锦灰堆

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What’s at issue in any enunciation is not whether it’s received but whether it can become contagious. I call insinuation — the illapsus, according to medieval philosophy — a strategy consisting in following the twists and turns of thought, the wandering words that win me over while at the same time constituting the vague terrain where their reception will establish itself. By playing on the relationship of the sign to what it refers to, by using clichés against themselves, like in caricatures, by letting the reader come closer, insinuation makes possible an encounter, an intimate presence, between the subject of the pronouncement and those who relate to the pronouncement itself. “There are passwords hidden under slogans,” write Deleuze and Guattari, “words that are pronounced as if in passing, components of a passage; whereas slogans mark points of stoppage, stratified and organized compositions.” Insinuation is the haze of theory and suits a discourse whose objective is to permit struggles against the worship of transparency, attached at its very roots to the cybernetic hypothesis.

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Attacking the cybernetic hypothesis — it must be repeated — doesn’t mean just critiquing it, and counterposing a concurrent vision of the social world; it means experimenting alongside it, actuating other protocols, redesigning them from scratch and enjoying them.

— The Cybernetic Hypothesis, VII

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When I was learning to write in my teens, it seemed to me that paper was a prison. Four walls, right? And the ideas were constantly trying to escape. What is a parenthesis but an idea trying to escape? What is a footnote but an idea that tried — that jumped off the cliff? Because paper enforces single sequence — and there’s no room for digression — it imposes a particular kind of order in the very nature of the structure.

— Ted Nelson, demonstration of Xanadu Space

“纸张围堵，括号是试图逃逸的想法，脚注是被迫跳崖的想法。”🤣🤣🤣

在 Deleuze & Guattari 的写作，尤其是《千高原》中，最明显的结构是一个往复三元组：to-fro-forth，oui-non-si，root-radicle-rhizome，结域-解域-再结域，纵轴-横轴-对角线，……不过以上这些例子的图案都不同。如“结域-解域-再结域”的 Z 字形，重点在再结域时引入的那点差异。对角线则涉及到维度问题 (dimension of curve)。root-radicle-rhizome 是过渡，统一→切碎的统一→碎，或者说 n-1 的关系：

Subtract the unique from the multiplicity to be constituted; write at n – 1 dimensions.

n-1 理解起来很简单，字面意思无非是指把 n 里面的 unity 给拿掉。更进一步，用数学语言来说，这样实际上有 n-1 degrees of freedom because the last element is always uniquely determined by the others. 参见下面这个问题对矩阵自由度的解释：

linear algebra – Degrees of freedom for a matrix – Mathematics Stack Exchange

记得还有个关于短篇小说的三元组，但忘记了具体，等看到再说吧。

the duos

• vectorial (occupy without counting) – metric (count in order to occupy)
• smooth – striated
• problematics – theorematics
• eccentric science – royal science
• celerity – gravity
• singularity – universality
• private thinker – public professor
• aphorism – maxim
• relaying – copying

the trios

• mythos – logos – pathos (the two heads of the state versus the war machine)
• noology – ideology – counterthoughts
• sedentary – migrant (who travels back and forth between point) – nomad
• king – priest – prophet (the religious element of a war machine)
• forest – agriculture – nomad space
• lineal – territorial – numerical (human organizations)