[NetBehaviour] > 1. Re: Zoo Opera ! ! (Geert Dekkers)

[Alan Sondheim]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, netbehaviour-request at netbehaviour.org wrote:
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>   1. Re: Zoo Opera ! !  (Geert Dekkers)
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> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:52:12 +0200
> From: Geert Dekkers <geert at nznl.com>
> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Zoo Opera ! !
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> Alan, this is a great piece -- one of the many as far as I'm
> concerned. In fact, I have proposed to do a talk on you and a couple
> of other posters to the rhizome/netbehaviour/wryting/etc lists (the
> proposal was no more than a communication of intention -- to http://
> mediamatic.nl -- not that they have returned my message)
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> I see this piece as modelled on -- well, core-dumping, which, come to
> think of it, has absolutely no form other than the writeout on a
> screen -- modelled on the great flood of (non) information that is
> presented at startup.
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> How would you characterize it yourself?
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> Geert
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Yes, as core dump, an archaeology of knowlege. It's produced using an old 
program I keep reviving, revising, that allows me to type into it; the 
text is modified, somewhat messed up. It's a bit interactive; it's also a 
catalyst.

I'm definitely fascinated by startup by the way.

Re: Archaeology of knowledge - Foucault's term - I just used it in an 
"injured" essay I sent out to the list. The more I attempt definition (for 
example as in Wittgenstein's Tractatus), the more I circle around what 
might have been a subject (for example his Investigations). I can't make 
claims; I'm fascinated by the absolute, but feel literally torn by it - 
and consider it (It, absolute) torn as well.

Once wrote an essay on 'the sleazy' (and made a long film - 'Sleazy and 
the Year 3000') which relates.

And thanks for asking - I really appreciate it - Alan