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Melody and Morphogenesis
Dali, Instrument masoquista. (1933-34) Melody and Morphogenesis Refrains of Culture, Crystals of Time
by Taylor Adkins and Joseph Weissman
Table of Contents
Musiconomy and Morphogenesis
Abstract
Introduction
Soundworld (or Sonocultures) | Musiconomy | Occulturation | Wavebands | Dream Philosophy | Euphony | Spectrum
Conclusion
Abstract
Abstract Submission for T-Spec VI
Musiconomy and…
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Derrida and Ends
diagram accompanying prop. 5 of book II of euclid’s elements of geometry. one of the oldest and most complete diagrams from the elements Derrida and Ends: Deconstructure, Teleosophy, Katapoetics
Joseph Weissman
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Contents
Foreword | Opening: Aperture | Pre-face: Telefiction
unbound operators:
seme/semanteme cathexis athesis deforestation trans-post disas…
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Phaedrus Beyond
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Flesh and Spirit (detail), 1982-83
The truth in code | Chronofiction | Ethicoaesthetics | Beyond the Beyond/Phaedrium
The truth in code
How would you code an answer to this problem after all?
The truth of time in code, the programming of truth
La verité, the favor of truth, its factorization into facts and factions
Internecine war threatens to destroy all polities from…
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Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus
Jean-Antoine-Théodore Giroust, “Oedipus at Colonus” (1788) Oedipus, Narcissus, Odysseus
Notes Towards a Theory of Temporal Structure in Homer and Sophocles
Joseph Weissman
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Introduction
What follows are some thoughts of mine on the structure and function of the Theban plays by Sophocles, supplemented by some considerations of the Odysseyb…
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Theory Talk: Love, Pleasure, Friendship and the Good Life (with James Winchester)
Theory Talk: Love, Pleasure, Friendship and the Good Life (with James Winchester)
We are delighted to present this conversation to you: an interview Taylor conducted with James Winchester, an author and professor of philosophy, who…
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Theory Talk: Dark Deleuze (with Andrew Culp)
Theory Talk: Dark Deleuze (with Andrew Culp)
Transcript
The transcription below was provided by Taylor Adkins.
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Theory Talk: Roundtable on Deleuze (with Justin Murphy)
Theory Talk: Roundtable on Deleuze (with Justin Murphy)
Transcript
The transcription below was provided by Taylor Adkins. (The roundtable picks up around the 26-minute mark.)
Joseph Weissman(Joe): Yeah, we…
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Isocritique
Isocritique: Minor Diagrams Towards a Critique of Speculative Reason Joseph Weissman Max Ernst, Birth of a Galaxy (1969) Introduction How to become a transcendental detective Yet by this I do not understand a critique of books and systems, but a critique of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all the cognitions after which reason might strive independently of all experience, and hence…
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Cloudbank
Critique of pure laughter. Laughter plays madly through the body, as though suddenly accessing another layer of reality. The shock of the abstract. A pure line is embodied in the spatiotemporal dynamisms of the laugher — and in the same ‘order’ as that of the joke… –Laughter shakes loose the world, discovering something which doesn’t belong; that which the world hides from itself. Things hidden…
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Getting Started with your Xerocomputer
Getting Started with your Xerocomputer
After a difficult rift expedition, the committee has recently recovered a fragment from the introduction of Programming Your Xerocomputer, a text whose very existence was once widely-disputed. A translation of “Section iii: Getting Started With Your Xerocomputer” is offered below, with associated Gamma-spectrum xenotational commands for the machine. Xero-data, or dust, swarms planetary bodies…
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alternade
from the perspective of surface meanings: alternadic languages are sometimes difficult to distinguish from non-alternadic ones, although their grammars are usually many orders of magnitude larger, containing many seemingly redundant means of extrapolating, circulating, co-expressing and diverting meanings; it is replete with efficient means of notating recursive constructions, permitting intricate modalities of reference.
this superficial complexity however masks even stranger rules of construction — each word divides not only into semantic roots, but is capable of being analyzed according to alternadic roots — as curtainless can be sliced into two alternating sequences: utils and cranes; and lacerated can be cut into several strands by alternating between three sequences: let, are and cad. recursive alternadic languages permit abstraction over the alternation process, such that several distinct orders of alternation emerges: we are still at the highest level alternating between one or several sequences, but these sequences themselves are now in turn composed by alternation.
