[syndicate] Re: on alias, aliasing

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this might interest you... it's old but i don't think
i 've sent it over these lists directly- although it's
been up there... 

relates to perception of space
and signal aliasing


http://p9.hostingprod.com/@writingxxxxxxx.com/page7.htm



--- Alan Sondheim <sondheim at PANIX.COM> wrote:

> alias
> 
> 
> Alias - One has an alias - the connotation is that
> of subterfuge (but not
> necessarily). Feynman writes about alias as a
> question of raster - think
> of alias, aliasing, as the return of the repressed
> of the real - what
> can't be accommodated is transformed by the upper
> ceiling of the bandwidth
> into rhythmic structuring - of course if the
> unaccommodated - one might
> say unaccountable - is itself within a relatively
> steady-state. Look for
> alias / aliasing in the real, for the location of
> what might pass for
> primordial - what whispers in spite of everything.
> 
> Aliases and rhythm - but given the potential of
> alterity, a face without
> content, a face elsewhere than the Other - the
> rupture itself, aliasing
> itself, may take on the appearance of a masquerade
> (i.e. of the second
> order). Hence what is apparent may be the extrusion
> or residue of
> insufficient bandwidth, and if we generalize, we
> might find that the
> appearance of the real is always already alias,
> construed as appearance,
> forced into its return.
> 
> Is sampling always inadequate? Don't we make these
> decisions in the first
> place, in relation to human perception? Think of the
> alias as a wound -
> wound as gateway - or diacritical mark. Here is
> where the digital meets
> the analog - or at least where catastrophe meets
> emission - where emission
> is channeled...
> 
> There is something deep here, more than meets the
> eye ...
> 
>
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> 
> Thus - to a future editor:
> 
> I am writing as quickly as possible before I die.
> For example, the concept
> of 'alias' I employ here might well lead to a
> phenomenology of the imag-
> inary. But who has time to complete this?
> Furthermore, my work is full of
> misspellings, errors of grammar, confusions and
> awkwardness of style. I
> hope these will be corrected. I am blind to them.
> Even with copy-editing,
> I am blind to them. But they are present as the real
> is present, and as
> such, are erroneous; they conjure only what the
> alias permits. The sememe
> is catastrophically shattered in such, and most
> likely in all, instances.
> So the act of correction must be an active one - not
> merely copy-editing,
> but editing for content, deep-editing, correcting
> faults, and restoring
> the texts to their (non-existent and accurate)
> originals.
> 
> There is something deep here, more than meets the I
> ...
> 
>
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> 
> ( see http://nikuko.blogspot.com )
> 


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