[-empyre-] whose "our systems" & body weather

[Alan Sondheim]

Just a couple of quick points, probably askew or slant -

The digital, at least in everyday media use, is always implicated with the 
raster; it's the raster that roughly maps the granularity of the analogic. 
And the raster is predetermined, all the way back through the abacus, by 
economic/power considerations - all those elements you speak of are 
interelated through interoperability, mappings. They also require money, 
institutions, to produce; this isn't the body running in the wilderness, 
this is the wired body, and even to some extent, often the academic body 
as well.

Second point, the most askew, is an entry in the Assyran Dictionary, G, 
Volume 5 - the mix of symptom, analog, barrier, etc. touches on all these 
problems:

gabbu B s.; (part of the human or animal body); NB*

[su-u]su = ga-ab-bu [...] (preceded by sa(var.sa).lah = ha-dan-tum 
coagulated blood, sa(var.sa).lah.lah = ha-s[a-ar]tum dried mucus) [...] 
[Assyrian quote] one g. and the sibtu (assorted intestines?) of the sheep. 
[...] [Assyrian quote] the intestines, the g., the ribs. [...] The content 
of the vocabulary pasages which refer to the human body suggests that 
gabbu denotes a semi-liquid part of the human body, or a secretion, while 
the passages from NB texts indicate that the gabbu of animals [...] was an 
edible uniteand denoted an internal part of the animal body, although it 
is never mentioned among the exta. Possibly gabbu denotes the brain.

I'm not sure of the relevance here, except that the (Assyrian?) abject 
travels through semiosis into an attempt at a determinative unit ending 
up with the brain. The technology here would be cuneiform.