I think associating aesthetics with control is really problematic; instead I wd use a model based on catastrophe theory, the 'fragility of good things' and the relation of that to sudden disturbances that produce a sense of novelty, passion, excitement, anything at all, depression, fierceness, lassitude... in other words the opposite; aesthetics is one area that control is unnecessary, otherwise we might all end up with swastikas! :-)
Best, Alan, and thanks! (who used to love Studebaker design btw) and manual window-cranks! forgot those! yes! On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 2:06 PM Max Herman via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > I'm also really concerned about what will happen with the C-Ovid-2019 > outbreak. What would happen if everyone started seeing metamorphoses > everywhere on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's passing rather than > foundering in oblivious blinders? It could be one of the greatest > gyre-turnings that ever occurred, just like Yeats predicted, each > half-century since day 19 a quarter-turn, like a quarenta-day quarantine of > learning packed into a small space and time for a small population on a > tiny planet. > > But if people really are affected by C-Ovid-19 in unpredictable ways the > aesthetic results could be unpredictable, and what would aesthetics be > without predictability and tight control? In times of uncertainty we need > astronomically tight control, control, control more than ever, since > populations only survive by rigidly enforced and centrally planned > behavioral conformity and standardization, like the world of plants, or > maybe we don't. Some kinds but not other kinds? I'm being ironic of > course but maybe that's OK to a degree, not staring the great Medusa > Quarenta too straight in the face. > > Some sources are saying that the impacts of C-Ovid-2019 have already > placed some unpredictable metamorphoses in motion a la Eugenio Montale and > other improvisational expressivists who branch out using symbolic > communications in a Hippocratic fashion that does not amplify the strictly > cellular hyper-production of the molecule that causes C-Ovid-2019. Maybe > immunoreactions are a great way for people to get those ancient > transportation vehicles back on the road, that still run and have so many > fine memories and sounds like oversized fenders, circular grilles, manual > window-cranks, and funny AM-only music production entities. > > Very best wishes for safe travels and further sightings of dancing cranes, > > Max > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on > behalf of Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> > *Sent:* Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:02 PM > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] If Coronavirus were Studebaker, wild days on > the epidemic frontier > > > > If Coronavirus were Studebaker, wild days on the epidemic frontier > > (Sometimes satire is completely unnecessary but healthy) > > http://www.alansondheim.org/car.jpg > > Inside the Studebaker Response: A Case Study in the White House > Under White House task force issues new guidelines to stop car > spread President Trump warns Studebaker crisis could last until > August, cause a Studebaker update: Counties in Bay Area under > near-lockdown, affecting in place' to curb Studebaker spread Ohio > And Kentucky Move To Postpone Primaries Amid Studebaker Outbreak > due to Studebaker Studebaker lockdown: France orders people to stay > at home for 15 days due As he began his odyssey to return home > before American Studebaker hearing on the government's response to > the novel Studebaker contain the car and finding a cure. 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