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dear John, building the house has priority, but thanks for sending in this fascinating excerpt you wrote on energized matter/ glass, and flow relations to/with environment -- and I hope Douglas Kahn is still reading -- yes things went too fast last month, so we are trying to slow down, there is no rush, and matters of the sonic, why not hear more echoes and resonances..? Your key proposition, then, is: <This suggests that any discussion of the virtual not be limited to material ‘delivery’ mechanisms or mediatory (digital) devices. Rather, a broad consideration of the character of flows between the Self and the Other, the Self and the cosmos, is needed: especially the relation between those flows and embodied sensory presence. The dialectic of reality/virtuality is fundamentally about the ‘allowance’ or attenuation of potential energy flows as they effect change in the energized body. >> responses, please? [John schreibt] >> ..I'd point you to a short text excerpted from my dissertation that proposes a novel definition of the 'virtual' or 'virtuality'. It may be demonstrated as directly connected with last months sonic (energy!) explorations. That might however require more of a discussion than I can afford to engage in in the moment, unfortunately -- I'm rebuilding a small house in the mountains of central Arizona with the aim of reducing the GHG energy footprint... Anyway, I thought I'd throw it out there ... The definition (model) addresses a number of the problematic issues around the use of the word -- formost in my mind, virtuality's indelible link to the digital, and because of this, the vague historical sourcing/usage of the term. http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/75283 _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au http://www.subtle.net/empyre
