adjacency, kudzu, Charlottesville, Virginia https://youtu.be/jfWhhOJgyIw video http://www.alansondheim.org/kudzu.jpg The northern boundary of kudzu appears to be moving, as climate change creates the proper conditions. Kudzu, a Japanese import, grows rapidly; I was told, in Atlanta, between 10" and a foot daily. It's incredibly difficult to eradicate; I was told, in Atlanta, that gasoline and fire was necessary. In Atlanta, I was told, it originally was imported as fodder for cows which weren't interested. It alters the shape of things, surrounding, rounding, globular. Whole houses has been devoured. Its shape devours adjacent shape. It rounds, integrates. It's the loss of things, of detail, of history - or rather history transforms from detail to period. What's transformed is irretrievable, not only covered and smoothed, but also internally dissolved, gone. What is the phenomenology of the gone? I might write "gone" in quotations, but that presupposes retrieval, that what is gone is somewhere. It is nowhere. It remains nowhere. The video is slowed to a quarter speed, kudzu evident. One might say perhaps that kudzu is everywhere and nowhere at all. Slide the cursor across the timeline; everything becomes clear and inconceivably blurred at the same time. The air is not the same everywhere but the air is the air and the air is not the same anywhere at all. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] adjacency, kudzu, Charlottesville, Virginia
Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour Mon, 29 Aug 2022 16:33:19 -0700
