SI13/LIQUID/MANIFESTO/manifestonltk.ipynb

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import nltk

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txt = open('manifesto1.txt').read()

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tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(txt)
print(tokens)

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'simple', 'ciphers', 'of', 'process', ',', 'substance', ',', 'method', ',', 'or', 'technology', '.', 'It', 'is', 'more', 'than', 'a', 'set', 'of', 'particular', 'materials', 'that', 'comprise', 'a', 'recognizable', 'body', '.', 'It', 'is', 'more', 'than', 'vital', 'processes', 'that', 'are', 'shaped', 'according', 'to', 'specific', 'contexts', 'and', 'subjective', 'encounters', '.', 'Yet', 'we', 'recognise', 'its', 'coherence', 'through', 'the', 'lives', 'of', '‘', 'beings', '’', ',', 'which', 'remain', 'cogent', 'despite', 'incalculable', 'persistent', 'changes', 'such', 'as', 'flows', ',', 'ambiguities', ',', 'transitional', 'states', 'and', 'tipping', 'points', 'that', 'bring', 'about', 'radical', 'transformation', 'within', 'physical', 'systems', '.', 'Liquid', 'life', 'is', 'a', 'kind', 'of', '‘', 'metabolic', 'weather', '’', '.', 'It', 'is', 'a', 'dynamic', 'substrate', '-', 'or', 'hyperbody', '-', 'that', 'permeates', 'the', 'atmosphere', ',', 'liquid', 'environments', ',', 'soils', 'and', 'Earth', '’', 's', 'crust', '.', '‘', 'Metabolic', 'weather', '’', 'refers', 'to', 'complex', 'physical', ',', 'chemical', 'and', 'even', 'biological', 'outcomes', 'that', 'are', 'provoked', 'when', 'fields', 'of', 'matter', 'at', 'the', 'edge', 'of', 'chaos', 'collide', '.', 'It', 'is', 'a', 'vector', 'of', 'infection', ',', 'an', 'expression', 'of', 'recalcitrant', 'materiality', 'and', 'a', 'principle', 'of', 'ecopoiesis', ',', 'which', 'underpins', 'the', 'process', 'of', 'living', ',', 'lifelike', 'events', '–', 'and', 'even', 'life', 'itself', '.', 'These', 'life', 'forms', 'arise', 'from', 'energy', 'gradients', ',', 'density', 'currents', ',', 'katabatic', 'flows', ',', 'whirlwinds', ',', 'dust', 'clouds', ',', 'pollution', 'and', 'the', 'myriad', 'expressions', 'of', 'matter', 'that', 'detail', 'our', '(', 'earthy', ',', 'liquid', ',', 'gaseous', ')', 'terrains', '.', 'Liquid', 'life', 'is', 'immortal', '.', 'Arising', 'from', 'our', 'unique', 'planetary', 'conditions', ',', 'its', 'ingredients', 'are', 'continually', 're-incorporated', 'into', 'active', 'metabolic', 'webs', 'through', 'cycles', 'of', 'life', 'and', 'death', '.', 'Most', 'deceased', 'liquid', 'matter', 'lies', 'quiescent', ',', 'patiently', 'waiting', 'for', 'its', 'reanimation', 'through', 'the', 'persistent', 'metabolisms', 'within', 'our', 'soils', '.', 'Liquid', 'life', 'exceeds', 'rhetoric', '.', 'Its', 'concepts', 'can', 'be', 'embodied', 'and', 'experimentally', 'tested', 'using', 'a', 'trans-disciplinary', 'approach', ',', 'which', 'draws', 'upon', 'a', 'range', 'of', 'conceptual', 'lenses', 'and', 'techniques', 'to', 'involve', 'the', 'liquid', 'realm', 'with', 'its', 'own', '‘', 'voice', '’', '.', 'From', 'these', 'perspectives', 'liquid', 'technologies', 'emerge', 'that', 'are', 'capable', 'of', 'generating', 'new', 'kinds', 'of', 'artefacts', ',', 'like', 'Bütschli', 'droplets', ',', 'which', 'are', 'liquid', 'chemical', 'assemblages', 'capable', 'of', 'surprisingly', 'lifelike', 'behaviours', '.', 'These', 'agents', 'exceed', 'rhetoric', ',', 'as', 'they', 'possess', 'their', 'own', 'agency', ',', 'semiotics', ',', 'and', 'choreographic', 'impulses', ',', 'which', 'allow', 'us', 'to', 'value', 'and', 'engage', 'in', 'discourse', 'with', 'them', 'on', 'their', 'terms', '.', 'The', 'difficulty', 'and', 'slippages', 'in', 'meaning', 'and', 'volition', 'between', 'participating', 'bodies', 'creates', 'the', 'possibility', 'of', 'en', 'evolving', 'poly-vocal', 'dialectics', '.', 'Liquid', 'life', 'provokes', 'an', 'expanded', 'notion', 'of', 'consciousness', '.', 'Its', '‘', 'thinking', '’', 'is', 'a', 'molecular', 'sea', 'of', 'possibilities', 'that', 'resist', 'the', 'rapid', 'decay', 'towards', 'thermodynamic', 'equilibrium', '.', 'In', 'these', 'vital', 'moments', 'it', 'indulges', 'every', 'possible', 'tactic', 'to', 'persist', ',', 'acquiring', 'a', 'rich', 'palette', 'of', 'natural', 'resources', ',', 'food', 'sources', ',', 'waste', 'materials', ',', 'and', 'energy', 'fields', '.', 'These', 'material', 'alliances', 'necessitate', 'decisions', 'that', 'do', 'not', 'require', 'a', 'coordinating', 'centre', ',', 'like', 'the', 'brain', '.', 'Liquid', 'are', 'non-bodies', '.', 