<> Research triggers: (the PB project is rather intuitive as a whole ...) Making a comparison with how digital artefacts travel on-line, for example in the torrent protocol. From a movie, a unit of sense, gets atomized/cut to be able to be sent. The fragments travel, and are later re-assembled once all elements have been received. This paradigm is used for the body: first there is a physical body, then it gets sliced, then it gets re-composed as a virtual body. As if they are both whole, on both sides. The humanism of keeping the body as a unit of sense. Political issue of the dependence on wholeness in biomedical imaging. for clarity, body has to be sliced for observation (suspension of judgement, when you have 1mm of human slice) - truth is reinstalled again - 'oneness' linked to things we see happened in more general -- this transition from slicing to 3d recomposition; but this dependency on truthfulness is seat into all tools and imagery of 3d scanning, modeling and animation, it seems. Where there's a lot of work to create synthetic/virtual volumes, but every time the work -on all levels: time, computation etc.- is pushed under the surface of something that resembles real? where truthfulness means: hyper-real simone's proofs in court. it seems that in that move, conventional understandings of race, gender, age, all seem to slip back in. (back to 19th C perspectives on relationality/positions/truth etc) this is modernist: identifying, naming, labeling, categorisation -- 3D constructing the probable, more than the possible (or possible within a specific regime of truth) like, for example Parisi: Alien Logic of computation or Zach Blas on the paranodal or Barad on the queerness of atoms. [ suspicious about the pyrotechnics of their writings, always placing the possible elsewhere, out of reach ] blandness of an algorhythm, or the mediocracy of interface/software KW social-technological-powers / categorisation coming from the "wanting to know"(...) FS everything in the digital seems to be ready for hegemonic linearity - power structure manipulation FS saying unpopular stuff -> the digital is a pretty dreary place in its reliance of the binary, everything comes back to calculation in left-right,... so much drive towards absolute positioning even when it's very high resolution, where you can really precisely define through thousands of parameters -- people like Parisi, that are projecting potential in the space between the bits are interesting -- its a long way to seeing those Parisian :-) possibilites. Urgency is in trying to find those possible spaces within the digital, not just as a more interesting / less problematic use. not let the possible slip away into the imaginary (only). KW what tools do we have to be able to imagine what is going on inside us? why do we want to know? how to recognise we are in the monsters belly ... curiosity / understanding / science .. all charged processes how not to problematise modern conciousness as an alien thing but as something we are practitioners of? Why to research ... what fights are we picking? what means do we have? how do we commit to them? (not as a duty) KW this still sounds a bit too loose, to be worried about everything about the digital points towards future statistic power use. That's already happening. Waldby picked it immediately but the criticism goes alongside and it's loud enough in each step -- that's what i would care about. Not about taking a part and then critizicing it, but more that the criticism and the thing are hand in hand and hopefully they can inform each other? interest in doing it, in active criticism -- learning from relearn 'read me + ' -- critical fork. inserting criticism back into the tech. Software as a critique circluding has this as well, a teenage girls mag publishing it/on it so question is: where does it go, how does it get active. Action Based Research <--> software as a critique. How does critique circulate. A bugreport. wonder about how kids (now) understand news bias. they know, high level of interpretation. Are there ways you critique info so that you can understand better. Nicolas Maleve: http://sicv.activearchives.org/logbook/comparative-ways-of-seeing/ recently teamed up with Geoff Cox and they started "Machine ways of seeing" too much of Berger mansplaining? FS dreams of being able to speak back to projects like Blender. they deserve (as in: they might need to and their project is interesting enough) to be spoken with. But that's a bugreport on a megalevel. the possibility is maybe to cut up in smaller bugreports or work with different people, try to find different ways of making that conversation happen... Jara: maybe not the same urgency/sense of conversing with software communities (feels like lacking language) but feels attracted to the question of Machine - learning. Thinking through learning; enlarging the ecology of agents that are constructing the world we live in -- images produced / constructed collectively -- political conditions that affect/effect 'ways of being' :-P KW Reciprocal relationship: Involving herself into Q of technology. Setting up the observatory: different for different people involved. They are interested in setting up a space for thought without production as an end-point. 