Just pointing out if you look up mathesis online you also get "The science of establishing a systematic <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/systematic> order <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/order> for things. (After Foucault.) [from 1970s]" which is pretty much how I was using it. :-)
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 1:47 PM Max Herman via NetBehaviour < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote: > > I had to look up Mathesis and found it not in the dictionary, but then > found Leibniz's Mathesis Universalis, with its universal synthesis, art of > combination, art of invention, and so on. > > In some ways, the pre-Socratics foresaw the future better than many > post-Socratics. Archimedes almost invented calculus twenty centuries > before Newton and Leibniz, but only almost. Thus going forward can go > backwards and vice versa. > > Leonardo produced the best working model of the Mathesis Universalis he > could, albeit a model for the insufficiency of which in helping humanity he > apologized in his last breath, by synthesizing all he could. But his > finest insight may have been to include each human person, in its > irreducible interwoven individuality, as a spatiotemporal center within his > cosmological map. The computerized machine path is literally a dead end, > unfortunately for us and for all planetary life, if we attempt to have it > do for us what we can only do for ourselves (like go for a walk or have a > coffee -- a robot going for a walk for you is not you going for a walk). > > +++++ > > Yet after being buried in so much very simply incorrect code, for so many > generations, how could humanity and the planet possibly retain any capacity > to subsist outside of tin cans? Only by converting enough human > individuals into a mode more conducive to life. If it's even still > possible, such a conversion would need to be of sufficient yet survivable > amplitude to carry the appropriate signal as it were, and since such > adaptation is not inevitable it will also depend on both sufficient > conditions and choice. > > Assume the conditions suffice, for a given window of time, say August for > the sake of argument -- a mere ten days. Assume the choice will occur, for > without both of these the change is not possible. What remains? Just the > mechanism or action, i.e. an Ovidian metamorphosis of matter and energy in > space and time, one which by definition no machine can do for us. > > What might such a mechanism be like, if it existed? Of course, it might > not and probably doesn't exist (since if it did it would already have been > done and the planet would not be in our current situation). > > It would have to be something like a "key song" that once performed > changes its environment and people just like an adaptive cellular mutation > might in an amoeba. The Mona Lisa was Leonardo's attempt: visual poetry > for analysis and synthesis, plus what Leibniz called the ars inveniendi. > It's like a wind-up doll that taps its finger, presents the instrument, > reposes among that which is to be sung of (rivers, mountains, sky, > garments, bridges), and silently shapes the lyrics, but doesn't sing and > leaves that act exclusively to the apprehendant. This makes it, by > indirection, us, or, our us-ness, just as an inhale shapes and forms the > exhale and makes it inevitable or almost that, or as a greeting elicits a > greeting. > > Yet this is not how we generally interact with the Mona Lisa > (Esperienza). How do we? Often, not at all. Sometimes, as an unperceived > entity to be passed in front of like a shrine. > > +++++ > > Or, as the poignantly absurd 1960 "Pocket Library of Great Art," A39, on > Leonardo da Vinci, which I carry as a totem of absurdity and hope, received > as recompense for helping a friend's elderly relative move house along with > many souvenir postcards of similar vintage, says with bizarre and > heart-wrenchingly impaired awkwardness on its back cover to me as I glance > at it, sitting by a lake, during an "extreme" drought, harassed by > combative loud red squirrels: > > "The genius of Leonardo da Vinci has been the wonder of mankind for nearly > five centuries. In a dozen major fields of sciences and art (sic), his > flaming curiosity, penetrating observation, and deep, widely ranging > thought produced stupendous advances, bringing his distant world to the > threshold of modern times. His investigations included anatomy, geometry, > geology, cloud formation, the principles of flight, the laws of linear and > aerial perspective, ballistics, military engineering, physics, and > mechanics. To him, vision was the most important means for describing > nature and revealing nature's harmony and order. Through his visual genius > he freed Italian painting from hardness and dry precision, creating ideally > beautiful forms that seemed to move and live in a world of air, light, and > shadow." > > Of course I find such boilerplate at least as noxious and noisome as > anyone does. It's like the droning of an instructional drone whose real > purpose is to analyze