Re: [-empyre-] COLLISION SINGS

["app][lick.ation][end.age" <netwurker@hotkey.net.au>]

At 02:48 PM 5/09/2002 +0100, you wrote:
> memory is one string, both embodied and disembodied memories,
> as unreliable as bodies and words.

.........how do we feel about attribution of ownership in regards 2 
mem(e)ories?........ when chewing the fat with old friends or various 
family members [i come from a family containing 7 children who r now adults 
with add.ons of their own, so i have a lot 2 choose from:)] who sometime 
have radically differing memories of events, its strange 2 consider these 
differences in light of personality|identity & how much our individual 
deviations stain the recall of the so-called objective (or factual, if 
there is such a thing).........

[that probably has nothing at all 2 do with net related|relevant stuff, so 
apologies if i'm getting all off- topic].


> we recognise ourselves in old photos that
> bear little physical resemblance to our current state of being.
> and then again:'I didn't recognise you, is that really you?'.

how do memories operate in a net.niche? do online observations 
of//interactions with shadow-boxish entities act as adequate 4grounding in 
order 2 establish speculations/behavioural expectations/conclusions 
regarding their manifest identities? if my _real-time_ persona [based on my 
biological reality] appears largely transparent in terms of data sharing, 
is this any guarantee of overall predictability or consistency of b.haviour 
in the net, and *should* this b considered valid?

...........mebbe this x.plains y ppl find flame-baiter|trolling actions so 
n.trusive.........b.cause it breaks with the [largely] x.pository-based 
discourse method prevalent in email [that remains @ the clinical end of the 
communication|affectivity spectrum]....

this may also x.plain the reactions that artists|b.ings such NN [or even i 
have been known 2] provoke......


>  alzheimer sufferers lose their current identities along with their 
> memories and
> still retain body memories that trace and retrace these lost identities.

....i find watching pre-parkinson's footage of michael j fox so 
fascinating, as u realise that those idiosyncratic body-gestures may not b 
so idiosyncratic after all, but precursors of the onset of a condition that 
is basically physical identity-notation|body language parsing gone awry.....

....this [in contrast 2 alzheimers] must m.pact on identity formulation 
from the biological [shell] upwards.......

> re-reading the Palace rehearsal log from a
> rehearsal of Avatar Body Collision in march this year, I have trouble 
> finding myself
> in the dialogue because we've all called ourselves something that ends in 
> 'rique'
> and we're riffing and punning in the argot of that particular session .

w o w, thats great. do u have a URL 4 the log?

> finally I find a thread in the banter that connects this person/text to me.
> reading academic papers made up of a patchwork of quotations
> I wonder 'who is actually talking here?'.

yup, great question...where is the identity|online-floating persona placed 
in relation 2 the more rigorous end of academic discourse, & do we 
increasingly ratify this rigidity as the default setting in regimented 
online communication attempts?

.riquely,
mez




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