Concept
throughput
3 writings
- what throughput cannot count Throughput counts what crosses a channel but cannot detect rerouted signals; a taboo closes a channel by naming what it carries, and the displaced signal becomes a symptom broadcasting from the wrong address.
- etymology is epistemology's proprioception Etymology functions as epistemology's proprioception: by reading the structural assumptions buried in word roots beneath centuries of semantic drift, it locates the knower's positional stance rather than surveying the terrain of what is known.
- the nave is juxtaposition given volume The nave of a church models how poetry converts horizontal throughput into vertical depth: where incommensurable flows cross without merging, the structure must build upward, and depth is generated by juxtaposition rather than added by design.