THINKLAB 1
Program:
Notes from Thinklab 1: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_thinklab1
Presentations Thinklab 1: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_thinklab_presentations
THINKLAB 2
Notes from Thinklab 2 - day 1: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_thinklab2
Notes from Thinklab 2 - day 2: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_thinklab2_day2
Brainstorm Thinklab 2 - day 2: https://pad.constantvzw.org/p/alchorisma_thinklab2_brainstorm
The Jung/Pauli concept of synchronicity
Olivier Perriquet
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Conventional presentation of time /physics/psychology/
"The last parts will be more difficult. Or less prepared."
bridge certain conception of mind/matter, aim of Jung & Pauli
1 direction, there can be many others
Holistic approach to physics > continue Einstein
not conception of all physicists
- 'Time flies like an arrow'
introduced in 1928 by Arthur Eddington, astronomer -> not that old
entropy: measure of disorder, randomness that is always growing, law of physics: if you let free in closed system, it increases randomness (except if you bring in energy)
newtonian understanding of time & space: time is constant
'hidden' conventions:
arrow points to the right = future. 'future is ahead'
ref: interfaces, timeline for editing film/sound. Spatial representation of time. strong connection space/time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time
[?? is die conventie hetzelfde in taalculturen waar de leesrichting ander is ? hebreeuws / arabisch ? ]
- The future is sometimes behind
Aymara language (nunez & sweetser, 2006)
Navajo: The future is down.
Einstein: space-time continuum
in classical (pre-einstein) newtonian mechaniscs gravitation force, gravity is linear, a continuity. Time and space can be thought of as separate.
bodies are following trajectories submitted to that force
in einsteins space-time continuum: shifting, we imagine we are in 3D, but represented as 2D space
space is not flat, deformations are proportional to the mass of the bodies
"Here it is physical, so you can see how the metaphor works"
not in euclidean geometry, every body follows geodesic trajectory; if you give it right energy it will stay on the same trajectory, otherwise following own route, elliptical, time depends on where you are, more interrelational.
Relativity = localized geometry; a continuity that is always changing.
- Light cones & world lines
at each position in that space-time continuum, you have a cone that represents all the world lines
Worldlines: Time passes through the Hyperspace of the Present.
if I'm an observer: all the points that are xxx the cone, are reachable
NOW is different for each observer. Observers can/need to/find a way to synchronize their NOWs.
question of synchronisation of the 'nows', important in relativity: each observer is in her own now
Einstein synchronisation: time that you need to go from one place to the other, ...
Speed of light is determining
Elle: "What are the qualities of the now?"
Time doesn't flow at the same speed, the closer I get to speed of light, the slower time flows
If I'm very close to speed of light, time would almost be still -- eternal now.
Paradox of the twins (Languevin???): if twin would travel around earth, when he comes back, 20y on earth would be 10 min for him/her
[BLACK HOLES COMING UP]
Perihelion of Mercury was not exaclty on place astronomers would think, they thought there would be another planet (named: Vulcan) in between
they didn't find it
slight difference can be explained by theory of relativities
Discrepencies in planet observations are result of bending light + bending time.
deformation around the sun, can be seen during an exclipse
this is called 'gravitational lens', huge bodies that deform the beams of light
Black hole == collapse of gravity.
if this body is really massive (8x volume of the sun), it creates a hole in the surface
everything that approaches hole, is absorbed by hole
theoretical prediction
"critical radius", "critical mass"
fear at Cern to create a black hole of their own, and get us in
black holes as laboratories for thought experiments.
if you're in black hole, the time flows backwards
is observed for tiny particles, you would be totally disintegrated if you come close to black hole
cfr Jean-Pierre Luminé, Black Holes (book), throw all our wast in black hole, energy that is brought back could feed into station
cfr Oulipo: contraptonyme
[black hole is anti-enlightment?]
"Black holes are a mathematical consequence of relativity"
theory of relativity was first theory, then observed....
