disqualifying society
By Ben Emerick
Competition year: 2001
Place: 11
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disqualifying societies.
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an experimentist society is when the question where is this society is as senseless as the question when is this society is contemporarily. the opposite is not the case: an experimentist society is not when the question when is this society is as communicative as the question where is this society is contemporarily.
a society rooted in a moment and not in a location depends on at most anything other than of the maintaining property. the where of society varies without threatening that society's equilibration.
this writing is neither a proposal nor a critique. several statements describe the conditions necessary for a desirable society, before and after descriptions of that society which precludes the meeting of our desires and needs. i have not denounced those statements which, when true, will signify a desirable society. only we, and then some language, will discriminate descriptions of a desirable society against those which no longer avoid our inability to speak without faith.
utopia means no place, a remnant of grecian morphology. this was as true in the current as it will have been in a desirable society. [repeat message about utopia meaning always not now]
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i cannot give a self-description from within a society. i describes i in relation to is comprising a community. the standard deviation measured by the mean shrinks to a flag pole.
community is a set of interacting participants. a society in which i participates offers domains for self-description within its self, of which each of i and i's desires and i's descriptions can or cannot be members. society is a set of interacting communities in a network of conversations.
when i is a member but i's desires and i's descriptions are excluded, i makes perturbations which create the changes in relations between components of the society necessary for its breakdown.
a community in which i is a member offers i domains for descriptions of i in its self, of which i and i's desires and i's descriptions cannot be excluded. i perturbs, changing the state of the system. i observes, looking changes in states of the system.
an experiment is a proposal which is happening. a community experiments, turning desire-statements into proposals.
a proposal is a description of potential relations and pretentious consequences: a prediction describing a world as it will have been. a critique is a description of relations and consequences: a history describing a world as it has been.
a statement of desire is a description of potential dynamics, formulated in such a way and placed in such a space that it does itself. when i has looked transformations from desire-statement to proposal, i looks society changing. by the time a desire-statement is a proposal, this proposal is happening.
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