The Bliss of the Glitch

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Here, a twisting texture. There, a whoosh of dancing lines submerges. Somewhere, the word plants and spreads itself out beyond a self. Who are you? (live: 5s) [...] (live: 8s)[Reading fine strings, soft trajectories, someone said that this was a sensation of emptiness. //No, no//, the friend sighed, //[[euphoric calm]], yes, [[euphoric calm.|alternative]]//] {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -2) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Let the unravel begin again, and look! It's running. The protagonist in [[Katherine Mansfield's|Inventory of Thinkers]] short story 'Bliss', published in 1920 leaps onto the page: //Although Bertha Young was thirty, she still had moments like this, when she wanted to run instead of walk, to take dancing steps on and off the pavement, to bowl a hoop, to throw something up in the air and catch it again, or to stand still and laugh at-nothing, at-nothing, simply.// (live: 5s)[`(1920: 14)`] The repetition //laugh at-nothing// ripples out, giggles, releases on a fine surface, an inner child ghost becomes physical again, the dance taking over the body. As the story progresses, the bliss gathers like dust around the events and characters; viewing life through this lens opens up a shimmering of possibility for her and potentially also ignorance. After all, at the end of the story, Bertha notices her husband flirting with another woman and her reaction is collected, curious, fizzing with questions but not upset or anger: //Oh, what is going to happen now?//. It is uncertain whether this reaction is wholly positive or negative; it is filled with a whirring ongoingness of unheld emotion. There is the possibility of excitement, exaltation, an openess to the world but does this saturate? [[What is going to happen now?]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +1) (set: $inventoryofthinkers to $inventoryofthinkers + (a: "Mansfield, Katherine, 1920:1988. Bliss. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage."))} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 15s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

From the Middle English [[//bliss//|Inventory of Thinkers]], the word is a variant (or [[variable?]]) of the Old English //blids, blips// which refers to a joy, an intense gladness. There is also the //blíðs// meaning strong feminine. The Proto-West Germanic word sighs out slightly varied definitions in //blipisi//, including goodness, kindness. [[You think of bless]] [[You think of blemish]] [[You think of bold and brilliant and bizarre]] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "'bliss', noun., 2023.'OED Online. Available at: <https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bliss_n?tab=factsheet>"))} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 15s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 17s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

How can we begin to track when bliss arrives, its journey to a feeling, its temperament and reverberations? So many variables? Or perhaps, like a dream, it appears that one action does not so easily deliver another. Holding time or //trying// to hold it. Holding a self as a complete and knowable entity. To be in complete ignorance. To be letting the mind collects thoughts that it cannot escape from. Not escaping. Having a problem with doors. Having a problems with locks that refuse to budge. Needing to know the exact order that events will transpire inside. Or even wanting to so easily place them inside or outside. Throwing the self against a door, again, again. But then again, perhaps the door will [[budge.]] (set: $adrenaline to it +2) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it -1) (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 15s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 17s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

{(if: visits is 1) [Ada sits at a strange wing of time; she has created a machine. Or Babbage created it but in this moment, she found, situated, dreamed the machine. She sits, Ada Love[[lace]], unknowingly about to conceptualise the first computer programme in the world. It is impossible to think of Ada from any other perspective, than //[[the now]].// Lord Byron was disappointed when his wife gave birth to a daughter. [[Ada|Inventory of Thinkers]] dreams of an Analytical Engine and in detailed, energetic, excited annotations writes: 'the Analytical Engine [[weaves]] algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-[[loom]] weaves flowers and leaves.' (live: 5s) [`(1843)`] (if: $threestrings is true) [The strings play softly in the background; you remember the river and violet flowers seem to sing from the banks in time with the ripples, as the loom gathers its materials.] (if: $glitchful is true) [Suddenly, I imagine Ada to be //you// and this makes some kind of sense; that you would be Ada, returned, as a glitch girl of today.] (if: $entangled is true) [Ada, held on a map in time, a ghost entering into the text's inner architecture.]]} (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Lovelace, Ada, 1843: 2017. 'Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns Like Looms Weave Flowers and Leaves'. The Good Times . Available at: <https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/>")) {(else-if: visits is 2) [Ada is still sitting on the wing. She never created the machine with the mathematician and all round polymath Charles Babbage, only imagined its potential. A project that lay [[in the world of scientific fiction|climax]]. A ghost of the digital. A controversial swerve takes place in that she didn't work the numbers, only saw the giant Engine from a great zooming out, a blissful flying over. Babbage knew the numbers. But Ada dreamed of a computer that could do more than simply calculate numbers. (if: $threestrings is true) [And so she acted as if there was no use in a centre, as if the river of an idea could keep spreading out.] (if: $glitchful is true) [A place where ideas might reside. //I cannot help but continue to reside in this essaying.//] (if: $entangled is true) [The mapping goes beyond the original outlines.]]} {(else-if: visits is 3) [Ada waits expectantly on the line. Some say she had a manic temperament. Gambling and drinking, they said. Many rumours. The looms and loops still turn. She was delighted to imagine, as chaos became the norm, with spliced moments of bliss [[toppling over a surface.|Glitch]] (if: $threestrings is true) [A noise like a rush or an extended repetition.] (if: $glitchful is true) [Was she manic like me? There are many of us.] (if: $entangled is true) [Ideas start to dance, energies soar, like the lights are flckering out of a painting.]]} {(else-if: visits is 4) [ (if: $questions is >3) [It is blissful to imagine Ada waking up one day inside her machine; imagine it like a giant labyrinth, with levers and swatch cards, a thrum, a future beginning waiting for us all. [[Will she be able to find her way out?|Small holdings]]] (else-if: $questions is <3) [It is blissful to imagine Ada waking up one day inside her machine; imagine it like a giant labyrinth, with levers and swatch cards, a thrum, a future beginning waiting for us all. [[Will she be able to find her way out?|Labyrinth]]] ]} {(else-if: visits is 5) [ (if: $dopamine is >5) [(de-bug:) (text-colour:red)[//Error! The collection is broken. Your pleasure levels are too high. Yes //you//. As player, user, reader. We are past breaking point. Bliss has become saturated.//] Pleasure: (print: $dopamine) [[Accept the glitch]] [[Glitch the glitch; return to the collection|Glitch]] [[Pass through another portal|Small holdings]] (set: $glitch to true)]] (else:) [[[Time turns the bliss slowly and carefully like a loom.|Small holdings]]] }

[[Texture|Is bliss not a kind of texture too?]] seems to let language linger, as it does thinking, grasping, desiring, as it clings to the material which holds these sensations together. When asked, many said that the word meant //sunlight filtering like leaves, sunlight filtering through as lace.// Lace as luxury, a surface not perfectly smooth, but it scratches, scratches to a kind of softness. Who [[gathers]] you beneath lace? {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The ribbons twirl on the floor like [[liquid]], twirls through fingers as running colour. It was instantaneous and it was something the child could control, a soothing, not quite distraction, or was it distraction [[disguising]] as bliss? What did this sensation set loose? {(if: $characterb is true) [The ribbon was red, wasn't it? You held it with the other objects in your room, a threshold in a way.] (if: $threestrings is true) [The river like a ribbon, rushing quickly, alive in its flicker.]} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it -1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

You were amazed by the liquidity. Sheer images, a smooth and sharp screen. Transactions carry through wordlessly. No one speaks, only a series of commands. Writing appearing before you, not written by you or anyone you could decipher, only a collection, a //perhaps// of the sentence never gets to the sensation of the sentence, a pattern never resolves into intention. You were [[amazed]]. {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $dopamine to it +7)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Is the word glitch close to error or to failure? Or to exuberance? Or to dismay? Or to something else? Not much can disguise a glitch, once the mind sees it and the resulting actions take over, there is no going back. If a link breaks, perhaps you will be stuck on one section, undeliberated, not- responding, words not quite resting, not yet moving. [[Glitch]] derives from the yiddish [[glitsh]]: a slippery space. It can hold something small, so small it might barefly be detected, although when it is revealed it might be so very large, so all encompassing. What cannot hold, can stick. {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

We remember the words of the first sentence. The first sentence that would precipitate more sentences, so many of them you could not fit them one mouth so they spiralled out to many. [[Texture|Is bliss not a kind of texture too?]] pressed against tongue, slowed [[quickening.]] (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 8s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

{(if: visits is 1) [(live: 3s) [(either: "[[Glitch Art]]", "[[Glitch Sound]]", "[[Glitch Desire|glitsh]]", "[[Glitching (to cheat in a game)|gameificiation.]]", "[[Glitch Thinking|glitsh]]", "[[Glitch Feminism]]", "[[Glitch Malfunction|glitch]]", "[[Glitch Materiality|glitch]]", "[[Glitch Aesthetic|Glitch Art]]", "[[Glitchful Infrastructure|situate]]")]]} {(else-if: visits is 2) [(live: 3s) [(either: "[[Glitchful Infrastructure|situate]]", "[[Glitchfully we swerve|weaves]]")]]} {(else-if: visits is 3) [ (if: $adrenaline is >5) [ (de-bug:) (live: 3s)[(text-colour:red)[//Error! The collection is broken. Your surge is far too high. Yes //you//. As player, user, reader. We are past breaking point.//]] (live: 6s) [Surge: (print: $adrenaline)] (live: 10s) [Quickly! Leave the portals behind] ] (else:) [There is a kind of looping in bliss like wrapping a ribbon conntinually over your skin, like the beginning [[threads of an idea in that future beginning|future beginning]].] ]} {(else-if: visits is 4) [ (if: $questions is >3) [It is blissful to imagine Ada waking up one day inside her machine; imagine it like a giant labyrinth, with levers and swatch cards, a thrum, a future beginning waiting for us all. [[Will she be able to find her way out?|Small holdings]]] (else:) [It is blissful to imagine Ada waking up one day inside her machine; imagine it like a giant labyrinth, with levers and swatch cards, a thrum, a future beginning waiting for us all. [[Will she be able to find her way out?|Labyrinth]]] ] } {(else-if: visits is 5) [ (if: $dopamine is >5) [(de-bug:) (text-colour:red)[//Error! The collection is broken. Your pleasure levels are too high. Yes //you//. As player, user, reader. We are past breaking point. Bliss has become saturated.// Pleasure: (print: $dopamine) [[Accept the glitch]] [[Glitch the glitch; return to the collection|Glitch]] [[Pass through another portal|Small holdings]] (set: $glitch to true)]] (else:) [[[Time turns the bliss slowly and carefully like a loom.|Small holdings]]] ] }

(text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 2)[Inventory of Thinkers] //You are currently carrying:// \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] (link-goto: "Return", (history:)'s last)

A continual //now-ness// eminates from the screen, or more specifically, the screen has begun to [[permeate|dust 2]] all understandings of //now-ness//. It is not so much, be aware of your presence, as let your presence be constantly aware to the world. It is always //me// and always //echo//. (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+(text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

What does the weave entice and what lives there? How is knowledge weaved and where does the weave of the [[algorithmic halt?|frictionless]] Who weaves there? Who tramples through the patterns and what marks remain? The weaving [[unexplains]] as it entangles. (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

You grew up on the edges of a small weaving town in Scotland, small bungalow cottages set out on edges, grassy tufts, then a small road, then in the late twentieth century turning tiny amidst the entrance of a giant motorway. No evidence of the cotton weaving remain, only small ghostly holdings where the workers may have lived. Against the village which contains only a small pub, now closed, and a small village hall is a giant rock looking over the land. As children, you all asked: who lives in there? The looms of time recoil, wait, slumber, wake. You imagine Ada at a loom, imagining an alternative loom, a virtual patterning and now we crave the material again, we want to catch it in our hands, we can't look away. Could she have been experiencing a kind of [[agitated bliss?]] {(set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

An agitated bliss. Perhaps an oxymoron; for doesn't bliss get away with all that agitation? It is not the swift jolt, the wringing of hands, the [[?|You close down everything unceremoniously.]] Something is swimming. Something is not quite one or the other. The binary of code dictates a series of 0s and 1s, a strict logic that must be adhered to syntactically, mathematically to ask the program to run correctly. It can also give way to certain kinds of emotional feeling; a swerve from the extreme exaltation of something working before you, to the frustration, sometimes defeat of trying to get a small function to work, only for you to have left out a vital piece of punctuation. The dream of what is not yet made [[ricochets|the now]] between the two. Imagining time pressed to a loom, continuallly emanating different colours, whirring, not yet coming together, still waiting, still processing. A giant pattern, continually patterning. Perhaps the weaver wants to know the end, they are desparate to get there but the end is only appreciated for the agitated [[bliss]] that precedes. {(set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The idea of a 'perfect bliss' does not hold in the Buddhist understanding of the word. The word 'bliss' is complete in and out of itself; it does not need to be complete, it does not need to lead to a pre-destined location. But could there be several kinds of [[bli]][[ss]][[es]]? Can the word be too easily reduced?

