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September 30, 2008

the GORT-STIG Helvetica-Connection Project and (some) Words & Images of Urgency: political, social, cultural, etc. (in favor of immediacy of response) (also: metaphor as all of this & more)


In this moment, we are watching Helvetica, we are members of Club Helvetica and I am using Helvetica to tell you this, and will resume its use following the trailer for the film you're watching:



(also) In this moment

some Limited Fork tines are/can be/were red hot
(some tines are/were/can be hot treads on wheels that Top Gear's The Stig pilots
[right now in my mind if not anywhere else in the warping/shaping,shifting of nowthat occurs again and again now]
around the track as fast as he can, a super-charged iteration/extension/bifurcation/additional enhanced usually inaccessible reality of electron-emulating quickness
in an eccentric atomic orbit)

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—some Limited Fork tines were/are/can be red hot with to bail out or not to bail out
even though a decision has been made, red hot with consequences (& possibilities related to, bifurcations/tines of consequences), perhaps.




and in this moment that now has become (—growth system outcome—)
bail out prevails, and the entire country of Iceland is on the verge of national bankruptcy,
so black hole is hardly appropriate as a metaphor for a general direction of global financial systems and structures though perhaps it is a form of fall into a kind of red singularity of global financial collapse that may feel endless until there's some kind of slingshot maneuver from collapse toward solvency (such as government purchase of bank stock worldwide).

This refers to the architecture of black hole as what it becomes in such usage that draws from certain facts, certain imagination, and certain preferences/limitations of the mind in which the metaphor occurs/momentarily resides. There is a fusion of these tines that can give rise to structures that the mind can host even if some variables in the tines fusing can be based on error. In realities of the mind, structures impossible in some realities may be possible.


Consider that right now a supermassive black hole may be the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.


This image (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ): is an artist's rendering (with contributions from fact, imagination, preferences, limitations, etc.) of a black hole at the center of a galaxy. As stated on the NASA webpage:
NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer found evidence that black holes -- once they grow to a critical size -- stifle the formation of new stars in elliptical galaxies. Black holes are thought to do this by heating up and blasting away the gas that fuels star formation.

The blue color here represents radiation pouring out from material very close to the black hole. The grayish structure surrounding the black hole, called a torus, is made up of gas and dust. Beyond the torus, only the old red-colored stars that make up the galaxy can be seen. There are no new stars in the galaxy.


Is this too big to have relevance? What becomes possible via interaction with this information? —Including interaction with the Helvetica that delivers the information in text form.
What are the configurable patterns that can (e)merge from shifting, from variable, from using flexible scaffolding filters to sort and organize and propel, help determine the path of possibilities to be pursued, to be mined (on some scale in some location for some duration of time —necessary to say because dynamic systems tend to change as their constant; stable systems generally moving toward instability, unstable systems generally moving toward stability. Powerful or weak variables may arrive, and these may alter existing activity, destroying what's in place prior to the variable's arrival, fortifying what's in place, masking, gobbling, improving, & so forth the system in place as the variable --or variables-- becomes part of the system that the variable[s] presence [re]configures)

(Interacting elements need not interact equitably, Interaction referring to any form of interaction, including mergers, collision, dominations, consumptions, friction, fusion. Awareness of the interaction is not a condition requisite to the event; we participate in many interactions without awareness though some form of marking that is likely to occur as a function of interaction may exert some form of shaping on what unfolds from the moment of the interactions, that is, the possibility set may be modified in incredibly subtle or other ways. Some researchers are hoping for some such subtlety to be the ultimate Neanderthal fate/destiny, some little Neanderthal genome-essence mixed into the genetic structure of modern humans through some of that likely inevitable mating when these groups met. There's a lot more to process from the DNA of a Neanderthal bone found in Croatia, but these are findings published in August as reported in Discover Magazine).


CONFESSION: I have been most encouraged and most intrigued by how entities come together, how Limited Fork Theory can be used to study system formation, used to locate (or to create) those connections that can bind a system, even a system of that which otherwise might not be collaborators. Some of the brevity of the connections is astonishing. Such momentary bonds. I've been impressed that binding occurs at all, on any scale, in any location for any duration of time. Simultaneously, there is understanding that in theories of systems emphasizing a dynamic state of systems, impermanence of a particular state is likely, is assumed. But, when a system becomes unstable, possibilities for reconfigurations also unfold, and something binds again and again and again and again and again....


