Re: HYPER NETWORK
On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:47 PM, _dream.thick[ener]_ wrote: http://textzi.net/1/textzine01.pdf At 10:41 AM 25/08/2005, you wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote: i couldn't read the spanish text, but i have a stack of farm pulps, i read that zine for years. i'd love to flip through that stack of farm pulps. coincidentally miekal's gif bears a striking resemblance to some of dee's code-squares.. coincidentally, the spanish text was formatted using javE. best, ivan http://textzi.net
Re: HYPER NETWORK
this is funny, what you have to know, is that i was trying to read miekal's message on a webmail client that doesnt display his mail client's messages properly, so i saw his gif as its code, in the guts of the code i saw the name of his file. i re:sent his message to myself which then produced the proper gif. its not a big stack! but a stack. here's where i bought most of my farm pulps http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ but powells sells them too, or did. i'm thumbing through the 'Caustic Gospels' issue [Aug./Sept. 2000] as i write this: Jesus may have lived for all of us, but it was the city he worked for, travelling its streets in boxy municipal vehicles wearing a yellow hard hat and bright green safety vest. from the 'lord at work' sect. http://www.farmpulp.com/ - Original Message - From: ivan lópez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:57 AM Subject: Re: HYPER NETWORK On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:47 PM, _dream.thick[ener]_ wrote: http://textzi.net/1/textzine01.pdf At 10:41 AM 25/08/2005, you wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote: i couldn't read the spanish text, but i have a stack of farm pulps, i read that zine for years. i'd love to flip through that stack of farm pulps. coincidentally miekal's gif bears a striking resemblance to some of dee's code-squares.. coincidentally, the spanish text was formatted using javE. best, ivan http://textzi.net
a Momus song
Corkscrew King Bakatono bakemono henna ojisan Gamushara sekuhara henna ojisan The king is in the winter, in the winter of his prime Welcome to the kingdom of the Corkscrew King See him pour a jet of wine across a concubine See him try in vain to plunge the corkscrew in See him eat sashimi from a naked woman's breast See him drink wakame sake from her sex Send in all the dancing girls and send in all the wine He's impotent, omnipotent, and only 69 Send in Dr Mojo who can turn back time Send in more Viagra to halt the decline When you're 69 the sky is overcast The castle flag is flying... half mast The gate is shut, the canon blocked The flower they fire at one o'clock half-cocked The tower flops, the blossom drops The king will play the shamisen Bakatono bakemono henna ojisan Gamushara sekuhara henna ojisan The Yogi Dr Swami with his hand upon his thing Guru by appointment to the Corkscrew King Says 'A badger in the hand is worth a badger in the bush A badger down your pants, you've got to push push push' An aged man, the poet says, is but a paltry thing A tattered coat upon a stick, unless he sing So clap your hands for every wrinkle in your mortal dress Join the throng and dance along with the Corkscrew King Send in Dr Mojo who can turn back time The castle flag is flying and the weather's fine But when you're 69 the sky is overcast The castle flag is flying... half mast The gate is shut, the canon blocked The flower they fire at one o'clock half-cocked The tower flops, the blossom drops The king will play the shamisen
Fw: SNAP Crying the Neck
as you may have worked out, this went to the wrong list L -Original Message-From: Lawrence Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CADate: Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:30 AMSubject: Fw: SNAP Crying the Neck HAL didnt like my opening
Re: on primes
the primesum idea falls apart quite quickly, already at the 12th prime. my work is not valid, sure, it's mostly erroneous. let's take it from there. not pos prime comment 12: 161 16: 329331 is prime 18: 441439,443 22: 713shit 23: 793likewise 24: 875877 25: 965967 28: 1265 whatever 31: 1595 1597 33: 1853 i'm freezing 34: 1989 the world is cold 36: 2277 some number 37: 2429 where are your neighbours? 38: 2585 rain 40: 2915 birds are a relief i like birds 42: 3267 hell 44: 3639 3637 yes you're friendly 46: 4029 4027 you're my twin sotosay i feel better 48: 4439 4441 bird chirp 54: 5831 WOW, there's a long jump! of 250.. i understand these are awful things to deal with 55: 6083 you'll pay later i get it 56: 6339 friendly as hell 57: 6603 four is also square to you 59: 7143 loss loss loss it remains curiously frustrating 60: 7419 oh, you're there after all call me 61: 7701 yes let go of us looking up host.. waiting.. there's the helicopter, i want to go out hope the bed is long enough, 1890's? thanks, you're my oh everything will be like this all ways are keep banging your head sleep will come surely don't worry no place to go
Hey Wryting ;)
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Re: my work is no longer valid
I didn't set the price. It's the coop and is probably standard. It's also a unique and irreplaceable print. - Alan On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Paul Stone wrote: URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 ) Man, I'd love to see Hollywood but at 140 bucks rental, your work is a bit too valid for my blood. p ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 )