Bliss as post-orgasm, where you notice the [[dust]] swirling around the room and it becomes part of a distillation. Little pinpricks. Little pinpricks of dust [[against|Glitch]] skin, melody of slow breath and widening memory forward. To be held not only by a person but also by dust, by which you mean, to be held by a pace beyond your own rhythms. Or to be held in even more expansiveness, in several times at once, without trying to second-guess it, a lingering instead emerges. {(if: $characterb is true) [When she lived with you, her hair in yours, bodies pressed together, a shuddering, softness in two times colliding. To no longer be held inside alone. Imagining surges and their memories passing between.]} {(set: $adrenaline to it +2) (set: $cortisol to it -4) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Words change and re-fract on the screens, inside and across the overlapping economies of emotion. Do you notice it? Any [[word|Glitch]] can be [[commodified]]: marketing strategies, catchy slogans, quick fire comments and a revolving door of refresh promises potential but can also instantaneously shut down. You worry that thinking about bliss can begin to entrap the word, like a trapped idea, never moving onwards, a labyrinth finished, a dead end. Looping, breaking and re-refracting, a text shimmers on a surface it seems. So [[frictionless|frictionless]]. Satisfying and never loading up quickly enough. What [[Barthes|Inventory of Thinkers]] described as the difference between 'pleasure' and 'bliss': the pleasure being the text that is readerly, the writerly text asking us to re-situate our position as reader, the blurring of boundaries between the author and reader.(live: 5s) [`(1975:116)`] Who steps here in these tracks? {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Barthes, Roland, 1975. The Pleasure of the Text. trans. by Richard Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux."))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +5)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Bliss is at once bodily and yet it also extends beyond the body, beyond sensation that can be easily held or understood physically or even mentally. Can it even be mapped? Can it even be held down or does it want to be released? To be blessed; the religious connotations and cliches begin to [[thrum.]] {(set: $cortisol to it -2) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

In your act of contending and working with bliss, perhaps you are seeking it out. Perhaps you worry you are forcing it which goes against the parameters of what it is to experience. [[Perhaps|dust]]. [[Perhaps|dust]]. You who could be so many or no one in particular or [[//you//.|So many options, so little time.]] You think of a moth landing on a sun drenched wall. [[A tingling sensation, pehaps, begins to arise]] [[You want to move onwards, you want the concrete to emerge, now, now]] [[So many options, so little time.]] (set: $question to it +1)

Think of all the [[dust|dust 2]] collected between the laptop keys on which you press. (live: 5s) [Press again.] (live: 10s) [Feel a click as unconsciously as you feel a [[breath|Glitch]].] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

You press your face to the screen as though to sculpt an outline of your body. Does the black background envelop you? Do you feel yourself blurring or do you concentrate on the pressure that builds up around the eyes? Remember the pins that pressed deep into your skin as a child? The eyes poking out from within that metallic harsh structure, the pleasure and pain of being pierced slowly, gently? It was a kind of [[game.|gameificiation.]]

The loading icon leads you to a place you don't often think to describe. You have to think quickly, otherwise you might not think at all. The smooth surface allows you to skid, if you wish. [[You, the user.]] [[You, the used.|You, the user.]] {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -2) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A conglommeration of objects, hidden findings, a conversation happening somewhere beyond the screen still getting trapped inside. The internet as a rhizome, a space where equally distributed horizontal thinking can be allowed to mesh. You love a rhizome as much as the next person; an interweaving of ideas curling around the hypertext. Deleuze and Guatarri in //A Thousand Pleteaus// describe a tree-like structure, just as [[Ada->future beginning]] dreamed of a flower-structure. ' a rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always [[in the middle]], between things, interbeing, intermezzo.' (set: $inventoryofthinkers to $inventoryofthinkers + (a: "Giles Deleuze & Felix Guatarri.// A Thousand Pleateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia //. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press; 2nd ed. edition, 1987. (need to check page number"))

There is a dancing between paragraphs. There is a briskness to the type. It is not the same briskness as the briskness of the worker. But then it slides. [[But then it slides.|1]] [[But then it slides.|2]] [[But then it slides.|3]]

The amazing feeling felt different from the bliss. It connoted something like suspension but bliss was happy to stay there longer, perhaps. The amazement drives a series of technological advancements, because there is something perhaps to be gained from being amazed many more times, many more times than the body can hold. The day darkens. The screen holds a bright, [[unflickering light to the face.|dust 2]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it -13)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Play is an overspill, away from the tightly clasped, away from the impending, away from the awaiting for the next crisis. Play is anti-optimisation. Play can be used for [[optimisation.|gameificiation.]] Play perhaps should be oriented betwen its slipperiness and overlap to 'bliss', and another version of play as a means to get somewhere, as a means to productivity. Play is reaching towards something that might not, and very possibly won't be there. How [[uncomfortable.|dust 2]]

A friend, who is also an artist laments the way their art has changed in the past seven years, describing how the act of uploadinng their art to a site like Instagram took away some of the bliss, later making them question if they were making the work for this consumption. It was confusing becasuse there were several sensations living here, it wasn't an uncomplicated feeling. //I would upload the art knowing it was finished and then after pressing upload, I questioned whether it was finished because a swooping feeling came over me, a kind of instant dissapointment with the work once the half second excitement of releasing it out over the world had gone.// They said, this was coupled with a worry that they were already thinking about the presentation of their illustrations in this tight square format before they had even begun making. Later, they had to stop this act of sharing though it would be beneficial for their career, to try and get back to the beginnings. The bliss waits patiently at the [[sidelines]].

[[Who|American Artist]]gets to be a part of this frictionless surface?

By the 1940s, the word slipped away from the original defintion, to be used by radio announcements to indicate an on-air problem. By 1950, the term had relocated to television, specifically in relation to technical issues. The [[fuzz|Glitch Feminism]] of memory arrives, small [[pixellated|Glitch Art]] sensations creep across the eyes.

The paratextual elements of a webpage could be regarded as its code underlayering. We are not meant [[to go here.|Accept the glitch]] Are these really paratextual? They are the action, the memory, pulse, hormones of the text. What brushes up on us and who gets to go [[there?|Glitch]]

The documents on your private computer are shared unintentionally with a large group of people; you have been sharing your screen. What do you do? The innards displayed unceremoniously for all to see. Then again, was there ever any barrier here? The [[parapraxis|parapraxis 2]] of [[technology.|future beginning]] In his book [[//My Documents//|Inventory of Thinkers]] translated by Megan McDowall, the writer Alejandro Zambra's non-categorisable explorations open up as a series of texts held together in a folder, perhaps only by the glint of a loose association, a holding space. The opening takes us on the journey of the personal narrative of the relationship between a computer and its owners in their younger years: //The computer brought about a new kind of solitude. Max didn’t watch the news anymore, or waste any time playing the guitar or drawing: when he came back from the university he would immediately turn on the computer and start working or exploring the machine’s possibilities. Soon he discovered very simple programmes whose capabilities struck him as astonishing, such as the voice recorder, which he used with a scrawny little microphone that he bought at Casa Royal, or his My Music folder, which now hosted all twenty-four of the compact discs he owned. While he listened to those songs, amazed at how a ballad by Roberto Carlos could give way to the Sex Pistols, he continued working on his poems, which he never considered finished.// (live: 5s) [`(2015: 3)`] [[You scream out something unrelated.]] [[You close down everything unceremoniously.]] [[You let them all take a look. You laugh.]] [[You stop, you cannot move.]] { (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Zambra, Alejandro, 2015. My Documents. trans. Megan McDowell. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions."))} {(set: $question to it +1)}

Is the rhizome always a positive, can it be framed dangerously as an optimized structure? In 2017 critic [[Wendy Chun|Inventory of Thinkers]] argues that, taking this structure as the foundation for what will later emerge as Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the rhizome is not working in the same way as the philosphers Deleuze and Guatarri might have envisoned. Instead, we exist in an assemblage of 'N-You' media. Everything is catered to this 'you', whoever you may be, building up algorithms that the assemblage will hopes will speak to your inner desires. You are catered for. You are YOU. A marrying of digital culture and neoliberalism can take up rhizomatic styles used in the fields of electronic writing (as a liberatory and non-hieracharcal technique) and turn into a series of [[horizontal crises|dust 2]], felt bodily, which are sometimes real, sometimes not, but which all carry this same energy. The carrying of rhizomatic thinking into a very hierarchal design de-stabilises the notion of so many different categories, like [[words]], like [[sensations|words]]. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong, 2017. Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press."))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it +12)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Words shift quickly across screens. How many people are reading how many words right now on phones, laptops, desktops, ipads? A programme could probably determine the exact number; someone has already designed such a machine. [[Is it better to know?]] [[Or better to imagine?]] [[Or is everything unclear?|dust 2]] (set: $question to it +1) {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it -15)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 10s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 13s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

We have become used to the quick motion of instant knowledge. Perhaps there is no going back, but still the questions are unsteady and [[shimmering.|Glitch]]

