Digital and Universal Imminence http://www.alansondheim.org/every.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/every.mp3 Digital immediacy now; no lag control surfaces, keys, pulses, breaths, speech acts; every digital act is a priori performa- tive; every digital act is lag-less; every lag is imminent. Every breath you take, every sound you make, every sight you see; I am there with you, im-mediated, present before the fact, at the lip of reverse reverberation. This is the character of the digital - its presence as _world-surface,_ as continuous (fold) catastrophe, the choice pre-formed, always already _there;_ in fact the digital is an articulated structure defined by the _always already_ below, the corporate above, and intermediary (inter-me-diary) surfaces - rastered, powered, protocoled - between. Listen to something whose physical definition is microscopic and planar; invisible and inert; and embedded and networked. What we experience in the digital is afterthought. Listen and you hear me _now._ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
