File spoon-archives/sa-cyborgs.archive/sa-cyborgs_1997/sa-cyborgs.9712, message 5


From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl>
Subject: Re: the whatchamacallit thingy connected to the other thingyconnected to..
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 23:08:34 +0100


Thanks cyberdiva for a wonderful poem.  Slurpy stuff.

Jurriaan.
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> From: cyberdiva <radhik-AT-bgnet.bgsu.edu>
> To: sa-cyborgs-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: the whatchamacallit thingy connected to the other
thingyconnected to..
> Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 7:05 PM
> 
> that helps me create
> "nonlinear"
> 
> 		and yet oh so linear
> 		linear
> lean ier
> 
> 		digital
> images
> 
> 	interactive projects
> intuitively
> 
> clicking the thingy called the mousey
> 
> whatever
> 
> whatchamalit thingumajigs
> 
> 		if i choose not to speak the language
> 
> of the mechanical
> cyborgs
> 
> inhabiting the technological spaces
> 
> if i refuse to mystify the act
> of mere programming
> 
> 
> 		if i tell them to stuff it
> 
> when they throw those
> 
> whatchamacallit beeg names around
> 
> 		will my skill dis
> appear?
> (what the hell *is* skill if not learned?
> 		that anyone can l-
> 			earn)
> 
> 
> 
> 		if i do not speak the language
> 
> nay shout the phallic symbols
> 
> will i be silenced?
> 
> 		we shall see...
> 
> 
> meanwhile the thingamajiggeess
> the clicking mouse thingies
> 
> the video whatevers
> 
> and the blinking screens the whatchamacallits
> 
> 
> enable me to "speak" in doing
> 
> expressing
> 
> 
> 		still within the realm of the great big
> 
> panopticon
> 
> the whatchamacallit...
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________________
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> (Multimedia, New Technologies)
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> 
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>   		?	it is theory				?
>   		?	i thought theory was the solution	?
>   		?	it is practice."			?
> 		?						?
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> ?????????????????
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the
> power of practice, knowing that what is beyond practice is always
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> 
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