your facial expressions for psychological > vulnerabilities and sort you for cognitive and behavioral harvest. It has > a nullifying quality that is very predictable if understandable. > > Yet its expressions are so outrageously simplified that they can point > maybe to something better. By painting Leonardo as a staid and avid 1960 > Modernist we can "see" better what it omits, like what was formerly thought > to be noise in brain scans but now is known to carry very important > signal. > > The blurb omits, which I must list only with extreme brevity, Leonardo's > truest contributions and forays which were in poetry, fiction, prose, > philosophy, politics, ethics, psychology, history, economy, theory, > sociology, environmentalism, and their admixtures, and the principles by > which these all must be reunderstood in order to literally mesh with his > overtly expressed, palatably expert, and sufficiently financed production > of technically and decoratively admired deliverables as listed in the > blurb. > > +++++ > > After all, the US and Italy in the early decades of the Cold War were > about as suspicious, paranoid, superficial, and tightly doctrinaire in > their intellectual aesthetics as the embroiled principalities and > city-states Leonardo lived in and by whom he was employed (that is, until > he astutely fled with his corpus to France for safekeeping). Some of that > intense paranoia may even be returning to society today, with its attendant > extremes, myopia, shedding of ideals, and risk of miscalculation. > > Yet we need not in observing such matters get overly wound up or > despondent. The visuals in the aforementioned booklet, printed in Italy, > range from ok to maniacally enhanced. The ML in particular has been > translated into a cartoonishly airbrushed advertising style. And with a > touching, almost desperate longing for optimism, the inside cover promises > or tries to promise us: > > "The Pocket Library of Great Art will ultimately constitute the most > remarkable collection of art-in-reproduction ever published. Each new > volume, as it presents the life-enriching values that art can give, will > bring you closer to that comprehensive knowledge of the great masters which > all cultured people would like to have." > > To such a cry for hope and sales all I can think to myself by this > lakeside estuary of amphibian migrations today is "Ah Bartleby! Ah > humanity!" > > In this manner I keep the little book with me as a reminder of something I > obviously can't articulate. Maybe it's just a loud or muted cry of "Ouch!" > or "Darn it!" (which I suppose could be a charming euphemism derived from > the days and terminology of sewing when it was done by human hands as a > means of necessary repair to indispensable articles of clothing). > > Or, it could be a part of the same cloud formations as the mechanism of > organic, cellular, or immunoresponsive gesture postulated previously, a > first response to a first utterance, both of which may become as ordinary > as apple pie, perhaps even soon, or votive myrtle, or fade into the > forgotten or never-expressed expanse of unrealized meaning: "My name is > experience, and experiment." > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathesis_universalis > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* NetBehaviour <netbehaviour-boun...@lists.netbehaviour.org> on > behalf of Alan Sondheim <sondh...@panix.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, August 18, 2021 1:33 AM > *To:* NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity < > netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> > *Subject:* [NetBehaviour] Mathesis in Pain > > > > Mathesis in Pain > > http://www.alansondheim.org/count.jpg > > you can count on me you can't count on me i can count on you i > can't count on you we can count on you we can't count on you > they can't count on me they can count on me they can't count > on them they can't count on them > > trying to sleep i encounter polytopes again and again trying > to remain sane by elucidation, enumeration, counting on them > to give me a space to breathe for one more night. i will no > longer be eligble for certain medical tests in a few more > years because of age in other words i will be past the point > of no return. > > with open mouths they await food and booster shots > > 1 File(s) 78,344 bytes > 1 File(s) 1,470 bytes > ttypb 3:11am 1 2 /net/u/10/d > Testing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 testing 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 > 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 > Testing 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 testing 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 4 5 6 7 8 9 > 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 1 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 3 4 > 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> 40 grep -h 00000000 texts/*.txt | tail -2 >> zz > 41 grep -h 00000000 texts/*.txt | head -2 >> zz > > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- 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