Re: [-empyre-] for example -
Hi Alan et al
Iconoclasm is the word that first comes to my mind - iconoclasm of the spam
inferno - a 'devilish' outburst - but couldn't you have done this by hand?
What is gained in this piece by applying a code?
In another thread we talked about the chora/the unconscious and I see a
conflict here between neural skeins and digital skeins, unless you by neural
refer to plain biology.
Forgive my ignorance, but I don't know whether your use of code here is
algorithmic or not, nor do I know if it always has to be. But I'd like to
contrast algorithm with rhythm, mathematics with the unconscious.
According to Merriam-Webster.com algorithm, in its technical sense, is "a
procedure for solving a mathematical problem (as of finding the greatest
common divisor) in a finite number of steps that frequently involves
repetition of an operation". And according to Encyclopaedia.com algorithm,
when broadly defined, is "an interpretable, finite set of instructions for
dealing with contingencies and accomplishing some task which can be anything
that has a recognizable end-state, end-point, or result".
Thus, algorithm is a finite structure, bent on repetition according to a
stringent set of numbers.
Contrast this to the unconscious, which is an open-ended structure that
continuously reshapes itself in the subject's interaction with others and
the Other. It follows its own internal logic, its rhythm, etymologically
related to 'flow': rhythm, the flow of psychic mobility.
Can there be interaction between a finite structure and on open-ended one?
Or, is iconoclasm, destruction, hacking, the only possibility? Or, is the
clash between them the same as the one between the subject's free psychic
mobility and the symbolic/societal structures?
Yet, societal structures can be played with. The symbolic can be played with
- in language and/or art - and bring about change in both the player and the
played. Can play with the code change the code?
yvonne
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> From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 18:35:12 -0500 (EST)
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: [-empyre-] for example -
>
>
>
> for example in the below (which I'm not claiming is particularly good) -
> spam was collected in the buffer of hyperterminal, then modified through
> repeated sorts, and seds (sorting and substituting - in this case,
> substituting to nothing) in my unix shell account. The result is a swollen
> 'body' of punctuation which almost becomes legible towards the end;
> further, almost all the lines are duplicated, with one or the other
> containing individual lower-case letters. This makes the filtering process
> visible.
>
> The movement from inchoate to proto-language (although technically it's a
> layer beneath or prior to proto-language) fascinates me; I didn't know
> myself how the work would 'come out,' but eventually I worked towards a
> particular direction that became manifest.
>
> I've placed the code which operated on the buffer after the piece - the
> 'seds' substitute the first part of the expression (for example [A-Z] -
> which means any capital letter) for the second (for example // - which
> means just close up the text at that point).
>
> Hope this helps - Alan
>
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>
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>
> Some of the code history - Alan
>
>
>
> 1 b
> 2 ls
> 3 proc
> 4 pico zz
> 5 sed 's/Subject://g' zz > yy
> 6 less yy
> 7 h
> 8 sed 's/From://g' yy > zz
> 9 sed 's/[A-Z]=//g' zz > yy
> 10 sed 's/$//g' yy > zz
> 11 pico zz
> 12 sed 's/<>//g' zz > yy
> 13 sed 's/[A-Z][0-9]//g' yy > zz
> 14 pico zz
> 15 sed 's/^ //g' zz > yy
> 16 sed 's/^ //g' yy > zz
> 17 sed 's/../&&/g' zz > yy
> 18 pico yy
> 19 sed 's/[a-z][a-z]//g' yy > zz
> 20 pico zz
> 21 h
> 22 sed 's/[a-z][a-z]/&/g' yy > zz
> 23 pico zz
> 24 sed 's/[a-z]*2//g' yy > zz
> 25 pico zz
> 26 h
> 27 sed 's/../&/g' yy > zz
> 28 pico zz
> 29 sed 's/[a-z][a-z]//g' yy > zz
> 30 sed 's/[A-Z][A-Z]//g' zz > yy
> 31 pico yy
> 32 sed 's/ /a/g' yy > zz
> 33 pico zz
> 34 h
> 35 pico yy
> 36 sed 's/[A-Z][a-z]//g' yy > zz
> 37 pico zz
> 38 sed 's/[A-Z]/ /g' zz > yy
> 39 sed 's/[a-z]/ /g' yy > zz
> 40 pico zz
> 41 sort zz > yy; pico yy
> 42 new yy; cat nf yy > ding; mv ding nf; rm zz yy; m
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