“…what they want to do is naturalize artifice; take that which is culturally prescriptive and turn it into a kind of second nature.” - r.e.Somol (What Matters Conference)
zone 1 – define Re: recursively enumerable
Within emergent collectives, accidental matters accelerate, multiply, collide, conspire, disrupt, vibrate, warp, pulverize, and otherwise materialize a second nature, manifesting a shifting field of interactive forces that operate as dynamic/fluid space/time.
zone 2 – define Metazoa: a taxonomic member of the Kingdom Animalia. “Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life” -Wikipedia
This dynamic matrix of forces on occasion freeze-frames into perceivable form, but primarily functions as container (and contained) to the oceanic possibilities of Accident. In all matters metazoa, accidental matters.
Naming and differentiating networks, hierarchies and boundaries between species (taxonomy) is an exacting science of fictions, a mad collective of operations inventing the map of a realm that is yet to become, through systems of index and intensity.
zone 3 – define Plasmodial Slime Molds: enormous single cells with thousands of nuclei.
Widely consumed as recreational activity, we posit that the theoretical fabric of collective networks is continuously breeding machines of re-creation and possibility: performative simulacrums for which “origin” never existed, but which nevertheless originate at specific nodes in time.
define Zoo-o-Logic: terra incognita
Cabinets of Curiosities, the 19th century encyclopaedic collections of frequently “faked” natural wonders, were categorized along eccentric lineages that were the direct product of an elite, well-traveled and well-educated class of nouveau-experts. The age of mechanical reproduction, as defined by Walter Benjamin, saw a highly accelerated proliferation of new expertise… (to be continued)
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So I’m reading the definition of recursively enumerable and I start to get excited about endless possibilities and acceleration of knowledge beyond current human comprehension. Then I am reminded of Georg Simmel’s The Metropolis and Mental Life. Really powerful stuff that was way before it’s time. The idea is that humans in big cities are surrounded by so much change and disruption, that they create a mental callous that shields them from all but the most outrageous differences. This also causes a disconnect from their fellow metropolans. In an effort to reconnect and get noticed, each must create an alter-self to present to the world. Typically, these must be hyper-versions or conceptual personas that are superficial at best.
I’m wondering what happens when the knowledge landscape truly accelerates and changes at speeds we cannot conceive. Is disruption an apt word when we are in a constant state of disruption, and who are we in context to the landscape?