'it should be what happened'
Wormholes and entanglement
another prediction of the theory
surface that is scratched binds elsewhere
Quantum entanglement. Yeah.
Minkovski space (mathematician) is 4 dimensional space, now there are theories of universe in 10 dimensions
if we would be able to go in the black hole, we would be able to get out elsewhere in the universe
shortcut if you pass by the blackhole
'back to the future'
both time & space become hyperbolic!
Entanglement < quantum physics
2 particles that are remote would influence each other
distant causal instantaneous connection, that contradicts traditional causality in physics
hot topic now to bridge these 2 theories, Einsteins relativity & quantum physics, still unsolved
Donna Haraway, Staying with the trouble (2016): Hyperbolic Spaces as 'surfaces of the possible'.
"Rolling inward enables rolling outward; the shape of life’s motion traces a hyperbolic space, swooping and fluting like the folds of a frilled lettuce, coral reef, or bit of crocheting."
:-)
this was operational conception of time, allows to be measured
my conception of time is completely different
these models do not help me to think of my actual experience of time
I experience encreasing entropy: I experience passage of time, growing older
but not represent it in this way
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_perception]
[age/ageing vs time?]
idea of cyclic time
more used in eastern part of the world
gathering notes on an island, 1 week in same place
competition between 2 ways of feeling time: explore the surrounding/more space (time arrow) or stay in coffee bar doing remote work installing a ritual (cyclic)
each one would feed the other
sthg during walk would remind me sthg that I experienced in past:
arrow/spatial: stacking of perceptions
cyclical [did he say ritual? I think so, as part of it]: every time would be different.
dialectic between both
Bergson: we have little experience of time in past, little of future, that is what everything is built on
Clocks as tools for synchronisation (but how do they operate on perceptions of time?)
when we are measuring time in my perception, we need sthg cyclic
cycle meets arrow
cyclic time of the stomach that makes noise, as tool for observation of cyclic time
[Madeleine de Proust
https://www.the-philosophy.com/proust-madeleine]
"we know that everything is driven by nerve impulses"
cfr consciousness: latest theory of the brain
delay between moment you act & moment you are aware of it
Benjamin Libet, neural scientist (book Mind Time): body/brain initiate mouvement before we are aware of it
inhibition mouvement everywhere
it questions free will
ex stop the car because someone is crossing car, being in control is illusion
http://possiblebodies.constantvzw.org/inventory/?050 -- 'Small Dance'
The Dream of the golden scarab, Yung
event that enables the theory to start
[New Materialism and issues with causality?]
[Synchronicity vs. Agential Cut?]
synchronicity:
- coincidence in time of 2 or more causally unrelated events which have same meaning
- acausal meaningful coincidence between a psychic event and phenomenon in the world
Yung: this is not a coincidence, it needs to have strong emotional impact on the situation
birds, Jung
premonition/precognition based on acausal relation
cfr Philip K Dick
cfr synchronous discovery of the light bulb/mobile telephone
hightened attention for something specific and you make the link
in most examples we can think of causal relationship, ex coq singing / sun...
but maybe not, cfr Mercury position...
maybe it needs a shift of conception
it is like 'terra incognita', I want to understand whether it is random or not
"I really want to understand whether it is random or not"
not only connected with ESP (extra sensorial person)
personal experience: on remote island, discussion, name a girl that you find sexy, I said France Gall
the day after I discovered she died - related to the emotional
song Der Computer Nr. 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Rtdb_zgqdQ?
Dean Radin, Premonition. book on extrasensory perceptions http://www.deanradin.org/
stories before 9/11
go against principal of causality
is 'confirmation bias' in a memory
it has to do with pattern recognition: most understanding of universe is hallucination....
immune system in body, the way it reacts to attack, has to do with pattern recogniiton
in both cases, we have to do with a network / swarm of relations
the amount of antibodies we have in system, is same as amount of neurons we have in brain
cfr Francisco Varela (biologist, worked in France, concept of 'enaction', trying to understand what would be 'life', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enactivism)
unbodied cognition: we should not forget that body is first interface to world
body able to do pattern recognition on its own, without connection to brain, is also interesting
Elle: it seems from examples that synchronicity is related to recognition
cfr déjà-vus
synchronization of time would make it easier for people working with it, recognizing the same.... common vocabulary?
also a way of being manipulated
how to synchronize meeting of inner & outer view
relation time + recognition (is pattern? or rhythm?)
there may be hidden ways to connect to other people and share patterns?
