Grammatology and Performativity: A Critical Theory of Silence: Silence is a crucial device for subversion, opposition, and socio-political commentary, the theoretical underpinnings of which are just starting to be understood. This work illuminates another position in the growing field of critical silence studies, theorizing silence as an asset whose ontological value has been lost in a world of literal and figurative noise. Part 1 philosophizes silence as a continuation of Derrida’s grammatology project. Such a grammatology of silence valorizes silent thinking over noisy speaking, and identifies the deconstructive binary pairing not as silence-speaking, but rather as silence-noise. Noise has a simultaneous physical-virtual existence as Shannon entropy calculates signal-to-noise ratios in modern communications networks. Part 2 employs the philosophy of noise to assess what is conceptually necessary to overcome noise in a critical theory of silence. Malaspina draws from Simondon to argue that noise is a form of individuation, essentially a living thing with unstoppable growth potential, not defined by a binary on-off switch but as a matter of gradation. Hence different theory resources are required to oppose it. Part 3 then develops a critical theory of silence to oppose noise in both its physical and virtual instantiations, with the two arms of a deeply human positive performativity (Szendy, Bennett) and a beyond-computational posthumanism (Puar). The result is a novel critical theory of silence as positive performativity that destabilizes noise and recoups the ontological status of silence as not merely an empty post-modern reification but a meaningful actuality.
Leading with clarity rather than certaintyJody Holland
Leading with Clarity Rather than Certainty – There are hosts of leaders in this world that are absolutely certain about being right, about the direction they are going, about who they are to the world. There are very few, however, that are truly clear on the right direction. Developing clarity in business enables a leader to make the right decisions for the right reasons. Only having certainty will cloud the judgment of a leader, often keeping them on the wrong path. As our businesses are developed, it is critical to be clear on what is best for all stakeholders.
This document outlines 17 principles of success according to Napoleon Hill. It discusses each principle in detail, with sections devoted to definiteness of purpose, mastermind, applied faith, and others. The principles focus on developing a clear purpose, positive thinking, self-discipline, teamwork, and other habits that can contribute to achievement and success in life.
1) The document discusses 33 strategies of war that can be applied to life's challenges. It focuses on strategies for individuals, teams, and defensive warfare.
2) Some key individual strategies discussed include declaring war on enemies, not fighting the last war, and creating a sense of urgency.
3) For teams, it recommends avoiding groupthink, segmenting forces into focused teams, and transforming efforts into a crusade through strong morale.
4) Defensive strategies include picking battles carefully, turning the tables through well-timed counterattacks, and creating a threatening presence through deterrence.
This document provides an overview of a workshop on decision making that seeks to introduce and compare the work of Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman, explore how knowledge is used in rapid cognition, and generate ideas to improve organizational decision making. It outlines Gladwell and Kahneman's research on fast and slow thinking as well as Gary Klein's work on naturalistic decision making. The document also discusses biases, heuristics, and conditions that influence decision quality. Tools, models, and strategies for decision making are presented along with examples of good and bad decisions.
Drawing is a fundamental artistic skill that provides an outlet for ideas. Artists draw for many reasons such as defining ideas, planning larger projects, and recording observations. Leonardo da Vinci's drawings illustrated concepts that had never been considered, like designs for flying machines. Raphael created large preparatory drawings called cartoons to help plan his famous fresco The School of Athens, which he then traced onto the wall. There are many drawing materials including pencils, charcoal, chalk, and pastels that artists use to create works and studies in both linear and tonal styles.
12-24 - Modernism and the work of Paul Strand.pdfRossMatthews19
This document provides an overview of modernist photography and focuses on the work of Paul Strand and Edward Weston. It discusses how modernist photography embraced a straight aesthetic using sharp focus and geometric forms. It introduces Paul Strand and Edward Weston as pioneering modernist photographers who rejected pictorialism in favor of documenting reality. It analyzes key works by each photographer and notes how they were both influenced by Alfred Stieglitz in developing their signature modernist styles.
Leading with clarity rather than certaintyJody Holland
Leading with Clarity Rather than Certainty – There are hosts of leaders in this world that are absolutely certain about being right, about the direction they are going, about who they are to the world. There are very few, however, that are truly clear on the right direction. Developing clarity in business enables a leader to make the right decisions for the right reasons. Only having certainty will cloud the judgment of a leader, often keeping them on the wrong path. As our businesses are developed, it is critical to be clear on what is best for all stakeholders.
This document outlines 17 principles of success according to Napoleon Hill. It discusses each principle in detail, with sections devoted to definiteness of purpose, mastermind, applied faith, and others. The principles focus on developing a clear purpose, positive thinking, self-discipline, teamwork, and other habits that can contribute to achievement and success in life.
1) The document discusses 33 strategies of war that can be applied to life's challenges. It focuses on strategies for individuals, teams, and defensive warfare.
2) Some key individual strategies discussed include declaring war on enemies, not fighting the last war, and creating a sense of urgency.
3) For teams, it recommends avoiding groupthink, segmenting forces into focused teams, and transforming efforts into a crusade through strong morale.
4) Defensive strategies include picking battles carefully, turning the tables through well-timed counterattacks, and creating a threatening presence through deterrence.
This document provides an overview of a workshop on decision making that seeks to introduce and compare the work of Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman, explore how knowledge is used in rapid cognition, and generate ideas to improve organizational decision making. It outlines Gladwell and Kahneman's research on fast and slow thinking as well as Gary Klein's work on naturalistic decision making. The document also discusses biases, heuristics, and conditions that influence decision quality. Tools, models, and strategies for decision making are presented along with examples of good and bad decisions.
Drawing is a fundamental artistic skill that provides an outlet for ideas. Artists draw for many reasons such as defining ideas, planning larger projects, and recording observations. Leonardo da Vinci's drawings illustrated concepts that had never been considered, like designs for flying machines. Raphael created large preparatory drawings called cartoons to help plan his famous fresco The School of Athens, which he then traced onto the wall. There are many drawing materials including pencils, charcoal, chalk, and pastels that artists use to create works and studies in both linear and tonal styles.
12-24 - Modernism and the work of Paul Strand.pdfRossMatthews19
This document provides an overview of modernist photography and focuses on the work of Paul Strand and Edward Weston. It discusses how modernist photography embraced a straight aesthetic using sharp focus and geometric forms. It introduces Paul Strand and Edward Weston as pioneering modernist photographers who rejected pictorialism in favor of documenting reality. It analyzes key works by each photographer and notes how they were both influenced by Alfred Stieglitz in developing their signature modernist styles.
Surrealism is an early 20th century cultural movement that began in Paris in the 1920s. It aimed to combine dream and reality through visual artworks and writings that featured surprising juxtapositions and scenes depicted with photographic precision. Surrealist works were intended as expressions of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the goal of resolving contradictions between dreams and reality. The leader André Breton asserted Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement that developed from Dada and spread globally in the following decades to influence various artistic fields as well as political and social thought.
This document discusses doodling and sketchnotes. It states that doodling can help with creative problem-solving and deep thinking, according to Sunni Brown. Sketchnotes are not considered art but rather a way to connect ideas and extend understanding. The document also lists different apps, styluses, and paper that can be used for doodling and sketchnotes.
an insight of 48 laws of power by robert greene to teach you how to deal with others and how to gain power .it is essential for leaders ,managers,teachers almost all people will need it.
Art As Idea, The Roots Of Conceptual ArtJames Clegg
This document provides an introduction to conceptual art and its roots in earlier avant-garde movements like Dada, Situationism, and Happenings. It discusses how artists like Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, and Robert Rauschenberg began treating ideas as works of art. Key figures in conceptual art included Sol LeWitt, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, and groups like Art & Language who took ideas and language as their primary artistic medium. The document traces the philosophical influences on conceptual art from thinkers like Henri Lefebvre and situates major conceptual works in historical context.
The document summarizes the key habits of highly effective people from Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". It discusses the seven habits: 1) be proactive, 2) begin with the end in mind, 3) put first things first, 4) think win-win, 5) seek first to understand then to be understood, 6) synergize, and 7) sharpen the saw. Each habit is described briefly, highlighting its importance for effectiveness and success. The overall message is that developing these habits can help people achieve more by focusing on priorities, understanding others, and continuous self-improvement.
What Modern Art can teach us about CreativityPodium Wisdom
How can masters like Picasso, Monet, Warhol and Pollock inspire you to be more creative? Come in and find out!
If you enjoyed this, connect with me at https://twitter.com/podiumwisdom. I excavate the web for goodies on persuasion, art, presentation, design and more!
Slides from my talk at UX Camp London 2010 at LBi London.
Here are the complete notes from the talk:
http://evalottalamm.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/visual-note-taking/
Pablo Picasso was a pioneer of the surrealist art movement. His work embraced automatism, which involved letting go of traditional artistic practices to access a more primal form of creative expression. Walter Benjamin analyzed how technological advances like photography and film reproduction changed the experience of art by removing the "aura" of authenticity and ritual from original works. Karl Marx viewed art as inherently political and shaped by socioeconomic forces like class structures and modes of production. He believed the alienation of workers from their labor under capitalism was reflected in modern art.
This document outlines 12 tips for personality development. The tips include being confident, being yourself, having good body language, being calm and courteous, being a good listener, meeting new people, having an opinion, and bringing positivity to one's outlook. The document emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and knowing oneself as foundations for developing an attractive personality. It also stresses developing interests, gaining knowledge from reading, and making eye contact when listening to others.
The document summarizes Stephen R. Covey's book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" which outlines seven habits that effective people practice. The habits are: 1) Be Proactive by taking responsibility for your own life instead of reacting to outside forces. 2) Begin with the End in Mind by visualizing your goals and planning backwards. 3) Put First Things First by prioritizing important tasks. 4) Think Win-Win by having a cooperative mindset. 5) Seek First to Understand others by listening empathetically. 6) Synergize by recognizing the potential in differences between people. 7) Sharpen the Saw by continuously improving yourself physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.
This document summarizes key points from the book "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. It defines crucial conversations as important discussions where opinions differ and emotions run high. Such conversations include disagreements with bosses, spouses, or coworkers. The document notes that people often handle these conversations poorly when under pressure. It outlines skills taught in the book for having dialogue where all parties can respectfully share their perspectives to find mutually agreeable solutions. These include focusing on understanding different viewpoints rather than just asserting your own and working to develop a shared understanding.
Surrealism emerged in the early 20th century as an artistic movement that aimed to release creative potential by exploring dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational juxtapositions. Key figures like Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst used techniques like automatic drawing, found objects, collage, and dream imagery to challenge rational thought and social norms. Surrealism had a significant influence on modern art and popular culture in areas like film, music, fashion, and product design.
Coffee with a Curator: "Photography and Surrealism"The Dali Museum
The document discusses the relationship between surrealism and photography, outlining how surrealist photographers used techniques like double exposure, solarization, and montage to create dreamlike and ambiguous images that blurred the boundaries between reality and imagination. It profiles many pioneering surrealist photographers like Man Ray, Lee Miller, Eugene Atget, and Hans Bellmer and explores the major themes their work explored, such as eroticism, madness, hysteria, and the marvelous.
Choosing a startup name is an important decision that will impact how people connect with the brand and the company's ability to get funding and recognition. The best way to choose a name is to brainstorm with others and come up with something short, simple, relevant, memorable and verb-able. After settling on a name, companies should secure the matching domain name and make sure the name properly conveys the brand.
Surrealism, Freud And The World Of DreamsDani Feige
1) The document discusses the surrealist art movement and its connection to psychoanalysis and the exploration of dreams.
2) It explores how surrealist artists like Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp were influenced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his theories about the unconscious mind and dreams.
3) Freud's teachings and studies on the unconscious mind and dreams had a profound impact on surrealist artists and their creation of dreamlike, irrational, and fantastical works of art that explored the inner workings of the psyche.
How to Use Colour to Influence Productivity and PerceptionGetSmarter
Angela Wright, a renowned colour psychologist, proposed that colour’s effect on us goes beyond sight alone, and reaches to the intricacies of our psychology.
It’s the first thing humanity instinctively looks to for the information we need, to know how to respond to anything that confronts us.
Think about a stop sign, for example, or a set of traffic lights. What colour comes to mind? What action does it drive you to do?
Between the science of photons and wavelengths, electrical impulses and the hypothalamus, lies a common bottom line: colour profoundly affects your behaviour.
How are you using colour to influence behaviour?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoples outlines seven principles to help people improve themselves and become more effective. The habits are organized into private victory habits of self-mastery (habits 1-3) and public victory habits of teamwork (habits 4-7). The first habit is to be proactive by focusing on things within your control rather than reacting to external factors. The second habit is to begin with the end in mind by envisioning the results you want and creating a mission statement. The third habit is to put first things first by prioritizing important goals and tasks.
Alexander Rodchenko was a Russian artist and photographer who was a pioneer of Constructivism. Some of his key contributions included creating non-representational sculptures made of materials like wood and metal, and photographs that emphasized dynamic compositions through unusual angles and high contrasts of light and dark. As a photographer, he was among the first in the Soviet Union to use a Leica camera and developed an innovative style that transformed ordinary objects and scenes into abstract forms.
Abstract Expressionism emerged in the late 1940s as a radical new art movement in America that focused on formal qualities and emphasized the autonomy of art over political or social concerns; critics like Clement Greenberg championed Abstract Expressionism and formalism, arguing that art should separate itself from mass culture and popular tastes through an emphasis on formal innovation and medium-specific purity; Greenberg's theories helped establish Abstract Expressionism as the leading avant-garde movement in America and positioned it as an anti-communist symbol during the Cold War era.
Gebser 2017-heiner benking concreteness in integral worlds-revisitedHeiner Benking
Presentation from the International Jean Gebser Society 2017 in New York. Recorded but not delivered, Connection / WLAN problems.. A Video will be made available soon.... maybe check the GEBSER 2001 publication: XXVII Annual Jean Gebser Conference, Worldly Expressions of the Integral, October 18-20, 2001 - Ohio University, Athens, OH,
Concreteness in Integral Worlds
http://benking.de/gebser2001.html
Digital turn-what-next--pecha-kucha, Berlin--21-sept-5-2015Heiner Benking
EDUCAMP & OER2 & DIGITAL TURN & ELIG
check http://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de Sept. 4-11
EduCamp Digital Turn, Wake-up call: What is the next "Turn" ? http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000385.htm
EduCamp Digital Turn, Wake-up call: What is the next "Turn" ?
Proposal of an integrative, eclectic turn, call it a spacial/scaffolding turn which in form of macroscopic superstructures/supersigns allow to relate and integrate earlier "turns" consider GLocal integration of scales, sectors, cultures, times, media, ... in an overview, orientation mode, but also connecting to the micro-scales
see also: http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000384.htm
Surrealism is an early 20th century cultural movement that began in Paris in the 1920s. It aimed to combine dream and reality through visual artworks and writings that featured surprising juxtapositions and scenes depicted with photographic precision. Surrealist works were intended as expressions of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the goal of resolving contradictions between dreams and reality. The leader André Breton asserted Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement that developed from Dada and spread globally in the following decades to influence various artistic fields as well as political and social thought.
This document discusses doodling and sketchnotes. It states that doodling can help with creative problem-solving and deep thinking, according to Sunni Brown. Sketchnotes are not considered art but rather a way to connect ideas and extend understanding. The document also lists different apps, styluses, and paper that can be used for doodling and sketchnotes.
an insight of 48 laws of power by robert greene to teach you how to deal with others and how to gain power .it is essential for leaders ,managers,teachers almost all people will need it.
Art As Idea, The Roots Of Conceptual ArtJames Clegg
This document provides an introduction to conceptual art and its roots in earlier avant-garde movements like Dada, Situationism, and Happenings. It discusses how artists like Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, and Robert Rauschenberg began treating ideas as works of art. Key figures in conceptual art included Sol LeWitt, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, and groups like Art & Language who took ideas and language as their primary artistic medium. The document traces the philosophical influences on conceptual art from thinkers like Henri Lefebvre and situates major conceptual works in historical context.
The document summarizes the key habits of highly effective people from Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". It discusses the seven habits: 1) be proactive, 2) begin with the end in mind, 3) put first things first, 4) think win-win, 5) seek first to understand then to be understood, 6) synergize, and 7) sharpen the saw. Each habit is described briefly, highlighting its importance for effectiveness and success. The overall message is that developing these habits can help people achieve more by focusing on priorities, understanding others, and continuous self-improvement.
What Modern Art can teach us about CreativityPodium Wisdom
How can masters like Picasso, Monet, Warhol and Pollock inspire you to be more creative? Come in and find out!
If you enjoyed this, connect with me at https://twitter.com/podiumwisdom. I excavate the web for goodies on persuasion, art, presentation, design and more!
Slides from my talk at UX Camp London 2010 at LBi London.
Here are the complete notes from the talk:
http://evalottalamm.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/visual-note-taking/
Pablo Picasso was a pioneer of the surrealist art movement. His work embraced automatism, which involved letting go of traditional artistic practices to access a more primal form of creative expression. Walter Benjamin analyzed how technological advances like photography and film reproduction changed the experience of art by removing the "aura" of authenticity and ritual from original works. Karl Marx viewed art as inherently political and shaped by socioeconomic forces like class structures and modes of production. He believed the alienation of workers from their labor under capitalism was reflected in modern art.
This document outlines 12 tips for personality development. The tips include being confident, being yourself, having good body language, being calm and courteous, being a good listener, meeting new people, having an opinion, and bringing positivity to one's outlook. The document emphasizes the importance of self-reflection and knowing oneself as foundations for developing an attractive personality. It also stresses developing interests, gaining knowledge from reading, and making eye contact when listening to others.
The document summarizes Stephen R. Covey's book "7 Habits of Highly Effective People" which outlines seven habits that effective people practice. The habits are: 1) Be Proactive by taking responsibility for your own life instead of reacting to outside forces. 2) Begin with the End in Mind by visualizing your goals and planning backwards. 3) Put First Things First by prioritizing important tasks. 4) Think Win-Win by having a cooperative mindset. 5) Seek First to Understand others by listening empathetically. 6) Synergize by recognizing the potential in differences between people. 7) Sharpen the Saw by continuously improving yourself physically, mentally, socially and spiritually.
This document summarizes key points from the book "Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High" by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. It defines crucial conversations as important discussions where opinions differ and emotions run high. Such conversations include disagreements with bosses, spouses, or coworkers. The document notes that people often handle these conversations poorly when under pressure. It outlines skills taught in the book for having dialogue where all parties can respectfully share their perspectives to find mutually agreeable solutions. These include focusing on understanding different viewpoints rather than just asserting your own and working to develop a shared understanding.
Surrealism emerged in the early 20th century as an artistic movement that aimed to release creative potential by exploring dreams, the subconscious mind, and irrational juxtapositions. Key figures like Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, and Max Ernst used techniques like automatic drawing, found objects, collage, and dream imagery to challenge rational thought and social norms. Surrealism had a significant influence on modern art and popular culture in areas like film, music, fashion, and product design.
Coffee with a Curator: "Photography and Surrealism"The Dali Museum
The document discusses the relationship between surrealism and photography, outlining how surrealist photographers used techniques like double exposure, solarization, and montage to create dreamlike and ambiguous images that blurred the boundaries between reality and imagination. It profiles many pioneering surrealist photographers like Man Ray, Lee Miller, Eugene Atget, and Hans Bellmer and explores the major themes their work explored, such as eroticism, madness, hysteria, and the marvelous.
Choosing a startup name is an important decision that will impact how people connect with the brand and the company's ability to get funding and recognition. The best way to choose a name is to brainstorm with others and come up with something short, simple, relevant, memorable and verb-able. After settling on a name, companies should secure the matching domain name and make sure the name properly conveys the brand.
Surrealism, Freud And The World Of DreamsDani Feige
1) The document discusses the surrealist art movement and its connection to psychoanalysis and the exploration of dreams.
2) It explores how surrealist artists like Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, and Marcel Duchamp were influenced by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his theories about the unconscious mind and dreams.
3) Freud's teachings and studies on the unconscious mind and dreams had a profound impact on surrealist artists and their creation of dreamlike, irrational, and fantastical works of art that explored the inner workings of the psyche.
How to Use Colour to Influence Productivity and PerceptionGetSmarter
Angela Wright, a renowned colour psychologist, proposed that colour’s effect on us goes beyond sight alone, and reaches to the intricacies of our psychology.
It’s the first thing humanity instinctively looks to for the information we need, to know how to respond to anything that confronts us.
Think about a stop sign, for example, or a set of traffic lights. What colour comes to mind? What action does it drive you to do?
Between the science of photons and wavelengths, electrical impulses and the hypothalamus, lies a common bottom line: colour profoundly affects your behaviour.
How are you using colour to influence behaviour?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Peoples outlines seven principles to help people improve themselves and become more effective. The habits are organized into private victory habits of self-mastery (habits 1-3) and public victory habits of teamwork (habits 4-7). The first habit is to be proactive by focusing on things within your control rather than reacting to external factors. The second habit is to begin with the end in mind by envisioning the results you want and creating a mission statement. The third habit is to put first things first by prioritizing important goals and tasks.
Alexander Rodchenko was a Russian artist and photographer who was a pioneer of Constructivism. Some of his key contributions included creating non-representational sculptures made of materials like wood and metal, and photographs that emphasized dynamic compositions through unusual angles and high contrasts of light and dark. As a photographer, he was among the first in the Soviet Union to use a Leica camera and developed an innovative style that transformed ordinary objects and scenes into abstract forms.
Abstract Expressionism emerged in the late 1940s as a radical new art movement in America that focused on formal qualities and emphasized the autonomy of art over political or social concerns; critics like Clement Greenberg championed Abstract Expressionism and formalism, arguing that art should separate itself from mass culture and popular tastes through an emphasis on formal innovation and medium-specific purity; Greenberg's theories helped establish Abstract Expressionism as the leading avant-garde movement in America and positioned it as an anti-communist symbol during the Cold War era.
Gebser 2017-heiner benking concreteness in integral worlds-revisitedHeiner Benking
Presentation from the International Jean Gebser Society 2017 in New York. Recorded but not delivered, Connection / WLAN problems.. A Video will be made available soon.... maybe check the GEBSER 2001 publication: XXVII Annual Jean Gebser Conference, Worldly Expressions of the Integral, October 18-20, 2001 - Ohio University, Athens, OH,
Concreteness in Integral Worlds
http://benking.de/gebser2001.html
Digital turn-what-next--pecha-kucha, Berlin--21-sept-5-2015Heiner Benking
EDUCAMP & OER2 & DIGITAL TURN & ELIG
check http://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de Sept. 4-11
EduCamp Digital Turn, Wake-up call: What is the next "Turn" ? http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000385.htm
EduCamp Digital Turn, Wake-up call: What is the next "Turn" ?
Proposal of an integrative, eclectic turn, call it a spacial/scaffolding turn which in form of macroscopic superstructures/supersigns allow to relate and integrate earlier "turns" consider GLocal integration of scales, sectors, cultures, times, media, ... in an overview, orientation mode, but also connecting to the micro-scales
see also: http://www.newciv.org/nl/newslog.php/_v396/__show_article/_a000396-000384.htm
Innovation as history making. ontological design and the disclosure of the newGoldsmiths design
The document discusses innovation and related concepts from several perspectives. It covers innovation theory from scholars like Joseph Schumpeter, open innovation concepts from Henry Chesbrough, and discussions of knowledge and learning from thinkers like Donald Schon and Chris Argyris. Additionally, it references the work of philosophers like Michel Foucault and theorists of complex systems like Haridimos Tsoukas. The document aims to provide a comprehensive overview of discourses related to innovation from various fields.
Sustainability of soundscape tourism: a commons-based approachJuhana Venäläinen
This document discusses soundscape tourism and the role of silence within it. It defines soundscape tourism as capitalizing on experiences of the acoustic environment and its cultural interpretations. Silence is identified as a key aspect, including the silence of nature, silence for listening, and silence to escape busy lives. The document also discusses soundscapes as "commons" that are shared heritage for both locals and tourists. It explores how soundscapes can be both non-consumptively listened to and consumptively used by making sounds, with noise pollution representing an appropriation of the aural commons. Justified temporary appropriations of the commons for economic benefit are proposed, requiring balance between noise-making and noise-avoiding economies through local
Michel Puech - From fishbowl to global: ordinary agency in the Anthropocene"mpuech
This document discusses the "fishbowl fallacy" as it relates to addressing anthropocenic issues. It argues that viewing the world through distorted lenses like mass media, filters, and algorithms is problematic, likening it to looking at the world through a fishbowl. It advocates moving from this "fishbowl idiocy" to a more direct engagement with issues by focusing on ordinary lived experience and proximal awareness between the global and local.
The Future of the Image | Week 5 | The Art of Nothing: Different approaches t...DeborahJ
The document discusses the concepts of immateriality and post-materialism in art. It explores how art has moved beyond physical objects to ideas, processes, and relations between people and their environments. It examines how technology has shaped new forms of artistic production and presentation that are dematerialized, existing more as information than physical matter. It questions where the art actually exists if not in a physical object - is it in the moment of creation, or in its documentation and re-presentation? It considers how art has become defined more by social and conceptual elements than material ones.
This document provides an overview of key concepts and debates in media theory, structured as a toolkit. It covers topics such as texts and literacies, analyzing still and moving images, debates around audiences and effects, concepts of ideology and power in media, and emerging perspectives on media 2.0 and participatory digital media. The document uses examples, concepts, and theories to illustrate different analytical approaches to understanding media. It aims to equip readers with a range of theoretical lenses for interpreting and critiquing media texts.
This document provides an overview of communication theory and symbolic interactionism. It discusses what constitutes a good theory and examines different images of theory. A good theory goes beyond accepted wisdom to offer explanations. Additionally, a theory should consist of interconnected concepts that shape perception and behavior. Symbolic interactionism holds that people act based on the meanings and interpretations they assign to people, things, and events through social interactions and language. George Herbert Mead was influential in developing this perspective, which was further advanced by his student Herbert Blumer through the term "symbolic interactionism."
The document discusses how scientific knowledge and thinking have advanced in the 20th century due to the end of classical certainties. It describes how Ilya Prigogine addressed the end of certainty in concepts like time and causality. Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle showed that there are limits to human knowledge at the quantum level. Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorems demonstrated the limitations of classical logic and that a system cannot prove itself consistent. The document argues that complex thinking is needed to develop a comprehensive understanding of scientific phenomena by integrating knowledge across disciplines through group work rather than individual specialization.
Freud, Jung & the Hard Problem of Consciousnesscheriching
The document discusses Freud and Jung's work on the human "networking system" or mechanism of psychical continuity between individuals. It defines this system from objective and subjective perspectives. Freud and Jung described it as an inherited, hardwired structure in the newborn brain and a process of transmitting mental states between generations. They saw this system as the basis for social psychology and the development and progression of civilization.
Comment construire une Technoculture - Marcel O’GormanIRI
This document discusses building a technoculture through digital studies that combines care, curation, and curriculum. It addresses tensions between technological production driven by economic imperatives versus critical assessment from an academic perspective. It argues for developing a model of knowledge work that combines digital media techniques with traditional humanities cognitive modes. It discusses curating digital data and developing curriculum using digital media to critique digital media. The document provides examples of projects from the Critical Media Lab that take interdisciplinary research-creation approaches to investigate technology's impact and invent new technologies and media artifacts.
The document discusses how play and participatory culture can help the music industry adapt to changes in music distribution. It argues that viewing music as social objects that can be shared and adapted allows for unanticipated ways of engaging with music to emerge from playful appropriation. Researching how people play with music and creating playful tools can help industries understand and benefit from these unexpected interactions.
The New Socrates. Some notes on methodology in Pierre Bourdieu's «The Weight ...Lorenza Boninu
My presentation for the 12th Conference of the European Sociological Association 2015, Prague 25-28.8. The general title of the ESA's Conference was «Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination».
The document discusses innovation in practice and learning. It explores how innovation exists through our adaptive relationships with environments and others within those environments. Innovation also exists through the materials that make up environments and the tools we create from those materials. Importantly, innovation occurs within "communities of practice" that provide the necessary knowledge and skills. The document examines different discourses and theories related to innovation, learning, skill acquisition, and the limits of traditional productivist views of innovation.
Dr. Leroy Little Bear connects quantum physics to Indigenous beliefs about spirit and the ethical relationship between all things. Physicist David Bohm also argued that our measurements provide an incomplete picture of reality and that everything is fundamentally linked. The document asks if infinite potential can be left out of discussions of ethics, and if science may soon discover a field connecting all things, meaning every thought and action affects the whole world. It questions if living differently would result if such a field was confirmed, or if lack of confirmation allows questionable modern behavior.
In this original Digital Art and Philosophy class, we will become familiar with different forms of digital art and related philosophical issues. Digital art is anything related to computers and art such as using a computer to create art or an art display that is digitized. Philosophical aspects arise regarding art, identity, performance, interactivity, and the process of creation. Students may respond to the material in essay, performance, or digital art work (optional). Instructor: Melanie Swan. Syllabus: www.MelanieSwan.com/PCA
This document discusses Theodor Adorno's views on irrationality and rationality in Western capitalist societies. It examines how Adorno conceptualizes irrationality as arising from a fear of the unknown and a desire for domination. It also discusses Adorno's critique of popular culture and the "culture industry," seeing it as promoting passivity in audiences. The document raises several discussion questions about applying Adorno's views to non-Western societies, underground cultural production, and resisting media hegemony.
