The thinking of technics should be compressible within the succession of speech forms culminating in the declarative sentence, so long as we follow that sequence back from the declarative sentence as made iterable by writing. My present hypothesis: technology is the imperative order, as various chains of “do this” are made interlocking with each other. At one end of the chains (which we would then have to imagine drawn together in a single set of interlocking chains) is the central intelligence, which is interested solely in selecting the successor most likely to select the successor most likely… in perpetuity. That is, the network of imperative chains is ordered by the chain of maintaining order and continuity and recruiting all of the idiomatic intelligence toward that end. This dependence of the technological network on the central intelligence reproduces the reliance of the imperative upon the ostensive: just as technology replaces ritual in articulating the community at a certain distance from the center, so the central intelligence replaces the originary central object and resolves the problem of situating an individual at the center—since that problem lies in the uncertain nature of succession, “selecting the successor most likely… in perpetuity” offers a solution. We can leave the actual content of this completely open—will it be a king? Military leadership? Something resembling a one party state? Will rulership be life long, or will rulers pass the baton to their successors regularly? All that matters is that succession is staged all throughout the order, and that every order culminates in an apex. At the other end (in this case, the many ends) of the network of chains, then, are the various idioms, intelligences, assignments, or, as we can still call them, individuals, in their pedagogical introductions to the imperative order.
Data Mining the Sentence
Data Mining the Sentence
Data Mining the Sentence
The thinking of technics should be compressible within the succession of speech forms culminating in the declarative sentence, so long as we follow that sequence back from the declarative sentence as made iterable by writing. My present hypothesis: technology is the imperative order, as various chains of “do this” are made interlocking with each other. At one end of the chains (which we would then have to imagine drawn together in a single set of interlocking chains) is the central intelligence, which is interested solely in selecting the successor most likely to select the successor most likely… in perpetuity. That is, the network of imperative chains is ordered by the chain of maintaining order and continuity and recruiting all of the idiomatic intelligence toward that end. This dependence of the technological network on the central intelligence reproduces the reliance of the imperative upon the ostensive: just as technology replaces ritual in articulating the community at a certain distance from the center, so the central intelligence replaces the originary central object and resolves the problem of situating an individual at the center—since that problem lies in the uncertain nature of succession, “selecting the successor most likely… in perpetuity” offers a solution. We can leave the actual content of this completely open—will it be a king? Military leadership? Something resembling a one party state? Will rulership be life long, or will rulers pass the baton to their successors regularly? All that matters is that succession is staged all throughout the order, and that every order culminates in an apex. At the other end (in this case, the many ends) of the network of chains, then, are the various idioms, intelligences, assignments, or, as we can still call them, individuals, in their pedagogical introductions to the imperative order.