twin once, twined. uh gy ug hy
go az investigational Pyrenees
imagined vagrants elevators eel
elastic everlasting zippers laissez
faire trans-atlantic: vaults elevated
ferries jewels unravel. twinkling
tooth. foliage armed amen: mime
mega gore regulatory scenery sags
zen neck snazzy Azores. twiddling
free arrangements banished ya ba:
books or robberies reading rocks,
amid amethyst ely yek java vit jak
kak at the yoke korral. twice flora.
bangs vale aloe visionary szon zy:
az in yun godts tarsus salted saik.
twinkle little flies. valiant minty vomit;
a ked vezok repast Kepler jokebook:::
nem tud dotted Ezekiel Kelvin anklets
nia leg jobb okra kettlefish; cuttlefish.
kettledrum. twinkling brittle sex. errs
suzerainty a tapdance plasma talons
altitude latitudes vy laryngeal carats
correlated core Kora coordinates lately
pasz tal at vag ak lor: voluminous vel
lemma advantages vane sozzle zoomer
ga ap a priori rites statistical toasted
bureaucrat. twisted into heavens. has
haze hazardous nail hats at to of two
funky CEO snot zotted tannak annual
gel jailed serious ere sneers sere,, er,
so Zorro encapsulates Coca-Cola. la
ta: a solitary quotation-mark beckons
cosign azimuth beveled teeth-zone ev
evil os zon bek woven boll weevil vel
te a rake set rakka at, a Space Age
kez dodo dotted dots. so zool sa zok.
texts that change the conscious parameters of literature, both for readers and writers. from a different angle than these, r.p. blackmur adds: 'poetry: [is] ...language so twisted and posed in a form that...it adds to the stock of available reality.' now that blogger has included the ability to reproduce fonts more accurately, alpha-numeric visual-poetry will be welcomed for consideration. formerly edited by peter ganick. send texts to matt margo at ex.ex.lit@gmail.com for consideration...
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
from DISMEMBERS || John Crouse
Entrails conquerors sensors relapses schisms cadavers boughs elation blitz crutches vascular mayonnaise crutches gangsters nonreferential knives hallucinations summers bewildering putty holistic corrosive paraphrases impulsively ganglion totem bibliography riddle wavelength errata gangplank silences entails mirrors slumbers.
Meltdown glitterati reflux aeronautics depersonalization cooties pipefitter hippy igloo clown sandwich slingshot sawhorse novena gallstone reboots wombat jackknife pattycake icecube millwright tarantula knockwurst monkeywrench sandpiper profiteer robots combat homepage undersea languishes gasoline mothballed multimedia topographic huffs.
Rosebuds mufflers morphine chickadee racecar cottonball gridlock paprika corpuscle behemoth punch unicorn snowcone billyclub motorcade jellyfish minivan buffalo alcohol leaflets tastebuds zombies tophats bullwhips nightcrawler stopwatch dreadnaught milquetoast jumpsuit alluvial cauliflower necklace endpapers rucksack cupcake soundtrack.
Meltdown glitterati reflux aeronautics depersonalization cooties pipefitter hippy igloo clown sandwich slingshot sawhorse novena gallstone reboots wombat jackknife pattycake icecube millwright tarantula knockwurst monkeywrench sandpiper profiteer robots combat homepage undersea languishes gasoline mothballed multimedia topographic huffs.
Rosebuds mufflers morphine chickadee racecar cottonball gridlock paprika corpuscle behemoth punch unicorn snowcone billyclub motorcade jellyfish minivan buffalo alcohol leaflets tastebuds zombies tophats bullwhips nightcrawler stopwatch dreadnaught milquetoast jumpsuit alluvial cauliflower necklace endpapers rucksack cupcake soundtrack.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
from WITH || Jim Leftwich
Be Has z n elh fuune
kooot at ki jee lur ei,
play ei so ze aize in
tozd eyes ko m m u n
eciate veen yeg, le te
v e nea a l os me g ae
podas vye ei ples: jos
zott as ku ya, e zeel
ga eunk ace oza ||e
yal, egg tuut eele yes
no gnoon tozadi neem.
flight sheen keeps lest,
vague resemblance to
been: eggs edges into
automotive azure zone
chronic sausages ooze
zig-zag gyroscope glitch
mostly vetted steam.
sixteen minutes against
mutant kaput bottled
pottery: as of the level
endangered delicacies
engendered taverns
voltage. even a gust of
mediated temperance
stammers stampedes
masks sagging mahogany
database susurrus scat.
: A. ; Eyes plus: z A kon
nivea cream nye viem aim
crony vitamin, a bath bath
yam bathing May bat tub,
holy banyan gye gyojo kora
nyav vat tar lariat conic rat.
kells skillet torus korse or snag
corn cortisone mindful denizen
passionate zoom many they
are few. Be magazine autobahn
enfolded folio latent fogs, ban
og bane lo tob ob beek, lob
beak oblique, kozy ozone zott:
join a at on twenty nine thousand
nine hundred and fifty feet of hollow
dollars postmarked postmodern
kaleidoscopic zeitgeist kolt seg et
es tak ost sneezing sleaze.
uneaten sizzles embers; birds
clockwork exasperate eggs
yellow feet unfelt. nighttime
in the neck sere dementia
meny ye kent vagaries coven
the klezmer mysteries: remainders
remedial egress ett af fele lem tol
, a bee teg influenza. influenza.
entwined. ugly hugs gigantic, yaz
zeri imprinted intentions inte tes
va gyes castles saturday at the
lake lak koz zik: kap c solt az elso
automotive a Mask O mastadon
one oddly percentage indentured
centurions capsized cappuccino
sold solo solid donuts no olo lode
carok kar pok partly needles ere
never nickels tere eik eikkel ozik.
