Alan Sondheim on Sat, 9 Feb 2002 20:22:01 +0100 (CET) |
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Karl Kraus, somewhere said I thought, In the beginning was plagiarism. Then I thought he said, In the beginning there was no plagiarism. But I revert to the first, another aphorism. "We no longer have roots, we have aerials." The comma separates what might be an apposition; we might have had a semicolon or colon. But a comma emphasizes the wave - radio or otherwise - traveling through the roots. Aspens share roots. Creosote rings can be 12000 years old. Some bamboos grow rhizomatically. With all of these, how can one date, age? But roots imply dating/aging/origins. Aerials - not antennas, which seem more specific, tuned to specific bandwidths of the electromagnetic spectrum (for example) - cover rooftops at crazy, beserk (re beserkers run amuck, anglo-saxon) angles - there are shuttered/shattered/shuddered flows among them, askew interferences, ghost images on the television, static on the radio, dangerous lightnings, leakages. Think of them as broadband, allband, like those thermionic units in the 20s that healed by radio but blasted across spectra, were finally outlawed. Aerials is perfect - collusion, clotting of information - coagulation into barely recognizable forms, usages - Thought proceeds by the aphorism, gathers in the eddies of the delcarative - Or one might think from particle to wave, root-particle, C:\ or \ to the flux of Ballardic dying machines. Or information that doesn't crawl across/through the Ground, floats and dissembles - what I used to call, based on fractal Cantor dusts - radiation-dusts. - Alan _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold