[...]discontinuous change
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> existence of multiple equilibria


Slobodkin
game theory
management of ="trms">natural ="trms">systems


P="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigogine ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers
brusselator device (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strange attractor) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> behavior and evolution of complex ="trms">systems ='lgc'>--illustrate='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•discontinuous development
="lsts lst1">•bifurcation (points at which the ="trms">system may go in either of two directions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">system behaves as a whole)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> local random fluctuations (around a mean) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bifurcation point ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">system as a whole evolves to a new order
='lgc'>=/= cybernetic ="trms">system (control center)
='lgc'>=/= steam engine (governor)


="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robert May
the more complex a ="trms">system is, the more likely it is that small fluctuations (will be just large enough) to be critical
complexity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unstability
='lgc'>~~~~> chaos theory


(for P="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigogine) fluctuation='lgc'>: essential condition for order of physical universe, life, civilization
='lgc'>[the most humble aspect of the behavior of ="trms">matter:='lgc'>] white noise ='lgc'>--(chaotic ="trms">phenomena)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> order ='lgc'>[on macro level='lgc'>]

turbulence ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- cannot be predicted (deterministic approach), but we have ="trms">="trms">empirical certainty that they will appear

55BC ='lgc'>--turbulence='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius’ De Rerum ="trms">natura (philosophical ="trms">poem on the ="trms">nature of things)
(his basic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of) ="trms">nature='lgc'>: hydrodynamic flow of particles in free fall, in swirls, in vortexes
‘small cause ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disproportional nonlinearity’ ='lgc'>: ‘random collision of some falling atoms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constitution of ="trms">world’
='lgc'>--="ppl">Serres='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius) heterodox tradition (='lgc'>=/= orthodoxe)


romantic ='and'>& baroque are ='strcls'>***discourse ='lgc'>=/= paradigm='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•discourse (available to draw from)
="lsts lst1">•paradigm (to succeed another paradigm) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to be careful as an artist, the fantasy of genesis='lgc'>]

="lsts lst1">•since the 19th century romantic complexity had been the more orthodox discourse
="lsts lst1">•since 1975 baroque complexity became the focus of ="trms">interest
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= new conception of reality

="lsts lst1">•romantic complexity ='lgc'>--favor='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stable structural ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors (self-correcting cybernetic machine, Gaya, etc.)
="lsts lst2">◦criteria can be established (more easily) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delineate emergent wholes (='strcls'>*abstract criteria='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst1">•baroque complexity ='lgc'>--favor='lgc'>='lgc'>--> swarming individuals ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor (population of individuals in turbulent motion) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delineate emergent wholes (='strcls'>*="trms">situational criteria='strcls'>*)
="lsts lst2">◦conceptual problem of baroque='lgc'>: there may be higher level order, but what is it='qstn'>?
="lsts lst3">◾(it is not) stable patterns of ="trms">communication (='lgc'><='lgc'>== if patterns exists they are short-lived, individuals take part in several wholes rather than in one)


body='lgc'> = turbulent ="trms">phenomena par excellence


='strcls'>*****
='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the very idea of “concept” is ="trms">different in baroque thinking ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]concept='lgc'> = an allegory, a ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">symbol of the ="trms">cosmos ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- romantic idea of concept='lgc'>: a ="trms">cosmological order that is grasped by the thinking subject

="large lg1" stl="font-size:135%"> the uncertainty (of the ="trms">world) in the baroque case is ="trms">ontological ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uncertainty is an effect of not knowing enough='lgc'>]

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(i say in ="nms">iran, instead of public jurnalism we need more) ='strcls'>*public ="trms">anthropology='strcls'>*

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(Stenger > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > vivid ="trms">pragmatics ='lgc'>~=)
(McCormack > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > radical) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">="trms">empiricism='lgc'>: if you walk in the woods ='lgc'>--encounter='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the unthinkable profusion of forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">aesthetic registers of (mobile ='and'>& immobile flickering of) is and was (='lgc'>=/= sensory details described)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]description='lgc'>: accidental glimpse of what ="trms">matters ='lgc'>+ what shifts its ="trms">matter in a moment of recognizable though unnamed and partial significance

tonal ="trms">differences
a spark of color
a modulation in tempo
half-patterned expressivity
='lgc'>--of='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a s="trms">cene teemingly ="trms">differentiated and marked by thresholds of ="trms">matter

when a tree is “charged and transfigured” by a violent sunset
="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ='lgc'>+ Dillard

a thing becomes a call to word

(Harman='lgc'>:) objects themselves, like voices or forms of ="trms">writing, have style

