symb(i/o)sis

In 1980, at their symbiotic volume called A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia Deleuze and Guattari argued that "transversal communications between different lines scramble the genealogical trees. Always look for the molecular, or even sub-molecular , particle with which we are allied. We evolve and die more from our polymorphous and rhizomatic flus than from hereditary diseases, or diseases that have their own line of descent. The rhizome is an anti-genealogy". An argument based on the science by a minor - minor as opposed to Royal in a Deleuzoguattarian sense- scientist called Lynn Marguilis. It is in 2010 that this polyphonic, melodic and democratic approach to evolution attempts to re-emerge by avoiding the reductionism of Gene Centric approaches like Evo-Devo. Seedmagazine has an excellent article on the latest scientific developments on the science of meta-genomics, that places the notion of symbiosis, not at the center, but on a flat plane to able express, still partially though, the complexity of life.

"Symbiosis goes a step further by showing us how species are linked by more than history; they are living together in a continuous. interconnected now."

David Relman says "we put a lot of weight on a life form's ability to think independently" but microbes have achieved fantastic evolutionary success by operating on a very different principle. Microbial communities are filled with examples of self-sacrifice for the benefit of the larger colony. They form physically close communities in which some cells exist solely to provide structural support or protection for others. "This Intertwining of fate" is maybe a lesson of how human could potentially start to think and work with the dynamics of their own societies. The century of the self might be coming to a critical point of transformation where a new century might arise. The century of the assemblages, the multitudes the collectives. It is about time to focus on cooperative and collaborative practices, practices of the common. It is about time to abolish the identity thinking of success and wealth.

poetry code

a very interesting article regarding trends and future developments on programming languages http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/towards-an-expressiveness-of-c.html

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teaser

The exact meaning of life made possible by life
The exact meaning of standardization made possible by standardization
The exact meaning of protocol made possible by protocols.

a life as resistance to life
a standardization as resistance to standardization
a protocol as resistance to protocol

the desire for the subject to transcendent the given while still be constituted in the given

DNA visualization of Wrapping and Replicate

Being-in-the-world never saw the world before*

Being-in-the-world never saw the world before*. For being-in-the-world, world was an unseen background that was resolved through mental activities. It was only through photographs from astronauts, the decoding of DNA and the expansion of informatics networks that we start to understand what Serres calls world-objects. It is through them that we realized the power to move uninterrupted from the local to global and back again.

Being-in-the-world never heard the world before*

Being-in-the-world never acted on the world before*

*Micael Serres in the Natural Contract

the ineffable

"Loss is inevitable in the story of each person. Losing your wallet, losing your job, losing your home, your family, your city—the degree of loss escalates from the inconvenient to the inconceivable, and with it the experience of the ineffable. Loss, however, is necessary in order for us to change, not only in our habits, but also in our understandings and beliefs. As long as we cling comfortably to what we are and know, we cannot learn, or create. If design is to be a creative act, it must take on the most difficult situations in our lives. It must offer more than comfort and reassurance. It must confront the unspeakable—the ineffable—and become a means by which we can transcend it. This means that we—as individuals and as architects—must, as the Existentialist poet Nikos Kazantzakis once put it, “build the affirmative structure of our lives over an abyss of nothingness.” A heroic—probably too heroic—task, it is true. Except for those who have no choice."

Lebbeus Woods

S.p.a.c.e.

"this is because the logic of space would be that of the multiplicity itself"

Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert in Deleuze and Space