[...]ar and others.='lgc'>]
="trms">language riches seem to act as compensatory mechanisms. (having 60 ="trms">different words in Shahnameh for signifying ‘horse’, doesn't necessitates the ="trms">material variety of horse in the ancient ="nms">Iranian culture='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>--starving bands of Amazonian Indians may lavish on their condition more ="trms">verb tenses than could ="ppl">Plato.
Is my ="trms">language, or lack of speaking certain ="trms">languages, a powerful obstacle to the ="trms">material and ="trms">social progress of me='qstn'>?
='lgc'>--withering inward by ="trms">language barriers. ="trms">Linguistically atomized
="trms">interaction of physical and spiritual ="trms">agencies...
The nomina="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list mechanism of creation='lgc'>: each time man spoke he re-enacted, he ="trms">mimed.
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(...the early forms and feelings of consciousness in human ="trms">ancestral ="trms">pasts)
my ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading or performance in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes scrutinising con="trms">figuration of letters and inverting words.
Bad ="trms">translations ="trms">communicate too much, limited to what is non-essential in the fabric of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal, missing the bond of meaning.
If ="trms">translation is a form, then the condition of ="trms">translatability must be ="trms">ontologically necessary to certain works.
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">Metaphysics of ="trms">translation
="trms">translation is profoundly philosophic, ethical, and magical. It imports source of life. Alchemy, must retain a vital strangeness and ‘otherness’.
My ="trms">translation, an ="trms">interlinear version of the script, a virtual ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype of ="trms">translation
obsessive awareness of the opaqueness of ="trms">language, ="ppl">Kafka's continuous parable on the impossibility of genuine human ="trms">communication. The impossibility of not ="trms">writing, the impossibility of ="trms">writing in German, of ="trms">writing ="trms">differently.
="trms">Presence of ="trms">interpreters in the building site, ="ppl">Kafka, ="trms">literature house
in ="ppl">Kafka, great wall='lgc'> = mosaic law ='qstn'>?
Only if men could use ="trms">language without perusing meaning to the forbidden ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the absolute.
Alpha ='and'>& ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Aleph
...is certain to encompass ‘some terrible meaning’ in one of its secret ="trms">languages
‘a ="trms">poetic ="trms">vocabulary of concepts’
‘connections or af="trms">finities’
pursuit of an ="trms">inter-="trms">lingua for philosophic discourse
not to contemplate a mechanical transcription of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal
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="trms">history, the mother of truth.
To define ="trms">history not as an inquiry into reality, but as it's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin.
Menard, William James
="trms">translator's ‘mysterious duty’
if needed, i am anyone
="trms">language mysticism studies
...primitive seek expression through ‘="trms">imaginative universals’, this rapidly acquired a ‘in="trms">finite particularity’
it is only by means of essentially ="trms">poetic recreation or ="trms">translation of a given ="trms">language-="trms">world that the new ="trms">science of myth and ="trms">history can hope to retrace the growths of consciousness
in ="nms">apass, inventing a ="trms">science of myth and ="trms">history, towards a general theory of significant sign.
Corruption of ="trms">language and decline of body politics='qstn'>?
Can we correlate the Persian syntax with the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ambience, ="trms">internal divisions, and lyric bias of Persian people='qstn'>?
A pivot point must inform and relate
...the shaping ="trms">agencies of intellect.
Speech is ="trms">poiesis and human ="trms">linguistic ="trms">articulation is centrally creative.
The ="trms">language-matrix
="trms">language, informed by energies proper to itself, more comprehensive and timeless than any who makes use of it...
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There is a ="trms">phenomenon of ="trms">linguistic Entfremdung inseparable from the creative genius of the word. (="ppl">Humboldt)
...conjectures with prophetic brilliance
discourse (Rede) would not be muffled by the ground='lgc'>='lgc'>---we walk erect
jede Sprache ist ein Versuch='lgc'>='lgc'>---trial
(="ppl">Humboldt)
="trms">different ="trms">languages penetrate to ="trms">different depths
="trms">Literaturehaus, hause has always been a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for consciousness
cryptotypr ='lgc'>: ="trms">categories of semantic organization
which ="trms">translates the underlying ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of a ="trms">language into its overt or surface grammar.