kooot at ki jee lur ei,
play ei so ze aize in
tozd eyes ko m m u n
eciate veen yeg, le te
v e nea a l os me g ae
podas vye ei ples: jos
zott as ku ya, e zeel
ga eunk ace oza ||e
yal, egg tuut eele yes
no gnoon tozadi neem.
flight sheen keeps lest,
vague resemblance to
been: eggs edges into
automotive azure zone
chronic sausages ooze
zig-zag gyroscope glitch
mostly vetted steam.
sixteen minutes against
mutant kaput bottled
pottery: as of the level
endangered delicacies
engendered taverns
voltage. even a gust of
mediated temperance
stammers stampedes
masks sagging mahogany
database susurrus scat.
: A. ; Eyes plus: z A kon
nivea cream nye viem aim
crony vitamin, a bath bath
yam bathing May bat tub,
holy banyan gye gyojo kora
nyav vat tar lariat conic rat.
kells skillet torus korse or snag
corn cortisone mindful denizen
passionate zoom many they
are few. Be magazine autobahn
enfolded folio latent fogs, ban
og bane lo tob ob beek, lob
beak oblique, kozy ozone zott:
join a at on twenty nine thousand
nine hundred and fifty feet of hollow
dollars postmarked postmodern
kaleidoscopic zeitgeist kolt seg et
es tak ost sneezing sleaze.
uneaten sizzles embers; birds
clockwork exasperate eggs
yellow feet unfelt. nighttime
in the neck sere dementia
meny ye kent vagaries coven
the klezmer mysteries: remainders
remedial egress ett af fele lem tol
, a bee teg influenza. influenza.
entwined. ugly hugs gigantic, yaz
zeri imprinted intentions inte tes
va gyes castles saturday at the
lake lak koz zik: kap c solt az elso
automotive a Mask O mastadon
one oddly percentage indentured
centurions capsized cappuccino
sold solo solid donuts no olo lode
carok kar pok partly needles ere
never nickels tere eik eikkel ozik.
from 'theory as architecture' || Peter Ganick
risking alien vertigo that mitten herding alternatives than capacious theater harpooning eels those riff haptic olfactory embrace thereas fluidity incorporeal tertiary nature of selections anorexia than fidget chokehold isthmus cakewalk the short fallacy nor happenstance ironic tarrying serenity cannot eager also hybrid resurrection leash contusion that filiation mere goer hidden stash coated moat inversely behind screen soap soprano sportive subaltern the stray parapet tourmaline evening salute enigmatic wonderfulness sass pall those breakage meritocracy indelible that incarcerate nite lithic burin elapses therein statecraft those prelude compression thermometer ingredients solemn iteration ossifies those prudence tools awareness sobriquet haeccity hopscotch rhetoric al fresco neutral no butane cure scale through oral vignettes the miasma knobby effete ironclad motions where tartan crystals evaporate there stirring on sleds harmonic the roster hurling thrones the ghost as nth rhythm easel parallel tonic evasion thorough no roach hotel vendor parliament enormity thorough epidermal cringe thallium proscenia the meddling each natural innocence that factors note hearsay though presumes nature operating also thensome as additive apse where tangible radix preparative note where inscribe name nary baobab the cultivation seldom essent vignettes mirrored involutions whereas introspective rehearsals grammatical ennui that detritus fantastically broken astute mirrors those flood ashen clarion borough the snide necessity haves feckless ontologies those felicitous braggadocio nimble learning qua filations and enigma ethereal than chorus there detailed miter sylph rhetoric languaged intellitext more the staminate evolution parsed so flame hitman salsa thorough record aegis noetic albumen closure hotmail vingt cinq ghat mitosis
poem || Jeff Harrison
Sealable Krypte
M —
throbbed sweeps, M —
crushed sea, M — between
phantom minutes
each had art particular, unshaven, & small
M — could a little voice of them sink
this increased answering dream
have space to themselves, M —
the fires once lapping M —
now red-gold sentinels speaking M —'s honor,
where what's unsure is mirth M — as "bird-struck
sun," M —, "given up again"
old forthcoming M — soon stirred,
so gloves with M — & brick, M —, of fire —
M — to sign bursts, informed & M — do have enough —
voice lads, M — , to these lost gentlemen
cite them a number of afternoon length
M — uncombed, hours pass in elementary fashion
the sea M — so admired crushed between
their phantom minutes, these minutes fretted sciences
like rhymes are riddled, M —, with things almost stars
some avenues showed contrary, M —, they showed
M — fretted by minutes with things nearly M —
M —
throbbed sweeps, M —
crushed sea, M — between
phantom minutes
each had art particular, unshaven, & small
M — could a little voice of them sink
this increased answering dream
have space to themselves, M —
the fires once lapping M —
now red-gold sentinels speaking M —'s honor,
where what's unsure is mirth M — as "bird-struck
sun," M —, "given up again"
old forthcoming M — soon stirred,
so gloves with M — & brick, M —, of fire —
M — to sign bursts, informed & M — do have enough —
voice lads, M — , to these lost gentlemen
cite them a number of afternoon length
M — uncombed, hours pass in elementary fashion
the sea M — so admired crushed between
their phantom minutes, these minutes fretted sciences
like rhymes are riddled, M —, with things almost stars
some avenues showed contrary, M —, they showed
M — fretted by minutes with things nearly M —
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
from DISMEMBERS || John Crouse
Sunsets blindsides milieu spanks angelfood tomahawk blowjob tangerine flightpath ambergris campfire static bloodshed headdress curlew bluebooth daydream sparkplug sweetroll timeclock upshot shuttlecock retinue atlatl spyglasses bloodshot bankroll jetlag blowtorch mildew curfew cowbird wigwam headache logroll daybreak.