'They', 'are', 'without', 'formal', 'boundaries', 'and', 'are', 'constantly', 'changing', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'are', 'paradoxical', 'structures', 'that', 'possess', 'their', 'own', 'logic', '.', 'Although', 'classical', 'laws', 'may', 'approximate', 'their', 'behaviour', ',', 'they', 'can', 'not', 'predict', 'them', '.', 'They', 'are', 'tangible', 'expressions', 'of', 'nonlinear', 'material', 'systems', ',', 'which', 'exist', 'outside', 'of', 'the', 'current', 'frames', 'of', 'reference', 'that', 'our', 'global', 'industrial', 'culture', 'is', 'steeped', 'in', '.', 'Aspects', 'of', 'their', 'existence', 'stray', 'into', 'the', 'unconventional', 'and', 'liminal', 'realms', 'of', 'auras', ',', 'quantum', 'physics', ',', 'and', 'ectoplasms', '.', 'In', 'these', 'realms', 'they', 'can', 'not', 'be', 'appreciated', 'by', 'objective', 'measurement', 'and', 'invite', 'subjective', 'engagement', ',', 'like', 'poetic', 'trysts', '.', 'Their', 'diversionary', 'tactics', 'give', 'rise', 'to', 'the', 'very', 'acts', 'of', 'life', ',', 'such', 'as', 'the', 'capacity', 'to', 'heal', ',', 'adapt', ',', 'self-repair', ',', 'and', 'empathize', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'are', 'pluri-pontent', '.', 'They', 'are', 'capable', 'of', 'many', 'acts', 'of', 'transformation', '.', 'They', 'de-simplify', 'the', 'matter', 'of', 'being', 'a', 'body', 'through', 'their', 'visceral', 'entanglements', '.', 'While', 'the', 'Bête', 'Machine', 'depends', 'on', 'an', 'abstracted', 'understanding', 'of', 'anatomy', 'founded', 'upon', 'generalizations', 'and', 'ideals', ',', 'liquid', 'bodies', 'resist', 'these', 'tropes', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'discuss', 'a', 'mode', 'of', 'existence', 'that', 'is', 'constantly', 'changing', '–', 'not', 'as', 'the', 'cumulative', 'outcomes', 'of', '‘', 'error', '’', '–', 'but', 'as', 'a', 'highly', 'choreographed', 'and', 'continuous', 'spectrum', 'stream', 'of', 'events', 'that', 'arise', 'from', 'the', 'physical', 'interactions', 'of', 'matter', '.', 'They', 'internalize', 'other', 'bodies', 'as', 'manifolds', 'within', 'their', 'substance', 'and', 'assert', 'their', 'identity', 'through', 'their', 'environmental', 'contexts', '.', 'Such', 'entanglements', 'invoke', 'marginal', 'relations', 'between', 'multiple', 'agencies', 'and', 'exceed', 'the', 'classical', 'logic', 'of', 'objects', '.', 'They', 'are', 'inseparable', 'from', 'their', 'context', 'and', 'offer', 'ways', 'of', 'thinking', 'and', 'experimenting', 'with', 'the', 'conventions', 'of', 'making', 'and', 'being', 'embodied', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'invite', 'us', 'to', 'articulate', 'the', 'fuzziness', ',', 'paradoxes', 'and', 'uncertainties', 'of', 'the', 'living', 'realm', '.', 'They', 'are', 'still', 'instantly', 'recognizable', 'and', 'can', 'be', 'named', 'as', 'tornado', ',', 'cirrus', ',', 'soil', ',', 'embryo', ',', 'or', 'biofilm', '.', 'These', 'contradictions', '–', 'of', 'form', 'and', 'constancy', '–', 'encourage', 'alternative', 'readings', 'of', 'how', 'we', 'order', 'and', 'sort', 'the', 'world', ',', 'whose', 'main', 'methodology', 'is', 'through', 'relating', 'one', 'body', 'to', 'another', '.', 'Indeed', ',', 'protean', 'liquid', 'bodies', 'help', 'us', 'understand', 'that', 'while', 'universalisms', ',', 'averages', 'and', 'generalizations', 'are', 'useful', 'in', 'producing', 'maps', 'of', 'our', 'being', 'in', 'the', 'world', ',', 'they', 'neglect', 'specific', 'details', ',', 'which', '‘', 'bring', 'forth', '’', 'the', 'materiality', 'of', 'the', 'environment', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'are', 'political', 'agents', '.', 'They', 're-define', 'the', 'boundaries', 'and', 'conditions', 'for', 'existence', 'in', 'the', 'context', 'of', 'dynamic', ',', 'unruly', 'environments', '.', 'They', 'propose', 'alternative', 'modes', 'of', 'living', 'that', 'are', 'radically', 'transformed', ',', 'monstrous', ',', 'coherent', ',', 'raw', '–', 'and', 'selectively', 'permeated', 'by', 'their', 'nurturing', 'media', '.', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'invite', 'us', 'to', 'understand', 'our', 'being', 'beyond', 'relational', 'thinking', 'and', 'invent', 'monsters', 'that', 'defy', 'all', 'existing', 'forms', 'of', 'categorization', 'to', 'make', 'possible', 'a', 'new', 'kind', 'of', 'corporeality', '.', 'They', 'are', 'what', 'remain', 'when', 'mechanical', 'explanations', 'can', 'no', 'longer', 'account', 'for', 'the', 'experiences', 'that', 'we', 'recognise', 'as', '‘', 'being', 'alive', '.', '’']

