on the net. I really have nothing > against video, and according to Moore's law it might be the ultimate > direction for net-art. At the present, however, it kind of annoys me. > Already a note of discord is

Melting Planet (fwd)

2005-10-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
Apologies for the constant forwards. The planet is at one of any number of crisis- points. At this point we should all join Peta, do our best to pass this information along, vote and act on it. - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 16:29:48 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAI

Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side' (fwd)

2005-10-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
Another article that needs further attention; the usual line is that religion provides a calming effect... - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:01:26 +0200 From: Maurizio Mariotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Philosophy and Psychology of Cyberspace <[EMAIL P

The Buck Stops with Lynndie (fwd)

2005-09-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
This just absolutely deserves to be better known. - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 21:24:01 -0400 (EDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Buck Stops with Lynndie The Buck Stops with Lynndie By Derrick Z.

perhaps for a book

2005-09-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
er date. In order for this to occur, the object containing the information must retain its configuration for limited periods. Further- more, [these periods] must be enough for all the information contained to be retrieved." - Alan Sondheim, artist talk, 1973, in Artists Talk, 1969-1977, edited b

The Past, and the Future Past Digest [3x]

2005-09-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
[digested @ nettime] Table of Contents: Childhood home of David Bohm Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [imitationpoetics] Literary Narcissism and the Manufacture of Scanda

Reviews of some recent books and then some -

2005-08-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
Reviews of some recent books and then some - These are texts relevant to net art. Some I have found personally more useful than others; this is the result of my own predilection of course. They are review copies. In some cases, I've failed the te(x)(s)t. Digital Video Hacks, Tips and Tools for

The Scar of Progress, Los Angeles

2005-08-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
The Scar of Progress, Los Angeles Or: the origin of sprawl and the Iraq War. The Red Cars, an electric railway system, characterized Los Angeles early on. It was later dismantled. The system led to LA's rapid/rabid expansion. There was money to be made by busline replacement, even though buses h

Anthracite Casualties

2005-08-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
Anthracite Casualties The estimates of the number of men and boys dying in the anthracite minefields of Pennsylvania from the mid 1800s through the first few decades of the 20th century seem to vary a great deal. The particular volume illustrated below lists 1622 deaths for the three years 1910-1

My Sixty-Five Failures

2005-08-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
My Sixty-Five Failures I dread this. My first failure is an inability to sleep through the night, no matter what; insomnia and nightmares occur constantly. My second failure is a failure to relax, to take time out and enjoy things, to not see the world through pessimistic eyes. My third fail

State of new media from strawberry fields forever -

2005-07-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
State of new media from strawberry fields forever - The work I'm doing isn't much different from the work you're doing. It will disappear when the net goes down or when it's no longer tended. Nobody tends things forever. It's amazingly ephemeral; there's nothing to it; it's stillborn, passed in e

Radio, the World, the Discrete

2005-06-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
( from an ongoing analysis at http://www.as.wvu.edu:8000/clc/projects/plaintext_tools/ ) Radio, the World, the Discrete Not only is radio tremulous in its reception of the stars themselves; it is also analogic, requiring no decoding; what you hear, what you record, is what there is. The opposit

Books I Like

2005-06-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I Like, with an apology at the end, reiterated here, for the length of this, occasioned (as will be said) by a backlog created by travel. Enjoy! Five Years of My Life, Alfred Dreyfus, George Newnes, London, 1901. This is of course translated from the French. I found this copy in Copperton,

