This is why I permit my box to get stuffed beyond compare, she said, pulling the chicken bones outta her underpants.
Thanks, AJ --- Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Art and experiment, vision of the PLAGUE > > > The IMAGE of three folding wooden rulers, German, > millimeter rules: > PLACE these in a triangular configuration: two from > the wall down, > one across the endpoints of the two. AS IF these > formed an equilateral > triangle, however BROKEN by virtue of the WEIGHT of > the wood, the > intrusion of the physico-inert into the > virtual-inert of the static > euclidean WORLD. > > I do not know or give their LENGTH. > > Remnant of memory: Early 1970s Bykert Gallery NY > show: collapsed hyper- > cube made from nylon cord - topological accuracy but > disrupted per- > ception. The IDEAL held; the perceptual-real, i.e. > constructed meaning, > collapsed. > > No progress now: This current work represents no > progress whatsoever; > the theme is tackled with only the DISTINCTION: the > topological is > trivial (a loop) or absent (an irrelevant loop). The > MEASUREMENT is > ANALOGIC, the ideal DIGITAL, a world of zero > tolerance - well, perhaps > analogic as well. > > Can this be? A zero-tolerance analogic world? A > wave-equation collapse > or even rounding-off - that REWRITES the digital, > INSERTS IT as > permanent markers? Or rather, perhaps it is the > zero-tolerance digital > world that REWRITES and analogic, REINSERTS within > the analogic. > > What of this REWRITE? I have often said: I write > myself into existence. > I write myself out of existence. And ONLINE? See > early Internet Text, > Nettext sections: Existence is equivalent to > CONTINUOUS REWRITE; when > insertion ends (and this is insertion THROUGH the > mediation of digital/ > analogic means INTO the analogic WETWARE of the > perceiving SUBJECT), > MEANING begins. > > The ANALOGIC measurement of the rulers, with WEIGHT > and problematic or > rough TOLERANCE, is the measure of MEANING as well, > coupled with the > idealized MIRRORING of the digital within the > analogic (as if the > analogic were a cast-off of the digital, or as if > the digital were a > cast-off of the analogic). > > The rulers, in their UNGAINLY stance, are a source > of DIS/COMFITURE or > the DIS/EASE of GRAVITY. A straight-line bending, > inconceivable! The > misplacement of tolerance: Unforgivable! > > Yet this is what we are confronting in our > cultural-political world > today: digital laissez-faire and the bending of the > analogic, as RULES, > not rulers, are bent to meet every contingency: Let > us, for example, > over-develop this nation, these wetlands, this war, > in the guise of the > ABSOLUTE - of freedom, of god, of Capital. As with > the Procrustean > Bed: Cut off what doesn't fit! Purify at all costs! > In this regard, the > future is always already cleared, cleansed, and > ready for action. > > (All development is over-development or > under-development.) > > Back in the Gallery: I will gather the rulers, take > them with me across > the United States, sleeping, measuring only the > unease of dreams. Four > of them, found in a small second-hand shop in > Copperton, Utah, next to > the Bingham Copper Mine excavation, the largest > human-made scar on the > face of the earth. Next time, the plague. > > > _ > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
