errationality

Quotations and Terms, A Taste, Testing One, Two, and Three...To Be Continued...

2006-03-31T09:20:00.000-05:00

We will be moving soon to www.errationality.com, so we're busy, you know, learning to do web-y type stuff. But wanted to post some quotations and a list of terms, to show how we're dancing around this whole radical recombinance thing, on the metadancefloor of ideas. See you soon in the new space!

Quotations:

I am interested in the beauty of embedded possibility. This is the way in which fractals have influenced my ideas of what can and can be. - Arlene Stamp

Location is easy, but what about aboutness. - Peter Morville

Each word a stroke of genius that can bring on all the rest. - Joan Retallack

When pushed to the wall, art is too slow. - Lisa Robertson

If the good house is just poetry we're in trouble. - Rod Smith

Rather than ask, "What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time?" I should like to ask, "What is its position in them?" - Walter Benjamin

ALL YOUR [KNOWLEDGE] BASE ARE BELONG TO US. - Zero Wing (Japanese Video Game)

Kaleidoscopes are a gateway drug! - The Group for Radical Recombinance (theGRR)

Information Architecture is just an elegant hack. - Christina Wodtke

[replace "Information Architecture" with any term, field, object or process, and you have the gist of radical recombinance]

Terms, Undefined

radical
recombinance
radical recombinance
divisible input, variable output, or DiVo
manicfestation <-> manifestation
freecombinance
interstitial
aboutness
betweenness
applied culture
misreading
mishearing
re-reading
re-hearing
hyperthesis
ghost
metaquotation marks (look like this ||) denoting parallel development, parallel processing outside of / beside of / beyond the field thus denoted
transequivalation
evermeta
live spontaneous markup languages
metaphor accretion
metacollage
recursion surrounded by acceleration
"simultaneous" "discovery"
performagogical language
language <-> lag gauge
phase transition <-> phrase transition
proscriptive glitch at critical temp
elegance
via
random
recipe
avant participation
atomisation
heart
soft concept production lab
culture/s as vernacular/s
ubiquitous
ambient
metasoundtrack
emergence
feedback signals
distributed computing
collective intelligence networking
social networks
the astrology section is a reactionary agent
fuzzy logic
metatactics
all effects are special
refinitions

[if you perform a recombinant reading of all of these terms, you will describe radical recombinance better than we can...]

ghostographs up

2006-03-30T14:41:00.000-05:00

some ghostographs are up at flickr me.
a ghostograph is a static manifestation
of the ghosts that emerge between states/minds/processes etc.
useful for tracing recombinant hearings/soundings
of performances.
useful for the exploration of radical recombinance in the textual realm; a soft net for reconnaissance...

ghostograph portraits of Lee Ann Brown, Abigail Child,
John Yau, Norma Cole, and Tom Raworth.

Parable Beginning With Slippage of Two Letters

2006-03-30T14:39:00.000-05:00

Within finite jest
the mind plays
second best base
fiddle in the basement
of the meant base.

untitled portrait [recombinant ghosts of the conditions]

2006-03-28T09:43:00.000-05:00

YOU ARE HERE.

WHERE ARE YOU?

Parable

2006-03-27T13:36:00.000-05:00

parable revealed via radical recombinance in New Yorker poems

YOSHIMI BATTLES THE HIP-HOP ROBOTS!!!!!!!!!

2006-03-27T11:14:00.000-05:00

This is probably old news to most of you, but check it out.

Word to Word: Poetry -> Method

2006-03-27T02:43:00.000-05:00

Digging around some old files, came across this text.method I played around with two summers ago:

Take a dictionary.
Pick out one term at random.
Pick out another term at random.
Add up the total letters between the two terms.
As quickly as possible, write a poem titled [Term 1] to [Term 2], using the same amount of words as there are total letters, in which you must connect the two terms conceptually.

examples, from a thesaurus/dictionary called Word Menu:

subfloor to horizon system (21)

subfloor or understanding how belief is quick
or sand makes glass makes sand a constant until
shattering even your horizon system

...[can you tell I was reading Stein at the time?]...

evoltionary socialism to breeder reactor (35)

evolutionary socialism has nothing to lose but
everything to gain where you come up from the
ground and where you multiply in water
where too much of a good thing is a better
breeder reactor.

soft news to vienna sausage (21)

soft news won't hurt a bit or chip your teeth
it's not the Monkeys but then again it's not
vienna sausage.

corned beef hash to acid rain (22)

corned beef hash is a surprise present
or a spooky ghost on a sketchy diner's
main menu. i'm scared of acid rain.

picket fence to screaming-meemies (27)

picket fence isn't a question or a demand
but a careful answer and a fine architecture
a space for the rational consideration
and containment of the screaming-meemies.

revolution to pizza (15)

revolution is obvious it means people
in a circle shaped something like
a tasty pizza

bubble to humane (12)

bubble if you split yourself
you allow air in
and that's humane

rip to major seventh (15)

rip the fabric of the space time continuum
but please don't forget the major seventh

pantheism to educational publishing (30)

pantheism means lots of gods
which means lots of names for the children
to love fear and respect so the elders
got together and came up with educational publishing

Parable

2006-03-26T13:18:00.000-05:00

Aren't all effects special?
she asks,
winking, oscillating
between a particle
and a wave.