'Self-weeding involvement'. (like: a stock broker would probably not show up at Calafou). A space for thinking-through-making with as little capture as possible. KW also interested in local community. What happens if the resources get overblown by international, entitled, privileged people (if there is no application process). Trying to forge links betwene local community and the place, partnerships ... make sure it is not closed. Not that it should be a community center but also that there are links to the situation the observatory is .. situated in. Most work that is being done is on the relationship(s) of the people to the work and the space. It would be creepy to auto-observe too much maybe? OR maybe through a mode of a phd ... THE IDEOLOGY VS REALITY OBSTACLE. Have come up with code-words. Relation to FACT, sending people to the observatory. "indonesian photographer" --------------------------------- H E R E T H E F A N D O M S T A R T S : Before PB tour: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.hangar.tour 1) Explanation of 'Circlude'- Before PB tour: http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.hangar.tour 1) Explanation of ‘Circlude’ Begin here: http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?028 https://circluding.hotglue.me/?purplepulse https://circluding.hotglue.me/?biniadamczakquote https://circluding.hotglue.me/?trucker 2) Why circluding is a linguistic turn: https://circluding.hotglue.me/?applepicker 3) Carrier bag theory of fiction https://circluding.hotglue.me/?paleoliquify https://circluding.hotglue.me/?carrierstring 4) Hope for the hyperbolic space https://circluding.hotglue.me/?waterwiggler https://circluding.hotglue.me/?crochet 4) Gut Feminism, Elizabeth A. Wilson https://circluding.hotglue.me/?stomach https://circluding.hotglue.me/?gutquote 5) Polyvagal theory https://circluding.hotglue.me/?vagusnerve https://circluding.hotglue.me/?polyvagal 6) Barad https://circluding.hotglue.me/?baradquote Last: https://circluding.hotglue.me/?intestinequote oh & btw: If you need something to dance to following the tour, or you want a music video 3D intervention to item no: 038 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3E2pBC1R2A -- test sound 16h https://meet.jit.si/possiblebodies just click on the link. usually best in chrome, but ffox should work as well downloading app you don't need an app, it is browser based ok kym --------------- 0? or 6?) Registration -- into and onto - pushing ? Tension stress trauma release narrativising responses (panic attack, unreasonable response) modes of shaking the body two surfaces that have been in the same plane - registration not just an external mark that you measure against, but how s.thing had a place, was in place pushing into and onto both --> mutuality [intra-registration] 24 squares (how to connect to items in the inventory/guide?) P.S. This folding/cutting method seems to invite rotations! http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.hangar.programme -- provocation of circluding meeting slicing? It is about getting the fan-dom across -- how we love these connections should be tangible but maybe not immediately how, what ... we don't need to explain everything THE UNIT OF SENSE It is problematic, politically: body keeps being treated as a 'unit of sense' (or a combination of units of sense?). If the accurate treatment of tissue needs slicing, they ("they" as in practitioners of western visual culture and biomedicine) go for it, but always making sure there is a re-packaging into a body -- extreme humanism, preservation of the ONE. human body as a unit of sense Transition of the leaky body through processes of registration, data manipulation, without the leak - its hyper-real but without the promiscuity in cutting the body up and then doing a lotof work to re-construct it there is a lot of work to make it a whole again the breakdown of the Oneness https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/cd/52/30/cd523004f10018664c4334140c90099d--studying.jpg Pyrosomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosome <- a colony, not an organism... or yes? how not to project oneness of which human species has become ill of, onto other beingsand/or matters? Isolation of organs as units? [ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmnEu2hWcAAs1jQ.jpg:large but maybe not enough hole] SELF-MEASURING if not standard units of measure, then how? cultural/symbolic? likeness? BLACKBOXING exscription / inscription https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tactorax-131106204414-phpapp02/95/tac-torax-6-638.jpg?cb=1383770794 https://www.fda.gov/ucm/groups/fdagov-public/documents/image/ucm115328.gif HELLO WORLD (VERTICAL-HORIZONTAL)! Thinking about the 'solar anus' -- man penetrating the whole fackin' universe, of course, when getting up in the morning: "Hello World" - but: -> ' the affliction of penetration still rules supreme over the heteronormative imaginary and its arbitrary division of bodies into “active” and “passive.”' JR: haha this change of scale of the example if circlusion reminded me of the solar anus --> http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bataille_Solar-Anus-Pineal-Eye-Sacred-Conspiracy.pdf a scale issue: when change of scale of the circluding agent implies a switch of human-machine agency distribution...what? standing up - laying down RECIPROCAL PHYSICAL FORCES push onto instead of push into (push onto AND push into?) "The ring and the tube are rendered active. That’s all there is to it." (Bini Adamczak) ... nothing is rendered passive, though. CUT "the deeply connected way that everything is entangled with everything else means that any act of observation mak es a "cut" between what is included and excluded from what is being considered. Nothing is inherently separate from anything else, but separations are temporarily enacted so one can examine something long enough to gain knowledge about it. This view of knowledge provides a framework for thinking about how culture and habits of thought can make some things visible and other things easier to ignore or to never see. For this reason, according to Barad, agential realism is useful for any kind of feminist analysis, even if the connection to science is not apparent." [would be super nice to find a direct quote from Barad on this?] A specific intra-action (involving a specific material configuration of the “apparatus of observation”) enacts an agential cut (in contrast to the Cartesian cut—an inherent distinction—between subject and object) effecting a separation between “subject” and “object.” That is, the agential cut enacts a local resolution within the phenomenon of the inherent ontological indeterminacy. In other words, relata do not preexist relations; rather, relata- within-phenomena emerge through specific intra-actions. Crucially then, intra-actions enact agential separability—the local condition of exteriority- within-phenomena. The notion of agential separability is of fundamental importance, for in the absence of a classical ontological condition of exteriority between observer and observed it provides the condition for the possibility of objectivity. Moreover, the agential cut enacts a local causal structure among “components” of a phenomenon in the marking of the “measuring agencies” (“effect”) by the “measured object” (“cause”). Hence, the notion of intra-actions constitutes a reworking of the traditional notion of causality. CUT = SLICE ? http://web.mit.edu/8.13/matlab/MatlabTraining_IAP_2012/AGV/DemoFiles/ScriptFiles/html/slice.gif Find another word for ex-scription, but intra-scription? - Barad would call this 'materialist discursive practice' X-Y-Z cuts axial sagittal coronal http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~btap/Images/planes-body.gif REGISTRATION ?? something like calibration, but to each other instead of against an external norm ISOSURFACE https://svi.nl/wikiimg/IsoSurfaceBlack.png 'In contrast to making slices (whether they're flat planes or nonlinear), a different way of exploring volumetric data is to view the "boundaries". If you connect all the points with the same value, you get an isosurface' INSIDE = OUTSIDE Suely Rolnik talks about topography behavious of surfaces of no inside nor outside -like the moebious band- and that could be useful to understand and enact subjectivities emergence vs subject as an entity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V73MNOob_BU Water snake http://www.specialneedstoys.com/uk/3449/water-snakes-family-of-six-sensory-squidgy-toy.jpg "WATER SNAKE 4-1/4 Item#: 16634 DISC 10/18/10 The harder you try to grab this 4-1/4" rubber novelty the more it tries to squirm out of your hand. Assorted colors. Packed 1 dz. Case 12 dz. Sorry, this item is no longer available. Please select another item." Moebius ring etc. etc. + visible-invisible, transparent-opaque? "we clamor for the right to opacity for everyone" (Edouard Glissant) HYPERBOLIC SPACE rolling inward enables rolling outward MATERIAL RECIPROCITY symetrical distribution of agencies magnetic resonance? Barad -- getting real TEMPORALITY, PERMANENCE, DURATION, STILLNESS of agents, agencies distribution (observer-observed-?) sexualized matters (aka antropomorphized matters) BUT: additional logical gate -> raises a concern 25 july, 16.30h / skype conversation self-measuring and registration, teenage poster on the bedroom wall / zine as a poster the one Kym would want to have / would have wanted to have a version of the pyrosome on one side (?) [lateral thinking: the leviathan -> http://www.renewamerica.com/images/columns/13/131110washington.jpg] fanzine as a guide through the tour it does fanzine the organic fighting