CELLULAR WRYTING

a baby crying in his bag

2008-09-06T08:41:00.000-07:00

ringtones & ringtones & ringtones:
a rooster crowing
a dog barking
a horse neighing
a pig squeaking
a tune playing
a voice talking...

and he, in love with the bizarre, chose
a baby crying, just to say how painful here
without a mothering love

and one day traveling, his phone tucked away
deep inside a big bag of sorts
the Nokia baby woke & cried & cried & cried & cried
he panicked & struggled to open to search to find to feed her
other travelers watching, amazed, & thinking:
here's a kidnapper or cult ritualist or something worse
the police standing by alerted & watching & waiting for the exhibit, thinking:
here's a customer, a customer for sure, damn out of luck

and his baby cried & cried & cried & cried
finally out, consoled with a touch, shared between mouth & ear
and he whispered & whispered & whispered & whispered to her
the most soothing words ever heard
till minutes later she fell asleep

and the watchers looked away, disappointed

--- Obododimma Oha

from a poet to a cellphone novelist

2008-08-19T06:07:00.000-07:00

i saw your story plunge into hallucination
once a text, then a txt, then an x
alter-print, it reads its reader
at the margins of post-talk

i heard your story
telling itself inside a cell

-- Obododimma Oha

Street boy wants my phone

2008-08-19T03:03:00.000-07:00

street boy streetwise
surveys the streets,
reads the floating figures
for the smell of
the newcomer, the unwary, the showy…
scans each bag each pocket
for the idle dollar & the sleeping phone

a significant walk, a knowing look
& a monkey follows a monkey that follows the nuts

feeling a power has left me
i panic
& through a borrowed dial
seek the presence of painful absence

“farewell,” sings my phone
“farewell,” sings my phone
“farewell,” sings my phone
in its captivity…

and walks away with a signifying monkey!

--- Obododimma Oha

The phone is the fun

2008-03-04T00:59:00.000-08:00

The phone the fun
afterdusks
aftertasks
the fun

changes

2008-02-13T02:20:00.000-08:00

there has been some spam so i changed the config
for this blog:
- e-mail send-to address changed to mobilewryting2
- immediate publication suspended

feel free to sent your contributions on this theme to dv@vilt.net

c.a.n.c.e.r.

2007-11-02T12:17:00.000-07:00

M E C
H A N
I C A
L

writing
writes
emoi tu ne less
emotu ioan lass
emotion free

bodies never bodies die
bodies quiver bodies write

ma c
h in
i c a
l

body names the body
thy will be done
thy done be will
thy be will do

ne be me
ne be me
ne be me

be me the i of it writes what
untill

but suddenly the grief does no longer
dissipate the writing of the grief

the writing wrytes
&
Cellular Automata Naming Causing (forced) Enigma Reading
Causing Alternative Naming Causing Endless Replication

there _is_
no alert
it sounds

new cases 213,380 deaths 160,390

treatment requires understanding
comprehension requires adequate description
adequate requires procedure

procedure requires procedure

body.write()

i
i am
i am
wha
t am
i
iamwhatiam
iam iam
iam iam iam iam
iam iam iam iam
iam iam iam iam

for a bright moment once i saw
a bright moment once i saw a
bright moment once
i saw
for

INHALE
LAY DOWN
PRESS CHARGES

M E C
H A N
I C A
L

Without treatment, small cell lung cancer
(SCLC) has the most aggressive clinical
course of any type of pulmonary tumor, with
median survival from diagnosis of
only 2 to 4 months.

INHALE
LAY DOWN
PRESS CHARGES

disconnect subject from
network insurance y/n
enlist subject covered y
/n disrobe subject disco
nnect complete y/n disc
discon lept yn//
for the safety of our patients
please switch off your cell
phones from here thank

time period during which relapses occur

INHALE
LAY DOWN
PRESS CHARGES

TXT

2007-11-02T09:11:00.001-07:00

TXT

then

t t

e e

tele tele

e e

here there

e e

a a

r r

t t

now

-- Obododimma Oha

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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tactica encupsulata for pome, mobile und networks, op. 47

2007-09-25T12:12:00.000-07:00

u hatrid owe
shuffel trings?

tringsit ear
u? upshut!

[akte tinga
pictoer]

nu cool knokia covedrs 0.99$/dl akt nu

neo-modernist tactic caught in 0.28 sec

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fonology

2007-09-25T07:10:00.001-07:00

*fonology*

Knockia, no knock here, no care
Ok, if you don't care
That God has no phone number
Who cares?

Knock here
On the digital door
And an angel
Will wing your words

--- /Obododimma Oha/

nut widda bang

2007-09-09T02:14:00.000-07:00

http://twitter.com/vilt

here's 2 alla ya Virtual Individua's Longing To Gather

from the grey blood stamped & government approved Bell air

of da sweaty self-indulgent downtown bugga Kessel-lo, pretending

to be the poor part of Belgium's beer soaked but bubblegum freed

tumoresquelly outskirting tennis court called uneuchly Louvain,

Ear is da eadless twitter of ur nearly braindead pote laundriate

da sung of a lust mind da spineless flangelonging

spitting pomes in semi-random fashion but re-verse

to the way the wurld wants us wankers to end

in da deep brown fusci euf da Arched Hives

not widda bang but widda twitta

44 to 41 minutes ago from web

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http://vilt.skynetblogs

http://nkdee.blogspot.com

Mobile Twilight

2007-09-06T02:13:00.001-07:00

Mobile Twilight

The night is moving into the day
The day is moving into the night

An eye for an ear
An I
4
A we
U & I
in the wee hours
drinking the sights of sound
An ear for every heart that sees

These sights move
These sounds halt
the world

these sights these sounds
in my ear
in my heart
in my hand

--- Obododimma Oha

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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Mobile Twilight

2007-09-06T02:04:00.001-07:00

Mobile Twilight

An eye for an ear
An I
4
A we
U & I
in the wee hours
drinking the sights of sound
An ear for every heart that sees

These sights move
These sounds halt
the world

these sights these sounds
in my ear
in my heart
in my hand

--- Obododimma Oha

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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another machine doing the same thing*

2007-08-24T08:57:00.000-07:00

another machine doing the same thing
                           they whisper
 what was he like before words and all that
     other stuff started coming out
    those arrangements
                       does he think
          he makes music
       he makes lists or he doesn't
                          it's simple

     another machine held
         at his ear
                    they whisper
   in the whirring clicking purring silence
         as he speaks
        into his cell

*First published in Euphemism.

Love 17 (from SMS Messages by Owanto)

2007-08-23T07:35:00.001-07:00

"Every time I hear my text tone, I always hope one of them is from you, my cell phone may have limited memory space but my heart has unlimited space for someone like U!" (Owanto, "Love 17", SMS Messages)

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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sms chapbook, featuring sms love texts from Nigeria

2007-08-23T07:19:00.001-07:00

"Cell phones can be irritating sometimes, you always have to reload, recharge and every now and then messages are delayed. But there's one thin I love about it, it connect me to you!" ("Love 28", Text Messages for Lover Sms, Friendship Sms, Inspirational Sms, Jokes Selected and Compiled by Owanto, Tel +234 802 901 0905 ).

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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Cell Phone Sculptures by Joe McKay

2007-08-23T04:28:00.000-07:00

http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/

LOSS OF SIGNAL

vertexList space 9/7-9/8/2007
from the expo's write-up:

Cell phones are contentious little machines. We depend on them to contact our loved ones, or the tow truck. But we hate them too. They make us look silly when they ring during a movie or an artist talk. We both love and resent how connected they make us to everyone else with a cell phone.

So the day you get a new cell phone is a complicated one. The new phone has bells and whistles and good reception – it is without a doubt a "better" phone. But what happens to the object you kept in your pocket all those months, the little machine that vibrated against your thigh and played Santana when your best friend was calling? Do you drive it to Circuit City and toss it into their cell phone recycling bin, telling yourself that you were uneasy about discarding your phone for environmental reasons, and not emotional ones? Or do you leave it in your junk drawer next to your very first cell phone, which still produces a tinge of guilt.The cell phone sculptures give these old phones a second life. Torn apart and recontextualized – they perform new functions. A dog-chewed phone gets to show off its beautiful broken display. Two flip phones become telegraph sounders. Four phones combine to make a musical keyboard. And so on.

Joe McKay is an artist/hacker who makes work with and about digital culture. McKay grew up in Ontario, Canada and got his MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2001 McKay participated of the Whitney Independent Study Program and had a two-person collaborative exhibition with Kristin Lucas titled "The Electric Donut". In 2004 Joe had his first solo show at VertexList in Williamsburg, New York. He has shown his work in the Berkshire museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the ICA in San Jose, the Pacific Film Archive, and the New Museum.

http://homepage.mac.com/joester5/art/

FW: 4 bad skinny phones (Bob Marcacci)

2007-08-20T03:00:00.000-07:00

text me

i like e-sex
lonely in low living-room light
  tapping my alphanumeric flex
on my couch at any hour
  i touch myself and my cell
and i know well you are
  awaiting me in your new message hell
   a veritable swell in cyberspace

we send our words in cellular simultaneity

mine vibrates upon arrival
    i wonder what yours does
       in my blue-green LCD infatuation
i'm tuned in to your e-station
     i wait for your text to come and i go
       all e-dumb
for what's next

--
Bob Marcacci
"text me" first appeared in Mad Hatters' Review...

yayay

2007-08-20T00:08:00.001-07:00

Dada Duffy sends hello Hello Hello oooooooooooooooof rom my room my cell m y cell room my mobile mobile
My MO bIle cell .....