Who are the actors of controversies? appreciating the heterogeneity of collec...INRIA - ENS Lyon
This document discusses several topics related to the social construction of science:
1. It references Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar's 1979 book "Laboratory Life" which argued that scientific facts are social constructions.
2. It discusses the "Sokal Affair" where a physicist published a nonsense paper in a cultural studies journal to test their intellectual standards.
3. It covers the debate between positivism, which sees scientific truths as facts, and relativism, which sees them as social fetishes, as well as constructivism which sees them as "factish."
4. It examines arguments around extending the notion of agency in technoscience to include non-scientists, non
AI Health Agents: Longevity as a Service in the Web3 GenAI Quantum RevolutionMelanie Swan
Health Agents are a form of Math Agent as the concept of a personalized AI health advisor delivering “healthcare by app” instead of “sickcare by appointment.” Mobile devices
can check health 1000 times per minute as opposed to the standard one time per year doctor’s office visit, and model virtual patients in the digital twin app. As any AI agent, Health Agents “speak” natural language to humans and formal language to the computational infrastructure, possibly outputting the mathematics of personalized homeostatic health as part of their operation. Health Agents could facilitate the ability of physicians to oversee the health of thousands of individuals at a time. This could ease overstressed healthcare systems and contribute to physician well-being and the situation that (per the World Health Organization) more than half of the global population is still not covered by essential health services.
The computational infrastructure is becoming a vast interconnected fabric of formal methods, including per a major shift from 2d grids to 3d graphs in machine learning architectures
The implication is systems-level digital science at unprecedented scale for discovery in a diverse range of scientific disciplines
We know that we are in an AI take-off, what is new is that we are in a math take-off. A math take-off is using math as a formal language, beyond the human-facing math-as-math use case, for AI to interface with the computational infrastructure. The message of generative AI and LLMs (large language models like GPT) is not that they speak natural language to humans, but that they speak formal languages (programmatic code, mathematics, physics) to the computational infrastructure, implying the ability to create a much larger problem-solving apparatus for humanity-benefitting applications in biology, energy, and space science, however not without risk.
This document summarizes a presentation on quantum intelligence and socially responsible artificial intelligence. The key points are:
- Quantum intelligence refers to intelligence operating in the quantum realm, which may help with potential convergence of AI and quantum computing around 2030. Scale-free intelligence is formulated as a generic capacity for learning.
- AI adoption is happening rapidly through technologies like research copilots, AI engines, chips, and potential for software 2.0 with machine-written code. This may facilitate knowledge generation and problem solving.
- Socially responsible AI (SRAI) for well-being is proposed as a social and technological objective, to be realized through short-term regulation, medium-term value learning, and
The Human-AI Odyssey: Homerian Aspirations towards Non-labor IdentityMelanie Swan
The visionary progression in The Odyssey from shipbuilding to seafaring to advanced civilization informs contemporary tension in the human-AI relation forcing a broader articulation of human-identity beyond labor-identity. Edith Hall analyzes why one of the earliest known literatures, The Odyssey, remains a central cultural trope with numerous references in the storytelling vernacular of all eras, ranging from 1860s British theater to a highly-watched 1990 episode of The Simpsons. The argument is that The Odyssey provides a constant aspirational reference for human identity – who we think we are and where we are going on the epic journey of life, especially at the current crossroad in our relationship with technology.
The contemporary moment finds humanity, and the humanities, experiencing an identity crisis in the relationship with technology. Information science is having an ever more pervasive role in academia, and the machine economy continues to offload vast classes of tasks to labor-saving technology giving rise to two questions. First, at the level of labor-identity, humans wonder who they are as they have long defined their sense of self through their professional participation in the economy. Second, at the level of human-identity, with AI now performing cognitive labor in addition to physical labor, humans wonder if there is anything that remains uniquely human.
The effect of The Odyssey is to provide world-expanding imaginaries to change the way we see ourselves as subjects; in this way, Homer is an early modernist in reconfiguring our self-concept.
This work applies a philosophy (of literature)-aided information science method to discuss how Homer’s Odyssey persists as a literary imaginary to help us think through potential futures of human-AI flourishing as rapid automation continues to impact humanity. The intensity of the human-AI relation is likely to increase, which invites thought leadership to steward the transition to a potential AI abundance economy with fulfilling human-technology collaboration.
The shipbuilding-seafaring-advanced civilization progression in The Odyssey identifies that the human-AI relation is not one of the labor-identity-crisis of “robots stealing our jobs,” but rather one of the more difficult challenge of envisioning who we can be in the new larger world of human-AI partnership addressing a larger set of planetary-scale problems. Towards this new configuration of human-AI relation, the longer-term may hold radically different notions of identity, as we become physical-virtual hybrids, augmented post-disease entities in the health-faring, space-civilizing, energy-marshalling post-scarcity cultures of the future.
AdS Biology and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
Quantum Information Science is a fast-growing discipline advancing many areas of science such as cryptography, chemistry, finance, space science, and biology. In particular AdS/Biology, an interpretation of the AdS/CFT correspondence in biological systems, is showing promise in new biophysical mathematical models of topology (Chern-Simons (solvable QFT), knotting, and compaction). For example, one model of neurodegenerative disease takes a topological view of protein buildup (AB plaques and tau tangles in Alzheimer’s disease, alpha-synuclein in Parkinson’s disease, TDP-43 in ALS). AdS/Neuroscience methods are implicated in integrating multiscalar systems with different bulk-boundary space-time regimes (e.g. oncology tumors, fMRI + EEG imaging), entanglement (correlation) renormalization across scales (MERA, random tensor networks, melonic diagrams), entropy (possible system states), entanglement entropy (interrelated fluctuations and correlations across system tiers), and non-ergodicity (implied efficiency mechanisms since biology does not cycle through all possible configurations per temperature (thermotaxis), chemotaxis, and energy cues); Maxwell’s demon of biology (partition functions), conservation across system scales (biophysical gauge symmetry (system-wide conserved quantity)), and the presence of codes (DNA, codons, neural codes). A multiscalar AdS/CFT correspondence is mobilized in 4-tier ecosystem models (light-plankton-krill-whale and ion-synapse-neuron-network (AdS/Brain)).
Humanity’s constant project is expanding the range of attainable geography. Melville’s romance of the sea gives way to Kerouac’s romance of the road, and now the romance of space. In expanding into new geographies, markets (commerce) is the driving impulse, entailing a legal and judiciary system to order the new larger continuous marketplace, which brings a bigger overall scope of world under our control, and hence a new idea of who we are as subjects in this bigger domain.
Space Humanism is a concept of humanism based on the principles of inclusion, progress, and equity posited as a condition of possibility for a potential large-scale human movement into space. A philosophy of literature approach is used to contextualize Space Humanism, first through Melville-Foucault to articulate the mind-frame of extra-planetary geographies as one of human expansion, and second through posthuman philosophy extending from Shakespeare’s Renaissance humanism to contemporary enhancement-based theories of subjectivation.
Historical imaginaries outline subjectivation moments that have changed the whole notion who we are as humanity. Four examples are: the concept of the “new world” in Hegel’s philosophy, von Humboldt’s infographic maps, Baudelaire as the Painter of Modern Life, and Keats’s seeing the world in a new way upon reading an updated translation of Homer.
The reach to beyond-Earth geographies is a two-cultures project involving both arts and science. Technical competence is necessary to realize the aspirational, explorational, and survivalist aims of humanity pushing beyond planetary limits. Space was once a fantastic dream that is becoming quotidian with fourteen U.S. spaceports, six completed Blue Origin space tourist missions, and SpaceX having over 155 successful rocket launches including human space flights to and from the International Space Station. The notion of Space Human articulated through Shakespeare, Moby-Dick, and neuroenhancement informs the project of our reach to awaiting beyond-Earth geographies.
Quantum Information Science and Quantum Neuroscience.pptMelanie Swan
This document summarizes a presentation on quantum neuroscience given by Melanie Swan. It discusses how quantum effects may be relevant to neuroscience, outlines various research topics within quantum neuroscience like imaging and protein folding, and describes mathematical approaches like wavefunctions and topological data analysis that are being applied. It also provides background on the levels of organization in the brain from the nervous system down to ion channels, and reviews the current status of the connectome and motor neuron mapping projects in different organisms. Finally, it discusses modeling of neural signaling across scales using techniques like partial differential equations.
The document summarizes a presentation on quantum information and technologies. It discusses:
1) How quantum computing could enable solving problems in fields like space science, biology, and finance faster than classical computers by taking advantage of quantum properties like superposition and entanglement.
2) Some of the basic concepts in quantum information like qubits, qudits, wavefunctions, error correction, and different methods for building quantum computers like superconducting and optical approaches.
3) The status of quantum computing including cloud access to quantum processors with over 100 qubits now available from IBM, though fully error corrected quantum computers still remain in development.
Philosophy-aided Physics at the Boundary of Quantum-Classical Reality The philosophical themes of truth-knowledge and appearance-reality are used to interrogate the contemporary situation of the quantum-classical boundary, and more broadly the quantum-classical-relativistic stratification of physical scale boundaries. The contemporary moment finds us at breakneck pace in the industrial information revolution, digitizing remaining matter-based industries into a seamless exchange between physical-digital reality. Digitized news is giving way to digitized money and perhaps in the farther future, digitized mindfiles (such as personalized connectome files for precision medicine, autologous (own-DNA) stem cell therapies, and CRISPR for Alzheimer’s disease prevention). Our technologies are allowing us control over vast new domains, the relativistic with GPS and space-faring, and the quantum with quantum computing, harnessing the properties of superposition, entanglement, and interference. Philosophy provides critical thinking tools that can help us understand and master these rapid shifts in science and technology to avoid an Adornian instrumental reality (subsuming humanity under societal structures) and to maintain a Heideggerian backgrounded and enabling relation with technology (versus technology enframing us into mindless standing reserve).
