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To: imitationpoetics@topica.com
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
Subject: [ImitaPo] code and protocol: the parasitic vis-a-vis phenomenology
of approach
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 01:49:14 -0400 (EDT)
code and protocol: the parasitic vis-a-vis phenomenology
of approach
among x and ~x = one inscribes the null set 0 as
x^~x - intersection. butx may be fuzzy; x may also be intended
or unintended. if x is unintended,or non-intended, then x may
be protocol. consider roughly three strata: a. unintended x-protocol:
dna or crystal mapping, clays, lindenmayeralgorithms in relation
to plant formation. b. intended x-protocol: tcp/ ip, jpeg compression,
mpeg encoding, morse, ciphering. by 'intention,' areference _only_
to goal-oriented, teleological structuring. note that intended
x-protocols may be secondary-level coding (i.e. tcp/ip) or primary-level
(morse, bacon cipher); in the latter, the text is trans- lated
on a character-by-character basis into code, and in the former,
the text is carried by the code. at best this is a fuzzy distinction.
note that the latter is also an intended non-intended protocol;
a better word might be 'tended'; thus morse code is tended with
key translation, but tcp/ip is automated translation into packets
(not into a 'tcp/ip code,' but through ascii, well maybe the same
thing). in intended distinction,
one might say (as one might say in tended non-intended protocol),
that the
distinction is parasitic, that the element-between x and ~x -
the inscrip-
tion itself - is the result of an intended act or sequence of
acts. such
an element-between is dirty, abject, fuzzy, problematic, historically
and
ideologically bound.
the element-between is the boundary-phenomena within
the phenomenology of approach; it marks/inscribes the totality
of investigation, expenditure, intention - as well as accompanying
debris, and the heuristics necessary to cleanse the phenomenon
itself, [x, ~x].
it is within the element-between that -jectivity:
projection/introjection, plays out. it is from this element, represented
as the inscribed boundary x|~x, that anomaly overrides, that default
tags arise. this is the chora- tic element within the sememe,
within semiosis, the generator of meaning, and meaning's withdrawal.
it is here, {x} <> |P| <> {~x}, that
the parasite is manifest - the noise in the system that _tends
towards meaning,_ towards the _maintenance_ of the inscription.
the parasite has everything to gain; as such it is also _symbiotic_
in relation to x - retaining x for its own ends; the whole process
is an _enunciation._
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