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text = nltk.Text(tokens)

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tagged = nltk.pos_tag(tokens)
print(tagged)

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('another', 'DT'), ('.', '.'), ('Indeed', 'RB'), (',', ','), ('protean', 'JJ'), ('liquid', 'NN'), ('bodies', 'NNS'), ('help', 'VBP'), ('us', 'PRP'), ('understand', 'VBP'), ('that', 'IN'), ('while', 'IN'), ('universalisms', 'JJ'), (',', ','), ('averages', 'NNS'), ('and', 'CC'), ('generalizations', 'NNS'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('useful', 'JJ'), ('in', 'IN'), ('producing', 'VBG'), ('maps', 'NNS'), ('of', 'IN'), ('our', 'PRP$'), ('being', 'VBG'), ('in', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('world', 'NN'), (',', ','), ('they', 'PRP'), ('neglect', 'VBP'), ('specific', 'JJ'), ('details', 'NNS'), (',', ','), ('which', 'WDT'), ('‘', 'VBP'), ('bring', 'VBG'), ('forth', 'NN'), ('’', 'VBD'), ('the', 'DT'), ('materiality', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('environment', 'NN'), ('.', '.'), ('Liquid', 'NNP'), ('bodies', 'NNS'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('political', 'JJ'), ('agents', 'NNS'), ('.', '.'), ('They', 'PRP'), ('re-define', 'VBP'), ('the', 'DT'), ('boundaries', 'NNS'), ('and', 'CC'), ('conditions', 'NNS'), ('for', 'IN'), ('existence', 'NN'), ('in', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('context', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('dynamic', 'JJ'), (',', ','), ('unruly', 'JJ'), ('environments', 'NNS'), ('.', '.'), ('They', 'PRP'), ('propose', 'VBP'), ('alternative', 'JJ'), ('modes', 'NNS'), ('of', 'IN'), ('living', 'NN'), ('that', 'WDT'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('radically', 'RB'), ('transformed', 'VBN'), (',', ','), ('monstrous', 'JJ'), (',', ','), ('coherent', 'NN'), (',', ','), ('raw', 'JJ'), ('–', 'NN'), ('and', 'CC'), ('selectively', 'RB'), ('permeated', 'VBN'), ('by', 'IN'), ('their', 'PRP$'), ('nurturing', 'JJ'), ('media', 'NNS'), ('.', '.'), ('Liquid', 'NNP'), ('bodies', 'VBZ'), ('invite', 'VBP'), ('us', 'PRP'), ('to', 'TO'), ('understand', 'VB'), ('our', 'PRP$'), ('being', 'VBG'), ('beyond', 'IN'), ('relational', 'JJ'), ('thinking', 'NN'), ('and', 'CC'), ('invent', 'NN'), ('monsters', 'NNS'), ('that', 'WDT'), ('defy', 'VBP'), ('all', 'DT'), ('existing', 'VBG'), ('forms', 'NNS'), ('of', 'IN'), ('categorization', 'NN'), ('to', 'TO'), ('make', 'VB'), ('possible', 'JJ'), ('a', 'DT'), ('new', 'JJ'), ('kind', 'NN'), ('of', 'IN'), ('corporeality', 'NN'), ('.', '.'), ('They', 'PRP'), ('are', 'VBP'), ('what', 'WP'), ('remain', 'VBP'), ('when', 'WRB'), ('mechanical', 'JJ'), ('explanations', 'NNS'), ('can', 'MD'), ('no', 'RB'), ('longer', 'RBR'), ('account', 'NN'), ('for', 'IN'), ('the', 'DT'), ('experiences', 'NNS'), ('that', 'IN'), ('we', 'PRP'), ('recognise', 'VBP'), ('as', 'IN'), ('‘', 'NN'), ('being', 'VBG'), ('alive', 'JJ'), ('.', '.'), ('’', 'NN')]

