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Transtextuality: movement between different thought patterns, expressions styles: immediate flux through the flow of human expression. Filtered, of course. If (x) then (?), it's all variations on the same pattern: expansion, contraction, ebb flow. Maybe, at least for this posting, I'm not backing my idea up with several fashionable post this or that writers, but I think the idea has a bit of "cultural resonance". I read Margaret Morse's posting about "symbolic events" with pleasure, and I have to admit, a bit of surprise. To me almost all human interaction is utterly symbolic - even the exchange of genetic information sor the birth of solar systems seems (the reproduction scam?) to be part of this ballgame. Generative structures versus the end product of conscious human manipulation of the parameters defining the "game." What next? I guess the word "game" is a key element of this thought/disjecta. Take for example the "grief by consensus" deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa and their affect on global consciousness, or the American dream turned to nightmare of the O.J. trials, or even the system of correspodences betweenn film and reality that seems to really be another prevalent late 20th century trope (perfect example, Wag the Dog and the follies of our Presidential mediascape). But it seems like much of this is not new, or even distant from previous "network" values. Consciousness as the "end" product of a series of networked values? Consciousness "itself" as a core component of networked personae. I guess the codes are transferable. I guess I'm not pointing to the notion of electronic media as an isolated system of prosthetic values - it's only a continuation of culture by other means - it merely happens to abstract them the conclusions reached in reality to their sometimes all too logical ends - ending in "the irrational" space of complete cultural atomization. Maybe that's what the word "Other" is all about. But to me that atomziation has always been part of how culture evolves. More viewers, more listeners, more consumption. The path to full consumer utopia ( a sublimated death urge/dirge?): through dystopia, cathartic cultures of sensory overload, paths through the tangled mazes of the collective consciousness. Does this seem to be a "stream of consciousness" narrative? The record skips, the beat goes out of phase, the party ends. - ------------------------------------------------------------- a critical forum for artistic practice in the network texts are the property of individual authors to unsubscribe, send email to eyebeam@list.thing.net with the following single line in the message body: unsubscribe eyebeam-list information and archive at http://www.eyebeam.org Eyebeam Atelier/X Art Foundation http://www.blast.org -------------------------------------------------------------
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