Concepts

August 17, 2022

Ecological Variability

The concept of Ecological Variability is a module I use to have a point of reference. Variability is very important. Things that don't change eventually solidify or die down. At the same time, too much variability can be too much sometimes. And this is not even a preference that you might have. It all comes down to ecology. Self-sustained dynamics that will evolve and develop will survive. Those who don't adapt or insist in a rigid kind of way will gradually run out of resources. So in the end, it's good for the environment if the dynamics of this variability is ecological. Species can co-exist, organisms can develop and grow, people can think of creative stuff and science instead of impeding crises and wars. This is how it translates into politics, everyday life, movement, and anything else. Interchangeble cycles are good. If they have variability — even better. Sometimes it is also important to...

October 14, 2016

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by agent Paranyushkin

Cognitive Stimulants

Cognitive stimulant is a name for entities, music pieces, artworks, texts, software, products, ideas — anything that is not a pharmaceutical product — that has the capacity to stimulate imagination, perception, and thinking and shift it to a different perspective, at least for some moment of time. A good example is a song that gives you shivers. Or a book that changed your life. It could also be an artwork that puts you in a different state, so that when you come out from the gallery, you feel differently, as if wearing invisible glasses that warp your sense of reality. Instagram is also a cognitive stimulant, but it's not made like artwork, so everyone chooses the stimulants that work for them, hoping that they follow their own intention and not some general outside agenda that doesn't take into consideration the whole ecology of the situation. To think of immaterial and material products...

February 15, 2016

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by agent Paranyushkin

Venture Fiction

Venture fiction is the practice of creating enterprises in order to communicate ideas and not the other way around. This distinction is very important because some ideas are created in order to communicate enterprises, which is not at all the case here. In venture fiction, just like in venture capitalism, we invest in various outcomes. However, the objective is not to build capital but to create fiction and let it actualize at every moment of time, in its own, limited realm. The notion of limit is very important, because we want to avoid uncontrollable growth (even of an ideology) as it may bias the system to authoritarian and totalitarian dynamics. Once we create fiction, it may turn into an island of activity, which will then, in turn, transform into something else. Several of these fictions form several islands. Each co-exists with the other in some kind of dynamic interaction. Not always harmony and...

January 21, 2016

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by agent Paranyushkin

Special Agents and Special Agency

The concept of a Special Agency and of a Special Agent is an homage to Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, and whoever else touched upon the notion of "agency" in their work, also security services and special military personnel. The first part, "Special", relates to both "the special that is within you" and also the notion of "species". You are special because you belong to the species, human species, so you are already part of a certain community by default. At the same time, DNA always has slight deviations, and, coupled with epigenetic factors, there are never two absolutely similar individuals, so whatever it is that is special is what makes us different and it is interesting to explore this as well. The second part, "Agency", is a practice of having agency to inscribe imagination into the real and also to act from your own authority in a semi-autonomous way. Too often we don't...

March 8, 2013

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by agent Paranyushkin

Bodymind Operating System

This idea came to me right after a 10-day Vipassana retreat in Spring of 2013. I was switching off internal dialogue but realized that there are always multiple sensations in the body, relations between different parts and areas, so that even when you don't talk to yourself, there are still patterns that define your movement and feelings from inside. Then I tried to imagine, what it would be like to consider this as an operating system. The habits, beliefs, various other patterns are the software. The body is the hardware. Once we apply this principle, we can simply rewrite code, get some algorithms also from open-source, reprogram ourselves, and try out various movements and behaviors. The operating system runs in the body and in the mind, these are just distinctions that let us see how much physical movement is present in every moment of time. EightOS is a realization of this idea....

July 14, 2011

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by agent Paranyushkin

Polysingularity

Polysingularity is a concept that I developed in 2011 to describe a certain quality of perception and action that felt intuitively natural to me. As I started unfolding the threads of this idea, it materialized into a practice and a methodology, which I have since been using both in my life and in my work. At its core, polysingularity is a state where multiple solutions are possible but only one is actualized at every moment of time. "This can be like this, but it can also be like that and like that. However, I choose to insist on this being like this for this moment in time. Then, it might change, but for now, it's going to stay as it is." Aesthetically, polysingularity is about finding beauty in multiplicity and in patterns that emerge from repetition. It is also about finding beauty in morphing patterns and the combination of differences that emerge...

Concepts

Ecological Variability

Cognitive Stimulants

Venture Fiction

Special Agents and Special Agency

Bodymind Operating System

Polysingularity

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