Showing posts with label speculative geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speculative geometry. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

hyperdiagrammatic ultratranslation

We would recommend these two papers be read together, taking the interpretation of both the material instantiation of the diagram and the geometric gesture-language of physical motion in a 4 dimensional space as in need of this concept of ultratranslation to reach a sort of "depth"-perception in the sense of the depth of communicative possibility inherent in an event, an art, a diagram, an equation etc....


The Diagram as Story: Unfolding the Event-Structure of the Mathematical Diagram by Elizabeth de Freitas
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8XuAt4FaFv_M2lRU0lQSDJPaGs/view?usp=sharing

A Manifesto for Ultratranslation by Antena
http://antenaantena.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ultratranslation_eng.pdf

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Thursday, October 1, 2015

linkages : differentials

Some links. Guattari goes schizo, again. The void just ain't what it used to be. Alan Watts interviews Laura Huxley, Aldous' wife. John Bova (New Centre/GCAS) posts a brilliant pair of notes that work very well together: Minimal Sartre Note, and Socratic Elenchos and Diagonalization Note. Jonah Dempcy riffs on Synchronicity. Skirmonautical adventurings. Xenolinguistics. Ben Cain begins to naturalise nihilism. Homological Scaffolding starring Robin Carhart-Harris. Astronauts experience Awe and Wonder but it's going to cost you $100US to read about it. Debbie Harry invokes my favourite loa. I'm scatterbrained lately. I feel like I'm on life-support. Just enough to keep breathing.

What happens when you die? Is basic income guarantee going mainstream? Neuromancer is right around the corner.

Bjork and Tim Morton are my favorites.

"Brutal Orchestral" band Vampillia - 'Some Nightmares Take You Aurora Rainbow Darkness'
Locrian's new album 'Infinite Dissolution' is the soundtrack to Cyclonopedia.

Barth, Barthes, Borges...I feel like I'm conjugating a verb.
John Barth - Confronting the Dead Ends of Finitude at alien ecologies.
Barthes' 'Death of the Author' should be internalized before putting pen to paper.
Borges' Library of Babel is still my fav (and arguably the most effective) mind-metaphor

storage

http://schizosophy.com/2014/08/29/reminding-guattaris-schizoanalytic-cartographies/ main diagram at the top there. Imagine a successful questioning starting from x would build up in some monotonic fashion those auxillary layers surrounding the central self, questioning without desire builds this scaffold for self-knowledge, but the central "dock" of stablised Now-perception is a balancing act, angels dancing on the head of a pin, so to speak, and any drift toward the in-itself or toward the for-itself is almost like a deep feedback loop opening its spiral toward a misinterpretation of any of the levels of that scaffolding that may "collapse" if you will, toward multiple identity of depersonalisation, or toward disconnected individual identity of egotism/individuation contra physics on the other side....but the central sort of domain there is like the single-mind/multiple perspective paradox that is somehow coterminous with the world. if that balancing act is maintained, eh? and is maybe in some weird way close to the no-self consciousness I think, mahayana's dana/donate turning into a giving of your mind to the cause with no attachment to truth's consequences to you, again....the paradoxical-seeming self-death to the truth of the world-in-and-for-itself that we are capable of in life. I think i think i think. I don't know anything. I'll go to my grave with the confused words "......did that make any sense?" inscribed on my crypt.

I'm curious about this 'diagonal witness to contradiction', I like the way this and Elenchos work together, in that (labor of the) inhuman sort of way. Pure reflection always struck me as similar to the (hypothetically successful) platonic questioning, which is the same as the socratic method and every other type of dialectic that ever happened obvs, questioning for truth regardless of the consequences. That applied in an Erdös-ian "social mathematic" fashion gets to my psychedelic side in a set of thoughts that lead me over and over back to the space of reasons as some hallucinatory ...how to word...like a platonic solid shaped (i typed this some time ago and now on second thought, I wonder if different shapes "work" differently in this domain. A conversation with a fellow witch recently wherein she described a perfectly panopticon-ical shape she referred to as "the arena" and claimed "only in this space does the magic work" with no prior knowledge of what the Foucauldian is or signifies - describing the central position of the area, the ground floor if you will, as neatly identical to Morton's charnel ground concept. She also claims the top and bottom of this arena flex outward conically, becoming an almost-tunnelling, when circling with others ritually.) group performative stage for knowledge production? If that even makes the slightest sense. It is like a structure is being raised in spacetime, like Nicola Masciandaro's "Floating Tomb is you!" reinterpreted as -every vertex of the crystal-shaped floating tomb is an individual psyche participating in this group event-. I'm high and rambling, ignore me.


Saturday, April 4, 2015

something slightly less plausible

Yesterday
my witchcraft worked
Today
i sharpen my bones
Tomorrow
we pierce the roof of yama's mouth

I have been thinking on my last post, and I keep coming back to this image…I wish I could art better, I think I could draw this better than write it…I'm working on my calculus anyway heh…ok so, if, in the tryptamine state, at a certain level of synesthesia we get the filtration through the visual cortex of each step through the components, i.e. a visual point being reproduced in a tactile sensation, an audible sound, a taste, and a smell simultaneously etc etc if each component registers the sense and runs it through memory and the spatial mapping region individually with the visualization of those processes being collated and THAT being ran through the same system….we would get extraordinarily complicated patterns and movement pretty much at any level of simplicity above absolute primitivism yea? Suddenly Terence McKenna's 'dark room, no lights' idea begins to take a better shape….instead of what was often propounded, that it was to give one a free space to project into, thereby intensifying the trip….i think the idea could be better served as rather a method to test what kind of visualizations and imaginations are caused or triggered by what sensations. If they are singularly presented, in an otherwise stimulus-null environment like an isolation tank(which I experienced for the first time a few days ago, at the excellent FLOAT STL), they would be visualized singularly….practice with singular repeated sensations in this fashion over time would develop skill in drawing out individual threads of the sense-tapestry for examination during standard meatspace hallucination? Ultra-fine playback and tracking develops with intuitive analogous geometric responsiveness; or, how fast can you calculate the distance(and can heightened mathematical ability give one an ability to calculate "shortcuts", more directly perceive the motion of any moving parts, or in effect "simplify the equation"?) between the beginning of direct physical sensing and where it hits the active reflection of the perception in order to short-circuit subjectivity? I think we could train ourselves to interpret the signal earlier in the chain if we knew what it was, sooner, which would just be a matter of knowledge, practice, and genuinely paying close attention. Sounds create different visual formations when repeated over time but they don't seem to change(for me, anyway) enough for you to not recognize them once you have seen them a couple times unless you undergo a significant change*….my theory that -a more scientifically accurate internal model of whatever processes are being observed would render them in the visual cortex in greater and more accurate detail faster and with less metabolic cost- should be put to the test one day.
Maybe. Somehow.
Maybe I just haven't read enough to know if this is already old hat for everyone?

*repeated listenings to a pair of albums(Wreck and Reference No Content and CVLT Nation's Joy Division Sessions) while under the influence of LSD showed a structure that was constant across multiple listenings, and the structure visualized wavered only where I was "involved." From where the sound emanated, to where it hit my ears(and the same pattern again post-visually) remained constant through each listen. This constant structure was overlaid onto my vision for their duration unless I shifted my perception away voluntarily, and oddly (or not so…) resembled the "psychohedron" form my emotional machinery generally appears as when visualized.