>remember 6 posts about the Slab City, correlate its emptiness to
>VRML landscapes, find relevance to the synchronous /
>asynchronous / isochronous pulses
of structure, and even work in "an erstwhile Object-Oriented
metaphor" while focused on a simple coral rock that circulates
through the space of the forum (simultaneously lodged in a
landfill); I am trying to ground the living spaces of Viktor/Olessia,
Robbin, Ricardo, and Eve (who lived in a concrete block on June
22) with the situatedness of Russia, New York, Brasil, and being
perpetually mobilized throughout the american southwest through
the conduit of a rental car trunk; I am trying to integrate, as is
Olessia, "technological tendencies, psycho/physiological virtues
and the idiomatic" in a specific sense of place and embodiment; I
am thinking about drowned PCs, virtual moods, Aboriginal
groups, involuntary habits, and "meanwhiles" and what this tells
me about contemporary spatiality. It tells me everything. Our
forum is full of life.
To proceed: I am torn by the need as a forum host to sort
through these issues and isolate threads, and the desire to relish in
and encourage this potent mix. I opt for the latter. The scope of
our problem is embedded here in these rich arrays of messages,
and perhaps it is best, as was suggested (I think by Greg), not to
isolate goals per se but to focus on these as problems as such.
Some have become discouraged by the volume of messages,
finding it too difficult to keep up with the momentum, and too
demanding to order the multiplicity of issues. In this case, please
feel free to seize upon, and illuminate, those aspects that concern
you, and ignore or delete that which doesn't. We don't all have to
keep up with everything. Pick a channel, dive in, and go with the
flow. Think of it as an exercise in seeing and negotiating the
complex webs of issues that go into any consideration of a topic,
and developing ways of managing the onslaught, like one does
while walking down the street in an urban city. We're not walking
with blinders, but developing ways of organizing and maneuvering
increasingly dense spaces, and so we can try to make these
problems productive and illustrative. The tensions in "making this
work" are part of the very substance of what we're after.
Here are a few practical matters: The suggestion to try to pay
attention to subject headings and work with these is a good one.
Also, it would be helpful if quoting could be kept to a minimum.
Remember you only need to quote what is absolutely necessary
to the message, and edit out [...] those parts that you don't
require for clarification.