Of Speech As of Number

2005-06-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
Of Speech As of Number Number names in various languages (for example Japanese) alter in relation to their quantified; '3 books' and '3 people' may have different words for '3' altogether. In English, the number words are unary, however. However, and this relates to issues of analog/digital

forgotten mode of hacking

2005-06-04 Thread Alan Sondheim
forgotten mode of hacking http://www.asondheim.org/ - go to radio jpgs - from a 1922-1924 book on radio, the illustrations indicate that 'hacking' existed at least as early as 1920-21 - in relation to radio. the structures are similar - 'generation gap,' ad-hoc innovation, networking (there is a

pulling the plug on WiFi

2005-04-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
This article was forwarded to me by Gerald Jones. In Brooklyn, I've got WiFi and anyone can use it as far as I'm concerned. A block away on Bergen is a publicly advertised hotspot. You sit on the curb or a brownstone stoop and you're on. Wifi is still obviously for the wealthy - PDAs w/access

reviews +interview (fwd) - Julian Samuel

2005-04-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
I've followed Julian's work for years and this video - on libraries and the politics of libraries - is both troubling and incredible. If you have a chance to see the work, do! You can contact Julian at the email address below; he lives in Montreal. - Alan -- Forwarded message --

Jennifer Lopez on Sitney's The Essential Cinema (fwd)

2005-04-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
The Power Vacuum / Vacuum Power "In 1975, within a small but important cultural institution, a small group of men laid down the law." (Alan Sondheim) Front cover: Stark: white letters on black background: "THE ESSENTIAL CINEMA: / Essays on the films / in the collection of /

Re: Re: Short bibliography on analytical/digital thinking vis-a-vis semiotics

2005-03-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
f existence are archived here. > > all best wishes, > > Christina McPhee > > On Sunday, March 27, 2005, at 05:44 AM, nettime-l-digest wrote: > >> nettime-l-digestSunday, March 27 2005 Volume 01 : Number 1566 > <...> >> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2

Books I like! Some reviews of recent readings:

2005-03-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I like! Some reviews of recent readings: Hong, Sungoog, Wireless: from Marconi's black-box to the audion. This book covers the very early history of radio, including topics such as 'syntony' or tuning; as radio developed, so did the narrowing of the wave-cast. The concepts of electromagnet

Short bibliography on analytical/digital thinking vis-a-vis semiotics.

2005-03-24 Thread Alan Sondheim
Short bibliography on analytical/digital thinking vis-a-vis semiotics. Most of this material is fairly old; use with care! The concepts are there, hovering in the background, however. Barthes, Roland, Elements of Semiology, Noonday, 1967. As with S/Z a 'lit- erary' semiotics, not so useful epist

THE RIGHTEOUS KEEP THE BRAINDEAD ALIVE

2005-03-20 Thread Alan Sondheim
THE RIGHTEOUS KEEP THE BRAINDEAD ALIVE Empty stage. In the center, a wooden chair and table. There is a glass and pitcher of water. A desklamp provides the only light. (long pause) (Jennifer enters from stage left, sits down. she is wearing a red- brown dress and sandals. her

Addition to Aphoristic Essay (see below)

2005-03-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
[apologies for this, but it's an essential element.] Addition to Aphoristic Essay to be inserted after "The world slips through the fingers." Any element of a raster is independent of any other element. Any element may be transformed without transforming any other element. Truth values withi

Aphoristic Essay on Analog and Digital Orders

2005-03-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
Aphoristic Essay on Analog and Digital Orders The digital: by 'digital' I mean 'discrete.' By 'digital' I mean 'systemic,' characterized by systematization, parameterization. The analog appears continuous; the digital appears discrete, broken. In everyday life, the digital is the result of an

Re: [_arc.hive_] Re: On Code and Codework

2005-03-13 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, [windows-1252] Bj=F8rn Magnhild=F8en wrote: You're right about the entities; I should have stated at x, y, z, are independent, classical Aristotelian entities. > But isn't this where meaning is produced, contrary to eg. a tautology? > So it would be to go to the source of mea

On Code and Codework

2005-03-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
On Code and Codework Consider a well-defined entity x, and its complement -x. Then x^-x = N, the null set. Consider a second entity y and -y, y^-y = N. Think Nx and Ny, the null set relativized to x and y. Consider three entities x, y, z, and take pairs xy, yz, zx. These are symmetrical yx, zy,

Re: introducing meta-daria, an autonomous discourse [green,

2005-02-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Whew... I find any limitation of art re: definition problematic to say the least. The same with kitsch; there is a real class consciousness here that makes me uncomfortable. Look at Bourdieu's Distinction. It's art, period. It may not be art you like and it may be in fact art that you or I would

