Sunday, December 31, 2023
Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e / EZE, 2023
Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e
Notes on the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty
Merleau-Ponty formulates with remarkable precision the primary ontological theme: "What is proper to the visible [le propre du visible] is to have a layer of an invisible in the strict sense, which it renders present as a certain absence." It is this occult, secluded layer of invisibility that painting renders visible, that—in the words of Klee that Merleau-Ponty pieces together—painting annexes to the visible. It is because of painting’s engagement with this invisibility, which, while of the visible, also lies outside the realm of visible things, that Merleau-Ponty is led finally to what he calls the ontological formula of painting. The formula consists of words, written by Klee in 1916, that were inscribed on his tomb. They bespeak painting’s engagement beyond the here and now of visible things. Merleau-Ponty cites them in French translation: "Je suis insaisissable dan l’immanence." In Klee’s German the formula reads, "Diesseitig bin ich gar nicht fassbar" ("I cannot be at all grasped on this side, in the here and now"). [from "Freeing the Line" by John Sallis in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception]
Asemics opens up the invisible as instantiations of meaning and of unmeaning, this, where the invisible reveals itself as statistical possibilities and as gap between.
Making Science and Engineering Pictures
Saturday, December 30, 2023
Friday, December 29, 2023
Thursday, December 28, 2023
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Monday, December 25, 2023
Sunday, December 24, 2023
Metamodern Asemics / EZE, 2023
Metamodern Asemics
Robin van den Akker and Timotheus Vermeulen Discuss Metamodernism
Meaning?
La La La
Getting Metamodernism Closer to Asemics
with Such Terms as Walllessness and Borderlessness
The Future of Theory
Metamodern
Semiotics Guise
Worldview and The Future of Theory
Sunday in the Park with Theory
...
A Note on Time Decay
Doped
Saturday, December 23, 2023
The Words of the Prophets Are Not Words
Friday, December 22, 2023
Kitsch as an Asemic Condition / EZE, 2023
Erik J. Larson: Kitsch as an Asemic Condition
Kitsch
Asemic at the End of the World
And Other Kitsch
And a Features List of Metamodern Aesthetics
Where
Asemics Is Not (Yet) Included, But ~Pastiche~, a Cousin of Kitsch, Is
~ Under Investigation ~
(Science as Kitsch?)
Saturday, December 16, 2023
The Quus toward an Asemic Condition / EZE, 2023
The Quus toward an Asemic Condition
57 + 68 = 125
57 + 68 = 5
This is just as well art:
57 + 68
So too these statements:
57 + 68 = 125
57 + 68 = 5
There may be a shout for explanation.
There may not.
There may be an auto-correction.
There may not.
Indeed, the semantics of these statements may or may not produce much of any kind of truth.
They could also bring about a bit of confusion, but confusion requires something ... .
And did you notice?
Just confusion?
An attempt to intervene for the sake of clarity.
And there may even be statement denial.
There may not.
But history is another kind of collection, true or not.
As we live in these conditions now, we make our conditions norms, and norms serve as our rules whether our rules call for compliance or call for change or call for definition ... or call for something or other ... but then, what happens next?
Else-wise, the asemic condition often escapes such activity. For meaning in this way, the asemic condition usually lacks.
Soon enough, philosophy engages the asemic condition and blurts out "paradox."
But no paradox is likely here as silence too belongs to music.
Yet the intervention begins, sort of.
And will the intervention allow for the asemic condition? or move to meaning?
What is it?
Kripkenstein Denies an Appeal to Rule-Following for Private Language
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language
Postscript
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Asemics contra Platonics / EZE, 2023
Asemics contra Platonics
p ~ a
egg -> true egg; meaning fully known and truly fulfilled (in the idea(l))
() <-> ... ; meaning uncertain or unknown or coming to be, and perhaps, thereby, fulfilled by swimming
a map to a treasure chest
a map that pictures stillness as a tennis stroke
Platonics:
Shadows on the Wall ~ ~ Understanding as Copycat
Asemics:
Z:
On the Possibility of Philosophy
Math Problem:
How Asemics Elides the NULL: Cheryl Penn on the Un / EZE, 2023
How Asemics Elides the NULL: Cheryl Penn on the Un
Notes:
Daniel Harris: Semantics without Semantic Content
Monday, December 11, 2023
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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Friday, November 24, 2023
GRADIENTS by Kristine Snodgrass is Out Now @ Amazon! Post-Asemic Press #026
Out now from Post-Asemic Press, Gradients by Kristine Snodgrass!