Everything begins with lofty dreams, a blissful experience of that shimmer space. Yes, [[Ada|Inventory of Thinkers]] dreams of an Analytical Engine and in detailed, energetic, excited annotations writes: 'the Analytical Engine [[weaves]] algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard-[[loom]] weaves flowers and leaves.'(live: 5s) [`(1843)`] Dreams loop like deja vu, like a history of oepned pages and opened histories [[remembering]] themselves, then forgetting. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Lovelace, Ada, 1843: 2017. 'Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns Like Looms Weave Flowers and Leaves'. The Good Times . Available at: <https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/>"))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Those of us who grew up with rapidly shifting technology or those of us who can remember its first beatings may carry a nostalgia for an earlier internet, the space we inhabited prior to our surveillence capitalism, prior to the algorithmic markers which are not even slightly hidden anymore, prior to the blur between the artificial and the human, prior to total ambiguity over what the human may be anymore, prior to the ecological mass effects of these systems we call a kind of home. Or was this already happening? Everything moves so swifty, it feels as though we are moving through different epochs in the space of an hour, a comma, a tweet, a quck click and a glance back. Binaries of thought around nostalgia and a dreamt for utopia are easy to fall into, as the critic [[Grafton Tanner|Inventory of Thinkers]] notes in 2020: 'It's growing increasingly difficult to imagine a time before Big Tech's ascension. Some have attempted to do so and failed considerably, portraying the late tentieth century especially as a simpler, more spontaneous time. Some like to think the people of history dreamt of Big Tech and yearned for its magical devices to solve the daily problems of life in the pre-digital era. The former is the view of the nostalgic sufferer. The latter, of the digital utopian. Both are the dominant subject positions of our time.' (link: 5s) [`(6)`] Where do we swivel and [[are we in the loom|loom]], in the [[thread|gathers]], or [[outside]], watching, and wondering. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Tanner, Grafton, 2020. The Cirlcle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech. London: Zero Books."))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Player, user, reader. The user is an addict. The user has little control; they are using, not playing, not [[glitching|Glitch]], not [[blissing|bliss]], though the simulation of these activities may be taking place. They are used. A bad relationship, an [[unequal power dynamic.|powers]]

To be used implies a lack of control, and little hope of regaining that [[control.|dust 2]]

In a text co-written with the writer, [[Leslie Scalapino|Inventory of Thinkers]], on the movement between hearing and listening, the poet and essayist [[Lyn Hejinian|Inventory of Thinkers]] writes: //Hearing occurs at the beginning — rowing at the wall. But (again) rowing is ahead of the wall ... that would be a [[future beginning]] and thus not correspond to what I intuit as 'bliss' which is real incipience, of an entirely new thing, something unanticipated.//(live: 5s) [`(2021: 8)`] When first typing out this quotation, the word 'unanticipated' is written unwittingly as 'anticipated'; the strange [[parapraxis]] of wanting to know direction, trying and failing to control it, taking something else away in the process. Rowing at the wall, a slipperiness of what we think of as physical structure, what we intuit as solid words with neat categories. The journey bends. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to $inventoryofthinkers + (a: "Hejinian, Lyn, and Leslie Scalapino. 2021. Hearing (Litmus Press)"))} {(set: $dopamine to it + 1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

//Boredom is not far from bliss//, writes [[Roland Barthes.|Inventory of Thinkers]] //It is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.// (live: 5s) [`(1975: 46)`] (live: 6s) [You feel waves hit you as you dive beneath the [[veil|future beginning]] of the sentence.] (live: 10s) [You feel droplets of mist on the horizon.] (live: 14s) [A [[strange screen|laughter]] between you and the world.] (live: 18s) [You wonder about time, how much of it is erased slowly by the wispy air.] (live: 22s) [Time curdled, remains.] (live: 26s) [You are sure you've been here before, the deja vu of a sentence once read on a screen, a re-play [[loops|Glitch]] gently, then becomes more urgent somehow.] (live: 30s) [[[Where did the boredom go?|attention to]] Who goes there?] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Barthes, Roland, 1975. The Pleasure of the Text. trans. by Richard Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.")) (set: $dopamine to it + 1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 35s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 38s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

[[Laughter|laughter]] could be undestood as a [[glitchful experience|Glitch]] of the body, an eruption, a tipping over, a [[portal.|dust 2]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it -3) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 5s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 7s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The body ricochets into a standstill, the blood pumps louder but the limbs refuse to move. A string plucked slowly stills everything. {(if: $threestrings is true) [The river is still pulsing.]} [[You want to move faster, faster.|Glitch]] [[Let's stay inside this freeze-frame.|dust 2]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

(if: $adrenaline is <6) [[[The Stitch of the Miss]] [[The Bitch of the Crest]] [[The Glitch of the Drift]] [[The List of the Wish]] [[The Blissing of the Ditch]] [[The Glitching of the Kiss]] [[The Dizziness of the Brush]]] (else:) [(de-bug:) (text-colour:red)[//Error! The collection is broken. You are surging and your surge is far too high. Yes //you//. As player, user, reader. We are past breaking point.// Surge: (print: $adrenaline) [[Accept the glitch]] [[Glitch the glitch; return to the collection|Glitch]] [[Pass through another portal|Small holdings]] (set: $glitch to true)]]

Of course, you do not wish for all of this, these trailing drafts, inner thoughts to be seen. [[The private self, that secret stoaway; where has it gone?|How would this be marked?]] In the eighteen century, there was an increasing anxiety about the effects of novel-reading, emmeshed in a larger anxiety about the proliferation of the individual. In her writing on this phenomenon, a time when particular focus was also sitauted on what this isolated practice might entail for women and young people, the writer [[Patricia Spacks|Inventory of Thinkers]] herself states: //I claimed my privacy through reading, as do many other readers, in a positive sense as well. The opportunity to explore and solidify the self belongs to privacy. Reading novels provides opportunity for such exploration, such solidification, and for the process of discovery that necessarily precede these activities.// (live: 5s) [`(2003: 29)`] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 2003. ‘Privacies of Reading’. Privacy Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 27–54."))} {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

[[&->future beginning]] [[&->The Glypth of the Mist]] [[&->The Glypth of the Mist]] [[&->the now]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&->The Glypth of the Mist]] [[&]] [[&->bliss]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&]] [[&->euphoric calm]] [[&->Inventory of Thinkers]] [[&]] [[&]]

A [[thread->loom]] crafts connection, opens up potential, what the theorist and philosopher [[Jacques Derrida->Inventory of Thinkers]] described as //immanence//, a life always in the making. He writes: //It neither takes place nor follows, but presents the immensity of the empty time where one sees the event yet to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness.// Somewhere a stitch is being sewn, is this too neat? What is being held in the movement between each of these passages? What might we miss? He speaks of young children, who tend to resemble (perhaps copy each other?) but who possess singularities: //Through all their sufferings and weakness [they] are infused with an immanent life that is pure power and even [[bliss->bliss]].// (set: $inventoryofthinkers to $inventoryofthinkers + (a: "Jacques Derrida. //Immanence: a life//Bliss, and Other Stories//. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. p. 116"))

The crest being not so much a bitch, as everything associated with the bitch. The crest of a moment being beyond language, or too far flung into it. Words shape and re-shape on the screen, language functions differently across the contexts and re-wires us in the process. Flung upwards into a heavy sky, the crest heaves, wanting to go further on a journey, wishing to be alone, but the word trails against it, staining the crest and [[won't leave it be.|future beginning]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

To drift in and out of time; is this to bliss? Or is it time stalled, falling inside the micro and the macro, [[refusing to drift?|climax]] {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -2) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A list pressuposes an answer before you even know it. Where were your thoughts taking you? There was something quite tender about this realisation, how little the mind knows, its diving. The word as a small figure dancing around. You glance up at a list of instantaneous phrases like sunlight passing through skin. You are tired. Have you always been this tired? Against the tiredness, another sensation begins to tremble. Deja vu, a sensation of arriving here before. Or as [[Gertrude Stein|Inventory of Thinkers]] says: //There is then always repeating, there is then always individual existing. There is then always repeating, there is then always repeating in each one, in each kind of them, and this is now a writing of the history as it comes out of some of them.// (live: 5s) [`(1925:1995: 302)`] You imaine Gertrude Stein typing these ideas out so quickly, as you might compose a quick list of items, a quick and timeless list of all the listings, an [[inventory of thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]], all the wishes, of all the many, speaking back over a century in which though we move forward, we also [[repeat|the now]], [[repeat.|the now]] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Stein, Gertrude, 1925: 1995. The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. London: Dalkey Archive Press."))}

A friend of yours once told you a ridiculous story about a friend of a friend who lived besides a person who once requested a giant hole be drilled into their garden but they got the measurements all wrong. This friend of a friend of your friend arrived back to find an 100ft hole in the middle of their neighbours' garden and her wailing beside it; could there have been a bigger and more literal glitch than this? It reminds you of old [[Sims games]], when construction might have gone wrong, trying out the impossible just to see what might happen. There was absolutely no need for the hole (could it even be described as a ditch, //really?//) but now here they were with something inexplicable for everyone, including the land and surrounding creatures, and what to do with it? Not really sure if this is [[blissing|essay]] to be honest, perhaps an event of this kind cannot be connected to any neat emotion or even a collection of them. Then again, [[bliss|Glitch]] does sift nicely with the ridiculous. {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A classic interactive fiction piece that can be discovered, perhaps chanced upon, through the online //Electronic Literature Organisation// is [[Dan Waber's|Inventory of Thinkers]] beautiful and simple hypertext narrative, //a kiss//, which you find yourself suddenly playing. Yet beneah its simple veneer emerges a blissful and complex reverberating that takes the single moment of touch in a kiss to spiral out into a series of memories, surrounding objetcs, opening senses of memory across a relationship time span. Here, memory is not linear, not even easily graspable, but instead floats like a single pulled string note from the moments two lips begin to touch. You click 'a kiss' and fall into a series of shimmering choices which refract moving onto larger descriptions. You may land upon the following moment that collects, calls to itself from the moment of the kiss: //He calls it that, but he means it emotionally not physically. He comes from a long line of people who hold it in, who keep quiet, who can have an argument that spans decades, one line uttered each holiday gathering. He festers. She is turned inside out, has her nerve endings on the outside, feels everything completely, fully, like there’s no skin between her and her nerve endings, and then she powers through it and it’s done. She feels intensely, and moves through. He still holds every grudge he ever formed. She holds none.//(live: 5s) [`(2010)`] As you play, you feel: [[Addicted|dust 2]] [[Moved|future beginning]] [[Attentive|future beginning]] [[All of the above|dust 2]] [[None of the above|Glitch]] {(set: $question to it +1) (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Waber, Dan, 2010. 'a kiss (for Jennifer)''. Electronic Literature Organisation. Available at: <https://collection.eliterature.org/4/works/a-kiss/a-kiss.html>"))}

The brushing up of bodies in a busy crowd. The day swerving. Hearing your thoughts faster than you hear your breaths. A mustiness in the shading. A loud and garbled re-telling of a story releases laughter into the drift. People sigh. Many do. Even the leaves. Against skin. Long [[strands|lace]] of entangled hair. Many hairs. Many hairs and many memories of the same colour. Grasses on the pavement, between the cracks. Bodies stripped back, beneath covers. //at dusk each day i like to think of all my new friends in different parts of the city jerking off running baths vaping weed getting sober running their mouths & reading poetry aloud to one another. // (live: 5s) [`(2018)`] writes [[Sophie Robinson|Inventory of Thinkers]] in her blissful, devastating, dizzying poem //art in america//. Against the day's close, you: [[are held inside your own head]] [[rest in all of your entanglements|dust 2]] [[are waiting, waiting|future beginning]] {(set: $question to it +1) (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Robinson, Sophie, 2018. 'art in america'. BOMB Magazine. Available at: <https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2018/03/06/sophie-robinson-poem/>"))}

