"You've got to apply it to the actual data, and not just sort of run it over. "

"in some sense here and now is
23409573248517392473948571493857934875476392621784985793875349873496
or the full string of a transcendental number, only that it's hard to prove it, or if you proved it it wouldn't be true"

Bjorn Magnhildøen in a mail to Wryting-L

" Remains of cataclysmic events are archeological objects that can be meaningfully studied through artistic methods.  [We are referring to artistic method as the phenomenological approaches of articulating, approaching, observing, studying, documenting the social phenomenon vis-â-vis its spatial context. Further critical actions should be taken with respect to the findings. Any techniques and tools should be relevant to the method.] "

xurban_collective, Nullify the Void*

"As Brecht said, we have to represent a word that can change. Once we have our point of view, we can decide which languages and effects ought to be used for better results. Otherwise, it is like scrabble: first, we have a set of letters and then we
compose words. We could score a lot, but we hardly get any poetry.
[...]
The notion of “procedure” is the most interesting cultural development on the century: the way we represent processes – not data – through algorithms.
[...]
Let us go back to consider “writing”, to talk about meaning again. To the random function raised at an aesthetic level, let us oppose the strong notion of plot as a
production of meaning."

Antonio Pizzo, Short invective on theatre and virtuality: Five things I
don’t want to hear anymore

" 'Dia-bolic' interruption of symbolic processes may open up new ways of observation and enable a poetic experience of the self and its environment.
I/O is a word. The site of poiesis is in between."

Friedrich W. Block, 30/10/2005 message w/ subject 'to be continued' to the empyre list, concluding a month's discussion of 'digital writing'

" Codework is neither a style nor a movement; it remains a loose term characterized by a "kind of messiness." It is simultaneously
conceptual and loose, based on structure and the deconstruction of structure.""

Alan Sondheim , 25/09/2005 post about 'online writing' to nettimee

" Rotation [Gr: perichoresis -dv] itself caused the separation, and the dense is separated from the rare, the warm from the cold, the bright from the dark, the dry from the moist. "

Anaxagoras , Fragment 6 (38)

" Mensch nihm dir nur die Lieb und die begiehr der dinge
So seind die dinge selbst benommen und geringe."

Angelus Silesius , The Cherubinic Wanderer, VI, 101,
Not Quoted in Derrida, Sauf le Nom .....

"The division of substance should not be considered as that of sand in grains, but like that of a page of paper or a tunic in folds, one smaller than the other, without the body (of substance,tr.) ever dissolving to points or minima."

G.W. Leibniz , Pacidius Philatheti, quoted in
Deleuze, G., Le Pli, Leibniz et le Baroque, Ed. de Minuit, Paris 1988, p.9 (my translation)..

"The apparatus, it is the apparatus of the mind.
We can if we want though, prohibit the pattern.
Transvestites do it all the time.
You merely translate one mode of action.
That is the whole game.
There is no other. "

Lionel Ziprin , Sentential Metaphrastic in Aspen nr9, archived at Ubu web
you can read it at UbuWeb, i've made a copy of this remarkable text available here ...

"Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life. "

Andrew Marvell , To his Coy Mistress,
read some Marvell at http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/ ...

"Encapsulation of type is thus achieved when there is an abstract class with derivations (or an interface with implementations) that are used polymorphically. "

Alan Salloway & James R. Trott , Design Patterns Explained. A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design,
Boston: Addison-Wesley (2004), p.121...

"There is no going behind actual occasions to find anything more real."

Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality , New York: Free Press (1978), p.18
check out www.processnetwork.org for more info on contemporary Process Philosophy & the IFB in particular, if you want to know how or why this website, or should i say 'concrescence', has any Whitehead at all in it...

" love's function is to fabricate unknownness "

e.e. cummings , Selected Poems 1923-1958, London. 1960, p.34
you can read some cummings at http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?45442B7C000C07000E ...

" A ripple widening from a single stone
Winding around the waters of the world."

Theodore Roethke , The Far Field, Collected Poems, N.Y. 1975, p.195
you can read some Roethke at http://gawow.com/roethke/ ...

""My body is the car I drive." The vehicle inside you contains a person."

Barrett Watten , FRAME(1971-1990), Sun & Moon Press, L.A. 1997, p.109
read Watten at http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/ ...

"I know only how I make it, I know only my medium, of which I partake, to what end I know not ... the medium is as unimportant as I myself "

Kurt Schwitters , Merz (fur der Ararat geschrieben), 1920
translated & quoted by E. Burns Gamard in Merzbau-The Cathedral of Erotic Misery ...

"Caught in the trap of life, man is moved by a field of attraction determined by a flash point where solid forms are destroyed, where the various objects that constitute the world are consumed as in a furnace of light. "

Georges Bataille, The Cruel Practice of Art,
full text download available at http://www.supervert.com/elibrary/bataille.html...