[spectre] Fw: review first off Kenji Siratori Blood Electric

[Kenji Siratori]

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From: "Alan Sondheim" <sondheim at panix.com>
Subject: review first off Kenji Siratori Blood Electric


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> REVIEW kenji siratori BLOOD ELECTRIC
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> KENJI SIRATORI, BLOOD ELECTRIC, published 2002 by creation books -
> www.creationbooks.com - BUY THIS BOOK -
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> Your book came; it's absolutely brilliant! I really am amazed by it - the
> long looping sentences, the slow stuttering development, never sure what
> side the language is on, how it's generated, whether human or machine is
> speaking.
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> I don't see it as Burroughs, although I understand the reference. For me,
> Burroughs is oddly modernist; there are conspiracies and organizations and
> everything seems to fly apart but never really does; it goes back to
> literature. In your work, the flying apart is almost hysteric; it's global
> networking - it's the end of literature in a way and the beginning of
> nexus in another -
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> Your book came; it's almost impossible to read straight-through! It rides
> on the hinge between bot and machine, software and wetware programming! In
> a sense it's Stelarc in print, but with the latter, the machinic and the
> body are in negotiated homeostasis; ontology isn't challenged. In your
> work, I'm not sure who or what is behind it.
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> I don't know the vocabulary which constantly collapses; there's nothing
> transitive here, no connectors, or - in place - everything in this, in
> language itself as this might point is - is transitive, a deferral among
> the more violent physics of the world. Speaking/writing/reading take
> relatively little energy in general compared to a hammer, cyclotron,
> motorcycle, stove, scissors. The physical world transforms, is inert,
> among enunciations that effect and affect actions. Over book-length the
> capital WORDS change - early ADAM late ToKAGE - they anchor the page -
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> Your book came; it slides off page 224, the last! I know there's no ending
> to anything here, to the vicissitudes of language. It has nothing
> whatsoever to do with Stelarc, who divides his work among language and
> silence, body-movement-introjection, and language-projection on the page.
> This among the cyberpunk, cypherpunk, scissorpunk, melds like Burroughs;
> unlike Burroughs it's all present-tense description that's a cross-
> dressing performative -
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> Or the performative is that of kenji siratori - kenji satori - reading
> back into the author - it's not like the Eliza program - indeterminate in
> that respect - the who or the what of the making - where are the commas -
> semicolons -
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> The :: // >/ language collapse. The << >> or :<< >> language collapse.
> Levels without closure - tags and metatags - incomplete guides. Thus
> "rapture::the streaming=energy strategy of the human-genome//". Back-
> cover blurb, Jack Hunter in part: "black reverb of soft machine seppuku, a
> molten unspooling of sheet metal entrails" and Stephen Barber in part
> "blood- and semen-encrusted debris with the finesse of a beserk Issey
> Miyake" - everyone _into it._
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> Your book coma/came: not cyberpunk!:://but slime-mold particulate entities
> - inhalations, exhalation, exaltations - subterranean sweep of submerged//
> massive surge::look - it's a flat text - planar or shifting planes - skew-
> orthogonal planes to be exact -
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> It's a flat text - the depth of a meter to be exact - that is, a meter
> above and below the text - one hundred centimeters by my calculation -
> internal and external organs / prostheses broken down, imploded - the
> characters phenomenologically spread among the text - everything internal
> and external is excrescence - and always in closeup - the length of a
> needle - the span of a wire - taut relationships among avatars -
> retro-ADAM - body-OMOTYA -
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> Your book came - incredible; I can't read the imminence of the plot! I
> don't know what's happening! I know something's happening - colors and
> collusions across a global laminanimal space - "labyrinth::cold-blooded
> diseases of love-reptiles with murder function of ADAM Doll
> function/uterus-machine that exploded" - continuous return to the useless
> performative of the PAGE - alphabetically-sectioned (Dead Bargain /
> digital-animal-structure / Edge) through Pork then back to abolition
> connecting with first-section abolition but last p. 224 running off the
> page (see above) - Joycian, circular - the run-off finishing on first
> abolition's page 9 -
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> Sliding off, abolition repeats for the most part - then it's after that,
> the inbetween - A-Z through Pork - become-unique, turbulent - retro-
> fitted, future-anterior -
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> The book I can't read! I can't read any book; the book implodes precisely
> 50 centimeters beneath the surface of my skin - from the other side -
> mirror looking in - convex or concave - the problematic of its opticality
> - "Our machine beast is twisted to the logic space of an amoeba::the
> digital nightmare invades the quantum spiral of a cyber sun::it is the
> record of death//" -
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> Your book came! - I don't know you, what you are, who you are, what group
> prostheses - of which continent - of which program or litany of bots or
> human anguish endeavored into present-tense psycho-disturbance - the
> opposition of Jabes - lips come back to suture - the book to end books -
> of continuous ascription to machine/event/situation/narratology/author/
> flesh - your book came - this is the process/procedure of REVIEW -
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> KENJI SIRATORI, BLOOD ELECTRIC, published 2002 by creation books -
> www.creationbooks.com - BUY THIS BOOK
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