Alan Sondheim

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Biographical note:  Alan Sondheim co-founded the Cybermind and Wryting email lists online. He is editor of Being on Line and author of .echo and Disorders of the Real. He publishes widely on Net issues, and his video/sound work is internationally exhibited. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his partner, Azure Carter, and their cat, Boojum.

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EAN13:  9781844710478
ISBN-10:  1844710475
ISBN-13:  9781844710478
Author:  Alan Sondheim
Title:  The Wayward
Series:  Salt Modern Poets
Product class:  BC
Language:  eng
Audience:  General/trade
BIC subject category:  CTCH1
Publisher:  Salt Publishing
Pub date:  15-Nov-04
Extent:  252pp
Height:  216 mm
Width:  140 mm
Thickness:  14 mm
Weight:  378 gms
Supplier:   Gardners Books
Supplier:   Ingram Book Group
Supplier:   Inbooks (James Bennett)
Availability:  IP
Price:  GBP 13.99
Price:  USD 20.95
Rights:  World

Main description:  The Wayward is an exploration into virtual life and theory. It uses tools from codework to traditional genre; much of its work is the result of programming intended to create systems of circulating texts. Think of The Wayward as a poetics of the imaginary, stumbling over the grounds of the real – constantly questioning linguistic referents and ‘meaning in general.’ The work is a ground-breaking exploration of the roots and structures of online and offline life, in which language simultaneously explodes and implodes. Conversations among ‘emanents’ dominate inconceivable landscapes; sexualities are constructed and deconstructed. There’s not another work like it.

Table of contents:
Loving Honey
lol
Intellectual Labor, Chunnel
Voices. YouYouDecode
Wires Identity
Clara Hielo Internet
False Science
Rewrite
Questions
One Million Years in the Future
Ontology of Cyberspace
Palmtop Nestled in the Comfort of my Hand
I joined the Unix
Shape-Rider
Shape-Rider
Routing Cycle
Ascii Unconscious
Third Sex 4 (Nursery Rhyme for Clara Hielo on Unix/talk)
Sensory
The Medea: Space Spreads
News
Theoretical Work in the Internet Text (Locations)
(My text on building #7811, locked, discarded, in PMC MOO)
Remnant from PMC MOO building #7811:
The reworking of building #7811 on PMC:
Subject: I see no “Tiffany here.
moo, 2023
Useless Biography
Darknet/incident
My thinking thoughts
How Humans Came to Be
[Hokusai finds the human and runs away.]
Trying to Commit Suicide on the Moo
Voyeur(3)
Justice
T=1
Avi
Net Weight Poem
Jennifer _supra saltus_
text
Voyeur-Machine
A True Account
The Last Word
Wild Theory
CuSeeMe
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
We Have Lost One Another
MOO-Like Narcissism (Self-Designed Emotions)
Fictitious Clara
Celestial (LW6)
Sonnet
Calling Babylonians
Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:49:31 alt.fan.jen-coolest Thread 1 of 1
bad bad messy messy person person
An Incident
The toor of babel:
To Everyone — Please Read — the Most Important Message! -
Spawn
Heidegger
The Nature of the Thing:
Nikuko Rages
remarkable transformations (one letter at a time)
Shaky Hands
Nikuko: “You drive me mad. My mad drive.”
Inari
Talk Between Jennifer and Nikuko on Ytalk Ending in Anger
The following is what they wrote:
What was written by null-user:
Phaedra (Post-Mortem Examination)
from Julu, buried beneath the ground
Ju1lu| /usr/games/number
Nikuko “has a funny way” of trying to make friends! (says Nikuko!)
Moment on Media MOO
“credo
The Work, An Outline (The Crippled Outline from 1994)
the beautiful life-form and the show
Theft on Purlmoo Because #1 is not Unque
Prolegomena for a Science of Concrete Thought
Radio
Pretty Picture
Hurricane
The Club of the Linux Directory
Merging and Rambling
protolanguage (continuation)
phenomenology of cancer
Subject: mystery signal
Up-to-date kings in meadows
The Secret Code
onna
Our Crayfish Jean-Paul’s epitaph:
Yom Kippur, 2001
Outliners
Cry
phenomenology of approach
entanglement
the dry
the ruined species
3 storey house
Sutta
the sending of zz
in the ice
the snow
Chuang Tzu, vi\8
creation
NGO — helping the world —
Philosophical Text: The Death-Drive
Philosophy Textual Praxis: Dispersion-Filtering (Difiltering) Model
the true nikuko Nikuko flesh meat
Limbs
Iliad of Clara
ultimate the ultimate
Fix
name
sordid offer youngly Werther
this tree which cannot read
vomit culture.
Max
shining upwards
sadness
Ennui.
prayer to lord god highest

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vomit culture

culture which regurgitates itself.
cnn covering films which have embedded commercials between commercials on cnn.
capital feeds on capital.
there are no disruptions.
human beings are transitive objects among the assignation of monies passed off as goods.
what is the exchange value of a human.
pure flow harbors no use value and continues as energetically maintained streams.
the streams are maintained by other streams.
the streams feed into themselves and each other.
the world is awash with capital which fills and fulfills all ecological niches.
every extinction of a plant or animal is replaced by a product.
every obsolete product is replaced by a surfeit of products.
capital gnaws on itself and is maintained by solar energy.
solar energy transforms into consumption.
the sun consumes itself.
vomit culture.

Unpublished endorsement :  Sondheim’s work lives on the page, network, screen, and in live performance. He inhabits all-too-real imaginary spaces where code and flesh both taunt and attract each other. We are fortunate to be led, cyborg and prosthetic, by Alan’s unparalleled skill and sensitivity.

Stephanie Strickland

Unpublished endorsement :  Sondheim’s diasporic spin sends language whirling in cyberspace and on the page: his imagination puts us all in a verbal cosmos of exquisite touch and intellect, meta-commentary (midrash) and wor(l)d-healing. Welcome to his world wide web mind.

Maria Damon