Aphasia+Parrhesia on Neural.it

A new essay on the cyborg just posted….
On neural.it

<http://www.neural.it/english>

<http://www.neural.it/english/aphasiaparrhesia.htm>

> Re: the cyborg - a feedback loop between human and
> machine - is implicated in the tradition of poetry, in both what it writes
> and codes. -Brian Stephans, from RhizomeRaw post 10/20/02


Aphasia and Parrhesia: Code and Speech in the Neural Topographies of the Net
Christina McPhee <http://www.christinamcphee.net>

SUMMARY This paper allegorizes traumatized visualization and speech as an
electronic topology.

KEYWORDS: media, allegory, cyborg, algorithm, entropy, trauma, iconoclash,
atopia, amygdala



ABSTRACT
A cyborg consciousness within the neural net is contemplated as coextensive
with the net itself. If the brain and the cyborg-networked landscape are
self-reflexive subjects, then we may model a space, a neural atopia, wherein
synapses will set and reset in an entropy cycle, and, continually generating
code variations, will reach a critical threshold of complexity, beyond which
it degrades and entraps like a left hemisphere stroke. This paper
allegorizes traumatized visualization and speech as an electronic topology.
The signal feature of Aphasia is a fugue state, expressed as recursive,
perseverant, garbled speech patterns caused by aneurysm or traumatic shock.
If the cyborg