Bosoms homerun syringes waterfalls sonnets electrodes correspondences gravid clavicle tarmac handshake gallows epidermis jam cauterize quasar grope cormorant posthumous television castrate armistice polyp moonshine carnivore gravity collarbone smorgasbord mulches calliope trilobite slippage chicken calipers cartwheel fallow.
Placates bandwidth skinflint abalone tuba cockroach gingerbread biodegradable libertine ingratiates larkspur bubblegum concrete bullfighter bandaid dungheap millipede pendulum anticipates puma frisbee cowbell chainsaw breadbasket bandwagon bighorn electrolite duncecap testicles pinecone rollerskates triceratops banana reindeer douche truncated.
Bosoms homerun syringes waterfalls sonnets electrodes correspondences gravid clavicle tarmac handshake gallows epidermis jam cauterize quasar grope cormorant posthumous television castrate armistice polyp moonshine carnivore gravity collarbone smorgasbord mulches calliope trilobite slippage chicken calipers cartwheel fallow.
Placates bandwidth skinflint abalone tuba cockroach gingerbread biodegradable libertine ingratiates larkspur bubblegum concrete bullfighter bandaid dungheap millipede pendulum anticipates puma frisbee cowbell chainsaw breadbasket bandwagon bighorn electrolite duncecap testicles pinecone rollerskates triceratops banana reindeer douche truncated.
from WITH || Jim Leftwich
zap jazz zoning costs soap portable baton
tar art traps toes sate
gavel
vie
severed veer the neck,
sock puppets ombudsman tupperware antique:
at being
our dual
your ludic entitlement
the settled hagiographic map
sugar garnished sarcophagus rare patina on a plate.
none at tagged targets sag, alleviate illegal monk amok
a sunken visionary of zany:
Tagalog
Saracen
gastropod
illegitimate sieve
Tuva
musket muskrat cadaver scuba diving verities
jettison oil slick jetsam
samovar
Papa Legba
carpetbagging e-zine jazzercise,
the vanity of eggs
kaleidoscopic dovetailed lariat
atlatl
megabyte
caramelized
kilowatt
alabaster
lateral.
:at as a and telekinetic be been bean intuitive it is at:
:eel all oil elegies detrimental diminished ale ill eel:
:ged ed det ege leg et ette tek ket ette teg ledge:
:vagaries gymnosophical junk unveiled dot testy reset:
:oak under doors doorknobs odor under dotted oak:
A status quo
B status quo
C status quo
None of the above
So all of the below
tar art traps toes sate
gavel
vie
severed veer the neck,
sock puppets ombudsman tupperware antique:
at being
our dual
your ludic entitlement
the settled hagiographic map
sugar garnished sarcophagus rare patina on a plate.
none at tagged targets sag, alleviate illegal monk amok
a sunken visionary of zany:
Tagalog
Saracen
gastropod
illegitimate sieve
Tuva
musket muskrat cadaver scuba diving verities
jettison oil slick jetsam
samovar
Papa Legba
carpetbagging e-zine jazzercise,
the vanity of eggs
kaleidoscopic dovetailed lariat
atlatl
megabyte
caramelized
kilowatt
alabaster
lateral.
:at as a and telekinetic be been bean intuitive it is at:
:eel all oil elegies detrimental diminished ale ill eel:
:ged ed det ege leg et ette tek ket ette teg ledge:
:vagaries gymnosophical junk unveiled dot testy reset:
:oak under doors doorknobs odor under dotted oak:
A status quo
B status quo
C status quo
None of the above
So all of the below
essay || Alan Sondheim
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deliberately mistaken ontologies of life-worlds
{ SL = Second Life, used somewhat interchangeably for virtual worlds; RL =
real life, or 'first life,' used somewhat interchangably for physical
reality. }
==========================================================================
"The SL space is almost always treated as a simulacrum of real life - by
the creators as well! But as an abstracted mathematical topology, it's far
more than that; others will take it farther in the future, already are. I
also want to discuss being-in-mathesis, beyond the SL 'standard' represen-
tation."
RL: [explain] = 1 [given] The real world is given, inert, obdurate, one or
many - it's still one, presenced. The real world possesses at least four
fundamental forces, various constants from fine-structure to gravitation-
al; these things - static or dynamic - are given. Physics is explanatory,
attempting coherent and agreeable structures in depth. David Finkelstein:
physics is fucking the real. There is always the potential of deep error.
SL: [describe] = 2 [split choice] The virtual world is described; its
description is its fundamental ontology. It is split; constants are by
consensus. There are no basic forces at work; motion is the result of
redraw, rewrite. The physics is the result of an attempt to construct
coherent and agreeable structures in depth. David Finkelstein: pure math
is masturbation. There is always the potential of surface error.
0: Neither description nor explanation, but a postulate of a neutral
backdrop, perhaps the Madhyamaka backdrop, the problematic of the existent
in relation to logical falsification. But perhaps here, or perhaps here in
the sense of a diacritical mark:
0': the psychoanalytics of the subject lies, a psychoanalytics deeply and
permanently entangled in perceptual modalities. This is the locus of
peering-out, or not peering-out.
0, 0': neutrality - neutrality appears and disappears.
