From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: _arc.hive_@lm.va.com.au
Subject: MATERIAL-REAL
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 21:22:36 -0400 (EDT)





MATERIAL-REAL


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 text, "she said."  Just as quotations slip laterally in the sentence,
there is also a slippage in depth, for example, as Nikuko replies. @wet
Nikuko. Nikuko is wet, dripping urine through her white cotton panties.
We understand the oddity of this proposal, but we have been dealing with
formally performative language for the past few years, in order to look at
issues of virtual subjectivity, interaction, projection and introjection
on the Net. We worry about being taken seriously, not as broken sch

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izo- phrenics. put mouth on panties. You drink urine of Nikuko.
"Performative" can be considered in any number of ways. For example, there
is a _trace_ function in the Julu program Jennifer has written, a function
which produces a text representing parent/child processes in unix, choices
made by the user, manipulations by the program itself. The function
produces a file, .trace, which, when reversed, is legibile. The .trace
file accumulates, carrying the history of repeated usage; here is an examp

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le:  hairpiece:sure thing:Julu:leg:  Come home with me, hairpiece,
julu-of-the-fast-crowd!  Your dirty arm is in my black neck
HaPPINESS:Yes:Alan::  Your psychotic head is in my sexy head Your your
penis seeps into my head - turning me Julu-Jennifer Hole:YES!!:Julu:nail:
Your poor urine is in my depressed nail Devour poor urine julu-of-the
partying Hole!  Nikuko ...:never!:Nikuko:hair:hair Your linen leg is in my
wanton hair Your passion seeps into my hair - turning me Julu-Jennifer
dirty:yeah:Nik

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uko:ear:  Your psychotic eye is in my velvet ear Devour psychotic eye
julu-of-the partying dirty!  Note the stick-like or _anime_ figures at
work, distributed authorships and anatomies. look panties. You see nothing
special.  So that "performative" language has three constituents:  1. Its
usual site and analysis as speech act or performative in tradi- tional
linguistics (and all the accompanying critiques);  2. Referencing
programming language, which is always performative; thus "echo `date`"
call

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s up date which echo then sends to the standard output;  3. _Any_
statement, say, in a chat (IRC, talker, MOO, MUD, chat, etc.)
environment, which both _constitutes_ and _constructs_ the subject/user;
without the statement, the subject/user disappears for others.  There is
thus the constructed/constituted subject - who is, by virtue of protocols,
always already _well-defined,_ and the subject on the other/ near side of
the screen - who need not detain us: one might in this fashion call the
"real" or

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"physical-real" subject the _virtual subject_ by virtue of his or her
dis/appearance in relation to others on the Net.  Avatars are always
disturbances, always irruptions of language, a lang- uage portending _the
raveling of existence and essence,_ for these terms meld within each
other, tangled in avatar-sites/sights/citations. @create $thing called
begging. You have a $thing called begging with object number #75438.
(Now we call _these_ avatars _emanants,_ since they are more deeply em-
bedded

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