Re: [-empyre-] [-empyre-]:An Avatar Manifesto::final

[Cristiano Bianchi <cristianobianchi@yahoo.com>]

And... in English?

Thanks :-)

Cristiano

 --- Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com> wrote: > 
> 
> Weird this avatar; it reminds me of the arguments
> about quota (I was on
> the quota review board) at the post-modern moo at
> one point. Both quota
> and avatar are thing/ness - disk-space,
> software-thing, i.e. @create
> $thing called xyz - etc. - why _this_ instead of
> process, dissemination,
> release -
> 
> think of _spam_ for example as spew - ephemeral,
> network-dependent, a
> flooding or unfolding - exfoliation - then
> collapse/disappearance -
> 
> in other words, this seems bound to the ontology of
> objects - again I'm
> thinking of tearing-away - breaking down the fabric
> of one's (local,
> fragile) online presence -
> 
> would seem to me that manifesto wd. go there - into
> others - as in wave-
> phenomena vs. particle -
> 
> alan
> 
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