Parable

2006-03-26T13:15:00.000-05:00

[i used to teach SAT prep. this parable is a student's vocabulary building exercise]

Once upon a time there was a loser who was fishing. He was using a sieve to catch them and after he caught each one he would scrutinize it and throw it back it if was flawed. One after another he banished each fish into the river when his acute eye found even the slightest dislocation of a scale. When he at last found a perfect fish (which comes around every couple weeks) he burns it and buries it and offers it to the canine gods. One day he dozes while he was catching fish and the gods became angry. The loser felt their wrath for months. Then the loser found it was futile to try and stop the gods so he committed suicide. They marred every fish in the world. The fish now produce a din and turn wan. They can jump in and out of the abyss, can make up adages. One day they camouflaged themselves and they were obstructed from view. Then they jeered at humans. The humans thought it was an ominous spirit trying to abduct the human world. This caused a dispute between the believers and the no-believers. Pretty soon the assailable people (because they are so focused on the argument) were deadlocked. Each side began to accelerate their armies and attack the despicable enemy. The fish have now mutated into amphibians and now they rule the world. The jubilant fish celebrate but they were petrified when the Basilisk came and devastated them. Finally, the organisms of earth malfunction because of gases.

[the neat thing about this parable is that it pretty much totally describes the current situation]

Parable

2006-03-26T12:55:00.000-05:00

In the beginning was the weird.
God looked upon the weird, and said, "Weird."
But someone mis-heard, thought God said, "Word."

[the neat thing about this parable is that explains just about everything]

Radical Recombinance vs Radical Reconnaissance

2006-03-26T12:53:00.000-05:00

Kat mis-heard me when I mentioned my interest in radical recombinance, thinking that I said "radical reconnaissance." Once again, mis-hearing proves instrumental in advancement of understanding. Recombinance proves to be, upon fuzzier inspection, inseparable from reconnaissance.

Here's the relation:

The radical is the root of the thing x, x being a field, concept, material, process, etc.
Thing x can have many radicals, which, when liberated, are free to play with any other liberated radicals.
Likewise, radical r can "belong" "to" many things.
This is not reductionist thought.
This is reDADActionist thought.
A book of poems is a thing x; the conceptual elements are radicals. Enjambment is a radical; collage is a radical - think especially of the mental states represented or invoked via these elements.
Radical recombinance results when radicals are liberated and cast into a field of play with other radicals.
The internet is the metalab par excellance of radical recombinance, the field of fields, a field of dreams, where if you free them, it will come.
What is it?

Radical reconnaissance works on two levels: that of the viewer and that of the radical itself.

A radical reconnaissance of the viewer involves a looking at anything (reconnaissance) through a lens created by a constantly shifting net of radicals. One could analyze the stock market through an ephemeral combination of collage-mentality, DNA-metaphor, and recursive-thought, for example.

A reconnaissance of the radical involves the desire of the radical itself, its own shadowy, ghostly acts of looking beyond its bounded limitations, searching for contact across the spark*gaps. At which point the viewer/user/participant is a vehicle for connection. Probably millions of these radicals are at work in you as you read this. What do they want?

...

Just looking at the beginning of the post, mis-read "reconnaissance" as "renaissance."

So, we are in the renaissance of recombinant reconnaissance.

The Mapping of Parody

2006-03-25T18:03:00.000-05:00

One could create a time based graph of moments of parody in a given show.
Let's take Family Guy, for example.
The horizontal axis would indicate the length of the show, the vertical would represent amount of time given to parody, the flat-line indicating that the concept is "original."
One would also need to indicate a way of representing nested moments of parody, as in, during a parodic musical number, the sub-instances of parody.
Create a program that enables users to do this with minimal effort.
Compare results among users.
The resulting maps would indicate the historically rooted nature of parody, as different users would respond to different moments.
A comparison could yield moments of high and low parody recognition in a particular episode.
Do this for The Simpsons as well.
Compare the results.
Explore the betweeness of it.

Verification Codes

2006-03-25T14:08:00.000-05:00

One could keep track of all the random sequences presented in verification codes, treating them as unique placeholders in a macroverification code, which would gain you entrance into....? Or conceive of the macroverification as some kind of massively random DNA or RNA, directing the formation of...? feed the evolving string through text processors, searching for pattern....knowing that there is no pattern but the temporary confluence of various perceptions of the possibility of pattern.

I just had to type in agd6c to forward an e-mail.
the first two letters spoke, b/c they are my initials,
launching AdamGoodDeals6Cards, or any other possible acronym.
or, one could treat the string as the horizontal manifestation of the vertical flow of forces, in which case the "a" would be the incidental material of a hidden field, "g" the incidental material of another field, "d" likewise, "6" part of a covert activation sequence, and "c" something else entirely...

that begins the evolving string....

Out-of-Context Quotations, Part the First

2006-03-24T13:51:00.000-05:00

"Nature said it did not intend to retract the original article."