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title = "Latent futures"
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glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"]
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The gap between the tools (the excavator) and the crises (the Evergreen) is an
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imaginary. The construction of an imaginary, a re-writing of history, allows
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one to step into the future.
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The new imaginary does not necessarily arise from acts of imaginations. Often
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it is already present in the raw materials we have at hand. It is *latent*
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inside the library. There is a process of refactoring, often beginning in the
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linguistic domain, but manifesting in an ontological shift.
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We can conceptualize this shift with reference to the bi-stable images from
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perceptual psychology. The balerina who rotates both clockwise and
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counterclockwise. The Necker cube whose orientation is unclear. The dress that
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is both black and white. The material content does not change, but the
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perceived gestalt changes entirely.
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How to provoke that shift in perception, that re-organization of the archive?
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This is the role of art, as Alva Noe argues.
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1. https://cristobal.space/writing/ideas
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1. https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/349a2122-ed65-4690-bd15-41c87c256108
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1. https://files.theseedsofscience.org/2022/Notes_on_the_Inexact_Sciences.pdf
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