...understanding of those deep-seated dynamics of meaning, of chosen and significant form, (that make up a culture)
it is exceedingly difficult for an outsider to, operating inevitably within the ="trms">world-frame of his own tongue, to penetrate to the active ="trms">symbolic depths of a foreign tongue.
='lgc'>='lgc'>---we reach for the bottom and stir up further darkness.
..a careful philosophically and ="trms">poetically disciplined observation
beautifully logical (discrimination) about='lgc'>: ="trms">causation, action, result
dynamic or energetic quality, directness of experience.
(these words for ="frds scrmbld">Shabnam='qstn'>?)
...all ="trms">matters of the function of thinking
(why do i want to bring to her, to ="frds scrmbld">Shabnam, the quintessence of the rational='qstn'>?)
‘the inner music of meaning’
the german tenderness
german tender='lgc'>='lgc'>---zart
(in ="frds scrmbld">Shabnam's ="trms">poetry ='lgc'>: the clash between ‘mental’ and ‘psychic’ ="trms">codes of recognition)
the villain is outside the law (of exchange)
...the court of words='lgc'>='lgc'>---in ikhvano safa ="trms">animals de="trms">monstration
...when the ="trms">market of life has closed down
faith and substitution of meaning
how can i tear you from your vows, and not myself use vows='qstn'>?
The faiths that are sworn (before every exchange or change)
a word for a woman bound by another sacred word ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> breaking your oaths='lgc'>='lgc'>---in the age of ... (message to the triba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, the son)
Don ="frds scrmbld">Juan='lgc'>: yesterday you gave me your word to come to dine with me.
A beautiful woman='lgc'>: yes where must i go='qstn'>?
Don ="frds scrmbld">Juan='lgc'>: give me your hand.
a madman /
outside the law of reason, a dog /
outside the law of man, a devil /
outside the law of god, a...
The hypocrite pays in appearance
devil dubing/subtitling the ="trms">society of reasonable men
..mad dogs
law directs the circulation of goods. What does it mean for an object oriented thought='qstn'>?
Law directs the circulation of goods, women, promise; of re="trms">presentations, insults, ="trms">jests
i, as the text of sina, will show you that...
An ordering ="trms">relation is irreflexive, anti="trms">symmetric, and ="trms">transitive
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sequential to consequential
(the concern of ="trms">narrative)
order of reason (one order among many other sequences)
reason has immense consequences, so does ="trms">aesthetics
betterable better ='lgc'>: finding a stronger one='lgc'>='lgc'>---Kelileh Demneh
the case is of a maximum
the tree of the “better”
a whole forest hidden by a single tree
‘possibility’ is always the higher point on the tree
if you kill me now, my time freezes and its order disappears.
(said sheep to the wolf)
relative ="trms">relations and absolute limit; he is the master of future
where do you come from='qstn'>? ='lgc'>: this is of your clan ='lgc'>: irreversible genealogical tree ='lgc'>: complete model of kinship (for the ordered structure)
='thdf'>the idea of non-destruction is strange in ="trms">nature, as if there is a notion of construction in ="trms">nature, establishes a ="trms">responsibility.
Care, claims to have suffer
at the end; you are the cause, i am the effect.
Perfect, is free of the psychologism of hypocrisy
="lsts lst1">•hypocrisy comes from the word to judge
stable structures and dialectical processes are inseparable
(each choice as="trms">sociated with a location on the tree)
(best) reason always permits a winning game (='qstn'>?)
might into ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right and obedience into duty, that is transforming force into factual necessity, by the stronger. Obedience into law. This is ="ppl">Rousseau
means to have access to the inaccessible
the exact ="trms">sciences the optimal ="trms">relationship from subject to object, conceived since the classical ages
A slave who, while sleeping, dreams that he is free
(put to the order of slave, a slave ="trms">presenting a project to his master)
leipniz and ="ppl">Descartes, ="trms">posit a maximum and minimum strategy in an ordered space.
