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Limited Fork
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FUNDAMENTAL CONNECTEDNESS
When Limited Fork Theory entered my consciousness as Limited Fork Poetics in October 2004 in the Quality 16 Cinema on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, I wasn't aware of the far-reaching implications of reconfiguring experience (which included my sense of identity and all that I believed) as systems of interaction, systems of contact, systems of access, systems of community, systems of collaboration
--so systems of how things come together and what happens when they do, how long do/can convergences last?
What are the forms of contact? What are the consequences
of contact? And so forth.
And a huge question about ownership, right at the heart
of every tine I encountered.
Fazal Sheikhhas made much of his Human Rights visual work
available online in high resolution pdf editions. This link is to MOKSHA, which may be experienced in English, Hindi, or Bengali.
Lawrence Lessig has been a champion of the free disemmination, or sharing, of ideas. This link is to his book FREE CULTURE (about the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas) which may be downloaded for free.
Nina Paley has made her beautiful animated film available for free because, as she states at the Sita Sings the Blues site: I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License . Please distribute, copy, share, archive, and show Sita Sings the Blues. From the shared culture it came, and back into the shared culture it goes.
Soon after practicing this reconfiguration of everything
I thought I knew, implications of this approach bombarded my thinking which continued to evolve within Limited Fork shifting, flexible boundaries (or tines). Within just a few months, what started out a remapping of poetry became something of much wider consequence, a way to navigate totalities that shifted according to perspectives and circumstances.
The tines themselves provided a means to access
these fascinasting complex clusters of geometries; each possibility a geometrical structure, all of which formed an infinitely shifting, flexible, plastic totality whose shape comes into existence when shaped, whether
by eletromagnetic forces, direct human observation, theoretical predictions, aesthetic expression, or imagination, for instance.
Limited Fork had become more than an approach to making poetry and interacting in any way with poetry just by the practice of it as poetry; perhaps it was showing me that the poetry of existence, the poetry of totality is a way to configure totality that embraces facts and feelings, the spiritual and the concrete, the apparently myserterious and the apparently clear, the lack of solidity; something that made itself and made itself again and again, shaped out of resonance itself,
the big bang a poetic event, the emergence of notions of deity as a poetic event acknowledging magnificence both volatile and benign, gracious.
Multiple modes of understanding and acting upon information include more than just those unavoidable modes of sensory processing and expression; multiple modes include dimensions outside human perception, mixtures of sensory modes in which there are fusions and interactions, the tasting of sound, for instance, in various cofigurations of synesthesia which perhaps will become tools available to anyone;
multiple modes of expression include additional dimensions and configurations of mattters and energy. Including the energy of thought itself (which is a form of the poetry of thought itself), the mind, though housed in a finite (3D) brain is able to access less (apparently) solid modes (poetic states) of existence, dreams where the substance seems more electrical; dreams as structures of energy. Every now and then, there are these little jolts, these mini stimulations via static electricity, an exchange of electrons between that carpet and me, the doorknob and me. We connect on a fundamental level, collaborate on a fundamental atomic level.
Of course Limited Fork is not new in practice; the practice of limited fork embraces and is embraced by the history of dream, the history of desire and longing, the history of belief, the history of hope, the history of evidence, the history of science, the history of technology, the history of the stars, the history of energy, the history of existence.
The history of interaction.
Yes; decidedly fractal, decidedly entangled
influence exerted across wide fields, mutated influence as what is exchanged and shared is interacted with on every possible scale of contact and interaction, including illusion,
interactions with only reflections, shadows, and ideas of things rather than what might underlie reflections, shadows, and ideas of things.
If a single origin of existence, even an existence that has always been, existence being the basic component of the universe(s), of everything, then there is influence, energy, some marking of an initial state of connectedness from which bifurcations and sub-bifurcations have taken things into widely (and often wildly) divergent evolutions that have an essence, a whisper, a background hum that resonates, vibrates, and can increase in intensity in certain circumstances.
These widely divergent iterations and forms of (mutated) existence; these widely divergent strands of possibility, these widely divergent tines of existence are in numerous dimensions, numerous forms of infinitely generative eixtences on numerous scales.
