diff --git a/content/shard/latentimage.md b/content/shard/latentimage.md index 770aa87..1c6cfc9 100644 --- a/content/shard/latentimage.md +++ b/content/shard/latentimage.md @@ -1,9 +1,26 @@ +++ -title = "Latent image" +title = "Latent futures" glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"] +++ The gap between the tools (the excavator) and the crises (the Evergreen) is an imaginary. The construction of an imaginary, a re-writing of history, allows -one to step into the future. The imaginary is latent inside a library. A -library is not a place. It is simply curated information. +one to step into the future. + +The new imaginary does not necessarily arise from acts of imaginations. Often +it is already present in the raw materials we have at hand. It is *latent* +inside the library. There is a process of refactoring, often beginning in the +linguistic domain, but manifesting in an ontological shift. + +We can conceptualize this shift with reference to the bi-stable images from +perceptual psychology. The balerina who rotates both clockwise and +counterclockwise. The Necker cube whose orientation is unclear. The dress that +is both black and white. The material content does not change, but the +perceived gestalt changes entirely. + +How to provoke that shift in perception, that re-organization of the archive? +This is the role of art, as Alva Noe argues. + +https://cristobal.space/writing/ideas +https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/book/349a2122-ed65-4690-bd15-41c87c256108 +https://files.theseedsofscience.org/2022/Notes_on_the_Inexact_Sciences.pdf