(some further complications await the curious xenolinguist, for while such things are not generally part of standard languages, real world usage of alternadic language often demands free permutation of sequences, or on the other hand complex encoding strategies and recursion patterns, permitting fine-grained negotiation of degrees of privacy or discretion.)
the opportunity to explicitly express multiple levels of meaning and subtext in itself opens up an entire range of communicative and cognitive possibilities, but the surface text is often entirely understandable despite our cognitive gulf with those who can speak these xenolanguages natively, and this attests to a cultural continuity, although the precise and distinct phrasing of a meaning certainly finds itself obscured and distorted when considered only in terms of its zero-level superficial signs
this zero of direct signification — ( )holey darkness — is immense, a site of infinite intensity and production — a creation whose scope is cosmic, and everything that may be given must be (re)produced — perhaps we can say here: even if the given must thereby be simulated, virtualized, only ever to be realized as memories and dreams
it might be noted that alternadic linguists are often confused by the “superficiality” of non-alternadic conceptions of the structure of language… that language might have the structure of an unconscious seems less distinct a proposition when a sentence is consciously constructed to extrude multiplicities at all levels of analysis and synthesis, capable of diversely assembling and variously participating in differing degrees to a virtual infinity of signs.
Metafiction
Some inchoate thoughts on curvilinear transition and navigation between radically alien milieus. Schoenberg : Xenakis :: Joyce : Negarestani Cyclonopedia comprises a downward spiral into hyperstitional collapse or crack-up, alongside an outward spiral towards another universe. It may seem to perversely unfold a nightmare crypt of the death-drive, but this monstrous theoretical depersonalization…
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Malabou
Dr. Michael Lovelace and associates, The dawn of neurodevelopment – the migratory journey of neural precursors Catherine Malabou has created a meticulous and profound new concept of the brain. Malabou analyses the functions which neuroscience has discovered, conducting a contemporary synthesis of neuroplasticity, crystallizing a new concept which acts as a curious new abstract machine with many…
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An abstract machine is indeed the shadow of a people to come, of a cosmic science-art-philosophy...
Obliquity
Nils Guadagnin, Hanging stone, 2014 Mousse polyuréthane, bois, électroaimant, 28 x 28 x 125 cm
Demodulation. There is always a monadic resonance to which a repetition is coupled in order to form a motor or compose an operational line, assembling at the limit a free phylum of machine interconnectivity. Every machine an operator or operand of another functional aggregate, assigned to an eternal…
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Rivers
The line of the river is a line of terraqueous flight; a flow flush with the substrate, conditioning and mutating its own channel, both wandering over the territory and slowly reconfiguring it, in a gradual mutation or decryption…
A river system is composed of intensive aqueous lines diffracted from a fusional…
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nomadism is not escapism, but the itinerancy which is that of the smith does require an element of escapology, yes…..
(via nonsenselab)
D+G posit the inexistence of nomadic or sedentary smiths; insisting that smiths are ambulant, itinerant, etc. Why differentiate the hyper-ambulant metallurgical lines of holey space? Why complicate the schema of smooth nomadology (war machines) and striated royal science (state machines)?
Consider the plot hole here; what of the curious volume which links and separates all of them together? Would it not amount to a kind of universal history of errancy; at least of continuous distortion and modular encryption? The holey space unlocked by the smith conditions modes of especially free construction; they are living plot holes, curious folds within conception, function, composition -- neither moving nor standing still...
Or rather, both are true! Perhaps this reveals that holey space stands in a certain relationship to free indirect discourse, to open decodings and virtual differentiations. At any rate the plot hole certainly diffracts minor affects, concepts, percepts; and again even stranger lines of flight still: alien, non-heteronomous, utterly abductive hypotheses (a kind of inhuman vision, on behalf of an anonymous narrator in a kind of trans-duration; writing at zero degrees, in frozen-infinite fusion.)
Speculative decodings (discourses/disciplines) operate on virtual wholes according to a coupled or "twisted" series of dual and incompatible metamodels. Holey space endures a series of singular affects and topological operations -- lacerations and ruptures of course, but also stranger mutations once more, correlated with its quasi-abducted consistency; and demanding at once both radical withdrawal, "foreclosures", but also audacious contact, encrypted "access".
