Interpreting Art Through Its' Frame(s): Soros Realism and the Third Death of Art w/ Hans-Georg Moeller

from Wikipedia:

Soros Realism describes a type of post-socialist art. It was coined by Miško Šuvaković in "Ideologija izložbe: o ideologijama Manifeste" (2002) . The name comes from George Soros, who financed Soros centers for contemporary art in Eastern Europe.

Although Šuvaković did not originally use it pejoratively, its origin in Socialist Realism made it emblematic of the irony of renewed political funding of art, which censors by financing not forbidding.

Reflexivity and the Alchemy of Art  under a Post-WWII Open Society Consensus (the Capitalist Commodification of Art)

On Arthur Danto

A reflexive environment is one where everybody has to talk about a certain thing. That thing is going to be very polarizing, and there are either going to be one, or two, right ways to talk about it. Usually they're going to be diametrically opposed to one another, and that means it's a dialectical weapon. 

When George Soros famously shorted the the pound sterling in like '92 or whatever, which led to him writing "The Alchemy of Finance" where he said that "Alchemy is not interested in truth like the scientific method, it's interested in operational success." The method he said that they used to do the Alchemy of Finance was reflexivity. The idea is that you start jinning up an idea and make the idea become true because everybody starts talking about it and believing it in a particular way. So "the current thing" takes place in a reflexive environment (often Social Media).

Reacting to Bartleby

 

On Walter Benjamin's, "Why the State Fears Divine Violence"

Shakespeare, "Hamlet"

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;

To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,

Must give us pause—there's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,

The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death,

The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns, puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

Laufey!

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Deleuze, "Repetition: Modern Madness and the Conquest of the Future"

Repeating with Difference with Joyce and Derrida thru Mutt and Jute (Finnegans Wake)

Schizoidal Confusion of Signs and Signifiers thereby Nullifying/ Negating the Oedipal Symbolic Synthesis, and allowing the Imaginary to Dominate the Re-Interpretive Real to produce/ create a "New" Difference

Before the RNA World Hypothesis: The Protein Interaction World (PIW) Hypothesis

The Protein Interaction World Hypothesis and the RNA World Hypothesis

from Google AI:

Peptides are short chains of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, and they are intrinsically linked to prions, which are misfolded proteins causing fatal neurodegenerative diseases (like Mad Cow Disease, CJD) by converting normal proteins into the disease-causing form. Research focuses on prion-derived peptides to understand how prions cause disease (neurotoxicity of fragments like PrP(112-126)) and to develop therapies, with some peptides showing promise in blocking prion formation or enhancing cellular clearance, revealing complex interactions between normal and abnormal protein fragments. 

What are Prions? 

Infectious Proteins: Prions are infectious agents made of misfolded proteins (PrPSc) that induce normal, healthy proteins (PrPC) to misfold into the abnormal, pathogenic form, creating a chain reaction. 

Disease Mechanism: This misfolding leads to the formation of insoluble aggregates (amyloids) in nerve tissue, causing cell death and diseases like CJD and Scrapie. 

The Role of Peptides 

Prion Protein Fragments: Peptides derived from the normal prion protein sequence (PrPC) can mimic the toxic effects of prions in the lab, helping scientists study disease mechanisms. 

Therapeutic Potential: Specific peptides, particularly those with cell-penetrating properties (CPPs) derived from the prion protein, have shown ability to: 

• Bind to and disrupt the formation of infectious prions (PrPSc).
• Redirect misfolding pathways to less toxic structures.
• Target the sequence responsible for neurotoxicity, like the AGAAAAGA motif, for potential treatment. 

Key Connections 

Primary Structure: The initial amino acid sequence (peptide chain) determines the protein's final shape. 

Abnormal Folding: The transition from normal (PrPC) to abnormal (PrPSc) involves a change in secondary structure, often forming a "cross-beta" amyloid structure. 

Research Focus: Understanding these peptide interactions helps develop treatments, as demonstrated by peptides that reduce PrPSc levels or prolong infection time in cell cultures, suggesting targeted peptide therapy is a promising avenue.

Michael Levin, "Evolution and Intelligence: inversion and a positive feedback spiral"

Complementarity: Reconciling the Tensor World of Space-Time w/ the Scalar/ Vector World of Matter

In physics, a scalar is a quantity with only magnitude (e.g., temperature, mass), a vector adds direction (e.g., velocity, force), and a tensor generalizes these, representing more complex relationships with multiple magnitudes and directions, with scalars as rank-0 tensors and vectors as rank-1 tensors. Tensors describe how physical properties (like stress or curvature) change across different directions, often represented by matrices (rank-2 tensors) or higher-dimensional arrays, transforming predictably under coordinate rotations.

from Google AI 1:

In modern physics, specifically Einstein's general relativity, the distinction is that the spacetime world is described by tensors, while the fundamental properties of matter are often described by scalar fields (among others). 