back a bit if the slice is problematic and (...) are there any items we can add so that the kym tour can connect to the inventory? script will give an idea of nr of pages possible focuses/angles for the conversation: 1) on agency / agency flipping devices 2) on biology as a center to hegemonic culture but as a periphery to feminism It is a double-crossing: *a more general one, KW interests, questions ... how can we/PB learn *the guided tour for Thursday when FS explained the VHP, kind of medieval dissecting of the body -- http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/possiblebodies.informaticbodies movement between frozen body and slices. -- 1mm and 0.33mm transferred the body directly into bits -- Each cycle required from three to 15 minutes to complete, and the Colorado team could do about 50 each day. The work was meticulous because, once the rasp started, there was no second chance. The tissue came off in a frozen powder, which was collected, stored and ultimately "cremated in a respectful manner," according to an NLM official. The Visible Human male comprises images from 1,829 cross sections and took nearly four months to complete. The female is made of images from 5,187 sections and took nearly 10 months. The NLM paid about $1.4 million for the work, which produced 15 gigabytes of computer code for the male and 40 gigabytes for the female. A gigabyte is 1 billion bytes, each of which contains eight digital units, or "bits." > the other way round - looked at slicer then backwards to visible human. Segmentation work - fixed seperation of organs, no promiscuity segmentation of organs is done alowwing for not promiscuity between organs, so keeps this separatedness of xix c anatomy seems that in the way 3d works there is a need for isosurface that reinforces the xix c separation/segmentation isosurface tomography - current biomedial imaging techniques are often based on slicing. Slicing is a way of removing contact with body slicing means removing the perspective and re-install it synthetically in the digital space. the VHP is a kind of exercise that makes that physically and also digitally. -- from flattening to re-constructung volume. thinking the body as a datascape. (VHP) It is problematic, politically: body keeps being treated as a 'unit of sense' (or a combination of units of sense?). If the accurate treatment of tissue needs slicing, they ("they" as in practitioners of western visual culture and biomedicine) go for it, but always making sure there is a re-packaging into a body -- extreme humanism, preservation of the ONE. human body as a unit of sense Transition of the leaky body through processes of registration, data manipulation, without the leak - its hyper-real but without the promiscuity in cutting the body up and then doing a lotof work to re-construct it there is a lot of work to make it a whole again like for example the "registration" is the process of making separate images e-connected and accessible fluidly again. the process of registration is assuming that subsequent images/slices of a body are actually 'simultaneous' but the body is different every-time suspension of judgment; after the repackaging, the body will be whole again. the issue of representation: these slices are treated as 'images' but they are more something like "maps". how to position "yourself" in a territory stand-in for reality, 'ideal' image Catherine Waldby, The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine: https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/b/goTzSmqtJT-khka0oobpANfVIoXzAGRzELF3icpmMFGqD4ZX Tomographic imaging is concerned precisely to eliminate the collapsed depth of the radiographic image, to try to banish the ambiguities of transparent density from the image by making its picture plane as shallow as possible. The CT scan, for example, eliminates all information outside the 1 mm depth of the scan, so that problems of perspective are minimised and the image field conforms as closely as possible to the projective medium, the screen. In this it shares a general drive within medical modernism to eliminate depth from both its image modalities and its objects, a drive which Cartwright describes as cubist—‘a [medical] culture that reconfigures the bodily interior as an endlessly divisible series of flat surfaces and mobile networks’ (Cartwright 1995:91). At the same time, tomographic methods paradoxically reinscribe depth in the image, or more precisely infer a composite image which reproduces depth within itself. Tomographic methods image the body as a registered series of planar ‘cuts’, which can, like the VHP data, be restacked to reproduce a volumetric map. what would an expert say about the absurdity of tomography -- the roughness of not wanting to see the body holistically, larger than how it can be 'seen' by the imaging tech. would they recognise it as just one way of seeing the body? one technique amongst many? How are the different imagings/imaginations brought together. Tomography