distillation of future dear, aim

[Alan Sondheim]

distillation of future dear, aim

fear censorship (something country, alas!), order duties pursuant full-time 
without ability, directly, appreciate following excellent questions posed, best 
general theme direction future committees nowadays best, designed fly holdfast 
media/information flow. format, tenure committee, tenure, future, literature. 
please excuse appear, perhaps disappear transform aol excepted, familiar 
command-line gaming, 1995, worlds changed; mechanics, performativity, depends 
'writing.' per se environments past significant historic comparing practices 
1995 2005, adjournment. extent. line shells (today, linux shells). sense bone, 
literally, sending email, emacs vi editors, everyone using, panix.com, enter 
command 'who' itself; (as now) shell though rarely hear people. background, 
shared. network. gui, graphic interfaces, well- uses). today, usually 
undercurrent, called 'darknet' (before term users onto decade shielded today 
started dumping, aol, million protocols invisible, (the full number commands 
1800). code over-designed. editor granted appliance, mac appliance-oriented 
moved graphics dynamisms, 'under hood' approach pc. javascript dynamic html 
general, beyond flash, towards java broadband; doing fascinating everywhere. 
countries millions artists. daily, hours, way), quantity, must tens means 
connected lies demographics; actors script perfect engines directly avatars 
create narrative experimental film good young age, modifying programs, 
interesting people, encodings. games machinima, collocation allows bare-bones 
gui programmatic level. counter-movement defined (paralleling, ny gallery 
system), you. 'net art' category gone; dealing massive social creativity. 
operating system; days 'mac versus pc' linux, over. leap system learn whenever 
wherever speak. this/these development(s) influenced artistic incredibly 
supple, explore, easy program, unix shells, because they're bare-bones, fast, 
come along. lot audiomulch, motion-capture can, audio/video/etc. creates 
soundworks 'granular synthesis' form particulating aural dimension, literally 
grains sound, particles, writing/sounding/visualizing; mix, tools this. care 
whether interface fun exciting discontinuous. program runs winxp, sound-waves. 
results fast wildly monitors, transducers (specialized speakers microphones) 
show coming los angeles, busy collecting cross- application, cross-platform, 
cross-technology, cross-output devices. find; run appear neural characterise 
support level, metaphorically. all, money; equipment junkie reaction 
writing(s), practice particular? upgrading; probably half real problems data 
management. terabyte finished considerable backup involved; peripheral support; 
salaried, stipends, like. around. can't employment, get conference unable 
classify exactly do, somewhat anti-authoritarian personality result 
departments; haven't lucky, partly computer modern artists managed jobs 
health-care mediocre, father, i'd none. fitting in, already established 
genres/disciplines. above? role played facilitating touch gave dot.com era 
demise). put (which related answer; turned practice? diary form, explored 
before. core programmers; allowed extended 'meet' limits started, decades 
phenomenology analog each long impervious; would developed manner question, 
institution currently resulting series articles pieces. facilitated hindered 
indicated driven it, provided managements, group. sea change; demographics, 
micro-institutions micro- me, panix did well, visual gathering comes together, 
later dispersing, flash mobs) 'intensification,' taz (hakim bey's 'temporary 
autonomous zone,' loose school melange; 'movements' part google, words, roiling 
databases group peers. riding knowledge management; manifestos, blind anyone 
small developments reactions identified having implosion terms human/cultural 
subjectivity, moving difficulty prediction case. explosion answers. courses 
futurology, am aware trying avoid responsibility, ethical metaphysical, lasting 
upon literature & wider culture century? predictions. years ago, push tech- 
nologies rage; hears them point. dominate planet? mass slated well? violent 
wars when 'wider culture,' five billion educated classes industrialized 
nations, least talking relatively secure (for moment) enclave kill within, say, 
next fifty years? loss here. earlier models permit freedom expression. radio, 
kinds were hacking everything got absorbed corporate bandwidth concerns. money 
receivers, transmission do-it-yourself phenomenon, until thing; reason 
vulnerable attack, then shell-driven darknet, powers-that-be clamped down. 
disappeared part, text-based moos whole cultures newsgroup worm 1988 among 
changed before meant completely secure; wasn't reason. morris humans, may well 
last), occur same true now; beginning century (which, qualitatively make 
comparison useless. weren't recognized time, scale/scope thing darknet find 
predecessors, muds disappeared. grid information born, bomb, flu epidemic hit, 
computers, net, ning, radio stage, wwi, wwii, atomic power, field. (look 1905 
air travel begin- working special relativity, our view cosmos was seemed 
eternal, quantum theory unknown, einstein matter, communism hadn't taken hold, 
planet's flora fauna impact be, direction. certainly art, literature, culture, 
21st century. idea question yes, major classical, spite minor disturbing 
anomalies.) is, sustain (mostly human) life remember isn't). we're approaching 
carrying-capacity foregrounded; smaller (we things. expect religious 
fundamentalisms increasing population levels. this, anything, effect salvation 
appears corner. how arts react rise popularity violence; humans desperate, 
this? constitute class mob) workers? know things change, don't how. need heavy 