The Tensor Spacetime World

• Geometry as a Tensor: The physical world, in this framework, is a 4-dimensional manifold called spacetime. Its geometry and curvature are described by the metric tensor (a rank-two tensor).
• Gravity as Curvature: In general relativity, gravity is not a force but a manifestation of this spacetime curvature. The metric tensor determines how distances and time intervals are measured, which in turn defines how objects move in this curved space.
• Gravitational Waves: The way gravitational waves deform the fabric of space is purely tensorial in nature, with little room for scalar or vector components according to observations from detectors like LIGO. 

The Scalar Matter World

• Matter as a Source: Matter and energy are the sources of spacetime's curvature. The density and flux of energy and momentum are encapsulated in the stress-energy tensor (also a rank-two tensor).
• Scalar Fields: Fundamental properties of matter, like the mass of a particle, can be described by a scalar field (a rank-zero tensor). A scalar is a single value at each point in spacetime (e.g., temperature or height above sea level) that does not depend on the observer's coordinate system.
• Newtonian Limit: In classical physics, before Einstein, gravity was considered a scalar theory, where a gravitational force was derived from a scalar potential field dependent on mass. General relativity supersedes this, though it reduces to the Newtonian scalar theory in weak-field, low-speed limits. 

In summary, matter (described partly by scalar and other fields) dictates how spacetime (described by tensors, especially the metric tensor) curves, and spacetime tells matter how to move. 

from Google AI 2:

Bohr's Complementarity Principle states that quantum objects exhibit mutually exclusive but complementary properties (like wave-like or particle-like behavior, or position and momentum) that cannot be observed simultaneously; the experimental setup determines which aspect manifests, with both descriptions needed for a complete understanding, forming a core idea in the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. It explains that reality at the quantum level isn't a single picture but a totality of phenomena, where focusing on one property inherently limits knowledge of its complement, as seen in wave-particle duality.

Key Aspects of Complementarity: 

Wave-Particle Duality: A quantum entity can act as a wave (spread out, interfering) or a particle (localized, distinct), but not both in the same measurement. 

Context-Dependent Reality: The measuring apparatus dictates which property (wave or particle) is revealed; the system's behavior isn't independent of the experiment.

Mutually Exclusive Properties: Measuring one property (e.g., position) precisely prevents simultaneous measurement of its complementary property (e.g., momentum), as described by Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. 

Complete Description: A full understanding requires considering both complementary descriptions, even though they seem contradictory, forming a more complete picture of reality than either alone.

Example: The Double-Slit Experiment 

When electrons pass through two slits, they create an interference pattern (wave-like). 

If detectors are placed at the slits to see which slit an electron goes through (particle-like), the interference pattern disappears, and electrons behave like particles.

Significance: 

Bohr saw complementarity as a fundamental limitation of human understanding and language when describing the quantum world, suggesting that classical concepts fail at this scale, necessitating this holistic, non-classical view.

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Antifa/ Autonomie - Marxism w/o the Revolution: Direct Action and a Neo-Left Vision for Minneapolis

from the video...

Anarchist Marxism - "We're tired of old-stodgy communist parties telling us that we have to do a bunch of boring organizing, blah, blah, blah... we want it now, we want it NOW!" - No more "waiting for the Revolution", but living their Marxist ideology  autonomously in real life.

On the Rote Flora

Google Translation of RoteFloraSong:

Hey! You can ruin this city yourselves for all we care
Build a shopping mall on every open space
Then even the last person will realize what this game is called
Land use optimization – at any cost

And you should live in your nasty gray buildings yourselves
Maybe then you'll be smarter, that would be worth the effort
We will continue to build here in our spaces
Laughing, living, dancing, and shoplifting from the supermarket

Chorus:

No football for fascism, no hand for the system
Write it on every house wall, write it on every house wall
Let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand
Let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand

Hey, you can lie to yourselves for all we care
Deceiving guest workers and immigrants in this state
We will continue to write it on all the walls here
Open borders for everyone and the refugees stay

Hey, let someone else deal with your shitty sexism
You won't understand it in your short lives anyway
We will continue to argue here about men, power, and the state
Fire and flames for the patriarchy

Chorus:

