I. HELLO NET
08/10/18

Hello Net,
“According to the rhizomatic methodology meaning emerges from a vibration, which is singular in its genealogy and can proliferate and be shared. Meaning is, therefore, an event, not a necessity — and we can share it with other singularities which enter into vibrational syntony (or sympathy) with our intention of meaning.” (Berardi, 2015)

I am keen to fail at meaning and embrace language’s malleable’s imperfections.
I believe my thoughts to be non-linear. I will attempt and restitute them here as abruptly as they appear. Providing space to their vibrations and hopefully disclose poetical accidents within leakages in their referential encounters.
I am already facing the limits of my own techné as my non-linearity doesn't fit "user-friendly”’s blogs layouts. It is as if aesthetic singularity had become a privilege (E. g. Wordpress CSS custom use is a membership feature.). It is striking how blogging interfaces became new commodified objects seamlessly hiding behind an open source discourse; today every one can blog, but on the same platforms, using the same themes, neutralising any form of subjective aesthetic.
I will subsequently try and code another blog as I write this one (although it is already a rather interesting alternative - www.hotglue.com). It is a side project and a first step toward user-friendliness emancipation. This will certainly take time as I am untrained, but in a nearby future this blog will (hopefully) be outsourced to a new domain independent from other people’s understanding of what a blog should look like.
[So this never happened, but it is still in the back of my mind and I reckon I will re-construct this blog over the summer.]
Concerning this parallel space of mine, here is a draft of how it should/could be structured — those are random thoughts:
_ Thinking of a non-linear/rhizomatic way of blogging.
_A sort of tool to visually enhance thinking overload and cognitive disruption.
_ Palimpsest mimicry: "A manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing." (Anon, 2018)
_ Show the different stratus of my thought process (As a sort of time machine one should be able to refer to every letter which was typed, erased, re-written, etc…)
_ It should easily be hyper linkable in a non hierarchic way.
_ People should be able to comment on it (in between Gihtub and google doc)
_ The space should be floating, non structured.
_ I also think my writing should be inclusive, so that any non-expert can learn from my experience.
_ Would there be a way to travel back in time?

26/10/18

Hello again,
It is funny, I just had a discussion with a friend who studies neuro-aesthetics about how terms and words definitions are quintessential to intelligible communication. Yet, he framed his argument within a quantitative reasoning (related to his practice) rather then qualitative (closer to mine). For him academic writing are relevant in enabling readers to “scan-read” papers and gain direct access to specific information. But then, if everyone writes like this, doesn’t culture becomes data which can be passed through different brains to generate new data? In such way culture looses its meaning as it becomes just another commodity. It becomes a mean rather then a thing. This links back to this first post I wrote about my skepticism toward academic writing. The reasons I am afraid of such methodologies are beyond my lack accuracy; but instead about this feeling of not being prepared to expose my thoughts to a general public. I am unready to commodify my thoughts, to betray their essence while turning them into pseudo-objective signs for other to use. This is also certainly why this blog oscillates between a diary and a blog/journal format. It’s interesting, in French the word diary is in fact “journal” and philosophers journals are studied as being as relevant as theoretical writing. This is maybe why I wish to mix those two ways of writing on a horizontal level.

Bibliography:
Berardi, F. (2015). And: Phenomenology of the End : Sensibility and Connective Mutatio. 1st ed. Semiotext(e).
Anon, (2018). [online] Available at:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/palimpsest [Accessed 8 Oct. 2018].
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GDJ (2016). Slavic Language Diagram With Drop Shadow. [image] Available at:
https://openclipart.org/detail/262539/slavic-language-diagram-with-drop-shadow [Accessed 8 Oct. 2018].
The art of compost (n.d.). [image] Available at:
https://theartofcompost.com/2015/10/15/poetics-of-the-rhizome/ [Accessed 8 Oct. 2018].
Anon, (n.d.). [image] Available at:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/archimedes/about.html [Accessed 8 Oct. 2018].
Anon, (2018). [image] Available at: http://archimedespalimpsest.org/slideshow/ [Accessed 8 Oct. 2018].