“.”
How to ‘turn out’ the return of the shape/specter
(“the instability of the imaginary, the uncanny,
ghosts always appearing on the periphery”)
Are you trying to make me believe I am unreal standing here absurdly on the green pavement?
Kafka
Is the virtual-real (‘seamless virtual interface and reality’)
trans-planting/placing (plating) the Imaginary, Symbolic and Real?
simulated exposures
the migration of consciousness
away from a collapsing social being
(voice from face; environment from institution, etc.)
(‘the denial by a society’s members
of the social construction of reality’)
private code compressions, frame for a thinking that ‘reads’ that way,
the convolution of address, disappearance of ‘directness’ – whatever that is,
if every utterance collapses under its intentionality and history and context
and a disabling analytics (anything that comes out of your mouth is not what
you’re really saying)
“’Minds aren’t read. See, you’ve still got the paradigms print gave you, and you’re barely print-literate. I can access you memory, but that’s not the same as your mind.’ [The AI] reached into the exposed chassis of an ancient television and withdrew a sliver-black vacuum tube. ‘See this? Part of my DNA, sort of…’ He tossed the thing into the shadows and Case heard it pop and tinkle. ‘You’re always building models. Stone circles. Cathedrals. Pipe-organs. Adding machines. I got no idea why I’m here now, you know that?’”
William Gibson, Nuromancer
reflex:
in front of a face,
wait for it to tell you what to do, where to
go / what say
what can be said and what can’t
that this is also ‘etiquette’
(respecting parameters) or
appearing to ‘be’ there and not being there
constant:
‘not here’
‘this is not here’
‘it is not here’
(what is not here)
the monitored ‘you are’
where fate is found
“the free-floating noisiness of the physical”
intensity of the hearing range
absorption
the forecast, electrical storms
humans and machines in the magnetic fields
what happened to elasticity / what’s that
shape following shape (bendingness)
have you followed too many voices
(detach the sounds from the voices)
do these lines comprise a grid
or a background against which to compile
a message to be stopped by the printing of it
does the printed word represent a dependency
the getting used to a way words happen and signify
“A book produced by typesetting may look very similar to one generated by a computerized program, but the technological processes involved in this transformation are not neutral. Different technologies of text production suggest different models of signification; changes in signification are linked with shifts in consumption’ shifting patters of consumption initiate new experiences of embodiment; and embodied experience interacts with codes of representation to generate new kinds of textual worlds.”
N. Katherine Hayles, “Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers”
the circularity in spokenness / brokenness
the criminalizing of the working class
and I have studied this, have listened a long time
have read out loud the transcripts
coating and code
laminate and placard
enamel, don’t the words move fast enough for you
make them move more, putting to motion, in motion
(fascination with subtitles)
division of voice from image
space among what’s heard and seen
the interface as not face and not voice
and the freeing that might be there
the ‘non response’ to face and voice
power, authority, command forms
what’s around
what surrounds
whatever is going on here is not really going on?
“there’s something happinin here
what it is aint exactly clear
…
it’s time we stop,
hey what’s that sound
everybody look what’s goin down”
Buffalo Springfield, “Stop, hey what’s that sound”
Excerpt from: Kevin Magee / to write as speech
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