In [10]:

selection = []

for word, tag in tagged:
    if 'VBZ' in tag:
        selection.append(word)

print(selection)

['is', 'exceeds', 'is', 'is', 'is', 'is', 'is', 'permeates', 'is', 'underpins', 'detail', 'is', 'lies', 'exceeds', 'draws', 'creates', 'is', 'indulges', 'is', 'acts', 'depends', 'bodies', 'discuss', 'is', 'bodies', 'is', 'bodies']

In [15]:

selection = []

for word, tag in tagged:
    if 'NN' in tag:
        selection.append(word)

print(selection)

['MANIFESTO', 'Liquid', 'life', 'realm', 'concepts', 'potential', 'hypercomplexity', 'hyperobject-ness', 'liquid', 'terrains', 'ability', 'totality', 'living', 'things', 'by-products', 'liquid', 'processes', 'Liquid', 'life', 'worldview', 'phantasmagoria', 'effects', 'disobedient', 'substances', 'strategies', 'dalliances', 'skirmishes', 'flirtations', 'addictions', 'phenomena', 'twists', 'turns', 'exchanges', 'manoeuvres', 'alleys', 'digressions', 'ciphers', 'process', 'substance', 'method', 'technology', 'set', 'materials', 'body', 'processes', 'contexts', 'encounters', 'coherence', 'lives', 'beings', '’', 'changes', 'flows', 'ambiguities', 'states', 'points', 'transformation', 'systems', 'Liquid', 'life', 'kind', '‘', '’', 'hyperbody', 'atmosphere', 'environments', 'soils', 'Earth', '’', 's', 'crust', 'Metabolic', 'refers', 'physical', 'chemical', 'outcomes', 'fields', 'matter', 'edge', 'chaos', 'collide', 'vector', 'infection', 'expression', 'materiality', 'principle', 'ecopoiesis', 'process', 'living', 'events', '–', 'life', 'life', 'forms', 'energy', 'gradients', 'density', 'currents', 'flows', 'whirlwinds', 'dust', 'clouds', 'pollution', 'expressions', 'matter', 'terrains', 'Liquid', 'life', 'conditions', 'ingredients', 'webs', 'cycles', 'life', 'death', 'liquid', 'matter', 'quiescent', 'reanimation', 'metabolisms', 'soils', 'Liquid', 'life', 'concepts', 'approach', 'range', 'lenses', 'techniques', 'realm', 'voice', '’', 'perspectives', 'technologies', 'kinds', 'artefacts', 'Bütschli', 'droplets', 'chemical', 'assemblages', 'behaviours', 'agents', 'rhetoric', 'agency', 'semiotics', 'impulses', 'value', 'discourse', 'terms', 'difficulty', 'slippages', 'meaning', 'volition', 'bodies', 'possibility', 'dialectics', 'Liquid', 'life', 'provokes', 'notion', 'consciousness', 'thinking', '’', 'sea', 'possibilities', 'decay', 'towards', 'equilibrium', 'moments', 'tactic', 'palette', 'resources', 'food', 'sources', 'waste', 'materials', 'energy', 'fields', 'alliances', 'decisions', 'coordinating', 'centre', 'brain', 'Liquid', 'non-bodies', 'boundaries', 'bodies', 'structures', 'logic', 'laws', 'behaviour', 'expressions', 'material', 'systems', 'frames', 'reference', 'culture', 'Aspects', 'existence', 'stray', 'realms', 'auras', 'quantum', 'physics', 'ectoplasms', 'realms', 'measurement', 'engagement', 'trysts', 'tactics', 'rise', 'life', 'capacity', 