~AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE COLLAPSE OF CATEGORIES~
\n\/ CODEWORKS \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/<\/p>\n
digital utopianism is w\/ us
\n“new media” has aged
\nacquired a history thru the engagement w\/ the reality principal<\/p>\n
Also thru:
\n~ the net as accepted as a material & cultural given in the “developed world”
\n~ .coms have crashed
\n~ unsolicited marketing email & consumerism dominates network traffic
\nnontheless, artistic practice is still often driven by youths, escapists, utopian enthusiasms<\/p>\n
net art: offering back the shock of the virtual-visceral banal at every possible juncture<\/p>\n
other, more traditionally delineated arts, struggle to cope w\/ the reconfigurations of their media … suddenly they migrate towards new media ~ they become inter-communicable ~ not long distinct<\/p>\n
TEXTUAL MEDIA has always been subject to reconfiguration — as practitioners we must face reconfigurations that R seemingly catastrophic
\nMATERIALITY OF LANGUAGE = AFFECT & SIGNIFICANCE OF LANGUAGE<\/p>\n
” […] in utopia, because you are nowhere you are everywhere at once. Transparency and translatability are key values of digital utopianism.”
\nwe are concerned with NO-PLACE … and it’s values
\nare they indeed values?<\/p>\n
language is presented as code \/
\ncode is presented as language
\nMUTUAL CONTAMMINATION:
\nthe utopia of codework recognizes the symbols of the surface language (what yu read from yr screen) as the same as the symbols of the programming language (which store, manipulate, & display the text yu read.)<\/p>\n
the transparency and translatability of this — combined with its recasting of postmodern visceral banality — creates a subversive (potentially progressive) utopian value
\nBUT THIS IS AS FAR AS THE WORK CAN GET
\nin making this simple point … abt transparency and translatability w\/i in the context of something already “utopian” we more or less EXHAUST the significance and affect of the work ~*~*~*~*EXHAUSTED BY AESTHETIC*~*~*~*~<\/p>\n
work that is not exhausted …
\nwork that does generate significance and affect …
\nshould not be assimilated into the utopia of code-language transparency<\/p>\n
~* specialized appreciation of code does not equate to:
\na mutual contamination of code & natural language
\n~* it simply acknowledges that each have their proper place<\/p>\n
CODE AND LANGUAGE REQUIRE DISTINCT STRATEGIES OF READING
\nmaintaining this ^^^ allows for critical understanding & more complex ways to read and write that are commensurate W\/the practices of literal art in programmable media<\/p>\n
THE FLICKERING SIGNIFIER IS NOT \/ CAN NOT BE SEEN AS SOMETHING THAT SIMPLY GOES ON BEHIND THE SCREEN
\n~it is the code @ work
\n~it is the code that transforms writing as the record of static or floating simultaneities into writing as the presentation of atoms of SIGNIFICATION (THEY ARE NOT WHAT THEY ARE W\/O THEIR FLICKERING TRANSFORMATIONS OVER TIME, HOWEVER FLEETING.)
\ni.e. the static records alone are not the flickering signifiers — it is their transformation — which happens as the code runs that provides the flickering ………….<\/p>\n
T.R.A.N.S.A.C.T.I.V.E.
\nM.E.D.I.A.T.I.O.N.
\nis brought into the scene of writing
\nat the very moment of creation
\n—
\nmediation can no longer be characterized as subsidiary or peripheral,
\nNO LONGER PARATEXT<\/p>\n
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\nNAMES FOR WHAT WE’RE DOING…<\/p>\n
in order of preference, of what to call it???<\/p>\n
“writing programmable media” >
\ntextonomy > cybertext > hypertext, hyperfiction, hyperpoetry, etc.<\/p>\n
“programmatology” may be thought of as the study of writing with an explicit awareness of its relation to “programming” or PRIOR WRITING in anticipation of a PERFORMANCE (including the performance of reading)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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