1: obdurate, there is, idiotic real. The thetic, demonstrative, occurs in
the 1: which is the real; 1 is not a number, but a condition. 1 is not a
choice, but within 1, there are always choices, splits: frames of
reference, wave or particle functions. One is 'like that'; the real has a
certain style.
2: choice / intentionality. The virtual world is chosen; it is also in-
tended, intended against the backdrop of 0 and 0'. Now this is important:
the virtual world lies within a potential well; it has both internal and
external boundaries: it _runs_ at a designated clock-tine; it is a
construction within the social; it is, in other words, a fabric.
0, 0': neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a priori mathesis).
Neitherness and its dual may be taken as the two fundamental operations of
the propositional calculus (elementary logic); they're the Sheffer stroke
and its dual. But they are also expulsions, abjections, avoidances, the
loci of subjectivities in relation to spewing-forth in real or virtual
worlds. Neti neti: neither this nor that, neither the one nor the other,
the one or the two, the one or two and the Other.
1: fragility of the good: computer program error, intrinsic. Within the 1,
there is, as Leibniz might unfurl himself, the potential for the catas-
trophic, in the sense of catastrophe theory. And while there are infinite
errors, there may be, as in chaos theory, only one viable solution -
surrounded by problematic others, mutations which produce nothing, which
corrupt. Or not, as some extend themselves. Nonetheless, it is within the
one that the computer program error appears, as error - as something
needing correcting, something turning away from the coherently expected
answer, something which doesn't survive the rituals of debugging. In this
sense, the physics of the computer program in general parallels the
physics of the real; both are open to contradiction or falsification in
their running explanations/processes. These errors are intrinsic to
programs and theories which are aligned with pre-determined goals, as if
there were design (not intelligent design to be sure) involved.
2: error extrinsic, deferment. Think of computer program errors which are
extrinsic - produced results leading elsewhere, the result of choice or
decision, not necessarily an error, but an extension - one finds a con-
tinuous deferment, one error leading to novelty, the plateau of novelty,
the tendency of the plateau towards another error or another extension,
and so forth. This is the result, the habitus, of intention; this is the
dwelling of distinctions where, utopia-like, any error may be no error at
all, and anything at all might be intended, willed, to survive.
0, 0': null set. Thus 0 is the set of all those objects not equal to them-
selves, but let us consider 0' to be the division between two distinct
populations, X and not-X: that is, the intersection. However this inter-
section is impure; it exists in-relation-to-X and not-X; it is the null
set, but the null set in-relation, and therefore of and within/without the
subject.
1: universal set. Thus 1 is the universal, cosmological, set - totality,
however defined; in a sense 2: virtual worlds, are subsets within it. From
within and without 0, but not within and without 0', which is almost
something else altogether.
2: split tending towards as-if. Virtual worlds are always split: split
from the real (guided, protected, within the literally circumscribed,
circumprogrammed, potential well), and split in terms of decision trees
(this - and not that - gravitational constant employed, for example.) And
virtual worlds are always already as-if; there is nothing else to them.
As-if what? As if they're dynamic, as if the illusions were real. Real
how? As-if one might turn away from the screen, unplug everything, and
fly.
1-2: leakages between them. Neither polarities nor entirely independent:
the body, inscribed, is already virtual; the virtual world, embodied, is
already real. The bridge between them is the uncanny; both reals are
imaginary. Leakage is abject - as if there were leakage, as if there were
virtual/real polarities.
The metaphoric 0,0',1,2: numbers as markers of inscriptions, valuable in
terms of thinking about multiplicities, neutralities (the idiotic),
inscriptions. Within 0,0' inscription is primary; everything is inscribed
but inscribed differently. And inscription is necessarily circumscription,
the symbolic bounded by the symbolic, the sememe tending towards the
appearance of closure. (Attacking the metaphor: misplaced quantification
and ordering among 'plexa,' misplaced mathesis (plexus, from plico,
plicatum, to fold, to knit - Lynd's Class-Book of Etymology, 1861).)
So we might say:
Real life: 1: immersive, fundamentally dynamic (potential stases) - inter-
nal: operated _in._ Immersive: inhabited within the space-time manifold,
such that contradiction or contrary is always a process; in the real,
nothing contradicts anything. In real life, there is no server roll-back.
Second life: 2: definable, fundamentally static (real mobility) - external
operators: operated _on._ How definable? Every element has been placed,
intentionally; every element carries permissions and attributes; every
element may be removed; every region, every thing, every world, may be
rolled-back.
==========================================================================
Intentionality and suturing of the subject:
Suturing in real life: cohering subjectivity, harmonic continuity,
incoherent and dynamic inscribing: what is inscribed, erodes, corrodes,
decays, disintegrates; the subject, subjectivity of the subject, dies.
While alive, the body continues, is continuous; there is no teleporting,
no disappearance. The body physically moves in and out of presence; in
real life, there are no (space/time) jump cuts. And the body decays;
existing in a potential well (clothing, shelter, skin), it is always
subject to collapse, death, detritus. The body ingests, excretes.
Suturing in virtual worlds: coherent physics, discordant continuity,
coherent inscribing (it's inscription that holds it together). In other
words, in virtual worlds, one's avatar is present or not present, 'alive'
or not 'alive' - the inscription is coherent, holding everything together
- but the virtual body is not always there. Teleporting disrupts contin-
uity for others, not for the avatar 'owner' or the avatar itself. The body
need not ingest or excrete (unless it is written into the virtual world
itself); it need not sleep, does not get sick, and so forth. In virtual
worlds, the body shape may be mobile, transformable, as well.
Problematic issues of ontology of re life: virtual particles, information
entanglement and conservation, no backup.
