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A which´s flight: knots and bifurcations between scientific and aesthetic paradigms

Abstract:
In my contribution I intend to examine a specific kind of science art connection by referring to the concept of information. I refer in particular to the theoretical frameview proposed by Gilbert Simondon, who proposed to understand information through concepts like metastability dephasing and individuation.

By means of concrete examples, i attempt to demonstrate how this approach could possibly enable the creation of contact levels between heterogeneous disciplines, without referring to the symbolic metalevel of verbal translation.
On one side this approach attempts to conceive the scientific function in a tight generative connection with the dimension of the sensible, on the other to understand the perceptive-affective level of aesthetic experiences as an energetic field.
The interdisciplinary flight in question does not happen within the static frame of a generic ideal of convergence of knowledge, but in a panorama of holes of darkness and depth, in which the heterogeneous entities at stake are not immune of destabilizing compromises.


Individuation of collective memories

Abstract:
„It is a matter of creating a memory for [wo]man; and man who was constituted by means of active faculty of forgetting (oubli), by means of a repression of biological memory, must create an other memory, one that is collective, a memory of words (paroles) and no longer a memory of things, a memory of signs and no longer of effects. This organization, which traces its signs directly on the body, constitutes a system of cruelty, a terrible alphabet. [...] And if one wants to call this inscription in naked flesh „writing“, then it must be said that speech in fact presupposes writing, and that it is this cruel system of inscribed signs that renders man [and woman] capable of language, and gives [her and] him a memory of the spoken word.“
(Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Antioedipus Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Chapter III, my underlines).


I will try to explore the the term memory of signs of signs by referring to Deleuze´s notion of „signal-sign system“ as developed in Difference and Repetition. This concept, which denotes a basic tool of communication production between heterogeneous entities, is directly derived from Gilbert Simondon´s theory of information.
The French epistemologist grasps the term information from a wider view than the positivistic cybernetic approach, understanding it as a metastable state, a kind of vital interaction able to function outside deterministic and organicistic frameworks. It is in particular the dynamical and procedural aspect which is of interest here: the simondonian information in-forms in the true sense of the word, i.e. produces a pattern which is contingent to the circumstances of the single context, the single experiment, and which cannot be abstracted to an ideal quantity.
Deleuze creates the notion of sign by conceiving a similar process of differentiation, which anticipates a form of order understood not as a end of an equation, but as a differential motor able to individuate a fine composition of polivocity of singularities, cuts and fragmentations.

The notion of sign thus constructed, is then re-inscribed into flesh. Insights into contemporary neurophysiological research will be used as as tool to clarify more precisely the intertwining between signs and brains.
The concept of „collective memory“ and its diagrammatic interrelations with „language“ and „sensation“ will be sketched as an outline.

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