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[Nettime-bold] _Non Compos Mentis: Zen-Tripping the Non-Conference Circuitry_ |
_Non Compos Mentis: Zen-Tripping the Non-Conference Circuitry_ Mez Breeze [A Quid Pro Quo Proviso: Please try to absorb this multilogue without Personality Construct Interference. This tract is for reflection and engagement within an abstract sphere. It is subjective, and not intended to be prescriptive or subjugative in any sense. This tract is explanatory blather. There is blood on my escape key.] 1. _Back-and-Forgrounding_ A Mezzian Flesh-Mote enters a library. In a networked sense this library is cold; binary data advancements are yet to make any perceivable impact on its manifest functions. A silvered sliver-glint pulls the Mezzian Mote forward to the only technoniche available - a computer laboratory, used primarily for word-processing tasks. It also has an Internet connection. A Datadervish [E-Mote] is born, and a Flesh-Mote extinguished. The E-Mote says: "My first encounter with the Netwurk was serendipitous. A blundering into code. A simple word encounter within lingual largesse. A signified chat series that began in February 1995 [at http://chat.kajen.com] is now mainlined into significant portions. My anatomy tingled. My syntactic structures tumbled. My first play avenue resulted in hours of nectar-drenched connectivity. Chat conduits offered friction [as well as fiction] inflections to confused [and infused] chatters. These chats merged with narrative fibrils to invoke a quadrilinear creative space..........We learned [and are still learning] how to love the conch-like-code, the abbreviated geek-speak, the nuanced sign, the unending banter, the rewriting of the most fierce geosyncratic platitudes [ageism, sexism, racism, phallocentrism - in short, all the .isms]. Being an E-Mote allows you to refabricate all of these stereotypes, becoming "another" rather than "an other". In this displacement space, words are all we have to go on [to paraphrase Stoppard's "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"]. My browsing heart is full when this static spinning looms and physical reliance/dependance is revoked, with language blurred by sweat and siliconed juice. The stoppage point cannot be conceptualised in this Netwurked space - it is basically unwanted and unseen." This open-ended communication space/mode brings with it a continuous air in which to promote and extend its basic elements, such as a system of repeated physical and twinned sensory actions via an E-Motes arm and mouse, finger tips and keyboard, chair and spine, eyes and monitor/s, and finally consciousness and cypher. In this displacement, all entities converge - there is no Other. There is no exclusive you. There is no [blank misplaced categorisation]. In here, E-Motes reroute, rewrite and imagine. They are used to y-talking & IRCing in stretched sentences that reflect towards and mirror other monitored-light beings. E-Motes MOO along with the heard, and communication conflagrations are as rational as avatarian placements. Chat-havens gel within fictionalised parameters. The actual words employed are often dissonant, with experiences deliciously curved through this quadrilinear petri-dish. E-Motes choose to swoon between the lines, delving through categories and labels whilst tasting open source states. This Open Source Tone is/was the key to an altogether altered state of displacement functioning. The displacement space is not knotted. The E-Moter nodes are idiosyncratically clear. Geosensory Reality is saccharine soaked in the visceral. An open swathe of nodes allow for infinite possibilities on the persona spectrum. A sense of the Individual become residual. An E-Moters self is made replete with constant communication. 2. _Geosynthesis and Geosyncratia vs Node-Dependant Disyncratia_ In such a displacement space that is intrinsically coloured by an Open Source Tone, some degree of synaeresis is inevitable. Those E-Motes who can, play. Those who can't lapse into dependencies on traditional theory-based modus operduni. Labels become de rigueur. This mythic displacement space is colonized by dot.coms who fight the primordial postmodem dial-up soup. They are determined to swap and swamp this limboesque state with capital and any corresponding "ism". This can result in E-Motes freezing-up; these particular E-Motes then crawl into pre-fabricated authorial comfort-zones. They demand their dues. They dilute the distributed discourse and filter the meaning-blurred. Other [more salient] E-Motes question "Where is the loop? Please press play!". Eventually, bludgeoning geosensory tactiles overcome all that is relevant in the displacement space. Text tendrils are reduced to reductionistic abuse. Notions of interactive language play are overloaded. Constructural gapping is overwritten, with the Flesh-Motes shaping the primary displacement dance. The E-Motes fall from fecund grace. The NetWurk is correspondingly undercurrented, undermined, understated and erase-echoed in this geophysical pull. Some E-Motes are vertiginous and grope for benchmarks and illusionary grandeur, embracing social mores and power-based perpetuation. Some snatch at Media Stunts or Public Relation codexs. To these E-Motes, the author is now the key. Primaeval performance play is ousted. Creating "the Establishment" is in. However, some E-Motes still seek to construct and absorb kinetic and phonetically driven texts. Entities such as these ponder the following. 3. _The Non-Conference Decision/Incision Nub_. The decision to forgo attending physical events [ie conferences, award ceremonies, etc] related to the promotion of the E-Moter/Author-as-Cult figure status should be made in the light of these questions: - How do we best define the Real? [the real is the reel is the real is the ....]. - To E [mote] or not to E, that is _the_ question. - Should we ignore the identity tug of the self, or substantiate it? - Should we resist the tug of the canon? And hence, revolve, evolve, or devolve? - Should E-Motes strive for ego-blessings or medium solvents? - Does physical E-Mote confirmation [fleshmeeting] breed various blottings on, and in, this displacement/quadrilinear space, especially in regards to the potential non-linear nature/Open Source Tone employed? - Is E-Motive Work tainted by explanatory authorial discourse and added manufactured infotaintment that seeks to explain the work itself? Or alternatively, does experientially-based auterial contact enhance the layering and depth of a E-Moting and E-Motes alike? . . .... ..... net.wurker][mez][ n.sert cens][wh][or][e].ship here xXXx ./. www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker .... . .??? ....... _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold