27.10.00 : mailing not writing

Friday 27th October

Hello and sorry for been silent for so long....

I think where you are when you write/read this mail has to do with how you are, not our subjective bits of make-up, although I'm sure there quite important, but by what it is that puts you in this space - your equipment, your hardware. I get mails from friends who work on desk tops, from lap tops, from bought time in net cafes and the mails have differeing qualities that I think I can trace back to those differing allowances, those differeing 'hard' ways into this space. I mail from a lap top - and that's a term I'm into these days, mailing as opposed to writing - taking both as having differing modes and tropes. Sometimes I think I read mail from our group and sometimes I think I read writing. But I mail from a lap top, which was a pragmatic decision as I get to travel a lot and when I get there I'm often there to write a lot. I can do both in this steady place that changes place. Which is my answer to the question, I mail from a familar view in unfamiliar contexts. I mail now from Denmark, Aarhus with Aarhus fingers and Aarhus tired eyes through a machine which I understand more and more like the back of my hand. It's easy to say I mail from here and if I wanted to make sure I could check out the route this mail actually takes to reach you. There is still that pragmatic to those questions on virtual locations - hardware ties you to a place even when the software it runs works so hard to do the reverse. This lap top is in Denmark my server could tell you, and so am I.
For me to write from here would take much more work, is much more difficult. For me writing in context, or contextual questions around writing always lead to a necessary involvement with the physicality of that context. Mailing I can do anywhere and still be from there. It is always a placing, it is always essentialy about location for me. I have to work at, to write at, writing to consider location, context and place.

Sorry, going off track.

My answer is that I mail from where ever I am, grid reference, the lot.

Bests all

Gregg