12 Mar 2011

RE: Sei zeMar kdow nsOnCap su leAllThr ough outTheYear‏

by Corry Shores
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RE: Sei zeMar kdow nsOnCap su leAllThr ough outTheYear‏

Often, contraband messages get smuggled through our spam filters. Somehow the constructions communicate subversively, not in the sense of having subversive political messages or purposes, but subverting the codified efforts to block its flow. These bootlegged messages seem different than a secret code. We don't need a decoder to know the meaning. It just speaks to us in its devious way. It is stealth communication. The radars cannot read it, and it flies through the defenses. Our email boxes are not immune to these invasions, because language is immune to attempts at exhausting its meaning using mechanical methods. Language is a much more sophisticated machine. It can disassemble into a more heterogeneous and differential state. The message above seems incoherent. That is precisely its power. Its parts relate so differentially that the algorithms could not put them together into a whole coherent message.[1] But our eyes can. What might interest us is the self-differential process, how 'Seize Markdowns On Capsules All Throughout The Year' becomes 'Sei zeMar kdow nsOnCap su leAllThr ough outTheYear‏.' The parts that were combined do not usually fit together. The parts that were split would normally need to be touching. This is incoherence in two senses: the glue comes undone in some cases, and things that do not naturally glue together are forced into each other, despite their resistance to sticking together. We sometimes hear new slang terms from groups whose power is in the minority. They mostly use the same phonetics, often times the same words, perhaps in all cases the outer appearance of the slang term is something that fits in the language system of the majority power. But its meanings are not fully interpretable by those in the majority. Parents no matter the effort they invest often give up in exasperation trying to understand their teen children's lingo. Or people not accustomed to rap might be unable to discern any of its meanings, despite the rapper speaking entirely in that person's native language. These counterfeit words circulate through the normal currency, except unlike false money, bootlegged language is more valuable than the genuine marks. Slang terms have expressive power perhaps because they throw disruptions into the system, which they can do, because they are designed to pass freely within that system. When we hear a slang term we don't know, it seems like it is from a foreign language, but we know it is not from some language of a different part of the world. Slang is language originating among the parts of our system and circulating freely throughout the regimented ranks of all the other words, as if its subversive meaning wears an invisibility cloak.

[1] A new mechanical method could be devised to discern it, first by only placing spaces before capital letters. But the point is that the algorithms are created only after the invention of the new deformations, in a delayed response to them, hence at first the contraband messages will often get through the defense machinery.

4 comments:

  1. This is fascinating Corry; interesting and thoughtful, filled with ideas, and suggestive of numerous applications and possibilities! and thankyou for noting one of the recent fictions Time breathes .... On the run, Clifford

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  2. And thanks as always for your continual production of stunningly beautiful poems that you give away freely, as if they were not some of the most valuable creations in language happening today. Of course they really are; you place language on its own cutting edge, and I am constantly inspired and influenced, and also it helps me understand language. You made some amazing things that I discuss in a recent entry, especially toward the end, the part on the implicit language world intensities in your 'turf' poem.

    http://piratesandrevolutionaries.blogspot.com/2011/03/amazing-new-clifford-duffy-innovations.html

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  3. Hi Corry, I'not had a chance to follow up on any of these ideas or suggestions contained in this blog post of yours, but I think of Burrough's and Gysin's formal experiments with the Cut ups and what he later called fold ins, permutations and tape recordings. All of these are rich and fascinating experiments with words and language. Burroughs thought language was a virus! At least he claimed he did, I am never quite sure with his work where metaphor begins and ends, similarly to the ideas of desire-machine, assemblage, body without organs, these are terms that work or don't work for a period and then perhaps are better abandoned. "Our work does not necessarily cohere' In the how to and how does it work of the pragmatics suggested by Deleuze or the rhizomatics, the schizoanaylsis, think of this way, if a tool or password, or a key no longer worked wld we keep asking what it means!? of course, we'd promptly forget it and get one that does work, of course, ideas are not identical to passwords and ideas and concepts are entitled to remain in the museum (of the mind), or the literal one of textbooks, and why not, it's fun after all to reconsider old definitions and ideas, notions of potions, motions of locomotions! ideas on the assemblage assembly line of what we make and makes, to make of ourselves what history has made of us, redefining ourselves as need be, the movement forward toward flux, or the non universal singular which undermines every totality and despot of the mind and body, no , we offer endless breath for new ideas and continual birth and reincarnation in the simultaneous instantaneous karma of 20th century physics the quantum Gautama of movement and desire. We are in the new world, as it remakes and remakes our notions of language and body, let us humans embrace our difference and remaking in words, speech, soul and body. More another day! Commenting like this reminds me of end-notes in a essay or book and often how rewarding and rich in thought they are. Think of the footnotes in Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, some of them go on fr 2 pages! It seems to me Sartre was as much a thinker in his footnotes as the pages they were a part of!

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    1. Dear Clifford, Thanks for the beautiful and thought-provoking reflection on this old post. I was thinking of it recently actually, when considering options for language use in certain situations calling for something that exceeds the filters. This part of your comment was especially inspiring and beautiful: " ideas on the assemblage assembly line of what we make and makes, to make of ourselves what history has made of us, redefining ourselves as need be, the movement forward toward flux, or the non universal singular which undermines every totality and despot of the mind and body, no , we offer endless breath for new ideas and continual birth and reincarnation in the simultaneous instantaneous karma of 20th century physics the quantum Gautama of movement and desire. We are in the new world, as it remakes and remakes our notions of language and body, let us humans embrace our difference and remaking in words, speech, soul and body." I really appreciate your continued reflections on this topic! Your work always comes first to my mind. -Corry

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