The philosophical theme underlying the investigation of the scales of planets, persons, and particles is the relationship between truth and knowledge (or appearance and reality). The truth-knowledge problem is whether knowledge of the truth, true knowledge, the reality under the appearance, is even possible. Three salient moments in the history of the truth-knowledge problem are examined here. These are the German idealism of Kant and Hegel, the deconstructive postmodernism of Foucault and Derrida, and the unclear leanings of the current moment. The German idealism lens incorporates the self-knowing subject as agent into the truth and knowledge problem. The postmodernist view breaks with the subject and emphasizes the hidden opposites in the formulations, the constant reinterpretation of meaning, and porous boundaries. The contemporary moment wonders whether truth-knowledge boundaries still hold, in a Benjaminian view of non-identity between truth and knowledge, and truth increasingly being seen as a Foucauldian biopolitical manufactured quantity. Contemporaneity has a bimodal distribution of the subject: the hyperself (the constantly digitally represented selfie self) and the alienated post-subject subject.
These moments in the truth and knowledge debate inflect into the scale considerations of relativity, classicality, and quantum mechanics. Whereas general relativity and quantum mechanics are domains of universality, totality, and multiplicity, everyday classical reality is squeezed in as a belt between the two multiplicities as the concretion of drawing a triangle or tossing a ball. Recasting truth and k
Comprehensive philosophical programs arise within a historical context (for Hegel and Derrida in the democracy-shaping moments of the French Revolution (1789) and the student-worker protests (1968) in which French politics serve as a global harbinger of contemporary themes). In the Derrida-Hegel relationship, there is more rapprochement concerning core notions of difference, history, and meaning-assignation than may have been realized. In particular, Hegel’s philosophy, despite being assumed to be a totalizing system, in fact indicates precisely some of the same kinds of revised metaphysics-of-presence formulations that Derrida exhorts, namely those that are flexible, expansive, and include non-identity and identity.
A crucial Derrida-Hegel interchange is that of différance and difference. Derrida develops the notion directly from Hegel (“Différance,” “The Pit and the Pyramid”), but only draws from the Encyclopedia, not Hegel’s masterwork, the Phenomenology of Spirit. For Derrida, the “A” in différance is inspired by the form of the pyramid in the capitalized letter and in Hegel’s comparing the sign “to the Egyptian Pyramid” (“Différance,” p. 3). Derrida invokes the symbolism of the pyramid, antiquity, and Egyptian hieroglyphics as an early semiotic system. However, when considering Hegel’s central definition of difference in the dialectical progression of thesis-antithesis-synthesis in the Phenomenology of Spirit (§§159-163), the articulations of différance and difference are remarkably aligned.
Parallel formulations are also seen in history as a series of reinterpretable events, and indexical wrappers as a mechanism for meaning assignation. The thinkers examine the universal and the particular by exploring regulative mechanisms such as law (natural and social). In Glas, Derrida highlights not the singular-universal relation, but the law of singularity and the law of universality relation as being relevant to Hegel’s Antigone interpretation (Glas, p. 142a), a theme continued in “Before the Law.” Finally (time permitting), there is a question whether the most valid critiques of Hegel (Nietzsche’s unreason and Benjamin’s non-synthesis), as alternatives to Hegelian dialectics, are visible in Derrida’s thought.
The upshot is that the two thinkers produce similar formulations, derived from different trajectories of philosophical work; a situation which points to the potential universality of fundamental solution classes to open-ended philosophical problems, including the future of democracy.
This presentation discusses quantum concepts including:
1. The quantum mindset of thinking in terms of superposition and multiplicity to solve problems.
2. Kant's view of time as both transcendentally ideal and empirically real, with infinite multiplicities existing simultaneously.
3. Applying the quantum mindset to economics, with money having both virtual and physical properties like quantum objects, and blockchain enabling new economic designs based on use value over exchange value.
Blockchain Crypto Jamming: Subverting the Instrumental Economy
The ultimate subversion is money, refusing the pecuniary resources of the state. This project applies a philosophical and critical theory lens to examine the use of nomenclature in one of the most radical longitudinal transformations in contemporary times, the shift away from state-run monetary resources towards cryptocurrencies and smart contracts in citizen-determined decentralized financial networks.
A Cryptoeconomic Theory of Social Change is presented in which linguistic progression serves as a tracking mechanism. The steps to lasting change have their own vocabulary (Brandom). First, there is the social critique, the complaint about what is wrong, the negative side (Adorno and Horkheimer highlight instrumental reason and the empty culture industry). Second, there is the antidote, an alternative that can overcome the complaint, the positive side. Third, the solution becomes the new reality, and as a consequence, the whole of reality is now seen in this context, adopting its vocabulary (“fiat health” system for example, referring to the antiquated method). The social movement graduates from language game (Wittgenstein) to form of life (Jaeggi).
Blockchains are Occupy with teeth, notable in the level of personal responsibility-taking by individuals to steward their own financial resources. The crypto citizen is not merely trading CryptoKitties and Bored Ape Yacht Club tokens, but getting blocktime loans through DeFi liquidity pools instead of fiat banks, earning labor income in crypto, and shifting all economic activity to blockchain networks. The artworld signals mainstream acceptance with Christie’s non-fungible token digital artwork auctioned from Beeple for $61 million. At the global level, coin communities constitute a new form of Kardashev-level (planetary-scale) democracy. Blockchains emerge as a robust smart network automation technology for super-class projects ranging from space-faring to quantum computing and thought-tokening. The further stakes of this work are having a language-based theory of social change with broad applicability to social transformation.
This work argues that the emerging understanding of time in quantum information science can be articulated as a philosophical theory of change. Change and time are interrelated, and one can be used to interrogate the other, namely, a theory of change can be derived from a theory of time. What is new in quantum science is time being regarded as just another property to be engineered. At the quantum scale, time is reversible in certain ways, which is quite different from the everyday experience of time whose unidirectional arrow does not allow a dropped egg to reassemble. At the quantum scale of atoms, though, a particle retains the history of its trajectory, which may be retraced before collapsed in measurement.
Quantum scientists evolve systems backward and forward in time, controlling phase transitions with Floquet engineering. Quantum systems are entangled in time and space, with temporal correlations exhibiting greater multiplicity than spatial correlations. The chaotic time regimes of ballistic spread followed by saturation are implemented in quantum walks for faster search and heightened cryptosecurity. In quantum neuroscience, seizure may be explained by chaotic dynamics and normal resting state by Floquet-like periodic cycles. Time is revealed to have the same kinds of repeating structures as space (described by entanglement, symmetry, and topology), differently instantiated and controlled.
The quantum understanding of time can be propelled into a macroscale-theory of change through its connotation of a more flexible, malleable, probabilistic interface with reality. Change becomes less rigid. Probability is the lever of change, but notoriously difficult for humans to grasp, as we think better in storylines than statistics. The idea of manipulating quantum system properties in which time, space, dynamics (change), are all just parameters, is an empowering frame for the acceptance of change. The quantum mindset affords greater facility with probability-driven events (change).
Blockchains in Space: Non-Euclidean Spacetime and Tokenized Thinking - Two requirements for the large-scale beyond-terrestrial expansion of human intelligence into the universe are the ability to operate in diverse spatiotemporal regimes and to instantiate thinking in various formats. Newtonian mechanics describe everyday reality, but Einsteinian physics is needed for GPS and the orbital technologies of telescopes and spacecraft. Space agencies already integrate the Earth-day and the slightly-longer Martian-sol. A more substantial move into space requires facility with non-Euclidean spacetimes. One challenge is that general relativity and quantum mechanics are non-interoperable. However, the theories can be formulated together when considering black holes and quantum computing since geometric theories and gauge theories are both field-based. Quantum blockchains instantiate blockchain logic in quantum computational environments. Blockchains have their own temporal regime (blocktime: the number of blocks for an event to occur), and hence quantum blocktime is a non-classical functionality for operating in diverse spatiotemporal regimes. Thinking is a rule-based activity that is unrestricted by medium. Central to thinking is concepts, which are referenced by words. Word-types include universals, particulars, and indexicals which can be encoded into a formal system as thought-tokens, and registered to blockchains. Blockchains are contemplated as an automation technology for asteroid mining and space settlement construction, and thought-tokening adds an intelligence layer. Time and tokenized thinking come together in the idea of smart networks in space. In blockchain quantum smart networks, spatiotemporal regimes and thought-tokens are simply different value types (asset classes) coordinated with blockchain logic, towards the aim of extending human capabilities into the farther reaches of space.
Complexity and Quantum Information ScienceMelanie Swan
This document discusses using quantum information science and quantum computing to model complex systems like the human brain. It proposes the "AdS/Brain Theory of Neural Signaling" which uses wavefunctions, tensor networks, and neural field theories at different scales from brain networks to molecules. Quantum computing could provide a new platform to model the brain across its nine orders of magnitude of complexity and help complete the human connectome by handling the large data and processing requirements. The AdS/Brain theory represents the first application of the AdS/CFT correspondence across multiple scales of the brain.
Cryptography, entanglement, and quantum blocktime: Quantum computing offers a more scalable energy-efficient platform than classical computing and supercomputing, and corresponds more naturally to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. Blockchains are a decentralized digital economic system made possible by the 24-7 global nature of the internet.
Quantum Neuroscience: CRISPR for Alzheimer’s, Connectomes & Quantum BCIsMelanie Swan
This talk provides an introduction to quantum computing and how it may be deployed to study the human brain and its diseases of pathology and aging. Refined to its present state over centuries, the brain is one of the most complex systems known, with 86 billion neurons and 242 trillion synapses connected in intricate patterns and rewired by synaptic plasticity. Research continues to illuminate the mysteries of the brain. Quantum computing provides a more capacious architecture with greater scalability and energy efficiency than current methods of classical computing and supercomputing, and more naturally corresponds to the three-dimensional structure of atomic reality. The vision for quantum neuroscience is to model the nature of the brain exactly as it is, in three-dimensional atomically-accurate representations. Neuroscience (particularly genetic disease modeling, connectomics, and synaptomics) could be the “killer application” of quantum computing. Implementations in other industries are also important, including in quantum finance, quantum cryptography using Shor’s factoring algorithm (“the Y2K of Crypto”), Grover’s search, quantum chemistry, eigensolvers, quantum machine learning, and continuous-time quantum walks. Quantum computing is a high-profile worldwide scientific endeavor with platforms currently available via cloud services (IBM Q 27-qubit, IonQ 32-qubit, Rigetti 19Q Acorn) and is in the process of being applied in various industries including computational neuroscience.