Instinctual-Cultural States
Instinctual-Cultural States Both great blue herons and snowy egrets do food dances, stirring up the muddy bottom layers of a body of water, so that invertebrates and small fish attempt to flee the disturbance. Dinner! The snowy egret seems more nervous, constantly vibrating the water equally with one and then the other foot, shaking the sediment loose. There are two techniques; both conserve energy. The inactive technique requires waiting, hardly moving at all: this is the usual pointed stance of the birds. When a fish or other animal becomes visible, it can be instantly seized with little energy. The active technique involves the dances themselves, throwing the animals into confusion. More food, but a greater energy expenditure which balances out. The dance itself involves turning, wing-flapping, something ruffling the surface as if taking off, only to move a few feet. These actions can be repeated three or four times in a row as the food is hurried along. I've seen the willets use another technique altogether, picking up plants and other organic debris from the shallows, then shaking it wildly, finally jabbing at the result. It's difficult to tell what is happening with a standard video camera (i.e. not high-speed), but small mollusks are most likely shaken loose. The jabbing is ferocious and rhythmic. Now all of these are foraging techniques; there are also, of course, the skimmers, the bobbers, the divers, the plunge divers, the sifters. In almost every case, the prey is small. What is most fascinating, however, about the dance behavior, is the potential degree to which this represents culture, not 'instinct,' however defined. Do all populations of egrets and herons perform similarly, or rather equivalently? I'm not in a position to judge. Surely there are new techniques; the willet debris shaking is most likely one of them. Another point, to which I have no answer: How related are these behaviors to mating behaviors? And again, how much of both may be considered cultural? For these behaviors are not simple, as, for example, the plunge diving of the least tern might be - a singular and necessary monotonic act, for the most part. Of course even with the least tern we do not see what goes on beneath the surface. But the dance itself is even at first sight complex; there are numerous behaviors associated in various combinations. I could not tell in any case whether egrets or herons favor the left or right foot; with the snowy egrets, the division of labor between left and right seemed equivalent. The great blue had another technique, along with remaining still, pointing, and that is a slow wading which also involved what I think must be the right foot slowly moving backward as the bird advances - backward beneath the surface, almost imperceptibly plowing the bottom. I can only assume this does not frighten the bottom-dwellers, but registers only as a slight inconvenience, to which they might respond by momentarily surfacing, seeking another cover - not to be found, as the heron quickly catches its prey. These birds - great blues and snow egrets - see almost three hundred sixty degrees; this is obvious when they face you forward, their eyes, immersed in the sides of their heads, clearly visible and watching. The world appears constantly and in the dance of hunter and prey, however defined, we see energy held to a minimum, high survival, and a slim possibility of out-waiting the depredations of man. I have taped some of the above behaviors at the Bolsa Chica wildlife preserve in Huntington Beach, California. I am interested in instinctual- cultural states (ICS) and their relation to historiography. For example, we assume an absence of Jurassic technology (except of course for the museum devoted to it!); our assumptions guide our investigations. But there is no indication for example that all reptilian behavior, even today, is instinctual, and given the long-term development of the dinosaurs, there is a good possibility that what even we might concede as cultural existed in ages remote from our own. When we look at birds, we are witnessing today a new ethological-cultural ornithology in the making, as definitions and values of ICS change. We have set ourselves up as arbiters of intelligence and survival upon the planet, and have acted accordingly, and brutally. It is too late to glimpse anything but the remnants of other intelligence, as our own falters upon some ulterior shore most likely of our own making. _
Re: the url
These are beautiful remind me of the corners of 19th-century type drawers... - Alan On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Dan Waber wrote: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ Sorry about that, Dan ( URLs/DVDs/CDroms/books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - revised 7/05 )
Re: my work is no longer valid
