[-empyre-] Subject: Re: whose "our systems" & body weather

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi Johannes,

You say,
I tend not to believe we are "always already virtual" (as Alan Sondheim
suggests),

-- but one problem I have with the discussion is that it doesn't include a
critique of the corporate. Take the distinction (which I've also written
about) between digital and analog - on a 'deep level' these merge or are
problematized, in spite of things like the collapse of the wave function.
But on the level of the _body,_ embodiment, the digital is entangled with
digital technology - i.e. protocol suites, software, etc.; a gif is not a
jpg is not a png - and a bvh is not an stl is not a mesh is not an Oculus
is not a glass etc. - each of these have their own protocls, standards,
tolerances, media ecologies, etc. etc. So on THAT level, the virtual
becomes entangled with embodiment yes but also with the corporate/control
etc. What I'm saying is that not ENOUGH attention is given, say, to the
ontology of dreams, hypnagogic visions, the pervasive imaginary, etc. etc.
- which is deeply inhering within embodiment, entangled with it. And for
me THAT is what's interesting, not technological articulations and
mappings etc.

- Alan

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