11: Use OODAR!

jeffreyvgormly@yahoo.ie > institute for social choreography (svalk, dwhite, apickering, sfitzpatrick, ashapiro

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in a privileged state
there is no single equilibrium configuration
but rather a variety of microstates
consistent with a given macrostate.
the systems potential for disorder
refers to the number of alternative states
it might potentially access,
and thus increase its complexity
ie the measure of a systems information capacity
ecosystems contain this diversity within themselves
in simultaneous mosaic patches
lemke

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I speak
a radicalisation of democratic ideals
collective empowerment of local traditions
redistribution of economic, technological and political rights away from the
centre
deconstructing the myth of power
taking culture in all its variety seriously
whatever contributes to small-scale social forms
and personal empowerment
nourishes the ecological ego
roszak

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evolutionary change is lawful, but not predictable in detail

lemke

culture is constructed out of nature

by mediating rituals of play.
emergence of human cultural codes
is a relational or reorganizational process
within the patterning of the ecosystem.
the template is not a stabilized internal DNA,
rather the persistence of patterns of coupled processes.
ecosocial system is in a process of communication with its environment,
and the locus of control, or template, is inhering
in the dynamic interplay of the ecological conversation:
a state of continual dynamic disequilibrium
continually seeking a steady state it can never achieve,
a cycle in which differences create
(or enable the creation of)
further differences.

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relationship: the polymorphous language of sociality

the relationship between organism and environment
may be described as a conversation
(mutually constructive - information flows both ways);
information becomes not a unit of difference
but a process of differentiation.
the formation of information
[maintenance, transmission and elaboration of differences]
in other words, communication
becomes the principal activity of culture,
and cultural processes interface with evolutionary ones.
the difference which makes a difference is the impetus
for the play of social practice, of culture and discourse formation.
creative process:
the immanence of mind
in the energetic processes of nature.
relationship lives by guiding the adaptation of the relata:
we becomes an evolving relationship
between homo sapiens and environment.
with no knowledge of the total outline
of any of their social structure.
Only a continuing, adaptable, long-term effort
on the same time-scale as the control sought
could succeed lemke

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with no knowledge of the total outline

of any of their social structure.
[for bees in a hive, the territory is the map]
For the integral picture does not exist in his mind;
he is
in
it,
and cannot see the whole from the outside.
malinowski

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we are basically liquid design

fuller

we are (ready for) evolution.

we are a life-practice where intellect is merged with activity;
we are a collective enterprise:
mind spatially and temporally distributed
through an evolving human-ecological network.

we are a mental ecology:

the interaction and survival of ideas and programs in circuits;

we are patterns formed by the practice of symbolic exchange.

we are ongoing adaptive systems symbolic, imaginary and real.
we are goalseeking behaviour of (organic and social) open systems
in relation to their various environments

we are systemic understanding of wo/mankind as a collective being-in-process

we are the active maker of a future that is chaotically open
we are a new authorial identity:
expanded ecological persona - immanent, metastable;
human-information-ecological internet.

we become communicants in an intertextual dialogue

we allow for both continuity and difference
we are poetics : living imagination:
logic out of metaphor,
philosophy from literature,
idea from image:
rebellion through the inscription of life into death

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the key idea is play

play as cultural practice
on multiple levels of abstraction
in uncontrollable diversity
might prompt new social formations.
I play to rewrite software
(the principal distinctions that have comprised our civilisation)
play as
resilient information space of evolution;
multilevel game of adaptation;
double coding.
I play: structures recur but are altered by noise
play as unpredictable dynamic mixture of logic and metaphor
operating on multiple levels of abstraction.
we play : sacramental co-evolution;
processes of human communication merge
with those of evolutionary ecology,
and those of culture with those of nature

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play as welcome noise

(a spiral nebula of fragments : a person thinking beside himself)
that allows regenerative reorganisation of a living system
at a more complex and resilient level.
we play : the masks are socially and ecologically constructed personae,
and those playing the roles are responsible
to the society and ecology that produce them
play as desire: the secret circulation of seductive analogies
supplemented by primary process.
fragments circulate desire,
interlocking circuits of contingency
(the loops of a larger social and ecological fabric)
like spirals of difference at a new interface;
we play threshold:
the boundaries are not given in advance
but are constructed
in social, evolutionary-ecological interaction.
play as complex interaction
you touch each other really
to redefine the physical space between us.
we play the ecological persona:
the self that pours out through play
play as learning how to use metaphors to relate
what the full purpose of the interaction is.
I play to create who you are:
selves are generated out of relationship

I speak to define the proscenium:

the frame of communicative empowerment

therefore I speak
a recursive, self-empowering dialogue on the postmodern stage;
technological poetics as a form of evolutionary self-making.

