Time? Highlights

So, thus far I have short list of highlights:

1)    Aliens bad, daimons good.

2)    The army needs PIE!

3)    Prudence talks to herself

4)    Pastiche can be a verb, and maybe poetry can be to?

5)    Spices are from the devil and the downfall of mankind

6)    I might have something in common with Veruca Salt

As for an acknowledgement of time that was mentioned in Ulmer’s email – here are some quick initial thoughts…

We consider time through limit, acknowledging our individual mortality, our strength as a species, but also living in the erasure of limit, ‘becoming’ the collective that exists beyond our individuality and linear morality.  The idea of Wellbeing is larger than the individual, thus our construct has to be larger than the individual, faster than the traditional dialectic to encompass the dromosphere’s ‘Now’ and more prolific than individual embodiment in time. 

Just like the literate tradition is part of our challenge, making the literate accessible in electracy, the corporation seems to be the key to time.  The corporation is modeled after the individual, yet largely without the restraint of most individuals – like the lack of daimon we spoke of in class.  The corporation is the hedonistic individual, the appetitive man with the benefit of intellect and reason, but lacking the finitude of mortality.  Corporations don’t die, they just go bankrupt!  So how can we work with a ‘construct,’ the corporation, that exists both within the boundaries of time and law, and yet strangely outside of them.  In a creepy way, the corporation reminds me of AI, the robots that live forever (but not the cute, happy, Wall-E robot, the evil genius kind).  So not only how do we translate the literate into the electracy, how do we accommodate the (theoretically) infinite that is mediated through the finite, especially with regard to a Wellbeing centered in human mortality?  To that end, who exactly is determining Wellbeing and how does this all relate to accident?

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For now I interpret the emails as a space for literacy, instruction, questions - a place where we write out our thoughts and connections to instructions and the overall project.

The blog, here, seems to be the space of undergoing.  The place to employ imaging to process, to initiate the alternative literacy that we are aiming for through electracy.  So I will balance my words and explanations, feature my images and process my reflections.