Art Theory: Two Cultures Synthesis of Art and ScienceMelanie Swan
Thesis: Aesthetic resources contribute broadly to the human endeavor of progress, self-understanding, and science, beyond the immediate experience of art. Aesthetic Resources are frameworks, concepts, and modes of expression in art, literature, and philosophy that capture the imagination and the intellect through the senses. The role of art is to inspire the future: the romance of the sea, the open road, space.
The arts are a hallmark of civilization, but can their benefit be crystallized as aesthetic resources that can be mobilized to new situations? How can aesthetic resources help in moments of crisis?
A worldwide social identity crisis has been provoked by pandemic recovery, politics, equity, and environmental sustainability. Philosophical and aesthetic resources can help. Understanding art as a reflection of who we are as individuals and groups, this talk explores conceptualizations of art, with examples, in different periodizations from the 1800s to the present. A marquis definition as to what constitutes an artwork is Adorno’s, for whom the work must promulgate its own natural law and engage in novel materials manipulation. For many theorists, art is the pressing of our self-concept into concrete materiality (whether pyramids, sculpture, or painting). What do contemporary periodizations of art mean to our current and forward-looking self-concept? Recent eras include the neo-avant-gardes of 1945, the conceptual art of the 1960s, and post-conceptual art starting in the 1970s, produced generatively with found materials, the digital domain, and audience interactivity. What is the now-current idea of art? Is today’s Baudelairian flâneur and Balzacian modern hero incarnated in the quantum aesthetic imaginary and the digital cryptocitizen? Far from an “end of art” thesis sometimes attributed to Hegel, aesthetic practices are more relevant than ever. Individually and societally, we are reinventing creative energy and productive imagination in venues from science, technology, health, and biology to the arts.
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5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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1. Grammatology and Performativity:
A Critical Theory of Silence
Tacet ad Libitum: Poetics & Politics of Silence
Münster Germany 27 Jul 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, PhD
University College London
“Outside there was silence, as there is and has been and
always should be. The perfect silence of the spheres.”
- Elizabeth Bear, Ancestral Night, 2019, p. 384
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Bruegel the Elder, 1560
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A critical theory of silence is needed to recoup the
ontological status of silence as the condition of thinking,
lost in a world of literal and figurative noise
Thesis: silence is a thinking technology
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Argument Overview
2
Identify generative conditions for thinking expressed via
performativity, subjectivation, and creativity
Argument Leg Finding Limitation
I. Problem Exploration
1. Thinking
(Arendt, Heidegger, Picard)
Silence is the necessary condition for thinking Need to elaborate a critical theory of silence
2. Grammatology
(Derrida)
Identify relevant opposing binaries
(silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise)
Binary setup cannot overcome phenomena of
individuation (e.g. noise)
3. Scientific Theories of Noise
(Malaspina, Wilkins)
Complex information-noise relation (randomness)
necessary for novelty generation
Noise is not performative, reaches fixed ceiling
II. Solution Elaboration
4a. Performativity
(Goffman, Bennett, Szendy)
Self-aware performativity, music & noise
individuate, but music ontologically greater
Performativity does not exhaust (fully describe)
subjectivation
4b. Subjectivation
(Haraway, Puar, Heidegger)
Identity is performed, silence is necessary for
thinking and subjectivation, instrumental
distraction alert (crowd rabble they-voice)
Incomplete subjectivation without construction
of objects in the world
4c. Creativity
(Heidegger, Taylor, Boden)
Creation of “artworks” necessary to change and
expand the meaning of being
End Solution: open-ended novelty production
Method: Graphical Philosophy
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Method: Graphical Philosophy
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Agenda
Philosophy of silence
Critical silence as grammatology
Silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise
Critical silence via scientific theories of noise
Entropy, signal-to-noise
Critical silence and thinking
Performativity, subjectivation, creativity
Conclusion
4
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Philosophy of Silence
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Is silence a nothing or a something?
There is nothing (silence) and there is something (music, noise)
The bigger question is why there is “something” (order, structure)
in the universe and not just “nothing”
Given the limitless variety of ways in which matter and energy can arrange
themselves, almost all of which would be “random,” the fact that the physical world is
a coherent collection of mutually tolerant, quasi-stable entities is surely a key
scientific fact in need of explanation (astrophysicist Paul Davies, p. 16)
Not just nothing-something, but something is simplicity-complexity
The vexing scientific mystery that pervades the universe is the peculiar conjunction
of simplicity and complexity (Ibid.)
Source: Davies, P.C.W. (1992). Why is the physical world so comprehensible? CTNS Bulletin. 12(2):16-21.
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Philosophy of Silence
Silence is originary not derived (Heidegger, Picard, Goethe)
Silence is an ontologically free-standing something
Silence is not the absence of noise
(Deleuze parallel): difference is not the opposite of identity,
difference is its own standalone ontological entity
“Silence puts humanity to the test”
We flee from it by surrounding ourselves with distractions
The necessity of silence is a very deep matter
Silence take us back to the beginning of things
We leave behind “the merely derived phenomena”
with which we normally live
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Source: Picard, Max. (1989). The World of Silence. Trans. S. Godwin. Chicago: Regnery. (influences: Heidegger, Rilke, Hölderlin)
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Arendt
Silence is the medium in which thinking takes place
7
Propaganda (The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951)
Totalitarian regimes prevent silence with propaganda
Constant propaganda broadcast 24/7 so no possible
silence in your own home, in your own mind
24-hour news cycle, doom-scrolling, social media
(self-administered propaganda)
Vita activa (The Human Condition, 1958)
Three activities of the active life: labor, work, action
Action: interstitial relation between political subjects
Theory of novelty: invent and realize new ideas
Publicly in political deliberation
Vita contemplativa (The Life of the Mind, 1978)
Three fundamental faculties of the contemplative
life: thinking, willing, judging
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom” – Frances Bacon
“Night is … the silence of the book” – Blanchot
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Grammatology of Silence
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Grammatology project: develop a science of writing
Unclear which began first, speech or writing, so cannot privilege speech
Speech and writing are part of the larger category of language (thinking)
Deconstruction: emphasis the opposition in hierarchical binaries
“divine law/human law, family/city, woman/man, night/day” (Glas, p. 142a)
Différance: the difference and deferral of meaning
Meaning is produced in the interstitial relations between terms
Any “text” (a literary text, artwork, person, or governing state) is always open to
re-reading and re-writing in new assignations of meaning
Silent thinking Noisy speaking
Silence
Silence
Signal
Thinking
Speaking
Noise
Noise
Noise
Speech Writing
Language
Deconstruction: Identify Binaries
Deconstruction: Binaries reveal the
context of a bigger third position
Deconstruction: Move
Beyond the Binary
Source: Derrida, J. (1968). Of Grammatology. Trans. Spivak. (ch 2).
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History of Noise: Italian Futurism (positive)
Marinetti, 1909, Manifesto of
Futurism, Noise Music
Noise as a sign of modernity
Russolo, 1913, The Art of Noises
Musical aesthetics
Intonarumori: automated
instruments that generate acoustic
noise (engaged by Cage)
Futurism
Esprit of modernity
Celebration of machines, speed,
automation, movement,
dynamism, energy, noise
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Severini, 1912, Dynamic
Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin
Boccioni, 1910, The City Rises; 1913,
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
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Problem of Noise
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“The twentieth century is, among other things, the Age of Noise. Physical
noise, mental noise and noise of desire — we hold history’s record for all of
them. And no wonder; for all the resources of our almost miraculous
technology have been thrown into the current assault against silence. That
most popular and influential of all recent inventions, the radio, is nothing but a
conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this
din goes far deeper, of course, than the ear-drums. It penetrates the mind,
filling it with a babel of distractions – news items, mutually irrelevant bits of
information, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated
doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but merely create a craving for daily
or even hourly emotional enemas. And where, as in most countries, the
broadcasting stations support themselves by selling time to advertisers, the
noise is carried from the ears, through the realms of phantasy, knowledge
and feeling to the ego’s central core of wish and desire.”
– Aldous Huxley, The Age of Noise, 1945
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Problem of Visual Noise (the image)
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Source: Szendy interview: https://www.domusweb.it/en/art/gallery/2020/03/13/are-we-producing-way-too-many-images-the-dark-
side-of-the-visible-in-exhibition-in-paris.html
Hawkes, 2020
Today, “noise” is primarily visual
“We live in a world that is increasingly saturated with images. Each
day more than three billion images are shared on social networks.
The space of visibility seems to be literally inundated with a huge
number of images, making any other form of communication
irrelevant. – Savio Interview with Peter Szendy, 2020
The problem is not only the pervasiveness of the image but its
complete lack of an ethics of representation – Hawkes, 2020
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“In recent years noise seems to have become an interdisciplinary
concept par excellence, apt to capture important dynamics at work
whether in technological, scientific, social or aesthetic domains”
– Iain Campbell, Radical Philosophy, 2020
Philosophy of Noise
Noise as art, music, cultural or digital practice
as an unexpected means of intervening
Reverberations: The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of
Noise. (2012). Ed. Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan &
Paul Hegarty. New York: Continuum.
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Philosophy of Silence
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Source: Hall, Suzi. (2018). Edmond Jabès’s ‘Infinite’, ‘Exploded’ Book. PhD Thesis Flinders University.
The Book of Questions, Jabès (French-Egyptian philosopher), 1976
The silence
What unites us is the silence; the long asides in a
private conversation of the sand with the sand
The void
The neutral is, in a way, the nerve at the heart of the problem.
