Re: <documenta X><blast> rhythms

and (squak@mail.ziplink.net)
Tue, 5 Aug 1997 08:34:15 -0400 (EDT)

At 5:32 PM -0000 8/1/97, JC wrote:

>Might there be a kind of calculus that could study and compare
>technological pacing and embodied pacing? As you said earler, each
>figures the other from their respective grounds, or they figure in a
>groundless sense.

i probably wouldn't start by rendering technological and embodied pacing as
distinct agents...i think that the situations where these forms of pacing
intersect, overlap, mirror, interface and merge with each other more
directly confront the terms by which we negotiate a course through
contemporary environments...

often enough, these situations contain seeds of multiplicity and apparent
noise, complicating their reading as signal; they are poly-rhythmic events,
composed of patterns a-rhythmically disposed toward one another, producing
phase-shifts continually requiring the recalibration the temporal guage by
which measurements are being taken; they are conjunctions, the singularity
of which is irreducible to a 'pulse'; while we can describe their
frequency, each repitition breeds a difference, and if we were to persue a
calculus, i think it is in this sense that it could be located...

and/
department of public works