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November 20, 2007
More ILLUMINATION (resisting, for as long as possible, a Lights Out philosophy & policy)
To know that we are in fact seeing, to be able to recognize (our own, self-constructed) barriers —there's need to determine what those barriers could be, what they are, and whether or not these barriers may be manipulated.
Once somehow determined that we are in fact seeing, perhaps we will be more able to take advantage of what is illuminating, what can be illuminated, what we have the power to shine light on.
Hence your opportunity to play The Situation of Fork mind-tech game.
Please record the situations and how well the situation illuminates the fork, is illuminated by the fork.
What happens as the situation changes? what happens as the fork changes?
What are the limits of seeing --as suggested by the situations you construct?
What are the limits of fork --as suggested by the situations you construct?
What are the qualities of your seeing? How can you use really seeing the fork to help with other seeing?
How does transparency affect the situations of fork? How does transparency affect really seeing and the sameness of your forks?
How do you determine the situations in which you attemot to see the fork?
How do you determine that seeing has occurred? That really seeing has occurred?
Have you seen the fork in the situations that best exemplify the possibilities of fork?
Etc.
By the way, are there differences in illuminating the fork and in being illuminated by the fork?
Please elaborate.
In debate, the spotlight can bounce back and forth; a light show, a substitute for either aurora in the light play, borealis, australis.
And that light bounce brings to mind (awareness: inner illumination, firing of a neural network) searchlights, the 20th Century Fox twin columns of moving light, the light columns standing in for the WTC, police searching for perpetrators with light).
--Have you visited one of the course resources Malaran.com? Specifically, have you seen her photo essay Watching the Changes? --a slideshow of photographs, taken from her East Village bedroom window, of the NYC skyline over a period of years, including images, as was her routine, of the skyline (with WTC+ and WTC-) on the morning of 11 September 2001. A Watching the Changes poster is available. Cynthia malaran's project began as a tribute to the view she grew up with from her bedroom window. --Did you know that the exterior of the WTC twin towers was a system of forks? See that here, a large-scale (on some scales) situation of fork.
Cynthia Malaran's Watching the Changes poster:
(poster by
WTC forked:
(image from: 9-11 Research)
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SO I AM THANKFUL
(okay, so there might be some coercion from the approaching holiday; if you like, check out, out some light on The Culture of Glass, a poem about Columbo at poets.org)
for the technology, for the machinery of the mind that can be used to reshape, reconfigure, reassess.
(rendering of Columbo with fork (!) --Trident Columbo--from: OpenLSD
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Let us consider, for a few moments, the technology of The Limited Fork, the primary technology I use to reshape, to reconfigure, to reassess; my light source so as to see better what is occurs in the reshaping, the reconfiguring, the reassessing.
**Please note: to reshape implies shaping has previously occurred; to reconfigure implies that configuring has occurred before; to reassess implies that assesment has occurred before**
And to do it again requires giving some thought to the prior shape, the prior configuration, the prior assessment.
WE'RE GOING TO TALK FORK
Take your fork, examine it; come up with (at least) 10 properties of fork, and 10 ways that each property could have some impact on reshaping, reconfiguring, reassessing.
Work solo or in groups.
Enlist input (including me) from others or do not.
Reconvene at 8 p.m.
Read & listen to Fork by Charles Simic.
Using the technology, the machinery of the mind to reshape, reconfigure, reassess is to use that technology to make, remake; to keep structures active, maybe even an attempt to make structures (more) accountable (according to some criteria --that must be made); Make magazine might help keep the illumination going in the mind (at the very least, a forked experience).
I'm going to shine a spotlight on an article from Make's Heirloom Technology section:
The Widowmaker: Cutting Down a TREE.
Please also check out Moco Loco for forked disign.
--okay; of course you can eat some turkey with your fork--
(that is: remember to have fun with your fork; Alan Sokal did; read/re-read all about the Social Text Affair).
Rethink, reconfigure, reform: watch this video:
and visit Orlan.net.
Posted by thyliasm at November 20, 2007 04:03 PM
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Unbelievable video. As always, however, I would love to know the source of all of those numbers.
That being said, the first part of the video presents a point I have been thinking about extensively the past few months. While CNBC has a catchy slogan describing the location of their studio ("Live, from the financial capital of the world...in the heart of lower Manhattan..."), I question the validity of such a statement. As implied by the above video, global growth has shifted economic and political power from the major Western powers (U.S., U.K., etc.) to the "developing" markets, such the "BRIC" countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). With Chinese gross domestic product (GDP) growing at roughly five times that of the U.S. and the People's Bank of China (PBC) being one of the largest holders of U.S. debt (behind Japan), it's hard to continue viewing the United States as the financial capital of the world. With a more stringent regulatory environment than the U.K., a historically low currency (when compared to most other First-World countries), the World's largest trade deficit, and only a fraction of the natural resources found in the Middle East, it is not only difficult, but naive to whole-heartedly believe that the U.S. is still at the center of the global economy.
Posted by: eplisner at November 20, 2007 05:51 PM
i enjoyed taking fork today. realizing that a utensil, like the fork, is much more than what i've been brought up to believe.
what boundaries do we-individuals-construct, that block us from viewing life in a multiplicity of situations...like seeing a fork as something other than a utensil for eating (cognitive fixation, social construction,...), when sitting at the dinner table (situation).?
Posted by: kymmer at November 20, 2007 11:28 PM
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