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        Archive derive


        On the cover of the cdrom versions 2.2-2.4 - an image of part of 
        the Salt Lake City Post Office, pastel and geometrical, 
        compartmentalized, perfect storage for the archive within. The 
        newer title: Archive replaces the older sub/con/text. What is 
        the archive:

        There is an entry, a portal, whose walls represent an enclosure, 
        a gateway with a gatehouse, the beginnings or root of spaces and 
        spacings. Think of this as an emission source or point of 
        illumination, in relation to invisible systems and files hidden 
        behind the walls - the root organization of root systems, what 
        Memmott calls thick protocols. It's the illusion of freedom 
        within and against such. There are shuttlings, jectivities back 
        and forth among them - lateral across the interiors, or 
        vertical, back to the portal itself.

        The root can be one among many; on the cdrom it lies among tree-
        maps of the rest of the material. No matter the links, 
        everything is a file or directory, tree or subtree. 

        It is the thick/thickets beyond that are hidden by the portal to 
        the archive whose contents appear transparent, vulnerable, 
        splayed, impaled. The exterior of the archive is cartesian, 
        aligned, delineated, clarified; the interior is accumulated, a 
        collusion or holarchic entanglement of various strands.

        Among the strands, content resonances, and what might be 
        considered layers. One data-mines, content-minds, searches these 
        out, constructs and constitutes, just as the files themselves 
        are constructed, constituted - but at the level of syntactics. 
        It is the fabric of theory or the fabric of the theory of the 
        fabric of the real - or the style of theory or the style of the 
        theory of the style of the real. 

        Peripheral vision: Where to go to / from here. Where you are: 
        within one or another file, others on the periphery, endless 
        circulations. What you find: repetitions, resonances, signals 
        across platforms, harmonics and subharmonics - the weavings of 
        semantic skeins.

        The post-office: All this occurring within an ante-room of the 
        post-office - past-office, posting, to post: to locate against 
        or behind the mail-post, to send post-haste, to arrive 
        immediately. Post-office node/ mode of communication: letters, 
        money (silver or gold), packages, in due haste or freight or 
        both. The arrival into the box. The holdings. Opening and 
        retrievals.

        The labor of the opening and retrievals, the organization of the 
        labor, humans and unions and machines and fabrications. The 
        transportation arteries. Semantics: conversion of exchange value 
        to use-value, the inertia of meaning - retardation, residue, 
        slow-down. Holding the flow in abeyance. The mindfulness and 
        attention paid to the reading and writing. The listening to 
        resonance. The resonance.

        Introduction as resonance. Portal and slippages of works, loose 
        bearings. Introduction to resonance, harmonic theory. Portal to 
        the introduction, slippage of the portal, loose bearings of the 
        works. Resonance of the loose bearings, slippages, screechings, 
        slip/stick.

        Harmonics: integrations, smoothing it, creation of objects from 
        the plenum. Manifold of the bearings of the worlds. Portal to 
        the manifold.



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