Scientific Cultures of Incomprehension

Ever since you were born in a mall, you haven't been able to understand who your parents are and whether they've told you the truth (even if they were a stork this wouldn't change how irrelevant biological geneology is to the automated toaster)

The Empty Name

Reference and description: the resurrection of the linguistic turn's death is one of returning to analytic modes of linguistics (vs the whateverism of cultural relativism whose use is exhausted after the language-entity relation is fully explored, that is events are not necessarily linguistic) as a means to reparse the needs of language distinction backgrounded by the generic historicism of philological data. The empty name here becomes a failed analysis as referential demand (the Referential Society is the one that doesn't survive without deferred documents, the demand towards document confusion (and away from to "essentialist" immediacies)

What are you referring? Why when speaking, is reference a mode of doing and questioning. Descriptions. Protocols. Patterns that refer to content ever elsewhere.

Radical Science and New Ways to Think About Knowledge

In a world that is rapidly changing—where new technologies, environmental crises, and societal challenges continuously shape our future—how we think about science, knowledge, and creativity must evolve. Enter radical science : a groundbreaking approach that blends scientific inquiry, artistic expression, and technological innovation to solve global problems in bold, interdisciplinary ways. But what exactly is radical science, and how does it differ from traditional science? This article explores the concept of radical science and why it’s becoming a crucial framework for understanding the complexities of our modern world. What is Radical Science At its core, radical science represents a departure from traditional scientific methods that typically segregate art, technology, and science into separate spheres. Radical science integrates these disciplines, encouraging collaboration between scientists, artists, engineers, and philosophers. It challenges the conventional belief that scientif...

Pascal and Laplace: Probabilities of the Divine and Divine Probabilities

Pascal's Wager is the opportunity for a mathematician turned theologian to justify their view of cosmic order in the mathematical ways they've come to know. What's the pay off if you're right and what's the pay off if you're wrong. If the pay off for being right far outweighs that for being wrong, should we out of principle take the wager? Ask Laplace and we have a different framing. Now probability has replaced the divine role so the aspect of choice has been eliminated. Probability no longer informs a bet on divine order, divine order is a subsidiary part of probability. Laplace's famous demon is not an impossible gambit on an all-controlling deity as popularly assumed, but a thesis that cosmic order can be predicated by sheer mathematical analysis. Pascal's world still contains Christian state law, but Laplace's does not. How do we culturally bind people without such moral institutions? It turns out fairly easily. We don't need t...

Bridging the Gap: How Art Can Help Us Understand Science

Science can be intimidating. Whether it’s the abstract equations of physics or the complex biological processes that govern life, many scientific concepts can feel distant and inaccessible to the public. But what if there was a way to make these ideas more tangible, relatable, and easier to understand? What if art could bridge the gap between complex science and the general public? In recent years, the integration of art and science has proven to be a powerful tool for not just communicating scientific ideas, but for expanding the ways in which we think about and engage with the world. In this article, we explore how art plays a vital role in making science more accessible, engaging, and emotionally resonant. Through creative coding, digital art, and speculative design, art provides a new lens through which we can explore the wonders of the natural world and the mysteries of the universe. Art as a Visualization Tool for Science One of the primary ways that art helps us understand...

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