Monday, December 1, 2025
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Poly-Variance / EZE, 2025
The non-immediacy of meaning is that meaning in its totality is not usually available all at once. We have polysemy, but we do not have the multiple meanings of polysemy in play all at the same time. We do have encapsulation as a means to reduce the polysemy to a single term in that we are able to index this multiplicity, but this index does not itself encapsulate the polysemy of experienced meaning. Such experience is serial and thereby disjoint as it is available as a narrative, not usually as a single moment, as an encapsulated instant.
Perhaps this desire for encapsulation of meaning drives our love of memes, a smiley, simple and complete.
And why we should seek the totality of a moment is a question in itself.
Yet, for some reason or another, we have chosen to call this multiplicity an illusion, most often an optical illusion, as in the case of the duck-rabbit image or the my wife and my mother-in-law image (old lady-young lady) ... .
But where is the illusion?
The illusion seems to be in the bias that experience and the representation of experience is not true if it is not singular as related to image processing. But why should we believe that our reading/processing of images is (always) instantaneous? We usually do not expect a reading of a text to be instantaneous so why not extend this understanding of textual processing to other types of processing as well? The mechanics of our sight and of our mental processing interpret/produce meaning serially, but this serial construct is not an illusion, just a limitation of our capacity for processing.
The Poly-Variance of Pronunciation
Thanks to Diana Magallón for the link.
And what happens when we allow experience to be multiple in its meanings?
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025
Thursday, November 27, 2025
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Friday, October 31, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Saturday, October 25, 2025
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Hermeneutics of Scale / EZE, 2025
Background Theory
Using Asemics and Polysemics as a Basis for Hermeneutics
One purpose of representation is to give meaning.
With asemics, a representation fails to give meaning in a particular way.
For example, asemic writing is about writing without meaning as writing. It constitutes its own interpretative genre. However, though the asemic writing may not have meaning as writing, asemic writing often emerges as having meaning by way of an interpretative genre other than the one that initially defines it.
Writing implies that the basis for meaning is in language, and writing thereby calls for its audience to read it. Hence, language serves, at least initially, as the interpretative genre. But should the writing prove unreadable as is often the case with asemic writing, the basis for meaning shifts. Indeed, this shift allows asemic writing to function as art rather than as writing, but nonetheless, asemic writing is a hybrid form of writing and of art.
The Asemic and the Polysemic as Hermeneutic
Asemics starts with null meaning and finds meaning through re-interpretation via a different basis.
Polysemics starts with a surplus of meaning, but it functions much like asemics when its multiplicity, rather than converging to a meaning with an interpretative basis, collapses to null meaning, in which case the polysemic also develops through re-interpretation, often developing as a series of meanings rather than remaining in play as an immediate multiplicity.
For the asemic and the polysemic, difference is a matter of scale.
For both the asemic and the polysemic, meaning is immediately null.
For both the asemic and the polysemic, meaning is non-immediate until an interpretative basis emerges to create meaning.
The partial basis for meaning that emerges both for the asemic and the polysemic often generates a multiplicity.
For example, the writing of asemic writing may yet be interpretable as writing, even if only partially, and this mixture of writing and non-writing often requires its own genre to substantiate meaning.