==========================================================================
Problematic issues of ontology of virtual worlds: mathesis/inscription -
what is; the world is a world only by virtue of its (visible, sensed)
manifestation. In virtual worlds, information may be classified, trans-
formed, and lost - there is always server roll-back or backup. Backup
implies an epistemological/ontological split between the (visual, aural,
etc.) presentation of the data-base, and its physical backup - as both
medium and data.
==========================================================================
Off the map i:
Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka - emptiness and dependent origination/arising. Is
there a distinction between the ontic emptiness of real and virtual
worlds? Between dreams, hallucinations, etc. and a concrete or virtual
'real'? (Various phenomenologies here.) The nexus/ cohering of depending
arising seems to be radically different between real and virtual; in the
former, there are causal chains, plexa, Indra's net, and other entangled
phenomena, and in the latter, there are entangled phenomena, in the sense
of hierarchical data-bases, but virtual worlds can be split (similar to
netsplit in IRC), can split apart, can have objects permanently eliminated
within them (in one region) without undue affect elsewhere (in another).
Off the map ii -
Real life: Think of fundamental ontologies under erasure, Feynman diagram
probabilities: what constitutes dependency under probability distributions
- how entangled information should be (ontologically) constituted - the
status of dark matter, dark energy, the metaverse, additional dimensions,
branes, other constructs, etc. etc.. How are these inscribed? Are they
inscribed at all in daily life?
Second life: Think of root originations in server farms, permissions and
specificities of address. Are permissions inworld or outworld?
Off the map iii -
There is no _fundamental_ physical ontology in the real world: or ontology
itself, like causality, may be problematic (certainly in terms of subject-
ivity and inscription.
In virtual worlds, physical ontology is always abstracted, as-if: the
situation is conventionalist/constructivist, on one hand, and a classical
mathematical hierarchy on the other.
Off the map iv -
Mathesis and Badiou's position - relation to mathematical ontology or
surreal numbers. Is there entanglement between cosmological origins and
mathesis? Is mathesis the fundamental operation in virtual worlds?
==========================================================================
On the map -
I'm thinking of virtual worlds as abstracted, split, chosen, programmed:
anything that is programmable is possible. Think of the real world as
given, born-into: thought as conceiving. Consider virtual worlds _not_ as
subsets of real life - as fulcrums; consider virtual worlds as the visual
counterpart of the space of Mathematica.
Again, the psychology, psychoanalytics of virtual worlds: borromean knot,
matrix, meta-level jumping (collocation of constructing, dwelling-in). And
in virtual worlds, the body as entangled projections/introjections (jecti-
vity) independent of traditional physical constraint or representation The
locus of the body in the physical body (second life as perceptual organ)
Finally, think of the traditional/narratological function of virtual
worlds as equivalent to cinematic diegesis (editing, jump-cuts, multiple
viewpoints, etc.) and the non-traditional functionings of virtual worlds
(above) as processes of dynamic suturing.
==========================================================================
So we cover, however roughly, the mathematical, epistemological and onto-
logical groundings of real life and virtual worlds: I want to argue that
this is a basis for being in virtual worlds, a basis for theorizing them.
In other words, we need not, necessarily, move through either the social
or simulacra of real world physics; we can start elsewhere, as Being or
the problematizing of beings, in a fantasm of mathesis. And that may
expand our considerations elsewhere - from more than three-dimensional
manifolds, to spaces without gravitation or with several gravitational
(positive, negative, neutral) fields, and so forth. There need not be
objects, weathers, plateaus, height from a planar origin - perhaps only
flows or diffused light, or nothing at all. Nothing need be taken for
granted: It's all open.
==========================================================================
25c25: The error-sheet
backdrop, perhaps the Madhyamaka backdrop, the problematic of the existent
choice, but within 1, there are always choices, splits: frames of loci of
subjectivities in relation to spewing-forth in real or virtual extrinsic -
produced results leading elsewhere, the result of choice or decision, not
necessarily an error, but an extension - one finds a con- from the real
(guided, protected, within the literally circumscribed, nal: operated
_in._ Immersive: inhabited within the space-time manifold, specificities
of address situation conventionalist/constructivist.
==========================================================================
deliberately mistaken ontologies of life-worlds
{ SL = Second Life, used somewhat interchangeably for virtual worlds; RL =
real life, or 'first life,' used somewhat interchangably for physical
reality. }
==========================================================================
"The SL space is almost always treated as a simulacrum of real life - by
the creators as well! But as an abstracted mathematical topology, it's far
more than that; others will take it farther in the future, already are. I
also want to discuss being-in-mathesis, beyond the SL 'standard' represen-
tation."
RL: [explain] = 1 [given] The real world is given, inert, obdurate, one or
many - it's still one, presenced. The real world possesses at least four
fundamental forces, various constants from fine-structure to gravitation-
al; these things - static or dynamic - are given. Physics is explanatory,
attempting coherent and agreeable structures in depth. David Finkelstein:
physics is fucking the real. There is always the potential of deep error.
SL: [describe] = 2 [split choice] The virtual world is described; its
description is its fundamental ontology. It is split; constants are by
consensus. There are no basic forces at work; motion is the result of
redraw, rewrite. The physics is the result of an attempt to construct
coherent and agreeable structures in depth. David Finkelstein: pure math
is masturbation. There is always the potential of surface error.
0: Neither description nor explanation, but a postulate of a neutral
backdrop, perhaps the Madhyamaka backdrop, the problematic of the existent
in relation to logical falsification. But perhaps here, or perhaps here in
the sense of a diacritical mark:
0': the psychoanalytics of the subject lies, a psychoanalytics deeply and
permanently entangled in perceptual modalities. This is the locus of
peering-out, or not peering-out.