A small mark, or else a small moment of blankness? //Hmm.// Is the bliss then an unthinking moment? Is thinking separated out here? Is the bliss a hyper-feeling? Is the thinking really separate from the feeling? Perhaps the blemish is the part where bliss becomes an ignorance, after all, who can afford bliss? Do you have a right to this kind of blissful undoing? But then, there's this other part, this //vital part//, you think. We //need// these moments of bliss, these ruptures in our systems, in order to move forward, to understand and also to release. [[Montaigne->Inventory of Thinkers]] writing in his essaying in 1580: //Oh what a soft and delightfull pillow...are ignorance and concern.// (live: 5s) [`(lxxx)`] You wake with your face marked by your pilow, lines of sleep carved out in the flesh, eyes sticking, thoughts not quite caught up; the hypnagogic state of almost bliss. [[Does bliss always mean ignorance?|euphoric calm]] {(if: $characterb is true) [Meanwhile, outside your flat, you can see the lavender blooming and sweating in the air and the cars keep rushing by. Glasgow refracts.] (if: $characterc is true) [Meanwhile the moth keeps twirling and the wings of violet begin to beat.] (if: $threestrings is true) [Meanwhile, the river turns violet in the breeze and soars towards your memories.] (if: $glitchfulthinking is true) [Meanwhile, there is a forest somewhere and I was watching it and I heard the violets bleed through the air towards me.]} {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to $inventoryofthinkers + (a: "de Montaigne, Michel. 1572: 1993. Montaigne: The Essays. Trans. M.A. Screech. London: Penguin Classics, p. lxxx."))} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 8s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The fact being, that //bless// as much as it sounds like //bliss// is not actually related, though invarioubly their meanings begin to infect each other in the mind. Bless releases itself from blood. Blood of Christ. Blood of bloooming. Blood of the bend. The body beats back and [[refuses|parapraxis]] to be refused. {(if: $characterb is true) [Meanwhile, outside your flat, you can see the lavender blooming and sweating in the air and the cars keep rushing by. Glasgow refracts.] (if: $characterc is true) [Meanwhile the moth keeps twirling and the wings of violet begin to beat.] (if: $threestrings is true) [Meanwhile, the river turns violet in the breeze and soars towards your memories.] (if: $glitchfulthinking is true) [Meanwhile, there is a forest somewhere and I was watching it and I heard the violets bleed through the air towards me.]} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 8s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The words can release you inside a sentence, parsed open, signalling beyond syntax. Who goes there? You seem to be looking for a way out of something. [[A stifling|What is going to happen now?]] [[A bend|Glitch]] [[A noise]] {(if: $characterb is true) [Meanwhile, outside your flat, you can see the lavender blooming and sweating in the air and the cars keep rushing by. Glasgow refracts.] (if: $characterc is true) [Meanwhile the moth keeps twirling and the wings of violet begin to beat.] (if: $threestrings is true) [Meanwhile, the river turns violet in the breeze and soars towards your memories.] (if: $glitchfulthinking is true) [Meanwhile, there is a forest somewhere and I was watching it and I heard the violets bleed through the air towards me.]} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 6s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 8s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

You listen to the song too many times, the re-play at first a blissful experience, then it saturates into something else and you hate the song. Yes, //you hate it.// You imagine yourself as the character in Katherine Mansfield's //Bliss//, //to throw something up in the air, and catch it again.// The child cries again, again, never let this moment stop. Perhaps you are suddenly her, the bliss allowing you to slip into another body, all the bodies blissing together. [[Perhaps|dust 2]], this isn't bliss at all. (if: $charactera is true) [She is humminng along a stretch of information. She is humming softy, then louder and louder.] (set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2) (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 8s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A palimpsest of ideas begin to emerge, slowly unravelling. Above you, an endless scroll begins to dominate. (live: 2s)[[[Quick!|Glitch]]] (live: 7s) [[[Yes, quick!|Glitch]]] (live: 25s) [[[Soaking in the attention...|Glitch]]] (live: 50s) [[[No, beyond all that quicken|future beginning]]] {(set: $questions to it +1)} {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Beginning in the late 1970s with the rise of digitally rendered images, the Glitch Art movement owes much of its early transmutations to the Cubist art arising earlier in the century, with its instantly recognisable distortions. But something different seems to be happening here; these pixellated images are actually speaking to the materiality of the technology they are being constructed from. [[Rosa-Menkman|Inventory of Thinkers]], a pivotal glitch artist, writes in her Glitch Studies Manifesto that: //Some artists set out to elucidate and deconstruct the hierarchies of these systems of assemblage. They do not work in [[(binary)|Glitchful Infrastructure]] opposition to what is inside the flows (the normal uses of the computer) but practice on the border of these flows. Sometimes, they use the computers’ inherent maxims as a façade, to trick theaudience into a flow of certain expectation that the artwork subsequently rapidly breaks out of. // (live: 5s) [`(2011: 4)`] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Menkman, Rosa, 2011. 'The Glitch Moment(um)'. Institute of Network Cultures. Available at: <https://networkcultures.org/_uploadsNN%234_RosaMenkman.pdf>"))} {(set: $adrenaline to it -1) (set: $cortisol to it -2) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A sound marks a break, can mark a body, or an environment. Can you hear it? In the [[1980s]], the concept of a Glitch Music begins. Japanese composer Ryoji Ikeda imagines a sound and time beyond human hearing, exploring minimalism by combining soundscapes of glitches and ambient noise with hypnotic visual content. What might we hear if we are [[listening?|future beginning]]

Who is this [[body?|computer bodies]] [[Any body?|American Artist]] [[Legacy Russell|Inventory of Thinkers]] writes in //Glitch Feminism//, that the glitch can be a site of refusal, a place where no action needs to take place, opening up who can participate in the world towards [[greater agency|dust 2]]. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Legacy, Russell, 2020. Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto. Verso Books."))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

A glitch isn't simple enough to be held in any binary category, though that would be easier, neater, a clear trajectory. Just as attention/inattention is a false dichotomy, or slow thinking/fast thinking, being productive/unproductive, or being assigned an easy box for your gender, personality, success, entanglements. But what can the [[glitch]] offer us [[infrastructurally|situate]] in its mixed signals, its spontaneous and sometimes catastrophic eruptions? The glitch is [[active|glitch]].

The glitch is a material event, material often being conceived of separately from the virtual. Back to the thread it begins to unravel. You come across a series of glitch designed rugs by the artist [[Faig Ahmed|Inventory of Thinkers]]. The materials begin with a conventional through line utilising the traditinal patterns of Azerbaijani rugs, and then begin to come undone, colours bleeding into each other, patterns falling into liquidity, like oil, like the material is sticky, glooey, letting go, no longer slick or contained. Each piece is different, utilising what might be described as glitch aesthetics, from piexellation, small squares of colour breaking up illustration, to a glooping mass, the shape of the ends of the rug changing, to a band of one colour taking over elegantly yet in a moment of sudden disruption. It seems as though the rugs are dancing with themselves, speaking to us from within a frame. //Patterns and ornaments can be found in all cultures, sometimes similar, sometimes very different. I consider them words and phrases that can be read and translated to a language we understand.//, writes Ahmed. (live: 5s) [`(2015)`] We seek out patterns, try to find them, in clues, expectation, order for the days ahead. Because we know the patterns so well, the disruption is all the more effective. [[Is bliss not a kind of texture too?]] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Soerzputowski, Kate, 2015. 'Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles. Colossal. <https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/faig-ahmed-glitched-rugs/>"))} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 8s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 10s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The tastes, feelings, lingerings of a sensation, or a sentence waiting for its words, sounds, desires to arrive. Where do we begin or are we always already in bliss when it takes place? The critic Brian Dillon writes in his book [[//Affinities//|Inventory of Thinkers]] of a complex relationship to attention and influence, of those moments when an artist, writer, thinker, creator begins to collect their influences; it is not a passive sensation but it is not always knowingly //actively// taking place. A gathering space, an atmosphere of questions floating around and stringing together. In an [[interview|Inventory of Thinkers]] on the book, he writes: 'In a way, I don't believe in attention. I don't think these categories of attention and distraction really exist, certainly not in the kind of stark way that they're opposed to each other routinely now, especially when we think about technology.' (live: 5s) [`(2023`)] What is the texture of a thought as it begins to come towards the page and how did we get here? You woke up this morning and looked at a screen, heavy in your hand. Perhaps the screen was dark, your own face, a ghostly distortion on the screen. You [[surrender|future beginning]]. {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Dillon, Brian, 2023. 'On opening yourself to distraction: From a conversation with Maddie Crum.' The Creative Independent. Online. <https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-brian-dillon-on-opening-yourself-to-distraction/>"))} {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Dillon, Brian, 2023. Affinities. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions."))} (set: $dopamine to it +1) (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 10s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 12s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Or no, not that memory but the way that another can slide in to replace it, or maybe in a dream to gel with it. Could this be a kind of [[glitch->Glitch]]? Dancing quickly, a series of other bodies also dancing, sensation swings in the air like a light that no one can quite decipher. Where your brain goes when reading. [[How many sensations?->How would this be marked?]] But at twice the speed, right up against the limit so that you'd rather not be in body at all anymore, but beyond it, up with the dust, the flicker, the quickening. [[Go|Go1]] [[Go|Go2]] [[Go|Go1]]

You find yourself kissing someone. You find yourself dancing alone. You find yourself flung to the far corners of walls you've never seen. You find yourself changed, remarkably changed. You find yourself speechless, as though the speech has been caught by someone else, taken away. You find yourself dreaming in short sharp images, pinpricks to the eye. You do not find yourself. There is a strange and untimely [[jolt|future beginning]].

You remember a strange voice that infiltrated all other voices; those you read, heard, carried with you through several hours, days, months even. Perhaps the voice was your own but something within its cadence was definately //not you//, carried this jarring tone inside the syllables. It seemd to be implying that you had somewhere to rush to, and that you might never get there but to go anyway. Still, you are dancing, still you are colliding. The overwhelming sensation that birds experience just before flight, an energy that lets them know it is time to migrate. The wings beat too quickly so no movement can be made. The voice grows louder. [[How would this be marked?]]

Sensation delivers itself prior to sense-making, if sense-making wants to appear. Sense seems to dissipate increasingly, a series of images and noises gasp at you. How are you feeling? [[Confused]] [[A little lonely]] [[Curious]]

Perhaps this confusion is a deletion of all the other sensations, to try and find some way back. To where? The world is [[strange|dust 2]] and you feel [[stranger|in the middle]] in it. {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +3) (set: $dopamine to it -2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Out here, who else lives in these lines and has anyone been here before? Words hidden, deleted casually, driven away as though they never existed. No one can mark this space, not really, not fully. Perhaps it is [[breaking|Glitch]] as we speak to each other.

