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Some preliminary (application notes):<\/div>\n

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‘Gamespace’ is defined as a rule-governed domain; the term<\/div>\n

applies to anything from a chessboard to a school community.<\/div>\n

‘Edgespace’ is the borderlands of the gamespace; it’s always<\/div>\n

problematic, and might exist within competing regimes. In the<\/div>\n

motion capture work I’ve done, edgespace references the<\/div>\n

boundaries of the architecture for capture, and what happens at<\/div>\n

the boundaries appears to ‘break’ the capture representation.<\/div>\n

‘Blankspace’ then indicates how edgespace is ‘filled in,’ how<\/div>\n

the imaginary operates there. I use the terms in considerations<\/div>\n

of Arctic and Antarctic mappings, virtual worlds, and so forth.<\/div>\n

Finally, the semiotics of splatter considers splatter as<\/div>\n

world-breaking and fast-forward tendencies towards mobile<\/div>\n

boundary closures; this leads to splatter semiotics, where the<\/div>\n

terms form a field that remains always already ruptured. This is<\/div>\n

the semiosis of the overloaded or hacked network, the network of<\/div>\n

fake news and fake apps, the explosive and turbulent behavior of<\/div>\n

the mediasphere itself.<\/div>\n

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I see this field as a form of politicized digital literature,<\/div>\n

where words lose meaning, become puncta (Barthes) or tokens,<\/div>\n

where language splays.”<\/div>\n

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Tweets as Elit \/ Splatter Semiotics \/ Semiotics of Splatter:<\/div>\n

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Trump’s tweets are the basic example of electronic literature:<\/div>\n

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They are performative, within and without the code.<\/div>\n

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They are fast-forward in presentation and absorption.<\/div>\n

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They disappear into the cybersphere; they are always traces.<\/div>\n

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They wreak havoc on the phenomenology and reception of<\/div>\n

traditional media.<\/div>\n

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Examples:<\/div>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many<\/div>\n

billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so<\/div>\n

little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the<\/div>\n

Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!<\/div>\n

5:04 AM – 29 Dec 2017<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that<\/div>\n

there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the<\/div>\n

Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration &<\/div>\n

ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc. We must protect<\/div>\n

our Country at all cost!<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Years Eve on<\/div>\n

record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old<\/div>\n

Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was<\/div>\n

going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 29, 2017<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

Caught RED HANDED – very disappointed that China is allowing oil<\/div>\n

to go into North Korea. There will never be a friendly solution<\/div>\n

to the North Korea problem if this continues to happen!<\/div>\n

8:24 AM – 28 Dec 2017<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump<\/div>\n

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Then thinking through this skeleton (filled out in a forthcoming<\/div>\n

talk):<\/div>\n

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Trump tweets are characterized by their timing and placement, by<\/div>\n

a ready-made audience of followers, detractors, and<\/div>\n

interpreters.<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

Timing is based on several factors –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

1. response to a crisis, attack, or other positive or negative<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 provocation;<\/div>\n

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2. temporal relation to previous tweets (i.e. how far apart are<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 they; how is the provocation managed);<\/div>\n

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3. relation to cable- and other news-outlets, i.e. what is on<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 where at the moment;<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

4. Trump’s personal\/internal time clock – sleeping, waking,<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 etc.;<\/div>\n

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5. the desire to confuse the critical listener and news ’talking<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 heads \/ critiques;<\/div>\n

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6. the desire to ‘win’ by any means possible;<\/div>\n

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7. the isolation of cant words and other provocations which need<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 time on their own to register;<\/div>\n

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8. and time in relation to politics, political agenda,<\/div>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 congressional votes, and so forth.<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

This is a brilliant strategy, reminiscent of bitcoin:<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

time – embedded and controlled – _not_ the time to read, but the<\/div>\n

control over _delay_ and _target_ (temporal, physical,<\/div>\n

structural) – becomes of fundamental concern to the performer<\/div>\n

(the tweets, as mentioned above, in a sense devoid of truth or<\/div>\n

context, performative, headless and tailless, etc.) – works<\/div>\n

different in this elit than elsewhere, for example the carefully<\/div>\n

measured sequences in works which are embedded online at one or<\/div>\n

another site, or carefully networked across sites –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

this is a form of networking in which the nodes carry<\/div>\n

time-stamps, are hurried, are one-way, carry no feedback (just<\/div>\n

as the bully carries only one sort of feedback: submission) –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

And then there is Goebbels to consider, the fast-forward<\/div>\n

presentation of newspaper headlines and radio ‘news’ in the<\/div>\n

months leading up to, and through, at least the beginning of<\/div>\n

World War II – the same techniques using any means possible<\/div>\n

(newspaper, electric radio) –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

All this I consider the _semiotics of splatter_ (i.e.<\/div>\n

traditional semiotics, stable, taking the phenomenology of the<\/div>\n

splatter cloud, fractal roiling, into consideration) leading to<\/div>\n

_splatter semiotics_ (i.e. the altered field in which the<\/div>\n

temporal aspects of signifier <–> signified and sender —><\/div>\n

[noise] —> receiver are absolutely critical, in which the sign<\/div>\n

is ‘bent’ or ‘mutilated’ or ‘faked’ or ‘blurred’ or<\/div>\n

‘non-existent’ –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

a semiotics which is always already an incohering dynamics<\/div>\n

instead of, say, a category-theoretical locus with somewhat<\/div>\n

nameable arrows and objects – in which the objects and arrows<\/div>\n

are always already fast-forward:<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

This is the world \/ way we are living in , the habitus of<\/div>\n

electronic literature, elit, where the practitioners are anyone<\/div>\n

in social media, anyone with an audience always altered, always<\/div>\n

transformed, as if the tweets were traditional ‘scrolling’ down<\/div>\n

the screen –<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

Then an exhortation:<\/div>\n

<\/div>\n

This is why we must extend elit _everywhere,_ forgetting easy<\/div>\n

categorizations and rules, into a political realm where #metoo<\/div>\n

is elit, where tweets are elit, where bitcoin is elit, where<\/div>\n

dynamics and placements and social media are elit; given the<\/div>\n

brutality in the world now and for the foreseeable future, we<\/div>\n

must be vigilant, we must expand outside our filter bubbles<\/div>\n

(which for me have always been comfortable), extending into the<\/div>\n

mind and body of the other – for it is the _body_ – hungry,<\/div>\n

isolated, sick, poverty-stricken – and all of us in any<\/div>\n

condition, which is ultimately at stake here – the enclave, like<\/div>\n

the wall, is dangerous and problematic, and ultimately a problem<\/div>\n

for us all.<\/div>\n

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