[...]sses 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 between “="trms">natural” ='and'>& “artificial” sensation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='mywrk'>my work in WIELS ="trms">bestiary characters='lgc'>: what was individual experience in middle ages='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•practical recon="trms">figuration of behavior ='lgc'>+ possibility of external ="trms">intervention and control
='lgc'>=/= Dewey's (galvanic image of) subject in a perpetual sensory ="trms">interface with the ="trms">world='lgc'> = un="trms">interrupted mass motion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{='strcls'>*continuity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==sustain='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an ideal of unity and wholeness ='lgc'>=/= dis="trms">integration of individual experience, ='strcls'>*disconnected ="trms">nature of reality='strcls'>*='lgc'>}
(domain of experience in ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list life="trms">world='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•industrial production
="lsts lst1">•="trms">spectacular condonation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological ="trms">modernization
="lsts lst1">•rational, ="trms">social, managerial control
(apperceptive experience of) anticipation, ="trms">memory, and preparation for future actions
(halfway ="trms">modernist Dewey didn't consider) breaks in perception might also have the capacity for ='strcls'>*revivifying or expanding the limits of thought or cognitive awareness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- and today 2020 many don't consider our contemporary media culture has this capacity='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what if our fragmented ="trms">nature is one of the forms the discontinuous ="trms">nature of reality can be apprehended='qstn'>?
celestial camera obscura
Dewey was deeply ="trms">interested in practical ways of mind-body unity
rhythm, eurhythmy
alexander ="trms">technique
unwavering model of pure contemplation
“pure knowing subject='lgc'> = forget your own personality, lose oneself in perception"='lgc'> = clear eye of the ="trms">world (="ppl">Schopenhauerian model of knowing in Doctor Strange movie, seeing the ="trms">world directly and leave entirely one's own ="trms">interests, the pre="trms">modern idea of ='strcls'>*perception='lgc'> = ="trms">presence='strcls'>*)
="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Cezanne) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deepest forms of perception are mixed and com="trms">posite
(in ="trms">Matter and ="trms">Memory) ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: establish a model of perception ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">routinized and reified forms of perceptual experience within western ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban and ="trms">scientific culture of the late 19th century
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]externality='lgc'> = dream of inhuman immediacy='lgc'>: a vision of ="trms">matter both immediate and instantaneous
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Lucy movie primordial and fundamental act of perception
="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Dewey's ideal of coordination)
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*body='lgc'>: reproduce in action the life of the mind='strcls'>*
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*mind='lgc'>: hindering the thought from being lost in dream, an organ of ‘attention to life’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">memory and perception ="trms">interpret each other
='strcls'>*="trms">memory coincides (diverge, ="trms">intersect) with the “="trms">present” perception='strcls'>*
='lgc'>{ ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]determine='lgc'>: the more habitual and repetitive one's perceptual ="trms">response to one's environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the less autonomy and freedom characterize that individual experience ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creativity='lgc'> = (zone of) indetermination
='lgc'>--again='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bergson (disturbed by new arrangement of ="trms">spectacular ="trms">consumption posed as novelty within a mass ="trms">society ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> redundancy and habit ='lgc'>+ decay of traditional forms of collective ="trms">memory) his work is a ="trms">response to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•general standardization of experience
="lsts lst1">•automation of perceptual ="trms">response
(='lgc'><='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>-- typical problem of life-philosophers lebensphilosophie at the turn of the century reaction to the “intrusion of the mechanical”)
='strcls'>*preconditions of a free and autonomous subject='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ ='strcls'>*end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (coherent) ="trms">system of meaning='strcls'>*
(weak evolutionary assumptions of ="ppl">Bergson's elaboration of) human subject (= the most developed organism)='lgc'> = potential (for indetermination)='lgc'> = escape from a ="trms">relationship of constraint and necessity in one's lived milieu ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal='lgc'>]
Helmholtz (research on physiological optics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> غیر واقعی nonveridical status of vision (and perception) ='lgc'>~= there is no direct cor="trms">respondence between sense experience and objects in the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•uprooting='lgc'>: rationalization and ="trms">instrumentalization of senses (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technical prostheses)
="lsts lst1">•displacing='lgc'>: reterritorializing of perception
Helmholtz (='lgc'>~/= ="ppl">Bergson) committed to expanding and optimizing the productive functioning of ="trms">socioeconomic ="trms">world (of imperial Germany) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vision of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list industrialization (exchangeability, convertibility, etc.)
Helmholtz's ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physics
Helmholtz's ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotics='lgc'>: re="trms">presentational and quasilogical order of signs
(Helmholtz ='lgc'>+) ="ppl">Bergson's attention='lgc'>:
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