0, 0': neutrality - neutrality appears and disappears.
1: obdurate, there is, idiotic real. The thetic, demonstrative, occurs in
the 1: which is the real; 1 is not a number, but a condition. 1 is not a
choice, but within 1, there are always choices, splits: frames of
reference, wave or particle functions. One is 'like that'; the real has a
certain style.
2: choice / intentionality. The virtual world is chosen; it is also in-
tended, intended against the backdrop of 0 and 0'. Now this is important:
the virtual world lies within a potential well; it has both internal and
external boundaries: it _runs_ at a designated clock-tine; it is a
construction within the social; it is, in other words, a fabric.
0, 0': neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a priori mathesis).
Neitherness and its dual may be taken as the two fundamental operations of
the propositional calculus (elementary logic); they're the Sheffer stroke
and its dual. But they are also expulsions, abjections, avoidances, the
loci of subjectivities in relation to spewing-forth in real or virtual
worlds. Neti neti: neither this nor that, neither the one nor the other,
the one or the two, the one or two and the Other.
1: fragility of the good: computer program error, intrinsic. Within the 1,
there is, as Leibniz might unfurl himself, the potential for the catas-
trophic, in the sense of catastrophe theory. And while there are infinite
errors, there may be, as in chaos theory, only one viable solution -
surrounded by problematic others, mutations which produce nothing, which
corrupt. Or not, as some extend themselves. Nonetheless, it is within the
one that the computer program error appears, as error - as something
needing correcting, something turning away from the coherently expected
answer, something which doesn't survive the rituals of debugging. In this
sense, the physics of the computer program in general parallels the
physics of the real; both are open to contradiction or falsification in
their running explanations/processes. These errors are intrinsic to
programs and theories which are aligned with pre-determined goals, as if
there were design (not intelligent design to be sure) involved.
2: error extrinsic, deferment. Think of computer program errors which are
extrinsic - produced results leading elsewhere, the result of choice or
decision, not necessarily an error, but an extension - one finds a con-
tinuous deferment, one error leading to novelty, the plateau of novelty,
the tendency of the plateau towards another error or another extension,
and so forth. This is the result, the habitus, of intention; this is the
dwelling of distinctions where, utopia-like, any error may be no error at
all, and anything at all might be intended, willed, to survive.
0, 0': null set. Thus 0 is the set of all those objects not equal to them-
selves, but let us consider 0' to be the division between two distinct
populations, X and not-X: that is, the intersection. However this inter-
section is impure; it exists in-relation-to-X and not-X; it is the null
set, but the null set in-relation, and therefore of and within/without the
subject.
1: universal set. Thus 1 is the universal, cosmological, set - totality,
however defined; in a sense 2: virtual worlds, are subsets within it. From
within and without 0, but not within and without 0', which is almost
something else altogether.
2: split tending towards as-if. Virtual worlds are always split: split
from the real (guided, protected, within the literally circumscribed,
circumprogrammed, potential well), and split in terms of decision trees
(this - and not that - gravitational constant employed, for example.) And
virtual worlds are always already as-if; there is nothing else to them.
As-if what? As if they're dynamic, as if the illusions were real. Real
how? As-if one might turn away from the screen, unplug everything, and
fly.
1-2: leakages between them. Neither polarities nor entirely independent:
the body, inscribed, is already virtual; the virtual world, embodied, is
already real. The bridge between them is the uncanny; both reals are
imaginary. Leakage is abject - as if there were leakage, as if there were
virtual/real polarities.
The metaphoric 0,0',1,2: numbers as markers of inscriptions, valuable in
terms of thinking about multiplicities, neutralities (the idiotic),
inscriptions. Within 0,0' inscription is primary; everything is inscribed
but inscribed differently. And inscription is necessarily circumscription,
the symbolic bounded by the symbolic, the sememe tending towards the
appearance of closure. (Attacking the metaphor: misplaced quantification
and ordering among 'plexa,' misplaced mathesis (plexus, from plico,
plicatum, to fold, to knit - Lynd's Class-Book of Etymology, 1861).)
So we might say:
Real life: 1: immersive, fundamentally dynamic (potential stases) - inter-
nal: operated _in._ Immersive: inhabited within the space-time manifold,
such that contradiction or contrary is always a process; in the real,
nothing contradicts anything. In real life, there is no server roll-back.
Second life: 2: definable, fundamentally static (real mobility) - external
operators: operated _on._ How definable? Every element has been placed,
intentionally; every element carries permissions and attributes; every
element may be removed; every region, every thing, every world, may be
rolled-back.
==========================================================================
Intentionality and suturing of the subject:
Suturing in real life: cohering subjectivity, harmonic continuity,
incoherent and dynamic inscribing: what is inscribed, erodes, corrodes,
decays, disintegrates; the subject, subjectivity of the subject, dies.
While alive, the body continues, is continuous; there is no teleporting,
no disappearance. The body physically moves in and out of presence; in
real life, there are no (space/time) jump cuts. And the body decays;
existing in a potential well (clothing, shelter, skin), it is always
subject to collapse, death, detritus. The body ingests, excretes.
Suturing in virtual worlds: coherent physics, discordant continuity,
coherent inscribing (it's inscription that holds it together). In other
words, in virtual worlds, one's avatar is present or not present, 'alive'
or not 'alive' - the inscription is coherent, holding everything together
- but the virtual body is not always there. Teleporting disrupts contin-
uity for others, not for the avatar 'owner' or the avatar itself. The body
need not ingest or excrete (unless it is written into the virtual world
itself); it need not sleep, does not get sick, and so forth. In virtual
worlds, the body shape may be mobile, transformable, as well.