as a cultural axiom. magnetic, radiation etc are all slicers. Interesting the absolute normalisation of the re-calculation. normalisation of recalculation after there is computation -- seems that the instance of a body can not exist without computation. // these images -- there is no picture-taking. No medium images get projected on. In tomography the only rendering visible happens through computation.Images that can not exist without computation. Images are slices? images are maps? are data for sure. how are these images generated? quemistry and physics http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/07/mri1_2.jpg (great wallpaper, how to circlude here?) vision, image -- should we call them images? (the problem of multiple images, is it more like cinema then?) is a map an image? are they stills? (still vs slice) relation between almost no depth, to no depth, to re-calculation of depth source for the regeneration of depth - which is why 'hyper-real' // and hyper-normal ;) also an issue with perspective, and trajectory of the "cut" -- want to look at the attention of "cut" in Barad could we perhaps talk about 1. slice (minimal depth) > 2. still (no depth) > 3. volumetric 3D (cartesian space) ? slicing and scanning is it possible to make a diagonal mri? does that matter? difference between circluding and agential realism -- circluding is still dialectical, it remains a flip on something that is already in existence -- it does it in a positive and a negative. Barad a more nuanced understanding? what about 'cut' -- technology + code + matter + hardware exscription -- a term that Waldby uses that is apparently generic: making visible what is inside whatever. For example: making visible the inside of an apple by excribing its internal flesh with x-ray or something. admits its own writing in the word 'excription' opposite gesture to that of inscription. Barad: a disciplinary cut, observational -- framing? Questioning the linguistic turn, we forgot that matter matters. Re-inserting matter into the conversation wondering what physicists/biologists think of her writing? microscopic/atomic lever. How does it matter? understanding conceptually it is never cause and effect, all intermingled. But what does that actually 'look' like?how does it affect when it is sub-atomic? feels like reading/thinking about horoscopes ... displacement MRI is (apparently) shaking the atoms in the body, to make them appear on the scan not hard to understand why taking pictures has had its critics ... (taking your soul) medical imaging has been studied fiercely by the feminisms, because of their critique of the alignment with identification, and definition of life -- image + empathy = pro-life ref. Blue Marble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble flipping inside outside cut / slice to reveal exscription - inscription (subscription :-)) ... agency? does 'scripting' prevent agency does stillness prevent agency? / MRI must be fun: https://www.raleighrad.com/wp-content/uploads/EasyRotatorStorage/user-content/erc_29_1348755976/content/assets/Raleigh%20Radiology%20235-0.JPG Waldby: "Internal surgery, the instrumental address of the living body ‘s internal organs, only became possible at the point when medicine developed exscriptive imaging technologies. I am using Lippit’s (1996) term here to refer to technologies that write the living body’s interior morphology as externalised image-objects, traces or reflections projected onto screens. Exscriptive technologies are techniques for imaging the living body, a visual ‘dissection’ which does not involve an actual incision." Luce Irigary - to be born Birth canal as a machine? Machine as birth canal! Life-changing aspect of being imaged KW "I guess you are born, are you? But can you birth yourself?" Thinking about the 'solar anus' -- man penetrating the universe when getting up JR: haha this change of scale of the example if circlusion reminded me of the solar anus --> http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Bataille_Solar-Anus-Pineal-Eye-Sacred-Conspiracy.pdf a scale issue: when change of scale of the circluding agent implies a switch of human-machine agency distribution...what? standing up - laying down reading Foucault: visible-invisible. Anchors of interpretation, inside - outside in modern western clinic. // alot about knowing about the living body through the death body. with MRI now body doesnot need to be dead, but just still for a while. talking about scale: http://rhmi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MRI-campsie.jpg in the ether: http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/ge_optima_mr430s.jpg https://www.imotek.com/images/products/13_1_zoom.jpg https://ii.yuki.la/2/af/eb8aaaf22e4d7af869297ac7d5101e687fd52ce39f6b7438132445d41ea8faf2.jpg snowden looking for toilet paper http://magnetica.