GltchLnguistx: The Machine in the Ghost / Static Trapped in Mouths [a talk].
When the glitch is applied to natural human language (written and spoken), the abstract/disembodied "code" of language is infused with the event-based materiality of time and space. The "meaning" of glitched language becomes colored by and contingent upon its performative encounter with the immanent glitch event. (Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the "utterance" is helpful in understanding the dynamics of this encounter.) From the perspective of GltchLnguistx, computers are non-human physical bodies that occasionally inf[l]ect the disembodied code of human language with the entropy of being. The glitch acts as a clinamen: a swerve in the monotony of language that tricks out new meaning. ++ For more information about the conference and a schedule of all other GLI.TC/H events, visit http://gli.tc/h _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
