VV(12): Sferics

[jporter]

> From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at hotmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 02:11:26 -0600

> "Mirror-time," North(America)/South(Africa), 1956(1963)/1922.  Of course,
> both the Jacobeans and the Gothicists often set their works in the
> ((decadent) Catholic) South so as to comment on the ((normative) Protestant)
> North.  Much like contemporary science fiction, for example, uses the
> future, or the extraterrestrial, or the allohistorical to comment on the
> present, the earthly, the historical (and I'd suggest comparing the
> so-called "flatness" of Pynchon's characters with that of the postwar SF
> Pynchon admires ["Luddite"], or, for that matter, with the Jacobean
> satirists, like Jonson--it's not necessarily about "characters," now, is
> it?) ...

If not for invagination we'd all be hollow, as empty as the vacuum between
strands of DNA, or that tree staring blankly at the western wall. Cell and
molecular biologists, biochemists, etc., used to believe in something called
The Central Dogma. With the discovery of reverse transcriptase in the late
sixties, that crumbled like a stone buddha in Afghanistan. With prion
diseases centrality itself is under severe stress. Life is a field with no
clear divisions between surface, center or ecological niche. The differences
between sender and receiver, signifier and signified, sferic and the
circular gyro-bed is no longer clear to those seeking to control the course
of historical developement. The falcon cannot hear the falconer. The falcon
may be the falconer.

jody