In the prevailing of not, a possibility set & its related outcomes slips through tines
in negative occupancy, and/or into imagined spaces where outcomes may unfold
though likely without a means to be realized in the external reality that houses what houses
imagination —without certain extensions from imagination into that reality system:

comments, stories, protests, congratulations, t-shirts, bumper stickers, posters, PSA's, videos, instant messages, and so forth.


This moment, like other moments, is entangled with the rest of time
(and the rest of tines) (from fathero9's photostream) in all the possible directions on all the possible scales




entangled even with aesthetic decisions and commitments
that in other framing systems of aesthetic expression
—and creative systems that distinguish creative activity
(as in creative writing) from other, apparently less creative or even non-creative activities.

So a crucial bit of tech to work with in intersections of technology and the humanities is mind tech. A training of the mind to be(come more) adept in constructing flexible frames with variable connection points or hubs (that also function as bifurcation stations), frames that can be shifted and (re)positioned so as to invent, discover, & so forth; so as to expose territory that might otherwise not arrive at a surface to support activity and possibility. To identify and utilize possibilities instead of literalities can aid in realizing those tines of possibility that otherwise might not emerge in the realities with which we think we have contact.

One way in which I made what I experienced as instantaneous connection, instantaneous kaleidoscopic symmetrical extension of this image from above: (credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ): happened through visual possibilities within the limitations of my brain which includes the information sets that are stored there, and that form what is available to me in the making/mapping of connections and their associated realities. I saw the artist rendering as an eye, the color immediately reminding me of Pecola from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, that superlative eye at the center of Pecola's puny galaxy, a binding to an intense sinking into an increasingly dense center of despair from which escape is unlikely.



You may interact with material related to The Bluest Eye in these locations:

book browse excerpt


a critical assessment (quite interesting for exploring tines that form realities based on logical fallacies; there are multiple contextual realities unfolding within, hosted by human-scale physical reality)


Random House excerpt of the book's opening pages


SwissEduc English

(do check out the link to Mazes of Beauty here
and at the SwissEduc English site which is a form of Bluest Eye universe)


—Though I'm not looking at the paperback copy of the book that should be somewhere in my basement library, a quick check online suggests that most printings of The Bluest Eye were not in Helvetica.


Here's more of Helvetica: the movie:



In a previous now, Mary Kaptur, Democratic representative from Toledo, talks about Mama, the reattachment of cut apron strings, reinstatement of the umbilical cord, the coming home of grown prodigal corporate investment children, unashamed to need some spoon-feeding and handholding, big bucks in the spoon, big bucks changing hands, big bucks falling through the tines of the fork and of the net under it;

Mary Kaptur, Democratic representative from Toledo on a day in history, a day on which, as it is on any other day, decisions are made, consequences of decisions occur, interactions happen, and some systems stabilize, some systems maintain themselves, some systems (begin to) fall apart

and these systems interact with other, together forming larger systems of interconnected activity,
any variable anywhere with a chance of affecting that larger system (on some scale, in some location, for some duration of time) by affecting anything that is in contact with something else (on some scale, in some location, for some duration of time).


Mary Kaptur talks about why Mama in this case should not rescue the darling prodigals now in a position to stop bragging about their independence from Maternal governing, maternal rules of gain and loss;

Mary Kaptur talks about this while Gort remains in position to intervene and punish if havoc and violence emerge on a day on which the stock market drop is so severe, so steep, it's close to the bottom where Wall Street pretty much has to stand still

and maybe most of the Earth, a stillness into which much financial infrastructure collapses:
Mama, Mama —save me!





Here's a look at a form of salvation (perhaps appropriately centered):


and a look at another form for which at least one bluest eye in one of the empty sockets (small black holes) of the soon-to-be-reborn head may be placed:
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*(This image comes from cover artwork on the discography page of the rock & roll indie group forks of the credit) (map of Iceland is from U Texas library)

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