Complex Singularities

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Tag Archive — affect

Seeds

Spring and the buds outside my kitchen window have me thinking of growth. And in particular, seeds. Seeds fascinate me, from a complexity standpoint, from an event and affect standpoint. Massumi’s take on the relationship between affect an emotion is something akin to if we have emotion (embodied, situational) and in some way put it [...]

Complex Singularities: Third Pass

I was going to do this post yesterday, while I was trekking across Toronto through the newly-dumped foot of snow, but try as I might I could not find the right iPhone application that would let me take a good macro picture of a snowflake. Here is one pulled off of the Internet, the photo [...]

Complex Singularities: Second Pass

The idea for the title of this blog, Complex Singularities, comes from a certain way of thinking about discourse—discourse as event. For this I have to thank Brian Massumi who during my Ph.D. training gave an inspired course on Discourse Analysis that didn’t contain, to my memory, a single reading about “discourse”. The course was [...]

Complex Singularities: First Pass

complex singularities are events frozen in time yet open-woven, reaching articulations– threads stuck together by their very stuck-togetherness like the fetish collecting material like the problems that prehend                      to the fetish as metaphor, too. complex singularities are orders emerging from chaoses –seeing order as a special case of chaos as a form of tightly packed [...]