Re: [-empyre-] t[otalic]ime again




>> ...mel, r u referring 2 the idea here that space is s.sentially >> collapsible|inconstant & how this relates 2 the idea that >> virtuality|networked arenas r conceptualised as unique, rather than >> contextualised as fundamentally trajectoric? > >yep.. new, fresh, different, when its really all the same stuff -the same >old space repackaged/packetted.

....i veer thru this terminus occasionally myself, mostly when i'm confronted with the _domestic_rigmarole of the net & the [its] x.tensions that have a tendency 2 become acceptable, regurgative modes of discourse & creation.....its so easy 2 slip in2|against these x.tensions, especially as they b.come de rigueur, shifting in2 the spotlite of contemporary text[ures]....some seem 2 harden them.selves with[in] rationalizations against it all, in order 2 pre.serve & capture|confine the net as a pre-molded old-skool conception [not saying u in particular have done this mel]...........rather than still persisting seeking & x.ploring the ][w][e][bs][dges of the net.work, the discursive shadowing in communica][do][tion, the patternings of data marrow of a sort that creeps out from under the hoopla & labels.....perhaps this is my own bug-bear, but x.traction & x.pression still seem viable, even .here...............

>its almost as silly as trying to write a unique thesis.. margaret wertheim
>did a nice job of talking about spiritual space being repackaged as
>cyberspace.

i suppose its 2 do with n.tention.....i still thrive & glean ][v][i][a][n the net, still x.tract & absorb whilst trying 2 resist the concretisation of x.pected _cyber_ tangents & slow collapsing in2 c][apitalistic][ulturally-tainted pre.settings........i understand, however, that 4 some this has turned in2 a place of confinement rather than connection...........

>maybe ive been around computers for too long  but  i 've come to belive in
>finity, in limits, to an end of possibility, to everything being a
>mathematical probaility.

really mel? yr work n.dicates a different mindset........well, 2 me, anyway.......& i don't know wot yr working on currently.......

>not that it isnt  interresting to see how may ways you can look at
>something..  but sometimes the loop is too short..


.....& sometimes the loop isn't a loop at all:)

chunks,
mez




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