cutbacks here), enormous inertia species: two forces: ensuing chaos (j.g. 
ballard prescient model happening change that. people live habitus; 'everyone' 
united states do motto more less 'not back yard' (nimby) goes recognizes 
megafauna disappearing, close industrial emissions/pollution, contemporary 
fulfill made explain lot. sure claims are. concept 'new media' writing' during 
course last decade? signs posters!) overcoming. far longer phrase; always carry 
standard book/page? judging replaced. temporary print hand marks being-read, 
owner owner; there's no indication ground, hardly. physical book object carries 
e-books book? unless electronic really off also issue authority/authorization; 
magazines, handouts, etc., opposite true; offline used platform rapidly 
newspaper readership going down quickly, while rising. newspapers, viewpoints 
(not wikipedia seems experiencing growing pains biased innuendo prevalent just 
quoted by conservative talk-show hosts. imagine rumour viewpoint). so... 
replace old? no. augment versa? definitely. news sources themselves, 
particularly often neutrality ideological becoming increasingly 'media' are? 
absolutely blogs media? particular technologies immersive game couches? moos? 
games? tcp/ip protocol stack running net part? minds beholders/users, who 
subscribe, discern where 'medium' ends begins; definitions senses word, outlets 
their community, them, however briefly, tenuously; remain available refer your 
list discussion topics, commenting communality, creative expressions. continued 
employment institution: institutions west virginia university's center (if 
remains category) difficult time it. universities, houses, design companies. 
independent institutional settings primarily literary computing, generous 
granting archival/presentation advantages ability gives statistics concerning 
distribution space writers. case, wvu commercial host; nothing computer, home, 
local web page even ftp site; you still develop audience. academia hypertext. 
forgive me cynical response i'll go crazy yet another paper exigencies ground 
produced entirely academy. both value code- experimental- work breaking 
production, actually march streets. politically engaged (or feel oneself 
engaged) never involves being online; it's easier ideal academic theorizing, 
presentations, almost within english department that's something else again, 
aren't if you're speaking strategies ginsberg whomever 'development 
strategies.' topic bit frightening me; say blake rimbaud art policies 
development attend leveler regard, barrier, since few independents afford 
emailpedagogical issue. answer briefly: production.2. immediate possessing 
adequate software image/lists.1. personal online production websites, blogs, 
wikis, off-campus.text/video/sound audience unfortunately mostly directly.5. 
visiting artist programs give students speak4. exposure many sites possible.3. 
access much possible computers academics). look different videophones, pagers, 
text economies at carrier usage, home broadband dial-up terminals, messaging, 
internet relay chat, old cuseeme, instant economics bandwidth, political 
economy, dispersion performing venues, brings nothing. third (i've extremely 
difficult; outside teaching thousand times larger. second simply making living, 
taught should under 30k size; sometimes 30m, quicktime video/audio files 
playing simultaneously, had buy above) again technology. own performances 
require twelve historical context writing(s): opens up laptop handle these. 
wouldn't bother looking origin; theorized originating film; writing; books; 
technology; relate vis-a-vis 'historical context.' i've see worms (i like 
worms). roots sort inscription too instead talk about discourse networks, 
collocation, heap, which relies performativity language (i.e. work. 
interpenetrating discursive active interaction user technology), myself, tend 
emphasize ruptures over flows formations, 'epigenetic landscapes,' so forth. 
reductionism doesn't breaks past. sense, history gets way; think (production 
largely micro-situational: what works here, now, its main use might 
(re)consideration aesthetic criteria. relation such-and-such tools, potential 
audiences, etc.) former embedded latter, vice versa. * relationship between 
writing(s) digital arts: concerned symbolic inscription, graphemes, written 
spoken language, latter can anything. overlap numerous ways. conclusion: one 
hand, isn't any. very tenor/tenure my any remark theory-embedded) emphasizes 
deep inexplication remarks above (and they remarks, theoretical explication, 
although media, writing, writing. i'm arguing anything primordial that, ongoing 
slaughters etc. occurring on technologies, predictions become highly 
problematic. caught available, given fast-forward changing human demographics 
planet earth, limited energy life-sustaining resources view, extinctions 
engendering greater than those midst flux barely understand; for example, 
ecological point world-wide communities communalities. created these 
communications network has ever known, first waves precambrian 'age dinosaurs). 
greatest reach out other, witness participate in multiculturalisms most fragile 
devices, redundancy notwithstanding. we opportunity such great degree that 
other ourselves. writing style. a way electronically witnessing world, creating 
contributes this; it does stand alone cultural manifestation recreating world. 
an early and important example of community. writers new media practitioners 
have been brought together from world - not extent the trace community is now 
dispersed or dispersing; this only online, but through incubation conferences 
as well. some case with all networked communities, believe. are archives. i 
hope there will be someone around to read them. ===