Book Review of Books Mostly Liked

2005-02-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Book Review of Books Mostly Liked This is written in a more traditional style, in the hopes of greater distribution, and readership, and in the hopes it will be of greater use. I already reviewed Bunt's Islam in the Digital Age for RCCS and will send that out in the future, when it's published on

blogging and truth (fwd) and the rest of it

2005-02-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
I recently reviewed a book on news blogging, and the following, as with much on the Net, seems to indicate corrosion already setting in. - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 08:29:08 - From: J Armitage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Interdisciplinary academic s

Codework Self-Negated

2005-01-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
Codework Self-Negated If not for self-negation, codework remains within formal structures, broken, chaotic, or otherwise. It's semantics that opens up the universe of discourse; at the same time, semantics shuts down or bypasses the structures. The problematization of language rises by itself

Re: delusional no longer marginal/bill moyers (fwd)

2004-12-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-1260143110-1103608187=:4895 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Plea

The Spoons Collective (fwd)

2004-11-28 Thread Alan Sondheim
Spoons Cybermind and fiction-of-philosophy, now wryting, began in association with Spoons, and on the Spoons servers. Malgosia Askanas has been the major force, I believe, in Spoons - which has brilliantly housed a number of philosophy lists for years. The fading of the collective is, I thin

General Principle of Narrative (Violence) Under Capital

2004-11-15 Thread Alan Sondheim
General Principle of Narrative (Violence) Under Capital 1. The general principal of narrative under capital is _withholding._ 2. In withholding, information, which would propel the narrative forward, is withheld in order to lengthen, not enrich, the diegetic flow. 3. Within capital, lengthening

Books I like and reasons to read them

2004-11-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I like and reasons to read them - This is one of my columns reviewing recent purchases, trades, arrivals, found books, bound and unbound books. While I'm writing it, I'm listening to 'embedded' reporters make their ugly one-sided reports from the troops in Fallujah. I broke down earlier. Ou

Full transcript of bin Ladin's speech

2004-11-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
I think this is a cultural document of the first order. And frightening and strange, strangely frightening. Before the Stalinist knocks begin at the door here, I want to say I don't endorse this at all. But it should be read. - Alan english aljazeera net: Full transcript of bin Ladin's spee

CFP: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (PEHW) Issue 5]

2004-10-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
Apologies for cross-posting. = UPDATE: Call for Papers Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Open Issue (Fall 2004) ISSN: 1471-5597 Deadline for submissions is November 15, 2004. _Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness_ is an interdisciplinary ejournal whic

(periodic notice on my work)

2004-10-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
ress Collective, 1997 Forthcoming books from Salt and Blazevox. Alan Sondheim 718-857-3671 or 718-813-3285 (US) 432 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11217, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] === # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collabo

Reviews of Books and Others that I like

2004-09-07 Thread Alan Sondheim
ves webcams, camera phones, sms, blogs, and almost daily new forms of journalism and journalistic expertise. Do check out this book; it gives one both guidelines and a sense of hope in terms of the future of free information and information-dissemination. Vel, Alan Sondheim, BlazeVOX, 2004.

nn !nnozentz

2004-08-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
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Re: what is going on, on nettime?

2004-08-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
It's not only what moves people these days, but how people are moved, and, to be honest, how one wants to move them. It's a question on the one hand, of course, of political/political economy, especially for some of us, bandwidth/distribution economy - but it's also a question of language and lang

Sweetwater Creek and MrMr Nettime Raw

2004-08-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Sweetwater Creek and MrMr Nettime Raw Shooter Data Entry 10-Oct-03 Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6 Stage 7 Total Rank Alias SASS # Class Raw TimeNet Time Raw TimeNet TimeRaw TimeNet Time Raw TimeNet Time

