Re: <documenta X><blast> fields...always fields

Alan Julu Sondheim (sondheim@panix.com)
Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:35:21 -0400 (EDT)

How have we just suddenly lost this? It's been gone for a long time - look
at the material in David Harvey's the condition of postmodernity on the
passage of Fordism and coming of flexiwork, or even Husserl or Alfred
Schutz. This picture hasn't been around for decades and decades in the
so-called post-industrial habitus.

And why on earth would this make us feel guilty in any case? We no longer
believe in the electron as a point-particle, etc. - should this also make
us feel guilty?

This sounds like a return to Freud's Civilization and its Discontents,
basing everything on guilt; I just don't buy into it.

Certainly the computer affects our perceptions in numerous ways, but again
I'd urge us to look at specific protocols, applications, etc., before we
re-emerge with another kind of absolute, i.e whatever cyberspace is suppo-
sed to be.

Alan

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Viktor A.Mazin wrote:

>
> If we lose an innocent picture of the absolute space
> and the absolute time in the techno-logical fields
> (the relativity both of them was demonstrated on the various
> examples by the participants of this discussion) does it mean that we feel
> guilty for the lost completness of our perception? It seems like
> the virtual computer space which introduce itself in between
> actual spaces and fantasmatic spaces should rearrange basic structures
> of the human psyche including his drives, and particularly
> the feeling of guilty. For instance, the feeling of guilty might be
> intensified being affected by the splitted and multistructured space and
> time.
>
> Olessia Tourkina, Viktor Mazin
>
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