________________________________________________________________________________ 2 from night it's 540 in the morning; i wake up shaking; my temperature is fallen; i've got the thermometer in now; i can't see straight; a nightmare of old and broken books; coupled with thoughts about cdrom players; will this one work will that one; but it's the illness; i'm sick of writing from illness; thermometer hovers at 97; that's normal but i feel the heat draining from my body; the air is thick with draining; frontal area of the brain pounding away; whole body shaking as in hypothermia; or hyperthermia; too little and too much of everything; one tiny file and everything is off; world shuders to a halt; this body is shaking; ice is creeping up my chest; my nipples are rings of frozen fire; my arms shake shoulders shake; wanting with unspoken clarity in moments like these to die; dull brutal blueblack sky ahead of me; dull brutal black sky behind me; dismal unthinking of doomed worlds; unraveling of doomed worlds; it's 545 there is steel in my flesh; fibers of thin frozen metal; i will leave off this work; another attack; i won't last long like this; blankets reach out and strangle; azure sleeps; cat and plants sleep; the wires spread; the freezing; === Electric Communication: The Night (paper proposal*) I consider two things, intertwined: the _sleazy_ and its appearance based on the intentionality of city light - exhibitionism/voyeurism: what is revealed. The sleazy is an irruptive category, almost impossible to define; its resistance is based on its intense relationship with the torn or discarded; it is cloth, fluxed, mobile, sexual; it is parted cloth within and against the light; it participates in informal economies of sexuality, language, body, ornament, clubbing, urbanism; it leans towards the shadow, abjures clarity. The second thing: nighttime Internet, illuminated by the screen against the shadows of the world; voyeurism and exhibitionism across torn and lagging bandwidths; quality of Webcam theatricality; informal economies of the Net; participation in global cybergeographies. Together the night is characterized by the glow, illicit processing of information, the hunt, the studied mannerist intimacy of speaking, drugging, hacking, the dance of artifice. Increasingly, night spills into day, as the phenomenology of the night marauds the vestiges of the natural; our politics are politics of shadows, and bodies are hidden in our night-time wars, fought in the controlled environments of sunny days. *My papers are improvised from notes, outlines; there are no ur-texts. ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. post to the list: mailto:inbox@rolux.org. more information: mailto:minordomo@rolux.org, no subject line, message body: info rolux. further questions: mailto:rolux-owner@rolux.org. home: http://rolux.org/lists - archive: http://rolux.org/archive