asemic net

Sunday, May 25, 2025

uelon / EZE, 2025

Saturday, May 24, 2025

An Asemics of Atrophic Being / EZE, 2025

As a term, atrophic refers to a part of the body or even to the body itself. It is a reference to a form, a form which may or may not be present in the being under investigation.

And we tend to think of being in formal terms as this or that, but when we do, we also tend to think of this or that as a coming to be, a coming to be of being.

When being encapsulates its own becoming, we are already thinking of it as a historical flow: for example, as a cycle (the seasons), as a life cycle (the growth of an oak tree from a seed), as a workflow (the production of software), ... .

This encapsulation gives us a certain teleology for the this or the that under investigation, and we tend to make judgments on the flow of being in these terms: terms of fulfillment of the flow.

But what happens when that encapsulation offers another flow?

What happens, for example, when the pig was never a pig?

Oak Tree

Theory of Change

When Did English Become English?

The Logic of Vanishing

Christmas on Ganymede

Forecasting This ...

Mutation

Ecology helps us understand the material relation of being to its environment, but it generally concerns living being.

Though we do not always consider ~inanimate~ beings such as ships as part of an ecology (i.e., as being with ecological aspect(s)), perhaps we should as outside of construction ... , we tend not to see growth in such beings, but as time passes, we often see repair and decomposition and coral reefs visit such beings ... .

... An Interesting Word for a Certain Kind of Change

Yet we do not, of course, require ecology in order to forecast changes in being cyclically; after all, we do have the concept of life cycle, which applies to change both animate and inanimate (by analogy, as in Software Development Life Cycle).