Curiosity as a hunger, a reaching out. You would like to replace negative emotions and //all this uncertainty// with something almost neutral. But is curiosity ever neutral? It seems to deliver us back to childhood, everything unknown and strange to us again, with no guarantee of finding an answer but simply to revel in that moment, in that verb. Everything is a verb or a movement. We [[glitch|Glitch]], we [[wait|the now]] we [[essay]], we [[swerve|You scream out something unrelated.]], we [[string|Labyrinth]], we [[laugh|laughter]], we [[spiral]]. {(set: $adrenaline to it +2) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The essay is a series of bliss blobs. The essay is a series of reckonongs. The essay knows nothing. The essay knows everything. The blissing of the essaying that [[thrums and pulses.|future beginning]]

What is your bandwidth? (live: 5s) [Yes, memory is expensive.] (live: 8s) )[Yes, memory is expensive.] (live: 12s) [Yes, memory is expensive.] (live: 16s) [Yes, memory is expensive.] (live: 19s) [Yes, memory is expensive.] (live: 21s) [Do you regard yourself as being caught in a mode of [[spiral thinking?|memory is expensive]]

Do you consider yourself an outsider? [[Yes]] [[No]] [[Ambivalent]] [[Ambiguous]] (set: $question to it +1)

You think about the sites that no one has visited, perhaps ever. At the current time of writing, out of the nearly 8 billion people in the world, there are 5.25 billion internet users. Different groups collect under headings and forums and begin to share their ideas, woes, deepest secrets glimpsed through the light and the pixels and the wings, the wings, the wings. While we might think that the internet moves in the same direction for everyone, with radidly increasing technology forever on the horizon, then forever here, but is this true? [[Small holdings]] [[Swift aesthetics|Small holdings]] [[Lagging|Small holdings]]

You are deeply tied in. You think about the sites that no one has visited, perhaps ever. At the current time of writing, out of the nearly 8 billion people in the world, there are 5.25 billion internet users. Different groups collect under headings and forums and begin to share their ideas, woes, deepest secrets glimpsed through the light and the pixels and the wings, the wings, the wings. While we might think that the internet moves in the same direction for everyone, with radidly increasing technology forever on the horizon, then forever here, but is this true? [[Small holdings]] [[Swift aesthetics|Small holdings]] [[Lagging|Small holdings]]

A thin veil over presense. You think about the sites that no one has visited, perhaps ever. At the current time of writing, out of the nearly 8 billion people in the world, there are 5.25 billion internet users. Is this number even accrurate? Different groups collect under headings and forums and begin to share their ideas, woes, deepest secrets glimpsed through the light and the pixels and the wings, the wings, the wings. While we might think that the internet moves in the same direction for everyone, with rapidly increasing technology forever on the horizon, then forever here, but is this true? [[Small holdings]] [[Swift aesthetics|Small holdings]] [[Lagging|Small holdings]]

The small holdings of the text shimmer just beyond the glass. (live: 8s) [The small holdings of time taken.] (live: 11s) [Taken] (live: 13s) [Taken] (live: 16s) [Taken] (live: 19s) [Then gone.] (live: 22s) [Small holdings of attention, drifting with the lurk, words sifting just above a sentence.] (live: 26s) [Small holdings of: {(set: $holdings to "")} (input: bind $holdings)] (live: 32s) [Small holdings of //hello! who goes there?//] (live: 37s)[//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)//] (live: 40s) [//Dread: (print: $dread)//] (live: 47s) [//Pleasure: (print: $cortisol)//] (live: 51s) [{(set: $bliss to "")} //[[Bliss|Conclusion]]: (input: bind $bliss)]

One of the most famous, widespread culturally infamous glitches was what is often referred to as the //Y2K// bug. As the end of the twentieth century appraoched, it was unclear how this fast paced and ever changing technology could shift gears with the movement from 1999 to 2000. Turns out, [[memory is expensive]] on large comapny-owned mainfram and home computers, so infrastructurally the programmers writing these program had created work-arounds to reduce the storage space, which could cost up to $100 in kilobyte in the year 1975. Years had been programmed for date memory in such a way that //2000// would potentially not be a valid number for the systems to read or produce. Suddenly, time was approaching quickly, the century and technology potentially about to fold into itself, the bug of the millenium was creeping forward. Slowly, patterns began to emerge and people beyond the programming sphere began questioning how the dates, calendars, memories were actually being enacted. Without the threat of a glitch, we could skate seamlessly across this [[frictionless]] surface. Who holds the [[powers]] in the basic infrastructure of our everyday digital lives?

It is strange to think of memory being expensive, if taken out of the context of a computer. After all, our own memories are filled with twitches. Everyday thousands of memories are [[uploaded]] and sold back to us. Remember this date ten years ago? Do you remember five years ago? Do you remember this horrific time in your life only last year? Do [[you?|No]] Do [[you?|gameificiation.]] Do [[you?|dust 2]] Do [[you?|Glitch]] Do [[you?|universal]] Do [[you?|frictionless]] {(set: $question to it + 1)} {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The frictionless is afforded by [[ghost workers|Glitch Feminism]], many of them, their figures and lives barely held in the blurriness of the click, the access, the [[automated.|data.]] Given names like //cloud server//, we are led to believe that all of this information and data is just magically created now, that it is more ecologically beneficial that information and memory is held in the digital, than in the fluttering pages. The poet Jackie Wang, on a conversation on the fast-paced encroachment of Artificial Intelligence on creation writes: //When thinking about AI and the labor question, there is a tendency to focus on the front end rather than the back end, on the white-collar jobs that will be automated, not the underclass of taskers labeling and training data. AI relies on workers to annotate data and to refine the results generated by AI through a process known as “reinforcement learning from human feedback” (or RLHF). These annotators are paid $1.20 an hour in Nepal by companies like CloudFactory. In Kenya, annotators with Remotasks are being paid between $1 and $3 per hour.// (live: 5s) [`(2023)`] How often do you think about the labour involved in your everyday technology use; for example, when scrolling mindlessly through your phone, when listening to music, when searching on a map for a location?: [[Everytime|Who knows, this feels like a leading question!]] [[Sometimes|Who knows, this feels like a leading question!]] [[Rarely|Who knows, this feels like a leading question!]] [[Who knows, this feels like a leading question!]] (set: $question to it +1) {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Wang, Jackie and Christopher Soto, 2023. 'Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future'. Los Angeles Times. Available at: <https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-08-23/will-ai-replace-writers-christopher-soto-jackie-wang-game-out-the-future/>"))}

The internet is now beholden to the powers of Big Tech; major companies that rose after the dot-com bubble. The idea of an internet of the commons falls away when algorithms hold us, powered by a select few. [[Is the opposite of bliss an algorithm?|data.]]

The first version of //The Sims//, a simulation literally of a kind of life, a suburbian life although occasionally resting between giant rocks and beautiful waterfalls, came out in February 2000. //The Sims// is a prime example of an [[very open emergent game|gameificiation.]] in that there are hundreds, naysay thousands, of possible routes for the characters the player creates to embark on, with numerous variable charactetistics, aims, relationships and surroundings, so much so that some have used the game as fictional devices or questional sociological frames to try and figure out how [[specific situations would unravel.]] The game is also full of glitches (accessed through cheat codes) or enacted due to the strange visuals of the game. [[//Motherlode//, we type to increase our income.|computer bodies]]

At[[tention]] on a screen can happen in a shorter space of time than even a second. These screens begin to move away from language to the visual. One small DIY image in July 1992 became the first image to arrive online. It was unplanned in a way, a small experiment that, with hindsight, would become an entry into an increasingly image-saturated arena. A band called [[//Les Horrible Cernettes//]], made up of CERN staff (the European Organisation of Nuclear Research) describing themselves as the greatest high-energy rock band, when in actuality, they largely played 1950s comedy numbers. A computer physicist Silvano de Gennaro—the band's 'manager'— takes a photo, scanning it and saving it on his Mackintosh PC as a gif file. The next day, he is encouraged to make a website for the band on the computer network, the [[World Wide Web.]] An inconsequential moment becomes a starting point, a consequential node in a massive scale portal.

Picturing bodies across the city, there is this melancholic edge to Sophie Robinson's poem; it is a kind of bliss of being held by others also held inside their own head. It is a kind of melting into an environment beyond the self. Held in the head; or do you mean held in the body? Or no, do you mean held above the body? You sigh softly into the air that breathes around you just before any word tries to enter a sentence. You mistake your hand hovering over a phone for the shadow of a moth, fluttering elsewhere. You [[glitch.|Glitch]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +2)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The World Wide Web was originally conceived as a tool for scientific research, that took off perhaps quicker than any other previous technology in its scope, proliferating in the 90s as we moved towards the twenty first century. Bliss suddenly reaches away from a [[web of small HTML|Glitch]] marked up blogs and sites designed by a few enthusiastic coders. In 2008 Marisa Olson coins the term post-internet: //the notion of the postinternet encapsuates and transports network conditions and their critical awareness as such, even so far as to transcend the internet// (live: 5s) [`(61)`] Here is art made not after the internet but within its warp, its weft. Movements change and flicker, and everything is always already [[outdated.|dust 2]] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Olson, Marisa 2008. ‘Postinternet: Art After the Internet’. Foam Magazine, Vol. 29. pp. 59-63."))}

Images reach our eyes and our opinions much faster than words. Imagine here, if you can, a bliss of blinking signs. [[Les Horribles Cernettes|future beginning]] [[Picture of original women admin coders|Glitch]] [[A moth trapped taken as a glitch bug|dust 2]] [[A gif of someone laughing|alternative]] [[A gif of text saying 'there is no meme here'|Legacy Russell]] [[A gif of tabs whirring on a screen|euphoric calm]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +3) (set: $cortisol to it +2) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Where does the memory go after it has been saved, shared, embraced? Where does the spontaneity go or does it feel [[//more// spontaneous?|Glitch]]

You realise quite suddenly that it is possible you misread the notion of bliss in Katherine Mansfield's short story. She wasn't really feeling blissful at the end of the narrative at all, was she? It was put on, perhaps all of it. Is it //actually// about bliss at all? The misreadings are interesting, perhaps. Misdirections but not even so obvious. You imagine living as a thread, all the stories of yours and others overlapping. There is a gorgeous mystery about all the unknowns, overlapping, underwrapping, above and all around you. After all, wouldn't you sometimes also like to run instead of walk, to skip, to twirl, to grasp at the air, what stops you? It would be easy to do a quick search, it would be [[frictionless]] and could affirm or show that in fact you were wrong, wrong, wrong or on the correct path. Which [[correct path?]] Which correct [[history?]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +1)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

The word 'game' is confusing in this regard, as so many definitions of a game suggest a path that is the 'best' path, or in other words, the 'correct' path. There might be bliss in this approach too. When game is used as a verb, it opens up into a willingness to do something, to try something, just as the verb //essayer// means to try, to attempt, derived from the French //They were game for it.// does not perform a correct path necessarily. Yet, a game arrives with its own rules, its own predetermined pacing and parameters. Gameplay itself is the pattern determined by the game rules. A game is often understood as something which can be won, in line with the notion of [[gameificiation.]]

It feels tempting to keep returning to Ada in her [[future beginning]], but perhaps this is too easy a way to think through what the internet, what [[technology's time-span]] could be, how we situates ourselves amidst this ongoing [[now|the now]]. Linear histories are easier, [[perhaps|dust 2]], [[perhaps|Glitch]].

It is fairly well-known fact that the internet began in the 1960s, spurred on by the growing conflict of the Cold War. The U.S. Defence Department wanted to galvinise ways in which information could still be disseminated, even in the occurance of a nuclear attack. [[ARPANET]] would emerge (the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) with membership restricted to academics, and research organisation with links to or within the Defence Department. Yet the official birthdate of the internet is regarded as January 1, 1983. At this stage, all networks could now be converged into a [[universal]] language.

