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Going through my backlog of work, I found this list of “fields and terms” of interest to the Group for Radical Recombinance (the GRR), a revolutionary avant garde group that met formally only once, but was incredibly prolific for a roughly two-year span, until it was succeeded by the Score for Local Knowledge (a slightly more library/music-centric group).

Make sure to check out the Flickr page, lots of good annotations.

Oh, and the list contains one of my favorite lines: “all effects are special.”

Happy listing.

There are a lot of annotations on the image at Flickr, in case you’re curious about feedback loops in the mind, semantic equations, or the last episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I watched. (Look for one of Willow’s first magic sigils!)

“A Collection of Commands” is a little post-it thought I had earlier in the day, and this page seemed a nice play to put it…. How is thought like/unlike a collection of commands?

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1. ‘The answer ‘as facsimile (for the) ‘first story (works by) ‘pursuing the model (of the) ‘circuit.
2. ‘Another ‘multifaceted ‘predisposition ‘arises (with the) ‘urge’ to wash ‘the mechanism.
3. ‘However, ‘the range ‘of memories ‘in parallel streams (might) ‘work (as though) ‘rising (into) ‘an automatic ‘trigger.
4. ‘Thinking about words ‘as representations (of) ‘accompanied ‘flight (might illustrate) ‘and produce a ’specific ‘feedback/’reward ’stream.
5. ‘To discover (that) ‘we live (as) ’situation, (an) ‘abundance of ‘causal (and casual) ‘relation (leaving maps for) ‘forms (to follow).
6. ‘To discover (that) ‘things change (according to) ‘an awareness of ’structure and function, (made strange and) ‘illuminated (by) ‘phenomenon, ‘a reminder ‘of regions.
7. ‘Their skilled ‘patchwork ‘intuitively ‘indicated (via flow of) ‘no ‘condition.
8. (Another) ’round of ‘processing ‘the flight (might reveal) ‘reminders, ‘gorgeous, ‘excitable, ‘marching right in ‘through ‘fascination’s ‘over-active ‘circuit.
9. ‘Once ’suggested, ‘the distant possibility (becomes more) ‘active ‘in attention ‘according to ‘the firing rate ‘of memories (etc) ‘woven round (each moment of) ‘the drawing (forth.
10. ‘We recall ‘this reading (it has changed) ‘the sound (of every channel) ‘they have gone (down).

A note on method:

Statements are improvised by rapidly flipping through the source text, pulling fragments together with a general “intent to state” something meaningful about the terrain. The apostrophes and parentheses meant to convey a rough sense of how I’m improvising the statements. An apostrophe denotes the start of a string found in the original text. A phrase in parentheses denotes a phrase I inserted (on the fly) to “drive” the emerging statement towards being more … statement-y.

1. ‘Domains (have a) ‘fuzzy (relationship) (in constant) ‘calibration (and collaboration) (with the) ‘metric (located in the) ‘projectible ‘concept.
2. (Meanwhile), ‘the movement (of) ‘the other domains ‘conceives ‘its role (and assigns it a value).
3. ‘The mapping ‘of examples (to themselves) (gives pleasure).
4. ‘The grid (gives) ‘focus (to some) ’small ‘feats (of) (radical) ‘radial ’summations ‘obtained (via) ‘measurements (between).
5. ‘Each class ‘handles (its objects) ‘with ’scales (and) ‘comparisons ‘underpinning ‘more precise (yet fluid) ‘multidimensional scaling.
6. ‘It will ‘prototype ‘within the ‘concept (then) ‘generate ‘relations (to bridge dimensions).
7. ‘Let us ’summarize (some of their) ‘names ‘as weights (, assign them values according to some game).
8. ‘But when, ‘by and large, (the) ‘possible worlds (emerge), the ‘notion of salience (must yield some) ‘measurable ‘talking (and taking into) ‘perspective.
9. ‘The link ‘forms ‘a special property.
10. ‘A relation ‘is expanded ‘as a ’skin.

Key, or, how it happened:

‘ = string found in original text

( ) = inserted phrase

(note: statements are thought-objects and should be used as such)

So… here’s a pic for you.

It’s a photoshopped pic of me dancing on New Year’s Eve two years ago in NC. One of the developers from my office took the initial picture and pasted my face on everyone around me. Can you spot the sweaty, sexy orignal me?

1. Everything is Too Much (for Cathy) - Initial Reading
2. Everything is Too Much (for Cathy) - First Improvised Recombinant Reading
3. Everything is Too Much (for Cathy) - Second Reading

(more about “My Friend Books“)

Some Fragments (taken directly from the readings):

• in the definitive story, identification made easy
• if revised,
• mark the moment in a temporary “best of church”
• I learned things, and then I got to figure
• tell me the view from frame
• written by a resident of somewheres
• waving to things so wrapped in stuff of other stuff
• stuff staring at sound
• sketch some texture
• or harvest or scan or make a brand
• everything is in being said
• through the years we compose these houses of other stuff, and wave at other things so wrapped in too much view

Refinitions (remixes/feedback refineries, improvised while listening to the readings now)

• into some ongoing other view, a styled scan, a sketch with hooks
• to give it a texture while staring at the sound
• to sketch some walking into the ongoing elemental posing frame
• in the making, making a sketch of what exactly revises in time
• the structure of a current, of a currency