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MRI-Man.jpg the breakdown of the Oneness https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/cd/52/30/cd523004f10018664c4334140c90099d--studying.jpg simulator http://www.medical-simulator.com/img/productos/XT90_0.jpg mummy http://milano.repubblica.it/images/2011/03/16/220946510-390281df-5f35-478e-b4e7-a5ad538f14ed.jpg can it please be more blackboxed? https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tactorax-131106204414-phpapp02/95/tac-torax-6-638.jpg?cb=1383770794 Possible Bodies trying to understand all these different imaging techs and their consequences: https://framacalc.org/biomedicalimaginations we'll go here tomorrow -> http://idi.gencat.cat/ can you get the machines to scan themselves? What is the critical mass that is needed to be scanned? Other textures? pocket knife/human/prosthetics etc what is considered tissue? Barad 818 - post-humanist performativity In summary, the universe is agential intra-activity in its becoming. The primary ontological units are not “things” but phenomena—dynamic topological reconfigurings/entanglements/relationalities/(re)articulations. And the primary semantic units are not “words” but material-discursive practices through which boundaries are constituted. This dynamism is agency. Just thinking about the necessity for naming other ways, to release agency. Seems as if circluding is an oldfashioned formal move: switching agencies around (what did not have agency, now has and the other way around) but there's something interesting -and that's why we were connecting it to hyperbolic space- that there's something non-permanent about the flip. Ability of going inside-out. FS reads it as cyborgian of this ability of being inside and outside at the same time. that's why the BUT gate is also related. // not reading it in a binary way. must we be careful ofnot doing this same move with the "excription" then? tomography is making visible what is the inside to the outside - doesnt take in to account the hyperbolic, the mollecule change here suely Rolnik talks about topography behavious of surfaces of no inside nor outside -like the moebious band- and that could be useful to understand and enact subjectivities emergence vs subject as an entity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V73MNOob_BU Yes. http://www.specialneedstoys.com/uk/3449/water-snakes-family-of-six-sensory-squidgy-toy.jpg "WATER SNAKE 4-1/4 Item#: 16634 DISC 10/18/10 The harder you try to grab this 4-1/4" rubber novelty the more it tries to squirm out of your hand. Assorted colors. Packed 1 dz. Case 12 dz. Sorry, this item is no longer available. Please select another item." The creation of the word 'circlusion', is a marxist move. The function of the word, if you take it as a shape ... that is something else? -> the limits of your language are the limits of your world + the limits of my poetry are the limits of my langue. Femke's toy: like a rubber tube on "not things but phenomena"... glowing tube in the sea / worm hole = a colony of tiny jelly creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwoezO1ZZBc breaks assumption of one entity matter in general pyrosomes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosome "we have the wrong eyes" proposal: would be nice to do an 8-page thingy now as a guided tour, a zine as a guide through the inventory moving through different objects, animals ... Ursula Leguin carrier bag: fiction + tools editorial challenge: not just slicing (pagination) but to somehow make the intersectionality happen Comimg back to questions of the volumetric or 3d on agency, with regards to volumetric aspects of matter, whereas a so-called-human body, a text, an image? // pyrosome: presumption of the 'one', the specimen as the unit of sense. so what about the agencies of volumetric aspects of matter: using circluding as a way to discuss that? the volumetric in circlusion ... where is it, exactly? volumetric = quantification of physical presence (how much / what space it occupies) x-y-z approaches to the world? pyrosomes have some form of measurement ... what would this be called? what is the measurement of the self (pre-imperial ... feet) propioception but without the psychic/psycho paradigm scale ! segmentation ! inter-dissection unlearning biomedical images from circluding .... how? intra-measurements data that is not extracted but that 'lives' (hmm) in-between, with that what is quantified/imaged/imagined not ex-scription, but intra-scription? argh (writing together) scanning, measuring: assumption of not-moving, not changing of the observed body nor of the observer and his/her apparatus, while measurement takes place not separating images from writing http://www.betterreading.com.au/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Very-Hungry-Caterpillar-internal.jpg https://www.carhartt-wip.com/journal/skate/2008/09/this-is-our-full-circle-a-plan-zine-by-ian-dykmans item 039 = 1B5A9J ?? what is one square, as a minimal unit (it is a 24 mesh) or voxels ;) it doesn't look so organic :-) https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/9d/4f/68/9d4f6819338741fbfef6ae5a53ba6a2d.gif http://scielo.isciii.es/img/revistas/rcoe/v11n3/c_fig3a.