Books I like and the reasons why -

2004-07-18 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I like and the reasons why - I've been traveling and working for the past couple of months; here's the latest - texts and others I'm fascinated by - Google, The Missing Manual, Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly: This is the third book on Google help that O'Reilly's published, and

Reviews of books I like and more -

2004-06-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
cal Notice, by Count Daru: also, The Controversy between Dr. Priestly and Volney, Boston, 1835. Has anyone read all of Volney? I'm fascinated by this work, which I'm dipping into - I'm sure it's been republished - it's available all over the Net - influenced the Shelleys - he

Re: Images and Official Language: The Gap or How not to Know

2004-06-01 Thread Alan Sondheim
I think to be fair here, that there is a process of contamination going on, which is becoming more and more evident; that the images by their very overdetermined nature, are a form of speeage that will not be contained, will not be defined by any particularization, whether it be a group of seven s

Susan Sontag on Digital Hall of Mirrors & Horrors

2004-05-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
I'm forwarding this to the nettime list - I haven't seen it there before - because it strikes at the heart of this country, the frat-boy mentality, the ultra-violent manipulation of language which permits any degree of actrocities. - Alan -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 21 May

Books I like and highly recommend!

2004-05-11 Thread Alan Sondheim
Books I like and highly recommend! The following are books I've read or am currently reading, mostly the former. They're wonderful and I think are definitely worth your attention. Two books that bear comparison, both from Salt Catherine Daly, DaDaDa and Loss Pequeno Glazier, Anatman, Pumpki

modest proposal

2004-04-12 Thread Alan Sondheim
a modest proposal that one american civilian be killed for each iraqi civilian killed a heart for a heart a tooth for a tooth in all fairness i will be first someone must be first war will never end our lives are dangerous _ # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # i

dead c. for mel g.

2004-03-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
dead c. for mel g. i i'm a jew says jesus, you're not. i'm a jew, i'm a jew, i'm a jew. ii christians throw a good ceremony. iii i'm the blood of the lamb, says jesus. look, i can suck my own blood. i can suck my own skin. stop spitting. christianity is a real mess, jesus says. iv a chr

collaboration

2004-03-21 Thread Alan Sondheim
collaboration la the enemy, espionage, each reading the other, of public arrive at everything through collaboration, discussion, lb you'd be surprised collaborative work series into a hypertext collaboration list or co moderate or begin or end collaborationsinside of me it /*in*/ where i work

Re: what would be nettime's reading list?

2004-03-02 Thread Alan Sondheim
There are so many books... I would offer - definitely: Koran, Bible, Analects - at the least. I don't think it's possible to understand contemporary culture and fundamentalisms without them. There's a series of Verso books - the No-Nonsense Guides - I've read the one on Islam, which brilliantly

BOOKS I LIKE - some reviews of books I've been reading and using:

2004-02-25 Thread Alan Sondheim
BOOKS I LIKE - some reviews of books I've been reading and using: Degunking Windows, Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann, Paraglyph Press, 2004 . I use both WinXP and Linux for multimedia work; recently, I've also been using an old Win98 machine which I put on the network here (DSL + WiFi). I recently

Re: Code and its Double [2x]

2004-02-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Table of Contents: Re: Code and its Double (in relation to brain asymmetry) Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Re: Code and its Double (in relation to brain asymmetry) Alan So

Notes on codework

2004-02-10 Thread Alan Sondheim
A few notes on codework for an upcoming talk - A difficulty I have with codework discussions - codework is usually taken as pseudo-code or broken or dysfunctional code somehow pasted onto or into a work - as if that would give the work credence, legitimize the text as literature etc. But nothing

this is MAPS for you

2004-02-09 Thread Alan Sondheim
this is MAPS for you you should read this MAPS because they will try to stop this MAPS you have no idea how hard it is to get this MAPS through to you you should invest in this MAPS because they would not make it so hard if it were not so good and you know hard is best because it is best for you

Blue Moose performance, Morgantown W. Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004endofempire