Although I think this is really funny and a good description of many experimental movies and/or poems, it does remind me of the time when experimental movies were known as underground movies. This appellation was useful, I now realize in retrospect, because if the movie turned out to be bad, as they often but not always were by any means, one could say to oneself and to anybody who happened to accompany you to the aforesaid film: that one really should have stayed underground. It is precisely because of this expanded recollection that I enjoyed this poem. Thanks, Tom SavageAlan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "i've always wanted to make an experimental movie."i've run out of ideas."this is already 24 megabytes and i've been reducing."it's an experimental movie."it owes everything to joseph cornell."it's about the forces of nature and industry."everything i've seen is exactly like it."it's an experimental movie.heartlandexperimentalmovieour innermost beingmurmur of purring machinesconstant sleepiness in the hollow waiting for our demisebeings before us, beings after usour sense of being, equivalent to being,would a bee or a hummingbird, Heidegger, Daseinthese are not idle questionshttp://www.asondheim.org/heartlandexperimentalmovie.mp4i've always wanted to make an experimental movienow in the heart of the heartland, why not?for these are empires in the making,! all of themand we won't be here much longeri wouldn't even wait if i were you_ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page
Palaverist
First, there is the Horned Screamer... She had a largely developed and palpigerous labium with which she scribbled in a spiral from the apex to the nadir of his paper duncecap holding the magical quill while she hummed with her knees. Such musical knees these joints that move out of time out of sense out of nature out of taste, mind, and use She had a largely developed and palpigerous labium with which she juggled coccoons of knotted constants like a ferris wheel or circular saw buzzing through the empty hive of space where the boardwalks whined and dined, all of the ocean's width, to a benchmark where the burning sword of birth is a writ to the writhing. Note: There is a palpebre which issues a palpocil down into this palsied text. [where crooked word swimmerettes accursed with de.tour(n)ettes *begokk* and feumjun] BECAUSE there is a small line-drawing in the womb of this poem made by palatography. http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/faciliti/facilities/physiology/EGP_picture.JPG
Re: Instinctual-Cultural States
i agree with this alan, they are now finding in deep caves some very complicated communities within the bacterial matts, and really, what could be more absolutely 'cultural' than an ecosystem where all kinds of behaviors and practices are tried and integrated and built upon for millenia. ecosystems were always already cultures as well as chemico-morphological computers for that matter.. Eugene Marais the 19th Century Termite expert conceived of the Termite mound as a single individual being, though his model of a distributed intelligence was overlooked. Also re: culture in birds, one need look no further than the various species of bowery birds and their elaborate nest building 'culture' which has been found to be absolutely regional even differing from park to park or yard to yard with the urban species. this is well documented. some beautiful naturalist writing and ekphrasis here, thanks. lq our assumptions guide our investigations. But there is no indication for example that all reptilian behavior, even today, is instinctual, and given the long-term development of the dinosaurs, there is a good possibility that what even we might concede as cultural existed in ages remote from our own. When we look at birds, we are witnessing today a new ethological-cultural ornithology in the making, as definitions and values of ICS change. _
Re: Instinctual-Cultural States
Thanks for this very interesting text, Alan. I've been thinking along similar lines in relation to fish. I have three small freshwater aquaria in my apartment and have been reading up and observing (nothing expensive or exotic--can't afford/house it). I was most struck by studies of fish rivalry and fighting in particular. Display is so significant that it's clear that fish work in a realm of representation. Fights where fish have been exposed to each other visually beforehand, across a transparent divider, end much more quickly and in favor of the larger fish, than fights between fish who have never before seen each other. While it almost seems like a fatalistic 'attitude' to fights, it's also obivously a mechanism that reduces long-term wear-and-tear on the fish, since fights 'determined in advance' are always shorter. As you suggest, the question is where this sort of representation, which always involves flaring of gills and fins and certain patterns of motion, shades into a visual 'culture' -- I am amazed by their sensory abilities, by the way. Catfish, like my pimelodus pictus, can detect electromagnetic impulses generated by muscle activity; they use it to find buried prey. Sharks have the same capability and will lunge 'blind', a membrane covering their eyes, relying on electromagnetic because it is more accurate than vision. The lateral line system is also incredibly sensitive, detecting minute currents; fish have been shown able to detect the motion of hair-width glass rods using this system. -- Ryan On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Alan Sondheim wrote: Instinctual-Cultural States
Re: multeity codons
Excellent Lanny. Visual cacophony! -PeterARTIST'S BLOG - http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/ -Original Message-From: Lanny Quarles [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CASent: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:01:00 -0700Subject: multeity codons http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/2.jpg (119k)http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/3sm.jpg (141k)http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/3.jpg (800k)
