More on the postcorporeal (see below):

1.) a quote from Brian Massumi's Parables For the Virtual (2002):

"Outer space? Who needs it. The body is perfectly suited to its current terrestrial habitat....The terrestrial body will be obsolete from the moment a certain subpopulation feels compelled to launch itself into an impossible, unthinkable future of space colonization. The obsolesence of the body...is driven by desire."

2. A quote from Robert Fripp (1974): "In the new world the characteristic unit will be small, highly mobile, independent and intelligent."
7:35:17 PM    

New thing to collect: self-destructing artworks, tales of same. Here, an account of a film screening this week on the Lower East Side, from the weekly Flavorpill events guide

"From birth to death, decay, and rebirth, Decasia by Bill Morrison weaves new meaning and narrative into old, decaying film footage. The spliced segments of found film footage tell their own story, but as the celluloid warps, bubbles, and peels, the impact of the scene changes dramatically. New scenarios are built out of the mutilated images of the decayed stock. The film is scored by Michael Gordon, cofounder of Bang On A Can, following the theme of decay and dissonance (it actually calls for four untuned pianos). If the medium is the message, what does it mean when the medium falls apart as we watch it?"(AD)

To come: SRL performances, Sterling's (or Gibson's?) virus-infected computer disk. Other examples that anyone knows of?
7:20:40 PM