[...]n='lgc'>: focalization of some content in consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> structure experience
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is at stake (with Wundt) is a cognitive modality part of a larger ='strcls'>***="trms">modern process of decentering='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>+ James ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a ="trms">question of the primacy of ‘="trms">transitive’ states in which the shifting fringes of perception were constitutive features of psychic “reality”
="trms">modernization of perception
center ='lgc'>=/= periphery
dispersed functioning of sensory ="trms">response
(how in 19th century capacities of human eye was made into='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. architectural model of ='strcls'>*panorama='strcls'>*='lgc'> = permanent activation of optical periphery ='lgc'>+ no stable center of focused attentiveness
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*stereoscope='strcls'>*='lgc'> = decisive ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of the periphery ='lgc'>+ 3D image hypertangiblity (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our model of visual ="trms">consumption)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> loss of ='strcls'>*consistent and coherent ="trms">relations of distance between image and observer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this lost consistency is now in 2020 what everyone in art is busy with or to reactivate='lgc'>]
...having the fixed eye many disconnected areas of the visual field at once='lgc'> = continual beginning at a new center='lgc'> = Cezanne ='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*radical rethinking the ="trms">nature of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]synthesis='lgc'>: rhythmic coexistence of radically heterogenous and temporally dispersed elements='strcls'>*
...a subjective immobilization
seeking to enter into the ="trms">world's ceaseless movement of destabilization (='lgc'>=/= holding together the content) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a more intensive recreation of a subjective ="trms">interface with the ="trms">world (='lgc'>=/= reverie, disas="trms">sociation)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•every object's identity is swallowed up in ="trms">difference
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*vision='lgc'>: veritable theater of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis and permutations='strcls'>*
(Cezanne reexamining the com="trms">position of the visual ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>)
fanatical attentiveness to the ="trms">data of sense ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dissolution of unity, destabilization of objects ="trms">onto flux, dispersion, displaced the body to the ="trms">world, into a stream of change, of time, ='strcls'>*undoing the immediacy of the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my reexamination of the com="trms">position of the ="trms">epistemological ="trms">world of ="trms">fables in West Asia, ='mywrk'>my work's ="trms">relationship with knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is like that. to gain control of myself in the midst of moving concepts, the circulation of concerns, jumble of paths and knots, whirlpool of velocities, and recourse to my capacity for forgetting...='lgc'>]
perceptual consistency is a phantom
(="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">world='lgc'>: in="trms">finite Cascades of self-="trms">differentiation
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question is='lgc'>: how to make ="trms">aesthetic constructions ='lgc'>[the task of the artist='lgc'>] (if the ="trms">world is so fragile)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how to go back and forth between attention and reverie='qstn'>?
perplexity of the eye (related to a deeper and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical perplexity)
an imageless vision
...a mind for which no visible form is visible enough
the fixed and monocular eye has been posed (in recent theatrical ="trms">writing) as the formative element of classical ="trms">system of re="trms">presentation ='strcls'>**functioning to arrest duration and change in order to achieve a conceptual matey mastery of ="trms">phenomena='strcls'>** ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">zoocentric ="trms">animal anatomy ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>}
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Crary's sug="trms">gestion that) ='strcls'>***the fixed immobile eye is what annihilates the “="trms">naturalness” of the ="trms">world='strcls'>*** (disclosing the provisional and fluid ="trms">nature of visual experience) ='lgc'>=/= mobile glancing eye is what preserves the preconstructed character of the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•moving eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> habitually familiarly caresses objects (extracting previously established ="trms">relations among them)
="lsts lst1">•fixed eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (immobile eye t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers a ferment of activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) trance and perceptual dis="trms">integration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dissolving the physiognomy of the everyday ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>='qstn'>? ="trms">bestiary's perceptual uncanniness='lgc'>]
fixed truth-taking stare ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perceptual uncanniness
='thdf'>the idea of un undistorted o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal perception ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objects in some accessable state available for objective comparison and evaluation
fixation sets the ="trms">world in motion
visual field begin vibration and oscillating
chromatic instability
the physiological ="trms">apparatus (our bodies) incapable of stability ='lgc'>=/= the aim of stabilizing the ="trms">world to look at it analytically
