[-empyre-] -empyre- a digital unconscious?
Simon
SWHTaylor at zoho.com
Sun Feb 4 14:10:05 AEDT 2018
On 04/02/18 07:08, Timothy Conway Murray wrote:
> (it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today)
cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys
killed in flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges, Auckland cityside: the
persistent promise of disruptive events that is now our weather, now our
environment.
<<empyre>> ... I think of Altavista, the cathode ray tube monitor and
clicketty-clack keyboard, of the public computer at Brazil cafe before I
opened the doors most mornings dialing in to engage with the textvoices
coming down the wire early in the 2000s when I discovered the listserv,
starting a blog as clearinghouse, again public, winging it, butterflies
waiting for the next installment, about the same time:
squarewhiteworld.com ... halcyon days / mornings of digital
connectivity, when it seemed to involve and devolve on actual and
sometimes anxious connections, rather than recognitions, reassurances
and reaffirmations of the lugubriously sincere (like-able if not
amiable) variety. When the wire ran hot with debate rains of actual and
sometimes burning butterflies. More popping bubbles than cognitive ones.
And I hazard that that's why I like the listserv format still ... the
possibility of an unforeseen intervention upstarting, derailing more
sanguine settled and yes conservative (recuperative) discussion ... The
risk of going too far, the highwire, not preempted by the provision of
safetynetting. As for expertise and theoretical enterprise, was more
like a fleamarket, with barrackers, professional and simulacral, in the
softskinned space of egalitarian exchange, each equally un-niched and in
a context the construct of all--permitting that is words of other
unknown because unknowable provenance (owing to textonly format): who
does ____ think she is? who will ____ be? before personological
recidivism and identitarian backlash of social online /presence/. There
it is: a virtual I have misspelt as "possibility"!
...there would also be something to say about professional
overinvestment more recently actively soliciting recognition,
remediation, affirmations; rather than an increasing reign of expert
opinion, the soft sentimental professionally bleeding heart's thin skin:
so, rather than its lateral level and /smooth /openness to both
professional and expert, invited or lurking, <<empyre>> might be lauded
for the potential to engage in ... risk. It could be a more dangerous
place, this smooth one. Reputations might, at least locally, be on line
... the long hidden but fragile threads of glass that link us serving in
listserv the needling of consistency and consensus ... crawling back
into the cave of the screen after the fall ... grace
taking a certain time to reflect in private vacuole of /that's not what
I meant at all /.../
/Best,
Simon
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