"Long Live the Multiple!"

"In truth, it is not enough to say, "Long live the multiple", difficult as it is to raise that cry. No typographical, lexical, or even syntactical cleverness is enough to make it heard. The multiple must be made, nit by always adding a higher dimension, but rather in the simplest if ways, by dint of sobriety, with the number of dimensions one already has available - always n-1 (the only way the one belongs to the multiple: always subtracted). Subtract the unique from the multiplicity to be constituted: write at n-1 dimensions. A system of this kind could be called a rhizome. A rhizome as subterranean stem is absolutely different from roots and radicles. Bulbs and tubers are rhizomes." Deleuze and Guattari: A Thousand Plateaus p.6

the voracious appetite of Kronos

"Kronos was eating away all that was archaic and irrational in his own progeny, sparing only those predestined for a radiant future. Suddenly, he lost his voracious appetite. Now he needs to ask himself if he is able to cohabit with his own sons who unlike their father they need to learn to live with him. They can get rid of nothing and of no one."


Rephrasing, paraphrasing, metaphrasing Latour, following his Greek Mythological adventure.

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens of Kronos devouring one of his children, Poseidon
image source: wikipedia

who knows these things better than architects?

"This does not mean that there is no progress in the end, or that no arrow of time can be thrust forward. It means that we slowly progress from a very simple minded form of cohabitation — such as the revolutionary one— to a much fuller one, where more and more elements are taken into account. There is progress but it goes from a mere juxtaposition to an intertwined form of cohabitation: How many contemporary elements can you build side by side, generating the series of simultaneity?
By the way, who knows these things better than architects? Maybe once they have freed themselves from their intoxication with modernism —and with the bitter aftertaste of postmodernism— they will realise that the time of Time has passed as has fast as the time of myth and of epic poetry. They might just discover one day that they have written large chunks of the alternative operating system. After all, aren’t inhabiting and cohabiting part of what architects do? Are they not, by definition, the artisans of space? 
When will the horsemen of Apocalypse stop meddling in politics?"

Bruno Latour in Politics of Time, Politics of Space

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part 2

Isomorphism

"There is, however, no analytic resemblance, correspondence or conformity between the two planes. But their independence does not preclude isomorphism..." (Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, p.108) We need however to be rather careful at this point cause the use of isomorphism in the Deleuzoguattarian sense is referred to the two planes of content and expression in a direct reference to Hjelmslev's linguistic model. It is the decontextualization of the isomorphism that Delanda sets off to contextualise later at the field of theoretical and experimental physics. He will argue "In this old and tired view (realist), the relation between the plane of reality and that of physics would be one of similarity." (Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, p.170-171)   Therefore, he recalls Deleuze in order to break the resemblance without denying the isomorphism and he adds "...the physics laboratory [or the computer simulation as he is arguing to his latest book] may be viewed as a site where heterogeneous assemblages form, assemblages which are isomorphic with real intensive individuation processes" (Delanda, Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, p.170-171)

GoL Turing Machine

Paul Rendell 2000
engineered patterns of John Conway's Game of Life assembled to operate as a Turing Machine able to carry out computations. More on the Machine can be found here

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