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From: Simon Browne The following are excerpts from 1) a manuscript/letter recently received from Warren Brodey on the topology of klein form systems and 2) a transcription of the audio portion of a two-hour video tape made by Andy Mann and Darcy Umstedter in which Warren relates klein form systems to bioptemes (biological optimizing systems) and contrasts these with mechy max (mechanical maximizing systems) which he thinks predominates in the mismanagement of the earth's ecology in ignorance or disregard of context [the extent to which all things (systems) are related]. The following are excerpts from 1) a manuscript/letter recently received from Warren Brodey on the topology of klein form systems and 2) a transcription of the audio portion of a two-hour video tape made by Andy Mann and Darcy Umstedter in which Warren relates klein form systems to bioptemes (biological optimizing systems) and contrasts these with mechy max (mechanical maximizing systems) which he thinks predominates in the mismanagement of the earth's ecology in ignorance or disregard of context [the extent to which all things (systems) are related]. TOPOLOGY is a non-metric elastic geometry. It is concerned with transformation of shapes and properties such as nearness, inside and outside. (Paul Ryan, Radical Software 3). Compare the kind of space people are in who ask "Do you follow my line of reasoning?" and the space of those who ask, "Can you get into the space I am in?" "Can you get into the space I am in" means asking the other people to loop through your style, your information arrangements, your habits, your epistemology, your language, and how you deal with the unanticipated. Infolding: Imagine working through into depths with the help of a media that provides instantaneous feedback and thereby allows infolding with time, memory, energy, relation, no longer in the image of print. "Do you follow my line of reasoning?" I am not a TV freak. I am a person engaged with a group in synthesizing actual plastic materials that use the ecothink in their working. The going is slow but the space is now clear in my head. We taped a discussion — each of us trying to catch what we thought had meaning, I might catch your face when you registered surprise at what your hands had just built. On the next infolding we would discuss what you expected and your surprise. We would use the TV to penetrate in depth the experience even as it happened and to penetrate the experience of the experience—the meta experience. Paul talked about this in the last issue of Radical Software: Taping something new with yourself is a part uncontained To replay the tape for yourself is to contain it in your perceptual system Taping yourself playing with the replay is to contain both on a new tape To replay for oneself tape of self with tape of self is to contain that process in a new dimension Parts left out of that process are parts uncontained All of this is mapable on computer graphic terminals! Taping something new with yourself is a part uncontained To replay the tape for yourself is to contain it in your perceptual system Taping yourself playing with the replay is to contain both on a new tape To replay for oneself tape of self with tape of self is to contain that process in a new dimension Parts left out of that process are parts uncontained All of this is mapable on computer graphic terminals! Infolding as it is described by many creators of Radical Software is really a radical, a powerful, a timely, and a materially significant happening. It takes us into a new space. Some of the readers, particularly Paul, would look at the tape we were making if this were an infolding session and show me my stubbornness in not seeing what they were telling me a year ago or more. But our group has been working in the same space with different media in hand — a responsive touch media instead of a visual one. Our child has asked for its launching. It is a frail being, almost unborn... Now I would like you to take the trip into our space... Do you anticipate enough value in this trip to sacrifice a sock of a stocking... for the sake of finding a way to stream through our new space? Do you? If you do peel off a stocking and move with me. We must leave the old space. There is no life there. A 1-hour tape from which the above transcription was made is available. See inside back cover for tape offering. Special credit and thanks from Warren to Paul, Gregory Bateson, Avery Johnson,
- Lita Osmundsen, Judy Johnson, Frank Gillette, Beryl and many others ...
First published in Radical Software, Volume 1, Issue no. 4, pp 4-7, 1970
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See article by Avery Johnson entitled Infolding Paul Ryan.