2004-02-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Blue Moose performance, Morgantown W. Virginia, Feb. 4, 2004 */multi-stream audio-video accompaniment/* tao and nonce nonce tao tao it's dark in here can you hear me can you hear me i'm not at all comfortable at the moment i'm not sure what 'im going to do but there are there are errors at work

THE USA HAS ALL THE LUCK

2004-01-31 Thread Alan Sondheim
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MAX

2004-01-19 Thread Alan Sondheim
MAX the purpose of a corporation is to maximize profits for its officers. there is no other reason for the existence of a corporation. a corporation is not bound by any regulations it can avoid. a corporation, like water, finds its way towards the maximum. a corporation should have no regard for

Empire

2004-01-17 Thread Alan Sondheim
Empire We are the first successful Empire in a century. We are the world's first and last Superpower. We are not Amerika or Amerikkka. We are America. We are proud of what we do. You are weak and we are strong. We are the proudest people on earth. We own you. We control your economy through our

from brooklyn

2003-12-23 Thread Alan Sondheim
theyre' coming in the tubes, several to each tunnel, theyll' burn furiously, theyll' be in trunks of invisible cars, theyll' be the cargo in the golfbag, the petcarrier- litterbox-, theyll' be simultaneous, were' waiting for the compression wave, air and steel have nowhere to go, the waters rush i

from today's news.google.com

2003-12-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
nettime's not famous for its humor but google's automatically-generated portal news page produced the following today - Sci/Tech 425m-year-old penis found Telegraph.co.uk - 2 hours ago A 425-million-year-old fossilised penis, the oldest one yet recorded, has been discovered by scientists. Se

Our Quiet Lives...

2003-11-16 Thread Alan Sondheim
Our Quiet Lives... This is the safety zone. Within these borders... Everything else outside - corruption, decay. This is safe for us. Love at the barricades. What happens outside the frame. The frame problem - not to adjust the real, but to keep it out. The problem with everything real. Go thro

Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning (fwd)

2003-11-03 Thread Alan Sondheim
I find the following strangely disconcerting, as a major linux provider slides out from its customer base. For some this would indicate a growth and maturity of the community - for most of us, it already implies a problematic development of open source community. - Alan -- Forwarded mess

Re: Community, what is it, and Nettime

2003-09-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
If nettime is a community 'with something in common' - it remains to be seen what that is. On one level, it's the configurable structure of the listserv itself. On another, it's the somewhat loosely defined concerns of the participants - and that's actually true of other lists as well. One thing t

Re: Request to Nettime to be part of DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY online forum with Eyebeam

2003-09-27 Thread Alan Sondheim
Just want to say all of this is some of the most interesting mail I've seen on nettime - I hope somewhere it gets republished - and in fact it's a collaboration in itself, a groupuscular/ chaotic response. - alan fractured http://www.asondheim.org/ http://www.asondheim.org/portal/ http://www.anu.

Re: Request to Nettime to be part of DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY

2003-09-26 Thread Alan Sondheim
This does raise interesting questions, not only about online community and the problematic construct of nettime as community - but also about the structure of nettime and its adaptability - if this were an augment to the list and not the 'theme' for five-plus weeks, I don't see why not. Nettime is

After Auschwitz

2003-09-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
After Auschwitz 0.109299 19k one might speculate that art may be the most powerful device to create some understanding, despite Adornos warning of No lyric poetry after Auschwitz.. true /Reviews/reviews.html 35k death camps with the efficiency of a factory. No wonder Adorno

humans slaughter

2003-09-14 Thread Alan Sondheim
humans slaughter slaughter > "humans slaughter" Wrong boolean value 'false' false What if humans treat and slaughter the animals humanely? Regardless of how well the animals are treated, I believe that it is wrong true PETAs Answer to Animal Slaughter: Eat Humans Instead. -

Is the Internet Dying?

2003-09-05 Thread Alan Sondheim
Is the Internet Dying? Recently there has been a great deal of discussion of "Is the Internet Dying" which is a very controversial issue. Some say the Internet is dying and will not survive. Others say the Internet will continue forever and it is fine. I think the Internet is going through diffi

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