The universal quantifactor ='lgc'>: constant repetition of all, always, never, absolutely, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “i shall always follow this path.”
“perfect” signifies “optimal”
quantification of a ="trms">relationship followed to its limits.
The process quantified, the tactics maximised
(“result:” instead of “='lgc'>='lgc'>-->” (“arrows”) in my ="trms">writing='qstn'>? )
‘to know ="trms">nature is a game’
experiment is also a game='qstn'>?
With win or lose possibilities, in which there exists a guaranteed winning strategy.
Game is the model of all exact knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges.
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The Ur-Supe, the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal state of life, the marine mixture, the primal liquid state, prebiotic soup, the physiochemical condition for the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of living beings
a mother emerges from a mother
the earth is in labor, a labor of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis, transformation, production, generation
beneath the anecdotes and pathos, the text mobilizes with great precision certain findings of rational mechanics
(ice and fire) is only relatively cold
="trms">vocabulary ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? Model of precision
centers are breasts
periodic breasts
last ="trms">science transcends the first
reservoir exists for the circulation
two notions structurally stable in encyclopedia='lgc'>: circulation ='and'>& reservoir
elements ='lgc'>+ operation ='lgc'>=/= structure
analysing a text in terms of encyclopedia, i need to answer two ="trms">questions='lgc'>: what is reservoir='qstn'>? What is circulation='qstn'>?
="trms">question regarding ="nms">iranian ="trms">literature reservoir='lgc'>: what is the reservoir='qstn'>? Where is the reservoir='qstn'>? What are its con="trms">figurations='qstn'>?
(the last ="trms">question syntactically proposes also the possibility of recon="trms">figuration)
Is it ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical='qstn'>? Is it closed='qstn'>?
What is its plan='qstn'>? How it transports ="trms">according to this plan='qstn'>? What are the circulating elements='qstn'>? What is stable there='qstn'>? What are the transformations when it transports='qstn'>?
Reservoir is libidinal='strcls'>*
capital, quantity of energy, constancy of force,
what can be applied to the pattern of circulations='qstn'>?
(of ="trms">vocabulary, value, money, desire, etc.)
what blocks circulation='qstn'>? Who or what governs it='qstn'>?
In answering, you reconstruct (the entire set of what you consider ="trms">interpretive)
application='lgc'>: strategy of conformity
explication='lgc'>: archaic and vague approximation
it is not necessary to introduce ="trms">methods to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read a text='lgc'>: the ="trms">method is in the text. The text is its own criticism, its own explication, its own application.
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Texts that operate='lgc'> = texts that are operated on ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> there are just texts
(there is no dichotomy in the operation)
="trms">technologies concerning heat, thermodynamics, shocked the traditional ="trms">world and shaped the one we are now working in.
...theories concerning processes of transformation.
...="trms">stages of alchemical initiations, archaic figure of fire,
How to make the ="trms">history of ="trms">science as effective as ="trms">science itself='qstn'>?
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suddenly ="trms">science falls silent and mythology speaks
transsubstantiation
the astronomer falls in ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the truth comes out
(ask maryam's astronomer='lgc'>: what disconnects the connected='qstn'>?)
throw the key to the text
for classification, connection is at stake, space is at stake
the formal invariant is something like a transport
what is worse for classification='qstn'>?
non-connections that are at stake
we shall never be free of space
fire, and transcendental subject
accidents of space (at work upon the multiplicity of spatial varieties
what is the program of topology='qstn'>?
My body lives in as many spaces as the group (the ="trms">society) has formed.
The euclidian house, the street and its ="trms">networks, open/closed garden, closed space of the sacred, school and its fix points and ="trms">social varieties, complex ensemble of flow charts, those of ="trms">language, of factory of family, of political party, and so forth.
