[NetBehaviour] measurements of lights and rods, analog weakness, long glance

[Alan Sondheim]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/15000-scientists-warning-to-humanity-1.4395767

measurements of lights and rods, analog weakness, long glance

the images below, measurement of lighthouse and vertical iron,
labor to be sure, or time, to access them. what about them.

they're images of the obdurate, some things that might remain after the nuclear 
planet, some things that might disappear. i waited until the rotating lantern 
appeared again, grasping what might be a degree of light or warning. the foam 
is mostly unicellular. the rocks have been there. again, storms.

when i'm in storms, networks and their turbulence are manifest. now the point 
of all of this, my age. as i grow downward towards death like tendrils grow, i 
remain unrooted, seek the digital. for some people i have become part historian 
of this; yes, this was done first x-number of years ago, this was missed 
y-number of years ago, how blind we all were.

but this is not the thing itself, the unutterable revolution that involves 
everyone on the planet, including those refugees and peoples who have no access 
to running water, much less digital tools.

i want to reiterate, i am not of a generation, i am of a certain age, and that 
has given me a length of time to err. but there is no worldview associated with 
that and it's problematic to connect age with such, to create periods of time, 
as if the world might fall into place, instead of the description ultimately 
tripping over itself. what i do now, what these images are, mark the present, 
the moment light flashes against something that registers its presence, that 
presents itself, not as pre-sent, but as imminent. within the boundaries of 
physics, we are all imminent, only periods of time and classifications tend 
towards immanence, and its only these that should be left behind.

i'm speaking of presuppositions here, issues of ageism for example which follow 
me in my daily life. i note how many times i have to insist on the present, on 
the immediate, how many times i have to insist on my relevance. and this goes 
against time itself, there is less time to insist on such, and such insistence 
itself becomes irrelevant.

these images are analog because i have little access to digital technology, and 
if i have such, so many peoples have less. the digital community tends less to 
deconstruct itself than the older analog artworlds, perhaps because new worlds 
tend towards closure and uncanny optimism. which might bring up comicons and 
how they spill over into the real, or hackathons from the other side, how all 
these communities are flesh and blood and people come together online or in the 
real obdurate world, coalesce, commune, separate again.

these images are analog because they transmit digitally the speaking of the 
world (within which i am embedded, in which i have no part). like digital media 
themselves, we are always already undergoing the future anterior of the 
dynamics of change. like digital media themselves, we are always in the process 
of disappearance.

we are warnings to each other and among each other.

and bodies and the ascertainment of rocks.

http://www.alansondheim.org/akkad1160.jpg
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the light.