The document discusses convergence in social technologies and infrastructures, and how current social media systems have failed to fully utilize network properties and distribution. It proposes that deconstructing rigid socio-political systems through liberalizing network properties and realizing network systems through mutations in social reality could emanate new social infrastructures without reference to previous systems. This would cancel media and arrive at pure information and a system without mediation through new syntax or language that enables instant cognition beyond current formats.
2. Convergence as a Technology of
Social Production
The convergence we are witnessing in our
social reality is not merely convergence of the
media channels, content and technologies; it
is even more so convergence of social
technologies, infrastructures and entities.
Convergence and like phenomena began the
liberalization of the society and its process,
however it seems the infrastructure which
was supposed to liberalize the social
infrastructure failed to accomplish its task,
since yet again it collapsed back into the
social contract and its rigid infrastructure.
3. Suppressed Infrastructure
Not only that the system that came out of six-degrees-of-
separation theory (social networking) is dead, it never
utilized the power of network distribution, as well as
idiosyncratic and whimsical property of the network/neural
system. Furthermore, social media turned superior system
into suppressed infrastructure, which turned social
development retrograde instead of pushing it forward.
4. Zapped out Hypermodernizam
The medium as such, even with the
trendy atomization of the audience
and the hyper-multiplication of
channels, accomplishes its prophet
role and it religious provenience. If
it is possible to turn any medium,
or even any message into a format,
what we have is not only the
atomization of the channels,
rendering the ideology of everyone
is a prophet, we could have the
utter deconstruction of all and any
elements of the medium, format,
metatext and even the text.
5. Can the message cancel itself if
there is no motive to
communicate it and there is no
designated course of its
distribution? Is there a chance for
a hypermessage to gain a body,
interaction and infrastructure?
Can we claim that the
(hyper)mutiplications of formats,
channels and messages, contrary
Zero Point
to Baudrillard’s mantra could
actually be a method to cancel
media and finally arrive at the
bare information and the system
without a reference? Can we
actually emanate a hapax, a
system with high level of entropy
with no reference, which could
endlessly reproduce without any
recollection of the previous
system?
6. Mutation
System that originated from media/technology/social
convergence and network system(s) created a rupture in
social infrastructure and social institutions, although
pseudo, it brought to light or emanated a mutation as a
possible technology for a social development and
abatement of the social contract.
7. The media with no motive to communicate the
message (as one of the technologies of the media thus
social construction or a deconstruction) where possible
implosion of value-chain occurs, is respectively creating
an infrastructure wherein systems emanate constantly
without any reference of recollection of the previously
realized system; in such a system the information could
be detected as an entity which has no relation to its
interpretation, as it is recognized without a mediator,
making the mediator obsolete.
Canceling the Media
8. Deconstruction
Deconstruction of the retrograde socio-political system
should be accomplished through liberalization of the
properties of the system, or via absolute realization of the
network/neural systems through mutation of the social
reality and revisiting the virtual environment and its
interaction with the social. What we could see in such a
scenario is not only the erasing or skewing of the borders
between media and the social body, we could perceive the
main elements of the both systems being deconstructed
simultaneously.
9. The New Syntax
Creation of the new social infrastructure and
canceling the social contract could be
accomplished through the new syntax, or the
new language (a subliminal one perhaps);
furthermore via distribution of the information
that is partial, but merely accomplishes
comprehension through ad hoc grouping in a
multifaceted environment (for the first phase),
until the absolute cognition is accomplished.
10. Free Will and Physics
(the excerpt for movie Waking Life)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vejSAt-MgAM
.
If one chooses to be a gear in a deterministic machine (as the guy in the video does), one chooses to relinquish own
free will, which does or does not constitutes a free will, since the only accomplishment of the free will is the
decision to relinquish the free will in order to become a part of, if I may say so, rather retrograde system.
On the other hand, if one “decides” to recognize oneself as a random swerving of the particles one could gain
absolute freedom since such a choice deconstructs and abates identity, causality, and needless to say a Will as such.
However, how could anything be created if there is no will to do so? Could we then shift the creation and the will to
consciousness and the actualization of the random particles or entities. Furthermore, what if we say that so called
“randomness” isn't randomness at all and it is executed by the complex system, which we couldn't even begin to
comprehend?
11. Causality
Can we comprehend causality as a
rigid infrastructure which stops the
development of a humankind, and
halts our understanding of the
cosmos and our place in it? However,
if the causality is not existent, how
does it relate to particles or entities
as well as their actualization? If all is
just a random swerving without
actualization, there is no
consciousness which could be
equipped for the creation of
anything. Therefore there should be,
or there is a system of immense
complexity, which assumes self-
consciousness and self-actualization
of its objects/particles/entities and in
which the causality is the most
restricted system.
12. The New System
The system has to be quirky and Paradoxically, Suprasystem
unstable, with the high level of entropy, is not superordinate to any
in order to utilize all of the properties other system.
of the system.
Properties:
Wobbly
Fluid
Infrastructure constantly evolves
Intelligent enough to adapt to any
number of variables and their interactions
Able for constant (self)upgrade
Able to create environments
Able to create realities
13. The connection between social reality and cosmology is in the
Social and Cosmology
phenomenon in which only some physicist gurus are leading
the development and forcing the scientific community to
comply with the dualism, measurement and other mantras;
which means we could have some serious development in
physics and cosmology if it weren’t for the social adaptation
phenomenon, and if the science would care to go into
ontology, and even more into cognition as such (as Heidegger
calls it “fundamental ontology”, prior to logic, theory or
thought).