perceptualism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea that (artists, cultures, etc.) expressions in varying degrees involves the transcription of the ="trms">world “as it appears” to them
Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> understanding of the ="trms">world (as processes of becoming) that doesn't possess a ='strcls'>*premade ="trms">integrity='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb is full of premade ="trms">integrities)
reckon ='and'>& calculate
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nietzsche's) formless un="trms">formulable ="trms">world of the chaos of sensation
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Cezanne's) continual emergence and dis="trms">integration of constellations (of ="trms">relationships ='lgc'>+ self)
production (of other kinds) of fixed vision (amid the increasing awareness of the ="trms">transitive and unstable ="trms">nature of perception)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern psychology (late 19th century)='lgc'>: how to incorporate the vagaries and unpre="trms">dictability of subjectivity into a set of constants ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quantify subjective perceptual experience ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">question of artistic feedback='lgc'>: how to perceptually isolate stimuli='qstn'>? how to temporally control one's exposure='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•tac="trms">histoscope (mid 1880s='lgc'>--search for elemental unit of attentive behavior)='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of instantaneous perception, mechanically producted “="trms">presence” ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasy of a descrete quantifiable perception detached from the lives dynamics of the body ='lgc'>+ ='thdf'>the idea that pure nonsense reveals ="trms">specific aspects of attention that hermeneutics could not conceive ='lgc'>{based on naive realism (ignoring the existence of transient iconic ="trms">memory) pre="trms">supposing='lgc'>:
1- the subject's visual experience directly mirrors the stimulus pattern
2- the subject's visual experience begins when the pattern is first exposed and terminates when it is turned off
="lsts lst1">•Muybridge's machine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reconstruct appearances through the production of consecutive images
="lsts lst1">•
tac="trms">histoscope (nonconsecutive visual stimuli) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how within the context of ="trms">technological ="trms">modernization, faster mechanical speeds are reciprocally related to new bodily forms of stasis (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Virilio)
="lsts lst1">•chronometric device='lgc'>: ="trms">measurement of ="trms">relation time
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the break or ="trms">interrupting of vision becomes the primary element within perceptual experience, rather than a visual continuum that maintains the cohesiveness of the ="trms">world
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*possibility of pure sensation without perception='strcls'>*
“mental test”
detailed psychometrics of individual performance and behavior ='lgc'>--preoccupied='lgc'>='lgc'>--> features of a ="trms">generalized consciousness
20th century behaviorism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abandonment of ="trms">interest in any ="trms">internal or introspective experience (in favor of ="trms">data resulted from objective external controlled observation)
='lgc'>==Cattel='lgc'>='lgc'>==> application of ="trms">systematized knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to the control of human ="trms">nature
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**accommodation of subjective life to machine operations='strcls'>** (='lgc'>+ speeds, temporalities)
new objective ="trms">world='lgc'>: de="trms">composed into autonomous and abstract stimuli (='lgc'>+ machine rythmes that differed dramatically from those of the body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> re="trms">positioning of the perceiver (='lgc'>+ motor ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•new patterns of production
="lsts lst1">•="trms">spectacular ="trms">consumption
='strcls'>*machinic ="trms">interface is the body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> related temporal shaping of everyday life
computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> psychic field of expectant attentiveness ='lgc'><='lgc'>--within='lgc'>-- one inevitably trains one self to maximize the speed of ="trms">response to ="trms">specific commands and functions (and derive at least one satisfaction from these habitual operations of mechanical facility)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>-- ="trms">epistemic shift in 20th century to theorise of subjective vision
instantaneity='lgc'>: unproblematic ="trms">presentness of vision
Helmholtz (discovery of slow speed of nerve trans="trms">mission) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">present state” of perception is deployed within a temporally extended physiological set of events
19th century ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the essence of human life ceased to be something re="trms">presentable in the tabular space of classical re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>=/= human life understood in terms of it's existence in time, of functions and energies that un="trms">folded and developed outside the ='strcls'>**immediacy of classical visibility='strcls'>**
='strcls'>*the conditioned reflex='strcls'>*
a ="trms">chimerical notion of the western ="trms">imagination in the 20th century
reflex (central cerebral process, onset of stimulus ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> preparation of motor ="trms">response)
="lsts lst1">•one of the ways in which attention was ="trms">positioned within knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of human behavior
='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new forms of sensory experience outside of (various myth of) organic wholeness of subjectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinction be[...]