Tonight a provocative statement was posed by Pam Moran (@pammoran) and then responded to by Chad Sansing (@chadsansing) over at Twitter.
Take a look:
So I am thinking about social mapping inside systems and wondering if anyone can point me/us in a direction that might show examples of the thinking that informs the generation of a social map.
I know I have rhizomes on the brain, but I can just about hear Deleuze and Guattari saying something relevant about all this.
Something about maps, tracings, and lines of flight.
Thinking about @chadsansing's tweet. And perhaps it is the presence of lines of flight that signals the collapsed space of hierarchy. Perhaps these are the sparks. Could critical mass of a system collapsing be brought about through the generation of idiosyncratic lines of flight?
A line of flight is a rupture in an established system.
Like the various actions that comprise the 'Occupy Movement'.
"A line of flight is a line of becoming that brings the system to yet another level of complexity by virtue
of the new knowledge, new concepts, new meanings," writes Inna Semetsky*.
So could you map lines of flight: lines that signal becoming?
Has someone done this?
Do not these lines represent the non-linearity of a system?
*Not by breadth along: Imagining a self-organised classroom. Complicity, 2005.
Take a look:
So I am thinking about social mapping inside systems and wondering if anyone can point me/us in a direction that might show examples of the thinking that informs the generation of a social map.
I know I have rhizomes on the brain, but I can just about hear Deleuze and Guattari saying something relevant about all this.
Something about maps, tracings, and lines of flight.
Thinking about @chadsansing's tweet. And perhaps it is the presence of lines of flight that signals the collapsed space of hierarchy. Perhaps these are the sparks. Could critical mass of a system collapsing be brought about through the generation of idiosyncratic lines of flight?A line of flight is a rupture in an established system.
Like the various actions that comprise the 'Occupy Movement'.
"A line of flight is a line of becoming that brings the system to yet another level of complexity by virtue
of the new knowledge, new concepts, new meanings," writes Inna Semetsky*.
So could you map lines of flight: lines that signal becoming?
Has someone done this?
Do not these lines represent the non-linearity of a system?
*Not by breadth along: Imagining a self-organised classroom. Complicity, 2005.
hmm. just sent this tweet out the same time i got yours to this post..
ReplyDeletewhat it was all about was nonlinearity - via orbiting the giant hairball, MacKenzie
are seeking to map non-linearity? and if so, for what purpose?
Thanks for this invitation to ruminate. If we could map the scatter of sparks from an event or idea, see what their lines illuminate, and keep track of where they catch & where they sputter out, we could describe all sorts of needs -
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social mapping... (based on the library of babel)
ReplyDeletethis too is infinite (a cluster of infinities...
a cluster of round tables each equidistant from the next,
or maybe a table to one side of the staircase
in each of Borges' chambers--
the people at each table,
standing
sitting
leaning in to listen closely,
leaning out to think and overhear
the conversation at the next table;
loitering in doorways
sitting on steps, browsing shelves
wandering
from room to room
taking language with them,
leaving it behind
& in each room
mounted at the very center
with a set of omnidirectional microphones
connected to a universal recording device
that gets it all down
and sends it all on
to a meta-processing nexus
that hovers invisibly just above
and beyond
the palpable world
to be mapped, charted, parsed & compared
in a hapless attempt to reveal pattern
& form--
how much of what is said alters
another's thoughts
or forms
or ends
a universe;
which parts of what is said is what is heard
and how much of what is heard is repeated
(hearsay, i say, and inadmissible at that:
groucho rising
in an impromptu marx brothers manifesto
of subversion, inversion & dissipation,
a cacophonous collaboration of chaos,
of pulse,
except maybe this time
it's not so funny--
is a belief
in a discreetly discernable separation
of contexts
& ideas.
@Monika: Seeking to make a map of lived spaces always knowing it is wonderfully incomplete.
ReplyDeletePurpose? Not sure there is one.
@Chad Curious as to how that mapping would occur? What would be the way one would know any of it?
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ReplyDeleteenuf.
love
all
ways:)
Mary Ann
Hi Mary Ann,
ReplyDeleteI've been exploring the idea of mapping and come across hunome - a project to map what it means to be human.
http://www.hunome.com/blog/about/
That beautiful piece of writing from Rob Cohen with no profile and no twitter id - leaves me wishing that Rob was mapped! :)
ReplyDeleteHi Heidi, I checked out Humome (as much as I could) and am curious to see the map. Thanks for the link.
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