Rabidity ~~ http://www.alansondheim.org/aud01.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/aud03.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/aud24.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/aud36.jpg A rabid network connects and interconnects everywhere and at all times; so that it might appear as substance, at best dynamic striations. A chain may be as strong as its weakest link, but a chain may also be duplicated; each to the other, each a procurement; many weak links on many duplicates may be irrelevant (gather them in one place, under one command, and then there's a difference). A chain grows at one or both ends; it's anchored, it's ascendent, it's linear. Everything that transmits is orderly. There are more frequencies than we know within the universe, more frequencies any-where and every-where, and if we think of such as infinite in extent and duration, we are limited to an infinitely small portion of the world, quantum granularity notwithstanding. Chains and networks are outgrowths; everything is natural about them, nothing is natural about them. What extends, might do so with and without nodes, surfaces, bearings, coordinates. One might prefer a world without any of these; their presence signifies birth and decomposition, and unimaginable attendant cruelties. There may be no originary object, no (0)-> and no finality, -> (1) ; there may be slurry at best. This is the poetics of form, its poesis, which refuses any mathematico-physical reduction, no matter the reality. Poesis is us-ness. The chain is a walkthrough; the network is a walkabout. Note the difference. The network is full of contradiction; the chain exists as [x-1][x][x+1] or some such, in other words a well- ordering; the network might be, for all one knows, a continuum of infinite dimension, a collocation of surreal or other untoward or wayward numbers, anything but _that_ which tends towards calculation, the abacus, the clear movement of a bead from one place to another. A network might have no place at all, neither this nor that, neither one nor another. There might be sheaves, layers, monstrous topologies, foams, percolations. There might be something only visible from the outset or the outside, or something invisible from every conceivable vantage-point. There may be no conceivable vantage-points. I remember writing the notion of the _anorectic airliner,_ the motion of air in air, the introverted and intense turbulence, perhaps without temperature gradients whatsoever, that remains inherently invisible. Or caught with one or another Schlieren optics. Or not caught at all. Or caught always already past, passed. The network channels movement, or movement defines the channels of the network; the channels may have fixed walls, or none whatsoever; there may be sloughs and surges and slurries, for example. The channel/carrying capacity/information model holds in a miniscule number of models with proper potential wells; at the same time it dominates all our thinking in a revolutionary way reminiscent of the discovery of the wheel, the printing press, electricity. The revolution might well lie otherwise, elsewhere, elsewhen, however; it might lie in those glimpses of inconceivable networks that pervade us and our objects, pervade organisms and boundaries, problematize aristotelian logics, dissolve into dissolution or the abject upon or within our notice or momentary attention - or none or all of these. What might be of interest here is the idea of the _lifespan of the network_ - in other words, the temporality of what might or might not be noticed. As open-ended organisms we're bound and unbound there, within this temporality, within the very concept, not of measurement, but of objects or durations we find amenable. That brings us back to our problem, our temporality, our networks and their chains which bind them - as if they, the we within us, were the case or cases. No (0),(1), no beginnings and endings, (but) what might pass for a (momentary) glance, something of the nature of attention or of the economy of attention. We don't let sleeping dogs lie; we wake them, sometime or other in the morning, it's a humid day, it might be better or best to let them be. -- (be, being, open multi-dimensional sets on any interval; care, attention, absence) -- "A research ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency in Narragansett, R.I., for the past 20 years, Hale recently finished compiling a master list of all the species ever recorded in the sediments of Narragansett Bay. He discussed the project at a Sept. 28 Rhode Island Natural History Survey lecture. The list includes 1,056 species, and Hale believes there may be another 200 to 300 still to be found. Most live in the top 10 centimeters of the bays sediments. The most abundant creatures recorded are varieties of polychaete worms, mollusks, and arthropods. But rare species make up most of the biodiversity, he said. Included among the rare variety were 395 singletons species found only once and 224 doubletons. Another 279 were captured prior to 1950 and havent been seen again due to range shifts, pollution, the effects of invasive species, and other factors." - from "Hidden World of Narragansett Bay on the Rebound," Todd McLeish, https://www.ecori.org/narragansett-bay/2017/10/4/hidden-undersea-world-of-narragansett-bay-on-rebound --- < times; so it might appear as substance, at best dynamic ---
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