'self-repair', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'acts', 'transformation', 'matter', 'body', 'entanglements', 'Bête', 'Machine', 'understanding', 'anatomy', 'generalizations', 'ideals', 'bodies', 'tropes', 'Liquid', 'mode', 'existence', 'outcomes', '‘', 'error', '’', '–', 'spectrum', 'stream', 'events', 'interactions', 'matter', 'bodies', 'manifolds', 'substance', 'identity', 'contexts', 'entanglements', 'relations', 'agencies', 'logic', 'objects', 'context', 'ways', 'thinking', 'conventions', 'Liquid', 'fuzziness', 'paradoxes', 'uncertainties', 'living', 'realm', 'tornado', 'cirrus', 'soil', 'embryo', 'biofilm', 'contradictions', 'form', 'constancy', '–', 'encourage', 'readings', 'order', 'world', 'methodology', 'body', 'liquid', 'bodies', 'averages', 'generalizations', 'maps', 'world', 'details', 'forth', 'materiality', 'environment', 'Liquid', 'bodies', 'agents', 'boundaries', 'conditions', 'existence', 'context', 'environments', 'modes', 'living', 'coherent', '–', 'media', 'Liquid', 'thinking', 'invent', 'monsters', 'forms', 'categorization', 'kind', 'corporeality', 'explanations', 'account', 'experiences', '‘', '’']

In [17]:

txt = open('manifesto1.txt').read()
tokens = nltk.word_tokenize(txt)
fd = nltk.FreqDist(tokens)
print(fd)

<FreqDist with 492 samples and 1067 outcomes>

In [19]:

print(fd.most_common(100))

[(',', 71), ('.', 52), ('of', 49), ('and', 37), ('the', 29), ('are', 19), ('that', 17), ('a', 16), ('Liquid', 13), ('to', 13), ('is', 12), ('their', 12), ('life', 10), ('liquid', 10), ('bodies', 10), ('They', 10), ('as', 9), ('’', 9), ('‘', 8), ('our', 7), ('in', 7), ('which', 7), ('not', 6), ('can', 6), ('through', 6), ('–', 6), ('its', 5), ('It', 5), ('matter', 5), ('being', 5), ('an', 4), ('or', 4), ('we', 4), ('living', 4), ('be', 4), ('These', 4), ('from', 4), ('these', 4), ('they', 4), ('us', 4), ('realm', 3), ('The', 3), ('them', 3), ('recognise', 3), ('into', 3), ('body', 3), ('within', 3), ('physical', 3), ('for', 3), ('with', 3), ('own', 3), ('capable', 3), ('like', 3), ('thinking', 3), ('existence', 3), ('invite', 3), ('concepts', 2), ('terrains', 2), ('exceeds', 2), ('Indeed', 2), ('what', 2), ('processes', 2), ('quantum', 2), ('process', 2), ('substance', 2), ('more', 2), ('than', 2), ('materials', 2), ('recognizable', 2), ('vital', 2), ('specific', 2), ('contexts', 2), ('subjective', 2), ('remain', 2), ('persistent', 2), ('such', 2), ('flows', 2), ('bring', 2), ('transformation', 2), ('systems', 2), ('kind', 2), ('metabolic', 2), ('weather', 2), ('dynamic', 2), ('-', 2), ('environments', 2), ('soils', 2), ('chemical', 2), ('even', 2), ('outcomes', 2), ('when', 2), ('fields', 2), ('materiality', 2), ('lifelike', 2), ('events', 2), ('forms', 2), ('arise', 2), ('energy', 2), ('expressions', 2), ('conditions', 2)]

In [20]:

print(fd['liquid'])

10

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