Problematic issues of ontology of re life: virtual particles, information
entanglement and conservation, no backup.
==========================================================================
Problematic issues of ontology of virtual worlds: mathesis/inscription -
what is; the world is a world only by virtue of its (visible, sensed)
manifestation. In virtual worlds, information may be classified, trans-
formed, and lost - there is always server roll-back or backup. Backup
implies an epistemological/ontological split between the (visual, aural,
etc.) presentation of the data-base, and its physical backup - as both
medium and data.
==========================================================================
Off the map i:
Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka - emptiness and dependent origination/arising. Is
there a distinction between the ontic emptiness of real and virtual
worlds? Between dreams, hallucinations, etc. and a concrete or virtual
'real'? (Various phenomenologies here.) The nexus/ cohering of depending
arising seems to be radically different between real and virtual; in the
former, there are causal chains, plexa, Indra's net, and other entangled
phenomena, and in the latter, there are entangled phenomena, in the sense
of hierarchical data-bases, but virtual worlds can be split (similar to
netsplit in IRC), can split apart, can have objects permanently eliminated
within them (in one region) without undue affect elsewhere (in another).
Off the map ii -
Real life: Think of fundamental ontologies under erasure, Feynman diagram
probabilities: what constitutes dependency under probability distributions
- how entangled information should be (ontologically) constituted - the
status of dark matter, dark energy, the metaverse, additional dimensions,
branes, other constructs, etc. etc.. How are these inscribed? Are they
inscribed at all in daily life?
Second life: Think of root originations in server farms, permissions and
specificities of address. Are permissions inworld or outworld?
Off the map iii -
There is no _fundamental_ physical ontology in the real world: or ontology
itself, like causality, may be problematic (certainly in terms of subject-
ivity and inscription.
In virtual worlds, physical ontology is always abstracted, as-if: the
situation is conventionalist/constructivist, on one hand, and a classical
mathematical hierarchy on the other.
Off the map iv -
Mathesis and Badiou's position - relation to mathematical ontology or
surreal numbers. Is there entanglement between cosmological origins and
mathesis? Is mathesis the fundamental operation in virtual worlds?
==========================================================================
On the map -
I'm thinking of virtual worlds as abstracted, split, chosen, programmed:
anything that is programmable is possible. Think of the real world as
given, born-into: thought as conceiving. Consider virtual worlds _not_ as
subsets of real life - as fulcrums; consider virtual worlds as the visual
counterpart of the space of Mathematica.
Again, the psychology, psychoanalytics of virtual worlds: borromean knot,
matrix, meta-level jumping (collocation of constructing, dwelling-in). And
in virtual worlds, the body as entangled projections/introjections (jecti-
vity) independent of traditional physical constraint or representation The
locus of the body in the physical body (second life as perceptual organ)
Finally, think of the traditional/narratological function of virtual
worlds as equivalent to cinematic diegesis (editing, jump-cuts, multiple
viewpoints, etc.) and the non-traditional functionings of virtual worlds
(above) as processes of dynamic suturing.
==========================================================================
So we cover, however roughly, the mathematical, epistemological and onto-
logical groundings of real life and virtual worlds: I want to argue that
this is a basis for being in virtual worlds, a basis for theorizing them.
In other words, we need not, necessarily, move through either the social
or simulacra of real world physics; we can start elsewhere, as Being or
the problematizing of beings, in a fantasm of mathesis. And that may
expand our considerations elsewhere - from more than three-dimensional
manifolds, to spaces without gravitation or with several gravitational
(positive, negative, neutral) fields, and so forth. There need not be
objects, weathers, plateaus, height from a planar origin - perhaps only
flows or diffused light, or nothing at all. Nothing need be taken for
granted: It's all open.
==========================================================================
25c25: The error-sheet
backdrop, perhaps the Madhyamaka backdrop, the problematic of the existent
choice, but within 1, there are always choices, splits: frames of loci of
subjectivities in relation to spewing-forth in real or virtual extrinsic -
produced results leading elsewhere, the result of choice or decision, not
necessarily an error, but an extension - one finds a con- from the real
(guided, protected, within the literally circumscribed, nal: operated
_in._ Immersive: inhabited within the space-time manifold, specificities
of address situation conventionalist/constructivist.
==========================================================================
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
from DISMEMBERS || John Crouse
Accumulations, orgies zippers, chirrups hinges caresses wavelength engines. Pronounces shockproof. Polishes, anthrax cellphone scumbles petulant momentum holocaust handrail, nativity rust proofreads. Meteoric porcelain recriminates phonics. Illuminates rainstrom deprograms misnomers burials meat cellblock gropes psychic. Resuscitation binges.
Idealizations, ballpark fiddles, felonious syntax crackers expectations tampons. Pinwheels giggles. Lichen, interiors freelance baptism placates calculus nurtures hybrid, knoll succumbs lithographs. Rainbows rendezvous thunder impinges. Compression imposes mimicry tomorrows ladles endows icing pirates miscellany. Lapses aversion.
Hindrances, narrated encloses, apocalypse ecology freedom potatoes enactment. Vascular literacy. Digested, bricolage celebration scoffs carnal partitions knots autism, rehearsed dormancy absolutions. Cargo phantom hoarfrost bullion. Repertory dentition verbs apples logos glands citations montage hardening. Bursts recounting.
Idealizations, ballpark fiddles, felonious syntax crackers expectations tampons. Pinwheels giggles. Lichen, interiors freelance baptism placates calculus nurtures hybrid, knoll succumbs lithographs. Rainbows rendezvous thunder impinges. Compression imposes mimicry tomorrows ladles endows icing pirates miscellany. Lapses aversion.