Re: Instinctual-Cultural States
More animals join the learning circle a.. 27 August 2005 b.. NewScientist.com news service c.. Betsy Mason Related Articles a.. Copycat chimps are cultural conformists b.. 22 August 2005 c.. Orangutans swinging culture revealed d.. 02 January 2003 e.. The lore of the jungle f.. 19 June 1999 g.. Search New Scientist h.. Contact us Web Links a.. US Animal Behavior Society b.. Marineland, Niagara Falls c.. Michael Noonan, Canisius College in Buffalo d.. Janet Mann, Georgetown University KILLER whales and chimpanzees both pass on traditions to other members of their group, according to two separate studies of feeding behaviour. The findings add to evidence that cultural learning is widespread among animals. One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water's surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws. They are in a way setting a trap, says animal behaviourist Michael Noonan of Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, who made the discovery, They catch three or four gulls this way some days. The orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish into the water. He waits for a bird to grab the fish and then lunges Noonan had never seen the behaviour before, despite three years of observations for separate experiments. But a few months after the enterprising male started doing it, Noonan spied the whale's younger half-brother doing the same thing. Soon the brothers' mothers were enjoying feathered snacks, as were a 6-month-old calf and an older male. Noonan presented the research this month at the US Animal Behavior Society meeting in Snowbird, Utah. Wild dolphins off the west coast of Australia were the first marine mammals in which cultural learning was observed. They apparently learn from group-mates how to use sponges to protect their snouts while scavenging (New Scientist, 11 June, p 12). But the evidence from killer whales is much more conclusive because the process was observed from start to finish. Some researchers have suggested that many purported examples of cultural transmission can instead be explained by individuals discovering the skill on their own rather than following another's lead. But because the gull-baiting behaviour is so unusual, it would be hard to argue that it is individual learning, says ethologist Janet Mann of Georgetown University in Washington DC, one of the authors of the dolphin sponging study. Behavioural scientist Andrew Whiten of the University of St Andrews in the UK agrees, This is a particularly clear set of observations. Whiten and his colleagues have meanwhile shown in a separate study that when chimpanzees learn a skill from their peers, they tend to stick with that method even if it isn't the most effective. Whiten's team taught two female chimps how to get food from a complicated feeder using a stick to move a barrier. One chimp learned to lift the barrier while the other was taught an apparently more efficient poking method. The chimps' group-mates were then allowed to watch their respective experts at work. The chimps followed the lead of their own expert chimp - the poker's group preferred to poke and the lifter's group lifted (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature04047). And even when some lifters learned to poke, the majority reverted to the group's original lifting strategy. From issue 2514 of New Scientist magazine, 27 August 2005, page 8 Getting the message Chimpanzees appear to be capable of communicating using sounds that refer to specific objects, according to a study of sounds made in response to different foods. It is the first time this ability has been demonstrated in chimps. Primatologist Katie Slocombe of the University of St Andrews, UK, recorded the grunts made by chimps at nearby Edinburgh Zoo as they collected food at two feeders. One dispensed bread, considered a high-quality treat, and the other doled out apples, a much less sought-after snack. Slocombe then played back the recordings and watched the reactions of a 6-year-old male named Liberius. The results were striking. After hearing a bread grunt, Liberius spent far more time searching around the bread feeder, while an apple grunt would send him hunting under the apple feeder. Slocombe presented the work at the US Animal Behavior Society meeting in Snowbird, Utah, this month. This is the first convincing evidence of referential communication in chimps, says primatologist Amy Pollick of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Earlier research with a close cousin of the chimpanzee - a male pygmy chimpanzee, or bonobo, named Kanzi - showed that he made specific sounds for four different things: bananas, grapes, juice and yes. But the researchers did not test if the
Re: multeity codons
ooks like a highly organized swarm to me if visual writing has to look like anything other than itself. On Aug 25, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Peter Ciccariello wrote: x-tad-biggerExcellent Lanny./x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerVisual cacophony!/x-tad-bigger x-tad-biggerSubject: multeity codons/x-tad-bigger http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/2.jpg (119k) http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/3sm.jpg (141k) http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/desktopcollage/codons/3.jpg (800k) The word is the first idiotype. Isidore Isou, 1947.