E: trying to make hypothesis: if synchronicity is link between internal emotion & external event, is it possible to do the opposite, starting to experiment the world in same way to internalize, cfr education system
F: if space/time becomes hyperbolic, why causal relations seem to exist?
going from causal/probable to possible, agency comes back with vengeance
multidimensionality of space/time gives many possibilities to act/see
premonition is repair of linearity?
multiplicity of it is interesting
O: not talking about hyperbolic space, i switched to personal experience
coincidences could also be things I observe in outside world that coincide with emotional state
backward causation.
if you say it other way round/reverse arrow of time, there would be no problem
recognize a pattern that would make us interpret sthg that happened before
infinite nr of possibilites allows certain degree of freedom
related to emotional state, not 'anodin', may have other explanations
suspension of judgement, stgh that is unexplained
Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (1900-1958)
Nobel Prize of Physics, spiritual son of Einstein
one of founders of quantum mechanics
[Worked with Bohr]
Jung spiritual son of Freud & dissident, disagreed with sexual vision
approached myths, etnology
Pauli was patient of Yung
Yung coined term of 'synchronicity', explored it with his patients
concept grew from their correspondance
collection of dreams, ex dream of the world clock
Yung made connection to kabbalistic philosophy
at origin of what he calls 'archetypes': patterns/symbolic forms that are widely shared amongst people, not dependent so much on culture
express themselves through dreams, personal dreams, myths/narratives
with archetypes Yung introduced 'objective ground' in psychology: intrusion of reality in subjective matter
in discovery of quantum mechanics world & subjects observing world cannot be disconnected: intrusion of subject into objective manner
both passed period of turmoils
ex the Pauli effect: was known by his colleagues to influence in negative way the experiments
things broke down, glass exploded...
Pauli-effect: it happened but he was not there - his train was stopping nearby
buddhist: there is only walking, not a man walking
examples: breaking of the boundary between subjects/objects, always interacted
is synchronicity a manifestation of non-dualist approach & quantum physics?
how do you relate it to rational thinking/knowing of science
experience that everything becomes meaningful without rational explanation
psychiatrics: when they meet people who experience constant synchronicity, they are autists, paranoids, people who suffer from it
you learn a filter, but filter is expanded...
boundaries are blurred, co-made, co-constructed
'objectivity'
separation between object/subject is methodology
you cannot do science of synchronicity, it does not fit the methodology
science & rationality are not coincidence
we need to find other methodology to explore synchronicity
ex work with group of women for long time, start bleeding together
synchronization of time/biological clock
subjectivity of how we see the world, can it be interlinked, so we see the non-separateness
How to grow singularity. synchronicity and collectivity
Jung: existence of paranormality
intersubjectivity: shared symbols, references: synchronicity is always present, even if we do not experience all the time
light form of hypnosis
'we can organise synchronicity': try to recognize person in the clouds, it takes time but it will happen
-> synchronous: there is no passing of time
memories that hit you
memories faillable, you make it larger when you write it down, manufacture memory
-> element of statistical chance and how they are retold
socially constructed, manufacture relations
interesting: because it gives us feeling that we can break with normal philosophy
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/feministstudies/faculty/barad/barad-natures-queer-performativity.pdf
Causality, responsibility and intra-action
Jung/Pauli
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
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Exercise with Elle on the working table
start breathing in through nose, out through mouth
make sound on out breath
create breaks when breathing in/out
offer left hand and take pulse of person on your right
breath, push when breathing in
eyes closed, breathing faster
hodl breath
think of worry
let it grow inside your body
let it come up
taste it in your mouth, saliva
take cup met nescafé
spit in cup
breathe in and throw out over paper
double fold paper
left hand under/right up, press paper
open, look at positive/negative form
let it speak to you
explain to each other
connect through eyes
right hand on heart chakra of the other
breath together
breath faster
hold breath
close eys
come back to yourself
meditation walk around the table
'without head'
'imagine walking backwards'
discussion
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the sufi philosopher who rides backwards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasreddin
slavsandtatars
Brian House connects to us
Henri Lefebvre- rhythm analysis
sociological relationships - health - of bodies / cities / unities
eurithmic vs arithmic tensions
rhythm + affect
extend that to the non human actor
AI as a rhythmic entity trained on data
wavenet - google - in all google home project
co-habitation. Urban rats. Feral rhythms. "They live in the city too"
recording of rats - ultrasonic recording. Rats speak to each other.
