Re: [-empyre-] text, criticism + geography

[Damien Everett <e40815@rmit.edu.au>]

hmmm... verrry interrresting :) may as well jump in to the deep end...

melinda Said

 > which makes net.art a sort of chaotic anti heirarchical collage of
sensation, totally unrelated to any language or geographical structure,
without the necessitry to define values of form content , without value
 judgements of good and bad etc....

yep exactly, unless thinking makes it "not so!"  ;)

Reiner Said
HTML is text based because the programming language was created (at first)
to work with "text". Every macro-programming language is based on verbal
language to be more easy to handle and understood.


macro programming need not be based on verbal language, what about macroprogramming via placing and linking icons, or gestures or sound? Having a linguistic framework is conceptually powerful, but language need not be words alone.

to me there is a risk in  "valorising" rationalism over sensation: it tends to reinforce the binary reason/irrational, as well as being potentially psychologically damaging if feelings are repressed because of this myth of intellectual objectivity... I thought quantum physics, relativity and chaos theory were breaking down these obsolete subjective beliefs ;)

there are times when a sensation can say infinitely more than a rational construct... to me rationality is what creates this imagined binary division... which reflects the difference between art and academia (sorry I feel the need to grossly generalise here ;)

sensation is the only thing we can value, thinking is sensation,,, if we are not experiencing anything then...
(there is nothing more to say/think/do...)