Possible Ivory Billed Woodpecker recordings
The loud sound in the middle of the recording is a wren, the sounds before after are the phantom sounds. My question is, if no one alive has ever heard these birds since they were last seen in the 20s I believe, assuming they sound like other big woodpeckers is pretty soft science. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/field/listening/new1
Humans to answer call of the wild
Humans to answer call of the wild People with a desire to show off are being invited to take part in a display of human nature at London Zoo. Volunteers will make up a flock of homo sapiens and spend four days on Bear Mountain at the zoo with only fig leaves to protect their modesty. From Friday the humans will be cared for by the keepers and kept entertained with various forms of enrichment. The Human Zoo will demonstrate the basic nature of man and examine the impact they have on the animal Kingdom. A spokeswoman said it depended on the calibre of the applicants as to how many people they took on. Anyone wanting to take part has until the end of Monday to apply and must explain in 50 words why they should be chosen.
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Re: HYPER NETWORK
lanny, thanks for the links. this one was cool: http://www.farmpulp.com/keyboard.html particularly this part: 'In hindsight, I realized I could have hit Command/Option/S and not just saved the world but done a Save As. That is, saving the world just as it is, but under another name like Greta or Babar or Murray.' i think i'll be getting more of these zines... best, ivan On Aug 25, 2005, at 4:35 AM, Lanny Quarles wrote: this is funny, what you have to know, is that i was trying to read miekal's message on a webmail client that doesnt display his mail client's messages properly, so i saw his gif as its code, in the guts of the code i saw the name of his file. i re:sent his message to myself which then produced the proper gif. its not a big stack! but a stack. here's where i bought most of my farm pulps http://www.readingfrenzy.com/ but powells sells them too, or did. i'm thumbing through the 'Caustic Gospels' issue [Aug./Sept. 2000] as i write this: Jesus may have lived for all of us, but it was the city he worked for, travelling its streets in boxy municipal vehicles wearing a yellow hard hat and bright green safety vest. from the 'lord at work' sect. http://www.farmpulp.com/ - Original Message - From: ivan lópez [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:57 AM Subject: Re: HYPER NETWORK On Aug 24, 2005, at 7:47 PM, _dream.thick[ener]_ wrote: http://textzi.net/1/textzine01.pdf At 10:41 AM 25/08/2005, you wrote: On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:01 PM, Lanny Quarles wrote: i couldn't read the spanish text, but i have a stack of farm pulps, i read that zine for years. i'd love to flip through that stack of farm pulps. coincidentally miekal's gif bears a striking resemblance to some of dee's code-squares.. coincidentally, the spanish text was formatted using javE. best, ivan http://textzi.net
Studio as History
Hey Ryan, I'm reading _Studio as History_ by Ryan White this is you right? the introduction is interesting, especially this: Here the crystal - the very opposite of the historical -as the poet's refractory tool, appears as the index of a certain aesthetic occurence; an occurence of an aesthetic. The crystal's making-strange of the 'everyday' is nothing other than the action of a naturalism understood as ahistorical: it is refractory an hard, simply a part of the ground, one of those things which happens before judgement, language, economy. Why is the crystal the very opposite of the historical. (or is it history in the sense of ideological historicism as history) It seems to me that in its oddly constrained morphology via language materiality, 'the mechanical', and the process of feedback, with all kinds of attendant distortions, the crystal or in Wolframist terms 'computationalism' seems as good a way of describing culture as an autonomous meta-biological entity (shades of ?White) as any.. The Ahistorical naturalism.. is this the infinity of unrecordable minutiae that performs the 'content' of history? and is this minutiae the substance of an aesthetic 'occurence', a 'refractory' tool? or perhaps some kind of deanthropomorphisation of the subject read as a universal instantiation of arbitrariness re: carbon, etc. There's some post-structuralism haunting this.. at any rate straighten me out here, i think i'm already flummoxed!! with this thing.
