notations / ninth lecture / June 25th / 2018

forcing oneself
to make decisions
–
„Love the lie and lie the love
Hangin' on, with a push
and shove
Possession is the motivation
That is hangin' up the
God-damn nation
Looks like we always end
up in a rut
Tryin' to make it real -
compared to what?
…
Slaughterhouse is killin' hogs
Twisted children killin' frogs
Poor dumb rednecks rollin' logs
Tired old ladies kissin' dogs
Hate the human,
love that stinking mutt
(I can't stand it!)
Try to make it real -
compared to what?“
…
(Compared to What,
John Legend and the Roots)

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1
Yes, make decisions!
sure, but in what context?
compared to what?
–
it seems
that we need a comparison
about
what's right and what's wrong
to be able to make
a decision

making decisions without values

2
designing is the art of
making decisions without
values
of what is right or wrong
as pre defined by the Euclidean
classification system
–
otherwise
we would only produce
copies of what claims
to be
/ the true
/ the beautiful
/ the good

a result of designing

3.1
this is the reason why
we can not stick to
any idea
–
a pre-given idea
in the sense of
a result of designing
(what has to be
achieved with the process
of design)
can not be anything else
but a bad copy of a world
imagined
as a perfect one

3.2

an active part of the text of the world

4.1
instead of fulfilling the idea
of a perfect word
the process of designing
is a journey
in order to discover how
the world actually is constructed
(in it's grammatical dimension)
–
/ by this we will be
an active part
of the text of the world
(as Badiou says: „…being an
active part of the consequences
of a local event“)
–
/ by this we produce the sense
of what we call reality
(„Try to make it real - compared
to what?“)

we do not need a comparison of right or wrong

5.1
within the process
of designing
we do not need a comparison
of right or wrong
–
what we need is the knowledge
of how to proceed
and of the possible relations
in order to step ahead
from one decision to the next

5.2

the necessity of the text

6.1
every decision has
its reason
–
the question is:
is the reason given within
functionality
(whether we are aware
of it or not)
or is the reason to find within
the necessity of
/ the text
/ the narrative
/ the language itself and by this
/ within the grammar?

6.2

7.1
what do we have to do
to determine the difference?
–
Nothing else but to observe
the perforations
intersections and angle-points
of the grammatical structure
of the topology we can respectively
identify

how movements and colour can be related to each other?

7.2
then we have to trust
this grammatical structure
according to which
every body (also ours)
is build by
letting our perception rule
of how to connect the points
of the structure:
graphically fixed
or simply in our memory
that means
the connections
will be done by
the involuntary movements
of our bodily perception

how movements and colour can be related to each other?

8.1
as soon as the points
are connected
and the geometrical construction
is added by a volume
of movements
we are asked to decide:
/ how to proceed with the movements?
/ how movements and colour
can be related to each other?
/ what colour to choose?
/ derived from what?
/ which shapes should become
more concrete?

the primacy of the expansion of colours

8.2
we have also to decide
/ to continue with the primacy
of elaboration the movements
or
/ the primacy of elaboration
the shapes
or
/ the primacy of the expansion
of colours

a narrative will be included

9.1
in any case
a narrative will be included
– explicit or implicit
– in case of an explicit
narrative inclusion
we additionally have to decide
/ which narrative signs
(of bodies, spaces, things)
are to be found within the shapes?

the synapses of the individual narrative

9.2
/ which are
the synapses
of the individual narrative
(synapses in terms
of potential connections
between
the coordinates
/ perforations of the observed
topology and the coordinates
/ perforations
of personal experience)
–
/ how to elaborate the shapes?
maybe by delineating
again and
again until the narrative
elements will occur?

9.3

how the personal experience is to be objectified?

10.1
also to define
the needed reference
we must make a lot
of decisions:
/ how the personal experience
is to be objectified
intellectually?
/ according which referential
object we have to proceed?

10.2

10.3

how to produce a topology

11.1
how is the reference object to be
identified
in its historical
/ scientific
/ sociological
/ political dimension?
–
how to produce a topology
in which everything
/ grammar
/ volume
/ narrative
is interwoven?

11.2

11.3

11.4

11.5

11.6

there is just one reality: the incomparable real of the text

12.1
it seems
that all the decisions
will be made
according
functionality or narration
–
but actually
functionality and narration
are not comparable!
–
so our attempt
to make it real -
and the question given by this:
"compared to what?"
are telling us;
there is just one reality:
the incomparable real of the text
/ the texture
/ the narrative

12.2

12.3
functionality
is not an alternative reality
(it’s not a reality at all!)
but a part of the method
to make the text / the texture
a reality

12.4

12.5

Tomaso Carnetto2 July 2018