On Thu, 10 Jul 1997 10:05:37 (EDT), and wrote:
> i'd like to suggest that in the multiplication of simultaneous duarations
> that constitute contemporary conditions of pacing, the grounding of
> activity is perpetually negotiated and reconfigured across the various
> environments we navigate daily. the regularity and consistency (and
> subsequent invisibility) of the footstep becomes supplanted by a series of
> polyphonic beats - produced both by subject and environment - which
> themselves frame a figurative action within a series of other figurative
> actions. figure/ground becomes figure/figure/figure; the 'footstep' no
> longer a marker of time but a duration (however small), the mnemonic
> resonances of which ripple through the activities which it bounds or
> interrupts...
>
> within this environment, disciplinary time (and the focus of attention it
> produces), is displaced by a flood of stimulations, each ordered by their
> inherent frequencies. here the signification-form becomes established
> through the course of navigation. no longer "this is...", rather: "this
> AND this AND this AND..."
>
> how might this SOUND?