Following the ARPANET, a number of different maps of what the internet could look like began to emerge. One of these was the French based research network CYCLADES, developed by Louis Pouzin in the 1970s. This communication network was to be the first without central control, with each individual machine storing its own [[data.]] CYCLADES takes its name from the circular set of [[islands]] in the Aegean Sea, which formed a historically vibrant network of communication themselves. This system was later abandoned. It however, laid the groundwork for the functioning of the modern internet we use today. The network would also become fertile ground for future experiments in the field. (if: $entangled is true) [There is the material mapping of the internet's functions, which is increasingly hidden from everyday users.]

The idea that there even is a universal language on the internet presupposes that we are all one and the same, have access to the same resources, priviledges a narrative of everyone growing up with the interent or growing //into// the internet at the same pace. {(if: $characterb is true) [You spend many hours online, trying to create an impossible project, a game of several possible Glasgows. It is difficult to know whether you have succeeded. The language of the internet is of several [[entangled mappings.|ARPANET]]] (else:)[You spend many hours of your week working in a public library and note how many go to the computers to try and complete the life admin: the forms, applying for benefits, trying to figure out how to pay council tax or rent, requiring the need to be computer literate. If you had to put this on some sort of scale, it would be the very //opposite// of bliss.]} The //you// above may or may not be the actualy //you// but you now this right, what changes in the playing? {(if: $glitched is true) [It is my continual imagining, the ghostliness of another character emerging through a surging palimpsest of experience.]} The form of a thing or filling in the form of a thing. A pre-destined system designed to [[exclude.]]

You imagine a series of drifting islands of text falling down a screen. Like tears perhaps. Or perhaps closer to pulses, drifting, drifting. Like watching a fast-forwarded film of lands coming together, breaking away, submerging even. [[Where does it all go?|dust 2]]

Could there be a time in the coming future when we are //post-data// as in there is so much of it, that it becomes impossible to delineate what is the data and what is privacy? As more of us turn to the online world, it is unclear how much we as individuals and as a wider society can [[situate]] what data is being collected. How might this affect our emotional undertstanding of our lives, how we move through them, and what we know of ourselves and our paramters as [[collectives and individuals?|dust 2]] This [[game|gameificiation.]] collects mock data; in its fiction, revealing and blissing out algorithims. Nothing is collected, all is fragile. {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it -1) (set: $dopamine to it +4)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

[[Who is allowed to be on the internet and who is excluded?|American Artist]] [[Who is the one who feels bliss and who is denied bliss?|American Artist]] [[Who gets to make digital artefacts, digital live-ness?|American Artist]]

Does bliss gather as the text leads us to the [[climax|future beginning]] we expect? A slow building up of tension, a release when all is suddenly revealed. You feel this way often as you begin to scroll, as though you are searching for that moment, the moment in a narrative or the line curve of a poem, searching still. Perhaps the climax arrives too early. You think of text, slow reveal as a soft ribbon against your face, [[twirling]]. You hold it closer willing it to find you. {(set: $adrenaline to it +2) (set: $cortisol to it +1) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

What is this twirling you remember? The spinning around which bled the rooms and landscapes into a stream of colour, like a ribbon of the visual, a ribbon of sound, a quiet and yet surging glitching of the senses. A writing with swift and open movement. Your hands cut through the [[air on overwhelm.|future beginning]] Is this a kind of [[agitated bliss?]]

The notion of gameification has gained increasing precedence in aspects of our lives as we travel further into the twenty-first century. From apps that track your health progress, to point scoring in the workplace, to the game of social media. Back in 2007, the writer [[McKenzie Wark|Inventory of Thinkers]] predicts these concepts: //You are a gamer whether you like it or not, now that we all live in a gamespace that is everywhere and nowhere// (live: 5s) [`(9)`] (live: 10s) [//Do you want to know your adrenaline? Do you want to know your surge?//] (live: 12s) [[[Yes, I am curious]] [[Nah]] [[How do you know this information?]]] {(set: $question to it +1) (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Wark, Mckenzie, 2007. Gamer Theory. London: Harvard University Press."))}

//Infrastructure is not identical to system or structure as we currently see them, because infrastructure is defined by the movement or patterning of social form. It if the living mediation of what [[organises|So many options, so little time.]] life: the lifeworld of structure.// writes [[Lauren Berlant|Inventory of Thinkers]] (live: 5s) [`(2016:393)`] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Berlant, Lauren, 2016. 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times*'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 393-419. <https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989/>"))}

{(if: visits is 1)[(live: 3s) [//[[Irritating things.|agitated bliss?]] Irrelevant things. Irreverant things. Irrevocable things. But I'm afraid of erasure. The wiped drive of my mind. I know I know nothing. There's less and less to understand every day. [[Information ground into digital dust.|ss]] [[The world stopped making sense a long time ago.|technology's time-span]]// writes the poet Sophia Al-Maria, in her collection //Sad Sack//. (live: 5s) [`(2019: 62)`](set:$inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Al Maria, Sophia, 2019. Sad Sack. London: Bookworks."))]]} {(else-if: visits is 2) [(live: 3s) [//[[Irritating things.|agitated bliss?]] Irrelevant things. Irreverant things. Irrevocable things. But I'm afraid of erasure. The wiped drive of my mind. I know I know nothing. There's less and less to understand every day. [[Information ground into digital dust.|ss]] [[The world stopped making sense a long time ago.|technology's time-span]]// writes the poet Sophia Al-Maria, in her collection //Sad Sack//.(live: 5s) [(`2019: 62)`]]]} {(else-if: visits is 3) [(live: 3s) [//The digital banal is the condition by which we don't notice the [[affective novelty of becoming-with digital media.|Glitch]] In other words, the way we use media makes us unaware of the ways we are co-constituted as [[subjects|words]] with media...complex [[mediational entanglements|universal]] that are too often presented as inevitably progressive//, writes [[Zara Dinnen|Inventory of Thinkers]] in //The Digital Banal// (live: 5s) [`(2021:12)`] (set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Dinnen, Zara, 2021. The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture (Literature Now). Columbia University Press."))]]} {(else-if: visits is 4) [ (if: $questions is >3) [(live: 3s) [[It is blissful to imagine technology's future demise?|Small holdings]]] (else: $questions is <3) [(live: 3s) [[Context shuffles and gets confused.|Labyrinth]]]]} {(else-if: visits is 5) [ (live: 3s) [[[Is it blissful to imagine technology's future demise?|Small holdings]] ]]}

The psychoanalyst and poet [[Nuar Alsadir|Inventory of Thinkers]] speaks of laughter as a ripple of language, meaning, hope, opening. Laughter emerges as an interface between the inner self and outer world, between the individual and communal, perhaps a glitch in awareness, a release of in-built tension. She writes: //Regardless of origin, my corpsing elicited the [[jouissance]] associated with breaking character, overstepping the sticky trap of practical reason. While laughing, I let myself stay off track, improvise, remain elastic, awake, alive. My psychological state shifted from anxiety to a limitless field of clarity and light.// (live: 5s) [`(2022)`] Who breaks the character in this game? (if: $glitched is true) [And am I still [[speaking to you?]]] {(set: $inventoryofthinkers to it + (a: "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. 'Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter'. The Paris Review. Available at: <https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/06/16/corpsing-on-sex-death-and-spontaneous-laughter/>"))} {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it -3) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]

Is //jouissance// the same as [[bliss?|future beginning]] The moment just before [[pain leaves|Glitch]]. (if: $charactera is true) [The moment after she fell by the endless information highway; the city's fragile links almost catching her.]

Tension mounts in considering all that is unseen, that squirms across an [[environment.|frictionless]]

Turns out the mind sees the image much faster than the brain [[reads the text|dust 2]].

Could even the word glitch be commodified? [[Yes|Glitch]] [[No]] [[Maybe?|Glitch]] (set: $question to it +1)

[[Who can blame you?|future beginning]] (live: 5s) [But do not worry; this has always been a fictional //you//.]

Information as emotion, as [[dust.|dust 2]] {(live: 5s) [The text doesn't hold the information, but your everyday scroll wants to. It is unclear how much information you have given away, //you// as fiction and //you// as reality.] (if: $characterb is true) [You, as character, held in a room, seemingly held in a text but moving beyond Glasgow to the ambient space of this essaying.] (if: $glitched is true) [You, who I can only imagine and never quite find. A fiction which refuses to be an algorithim despite its shape.]}

Think about where you have been. The virtual can hold your pulse. Surge: (print: $adrenaline) A surge, what might it be?: something both within and beyond the individual, whose heightening and saturation can lead to depletion. For some it is merely experienced, others go in search for it. A surge invigorates and enacts, before it overwhelms. {(if: $charactera is true) [Striding down information highways, beyond what the body can [[contain|dust 2]]] (if: $characterc is true) [Thrumming around a collection of questions like a winged [[creature impulse.|future beginning]]] (if: $characterb is true) [[[Unable to get out beyond a self|The Bliss of the Glitch]], even with objects as portals to memory, and character collide.] (else:) [ You are becoming digital [[dust.|dust 2]] ] }

//The transition of the computer interface from a black screen, to the white screen of the 70s, is an apt metaphor for the theft and erasure of blackness, as well as a literal instance of a white ideological mechanism created with the intent of universal application.// American Artist writes these words in the current post-internet era. They have re-named themselves, legally, officially, as a subversive act of glitching the search engines. Look up any American Artist and here is one. The blackness of the screen starts to become more material, a [[texture|Is bliss not a kind of texture too?]] emanating through pixels.

{(if: $threestrings and $egameplay is true) [You have now travelled through three portals: Three Strings, Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying and The Bliss of the Glitch. [[Loading...|conclusion1]] ] (else-if: $threestrings and $entangled is true) [You have now travelled through three portals: Three Strings, These Entangled Mappings and The Bliss of the Glitch. [[Loading...|conclusion2]] ] (else-if: $threestrings and $glitchful is true) [You have now travelled through three portals: Glitchful Thinking, Three Strings and The Bliss of the Glitch. [[Loading...|conclusion3]] ] (else-if: $egameplay and $glitchful is true) [You have now travelled through three portals: Glitchful Thinking, Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying and The Bliss of the Glitch. [[Loading...|conclusion4]] ] (else-if: $egameplay and $entangled is true) [You have now travelled through three portals: Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying, These Entangled Mappings and The Bliss of the Glitch. [[Loading...|conclusion5]] ] (else-if: $egameplay is true) [You have now travelled through two portals: Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying and The Bliss of the Glitch and you may be feeling ready for some kind of [[wider landscape?|These Entangled Mappings]] ] (else-if: $glitchful is true) [You have now travelled through two portals: Glitchful Thinking & The Bliss of the Glitch and it is now time to stride out into another [[physical arena.|threestrings]] ] (else-if: $threestrings is true) [Perhaps is time to travel through another (either: "[[portal.|glitchful thinking.]]", "[[portal.|egameplay]]", "[[portal.|These Entangled Mappings]]") ] (else-if: $blissglitch is true) [Perhaps is time to travel through another (either: "[[portal.|glitchful thinking.]]", "[[portal.|egameplay]]", "[[portal.|These Entangled Mappings]]", "[[portal.|threestrings]]") ] (else:) [(de-bug:) ERROR! The machine is breaking. Perhaps it is time to leave. Or explore inside the code. Right hand click and inspect the code and see what hidden text emerges there. <a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>] }

A labyrinth of histories rise to the surface; these [[histories|future beginning]] of playing and reading. {(if: $glitched is true) [An 'I' unsettled from their original narrative lines falls inside the maze. I want to speak to you. The //you// that I continually [[reimagine.|future beginning]]] (if: $threestrings is true) [A river that works its way up into a flurry is a [[kind of bliss.|eurphoric calm]]] (if: $entangled is true) [Moths and figures and interuptions map out onto the space of [[bliss possibility.|dust 2]]] (if: $egameplay is true) [Emergent time travels [[through bliss.|Small holdings]]]}

A 1980s image of workers wearing bikinis and beach gear in an over-heated office as the large computers thrum. A microcosm perhaps of the wider energy usage we cannot see and an entire planet heating up. Alternatively, a blissful holiday scene cut away, [[context shuffled.|dust 2]]

When women [[were once computers.]] Before computation was a mascline and [[climatic|climax]] hero's journey.

