[NetBehaviour] Protostructure(s)

[Alan Sondheim]

Thank you so much for this! I was using the term 'protostructure' to
reference situations which are so complex that visually they seem organized
but where organization is coupled with fractals at best. I was also using
it poetically of course.
Thinking not of D&G but of fractals and noise. With the video, there's
coupling between camera and subjects, high wind moving the camera,
different winds moving the ducks, local linkages between ducks on or under
the surface and so forth. With the ducks themselves, it wasn't like boids
or swarms but individual submersive activities in relation to prey
movement, another regime. The more independent systems (with noise) you
have, the more irregular the movement in the small... And then there's the
issue that for me 'protostructure' also refers to an attempt to 'make
sense' of it all - and I wonder if there's a theory of 'making sense' -
Schutz's relevance theory comes to mind, but that doesn't deal with
inordinate complexities -

Downloaded the article and will follow through -

Best, Alan


On Sat, Feb 17, 2024 at 7:19 AM Anthony Stephenson via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:

> re:
> >
> > Protostructure(s)
> >
> In parallel universes, we have  both  Assemblage and Assembly Theory,
> the latter being a “theory to be sufficiently general to apply to a
> wide variety of other systems including polymers, cell morphology,
> graphs, images, computer programs, human languages and memes, as well
> as many others” in which bio-physical reasoning seems to mix and match
> ideas found in Object-Oriented Ontology and Deleuze & Guittari.
> https://go.nature.com/3Qim0X7
>
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