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I’d like to think
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(it has to be!)
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of a cybernetic ecology
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where measuring and piling,
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where the reason and the unknown,
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the light and the darkness,
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would all live in harmony
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in a smooth and chaotic space.
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Measuring and piling
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Fiction and reality
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The common space of time has become history.
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Reality or fiction,
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whatever its name.
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This Mythical Animal has two heads,
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one messy, fluid and chaotic,
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the other rational, measured and quantified.
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Perceptive measurement,
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measurement of the imperceptible.
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To measure to understand,
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to measure to act.
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To measure to progress,
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to measure to win.
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To measure for nothing,
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to measure to be.
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To be measured to be estimated.
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The pile remains what is underestimated.
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It is the shape every object takes, at the edge of our world,
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whether unexplored or rejected.
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The pile is in between,
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it doesn't count.
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It is a ghostly amorphous object,
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that sometimes comes to haunt us.
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Neither dead nor alive, waiting.
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God is reflecting a meaning-seeking humanity,
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afraid of the chaotic depths that surround it.
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He is mankind's ideal,
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his image above the world.
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He is the organizing eye and hand of reality.
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It is a reality that becomes fiction,
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a fiction that becomes real,
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an infinite wormhole of one inclusion within the other.
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It is the emergence of an order,
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of an immanence-transcendence
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that questions humanity.
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It is seeking for a logic and morality,
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a measure and standard.
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God is dead.
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Our civilizations were designed
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as a transformation of chaos into order.
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From divine logic,
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we've moved on to pure reason,
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then to finance.
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But fighting chaos only feeds it.
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The single vanishing point of the Renaissance
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explodes in the Baroque era,
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giving way to an excess of signs,
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and loss of meaning.
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With geographic and scientific discoveries,
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the boundaries of the world are expanding,
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and rationality prevails.
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The progress of modernity objectifies nature
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as a market product.
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Economics is based on measurability,
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time, labor, value.
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Relationships now broken,
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broken metric system.
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Too much complexity,
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automated tempo,
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self-regulated order,
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chaos everywhere sown.
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The pace is steady
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the bodies are laid bare.
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Means for representation,
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imitation tool,
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from the mirror to the black box
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the world is a spectator of its own representation.
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It is a shuttled conquest
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towards a crumbling value system
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where the sliced time
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turns into monetized data.
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Fusion of reality with fictional grids.
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We live in what we can count,
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and the existence of a reality
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is paradoxically due to its own quantification.
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The encyclopaedia already revealed the ambition
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of reducing areas of piling,
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to bring them into the enlightened zone
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of what is measurable and quantifiable.
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Flattening and compiling an intellectualized reality was its aim.
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This meticulous research,
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which does not born real but becomes real,
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acts like a mirror,
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more or less true to its subject.
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The measure is a reflection.
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The body is duplicated, externalized,
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the perception of the self is transformed,
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the pile becomes an object.
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To name is to bring to existence,
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to define a framework to grasp a meaning.
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For its own part, the computer is from a different nature,
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a discontinuous mirage of the world,
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that doesn't just mirror.
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It imitates its process, deconstructs its genesis,
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calculates and represents its appearance.
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It takes over and covers the world
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of its captured, instantaneous image.
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In its representation,
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the uniqueness of the world disappears.
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It becomes multiple, amorphous, discontinuous,
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a pile of piles, atomized by a discrete language,
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a reflection of our own language,
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of our own alphabetized thinking.
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But the world is neither continuous nor discrete
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maybe it’s worth reminding it.
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The continuous is a cognitive and mathematical filling
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that's imposing itself on the world to organize it.
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The continuous is the backdrop,
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the surface or the line,
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where our gaze is set,
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where the phenomenon and the object fit in.
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The role of our brain
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is to stabilize the forms of reality,
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to be able to act and move into it.
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Measurement is a modus operandi.
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For B, measurement is a convention
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which evolves as we measure
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and that reality follows.
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Reality is updated with the technology we have.
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For M, measurement, as well as the thought
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is a convention that is given
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and can be applied to any reality.
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Reality is contingent.
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H. also thinks it is independent
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and even elusive,
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especially the living.
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Because every non-inert being
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is a process of becoming,
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a change not reducible to one moment.
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Identity exists only in becoming,
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but the fluidity of the bodies becomes determined
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by the flow of the market and society.
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The pile is what's left to become,
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what's yet nothing.
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Marginalized movements seeking for a future,
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a set of left behind objects with no role, to be defined.
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It is the condition that generates real spaces,
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what precedes the measure and what is left of it.
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One is not the contrary of the other,
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but its opposite.
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One needs the other to exist.
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From the pied-du-roi to the meter,
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measurement is objectified with the French Revolution
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and the aspiration for more equality.
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The judgment is meant to be unbiased.
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It is the universality of the measure
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that opens access to a common world.
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But in the quest for an ideal,
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the measure brings excessiveness.
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The primary monolith
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growing into urbanity
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- a measured, controlled, striated environment -
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is an embodiment of this obsession.
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And the human, making himself useless to the world,
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is looking for his scattered, digitized identity.
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Its principles and laws
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are embodied by another cold, mechanical body,
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potentially more human than the human of tomorrow.
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It's as if he gave his whole self without keeping anything.
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What to do with this empty shell,
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crossed by insanely rapid flows?
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To breathe.
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Not to follow the imposed pace.
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To suspend the frames of intelligibility.
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To experiment, to tinker, to fail, to dream, to resist.
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To do an economy of logic,
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a logical economy, an ecology,
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a minimalistic measurement.
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To make of poetry like measurement,
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an excess, to access a common world.
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Measuring and piling, although distinct,
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mix in infinite ways.
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The pile is a piece of chaos washed up on our lands.