datascapes (topic-based)
1. revisions of conventional analytical and quantitative maps and chats that both reveal and construct the shape - form of forces and processes operating across a given site.
emergent realities (descriptive / active)
1.the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions
Peter Sloterdijk: "Air / Condition"
weather (topic-based)
1. of or pertaining to an atmospheric state 2. a collision of natural forces
psychoactive (descriptive / active)
1. of or pertaining to a substance having a profound or significanteffect on mental processes
emergence (topic-based)
1. an behavior or process of depicting outgrowth or appearances exhibited in the course of its development.
intensification (descriptive / active)
1. increase in more acute; strength, growth, 2. an increase 3. to make or become greater
autocatalytic (descriptive / active)
Mark Wigley: "Recycling Recycling"
"like bodies, can be prosthetically transformed and dispersed. Inside the ever larger, interconnected, and entangled network that envelops the planet are layers of concepts that evolve and interact continuously like the weather. It is in this intricate play between organic processes, economies, technologies, and concepts tat the nuances of McHale's understanding of ecology lies."
entangled network (topic-based)
1. to involve in difficulties forming collective networks 2. to intertwine networks
ecology (topic-based)
1. the branch of biology dealing with the relations andinteractions
body (topic-based)
1. the physical structure and material substance 2. body in space 3. principle mass of an object.
artificial (descriptive / active)
1. not occurring naturally 2. produce by man
regressive (descriptive / active)
1. Having a tendency to return or to revert.
Keller Easterling: "Introduction"
agents (topic-based)
1. a natural force or object producing or used for obtainingspecific results
protocols (topic-based)
1. a set of rules governing the format of messagesthat are exchanged
unorthodox (topic-based)
1. not pertaining to, or conforming to the approved form of anydoctrine, philosophy, ideology, etc.
temporal components (descriptive / active)
1. relating to time : relating to measured time 2. of this world : relating to the life in the world, not to spiritual life 3. part of something, usually of something bigger than oneself 4. one of a set of vectors whose combination resultant is another vector
interplay (descriptive / active)
1. reciprocal relationship, action, or influence
ecologies of circuity (descriptive / active)
dynamism (descriptive / active)
1. great energy, force, or power; vigor
idiosyncratic (descriptive / active)
1. a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiarto an individual.
Sanford Kwinter: "Wildness"
(from reading)
"the violent encounter of the two worlds, stockbroker / office worker vs. gang member/street dweller, that of the white, bourgeois Upper East Side and that of the besieged and socially disenfranchised ghetto, was nowhere more dissonant, and dramatically displayed."
bourgeois (topic-based)
1. a member of the middle class. 2. conventional; middle-class. 3. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits orconcerns.
Concept of frontality (topic-based)
Self desiging (topic-based)
"among its most obvious and singular features: how rarely the wilding trajectory encountered roadway; not only did it neither follow nor seek existing circulation paths, it seemed oblivious to them, heedless of all those 'Other' patterns and process that belong to the organized, optimized"
trajectory (descriptive / active)
1. the path described by an object moving in air or space underthe influence of such forces as thrust, wind resistance, andgravity, esp the curved path of a projectile
Patterns (descriptive / active)
1. a recognizably consistent series of related acts
Process (descriptive / active)
1. a systematic series of actions directed
optimized (descriptive / active)
1. to write or rewrite (the instructions in aprogram) so as to maximize efficiency and speed in retrieval,storage, or execution.
indirectness (descriptive / active)
1. not in a straight line: not in a direct line, course or path 2. not immediate or intended of effect or consequence
super fluidity (descriptive / active)
Robert Smithson: "A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey"
"maybe there are a few statues, a legend, and a couple of curios, but no past---just what passes for a future. A Utopia minus a bottom, a place where the machines are idle, and the sun has turned to glass, and a place where the Passaic Concrete Plant (253 River Drive) does a good business in Stone, Bituminous, Sand, and Cement."
utopia (topic-based)
1. an imaginary island. 2. an ideal place or state. 3. any visionary system of political or social perfection.
"the irreversibility of eternity by using a jejune experiment for proving entropy. Picture in your mind's eye the sand box divided in half with black sand on one side and white sand on the other. We take a child and have him run hundreds of times clockwise in the box until the sand gets mixed and begins to turn grey; after that we have run anti-clockwise, but the result will not be a restoration of the original division but a greater degree of greyness and an increase of entropy."
entropy (descriptive / active)
1. a macroscopic property of a system that is a measure of the microscopic disorder within the system 2. a measure ofthe loss of information in a transmitted signal or message 3. a doctrine of inevitable social decline and degeneration.
jejune (descriptive / active)
1. without interest or significance; dull; 2. lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed:
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Gestalt Shift
It is the visual and spacial experience of the first seeing something in a particular way and then another. The shift between two realities / realms is called the Gestalt Shift.
Gestalt
• noun: Psychology 1 an organized whole that is perceived as more than the sum of its parts
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Storm Front
• noun: 1 an aggressive stride demonstrating an embodied or apparent passion. 2 an unstable embedded mass intertwined into and altering its context. 3 a barrage of ideas formulated from the surrounding environment offering a noticeable and intense alteration to patterns, attention, and intensities. 4 the scale of the atmosphere to the detail of material. 5 a sign of imminent squall. 6. the sudden attack and capture of a site. 7 induced joyous anticipation of significant disturbance. 8 the cause of significant weather. 9 amplification of observation and anomalies. 10 one hell of a maneuver.
Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa/ASSA-No15/article2en.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology
http://www.roangelo.net/logwitt/gestalt-shift.html
