z_xx. In Polydactyl, we say: "look at this, this is like that, and they're under these."
We open with the famous ship of Theseus question.
The phantom limb shows a part's existence can remain after physical destruction. Its behaviors can still act, as if reaching out from the past.
What if a plank of HMS Theseus is like a phantom limb: exhibiting continuity of influence of the whole?
The woodwork is the ship is rechristened a network.
The network is redefined through not only its connections, but also its tensions.
This conceptual leap is easily graspable within the harder sciences. For example, in mathematics' tensor.
We go on to argue import in the human realm. If network continuity can be proven, what does it mean for our continuity? What does it say to (or ask of) our inner child?
Polydactyl: A poetic cycle in double dactyl on connections, complexity, and continuity from Ladyfinger Press : Morgan Stern : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive