The Sounds of the Artificial Intelligentsia

Theory mash-ups. Academic remixing. Cite-specific writing styles that intersubjectively jam with their critical phrasings and personally inflected “sense data”

Is that what we read, or only dream about?

The sounds of constructed identities are propositioned as on-the-fly licks.

Composed on the tongue, hyperimprovisationally.

Word made flesh.

Fresh.

Miles Davis says, “For me, music and life are all about style.”

For me, the music/sound/noise of a Life Style Practice is all about drift.

While drifting, I try and capture the resonance of “ideogrammic-experiential” meta/data. To let it seep in and incubate, while I wait for the unconscious spurs that will launch my next creative missive into the electrosphere.

As I thread my way through ebr, I become a kind of nomadic cyberpsychogeographer, listening to the sound of the words as I read them and whenever something jumps out at me, I rip it, and stash it away in my reservoir of source material (today’s gem is the eloquent phrase “eternal networks”).

This DJ/VJ writing style makes way for a kind of critical overwriting that, at its core, is underwritten by the creative unconscious.

Think of it as a mash-up of open content, social software, critical media literacy, and manifest hackerdom.

It’s fully invested in narrative thinking, in processing the digital art persona as a distributed political fiction.

Rosi Bradiotti, in the introduction to her book Nomadic Subjects says:

The nomadic subject is a myth, that is to say a political fiction, that allows me to think through and move across established categories and levels of experience: blurring boundaries without burning bridges. Implicit in my choice is the belief in the potency and relevance of the imagination, of myth- making, as a way to step out of the political and intellectual stasis of these postmodern times. Political fictions may be more effective, here and now, than theoretical systems.

But how to get there?

How to make it happen spontaneously without even thinking about it. So that you are there before you know you are there, a happening, on the elliptical edge of your experience where it all feels like some kind of body-brain- apparatus achievement or a body-mind holism where the physiological spasm of the body is in synch with the scintillating nerve scales of the emotional track you parallel process in/with.

It needs to be more than a source of supporting citations. That part is basically academic.

It needs to offer itself as part of a plastic dialogue that reshapes all of the available source material.

Think of it as experiential tagging (using the body-mind spasm as an extensible mark-up language).

As I thread my way through ebr, I touch base with the artificial intelligentsia that my work circulates in.

The artificial intelligentsia is an internetworked intelligence that consists of all the linked data being distributed in cyberspace at any given time, and that is powered by artistic-intellectual agents remixing the flow of contemporary thought.

In ebr terms, think of it as an autopoietic writing machine.

But it’s up to each participant to get into that intersubjective groove, where they can methodically play themselves as agent. Easier said than done?

Or, as Miles once said, “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”

Amen.

ESSAYS [Visualize]

Trace Reddell, Litmixer http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/musicsoundnoise/recombinant

Cary Wolfe, When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes: Voice, Vision, and the Prosthetic Subject in Dancer in the Dark http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/musicsoundnoise/operatic

Joe Tabbi, An Autopoietic Writing Machine? http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/endconstruction/structural

Tobias C. Van Veen, Altx-Audio #14: Air.Strike http://www.altx.com/audio/media/altx14.m3u

Mark Amerika, FILMTEXT: An Original WWW Soundtrack http://www.altx.com/mp3/

Ron Sukenick, In My Own Recognizance http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/axiomatic

Marc Bousquet, Textual Events: Intellectuals and Their Property http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/technocapitalism/copywritten

Alt-X Audio, Deep Crates http://www.altx.com/audio/archive/index2.html