Re: [-empyre-] a bit on delay

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Thank you all for the descriptions of lag pieces. Another comment - one
learns of course in grade school that lag characterizes eveyr interaction,
that, in terms of phenomenology and physics, information takes time to be
processed and travel. So it's inherent; I wonder how this could be brought
out more? The Mars vehicles head in that direction to be sure, since any
sort of reasonably distant space exploration, even towards the moon,
involves considerable delays; navigation of the rovers - what I've read
about it anyway - seems fascinating, since it requires a lot of
feed-forward computation and the machine is then 'let go' to hopefully
follow a short trajectory.

Lag and these sorts of performances also connect with sexuality, which is
so often based on deferral, or 'looping' around orgasms that, temporally,
occupy only a small part of the space-time, like edit-points. But the
loop, the masquerade, then becomes the main content; this is true even
innet-sex practice in the days of ytalk, and so forth. At that point, lag
is not only built in, but one might 'lag' one's response, as a way of
heightening tension, creating a space for projection and introjection.

Just as there is a tension/release when the rover finally arrives at its
destination -

I imagine a universe of lags, of delays, of deferments, skeins of waiting,
nothing more -

Alan

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