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{\*\generator edit 5.41.21.2508;}\viewkind4\uc1\netd\lang1033\f0\fs20\net Phen Fen\net \net There are networks everywhere in my work: networks of viewers, collab- orators, responsive objects, negotiable spaces, Biovision Hierarchy files (.bvh), parent/child relationships. Generally, networks are characterized by deep and surface metrics and geodesics. The dynamics of networks are characterized by the cheat, the kludge, and the hack. Physics is the clean hack.\net \net A phenomenology is a description of a landscape and habitus in dialog. The tenor of a phenomenology is its dynamics, its 'rasa.' \net \net The metric of a phenomenology is its underlying fuzzy structure; the metric undergoes continuous transformation since habitus and landscape are dynamic. Transformation sends f(x) -> f(x'). There are surface and deep metrics. The deep metrics constitute protocol space where x is always preserved. The surface metrics constitute a supple space dependent upon the deep metrics for their dynamics. The surface metrics may undergo 'ragged' transforms within which information is created or annihilated. \net \net The surface metrics are dependent upon the deep metrics. The deep metrics tend to exist as mathesis; in other words, they are, more often than not related to the metrics of space-time. The surface metrics are cultural artifacts. The surface metric tend towards _corporate style._\net \net Geodesics in the surface metrics are paths of least resistance; their determination is both psychological (i.e. 'this' choice and not 'that') and topographic ('this' choice created through the metrics is the simplest choice possible). An example of the former: rectilinear text and graphics within an html environment. An example of the latter: an avatar 'falling' a kilometer in Second Life. \net \net The surface metric is susceptible to habitus short-cutting: Cheat, kludge, and hack. The cheat is 'something appearing as more or less than it is,' something 'magical.' The cheat involves symbolic manipulation which may be constituted by a formal series of (fuzzy) operations. The kludge is 'making do, using available technology, employing the clumsy or inelegant if it produces acceptable results. The kludge is abject. The hack is 'beneath the surface, something doing something it wasn't "intended" to do.\net \net The habitus of the real is the cheat, the kludge, and the hack. The cheat: Manipulation by proxy. The kludge: Manipulation by experiment 'at hand.' The hack: Exposure, subterfuge, the cleaning-up of the kludge. Physics is the clean hack. \net \net The 'true,' the 'beautiful,' the 'good,' are names of legitimation processes applied to phenomenologies. Otherwise of course: There is no intention or meaning 'to' or 'of' the real. \net _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour