I thought a lot about frequency units. I made a sketch in one of our
emails that went like this. If frequency is defined as the number of times
any action or occurrence is repeated in a given period, or the number of
periodic oscillations, vibrations, or waves per unit of time, calibrated in
terms of a standard unit (hertz, equal to one cycle per second), it could
just as well be expressed according to other protocols, arranging space
according to repetitions and routines. So we might propose some such
other protocol. For example, every day X goes and drinks
2.5 cups of coffee with a donut, gets the mail, and then cleans the entire
house. So the way that she reads, and structures her world, is ordered
according to her routine, which is in a sense her home setting. She sees
through the scrim of the task to be done: between squirts of Windex she
glimpses tv, but the dryer buzzes, the machines call. They help to pace
her, providing units of measurement.
We don't think enough about object-agency and the modes of "pacing"
as structure. In many ways spaces are defined through the conduits of
gadgets, through which vision is channelled and paces annexed.
On another note, Keller talked about switches in terms of language, as in
a sense modulators of language. Greg Ulmer works with switch-terms
and employs networks of such conductors within texts. This is another
rich thread.