<img src="womencomp.gif" width="350" height="350"> Early programmers were called 'computers' and they were often women. Here are two of them working on the //Collosus// in Bletchly Park in 1943 as early code breakers. Ada [[shudders.|future beginning]]

The game became a gendered phenomenon. [[Girls|computer bodies]] in particular, enjoyed //The SIms//. Boys it seemed, gravitate towards war games. This binary is of course, questionable. There is a kind of bliss in making your imagination somewhat [[material.|future beginning]]

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The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture (Literature Now). Columbia University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",zd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Berlant, Lauren, 2016. 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times*'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 393-419. <https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",lb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Artist, American, 2018. ‘Black Gooey Universe’, Unbag. Available at: <https://unbag.net/end/black-gooey-universe>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",aa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Stein, Gertrude, 2012, 1914. Tender Buttons. New York: Dover Publications.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",gs2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Kaku, Michio, 2014. 'I am Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and bestselling author of The Future of the Mind.' Reddit. 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Oppression and Liberty. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. London: Routledge.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",sw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "De Landa, Manuel, 1992. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zone Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",md")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'Moths'. Butterfly Conservation. Available at: <https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",m")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Fisher, Mark, 2017. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",mf")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "McKinnon, Logan, 2024. 'The Dividing Road: How the M8 Motorway Destroyed Glasgow’s Communities.' Retrospect Journal. Available at: <https://retrospectjournal.com/2024/11/17/the-dividing-road-how-the-m8-motorway-destroyed-glasgows-communities/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",m8")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Woolf, Virgina, 1942. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. New York: Harcourt.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",vw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Oliver, Mary, 1984. 'The Moths'.Poetry Foundation. Available at: <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=143&issue=4&page=31>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",mo2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Heti, Sheila, 2024. Alphabetical Diaries. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",sh")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Quin, Ann, 1964: 2019. Berg. Sheffield: And Other Stories.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",aq")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lispector, Clarice, 1964: 2012. The Passion According to G.H. . trans. by Idra Novey. New York: New Directions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",cl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Hopper, Grace, 1949: 2018. 'Grace under pressure.' National Museum of American History. by. Peggy A. Kidwell, Amelia Grabowski. Available at: <https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/grace-under-pressure>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",gs")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lafarge, Daisy, 2023. Lovebug. London: Peninsula Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",dl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'bliss', noun., 2023.'OED Online. Available at: <https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bliss_n?tab=factsheet>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",b")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Soerzputowski, Kate, 2015. 'Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles. Colossal. <https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/faig-ahmed-glitched-rugs/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",fa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. 'On opening yourself to distraction: From a conversation with Maddie Crum.' The Creative Independent. Online. <https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-brian-dillon-on-opening-yourself-to-distraction/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. Affinities. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lovelace, Ada, 1843: 2017. 'Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns Like Looms Weave Flowers and Leaves'. The Good Times . Available at: <https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",al")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. 'Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter'. The Paris Review. 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Routledge.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",shsl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Jackson, Shelley, 1997. 'my body - a Wunderkammer'. Electronic Literature Collection, Volume One, October 2006. Online. Available at: <https://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/jackson__my_body_a_wunderkammer.html>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",sj")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Jayemanne, Darshana, 2019. 'Chronotypology: A Comparative Method for Analyzing Game Time.' Games and Culture, 15(7). pp. 809-824. <https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412019845593>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",dj")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Meades, Alan, 2013. 'Why We Glitch: Process, Meaning and Pleasure in the discovery and documentation, sharing and use of videogame exploits.' Well Played: a journal on video games, value and meaning. pp. 79-98. ETC Press. <https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6687068.v1>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",am")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Menkman, Rosa, 2011. 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Available at: <https://elizabethsampat.itch.io/am-i-part-of-the-problem/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",es")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Sampat, Elizabeth, 2017. Empathy Engines: Design Games that are Personal, Political and Profound. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",es2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Scully-Blaker, Rainforest, 2014. 'A Practiced Practice: Speedrunning Through Space with de Certeau and Virilio'. Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research, volume 14 issue 1, August 2014. Available at: <https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",rsb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Self, Will, interviewed by Alan Clark, 2018. 'Will Self: ‘The novel is absolutely doomed’. The Guardian. 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New York: Dover Pubications.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",gs")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Stewart, Kathleen, 2007. Ordinary Affects. Durham, US: Duke University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",ks")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Hejinian, Lyn, and Leslie Scalapino, 2021. Hearing. Litmus Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",lh")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Mansfield, Katherine, 1920:1988. Bliss. Auckland, New Zealand: Vintage.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",km")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Spacks, Patricia Meyer, 2003. ‘Privacies of Reading’. Privacy. University of Chicago Press, pp. 27–54.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",ps")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Zambra, Alejandro, 2015. My Documents. trans. Megan McDowell. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",az")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "de Montaigne, Michel. 1572: 1993. Montaigne: The Essays. Trans. M.A. Screech. London: Penguin Classics.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",mm")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Barthes, Roland, 1975. The Pleasure of the Text. trans. by Richard Miller. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",rb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Wark, Mckenzie, 2007. Gamer Theory. London: Harvard University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",mw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Wang, Jackie and Christopher Soto, 2023. 'Will AI replace writers — and the rest of us? An L.A. scholar-poet games out the future'. Los Angeles Times. Online. Available at: <https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2023-08-23/will-ai-replace-writers-christopher-soto-jackie-wang-game-out-the-future/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",jw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Al Maria, Sophia, 2019. Sad Sack. London: Bookworks.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",sa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dinnen, Zara, 2021. The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture (Literature Now). Columbia University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",zd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Berlant, Lauren, 2016. 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times*'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 393-419. <https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",lb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Artist, American, 2018. ‘Black Gooey Universe’, Unbag. Available at: <https://unbag.net/end/black-gooey-universe>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",aa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Stein, Gertrude, 2012, 1914. Tender Buttons. New York: Dover Publications.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",gs2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Kaku, Michio, 2014. 'I am Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and bestselling author of The Future of the Mind.' Reddit. 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Oppression and Liberty. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. London: Routledge.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",sw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "De Landa, Manuel, 1992. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zone Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",md")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'Moths'. Butterfly Conservation. Available at: <https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",m")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Fisher, Mark, 2017. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",mf")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "McKinnon, Logan, 2024. 'The Dividing Road: How the M8 Motorway Destroyed Glasgow’s Communities.' Retrospect Journal. Available at: <https://retrospectjournal.com/2024/11/17/the-dividing-road-how-the-m8-motorway-destroyed-glasgows-communities/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",m8")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Woolf, Virgina, 1942. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. New York: Harcourt.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",vw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Oliver, Mary, 1984. 'The Moths'.Poetry Foundation. Available at: <https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=143&issue=4&page=31>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",mo2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Heti, Sheila, 2024. Alphabetical Diaries. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",sh")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Quin, Ann, 1964: 2019. Berg. Sheffield: And Other Stories.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",aq")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lispector, Clarice, 1964: 2012. The Passion According to G.H. . trans. by Idra Novey. New York: New Directions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",cl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Hopper, Grace, 1949: 2018. 'Grace under pressure.' National Museum of American History. by. Peggy A. Kidwell, Amelia Grabowski. Available at: <https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/grace-under-pressure>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",gs")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lafarge, Daisy, 2023. Lovebug. London: Peninsula Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",dl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'bliss', noun., 2023.'OED Online. Available at: <https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bliss_n?tab=factsheet>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",b")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Soerzputowski, Kate, 2015. 'Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles. Colossal. <https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/faig-ahmed-glitched-rugs/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",fa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. 'On opening yourself to distraction: From a conversation with Maddie Crum.' The Creative Independent. Online. <https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-brian-dillon-on-opening-yourself-to-distraction/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. Affinities. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lovelace, Ada, 1843: 2017. 'Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns Like Looms Weave Flowers and Leaves'. The Good Times . Available at: <https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",al")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. 'Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter'. The Paris Review. 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The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. London: Dalkey Archive Press.")[(set: _varList to _varList +",gs3")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Robinson, Sophie, 2018. 'art in america'. BOMB Magazine. Available at: <https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2018/03/06/sophie-robinson-poem/>") [(set: _varList to _varList +",sr")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Waber, Dan, 2010. 'a kiss (for Jennifer)''. Electronic Literature Organisation. Available at: <https://collection.eliterature.org/4/works/a-kiss/a-kiss.html>") [(set: _varList to _varList +",dw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. Animal Joy. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.") [(set: _varList to _varList +",na1")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2017. Fourth Person Singular. Liverpool: Pavilion Poetry.") [(set: _varList to _varList +",na2")] (set: _tList to "&t=j") (set: _varList to _varList + _tList) (if: $charactera is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",a")] (if: $characterb is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",b")] (if: $characterc is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",c")] (if: $egameplay is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",d")] (if: $threestrings is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",e")] (if: $blissglitch is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",f")] (if: $glitchful is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",g")] (if: $entangled is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",h")] (if: $beginning is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",i")] (if: $unthought is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",j")] (if: $noise is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",k")] (if: $memory is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",l")] (if: $rupture is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",m")] (if: $glitch is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",n")] (if: $centre is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",o")] (if: $ongoingness is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",p")] (if: $saturation is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",q")] (if: $riddle is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",r")] (set: $url to "three-strings?" + _varList) } (print: '<a href="'+ $url + '">Three Strings</a>')

''A CONCLUSION'' (live: 3s) [A short retreat from bliss.] (live: 6s) [A river that maps through.] (live: 9s) [A small plucked string carried on a faraway hum.] (live: 12s) [Elsewhere, on a map of A, B and C, figures are all played by each other, in irrevocable ways.] (live: 22s) [It was enough to be a figure sometimes if only for a morning in Glasgow.] (live: 25s)[A river of quiet bliss potential like an essay.] (live: 28s)[An instrument or idea played continually.] (live: 28s)[A body thrumming and waiting to be seen.] (live: 29s) [(print: $holdings).] (live: 32s) [Your bliss is (print: $bliss).] (text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 1)[Inventory of Thinkers] You have collected: \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] You have travelled through: Three Strings, Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying, finishing on The Bliss of the Glitch. Adrenaline: (print: $adrenaline) Cortisol: (print: $cortisol) Dopamine: (print: $dopamine) [<a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>]