To undo the neutral; to push back to infinity the frontiers of
solitude. […] Unconditional presence, absence. Everywhere,
always the same void
The pause
Blanchot distinguishes as more of a disjunct; it is a silence that
introduces waiting, which measures the distance between two
speakers (the irreducible distance, not the reducible distance)
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Agenda
Philosophy of silence
Critical silence as grammatology
Silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise
Critical silence via scientific theories of noise
Entropy, signal-to-noise
Critical silence and thinking
Performativity, subjectivation, creativity
Conclusion
14
Scientific Theories of Noise
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Scientific Conceptualizations of Noise
Scientific definitions of noise in thermodynamics, information
theory, cybernetics, biology, and communications
Malaspina: noise = information, novelty (embrace uncertainty)
Wilkins: noise = randomness (warning re: manipulate/fetishize uncertainty)
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Sources: Shannon, C.E. (1948). A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Bell System Technical Journal. 27:379–423. Schuster,
T. et al. (2021). Many-body quantum teleportation via operator spreading in the traversable wormhole protocol. arXiv:2102.00010v1.
Information
entropy
Physical
entropy
Messy Desk:
tendency of systems
to become
disordered over time
Entropy
Measure of uncertainty in a system
Shannon entropy (1951)
Minimum # of bits (qubits) to send a
message (information-noise)
Total bits to send information given
noise (signal-to-noise/error ratio)
(Quantum) information entropy
Number of subsystem microstates and
interrelatedness
# microarrangements of a system
Communications
Channel: total
bits to send
Signal-to-Noise Ratio
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Epistemology of Noise
Ontological interrelation of information and noise
Implication: information societies are noise societies
Argument: cannot simply reduce or dismiss noise
Cannot reduce noise to error, disorder, disorganization
The very ground of the interrelation between information and noise is the
source of individuation and liberation
‘information entropy’ can be evaluated positively as ‘freedom of choice’ that augments the
quantity of information while also augmenting uncertainty, or negatively, when information is
on the contrary defined as negation of entropy, as negentropy, by pitting information as
reduction of uncertainty against both ‘information entropy’ and noise (p. 182)
Result: information-noise relation is the source of novelty
Novelty is individuation
Implication for Critical Theory of Noise
Not simply binary (thinking-speaking, information-noise)
Process with degrees of gradation, individuation
Suggests emergent order (chaos) (order, disorder, chaos)
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Source: Malaspina, Cecile. (2018). An Epistemology of Noise. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
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Noise as Randomness
Any complex dynamic system (cognition, markets) has
noise (randomness) as an intrinsic functional aspect
Argument: need to describe noise at multiple levels
Neuro-phenomenological explanation of noise
The use of noise (randomness) in music (aesthetics)
Warn: politics manipulates probability and fetishizes indeterminacy
Context: philosophies of randomness
Black Swan (Taleb): market returns are not normally distributed
(as in Black Scholes Nobel prize-winning formula), but can use
fat-tailed distributions to reduce “black swans” to “gray swans”
Black swan: a rare event, occurs more frequently than we think
Blank Swan (Ayache): future prices are fundamentally
unknowable, hence no attempt should be made to predict
them (contingency is the only necessity (Meillassoux))
Black swan: vehicle for changing context
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Source: Wilkins, Inigo. (2017). Irreversible Noise: The Rationalization of Randomness and the Fetishization of Indeterminacy.
London: Urbanomic.
2007 2006
2010
Black swan: just because you have not seen a
black swan does not mean they do not exist; aka
rare events happen more frequently than thought
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Order, Disorder, Chaos
Order (arrangement), disorder (confusion), chaos
(self-organization: confusion gives way to order)
Flocking: 3D orientation vis-à-vis 5-10 neighbors
Swarmalators: self-synchronization in time and space
Krill self-position in propulsion jet of nearest front neighbor (draft) as
a hydrodynamic communication channel that structures the school
(via metachronal stimulation of individual krill pleopods (~fins))
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Source: Murphy et al. (2019). The Three-Dimensional Spatial Structure of Antarctic Krill Schools in the Laboratory. Scientific
Reports. 9(381):1-12.
Krill swarm: 30,000 individuals per square meter
(largest known aminal aggregations)
Flocking: 3D orientation vis-a-vis 5-10 nearest neighbors
Black holes,
quasi-particles,
quantum spin
liquids, schooling,
flocking,
swarming
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Bergson: Two Kinds of Order
Physical (geometrical) and vital (creative) order
“the physical order and the vital order” (pp. 246-247)
“the geometrical order and the vital order are accordingly confused together” (p. 248)
The vital order reflects the natural direction of the mind, while the
geometrical order is opposed to it
the mind … can go in two opposite ways. Sometimes it follows its natural
direction in the form of tension, continuous creation, free activity (p. 244)
it cannot, without reversing its natural direction and twisting about on itself,
think true continuity, real mobility, reciprocal penetration in a word, that
creative evolution which is life (p. 178)
Doubled formulations: clocktime-durée, physical-vital order
Freedom and expression in the inner subjective doubled experience
Quantitative measurable clocktime (Chronos: sequential time)
Qualitative time of human experience (Kairos: propitious time)
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Source: Bergson, Henri. (1944). Creative Evolution. Trans. A. Mitchell. New York: Random House.
Vital (creative)
Order of the
Mind
Physical
(geometrical)
Order of Logic
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Agenda
Philosophy of silence
Critical silence as grammatology
Silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise
Critical silence via scientific theories of noise
Entropy, signal-to-noise
Critical silence and thinking
Performativity, subjectivation, creativity
Conclusion
20
Self-aware Performativity
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Performativity
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Source: Goffman, Erving. (1959.) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Garden City NY: Doubleday Anchor Books.
Noise is not performative
Heidegger: Dasein is the kind of thing for whom being is an issue
Goffman: human is the kind of thing for whom performativity is an issue
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Theater is a metaphor for life
All life is theater
All life is performance
Performatively-awareness in every interaction
Alter appearance, manner, setting, all for the (assumed)
impression-forming of the other
Theory of dramaturgical action (impression management)
Self as ongoing series of impression managements
Theory of self: self-presentation theory
Public-private selves (front stage presentation, backstage practice self)
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Performativity
Audience Sociology
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Sources: Walmsley, B.A. (2011). Why people go to the theatre. Journal of Customer Behavior. 10(4):335-351. Bennett, Susan.
(1997). Theatre Audiences: A Theory of Production and Reception. London: Routledge.
Why do people go to live events?
Emotional experience and impact
Escapism, learning, socialization, fun
Cultural theory of theater: the theatrical event
Not passive audience, not merely performer-audience
event co-creation, complex theater-life interaction
Theatre audiences bring a “horizon of cultural and ideological
expectations” to any performance (Bennett, 1997, p. 251)
The performance may fail if not connecting with the cultural and ideological
expectations of the audience, but expectations may not prove useful in the
decoding of the event itself (p. 259)
Seemingly homogenous audience demographics can harbor a
“diversity of publics” (p. 94)
Theater is not separate from life, theater reflects life
Theater is in constant dialogue with life
Audience identifies with the passion and struggle of life
Philosophy of Literature: Shakespeare
constantly challenging assumptions
that appearance is identical with reality
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Source: Bennett, Susan. (2019) Sound. London: Bloomsbury.
Role of sound in theater production
Establish setting, time, location, mood, atmosphere
Indicate the cultural context (transportation sounds,
sounds of the city, country, etc., era-specific music)
Provide exposition
Theatrical tool of silence and stillness
Focus attention
Intensify audience anticipation
Align character introspection
Paint sound pictures with sonic
approaches (e.g. Greek theater)
Chanting, singing, speaking
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Evolutionary Biophysics of Hearing
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Simultaneous appearance of tympanic ear
Many lines of species (Triassic era)
Source: Grothe, B. & Pecka, M. (2014). The natural history of sound localization in mammals – a story of neuronal inhibition.
Frontiers in Neural Circuits. 8(116):1-19.
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Source: Szendy, Peter. (2008). Listen: A History of our Ears. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York: Fordham University Press.
The Order of Sounds: A
Sonorous Archipelago (2016)
All Ears The Aesthetics
of Espionage (2017)
Listen: A History of
Our Ears (2008)
The Supermarket
of Images (2020)
Prophecies of Leviathan:
Reading Past Melville (2010)
Performativity of listening: the acoustical domain is
ontologically distinct from the visual
Can see seeing, cannot hear hearing (Duchamp)
Music (vs noise) expansive individuation property
True essence (timeless idea) of the work: composition or play?
Each play is an individuation; creation, reception, lifecycle of work
Life performance works become social objects
History of music and subversion
Political transgression, legal ownership, copyright, plagiarism,
reproduction, litigation
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Arrangement, Reproduction, Autonomy
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Source: Szendy, Peter. (2008). Listen: A History of our Ears. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. New York: Fordham University Press.
Paris Opéra
(Palais Garnier, 1875)
Role of arranging: appropriation or criticism?(p. 39)
Purist: Berlioz (preservation); Liszt (translation) (pp. 46-47)
Partners: Schumann (original-arranged complementary) (p. 38)
Novelty: Benjamin (not restore the original, express the pending
nature of the work and extract its true essence) (pp. 54-55, paraphrase)
Arranged copies: new individuals or derivative works?
1853 Paris Opera listener sues for authentic representation
Reproduction
Reproduction undermines or enhances artwork autonomy?
Era of technological reproduction
Malleable plastic listening supplants structural listening
New genres: treatment of sampling, remix, mash-up
Electronic Dance Music
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Temporality of Acoustical Works
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Sources: Swan, M. (2020). Philosophy of Time: Perspectives in Science and Aesthetics; (2019). The Ekphrastic Diagram: Towards a
Quantum Theory of Ekphrasis; (forthcoming). Alexander von Humboldt’s Environmental Holism.