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger_-_The_Ambassadors_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_%28Holbein%29#/media/File:Holbein_Skull.jpg slice to volume registration http://www.feilab.org/research/research%20figures/Slice_Reg_Fig.jpg volumetric narrative/script of a scan http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/cms/Computer.org/dl/trans/tg/2011/03/figures/ttg20110303687.gif https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominique_Zosso/publication/37451189/figure/fig4/AS:309873578397699@1450891026202/Figure-4-Bi-planar-2D-to-3D-registration-scheme-Phase-I-rotational-images-are.png ----------------------------------------------- page 1 FRONT COVER page 2 INSIDE COVER page 3 ITEM 1 --- page 4 ITEM 2 page 5 ITEM 3 --- page 6 ITEM 4 page 7 ITEM 5 --- page 8 ITEM 6 page 9 ITEM 7 --- page 10 ITEM 8 page 11 INSIDE COVER page 12 BACK COVER 1) naming / terming: we looked a bit more carefully at http://circluding.hotglue.me/ -> opposite perspectives to physical processes (other views, alien logics, non-ocular perspectives) -- maybe you are interested in sharing a bit further about this? from there, ne thing we thought would be super super interesting would be to focus on "agency" in a situated manner, asking you to "interpret" the item nr 28 into item 62, as a gestureof "activating" circlusion together by, to start from, turning it into a verb... but not only ;) Circlusion http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?028 Circluding http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?062 -> renaming body agency to render certainbodyparts active // how some bodyparts make subjectivities emerge, and hence how their agency recognition is key for the recognition of those other subjectivities -> ' the affliction of penetration still rules supreme over the heteronormative imaginary and its arbitrary division of bodies into “active” and “passive.”' -> ...and more ;) Now, thinking about the guidedtour you'll prepare and we'll "embody" from here (tomorrow we can invent ways), we are sending here a list of possibly related items: *Anarcha's Gland http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?059 *NSFW http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?009 *The Eyes of the Rock http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?006 *BUT-gate http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?013 *Hyperbolic spaces http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?005 and, not so evidently related but yes, because we know they are both in your path: 2) (notes from) Gut feminism The body is not an apolitical substrate - feminist truism is: The body is a social construct (Wilson, p.26) anatomical influence - 'anatomy' as a science is not considered in hysterical paralysis. Just a part of the body is paralysed, but this operates according to symbolic / cultural logic rather than anatomical knowledge the biological body has been peripheral to much feminist theory How do biological data arrest, transform, or tax the theoretical foundations of feminist theory? Most feminist research on the body has relied on the methods of social constructionism, which explore how cultural, social, symbolic, or linguistic constraints govern and sculpt the kinds of bodies we have. These theorists tend not to be very curious about the details of empirical claims in genetics, neurophysiology, evolutionary biology, pharmacology, or biochemistry. "condensation of viscera and mood, exemplified in the term melancholia" "alliances of internal organs and minded states, not in relation to ancient texts but in the contemporary milieu where melancholias are organized as entanglements of affects, ideations, nerves, agitation, sociality, pills, and synaptic biochemistry." on the general antibiologicism of feminism -- (S)eek some feminist theoretical gain in relation to how biological data can be used to think about minded and bodily states. What conceptual innovations would be possible if feminist theory wasn’t so instinctively antibiological? questions of biology and aggression -- Placebo the crucial political point that every treatment requires an agent that traffics across boundaries in ways that, from the beginning, have been unstable and possibly perilous. The desire for a drug uncontaminated by placebo and the desire for treatments uncontaminated by drugs strike me as politically diminished in that they hold out for a kind of purity of action. (p140) [Kym said...] also - she looks at sandor ferenczi, who was around I think at time of Freud, and his theory of amphimixis - this is the interdependency of organs on one another. The reason I thought of this now, is that it connects whats happening throughout the body, rather than seperates, and often it sounds scandalous (!) but phantasy and intestine, for example, become directly biologically interrelated.