''A CONCLUSION'' (live: 3s) [A short retreat from bliss.] (live: 6s) [A knot that maps through.] (live: 9s)[A series of small shifting shapes, or could they be souls, seen from a far distance.] (live: 12s) [Elsewhere, there is a parallel world, that could be now or the future and a character that speaks from a lyrical 'I'.] (live: 22s) [There has been no 'I' in your journey, only 'you' and 'she' and 'it'.] (live: 25s)[Meanwhile, a river of quiet bliss potential flows towards you.] (live: 28s)[An instrument or idea played continually.] (live: 28s)[A body thrumming and waiting to be seen.] (live: 29s) [(print: $holdings).] (live: 32s) [Your bliss is (print: $bliss).] (text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 1)[Inventory of Thinkers] You have collected: \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] You have travelled through: Three Strings, These Entangled Mappings, finishing on The Bliss of the Glitch. Adrenaline: (print: $adrenaline) Cortisol: (print: $cortisol) Dopamine: (print: $dopamine) [<a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>]

''A CONCLUSION'' (live: 3s) [A short retreat from bliss.] (live: 6s) [A glitching email that travels so far it turns into a kind of dream.] {(live: 9s)[(if: $speculative is true) [A future beyond the internet, would it lead to bliss?] (else-if: $realism is true) [An everyday error, two souls connected.] (else-if: $surreal is true) [Moving into a dream where nature and technology become forever entangled, not unlike Ada's envisioning of a machine of flowers and leaves]]} (live: 12s) [A series of small shifting shapes, or could they be souls, seen from a far distance in a route untravelled, a knot of figures distributed across a city.] (live: 16s) [There are moths flying and memories upturned and pain held closely.] (live: 22s) [I have I travelled with you from Glitchful Thinking? Are you sick of me yet? Or do you miss me?] (live: 25s)[Meanwhile, a river of quiet bliss potential flows around you.] (live: 28s) [An instrument or idea played continually.] (live: 29s) [A body thrumming and waiting to be seen.] (live: 30s) [(print: $holdings).] (live: 32s) [Your bliss is (print: $bliss).] (text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 1)[Inventory of Thinkers] You have collected: \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] You have travelled through: Three Strings, Glitchful Thinking, finishing on The Bliss of the Glitch. Adrenaline: (print: $adrenaline) Cortisol: (print: $cortisol) Dopamine: (print: $dopamine) [<a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>]

''A CONCLUSION'' (live: 3s) [A short retreat from bliss.] (live: 6s) [Fish swimming in circles, looking for emergence.] {(live: 9s)[Text swimming gently beside them.] (live: 12s) [A residency you were meant to be at but who is this //you?//] (live: 16s) [[There are moths flying and memories upturned and pain held closely somwhere else.] (live: 22s) [Have I travelled with you from Glitchful Thinking? Are you sick of me yet? Or do you miss me?] (live: 25s)[Meanwhile, another cycle continues and soon I will bleed again.] (live: 28s)[A refrain of pain, a refrain of always already beginning again, of changing characters with the days, the weeks.] (live: 29s)[A body in mania thrumming and waiting to be seen.] (live: 30s) [(print: $holdings).] (live: 32s) [Your bliss is (print: $bliss).] (text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 1)[Inventory of Thinkers] You have collected: \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] You have travelled through: Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying, Glitchful Thinking, finishing on The Bliss of the Glitch. Adrenaline: (print: $adrenaline) Cortisol: (print: $cortisol) Dopamine: (print: $dopamine) [<a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>]

''A CONCLUSION'' (live: 3s) [A short retreat from bliss.] (live: 6s) [Fish swimming in circles, looking for emergence.] {(live: 9s)[Or no, moths flying.] (live: 12s) [Figures that follow you softly or were you following them?] (live: 16s) [Or were you one of them? Are you that character still?] (live: 22s) [Have you glitched through these ideas?] (live: 25s)[Meanwhile, another cycle continues and there is bleeding and there is beginning again.] (live: 28s)[A refrain of pain, a refrain of always already beginning again, of changing characters with the days, the weeks.] (live: 29s)[A body in nerves thrumming and waiting to be seen.] (live: 30s) [(print: $holdings).] (live: 32s) [Your bliss is (print: $bliss).] (text-style:"subscript","smear") + (text-size: 1)[Inventory of Thinkers] You have collected: \ (if: $inventoryofthinkers's length is 0)[\ a shimmering knowledge that feels itself quicken. ](else:)[\ \ (for: each _item, ...$inventoryofthinkers)[\ _item (unless: $inventoryofthinkers's last is _item)[,]\ ] ] You have travelled through: Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying, These Entangled Mappings, finishing on The Bliss of the Glitch. Adrenaline: (print: $adrenaline) Cortisol: (print: $cortisol) Dopamine: (print: $dopamine) [<a href="end" >Exit Essaying</a>]

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The University of Alabama Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",rbd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Emergent Gameplay', 2017. Technopedia. by Margaret Rouse. Available at: <https://www.techopedia.com/definition/27043/emergent-gameplay/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",eg")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Halberstam, Jack, 2011. The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, US: Duke University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",jh")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Hay, Jonathan, 2020. 'Fully Optimized: The (Post)human Art of Speedrunning'. Journal of Posthuman Studies, Vol. 4, No.1. The Pennsylvania State University. pp. 5-24. <https://doi.org/10.5325/jpoststud 4.10005.>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",jh2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Horowitz, Steve, Looney, Scott, 2014. The Essential Guide to Game Audio: The Theory and Practice of Sound for Games. 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Available at: <https://elizabethsampat.itch.io/am-i-part-of-the-problem/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",es")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Sampat, Elizabeth, 2017. Empathy Engines: Design Games that are Personal, Political and Profound. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",es2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Scully-Blaker, Rainforest, 2014. 'A Practiced Practice: Speedrunning Through Space with de Certeau and Virilio'. Game Studies: the international journal of computer game research, volume 14 issue 1, August 2014. Available at: <https://gamestudies.org/1401/articles/scullyblaker/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",rsb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Self, Will, interviewed by Alan Clark, 2018. 'Will Self: ‘The novel is absolutely doomed’. The Guardian. 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The Digital Banal: New Media and American Literature and Culture (Literature Now). Columbia University Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",zd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Berlant, Lauren, 2016. 'The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times*'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 393-419. <https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816645989/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",lb")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Artist, American, 2018. ‘Black Gooey Universe’, Unbag. Available at: <https://unbag.net/end/black-gooey-universe>")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",aa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Stein, Gertrude, 2012, 1914. Tender Buttons. New York: Dover Publications.")[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",gs2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Kaku, Michio, 2014. 'I am Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field theory and bestselling author of The Future of the Mind.' Reddit. 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Oppression and Liberty. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. London: Routledge.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",sw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "De Landa, Manuel, 1992. War in the Age of Intelligent Machines. trans. by Arthur Wills, John Petrie. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zone Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",md")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'Moths'. Butterfly Conservation. Available at: <https://butterfly-conservation.org/moths>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",m")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Fisher, Mark, 2017. The Weird and the Eerie. London: Repeater Books.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",mf")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "McKinnon, Logan, 2024. 'The Dividing Road: How the M8 Motorway Destroyed Glasgow’s Communities.' Retrospect Journal. 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New York: New Directions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",cl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Hopper, Grace, 1949: 2018. 'Grace under pressure.' National Museum of American History. by. Peggy A. Kidwell, Amelia Grabowski. Available at: <https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/grace-under-pressure>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",gs")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lafarge, Daisy, 2023. Lovebug. London: Peninsula Press.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",dl")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "'bliss', noun., 2023.'OED Online. Available at: <https://www.oed.com/dictionary/bliss_n?tab=factsheet>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",b")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Soerzputowski, Kate, 2015. 'Faig Ahmed Creates Glitched-Out Contemporary Rugs from Traditional Azerbaijani Textiles. Colossal. <https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/faig-ahmed-glitched-rugs/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",fa")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. 'On opening yourself to distraction: From a conversation with Maddie Crum.' The Creative Independent. Online. <https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-brian-dillon-on-opening-yourself-to-distraction/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Dillon, Brian, 2023. Affinities. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",bd2")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Lovelace, Ada, 1843: 2017. 'Ada Lovelace: Weaving Algebraic Patterns Like Looms Weave Flowers and Leaves'. The Good Times . Available at: <https://www.the-good-times.org/people-2/ada-lovelace-weaving-algebraic-patterns-like-looms-weave-flowers-and-leaves/>")[ (set: _varList to _varList +",al")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. 'Corpsing: On Sex, Death, and Inappropriate Laughter'. The Paris Review. 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The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family’s Progress. London: Dalkey Archive Press.")[(set: _varList to _varList +",gs3")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Robinson, Sophie, 2018. 'art in america'. BOMB Magazine. Available at: <https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2018/03/06/sophie-robinson-poem/>") [(set: _varList to _varList +",sr")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Waber, Dan, 2010. 'a kiss (for Jennifer)''. Electronic Literature Organisation. Available at: <https://collection.eliterature.org/4/works/a-kiss/a-kiss.html>") [(set: _varList to _varList +",dw")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2022. Animal Joy. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.") [(set: _varList to _varList +",na1")] (if: $inventoryofthinkers contains "Alsadir, Nuar, 2017. Fourth Person Singular. Liverpool: Pavilion Poetry.") [(set: _varList to _varList +",na2")] (set: _tList to "&t=j") (set: _varList to _varList + _tList) (if: $charactera is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",a")] (if: $characterb is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",b")] (if: $characterc is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",c")] (if: $egameplay is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",d")] (if: $threestrings is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",e")] (if: $blissglitch is true)[ (set: _varList to _varList + ",f")] (if: $glitchful is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",g")] (if: $entangled is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",h")] (if: $beginning is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",i")] (if: $unthought is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",j")] (if: $noise is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",k")] (if: $memory is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",l")] (if: $rupture is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",m")] (if: $glitch is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",n")] (if: $centre is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",o")] (if: $ongoingness is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",p")] (if: $saturation is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",q")] (if: $riddle is true) [ (set: _varList to _varList + ",r")] (set: $url to "emergentessayingemergentgameplay?" + _varList) } (print: '<a href="'+ $url + '">Emergent Gameplay, Emergent Essaying</a>')

(de-bug:) It is time to make your own bliss. Right hand click on the screen before you and click inspect. You will find another hidden text at the top of the code which emerges to the side of your browser. Now, if you dare, you can click on the arrow for 'tw-passage'; double click on the text held within there, which is the text here on the screen, type what you most desire, your own blisses and click enter. Watch the text change on the screen. You can change your //Surge//, //Pleasure// and //Tension// levels as you move towards another portal by changing the number in your URL address, after a= for //Surge//, b= for //Pleasure//, c= for //Tension//. Mess the code. Glitch the senses. Bliss through language. Now, continue into [[another portal|Small holdings]] with this knowledge or begin again|The Bliss of the Glitch]] or [[stick within the blissing of the piece with this glitching knowledge|future beginning]].

Can bliss reach out across a text? From a mysterious residency where the character glitches another possible reality? Where an 'I' beckons itself out amidst all these [[selves.|future beginning]]

Imagine a stitching together of several forms; the bliss of [[falling|Glitch]] between the [[stitches.|future beginning]] {(set: $adrenaline to it +1) (set: $cortisol to it -1) (set: $dopamine to it +3)} (text-size: 0.8)[(live: 12s) [//Surge: (print: $adrenaline)// //Tension: (print: $cortisol)// //Pleasure: (print: $dopamine)//] (live: 15s)+ (text-style:"subscript","smear")[[[Inventory of Thinkers|Inventory of Thinkers]]]]