[-empyre-] a found poem since we are on the subject of spam

Thu Jul 3 04:38:21 EST 2008

A predecessor, of this is surely Felix Feneon whose text "novels in 
three lines" (originally from 1906) I found a copy of earlier today, he 
is a writer who is described rather appropriately, (I think) as writing  
"small slivers of occurrances that lie beheath history" in the 
introduction. For example the following from p 40...:

"Eugenie Perichot of Pailles, near Saint-Maixent, entertained at his 
home Mme Lemartrier. Eugene Duois came to fetch her. They killed him. Love."
and
"The Snail, the Violet and Picasse were arrested in the train station at 
Saint-Jean, Bordeaux. Railroad Camp followers, apparantly."

I had this sudden thought that these representations, repetitions of 
everyday life are exemplary examples of the form, or at least in as much 
as all forms invent there own predecessors. However I've been wondering  
whether spam and unwanted messages would be better understood as being 
exemplary examples of  "noise", disrupting the false purity of 
communication and introducing a little exteriority and creativity into a 
system, which left to itself would become dangerously entropic and 
quiet. (After all don't we know that all circuits are intentionally 
designed to be noisy.) A reasonable definition of noise is that it is a 
broad signel across a range of frequencies - for example white noise, 
covering the complete range of audible frequencies. Whereas meaningful 
signals are focused on a  narrow section of the available spectrum. 
Noise is parasitic, and creates the excess and the interruption in the 
communicating chain A to B, Noise might then be said to be equivalent  
to the unwanted messages. We filter them out but they are a necessary 
part of the system... but whilst they might appear to parasitic, perhaps 
they are not just that.

noise

s

ampat varghese varghese wrote:
> Nanette,
> I wonder why you would not consider the poem as "literary"!
> Ampat V Varghese
> Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
> Bangalore
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 sdv at krokodile.co.uk wrote :
>> n/marc/jeremy/all
>>
>> It's not the 'spam' (Jeremy's " algorithmically identified unwanted 
>> messages")  that makes one insecure,  its the fact that within the 
>> examples of art from 'found art' to the 'distributed fiction' simply 
>> vanish into the category of unwanted junk generated by the market 
>> economy.  The question of whether the ethics and tactics of digital 
>> artists working around the creation of unwanted messages really 
>> provide 'rich material for examining the creative possibilities that 
>> already exist for resisting, redesigning and critiquing digital 
>> culture' (david rodowick) remains unanswered, perhaps it is 
>> unanswerable.
>>
>> I suspect that a law of equivalence applies,  if my two-task spam 
>> engine reads it as spam then it is spam,  which is to say that if the 
>> two-task spam engine reads the unwanted message as junk then it is 
>> junk. Similarly if it reads the messages as not-junk then the human 
>> reader has to decide how such messages should be treated in the 
>> future. For the engine is designed to filter messages similarly to 
>> way I would filter the scanning texts in the philosophy section of my 
>> local bookshop or library. The equivalence of  messages junk and 
>> non-junk should go without saying - where Jeremy suggests that 
>> "wouldn't connect that potential controversy directly to market 
>> economies..." marks the difference for how can anything here avoid 
>> the social ? and how can the following work " I personally might head 
>> towards the ethical discourses over hoaxes...."
>>
>> As time passes and our software agents filter things more and more 
>> effectively...
>>
>> s
>>
>> Christina McPhee wrote:
>>
>>> seems like starting with an action verb is the beginning of the 
>>> map--  could track  be! become! Put! Get! Last! into flickr, mapping 
>>> to  tourist 'locations" !
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "-)
>>> On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:52 PM, Nanette Wylde wrote:
>>>
>>>> empyrites,
>>>>
>>>> here is a little found poem, that is, each line is from the  
>>>> 'subject' of spam in my inbox. it is a 'remix' of sorts.
>>>> it's not too smart. i'm not sure if it qualifies as literary. but 
>>>> i  hope it might amuse you.
>>>>
>>>> i've also been wondering if this 'spam' isn't making you guys feel  
>>>> just a little insecure (the counterpart to the 14 year old waifs 
>>>> in  the fashion magazines). hmmmm. perhaps that is a topic of 
>>>> another  month on empyre.
>>>>
>>>> cheers,
>>>> n.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Man Spam: Fantastic pole for you or Envy is the opposite of pride
>>>>
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>>>> Love making need not be boring
>>>> Awaken the monster in her
>>>> Greater pleasure for you
>>>> You don't forget it
>>>> Luck has nothing to do with the games they play
>>>> Feel proud that you're a real man
>>>> Enjoy the sex life you deserve
>>>> Dance in the sheets all night long
>>>> Batteries included
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