The asemic and the poysemic thereby form a nexus, which generates a hermeneutic.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Consistency Asemics / EZE, 2025
Friday, October 17, 2025
Asemics as Warp / EZE, 2025
Velocity and Relevance Agenda
Against a Concept of the Slow News Day
Made Relevance
Hegelian Horseshoe
Near and Far
Thursday, October 16, 2025
An Asemics of Tolerance and of Limitation / EZE, 2025
On Miltonics
Academics
Regarding Freedom of Speech on Campus
On Intolerance
On a Paradox of Tolerance and Its Asemics
On Legality
Sunday, October 12, 2025
Rationality Asemics / EZE, 2025
Definitions and Relations
History and Such
Rationalism in Continental Philosophy
Rationalism in BonJour, In Defense of Pure Reason. A Rationalist Manifesto
Recent Trends
Asemics
Rationality, Rationalism, and Rational Behavior
Asemics by Limit
Limitations of Rational Choice Theory
Asemics by Undefinition
Between Rational and Irrational
Between Behaviorist Economics and Rationalist Economics
Friday, October 10, 2025
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Cancel Culture ~ Athenian Democracy / EZE, 2025
Lepers and Such
Ostracism, the Ancient Greek Way
Public Shaming, the Way of Cancel Culture
Socrates Martyred
On Cancel Culture
From Political Correctness to Cancel Culture
Accountability, Censorship, Punishment
Athenian Democracy
How Athenian Government Worked
Politic Psychology
Teaming for Value, Value for Teaming
The Republic on Art
Monday, October 6, 2025
Collage as Asemic Practice / EZE, 2025
On Collage
Collage often breaks the totality of representation by interrupting the expectation that image concerns singularity.
The genre-unified image of the collage typically reveals itself as more than the representation of a single image: it reveals itself, instead, as a shift in images or as a shift across images.
Collage often breaks the totality of representation by interrupting its unified construct of time, especially the sense that the image occupies space and time only as a single moment, thereby introducing multiplicity where one-ness is expected, especially where this one-ness is a genre-identified type of presentation.
The collage is typically a series of layers, which appear as un-unified and/or as differing over time, but which are encapsulated (and thereby unified) in the singularity of the presentation. The presentation, other than the time it takes for its audience to assess it, remains somewhat, but not entirely, fixed. Yet it is though this difference in image that the collage calls the supposed fixity of its own presentation into account.
Collage is an un-fixer of image.
Collage is drift.
Collage is an un-fixer of image-time as a single moment.
Collage un-fixes representation, making representation incomplete.
Collage is an obvious cover-up of gap.
History of Collage
Cubism
Cubists
Georges Braque
Pablo Picasso
Collage Asemic
Cecil Touchon
Through a Circular or Spiral Motion - For Jim Leftwich
Jim Leftwich
Writing as Collage Process
In art, collage often breaks the totality of representation by calling attention to its multiplicity.
What Makes Writing Identifiable as Collage?
Writing as an Artistic Process, Inferred
Sunday, October 5, 2025
An Asemic Direction of Between / EZE, 2025
Thanks to Cece Chapman for the following YouTube links for Adam Curtis.
An Interview with Adam Curtis
Notes:
Postscript on Societies of Control
Deleuze on Societies of Control
An Asemics of Epistemic Value / EZE, 2025
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Epistemic Value (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Epistemic Value Monism (Zagzebski)
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On Epistemic Value ... (Miščević)
On Epistemic Value (Science Direct)
On Non-Epistemic Values (Science Direct)
On Epistemic and Non-Epistemic Values in Science (ETH Zurich)
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Formal Proof and Epistemic Value (Harris)
Epistemic Value of Proof (Weatherall, Wolfson)
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The Fact-Value Gap (Philosophy, et cetera)
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Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value (Graeber)
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Saturday, October 4, 2025
Thursday, October 2, 2025
An Asemics of Knowledge / EZE, 2025
Theory of Knowledge
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Types of Knowledge
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Asemics of Knowledge
Forgotten
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Knowledge as a Collection
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Scope of Knowledge
Epistemology
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Knowledge as Other than a Collection of Words
Timeline of Scientific Discoveries
Timeline of Historical Inventions
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Historical Timeline of Computable Knowledge
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On Learning as Other than a Mimicry of Language
High-Dimensional [Word] Prediction
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Corporate Asemics / EZE, 2025
On the Job
Dream Job (But Not Necessarily Corporate and Ultimately Not Much of a Dream)
Working from Home {But Also} Going to the Office
Job Posts Not as Possible Jobs So Much as Business Insight
Nate's Hack to Mine Company Secrets from Job Posts
Middle Management
Charade
Anthropology as Insight
Monday, September 29, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025
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