[NetBehaviour] (Text on postmodernism, radiation, dust. From 2000)

[Alan Sondheim]

(Text on postmodernism, radiation, dust. From 2000)


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Dusts and Radiations (Cantor Dust Transmission Towers)


Dust settles. It sloughs from the real, fills the cracks,
cauterizes history, sinters culture. It travels. It moves
substance across meridians..

Dust is atmospheric, existing in alliance with the air.
Radiation travels
through dust, is dispersed by the same.

Radiation carries obstacle and inherent information. Extrinsic,
it bounces from surface to surface, defines surface, contributes
to the formation of entity and identity. Intrinsic, it run in
spurts, amplitudes, wavelengths, shuttling information that
defines its very existence. It's presence is intrinsic, say, and
the quality of its presence is extrinsic.

Nothing is pure in the radiative domain, everything interweaves,
and metaphors go only so far. Radiation, like dust, traverses;
it doesn't require the atmospheric ether. If dust silently
corrupts the surface, wears and is the result of wearing down,
radiation floods, spews, emits; it breathes the virtual vacuums
of outer space. Information is the result of division; it's
_here_ that something exists, and it's _here_ that my voice is
carried to you, and it's _here_ that image image image. Desire
rides, interweaves, interpenetrates, but desire is an other.

Postmodernity is the topography and psychogeography of dusts and
radiations - extinctions, pollutions, desertifications,
abandonments, colonias, internet, telephony, radio, television,
microwave. Dusts are bottom up; they're beneath the surface,
under things. Radiations are top-down, ignoring boundaries: what
is being said, produced, constructed, wherever you are. Dust
erodes electronics; electronics must be placed in physical
potential wells to continue operating - islands of stability in
the midst of flux, heat, moisture, vandalism.

I desire a phenomenology of dust and radiation, interspersed
with global economies, the ravagings of human occupations. I
desire the analysis of uncanny or imaginary ghosts wandering
these denuded landscapes, with all the information anyone might
desire, on any planet, anything, overwhelming and absurdist
information, the truth of the real buried in defuge. I desire
the interlace through all of this, the emergence of a pure and
beautiful text like that very ravaged body.

Dust leaves trails; radiation decays in quantum noise; we bury
ourselves in the fiction of truthful nomenclature.

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The Configuration

The relations now become clear. The operations described
elsewhere are
coupled as follows:

                      core-theory ------ radiation
                      |        \         /       |
                      |          \     /         |
                      |            \ /           |
                      |            / \           |
                      |          /     \         |
                      |        /         \       |
                      finance----------------dusts

Core-theory is both intrinsic and extrinsic in its couplings;
finance is pervasive, agency of dissolution, worn and wearing
down. Finance cancels time and history, fissures populations;
core-theory inscribes populations and time. As dust dissipates
the effects of radiation, finance cauterizes the investigation
of core-theory (Brillouin) which is coupled with energy. As
core-theory dusts and dissolves the entities of the world (Jeans
and Hiroshima), finance introjects and projects radiation.
Radiation trans- forms into media under the guise of capital;
dust transforms into a recuperated time under the guise of the
scanning electron microscope. Dust and finance embrace chaos and
self-similarity; radiation and core-theory reproduce the
leniency of bandwidth.

The chiasm is the positioning of the abstracted alienation of
the subject who appears within other masquerades; this is the
construct of the postmodern.

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Nikobra Sarin


Alan_. chuckles.
Alan_. got online ... really felt something radically new ..
Alan_. is too fast ..
Alan_. laughs.
Alan_. partly attacks instituionalisation in generakl ..
Alan_. points out the graphics ..
Alan_. says, "Jennifer"
Alan_. says, "Jennifer"
Alan_. says, "Alan 6 unis, married 4 times ... 30 citis .."
Alan_. says, "Alan gave him his writing ..."
Alan_. says, "Alan talks for hours ..."
Alan_. says, "And blurs all the sentences together with ands .."
Alan_. says, "Audience silent at the end ... uncomfortable .."
Alan_. says, "But applauded it."
Alan_. says, "Different way of articulating .."
Alan_. says, "Disorders of the Real  .... bopok ."
Alan_. says, "Early on Jennifer ..."
Alan_. says, "Everything is interpenetrated with everything
else .."
Alan_. says, "Graphic form and that kind of thing ..."
Alan_. says, "Language poets .."
Alan_. says, "Left before the audience.."
Alan_. says, "Nikobra Sarin (?)"
Alan_. says, "Pot your life."
Alan_. says, "Returned it next day ... fully annotated .."
Alan_. says, "Semi-withdrawal ..."
Alan_. says, "Someone reads your wryting as a symptom .."
Alan_. says, "Structuration "
Alan_. says, "Subvertive textst again "
Alan_. says, "This is a stupid Jennifer memory .."
Alan_. says, "VBiruses bacteria ... bacteriaphages .."
Alan_. says, "Way that it come to be interchangeable with
text .."
Alan_. says, "Well known in the states .."
Alan_. says, "You can say you're a brunette but the reader will
read thr
Alan_. says, "dusts ... counter-dusts ... did a lot of writing
on that a
Alan_. says, "he gets a duality out of it .."
Alan_. says, "influened by feminine wryting .."
Alan_. says, "is working out the question .."
Alan_. says, "make sure you clean up afterwards ...
Alan_. says, "momentary totality .."
Alan_. says, "not clear ... everythig in everything else .."
Alan_. says, "position of unease ... asociated with burnout ...
own phen
Alan_. says, "resonancce .."
Alan_. says, "sonheim/tiffany textualising ... ex-duality ... "
Alan_. says, "texts have a kind of slippage"
Alan_. spells well.
Alan_. talks about that ..
Jennifer nods to Alan_..
Jennifer nods to Alan_..

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