..my body is plunged in the ="trms">intersection of this multiplicity
culture ='lgc'>: constructing precise and particular connections between such spatial varieties ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">intersection”
topology; culture connects and joints, art delinks and disconnects
(the law of incest prohibition connects the disconnected)
pure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> untainted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> separated, enclosed
the discourse of rationality replacing the mythical text ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> art becomes ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- the realization of a project is left to reason
siyavosh/sohrab is one of the descendants of disseminated spaces, of catastrophic separation of the continuous
when Rostam recognises the mark of his son, ="ppl">Ferdosi giving a version of recognition s="trms">cene, connects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Oedipus
the son, the mother
="prgrph">-we can recognise a typological space='lgc'>: the same and the other='lgc'>: the separated
="prgrph">-the space of the ="trms">world is described requiring connection
="prgrph">-family tree
="prgrph">-parts are to be joined
="prgrph">-rostam and sohrab, siyavosh and sudabeh, cannot be ="trms">composed to form a single homogeneous space. (rostam and siyavosh do that)
the pre="trms">suppose that before discourse there existed a ="trms">mutual policy of unrelated spaces ='lgc'>~ chaos
="prgrph">-the object or the target of (cultural) discourse is to connect
="prgrph">-to transform a chaos of separate spatial varieties into a space of ="trms">communication
="prgrph">-scatered ="trms">members, re-="trms">membered
="prgrph">-incoherent chaos, re="trms">formulated in the common space of transport when it is reconstructed
Kelileh
...she is the signatory of the discourse
...she ="trms">mimes the progress and delays of Demneh
="nms">ajayeb, a time when transport and itinerary were only myth
transport ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? transfer
="prgrph">-transport is a unitary space where transfer is ='strcls'>*always possible (like money)
="prgrph">-transfer is only a possibility
so, we must find the word or construct a conditional logos that ='strcls'>*al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready works to connect the crevices which run across the spatial chaos of disconnect varieties, the ='strcls'>*proto-worker of space='strcls'>*, the weaver in the topology of nodes
separations by sudden stoppage
="lsts lst1">•is this a myth='qstn'>?
a worker of the single space
(we are not)
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euclidian space of every possible displace
(what are the displaces and displacements in Ajayeb='qstn'>? Be ="trms">specific)
(proliferating multiplicities of) unlinked ="trms">morphologies
(fire text)
to practice dichotomy (and its connected paths) one must know that its clefts follow and overlap the ancient mythical ="trms">narrative (in which ="trms">worlds are torn ...)
when ="trms">geometry is born myth falls silent
(the ancient journey) from islands to catastrophes, from passage to fault, from bridge to well, from relay to labyrinth
the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal function
the “new space” is always universal
the space of reason is universal, within it there are no more encounters
one can walk on two or four or three legs ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----> how the earth is ="trms">measured
(before entering the Ajayeb website asking that ="trms">question='qstn'>?)
(a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous) flock of chaotic ="trms">morphologies
(is this subdued or maintained in Ajayeb='qstn'>?)
(i am also more ="trms">interested in) the aged Europe asleep beneath the mantle of reason and ="trms">measure
(="ppl">Leibniz said that one should ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to) old wives’ tales='strcls'>***
The Old Wives’ Tales
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recapitulation
appropriation
='lgc'>=/= fabrication
creation
what are the ‘forces in motion’ in Ajayeb='qstn'>? What are='lgc'>:
="trms">Instruments of leverage,
machines,
producers of forces,
for packing,
for transporting,
as source,
as o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigine,
the applied ="trms">geometry of our ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world
tools are dominated by form
virtual velocities
objective ="trms">world
="trms">geometric reasoning
industrial revolution, a revolution operating on ="trms">matter
one takes force or produces it
="trms">matter transformed by fire
Turner saw the introduction of fiery ="trms">matter into culture
an axis of (roaring) fire
="trms">matter is no longer left in the prison of diagram, fire desolves it, makes it vibrant, tremble, oscillate, makes it explode into clouds.
New ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> new ="trms">world
fire delivers one from the ice='strcls'>***
steam engine triumphs over forced immobility, inertia
the cut of the reference
product of furnace, the cold product of fusion
old-style riddle
navigate between two pronouns
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properly formed ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluster (of letters)='lgc'> = standardization
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standard compromises the non-essential, or inessential, those without meaning
what is a logician ="trms">interested in='qstn'>?
Form ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pathology
misguided ="trms">sciences
if static is accidental, background noise is essential to ="trms">communication
pathology
spocken='lgc'>: stammering, mispronounciation, regiomil accents, dysphonia, cacophony
="trms">technical='lgc'>: background noise, jamming, static, cut-off, hyteresis, various ="trms">interruptions
to ="trms">communicate oraly (in performance work with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ) is to risk losing meaning in noise.
A successful ="trms">communication is the ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of the third man, the demon, the ="trms">interference.
Mathematics has triumphed so well over noise
the (un)logical beginning of logic
to render a form independent of its ="trms">="trms">empirical realization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal
drawing a square on sand, i evoke an idea, i eliminate the ="trms">="trms">empirical, de="trms">materialise reasoning
(what is re="trms">materialised reasoning='qstn'>? ="trms">aesthetic form..='qstn'>?)
the inevitable fact of the ="trms">historical existence of mathematics
(math's ="trms">historicity)
(a ="trms">different word for every yesterday)
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... one had a discourse which often con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded either with the ="trms">cosmos in general or with the organic life in particular.
19th century
negentropic islands in entropic sea, pockets of order in rising entropy, crystal de="trms">positions sunk in ashes, diamond in the rough
organism='lgc'> = meaning ='lgc'>+ direction
organism combines ="trms">memory, invariance, plan, message, loss, redundancy, etc
it is old, mortal, and transmiter of new cycle
تو نیکی میکن و در دجله انداز
to niki mikono dar dejle andaz...
(organism='qstn'>?) is a quasi stable turbulence that a flow produces, the eddy closed upon itself for an instance, which finds its balance in the middle of the current and appears to move upstream, but is in fact undone by the flow and re-formed else where.
Man is one at high temperatures
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from the information point of view there is a tremendous background noise
the noise of a complex to which a receptor is linked
this unconsciousness
(no one can call that) information is fortunate
there must be noise in pleasure and information in pain (='qstn'>?!)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---hmmm we can't know this properly='qstn'>?
Find in ="nms">ajayeb, operating functions='lgc'>:
transformations,
fixations,
energy displacements,
movements of observer,
ambiguity functions,
freudian slip,
exploits of signs,
exploits of energy,
(="nms">ajayeb is defined by its resistance to ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors in a ="trms">system of ="trms">language)
یک کلاغ چهل کلاغ yek kalagh chel kalagh is precisely noise in a trans="trms">mission ="trms">system along a given circuit from one element to another. From a point of view outside the ="trms">system ambiguity must be added to increase the ="trms">system's complexity
theory of change (in sign)
what are the unconsciousnesses of ="trms">integration='qstn'>?
(many) ="trms">interlocking (black) boxes
obstacles do organise, noise becomes dialect
they come crashing at our feet
in the forms of eros and death
like surf at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the beach
unconscious is the last black observer of chance
aging, is a process we understand as the drifting of information into background noise
عجایب المخلوقات ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat, anamnesis, ="trms">memory, and everything ="trms">imaginable
body creates ="trms">language from information and noise
one who utters ="trms">language, is the receiver at the end chain, the final observer. But the initial dispatcher is (always) unknown.
Ajayeb, make='qstn'>? a chance-program couple
to perform both='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•i am submerged in (its) signal exchanges
="lsts lst1">•i observe its global set of exchanges
introspection veers off into experience
as ="ppl">Freud, who started from energy models of thermodynamics, has intuited, everything occurs by a dynamic of ="trms">language, the subsequent development of thermodynamics into information theory.
Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is always linked to an observer
we are drifting towards noise and black depths of the universe...
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is at most the reversal of drifting, that strange conversion of times, always paid for by additional drift; but this is complexity itself, which was once called being
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Auguste Comte says='lgc'>: in light of previous experience we must acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that impossibility determining, by direct ="trms">measurement, most of the heights and distances we like to know.