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these activities we now engage

do not mean what they would mean
if they were serious
bateson

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Cosmic Madonna, 2014

The pure trace is diffrance the formation of form

wilden, derrida

note:
to expand our states potential for disorder
requires negative capability,
individual flexibility & population variability,
in a choreonautic state of dance.
for me, the key idea of play suggests the appropriate tone
for interactions with the various apparatus (political, media, social)
that we wish to begin to destabilise
in the name of radical experiments in social choreography.
in play, as in a state of dance, the map and the territory become one:
just as for bees the hive itself is the map of the hive.
with regard to institution-building,
i find the metaphor of skin to be most inviting:
a metaphor of the body and embodiment;
a surface that grows, expands, mutates, adapts;
a membrane that signifies threshold / boundary (fertile zone for play);
our (and all organisms) most extensive sense organ;
medium for communication as interface:

interfaces are absent metaphors:

anything across which agency changes form.
they stand in for absent structures
thanks to Daniel White for postmodern ecology,
which I have compressed to create this technology for scanning.
when we think of the ecological figure of the mother (mother earth)
we would do well to remember that
weaning and fledging are mothering activities
equal to those of gestating, birthing and nursing
finally, if governance can be understood
as the administration of problem-solving capacities,
and art and culture can be understood
as the exercise of capacities for world-disclosure,
can we think a praxis of play
that rhymes these actions?
where the disclosure and reception
of multiple, unique and different life-worlds
is the fundamental solution to
the present socio-political situation

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What Are We Talking About?

difference & inflection:

their traces, somehow,
form institutions

We are talking about creating new institutions. An institution establishes

something.
Creates both a practical and theoretical field.
These would be examples of "new (or expanded) functioning".
Where people gather and engage (as creative facilitators) who are able to
suspend contemporary normative modes of thinking...
able to "dis-entangle" from the matrix of the contemporary situation "the
current field of constricting norms and patterns of behavior"
and manifest new fields (or ecologies) of possibility.
people to develop their own "home-grown" generative structures.
They deviate. They are vertigenous
(whirling... creating loss of balance)
They are re-combinatorial....
or perhaps a moving
They signify a unity of knowledge beyond disciplines...
fulcrum is possible;
They establish a new relational field...
vortexes enable a rich
One that is in motion...
"Amalgam emollient...
distribution of information
softening or soothing the skin
between bodies of water
attempting to avoid confrontation or anger; calming or conciliatory
making soft
highly tolerant zones
Where beliefs systems are suspended
play
& new ordering principles are at work
... in soft focus.
THE PASSIONLESS PRINCIPLE
entails a dissolution, dismantling & disabling of contemporary structures &
fields of expertise...
softened
So few people have the courage to follow trajectories (inspirations) of thought
and practice
that call their own theories and institutionally-sanctioned authority and identity
into question...
despite an historical situation "screaming" for new ways forward.
THINK THE TIME IS NOW
The Dictatorship are "we"...!!!
The idea is to outline a perspective on the present socio-political situation (in
Europe and the U.S.) and to speak generally to Roberto Unger`s "The
Dictatorship of No Alternatives" from a performing arts and design
perspective.
"empowered democracy":
a more open and more plastic set of social institutions through
which individuals and groups can interact, propose change, and
effectively empower themselves to transform social, economic, and
political structures. The key strategy is to combine freedom of commerce
and governance at the local level with the ability of political parties at the
central level to promote radical social experiments that would bring
about decisive change in social and political institutions.

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What We Are We Talking About?

whirlplural: vortex of reception
freedom practice:
a vortex of reception:
receiving capability
on an altar of perception
paradox practice:
art becomes action
doing not-knowing
restructures relation
faith: a form of co-ordination:
decentralised genius;
soft skin, soft ware,
(hard fought) soft motion...

Easy to use!

OODAR

Choreonautic Navigation System

Its an app, for your Kinesphere!
Locate yourself in the new cultural paradigm!
Successfully assess threats and opportunities!
Find your place in an immanent ecological persona!
Discover new institutions, NO BUILDING REQUIRED!
A Flexistential twist on your next new favourite!
Adapted from top of the range US Military methodology,
Including critical proprietary technology first published in
Postmodern Ecology by Daniel White

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