Depending on location, it may or may not be possible to access or become aware of someof the forms of tines, but they are connected; are vibrations and resonances of a single thing called existence whose form is unknown, whose magnitide is unknown, but is something of which we are active parts, dynamic parts.
This video can function as a model of a configuration of a super cluster geometry of multiple realities, multiple universes, apprently functioning independently (from a perspective framed by each reality/universe, for instance), but entangled; activity in one location, through a chain reaction of sorts, for instanmce, influencing any other location through the resonance of indirect contact --epidemics of influence.
The awareness and understanding that came to me in the Quality 16 Cinema on Jackson Road in Ann Arbor in October 2004, came ot me as an epidemic, an epidemic that belongs to the resonances and vibrations of existence of which the epidemic is made.
An epidemic of interaction
An epidemic of collaboration
with everything having input, having a role in shaping things,
on that day, into a fork that needed the circumstances of that moment to become something more definite that a background hum. Intensity increased
and took a shape graspable in the geometry of my thinking: a fork
that because of its very structure, the tines themselves, resisted unwavering reliance on solidy, had blind spots, overcma e an idea that with it I could ever access everything, reminded of possibilities in the gaps, and the emergence of even more gaps as I used the fork to explore gaps, always on the surface of encounter, depth part of the gaps, part of the unvisited, the unaccessed.
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CONNECTEDNESS
What I had access to was
A fork that belongs to all of its collaborators, all of its contributors,
all of its partners, all to which it is connected, so also to all of you.
The Limited Fork belongs to anyone who finds it, to anyone who has used it without realizing that the tool had been used. I have organized it, have given a form to the tool, have assembled an awareness that can make fundamental arrangements of reality (and the realities within reality)
even more profound,
more flexible,
leading to the exposure and emergence of many additional possibilities on many scales,
across many scales, across many boundaries; leading to more ways
to form connections and build structures that have not been built before, and might not be possible without use of such a tool.
All of Limited Fork is here, a configuration of an allness, that is to say:
What my website contributes, a forking root system of Limited Fork Theory,
and what this site links to, what those links link to, and what links to them.
(And that includes a link toDOLLS LIKE ME, a place where mixtures, combinations, fantastic promising systems of complex identities can be found in beautiful dolls. There are even more possibilities for human configuration, human constellations of evolution.
--there really is a doll like me there, by the way.)
We are dynamic parts of the dynamic systems of existence.
Our thoughts are part of the energy of existence.
We particpate in theuniverse,
contribute to it,
shape what shapes us.
We are part of the energy and matter of existence.
Light Writing video as metaphork of string theory dimensions and tines
of forking universes
Strings (tines) of light to twist
into and out of configurations of connecting / disconnecting /
reconnecting reality
Limited
Fork
YOU ARE HERE
with a limited
fork. You are
able to connect
dots, bits and
pieces of information you have
acquired
with your senses,
with your feelings,
with your intellect,
with your beliefs,
with your fears,
with your doubts,
with your regrets,
with your mistakes,
withyour hopes,
with your dreams,
with your certainties,
with your illusions.
You are a poam of existence
making poams out of tines of existence, bits and pieces of the stuff of existence;
you make a poam every time
you make something,
shuffling energy of thought and idea into matter,
into other forms of energy.
It's as if every perceptual tool we have is a form of, iteration of, tine of
Harold's purple crayon
with which he maps and makes configurations of reality as he moves, as he lives and thinks dynamically;
a configurable, flexible system of being.
Many factors contribute to how you connect the dots, particles, tines of existence into meanings.
But this connecting of the dots does establish their connectability.
And like the constellations, their being connected is more a way of seeing things
than a way of actually forcing things to exist (only) within those (impernanent, temporary) framing systems.
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When you turn this tine, some constellation tines of unfolding dimension may pop out. Close the book (with either blue book menus) to return to an influenced normal state.
**To Play the pop-out movies,
don't click on the center arrows when they are close to the edges of pages of the book or you will close the book.
Click the arrow when the movies extend away from the book edge.
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Limited Fork is the study of interacting systems
