Concept
thread
2 writings
- black is anticipation that landed The material chemistry of traditional inks — carbon from combustion, acid from fermentation — grounds a claim that anticipation and priming are the same selective operation viewed from opposite temporal directions, with the letter as their conversion point.
- the loom sanctions before the thread arrives Emergence-based accounts of self-organization ignore the apparatus that pre-structures the space in which emergence occurs; the loom sanctions which threads can participate before weaving begins, and its authority is deepest when the threads mistake it for physics.