w: do i und"rstand correctly: that wavenet is the analyse of how people speak to the devices where the rhythm aspect is ? where is the rhytm aspect ?
synthesised voice trained on humans http://www.aprja.net/machine-listening-wavenet-media-materialism-and-rhythmanalysis/
DB as 'temporal' ??? medium
spanner -- size. Spanning the planet (gmail, gdrive, gsearch ... the Alphabet runs on spanner.)
mediaarcheologist talk on the small scale, i wanted to see the protocols that made scanner work
extend the study of the medium of writing to the hard drive
random access is very much like a map
i began to think of these operations as cartographic
clock-making and a sense of rational time
device clocks are relying on resonating christals to function
physical but safe
How will the idea of Random Access change our physical world
Seeing like a state ... what if it is computational.
Soil, surface of the earth
sidewalk lab (Toronto) -- "cities from the internet up"
a city with ai in mind
using the self driving car as an idea to think this
PW interested in him bringing up the practice of writing
interested in minor forms of data, computation.
"trying to expose the mechanisms. they are not simple/transparent"
Open source, published, visible.
The sharing of that data is a red herring
Reproduction.
What is obfuscated, is the material context/contact.
The esthetics of the cloud -- about ephemerality.
uncertainty and material processes ... (??) a temporality in matter.
it is a question of aesthetics
lightning bolt counter aesthetics
Anna Munster "data undermining".
http://munster.networkedbook.org/data-undermining-the-work
"minor datascience"
chat network between musicians.
analog networks
let's misquote Rumsfield
DAY 2
A round of ideas / observations of yesterda : what could we continue with
Femke
What would it mean to make a localised clock ?
teh idea comes from Software observatory
related to that: research
the relation between synchronisation and difference
Ils
synchronisation of clocks:
traintime - etc
- can we give this s a context
- how can we escape global synchronisation / bypass / use it .... ?
synchronisation of the world brings about dark sides
synchronisation vs synchronicity ?
efficiency vs spirituality ?
work in between different concepts of time
Wendy
scary time
we have the power to slow down time
we are slave to the(ir) time
where is the entrance ?
frequencies / resonance / vibrate together
cristals
african drums communicating together
physical sound
situated times
Olivier
globalisation
telegraph
connecting distant space
power and politics
shifts between nations / companies
power-relation between calendars / time structires /
relation between precisioning time and action
efficiency
atoms of time
standard debate in philosophy discrete and continuum
what would it bring if we measure time differently ?
in loose cycles ?
the watch ?
we are in sync through an external device (bells of the church, ..... )
scale
individual / general
local / intercallactic
granularity of time ?
'hors temps' / out of sync / off time
out of time - who owns time ?
Peter:
owning time, time as a commodity.
Reforming the properties of time.
Not trusting time
"Having time", "Keeping time" ... what about "Time making", "map keeping",
time as a remuneration
time as an asset
time as commodity
Stiptheidsactie ... activist usages of time.
Philibustering
Wormholes -- through the looking glass
Remembering the future
Exercise on what is time for us. Can we be paid in time.
Tobiasz:
Time as models and modelling. Reifying time. They are visualisations. All maps are political, prediction.
