Writing in Motion: Body—Language—Technology

The Telaxic Synapsulator: (The Future of Machine)

Duchamp's attempt to rethink the world rests on two supports: the machine, the image and incarnation of our epoch, and chance, which for our contemporaries has de facto replaced divinity . . . He was going even beyond our own time, which still persists in wishing to adapt the machine to man. Duchamp was trying to imagine a state of affairs where man would humanize the machine to such an extent that the latter would truly come to life . . . What if the machine, stripped of all anthropomorphic attributes, were to evolve in a world made in its image with no reference to the criteria governing man, its creator? ... According to Duchamp, the machine is a supremely intelligent creature which evolves in a world completely divorced from our own: it thinks, organizes this thought in coherent sentences, and ... uses words whose meaning is familiar to us. However, these words conspire to mystify us . . . —from the introduction to SALT SELLER (The Writings of Marcel Duchamp), by Michel Sanouillef THE T E L A X I C S Y N A P S U L A T O R T E L E T R O P O P O N E N T S DIALS Selection/Modulations EIDEOSCOPE (EIDEOSOSIS) PHONONOMOSIS KINEMAT(H)ICS SYNTHNEXIOSIZER telethele(c)tics SYNAMBULATORICS pararamarizer PROTOTROPIZER tototronizer SYNAPSULACTRICS syncthizer PHONONOMOSTICS teleth(es)izer THEOTHETICS synecthisizer S Y M B I O N O S T I C S syncromimesis SYNCHcinege(s)tics metatroposis PARANO(MO)STICS THE TELAXIC SYNAPSULATORis the first meta-machine. The RAW IDEA (The Idea invents itself): "THE (B)LINKIS ON THE BLINK!" (Get it?) THE TELAXIC SYNAPSULATOR is inventing itself; it's about intercepting the telemimetic actions of blinking the eyes, and the emerging symbionostic science of electronic reflexion called: P H R E N O E L E C T R O G R A M I C S . THE TELAXIC SYNAPSULATOR is an electrononosticblinkerlinker . Blinking as a technology - "This is an are-y-o-u-r - e - a - d - y for -this-CT - H - I - S ) M A C H I N E ! " "THIS is a TIME TRIPPING SPACE SWITCHING INTERVAL ENHANCING T-R-A-N-S-F-O-R-M-l-N-G MACHINE!" "THIS is a SPECTROBOSCOPIC SPACETIME FUSION MANIPULATION MACHINE!" The "derivation"-t ele t a c t i c t e l a c t i c T E L A X I C WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE BLINK OUR EYES? (How is seeing ((watching dancing, reading , looking at art, perception, apperception, etc.)) a b o u t the "effects" of a f t e r i m a g e s ? ) "What's an after-image, anyway?" "What's IN an after-image?" "What's in it after images?" "OR: what's i t (OR IN IT ANYWAY) AFTER AFTER-IMAGES?" -How is (or is) perception itself a kind of dialectical interplay of image and after-image (or, dialectical interplay of signal, sign, impulse, precept , percept, picture, sensation, impression, gestalt , word, semblance, archetype, etc., and afterimages . . . )? (HOW DO AFTER-IMAGES AND e s s e n c e s [co]CORRESPOND?) How do speaking and dancing "play" with the neuroacoustics of the interval and the eidetics of the blink-apparatus (words and movements, phonemes and gestures), like an invisible kind of trigger or SWITCH? THE TELAXIC SYNAPSULATOR is an eclectrononostic LIE-EATER (lighteater); a phenomenological anecdote for civilization's overload. ("BY THE YEAR 2020 e v e r y o n e will be able to OWN HIS OWN") THE TELAXIC SYNAPSULATOR is not not a real invention, i.e., one d o e s n ' t need the (eventual) hardware to make use of it NOW. It changes the frequency of the human body and thereby alters the symbioses of field, ambient and perception. THE WORDS TURN IT ON! "THIS is a DO YOURSELF A UNIVERSE (U-N-l-V-E-R-S-A-L) MACHINE !" "THIS is a SEEING PICTURES IN YOUR HEAD (H-E-A-D) MACHINE!" "THIS is a CINEMIMETIMATIC WHAT COMES AFTER MOVIES (COUNTER M-O-V-l-E-S) MACHINE!" "THIS is a TELETROPAIC OMNIRETINAL FUTURE-SEEING (FUTURE) MACHINE!" 54 Kenneth King & Dancers in Dance Spell/The Telaxic Synapsulator, premiered March 1978 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; choreography and text by Kenneth King, music by Williamlohn Tudor, projection photography by Kerry Schuss, lighting by William Otterson, Synapsulator construction by Stephen...