Originary Grammar as Model for Scenic Design Intelligence
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I’m going to keep at this until I get it right; “this” being the use of language as a model for technological and scientific inquiry. Let’s review: “technics” is the scenic design component of the constitution of the human; the human is scenic from the start, definitively, constitutively, but scenes, once in existence, need to be maintained and constructed; the first deliberately constructed scenes were ritual scenes, composed so as to situate the community in a relation to the sacrificial center so as to facilitate and maximize the exchange entered into with that center; ongoing scenic reconstruction is complemented and guided by narrative accounts of the results of imperative exchanges with the center, which call for different positioning, different scenery, costumes, props, furnishings; the human occupation of the center initiates a dual process of sacralizing the human and desacralizing the center which also means, in the end, desacralizing the human; scenic design, then, aims at constructing scenes such that whoever is placed at the center is connected with what is an increasingly exclusive and direct imperative relation with all on the periphery involving an unceasing flurry of supplementary imperatives filling the imperative gap and displacing recall of the succession of imperatives from the signifying center; technology is the creation of expanded scenes enhancing unidirectional center-periphery communication; the relocation of center-periphery relations to straightforward imperativity is revelatory insofar as that’s all it ever was while being disorienting because reference points external to those relations become increasingly arbitrary. The signifying center, which under sacral conditions was supplemented by narrative and liturgical knowledge on the part of supplicants, is now constituted by attempts to apply remembered promises from the occupied center to the very scenic (technological) conditions constructing the memory. So, for example, one demands and tries to flesh out the subjective conditions of “privacy” as a response to technological conditions that have already relocated the concept to their own governing “terms of use.”
Originary Grammar as Model for Scenic Design Intelligence
Originary Grammar as Model for Scenic Design…
Originary Grammar as Model for Scenic Design Intelligence
I’m going to keep at this until I get it right; “this” being the use of language as a model for technological and scientific inquiry. Let’s review: “technics” is the scenic design component of the constitution of the human; the human is scenic from the start, definitively, constitutively, but scenes, once in existence, need to be maintained and constructed; the first deliberately constructed scenes were ritual scenes, composed so as to situate the community in a relation to the sacrificial center so as to facilitate and maximize the exchange entered into with that center; ongoing scenic reconstruction is complemented and guided by narrative accounts of the results of imperative exchanges with the center, which call for different positioning, different scenery, costumes, props, furnishings; the human occupation of the center initiates a dual process of sacralizing the human and desacralizing the center which also means, in the end, desacralizing the human; scenic design, then, aims at constructing scenes such that whoever is placed at the center is connected with what is an increasingly exclusive and direct imperative relation with all on the periphery involving an unceasing flurry of supplementary imperatives filling the imperative gap and displacing recall of the succession of imperatives from the signifying center; technology is the creation of expanded scenes enhancing unidirectional center-periphery communication; the relocation of center-periphery relations to straightforward imperativity is revelatory insofar as that’s all it ever was while being disorienting because reference points external to those relations become increasingly arbitrary. The signifying center, which under sacral conditions was supplemented by narrative and liturgical knowledge on the part of supplicants, is now constituted by attempts to apply remembered promises from the occupied center to the very scenic (technological) conditions constructing the memory. So, for example, one demands and tries to flesh out the subjective conditions of “privacy” as a response to technological conditions that have already relocated the concept to their own governing “terms of use.”