="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Dillard's ="trms">causal logic of bizarre but ="trms">categorical predation='lgc'>:
a small frog perched precariously on a lily pad in a pond, its back end al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready strangely slumped in the water. Then it suddenly deflates
its skin “ruck, and rumple, and fall’ and then “formless as a pricked balloon, lay in floating ="trms">folds like blight scum on top of the water”
='lgc'>--sug="trms">gest='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its style
='lgc'>=/= exempla of a generality
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">embodiments of something

='strcls'>*points of precision='strcls'>* in moments, s="trms">cenes, forms, and states of ="trms">matter

an image synesthetically re="trms">membered ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engineered bridges of the purely ="trms">social or thee purely ="trms">natural ="trms">imagine a flatly describable ="trms">world ="trms">composed of fully ="trms">present states of being

...the wind forms blades in the sea like lines on a page

description='lgc'>: an approach to an ungraspable thing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">literalizing

remainders

(distributed gap between residents’ reports and police determinations='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[examples of semi-events (half-witnessed):='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous-looking ="trms">animal moving about on a man's property turned out to be a black plastic trash bag blowing in the wind
="lsts lst1">•threatening graffiti on a lawn were markings made by phone company employees
="lsts lst1">•a strange noise was wind in the trees
="lsts lst1">•a report of a man licking the locks on doorways of apartments on North Pleasant Street (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gestion of this licking everywhere remained)
="lsts lst1">•a blood-soaked g="trms">love on the ground outside the DB Mart was a pink g="trms">love (='lgc'>-- establish='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pattern of possible hands in roads)
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**an ="trms">staging ground for people's perceptive='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**attention to the weird possibilities emergent in the ordinary='strcls'>**
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mysterious patterns with precise details='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (bring into relief) a background, a zone, a ="trms">worlding in which things become perceptible (in a weirdly rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list way)

='lgc'>[explanation ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>] str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger faithfulness to the spirit of the unnamed thing they witnessed ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moved to make a report (something is a little off)

(if there is grounding it is grounding in) ="trms">world's variegated ="trms">poesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]description='lgc'>:) to make room (='lgc'>[for its='lgc'>] emergence ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theory)


A walker with a ="trms">routine gets used to the little apparitions of something throwing together in his or her vicinity
(="trms">questions of points of contact='lgc'>:) what to do with your eyes='qstn'>?

(='lgc'>[against='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ="trms">positionality of) ="trms">writing from the ground

(="trms">memory of a city='lgc'>:) a contact ="trms">aesthetic of ="trms">histories and rogue ="trms">trajectories set in motion by every object encountered

harshly half-formed ="trms">world

germinal ="trms">aesthetics

channels of autonomous objects lay down stakes and swerve at points of contact with the itineraries of other things ='lgc'>==create='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a distributed zone of ='strcls'>*robust realism='strcls'>*

the real (of X)='lgc'>: transversal arrays of qualities or activities (like musical refrains) give order to ="trms">materials and ="trms">situations, human bodies and brains in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and hone senses

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (to sharpen) rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list attention to things


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]life='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological entertainment

unfulfilled ="trms">systems littered the kitchen
tangent to an elsewhere

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> gleamingly restored eighteenth-century perfections ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="nms">Cinderella's mansion
...of autonomous objects lying around...
a zone of randomly abandoned X
against the background of nothing
="trms">visceral avoidance
pretty and fresh as blueberry pie
townies (how i am not a townie where i live)
="lsts lst1">•townie='lgc'>: loyalty to the expressivity of things
="trms">sociality of a wedding party (filled with roles and dressings)
crazy ricochet..
perfectly ordinary...
...long-ago layered over the wood (necrotic غانقرايايا)


“expressivity sliced through ="trms">matter, word, and action, locking them together in a harshly half-formed ="trms">world”


="trms">writing ="nms">Cinderella diaries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questions of realism
="lsts lst1">•what kind of real we enter='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•her realism (bring her) ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a rough contact with objects human and non-human
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Cinderella does things to and with them (her ="trms">animals) ='lgc'>[and reverse='lgc'>]

="large lg5" stl="font-size:138%"> ='strcls'>*="trms">social pressure ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (people) make descriptive mistake='strcls'>*

a problematic (for example afterlife of a tragedy) ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inspires X ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculative ="trms">interest in forms
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Cinderella stating to noticing things (="trms">rumors, gossip, realism)
="lsts lst1">•gossip='lgc'>: rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list attention to things

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