On Becoming Just a Number

2007-08-19T07:31:00.000-07:00

On Becoming Just a Number

Hell-

00000

11111

00000

01010

The numb, the number, the numbest

More than locations

Numb the person, person the number, re-

Place the numbest in the split indivirtual

We know numbers

By their numbness

We know the numbered

By their absence

Hell-

-- Obododimma Oha

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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Fwd: Re: Teleshout

2007-08-19T07:16:00.001-07:00

Thomas savage <tsavagebar@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:34:50 -0700
From: Thomas savage <tsavagebar@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Teleshout
To: WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu

Very good. Has anyone written a poem yet about how cell phones have eliminated the idea of privacy inasmuch as, at least in a large city, one hears people's private lives spilled out into the air as they walk down the street talking on these devices? By the way, what is a "naira"? It is a word I haven't encountered before. Regards, Tom Savage

Obododimma Oha <obodooha@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

Teleshout

(or Demobilized by the Mobile)

I

At last we've got the talk

The talk raging after the talker

Streetways, or hidden lovetones

At last a dumb country is talking

Talkshops, and your naira burns

Aims, teas, envelops of dread

When the passions are loudest

At last, we're not the least

In the chinamart

Of booming wirelessness

We glow that we don't grow techs, demobilized

By the mobile shout

II

Networks & teleshouts

An ancient town is learning

A new witchcraft in pointing voices

Without pointing hands

Phonetics without phone ethics

The pleasure of getting & forgetting

Where you are

Who you are

What you are

So the talk unwraps you to the world

---- Obododimma Oha

**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

&

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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**********************************
Obododimma Oha

PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric)

MSc (Legal, Criminological, & Security Psychology)

Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, & Discourse Analysis
Department of English, University of Ibadan

Fellow, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies

University of Ibadan, NIGERIA

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CELLULAR WRYTING INIT

2007-08-18T03:44:00.000-07:00

CELLULAR WRYTING

is a continuing non-edited, non-supervised flow of writing in the Public Domain on one subject: the Cell Phone or Mobile Phone. It’s an experiment in minimal collaborative writing using public software.

It is called Cellular Writing because it is about cell phones and because it started off in the WVU Wryting-L mailing-list on writing and theory of writing, as a discussion on the subject.

It is on Cell Phones because it is called Cellular Wryting.

From there it came to you, now, and you can do some cellular writing too.

Here’s the INIT:

There’s a collage of sorts of fragments and pomes at http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/cellular_wryting.jsp.
there’s a blog at http://cellularwryting.blogspot.com/ that you can contribute to just by sending e-mail to it, see http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/cellular_wryting.jsp#contribute for how that works
writing can be anything. Text, poems, movies, sounds, whatever. Up here, it’s all just code anyway. So you can send in anything that gets through the Blogger interface. Most of the time, I’d prefer your things to be beautiful, interesting, well crafted and above all, poetical, but who am i?
you can use the blog’s contents as an RSS feed on your own websites/blogs, there’s a code snippet at the end of this mail that you can use for that purpose, or you can ‘Burn’ and customize your own feed at www.feedburner.com (yep that’s bought by our lovely EGOLOG too). The Cathedral file’s just an example of how to do that, encouraging you to do that, so why don’t you do that?
please edit this text as you see fit and sent it out to where and whom you see fit. Whatever you do, do not post the email address (see image file on the Cathedral file) of the blog to a public file. The spam might stop the flow, then, and there’s no reason for that to happen, is there?

Let there be writing.

dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotischen Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee

A Note on the Increasing Intimacy of Devices

2007-08-17T16:16:00.001-07:00

"The voice comes from the depths
of the body's cavern, escapes
from its prison"

[hm, the sentence is still in the cd leaflet]

The world gets more Dynamic, but look at all this Static

cell test

2007-08-17T14:44:00.000-07:00

1 *# mob ile
wry tin gra
zps xul jqc