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A Kiss is still not just a Kiss

That is - a Kiss is an osculatory gallimaufry of abstraction and notional relationships in which a form of Touch known as Kiss takes place through the Agency of a Person or Persons using as an Instrument a Part - Lips - in an appropriate Manner - Tenderly - so in terms of a pedagogic notation or bony grammar a mental model simulation or prototype is assembled which draws attention as much to the path toward formation as to Form itself - in a way consonant with Klee’s Callio-paean to expressive practice - ‘Ingres is said to have created an artistic order out of rest : I should like to create an order from feeling and going still further from motion’

Jeff Instone The Word Beyond Speech 1994
Part 3 Category 2 - A Kiss is still not just a Kiss

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…tangible computing mediated by the digital physical hybridization of social responsibility with emotional purpose and logical intelligence developing a new media fusion in the interface of the culturally appropriate…
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…tangible computing intelligent environments and information architecture…an open mind and an aptitude for teamwork are essential to integrate the poetic with the practical enabling technology to enrich rather than constrain our lives…
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…having a sense of what is technically feasible is as important as developing a feel for what is culturally appropriate…intelligent objects and other digital-physical hybrid spaces mediated by communication technology…
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…as a post holder you are proactive and determined in estimating the proportion of credit you can claim for protecting the national interest in a stimulating atmosphere of mutual support…
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…post holders must adapt to handling change and working in partnership with the private sector…our goal is to build a diverse workforce accurately reflecting the society we serve…(provide name and address of someone who can verify information)…
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…collecting intelligence assessing intelligence disseminating intelligence…we are the Government’s advisors on policy and standards allowing enforcement agencies to arrest people who are planning offences…
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…explain set-backs as temporary interruptions in a low crime environment…advice to be provided to strategy managers to help them fulfill this task…co-ordinator to chair monthly anti-social behaviour review meeting…
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…Eastleigh Strategic Partnership works at the strategic level providing co-ordination and direction…existing or newly formed partnerships based around the eight partnership themes will do the practical work…
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…each strategy manager has in consultation with the respective link person prepared an action plan to a standard format…the allocation of objectives to link with core business reduces the need for significant additional resources…
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…the partnership has defined its structure to manage implementation of the strategy…a diagram of the structure appears at appendix C…plans have been approved by the Strategic Steering group and appear in full at appendices E to P…
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The Eastleigh Community Strategic Partnership link person WPC Condolençia Attard-Charret

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…after the definition of chemical weapon insert radioactive material meaning radioactive material capable of endangering life or causing harm to human health : the definition of nuclear weapon shall cease to have effect…
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…an order under this section (a) must be made by statutory instrument and (b) may contain incidental supplemental consequential or transitional provision : different days may be appointed for different provisions and for different purposes…
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…(a) in paragraphs (a) and (b) after the Intelligence Service insert in each case 'or GCHQ' and (b) in paragraph (c) after 2(2)(a) insert 'or 4(2)(a)' : (1) in section 54(1) and (2) of the Terrorism Act 2000 (weapons training for terrorists)…
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in the infinitive

the digital works of Jeff Instone interactively split infinitives introducing into the rhetoric of search-mechanism the anacoluthon - a purposefully defective component - and the medieval notion of hæcceitas - nowness and thisness - to produce works that he calls Meccano-ist rather than Lego-ist : Modernist not Populist - which he builds using a digital scripting language - a logic engine with an attached vocabulary - to make bare-bones or skeletal screen-works taking as their base-point an enlightened humanism confined within the social field of present day Europe : an incoherent postindustrial Flat-Land

in so doing Jeff Instone examines the precept that the soul is more than the hum of its parts within the context of electronic signage - itself a commodification of information which leads ethno-methodologists to preclude any transcendence of the mean condition and artificial intelligence workers to define that suitable vagueness so useful in the discussion of unformed ideas and essential for the accurate description of the kind of continuity which would be inaccurately defined were it to be expressed in precise terms as Fuzzy Set Theory - a means of expressing lack of precision quantitively using Set Membership Function(s)

Lorelei Undefin The digital word 1997

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‘Die Arbeit ”unRest“ zelebriert, mehrfach und gleichzeitig subjektlos zu sein: Geographie von Relationen als äußere Ideen. Die Assemblage weist in viele Richtungen, ist abrupt und zart; auf ihrer einfachsten Funktionsebene ist sie in zweifacher Weise auf einer horizontalen Organisationsebene eingebunden: Codegebiet. In molekularem Zustand bildet sie eilig Segment auf Segment wobei sich eine komplexe Struktur herausbildet (oder ein Micro-Faschismus des Obskurantismuses (Bildungshasses) oder das schwarze Loch fehlenden Vorbereitseins). Die Logik der MULTIPLE INHERITANCE ASSEMBLAGE ist die des ”Werdens“: Eine skelethafte, graphische (oder grammatische) Einheit assymetrischer Entwicklung in der die Bedingun ”Werdend“ eher eine richtungsweisende als eine Antwort auf Rückfragen oder Problemlösung darstellt; mehr Begegnung als Ankunft. Eine strukturlose, auf Geschehnisse ausgerichtete Assemblage ist ein Moment repräsentativer Nicht-Zielgerichtetheit, die notwendigerweise Absurdheit einräumt. ”Cyberästhetik ist der Pfad, auf dem man bekannt wird als tangentialer Nomadismus, welcher wie unbewußt gespeichertes Wissen jenseits des Wissensüberblicks und der Kreise des Codeterritoriums liegt.“’

Catalogue entry Ostranenie 97 Bauhaus Dessau

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As usual I've gotten by with a little help from my friends. Technical advice from AB about airline ticketing, from CD about firearms, from EF about erectile dysfunction, from Dr GH about post-mortem pathology, was critical. Also the benefit of comments from several discerning onlookers, I and J, first, as always, and then from KL, M and NO, and the amazing PQ. RS and TU remain the moon and stars of my working life—and VW will be special to me forever. My assistants, X, Y, and Z, were indispensable. To all: thanks, guys
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