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posted by Jack Butler on December 01, 1999 at 19:13:52:
in reply to: technology/chamber walls/memory/colour posted by Elizabeth Harvey on November 10, 1999 at 11:43:50:
Counterpoint... 1. Counterpoint Listening to Edward Said on "Ideas" the other night (the radio was just audible above the noise of traffic, my attention was focused on surviving the 401), on some other plane of consciousness I was picturing "... my state from the other side, looking through the glass wall of our computer screen deep into the early memory of an infant breathing?" (your question about the visual experience of this website). Your allusion - through the glass wall of the computer screen - disolved before my minds eye into the heavy greenish sheets of glass I had been etching in my studio - pictures of embryological development, my own children as babies, my own (possibly) first (primitive pre-conscious) views of the world from inside the glass walls of an incubator (so my mother tells me). Concurrent with my visual reverie I think I heard Said say that the multiple voices of postmodern culture could by imagined by analogy to a fugue by Bach (a surpirising analogy, it seems to me, for Said's post-colonial discourse) but, whether I am quoting Said correctly or not, my visual thoughts were instantly stratified into the layered picture-voices of a fugue. Counterpoint: two, three, as many as seven In the (virtual/electronic) imaging of the 2. "...we tend to get these images in popular I believe a very important picture-voice is And then there is colour. Jack 11/29/99
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