Mimesis is an important tool in acoustical domains
Perdurant (while) temporality of acoustical work
The “while” interval needed to recognize a work, listen to a work
Visual artwork: snapshot temporality
Verbal artwork (music, poem): perdurant temporality
Ekphrasis: verbal expression of the visual and vice versa
Ekphrasis is the “verbal representation of visual representation” (Heffernan,
Museum of Words, p. 3), or possibly in reverse, as that in which “visual arts
produce an equivalent of the verbal text” (Krieger, Ekphrasis, p. xiii)
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Result: performativity and music constitute much larger
ontological domains than noise
Noise individuates
within fixity
Doppler effect
dissipates noise
Music is creative
and open-ended
Maslow tiers
Baseline fixity
Open-ended
performativity,
creativity
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Heidegger: Subjectivation
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Silence is needed not only for thinking but also for subjectivation
The wake-up call of the conscience “speaks in the
uncanny mode of silence” calling Dasein to the
“potentiality-of-being” from the “public idle chatter of
the they” (BT, Sec 57, p .256)
The “idle chatter of the they” voice (BT, Sec 60, p. 273)
(Nietzsche “the rabble”)
The call of conscience is a mode of listening specific to being
Dasein must hold itself “out into the nothing”
“The nothing is not an empty nothingness…but that which
alone thrusts us into being” (FCM, p. 299)
To be “beings in all our powerfulness as beings,” the task is “to
understand the innermost power of the nothing” (FCM, p. 299)
Silence (nothing) is the ground of our being
Silence is needed to fully develop our being
Dasein is genuinely discovered only in silence
The Fundamental
Concepts of
Metaphysics: World,
Finitude, Solitude
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Instrumental Distraction
Not just distracted by the idle chatter crowd they-voice
Willful refusal of silence, meditation, reflection, thinking
University of Virginia study (2014)
When asked to sit in silence without any distractions for 6-15 minutes,
most people preferred to administer mild electric shocks to themselves
(doing something, even if negative, is better than doing nothing)
One explanation: pragmatic bias to action and utility
Mode of “doing” not simply “being”
Silence does not appear to be immediately and
tangibly useful from a pragmatic standpoint
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Source: Wilson et al. (2014). Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind. Science. 345(6192):75-77.
Constant companion
(noise machine) means
never have to think
“The mind is its own place, and in it self/
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
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Instrumental Reason and Distraction
Instrumental distraction
Noise penetrates the mind, fills with babel of distractions (Huxley)
We flee from silence by surrounding ourselves with distractions (Picard)
Instrumental distraction: manifestation of instrumental
reason problem more generally that defines modernity
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Instrumental Reason and Heirs
Formulation Description Reference
1 Instrumental Reason Petrified structures of reason as empty forms devoid of
content (example: culture industry)
Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944
2 Instrumental Desire Empty forms in the context of desire Horkheimer & Adorno, Juliette, Ex
2, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 1944
3 Instrumental Novelty Generalized form of “newness for its own sake” empty
of content
Inferred by above
(Swan, 2022)
4 Instrumental Complexity Complex structures arising as a feature of modernity,
unless filled with critical and humanly-relevant content
risk becoming unnecessary complexity for its own sake
(example: overchoice)
Swan, 2022
5 Instrumental Distraction Constant distraction, refusal to think (example: UVA
2014, subjects prefer to self-shock than to think)
Swan, 2022
Source: Horkheimer, Max & Adorno, Theodor W. (2002). Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments. Stanford CA:
Stanford University Press.
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Method: Graphical Philosophy
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Heidegger: Artwork
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The work of art is a means of creating truth, producing
a community’s shared understanding of being
Each new artwork changes the meaning of being
Silence has a relation to truth as the unconcealedness
of being and language as disclosive sonorous saying
(Torres-Gregory, 2021)
Genuine speech is a speaking grounded in silent listening
Dasein is discovered only in silence
The artwork as the “groundless ground” for the
unconcealedness of being, the openness of beings,
the ground of our openness to the world (Newell-Smith, 2019)
Later Heidegger poetic language (“soundings” of Hölderlin’s
poetry) are not “contributions to aesthetics and literary history”
but rather stemmed “from a necessity for thought”
Source: Statistica. (2022). https://www.statista.com/statistics/1224510/time-spent-per-day-on-smartphone-us/
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Contemporary: Visual Silence
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Source: Taylor, Mark. C. (2020). Seeing Silence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
A philosophy of silence for our nervous, chattering age
“To hear silence is to find stillness in the midst of the
restlessness that makes creative life possible and the
inescapability of death acceptable”
Nietzsche’s Via Dolorosa is a Via Jubilosa affirming
light in the middle of darkness
Our way to hearing silence is to see it
Onement 1, Barnett
Newman, 1948
(Zip painting)
Anish Kapoor, Sky Mirror, 2018
Silence Art (examples)
James Turrell, Kepler 452 b, 2018 Ad Reinhardt, Red Painting, 1952
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Philosophy of Creativity
Conceptual Space (possibility space): a space where
the possible concepts exist, some of which have been
explored and some are yet to be discovered
H-Creativity (historical creativity): new discovery in the world
P-Creativity (personal creativity): new discovery for you
Three kinds of creativity
1. Combinational Creativity
Two or more existing ideas joined in a novel association
2. Exploratory Creativity
Free exploration of the unplumbed regions of concept space
3. Transformational Creativity (highest level)
A new idea is found outside of the original conceptual space,
thus changing the shape of the concept space itself
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Source: Boden, Margaret A. (2004). The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms. London: Routledge.
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Conceptual Space of Creativity
Not constrained to human individual
Collective intelligence, computational intelligence, AI
Generative creativity: technology finds new
coherence in possibility space
AI completes Beethoven’s 10th symphony (2021)
AI writes a “novel” (1 the road) (2018)
AI laptop with sensors (AV, GPS) on Kerouac route
“It was 9:17 in the morning, and the house was heavy”
Computer algorithms (Wolfram)
Locomotion (gait) configurations (Lipson)
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Source: Boden, Margaret A. (2010). Creativity and Art: Three Roads to Surprise. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
AI novel, 2018
2021
2021
2002
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Silent Meditation
Meditation, contemplation
Buddhist monk studies
2020: Aging impact: fMRI analysis of 18 yrs meditation: 41 yo brain
age (per gray matter) of only 33 yrs (Davidson, U WI, Neurocase)
2011: Human brain, monks keep both networks active in meditation
Extrinsic network: active when performing tasks (throw a ball)
Intrinsic (default) network: self-reflection, emotion
Brain entropy (# neural states) and plasticity (rewiring)
2018: Higher variability in neural states higher test performance
(Shipley Vocabulary, WASI Matrix Reasoning test) (Saxe)
Mind-wandering (open orientation, non-task focused)
2021: known neural correlates indicate common pattern of brain
network interactions across time scales and contexts (Kuyci)
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2011 fMRI Study: 20
Tibetan Buddhist monks
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Agenda
Philosophy of silence
Critical silence as grammatology
Silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise
Critical silence via scientific theories of noise
Entropy, signal-to-noise
Critical silence and thinking
Performativity, subjectivation, creativity
Conclusion
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Method: Graphical Philosophy
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Argument
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Identify generative conditions for thinking expressed via
performativity, subjectivation, and creativity
Argument Leg Finding Limitation
I. Problem Exploration
1. Thinking
(Arendt, Heidegger, Picard)
Silence is the necessary condition for thinking Need to elaborate a critical theory of silence
2. Grammatology
(Derrida)
Identify relevant opposing binaries
(silent thinking vs noisy speaking; silence-noise)
Binary setup cannot overcome phenomena of
individuation (e.g. noise)
3. Scientific Theories of Noise
(Malaspina, Wilkins)
Complex information-noise relation (randomness)
necessary for novelty generation
Noise is not performative, reaches fixed ceiling
II. Solution Elaboration
4a. Performativity
(Goffman, Bennett, Szendy)
Self-aware performativity, music & noise
individuate, but music ontologically greater
Performativity does not exhaust (fully describe)
subjectivation
4b. Subjectivation
(Haraway, Puar, Heidegger)
Identity is performed, silence is necessary for
thinking and subjectivation, instrumental
distraction alert (crowd rabble they-voice)
Incomplete subjectivation without construction
of objects in the world
4c. Creativity
(Heidegger, Taylor, Boden)
Creation of “artworks” necessary to change and
expand the meaning of being
End Solution: open-ended novelty production
Method: Graphical Philosophy
“There are at least two kinds of silence that define us. One is the eloquent silence
of the world as we were given it--the silence of light and beauty, the silence that
holds a promise ... There is also sometimes a dark silence within us, one that
results from willful blindness and deafness” – Photographer Robert Adams
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Proposed: a critical theory of silence as the necessary
condition for thinking in science, art, and politics,
expressed as performativity, subjectivation, and creativity
Thesis: silence is a thinking technology
A critical theory of silence is needed to recoup the
ontological status of silence as the condition of thinking,
lost in a world of literal and figurative noise
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Risks and Limitations
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Human-Technology Relation
Digital divide
Cost, accessibility, overwhelm, constraint
Instrumental distraction: Lack of right
Heideggerian relation with technology
Humans willingly enframed as standing reserve
instead of technology as background enabler
Alienation
One-way panopticon surveillance, no
sousveillance counterbalance (Brin): drones,
private data monopolies
Performativity, subjectivation, creativity
are challenging
Directed by inspiration, energy, serendipity
Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology
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Tacet ad Libitum: Poetics & Politics of Silence
Münster Germany 27 Jul 2022
Slides: http://slideshare.net/LaBlogga
Melanie Swan, PhD
University College London
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Bruegel the Elder, 1560
vielen Dank, Fragen?
The silence of the spheres
or the music of the spheres?
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The Performative Pear
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Girl with a Pearl Earring,
Vermeer, 1665
Girl with a Pear Earring
…and the not
so well known
Famous paintings
Famous stage
directions
“exit, pursued by a bear”
The Winter’s Tale,
Shakespeare, 1623
“exit, pursued by a pear”
…and the not
so well known