Valdis Silins

cavalcade of sights / process thinking / ignis mutat res / modes of foresight at from later /

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@BrankoMilan https://t.co/y67t8OuF6J

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@_riwsa maybe microhistories – ginzburg, davis, etc.

fwiw I think 'what is it like to be yourself' is just as mysterious

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@Lesley_N_Braun @UWiscPress the cover 🌬️

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@j_camachor do you think eternalism has any bearing on action?

[Winter Pallaksch @pallakschh]

Please, please read this book. The final testament of Etel Adnan, written at age 95

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@KaiHeron maybe. but who's using polycrisis to say 'we'll never understand, why bother'?

seems more generously – 'the causal understanding we had is changing, given the interplay of a critical set of tensions, let's inquire into how, without assuming we know how it ends'

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@KaiHeron you don't have to like Tooze but that's a bad faith read. he explicitly argues against appeals to complexity that say 'it's beyond our the capacity to understand.'

and he's making a strategic appeal to particular central bank moves atm, not an epistemological claim.

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@_riwsa we just hired a nose for uncertainty reporting to our eye of opportunity managed by a hand of the market

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@tobias_revell big thoughts require big tweets

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@tobias_revell things your abstractions never anticipated. you have new properties and interactions – say the material used for the pulley has a certain amount of friction, or it wears out rapidly, etc.

concretization instantiates abstractions, but in doing so makes them /less/ determinate.

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@tobias_revell the usual account of design would say that as you make it more concrete, i.e. as you make an actual 'thing', it becomes more determinate.

but Simondon says no, the opposite. the more you concretize a design, the more indeterminate it becomes. because now you have to account for

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@Klingebeil the links between conspiracy culture and innovation speak seem promising - like how querdenken, a 'think different' business buzzword in the 2000s, became the German Q's rallying cry
https://t.co/jQV2tUudup

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

the scale of black hole M87 vs the earth is pretty much impossible to visualize

where are the odes to this sublime

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

some people use psychedelics to 'expand their experience' or 'find meaning', but I just browse plant root databases
https://t.co/eOwNozAFxo

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@AFarnsy @msteinbrg I used the term really widely – like literally anything a business does internally... you might like the book!

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

"what if you mixed Weber and cybernetics in a bag and huffed it for hours before writing a book?"

this book answers that question

[Valdis Silins @spacedflashes]

@zuza_real

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@zuza_real

[Christian Bok @christianbok]

Listen to me chat with my friend Samuel Andreyev (@samuelandreyev) about "the aesthetics of impossibility": https://t.co/NoWOawsdjQ