Cartesian

So discourse is basic to being human. We have an endless thirst for communication – and maybe all on this earth, plants, animals and stones, and all in this universe; our universe is swamping itself with information: on this, read Valentijn university Groningen.

But back to discourse. We have to translate to the Cartesian to escape space/ time limits of ourselves. Translate, reshape, abstract, present, formulate, enrich, illustrate and market. Telepresence never made it.

NRC October 24: P.F. Thomese on communication – nobody listens, we just send sound bits & bites, tweets and blibs. Next Ger Groot on the advantage of multilingual Europa and the need to let go of expected patterns when traveling – it is even wise to let go to survive / grow.

Then Nexus – the Tilburg based institute on humanoria in Europa. A text on the concept ‘West’ developing since medieval days.

My conclusion is China should cherish the dialects. A language is shaped by its use in Cartesian spaces and the speaker forgets about its origin only remembering – being confronted – when leaving the ‘language territory’.

Then digital. How about that Cartesian space? We split up the 3D communication space in individual segments leaving out 99.99% of the communication: smell, gestures, kindness and flirt.

A text is ‘reading with someones elses mind’. A tweet is just a poke, a hint from a shout box. A movie is ‘looking with someone elses eyes’. A blib is just a poke, a  hint from a shout box. A dance is muted conversation exploring and exploiting non-verbals. A (moving) avatar is just a poke, a hint from a shot box. Music is meta conversation, above, re-inventing and circumventing speech, making speechless, talk any language like love.

Is it age revolting here to juvenile chaos? Am I lost in space (and time)? Again? I feel the urge to read Habermas (again). Back to feel-good, comfy pattern. And then I think Pandora was never boxed. We have been deluded for some ages, some centuries, with hereafters and progress and men with mitra, democracy and development. The human race suffocates itself demonstrating its unique capability for suicide; to quit communication.

All people are confronted with it-self, its existence, its consciousness, its communications, its 3D presence, even if it is on the verge of death. I like Madonna: express yourself! Or in other words: communicate.

~ by wjpels on October 25, 2009.