Thus the main Problems are:
• The scientific community became a bureaucratic apparatus
• The only way we could understand universe in this stage of
development is through fundamental ontology.
• The syntax we use in creating our reality is inapt to give the
answer to the question of Being (the leading questions of the
ontology (Heidegger).
• Human development and the evolution are halted by the
inadequate philological development, which respectively
leads to a rigid social system (or falling back into the social
contract) unable to employ all its productive, creative and
intellectual forces, and vice verse.
• Clinging to causality, as its disappearance or transformation is
an “uncomfortable” notion for the physicist and the humanity
at large. The same goes for the quantum suppressed
infrastructure, and the perception of the physical and
simulational reality.
14. And... We should reassess Kantian
necessity, possibility, actuality
and causality rigid
infrastructure, as well as the
categories which define time
and space as inner and outer
perception of the “world”.
Furthermore, we need to abate
Cartesian or any other dualism,
and try not to divide the Being
from its environment and its
What can we get if we break actualization.
loose from the mentioned
categories? For Baudrillard
dialectical stage is already
empty! Can we arrive to the
pure information, essence,
Being, with absolute
cognition; and/or can we
finally indulge the Being in
environments of high level
of entropy, parallel universes
and multiple existences.
15. Definite need for the new syntax we can find in the fact
that the leading question in philosophy and ontology
by Heidegger; - What is Being of Being?, has many
philological problems, especially in English. In which
one definition of Being stands for what is the Being as
is, and the other for what is the understanding of Being
as is; bringing us to the conclusion that the Heidegger’s
main question is not ontological but a predominantly
philological one.
It is interesting that some “small” languages (e.g.
Croatian), have the distinction between those two
Beings, not only greatly conveyed but respectively
offer almost instantaneous cognition or a recognition
of the differences of the two idioms/entities.
The Reason
16. The Arbitrariness and the
Absolute
• The other night when watching a show on Discovery channel, the series on parallel universes, my
friend and me were screaming of laughter hearing the theories of the cosmologists; the first
comment my friend had was – our drunken friend has better theories. My comment was: oh yeah,
the universe is a pile of membranes that float in pure reason. It was a joke, however, the theories
physicists are trying to convey are completely arbitrary, and the measurements inadequate and
even more so, redundant, yet they are programmed not to go into fundamental ontology or
cognition.
• Thus my joke: the universe is a pile of membranes which float in pure reason, could be a plausible
theory. The same as: the universe is an idea, a thought, and became by the cognition of self, which
is undividable either from its environment either from its actualization. Nikola Tesla calls it the
Cosmic Reason, Absolute that created everything and at the same time it doesn’t assume any
action.
• But still we need to arrive at the Cosmic Reason without theory, logic, dialectics etc., and become
the one with it.
17. The Solution
Although the solution for the evolutionary quantum leap
cannot be administered as a cough syrup, we cannot move
forward without cognition. Is it a new syntax which is able
to transcend math symbols and philological ones the tool
that could bring us to pure information, and a hapax, a
system without a reference, a new language, a subliminal
one, that makes recognition and cognition instant?
Sumerian language, as well as their comprehension of the
syntax, symbols, cosmos and their relation, came close to
that ideal. No matter if the new syntax is a cause or result
(or both) of the brain-to-brain communication, it could lead
to instant cognition and an evolutionary quantum leap and
the fulfillment of human and neohuman potential as the
first phase of the new evolution.
18. Evolution – the excerpt for the movie Waking Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JkzfCW2yA
“The new evolution
stems from information,
and it stems from two
types of information:
digital and analog. The
digital is artificial
intelligence. The analog
results from molecular
biology, the cloning of
the organism. And you
knit the two together
with neurobiology.
Before on the old
evolutionary paradigm,
one would die and the
other would grow and
dominate. But under the
new paradigm, they
would exist as a mutually
supportive,
noncompetitive
grouping...”
19. In the theory mentioned in
the previous slide the
evolutionary quantum leap is
hapax
assumed through the
information; DNA as an
analogue information and AI
as the digital information, and
its intertwining through
neurobiology in order to
achieve superior social system
(at least in the first phase of
development). The theory
assumed in this presentation
presupposes generating the
new syntax which would
bring us to instant cognition
(without gene or other
manipulation), and a
suprasystem which is going to
make us achieve the
fulfillment of cosmic
potential, or an actualization
per se.
20. References
• Systems theory (von Foerster, 1960)
• Chaos theory (Gleick, 1991)
• Network Theory (Buchanan, 2003; Newman, Barabasi, Watts, 2006)
• Media extension of human body (McLuhan, 1964)
• Network vs. Hierarchical infrastructure (Galloway, 2002;
• PricewaterhouseCoopers, 2002)
• Hyperreality (Baudrillard, 1981)
• The Mirror of Production (Baudrillard, 1975)
• The Attention Economy (Davenport & Beck, 2001; Goldhaber,
• 1997; Barbrook, 1997; Berman & McClellan, 2001; Ghosh, 1997)
• Mass vs. Individual media (Kompare, 2002)
• Convergence (Forman & Saint John, 2000)
• Autopoiesis (Maturana & Varela, 1987)
• Knowledge Economy (Leadbeater, 2000)
• Gift Economy (Barbrook, 1997)
• Self-management (Petras & Veltmeyer, 2002)
• And much, much more
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21. Author
Ana Soric / MA in Communications /
CEO @ One of Three LLC /
/ +385 91 9080666 / +385 92 1475491
/ ceo@oneofthree.biz / www.oneofthree.biz /
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