Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 23:58:16 -0500
From: dhiggins-AT-mhv.net (Dick Higgins)
Subject: Re: intermedia



>I don't think this is mine in that while I made reference to the end of the
>reign of the panoptic I would have never premised the global village on it
>but merely the end of the fragmentation of the senses associated with
>modernism.  The reason that the digital may be discribed as constituting
>what is concieved of as  intermedia is that it is, once fully realized
>connstitute a universal medium-- the same zero's and one's  can be played
>out as text, image,music, animation, sensation, etc.  The global village
>snd its accompanying conception of the nomadic and the tribal were
>concieved of as being effects of capital re-enforced by   television and is
>premised on the sense of immanence that htis medium induced which is
>significantly different that that of the virtual associated with the
>digital. So I'll take credit for the first half of this quote, Therefore I
>am responsible for the phrase "an Intermedia" It should have read a form of
>intermedia.  If I wrote the second half I apologize and must have been
>possesed by some strange virus spread via the pages of Wired.
>
Wouldn't we rather call this "mixed media?"

Dick Higgins
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