Comments on: Dream/Life http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dreamlife/ falling indelibly into the past Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:23:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: KF http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dreamlife/#comment-1962 KF Sun, 26 Oct 2003 04:12:56 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=833#comment-1962 <p>Ah, Francois.  Thanks for this—it was reassuring in ways that I can’t quite articulate.  I think (I hope) you’re right to suggest that any interpretation of the dream as being about my own personal terror of my own personal psychotic break is far too literal, and fails to account for the distortions that the dream inevitably renders to its object.  I’m intrigued by the idea that the I of the dream may actually have been the INP; my work does feel of late as though it’s breaking with (a certain kind of) reality, and I feel myself deeply torn about the direction that this project should take. </p> <p> You’ve given me, as always, much food for thought.  I’ll definitely keep you posted. </p> Ah, Francois.  Thanks for this—it was reassuring in ways that I can’t quite articulate.  I think (I hope) you’re right to suggest that any interpretation of the dream as being about my own personal terror of my own personal psychotic break is far too literal, and fails to account for the distortions that the dream inevitably renders to its object.  I’m intrigued by the idea that the I of the dream may actually have been the INP; my work does feel of late as though it’s breaking with (a certain kind of) reality, and I feel myself deeply torn about the direction that this project should take.

You’ve given me, as always, much food for thought.  I’ll definitely keep you posted.

]]> By: Francois Lachance http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/dreamlife/#comment-1961 Francois Lachance Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:13:09 +0000 http://www.new.plannedobsolescence.net/?p=833#comment-1961 <p>KF, </p> <p> After reading the entry about the dream about the fear of a psychotic break, I want to point you towards that oasis of sanity you created with your _After the Silence_ entry. I did a search of your blog database with the string “silence”. And found this: </p> <p> <a href="http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000018.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000018.php</a> </p> <p> Leading me to want to search for “fun house” [some entries feature “fun"] and “boundary” [no results but there was a very informative entry located by using “border"]_Lost in Space_… <br /> <a href="http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000105.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000105.php</a> </p> <p> The dream could be read as important and significant augury of the INP may be entering a new phase. The “you” in the dream is not “you” but “your project”. I offer this quasi-Klein reading of an element of the dream being a partial object because of the importance of Gibson’s _Neuromancer_ to your Imaginary New Project. Gibson’s novel is of course the locus classicus of the definition of cyberspace as consensual hallucination. Somewhere I have tried to disentangle the conflation of cyberspace and hyperspace ... </p> <p> <a href="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0146.html" rel="nofollow">http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0146.html</a> </p> <p> quote> <br /> For me, the influence of the term “cyberspace” on the slippage (and <br /> substitution) between the terms “hyperspace” and “hypertext” is greater <br /> source of muddled thinking than the use of the term “cyberspace” itself. </p> <p> Once upon a time there was a valley called “hypertext” [...] There was also a nearby mountain called “hyperspace” where [...] </p> KF,

After reading the entry about the dream about the fear of a psychotic break, I want to point you towards that oasis of sanity you created with your _After the Silence_ entry. I did a search of your blog database with the string “silence”. And found this:

http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000018.php

Leading me to want to search for “fun house” [some entries feature “fun"] and “boundary” [no results but there was a very informative entry located by using “border"]_Lost in Space_…

http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/po/archive/000105.php

The dream could be read as important and significant augury of the INP may be entering a new phase. The “you” in the dream is not “you” but “your project”. I offer this quasi-Klein reading of an element of the dream being a partial object because of the importance of Gibson’s _Neuromancer_ to your Imaginary New Project. Gibson’s novel is of course the locus classicus of the definition of cyberspace as consensual hallucination. Somewhere I have tried to disentangle the conflation of cyberspace and hyperspace …

http://lists.village.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v14/0146.html

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For me, the influence of the term “cyberspace” on the slippage (and

substitution) between the terms “hyperspace” and “hypertext” is greater

source of muddled thinking than the use of the term “cyberspace” itself.

Once upon a time there was a valley called “hypertext” [...] There was also a nearby mountain called “hyperspace” where [...]

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