Hindrances, narrated encloses, apocalypse ecology freedom potatoes enactment. Vascular literacy. Digested, bricolage celebration scoffs carnal partitions knots autism, rehearsed dormancy absolutions. Cargo phantom hoarfrost bullion. Repertory dentition verbs apples logos glands citations montage hardening. Bursts recounting.
from WITH || Jim Leftwich
fire as.
rabbit-glut business rotting tavern agile
art-taser tart mascara:
ballroom rat ammunition
the mask of ska
scattered like snooze-zoom
broomsticks in the dark.
samizdat.
book of sleeves.
mozzarella.
marrakesh.
dork.
mazurka.
at vehemently.
as many as any.
aggregates besides isosceles:
lessens enslaved mind you minim
individuation
mint precondition
renders bent ends blend
roadblock
vanishing appoints
veil of lead.
heave: A. Tambourine
gate at ate tag eggs samsara;
old as a lamp:
uneaten and;
entrance
variegated
snag-yolk azure, akimbo
sedentary sediments progenitor
guitar-tense enervates enlightened
naked baker karma fuzzy hijinks
leprechaun jalapeno talon snouts.
:And nafuga ghe juk kelll jere
wirnetu are, hougi ytayr fe: A6o
5a3e7i5u yemhagn honi ni di7u
enfed gadfevge lu ei litiia po8o9a
8e7a sizosatedusaad li jathavoc ca,
nehyk jemli lutlu ildo ototlo munk
kif doffat. geh Uh hug ji koyj
agans fazc sedbufeba difar yozku
i radafs defner yu bah, jij ikol minl
lat; le; lu; vi dit fod sod fa fer lubiv
bak ao s-z 6o5e4a lef hajekukirl; ap
mo la daad afsa fert au kiufuk kigo
lokykolb; la; o; l; E muzhij koz klel
ellagl kelk lu yi fo gifudig tedo be
gegang nobipum vece la deguhja
p[u=]gefl: [oi tuf og galefud kif
1o2el amadu afeghur ak.
vast agility metropolitan legumes gyrate
dozens oddly denizen, mint plinth ink:
or veil lurks clunker advantageous
askance
destitute
rollick
derivatives. Eat the azure
rabbit-glut business rotting tavern agile
art-taser tart mascara:
ballroom rat ammunition
the mask of ska
scattered like snooze-zoom
broomsticks in the dark.
samizdat.
book of sleeves.
mozzarella.
marrakesh.
dork.
mazurka.
at vehemently.
as many as any.
aggregates besides isosceles:
lessens enslaved mind you minim
individuation
mint precondition
renders bent ends blend
roadblock
vanishing appoints
veil of lead.
heave: A. Tambourine
gate at ate tag eggs samsara;
old as a lamp:
uneaten and;
entrance
variegated
snag-yolk azure, akimbo
sedentary sediments progenitor
guitar-tense enervates enlightened
naked baker karma fuzzy hijinks
leprechaun jalapeno talon snouts.
:And nafuga ghe juk kelll jere
wirnetu are, hougi ytayr fe: A6o
5a3e7i5u yemhagn honi ni di7u
enfed gadfevge lu ei litiia po8o9a
8e7a sizosatedusaad li jathavoc ca,
nehyk jemli lutlu ildo ototlo munk
kif doffat. geh Uh hug ji koyj
agans fazc sedbufeba difar yozku
i radafs defner yu bah, jij ikol minl
lat; le; lu; vi dit fod sod fa fer lubiv
bak ao s-z 6o5e4a lef hajekukirl; ap
mo la daad afsa fert au kiufuk kigo
lokykolb; la; o; l; E muzhij koz klel
ellagl kelk lu yi fo gifudig tedo be
gegang nobipum vece la deguhja
p[u=]gefl: [oi tuf og galefud kif
1o2el amadu afeghur ak.
vast agility metropolitan legumes gyrate
dozens oddly denizen, mint plinth ink:
or veil lurks clunker advantageous
askance
destitute
rollick
derivatives. Eat the azure
Monday, May 10, 2010
from DISMEMBERS || John Crouse
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Lisps radioactive baptism spitoon windjammer mariachi boomerang novocaine switchblade tophat catalcysm bacon screenplay submachinegun telekinesis stingray hookah halfback retroactive doorjamb apache crockpot twilight latrine frogman stampede angelfood lifevest rattlesnake skyscraper rooster hypnotic ardvaark nightmare rollercoaster meringue.
Argot hemispheres refulgent checkered renewal falsehood annihilation creed erasure fervid aphorism dilated hammering morass garden impinges dust opera botch oppositions turbulence sarcophagus breeds refurbishes consonance trumpets vulgate contaminated chimes perfume harangue diaspora abutment dysfunction filigree argosy.
Lisps radioactive baptism spitoon windjammer mariachi boomerang novocaine switchblade tophat catalcysm bacon screenplay submachinegun telekinesis stingray hookah halfback retroactive doorjamb apache crockpot twilight latrine frogman stampede angelfood lifevest rattlesnake skyscraper rooster hypnotic ardvaark nightmare rollercoaster meringue.
Argot hemispheres refulgent checkered renewal falsehood annihilation creed erasure fervid aphorism dilated hammering morass garden impinges dust opera botch oppositions turbulence sarcophagus breeds refurbishes consonance trumpets vulgate contaminated chimes perfume harangue diaspora abutment dysfunction filigree argosy.
from 'theory as architecture' || Peter Ganick
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