="ppl">Thales, ="trms">geometry as ruse
construction of summary
operation of application
use of metrics
in applied ="trms">sciences
(often) ="trms">measurement is the essential element of application,
but primary in the touch (sensory)
practice ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ruse ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theory
we need a ‘ruse’ to go from practice to theory
(mathematics='qstn'>? Is this why young philosophers are ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into math='qstn'>?)
the length my body cannot reach, sun, horizon, the far side of the river
="trms">greek idea of theorize='lgc'>: see
sight='lgc'>: by “placing” ="trms">measurement, ="trms">measurement by sighting
="trms">greek='lgc'>:
vision is tactile without contact
="ppl">Descartes knew this better than anyone
inaccessible (is at times) accessible to vision
the ruler (the mode notion of module) has been placed accurately on the thing
the eye is a witness of covering-over
to ="trms">measure is to relate
but, the ‘="trms">relation’ implies a transporting, of the ruler
(we are with this) at the realm of the accessible (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='qstn'>?)
in the realm of inaccessible, vision must take care of displacement
The goal is either civil or astronomical
civil ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? astronomical
to ask the object in motion to provide a constant flow of information about the object at rest.
="ppl">Thales stops time to ="trms">measure space
time freeze in order to perceive
eternity of mathematical figure
how ="trms">geometry came to the ="trms">Greeks='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•a practical genesis='lgc'>: build a reduced model, have a notion of module, bring the distant to the immediate.
="lsts lst1">•a senatorial genesis='lgc'>: organize a visual re="trms">presentation of that which defies physical contact.
="lsts lst1">•a civil or ="trms">epistemological genesis='lgc'>: take astronomy as a starting point, reverse the ="trms">question of the gnomon.
="lsts lst1">•a genesis that is either conceptual or esthetic='lgc'>: erase time in order to ="trms">measure and master space.
exchange of the stable and the variant
in a culture with oral tradition, ="trms">story takes the place of schema, and theater equates intuition.
In ="ppl">Thales ="trms">story, the schema is the invariant of the tale instead of the tale being the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the schema. To teach the theorem is to tell the pseudo-myth of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>=/= mythical tales being the dramatization of content
="ppl">Thales theorem is itself anecdotal in ="trms">relation to the invariable concept that it expresses its own genre='lgc'>: that of similarity='strcls'>***
from a practice he gets another practice
which messages, and how, answers and ="trms">questions was covered over the centuries by the scenography of shadow-light op="trms">position='qstn'>?
="ppl">Descartes ="trms">story='lgc'>: perspectival ="trms">geometry, theory of shadows.
="ppl">Plato's ="trms">story='lgc'>: the sun of the same, the other and ="trms">="trms">empirical object, cast shadow on shaded surface, similarity, the cave of re="trms">presentation.
The tales of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of a ="trms">technology='qstn'>? Of an optics='qstn'>? Of a ="trms">geometry='qstn'>?
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The ruse of applied mathematics
cultural settings of an architect and an expert builder...
="ppl">Descartes followed by ="ppl">Descartes
archaic forms of pre-mathematics that run through ="trms">history
(thinking with ="trms">geometry must be careful because of its roots in engineering and ruse)
="ppl">Plato's cave='lgc'>: even flat wall b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, light creates a shaded area; my knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is limited to these two shadows. And it is only a shadow of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge.
Con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of the ="trms">story of confrontation with solid objects, compact volumes, objective inde="trms">finite unknowns.
recognizing the object by its shadow ='lgc'>=> ="trms">geometry='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-- transparency and emptiness. the ="trms">world they constitute is thoroughly knowable)
or
i allow a kernel of shadow within the object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history of ="trms">science='lgc'>: the solid always envelopes something that can be rendered explicit='strcls'>***
radical negation of ="trms">interior shadows
pyramid is itself fire, sun passes through it
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="ppl">Plato kills the hen that laid the golden eggs
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