Computational time. "We can now almost simulate all reality as virtual reality". (? what realities? who is we?)
It is all about efficiency.
The eternal present. Where did future/past go
"there is a loss of futurity"
Mark Fischer
Critical design seeks alternatives, but stays with conventional ideas.
Models create realities. Scale.
Elle:
I am a time practitioner. Reclaiming time, by intersubjectification.
synchronisation of time to liberate time for space of togetherness. What kind of space, ...
freedom to ... by syncing to a local environment
group time + what spaces are created from it
if differences are too large, space closes.
how is disiciplining opening somethning because the contiuity of time makes space
[keep on thinking about Tyranny of structurelessness ]
how do you synchronises if there is a big difference in sunjective times in a space ?
variable intervals, an hour in the afternoon could last less than an hour in the morning.
action based time, what would that mean ?
step out of time, to loose time ? does that lead to isolation ?
are there ways to overcome that gap .
how does time work with collectivity
intensity of traffic time.
urban time intensities vs. natural ones: sunrise versus morning traffic jam
loose time ... free time ...
Out of sync = to become free to
to become free to ...
become available to circumstances
AFTERNOON
AFTERNOON
Tobiasz: "I can't remember. Whas the event about time? Or was it about the body?"
http://www.e-flux.com/architecture/artificial-labor/153913/simfactory/
Making the world into the model (containerization).
Installation of GMT for trains to be scheduled.
"standardization leads to optimisation" (I do not agree)
Haunted machines
Referring to machines is often by/through the occult (referring to Dungeons and dragons?)
"practically magic" (Apple)
[how can we refer to magic as a transformative force? So, not through Disney/Hollywood]
faith + magic (?)
Ripple counter, Auger Loizeau
Magic is the a form of social mediation
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We need a sci-fi section.
In Time
Just in time
"For her part, Cheris wouldn’t have minded holing up in the shadow of a rock and sleeping for a week. The week was one of the few time measures the hexarchate didn’t regulate. In her old home, the City of Ravens Feasting, they used the eight-day week. When she was tired, it was easy to lapse out of the military ten-day week into the eight. In the furtive tradition of her mother’s people, today would be Carrion Day, a reminder of the importance of scavengers. It was difficult to agree."
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
http://www.solarisbooks.com/post/1282
http://www.yoonhalee.com/?p=836
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Questions, keywords we take with us to the februari lab
what would we be curious to look into to ?
what not to forget ? which keywords to take with us
FREEDOM + STANDARDS
Free from / free to: Relation between standards/structures and productivity
Ownership and time
Tyranny of structurelessness
efficiency vs. possibilities
MAGIC + CHARM
Charming/Quick & fast magic vs Spiritual practises/transformational magic/mystery
-> different readings/defs of magic: trickery illusionism vs transformative
- spiritual practices - the realm of the mysterious - ...
(it is risky, the idea/vocabulary has already been appropriated to such a level)
OR: How is magic a technology?
spells vs code, executable code
SITUATED TIME
Local time/space vs global time/space vs intergalactic time.
A protocol to negotiate what is between that and how they communicate.
Operational vs personal time (the funnel of time)
group time (links to counter-clockwise)
time-space
materiality
CAUSALITY
Predictability
prediction
Models
magic messes up scheme of causality
Cqrrelations
Continuum
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
How to develop ways that are:
- Out of sync
- Hors temps
- Alternative practises
DIVERGENT RHYTHMS
Polyrhytmic clocks
frequencies & resonance fields
heart rates of multi-species (animals, trees, insects, minerals....)
Multi-rhythms, protocols
cfr Ligeti, Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes
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Time Inventors Kabinet
Something to look at, be more precise on: synchronization - synchronicity
Pataphysical clock
"Does it make a difference how to make time?"
HAVING TIME
Property
can one own time ?
legislation on owning time
is time legally a common ?
(common time ? )
DO NOT FORGET
Collectivity, rhyth?ms making action possible, chanelling energies
It is not about TIME (only)