[-empyre-] whose "our systems" & window weather [gluggaveðri]

[Johannes Birringer]

dear John, 

building the house has priority, but thanks for sending in this fascinating excerpt you wrote on energized matter/ glass,
and flow relations to/with  environment -- and I hope Douglas Kahn is still reading --
yes things went too fast last month, so we are trying to slow down, there is no rush,
and matters of the sonic, why not hear more echoes and resonances..?

Your key proposition, then, is: 

<This suggests that any discussion of the virtual not be limited to material ‘delivery’ mechanisms or mediatory (digital) devices. 
Rather, a broad consideration of the character of flows between the Self and the Other, the Self and the cosmos, is needed: especially the relation between those flows and embodied sensory presence. 
The dialectic of reality/virtuality is fundamentally about the ‘allowance’ or attenuation of potential energy flows as they effect change in the energized body.
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responses, please?





[John schreibt]
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..I'd point you to a short text excerpted from my dissertation that
proposes a novel definition of the 'virtual' or 'virtuality'. It may be
demonstrated as directly connected with last months sonic (energy!) explorations.

That might however require more of a discussion than I can afford to engage in
in the moment, unfortunately -- I'm rebuilding a small house in the mountains of
central Arizona with the aim of reducing the GHG energy footprint...

Anyway, I thought I'd throw it out there ... The definition (model) addresses a
number of the problematic issues around the use of the word -- formost in my
mind, virtuality's indelible link to the digital, and because of this, the vague
historical sourcing/usage of the term.

http://tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/75283