The
computer is founded on a principle of generalized equivalence. Indeed
the world to be considered computerly must be reduces numerically
to the calculable data and coded. Because of this axiomatic reduction
to a common language all data can be translated in any other. This
infinite translation reiterates the westen fantasize of a mathesis
universalis in an universe, the one of the computer, that doesn't
need to confront itself to an external world since all occurs on
a screen. MY LAST TAPE proposes ironic way to spread until the absurd
the domain of this translation. I scan a text, The last tape of
Samuel Beckett. I change the .TXT extension of the file for the
.PRG extension, used for files under COMMODORE 64. With a program
of conversion I translate this file in an audio file that I reproduce
on a magnetic tape that I play on an old computer COMMODORE 64.
Between the choice of the text, as arbitrary as the mathesis computer
universalis, and the final product, a tapea double curls is achieved.
What is it that the translation and the relation between the analogical
and the numeric? |