She best explains the book here:
"Gradients is a book of digital transmographications of asemics tattooed and drawn on the poet’s body. The work plays with mutations, embellishment, ritual, and collaboration with artists and tattoo artists. This book offers a moment to look at the process and images that resulted."
“Snodgrass’s Gradients is a haunting series of visual poems, examining the relationships between images and ideologies, particularly the misogynistic currents in American commercial discourse and its depictions of femininity. Asemic poems, written or tattooed directly onto the poet’s body, are photographed and then transformed by the poet through glitching. The resulting “Gradients” allow perversely fascinating visions of societal structures that emerge from obliterations of the female form. The reader is at once reminded of the ideological implications of any image, so often and so easily overlooked and accepted, as well as the role of the viewer in creating the real world effects of these implications. It is an astonishing book!”
–Andrew Brenza
“In the twisted cosmic dance of cannibalistic energies, Kristine Snodgrass’ Gradients emerges as a frenzied feast for the senses. It devours the boundaries of perception, consuming the flesh of conventional art forms and regurgitating a psychedelic organ traffic of raw expression. Through glitched visions and asemic transgressions, it devours the oppressive structures that confine us, devouring them with insatiable hunger. Within Gradients, the body becomes an altar of consumption, where tattoos and asemic writings are etched upon the skin, merging with the very essence of existence. It is a ritual of devouring, a carnal communion with the chaotic forces that reside within. The colors bleed and merge, swirling in a cosmic maelstrom of ecstasy and despair, as the boundaries between self and other dissolve into an abyss of cosmic cannibalism. The images and collages pulsate with an unearthly vitality, drawing us into a vortex of fragmented realities. It is a visual chaos, where the grotesque and the beautiful intertwine in an intricate dance of creation and destruction. Gradients devours the limitations of perception, transcending the confines of the known universe and plunging us into the depths of cosmic cannibalism. In this swirling chaos, pain and pleasure intertwine, merging into a sublime ecstasy that defies comprehension. It is a journey into the darkest recesses of the psyche, where the primal urges of consumption and creation merge into a singular cosmic act. Gradients is a testament to the insatiable hunger of the creative spirit, a feast for those willing to abandon the safety of the known and embrace the devouring embrace of cosmic cannibalism.”
—Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric and Paracelsus
Product details
- Publisher : Post-Asemic Press (November 15, 2023)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 64 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1736614754
- ISBN-13 : 978-1736614754
- Reading age : 16 - + years
- Item Weight : 5.3 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.16 x 9 inches
- Price : $16.00
Gradients is available at these links:
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Sample images from GRADIENTS:
Open for Meaning and Cul-de-Sac / EZE, 2023
Considering the improvisational aspects of asemic practice, considering how asemics escapes convention ...
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Friday, November 17, 2023
Escaping Intelligence / EZE, 2023
The Asemic Condition: Escaping Intelligence for Other Intelligence
Switching from Asemics to AI as a Means of Introduction
The AI Condition is, in part, the concern that AI may be something smarter than we are. Indeed, within a well-defined system, AI is often smarter than anything else operating within the limits of that system: Chess and GO are particularly good examples of systems dominated by AI.
The first problem we face in the AI Condition is that our sense of intelligence is, at best, only defined within a closed system. We have the ability to define intelligence in terms of some condition or set of conditions in a system, but we do not have anything like a total system whereby intelligence is well defined.
Note that the problem of the incomplete system is somewhat an encapsulation of the Halting Problem whereby we cannot always determine whether a system, once initialized, will complete of its own accord or never stop.
So, we are mostly working within the museum of our own intelligence when we define intelligence: intelligence is self-referential to human being at inception.
With such referentiality, the second problem is a kind of Turing Test: how do we distinguish the human from AI?
The usual means to distinguish the human from AI is to posit meaning as the endpoint of human intelligence, but doing so may give away AI as, for now, it only serves to enhance workflows.
A Criticism of Stochastic Parrots
AI Sentience, Stochastic Parrots
Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot
Randomness versus Stochasticity
Meaning What? or the Asemic Escape?
Asemics, free from the larger term asemic writing, which is writing without recourse to semantic meaning, is a practice that produces something whose end is not meaning per se. All the while, asemics is not merely parodic, nor is it non-sense, nor is it noise. These elements are often present in asemic practice, but then too, asemics has an aesthetic, which is not without meaning as such.
What then does asemic practice do? It often reveals the NULL of the system where meaning has yet to become. It escapes meaningful workflows.
And AI? Will it be able to function in the NULL?
Is Intelligence the Same as Knowledge?
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