No football for fascism, no hand for the system
Write it on every house wall, write it on every house wall
Let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand
Let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand, let the Red Flora stand

Hey, you can buy all the crap you want for all we care
Cars, stocks, microwaves, and something to drink too
Because all your wealth will rot away someday
We'll just keep walking And they're busy collecting Mercedes stars

Because you can ruin this city yourselves, as far as we're concerned
Build a nuclear power plant on every green field
The last fuse has already blown in your heads a long time ago
And since then there's been a power outage throughout the whole country

Chorus:

No football for fascism, no hand for the system
Write it on every house wall, write it on every house wall
Leave the Red Flora alone, leave the Red Flora alone, leave the Red Flora standing
Leave the Red Flora alone, leave the Red Flora alone, leave Hafenstraße standing

The Evolution of Left Direct Action Intelligence (USAID) & NGO Funded Capacity-Built Colour Revolution Organizations

Inside the "Post-Modern" Conspiratorium

On the Smoke and Mirrors Wielding Powers Sustaining the post-WWII Global Consensus

The Platonic 9th (2nd below) form of motion - Intelligence of controlling "others" exercised through direction (and misdirection) of attention (aka - the 'magic' of sleight of hand)

In Book X of his dialogue Laws, Plato's character the Athenian Stranger identifies ten forms of motion as part of an argument for the existence and priority of the soul. He argues that the soul is the "self-moving" principle, superior to all other types of motion that rely on an external source. 

The ten forms of motion, ranked in terms of superiority (with the first being the most primary and powerful), are as follows:

1. Change of itself and by others (self-initiated change)
2. Self-motion and motion by others (related to the self-moving principle)
3. Combination
4. Separation
5. Growth
6. Decay
7. Destruction
8. Spinning on an axis (circular motion)
9. Locomotion (movement from one place to another)
10. Motion produced in other things (motion caused by an external force) 

The argument ultimately concludes that the soul, as the source of self-motion, is the cause of all other forms of motion and therefore prior to the physical body. This concept forms the foundation for Plato's theological arguments in the Laws. 

Daniel 5

Stirling Possibilities?

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Circling the Wagons Around Immigrants and/ or Israel

Who's NOT America First

Zizek on the Curses (and Blessings) of Identity

On the Mysterious Mr. Karp

from Google AI:

In Hegel's philosophy, "contradictions removed" refers to the sublation (Aufhebung) process where apparent opposites (contradictions) are not simply destroyed but elevated and preserved within a higher, more complex unity, revealing a deeper truth or reality, moving history and thought toward greater self-consciousness and freedom, rather than achieving a static, contradiction-free state, as argued by interpreters like McGowan and in the Marxist tradition. [aka - Plato's "Generation from Opposites"]

Key Concepts: 

Dialectics: The core method (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) where an idea (thesis) meets its opposite (antithesis), generating conflict that is resolved in a higher concept (synthesis) that contains elements of both, as seen in works like Marx's economic interpretation. 

Aufhebung (Sublation): The crucial German term meaning to negate, preserve, and lift up simultaneously; contradictions are overcome by being integrated into a more comprehensive understanding, not eliminated. 

Contradiction as Essential: For Hegel, contradiction isn't a flaw to be fixed but the engine of development, driving consciousness and history forward; a truly "reconciled" state without inherent tension is a fiction, according to IWM Vienna. 

Not Simple Removal: Left-Hegelians and critics sometimes misinterpret this as a smooth elimination of conflict, but Hegel sees contradictions as fundamental to being and thought, only resolved into richer wholes. 

In Practice: 

History: Class struggles (Marx) or philosophical problems are resolved into new social or conceptual forms, revealing deeper truths. 

Freedom: Genuine freedom isn't the absence of constraints but understanding and acting within necessary, self-imposed rational structures, overcoming arbitrary limitations. 

In essence, Hegel's "contradictions removed" means contradictions are transcended and integrated into a richer, evolving whole, not erased, leading to greater understanding (Spirit/Geist)

Bohr 1, Einstein 0

Imagining Scale and It's "limits"

Pythagoreans Throw Zizek Overboard!

Post-Structuralism in Praxis

A Boomer Taking "The Master" Too Seriously?

The Oedipal Cult's Necessary/ Foundational Philosophical Triad - Hierarchy, Shame, and Scarcity...

enter Deleuze & Guattari (Anti-Oedipus)

Fan-Building Diegesis in Hyper-Reality: Immersion through Influencer Networks

How "Insider" Knowledge Increases  Emotional Investment

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