Saturday 23 October 2010

screens

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now 4000000000 screens made year
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initialising initialising … towards the future after next… screens showing screens showing screens showing screens… showing close-ups of screens showing blue earth on black ... showing blue planet of not one, not two, but four, billion new screens a year… showing closening focusing on pixellated worlds of digital more... of exceptionless rules … of inorganic evenness ... of flickers of image become seamless become fluid become real… become endlessly replicable in the digitalised ever … showing a world a life an experience gone touchless ... soft-edged … edgeless… of unchosen focus … of unpointed cameras… of transparent plastic on transparent plastic in discrete continuum ... of photo on photo, of white-bordered shine on white-bordered shine flickering faster into fluidity into obsolescence into constellations of digital more … showing screens and screens of screens and screens… showing a world a life a species an age disappearing into pixels into screens into numbers… showing peoples cities generations cultures thoughts irreversibly diffusing into acronyms and statistics ... into endlessly replicable digital infinity...into unseen unknowable uncountable unimaginable ones and zeros parallaxing to vanishing point in unworded unthought mega-micro-macro-nano scales and dimensions ... into unseen unnoticed semi-existing micro-existing nano-existing realms of quasi-neo-being, of purely mathematical being, of unknowable unimaginable being … of screen on screen on screen on screen … of fleeting flashing flicking minds and eyes sliding slipping off shadowless shiny surfaces and surfaces ... of glass plastic metal… of keys consoles pads ... of plastic encasing plastic… of wireless phones and wired ears, of whirring aircon and whirring hardware, of silent light and silent software ... of bold curved fonts... of too few words now in any tongue for the touch and feel of finger and thumb …for the lightness unlightness curvedness uncurvedness softness unsoftness slippyness unslippyness of fingerpad and thumbside on screen on mouse on console on case ... of recurring numbers recurring heads recurring shapes recurring logos recurring words recurring minutes … of ninety nine point nine nine per cent of minds knowledgeless of the science of how any of all this works ... of four billlion a year … of a million images of wideopen blue become a billion become a trillion in infinite mirrors … of shallow skies and glass metal, of polished sheens and flat pastels, of constellated pixels and unconstellated images, of distorted shadows and stainless steel, of sunless aboves and focus longer deeper further than ever before … of numbers colossal, zeros stretching left, and of numbers beyond tiny, zeros stretching right … of individuals objects ideas shrinking before the infinite and dissolving into the infinitessimal… of dwarfed bodies dwarfed selves dwarfed thoughts dwarfed actions … inavoidably, unquestionably, unstoppably, unfailingly …of a whirling globe recurring infinitesimal, atomised, infinitesimal …recurring collossal, singular, collossal ...of a finite world recurring in infinite nanoseconds... of a world ever atomising, digitalising, reassembling, averaging ... a world ever averaging averages ... ever averaging averages of averages … ever softening eroding abrading elliding … merging blurring unedging … a world gone touchless … feelless … dialless ... paperless... a world less lessless … more lessful... of eroded-ellided syllables, eroded-ellided letters, eroded-ellided words, eroded-ellided meanings, eroded-ellided thinking ... of acronymised initials, of abbreviated acronyms, of acronymised abbreviations ... a world of screen on screen on screen on screen… of numberless matterless nanoverses… of numberless matterless nanoseconds ... of replication without organic effort or input … of plastic of glass of metal… of plural alls, plural everythings, pluralised thises, pluralised thats … a billion alls, a billion everythings, a billionised theses a billionised thoses … and gone touchless … feelless… soundless … quietless … ever less… become less with …lesslessness… with ever more elusive ...illusory... diffuse …with screens... keys... consoles ... pads ... keyboards... handsets... cells... numbers... zeros ... letters… names … pins ... codes... passwords… dates ... with screens slipping, screens sliding… with glass plastic metal… with plastic encasing plastic encasing plastic … with cerise lilac lavender cerulean black and more encasing cerise lilac lavender cerulean black and more... of the future after the future after next, within the future after next … of thumb letter thumb letter thumb space thumb letter thumb letter thumb letter ... of words predicted, thoughts predicted, of words expanded by program, thoughts expanded by program, of words predicted for you, thoughts predicted for you, of words expanded by program for you, thoughts expanded by program for you, of words expanded into another language on a console you can’t properly operate, of a language you and ten million can’t turn off, a predicting you and a hundred million can’t turn off… of thumb letter thumb letter thumb delete thumb delete thumb pause thumb letter thumb letter thumb delete thumb delete thumb hover thumb ummm thumb stop...of screens slid, screens slipped… of screens on screens of screens and screens … of split-screens and semi-screens … of wide screens and nanoscreens … of synced screens in walls ... of synced screens oblique ... of syncless screens oblique off syncless screens oblique … of blinking screens pulsing pulsing pulsing … of sleep-mode wake-mode slow-mode hiber-mode … of time beyond absence, beyond expectation, beyond emotion, beyond disappointment, beyond want, bbeyond will, beyond control... of acceptance, of a species accustomised to waiting to quiescence to acquiescence to the nontime before the inorganic affirmative and unaffirmative… of a species accustomised to slowness, to passivity, to quiet space, to empty time … to corridor and cubicle, to row and line, to plane on plane, face on face, facet on facet, angle on angle, line on line, space on space, second on second… of startless finishes and finishless starts, beginningless ends and endless beginnings ... of songs becoming ringtones... films becoming trailers ...ads become jingles ... comedies become catchphrases... scenes come excerpts... sketches come punchlines... arguments cum pitches … events cum pictures... of newzak rotated on faster faster cycle... of ever-shorter repeat ... of a world polymultimicromacrostereo ... of a world prefixed, a world will-less … indecisiveless … choiceless and purposeful ... of justso justsos ... of hifi wifi myfi … of micromacronanogooglo ... of usless we’s predicted by text ... of usless wes that’s thises theses thoses… of we-less us-es... of screens letters words images all pastless, futureless … existing less... less and less… less than less… less than lessless … of inevitables unavoidables unstoppables just-so’s… of info disinfo misinfo … of initialising initialised … of screens on screens of screens and screens … of a thousand calms making pixellated frenzy …of losing self into a thousand million countless screens on screens of screens and screens … of eyeless screens watching eyeless screens … of wholeless people of arms legs faces … of ears mouths eyes noses … of processed grey processed yellow processed pastel … of exceptionless rules … of inorganic evenness … of empty mirror off empty mirror … uneyed screen on uneyed screen … constant on constant
simulation on simulation
corridor on corridor
stairwell on stairwell
lobby on lobby
door on door
car on car
street on street
line on line
light on light
corner on corner
square on square
parallax on parallax
infinity on infinity
faceless on faceless
eyeless on eyeless
white on white
grey on grey
quiet on quiet
hum on hum
whir on whir
image on image
pixel on pixel
grey on grey
white on white
micro on micro
macro on macro
nano on nano
off on off
on on on
ever further
always further,
ever further away from us
ever further
always further,
ever further
from the ever lost from,
always less than
ever lost from …
world off world
word off word
face off face
body off body
eye off eye
people off people
ever further
always further,
ever further away from …
a tomorrow no-one expected… a future none predicted... of continuous freezeframe… of momentary evers … of repeated instants … of lines unwritten, words unsaid … of the unintentional the unexceptional the unavoidable ... of percentages multiplied, divided, rounded … of pencams webcams eyecams... of processed greys processed blacks processed whites … of strained visual soup … of unforgiving light… of speakers on mute, computers on sleep... of timeless minutes, suddenless seconds … of uncountable matterless nanoverses and uncountable matterless nanoseconds ... of viral habits ... delicate balances … unspoken equivalences… of exceptionless rules and inorganic evenness … of limitless range, unfound potential, as yet unknown use ... of replaceable desks replaceable shelves replaceable doors replaceable walls replaceable floors, of everything replaceable inside an hour …of the future after next ... of adrift in unknown displace … of compassless mapless starless knowledgeless manual-less guideless …in space in time in cyberspace in cybertime ... of eroded-abraded meanings, of eroded-abraded connotations, eroded-abraded possibilities ... of diminished thinking gone treadless tractionless gripless takeless… with angle on angle plane on plane face on face facet on facet sheen on sheen shine on shine light on light shimmer on shimmer sparkle on sparkle … with numbers and letters … names and words … percentages and zeros … noughts and ones… with white on white
light on light
quiet on quiet
whir on whir
hum on hum
door on door
room on room
square on square
glass on glass
screen on screen

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