January 27, 2025

Messaging My Friend A

I had SMS messaged my friend A, these two TikTok links:

Aidan Walker (@aidanetcetera) intro to Historie d'Horreur and the phenomenon of Lakaka:
@aidanetcetera The lore de @lakaka , a great innovation in online literary forms. #lakaka #lore #oupigoupi #france #meme ♬ original sound - Aidan Walker

(LINK)

(Sometimes the embeds don't work. Don't know why.)

Historie d'Horreur, @lakaka.land:
@lakaka.land histoire d'horreur 😱 #dankmemes #catmemes #chat #brainrot #horreurtiktok #humour #offlain ♬ original sound - lakaka

(LINK)
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He got cranky in reply because that's who he is. He's a brilliant guy with a heart of gold but he doesn't want anyone to know this. He replied with a terse:
"I don't have that app"

So I took the trouble to send the links to him again via email, taking not a little pleasure in knowing that I'm probably bugging him.

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A's reply:

Unfortunately, considering how memes function is outside of my interest.
I've been rereading Deleuze's Bergsonism of late, a pleasurably confounding text.
These dorks are trying to wrap their heads around some of the concepts therein.
You will at least appreciate the room in which they sit. 


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My reply:

A,

Beat for beat reactions:

First thought into the video: so, all is image. Nice summation: "..collapsing matter and memory..." referring I assume to the problem of bridging the perceiver and the noumena.

Genesis 26: Then God said, "Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness..."

Wait a sec. Is this Platonism?

Memory as flow. Then, memory was then thought of as a playback, that memory is a neural pathway etched in our brains, . Today, the idea of memory as a reconstruction, that memory is not summoned but instead reconstructed, recreated (and importantly, error prone) in our brains, The flow concept is not displaced, but maybe modifiable?

There's another idea in physics about time cones or timescapes, rendering the past and future more or less fixed.

T=6:00 in

A reliance on calculus. Lines tangent to curves. Slicing derivatives.

There's also a scratching going on in science suggesting that the brain is a transducer of reality past, present and future... not a singular mainframe. A self distributed, not a materialist singularity.

"Science of the day." Keeping up with the evolving debate would a good Bergsonian make. String theory just got dethroned, for example. Dark Matter might be a dead end, for example.

T=11:00

The reduction of the image: that's what a transducer does, a device that converts energy from one form to another.

Maybe, in order to live and navigate in a material world, our access to the totality of which our imaging slices is too much for a mortal capacity. A limited capacity just might be the only way to exist in this world, to live on an earth for any given time. A totality is another word for G-d and isn't it a thing in the bible that direct contact with G-d would destroy mere mortals? Therefore, the need for a GUI avatar like Jesus or a Holy Ghost to sweep a pathway towards the godhead.

"Ego consciousness is hte least conscious facets of our perception."

Nice:
"the image for Bergson is our own body. That is what we experience and what we always there... and it is an interrelationship with the entire universe, this is where Delueze's Plane of Immanence comes in..."

T=18:00

Man of action vs man of dreams.

My parents thought I was too day-dreamy and my dad used to say: "Son, you're like a chicken, born in a new world every day." Thanks, dad! 😂

Balance, a good thing.

Extracting advantage, good coinage.

T=23:00

Calculus reference. Shout out to Leibniz.


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The dome? Bucky Fuller was the apex dork. I prefer Gaudi. Good but way-too-thorough presentation by Mark Bury at the Architecture Association. You might have to press your finger on the screen for 2x speed to get to the good parts 3/4 of the way in. Good stuff to get the real nut of parametric design:


Why I thought of you with the Historie d'Horreur and Lakaka:

The short bursts of storytelling adding up later in any order, the cats, the noir, the French attitude and his references to Godard...

...made me think of your oeuvre and how it operates in a similar way. Each thing you make could be likened to a TikTok video, viewing one after the other in any order of linkage could suggest a larger narrative with flexible interpretations, each of which are imbued with a certain attitude and character as your work is.

-D

Historie d'Horreur and Goddard:
@aidanetcetera Brainrot, Godard, and online cultural exchange. #lakaka #lore #godard #aboutdesouffle #brainrot #france ♬ original sound - Aidan Walker


Wish I could reveal who A is.

If I asked him, he'd probably say no.

Posted by Dennis at January 27, 2025 12:24 PM

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