[-empyre-] Thinking about Flow and Real-Time in Pandemic-Time: Twitter, GarageBand, and Pianos

[Alan Sondheim]

Hi, just wanted to say I quite like this and machine-time reminds me of 
Sartre's analysis in Critique of Dialectical Reason about people working 
on assembly lines - I forget the exact quote, but it's something like 
"It's the machine in them that did the dreaming." That resonates; machine 
time, AI, and the like are internally timeless in a sense, even with the 
calculations measured, and program breakdowns, ransoms which suspend 
program time, or one program time for another, and so forth. So when you 
write about

" collaborating with our six year old son to make and edit songs
in GarageBand. We lose track of time. We make our own fun. That flow is
between us, "

I think of the flow among bodies and all the "messiness" of human life, 
and that's a kind of epiphany in a sense -

Best Alan

On Wed, 19 May 2021, Rebecca Rouse wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 20:41:12 +0000
> From: Rebecca Rouse <rebecca.rouse at his.se>
> To: "empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au" <empyre at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: [-empyre-] Thinking about Flow and Real-Time in Pandemic-Time:
>     Twitter, GarageBand, and Pianos
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