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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:45:07 +0000
To: James Wallbank <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Hi James,
Complexity is a huge factor I agree, for human history writ large but
yes also for various economic models.
In a way, both unregulated free markets and excessive central planning
are maladaptive, sort of like genetic inbreeding that causes
fragility. The all-or-nothing of Marx v. Smith debate is rather 18th
c., frankly reminiscent of antique doctrinal and liturgical warfare.
Networks in nature mix both. One of my favorite articles of late is:
"Integral feedback control is at the core of task allocation and
resilience of insect societies."
Link: [1]https://www.pnas.org/content/115/52/13180
Network theory is the key, but it has to get over its digital and cyber
fixations as well as its cozy theoretical cocoon and gold-fever
buffoonery -- we have to live this stuff! It was here, analog, in
cells and brains long before the first PC or printing press. The first
cave paintings and guttural utterances were about it, and were it.
As we live daily today, network thinking and practice have to be
working and evolving at all levels and locales. You cover your sneeze,
I cover mine; don't sell the wild fowl at the market next to the
domestic fowl. It's all network reality. They call it network
medicine in cases like we have today, but just like in category theory
once you start talking about relationships rather than objects as the
locus of activity you need to go "all the way up" (and as Hemingway
said only bullfighters ever live their lives all the way up). In
category theory and the new math of equivalence they call it "infinity
categories." This has a rich heritage however in Ovid and Lucretius
plus most indigenous henges and origin myths. It also means we have to
flip a large complex system-pancake; we have to do network medicine,
network economics, network math, network literature, network art,
network physics, network elementary art education, network cooking
dinner, and we have to do them all all at once.
But we don't have to be perfect or pure. Just apply reasonable amounts
of network thinking to all spheres (art/literature/science/selfhood
etc.) in just proportion, what the ancient Greeks called "dike," with
reasonable consistency (of which we are all a priori capable ) and all
manner of thing shall be well.
Today is an important day to remember the Hippocratic Ethos. Smith
wrote that without moral judgment capitalism cannot function, and
socialism can also take a lesson from Hippocrates. This alone is
enough to put the battle to rest a bit or at least on hold, but we
ought also to ponder mayhaps the dicta "physician heal thyself" and "in
this the patient must minister unto himself."
My other fragmentary hope of late is for Bernie to be like the Hulk and
join the Avengers.
All very best to all,
Max
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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:59:46 +0000
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
That's a lot to discuss in one email!
Here they call it COVID-19 which I prefer as a name. I had an
interesting short conversation at a standup pizza gathering with
extended family last weekend. I said, "I wish I knew more biology so I
could understand what the hell is going on. What even is a virus?
What do they do?" One person, young, who studies bogs, said "They
aren't even alive, they're just this floating stuff that attacks and
hijacks our cells." This made me think of shadows, demons, and
ghosts. We talked about "they are the undead." (This reminds me now
of the native American term "indeh" for the dead.) Then I had an image
of something like flaking skin or paper in a copy machine, little bits
that floating around and goofed up the printing plans. Then I thought
this was like a cloud-mirror or fugue-plate of unintended consequence
itself, the inevitable side effect of events happening in a complex yet
finite system. A bit like static cling, but with biotoxic
inflections. I was reminded of a word I learned recently,
"abiogenic."
Here we are all taking the Hippocratic approach and staying fairly
calm. There's a sense that it will all blow over like the flu does
every year, or maybe not, in which case goodness knows, hellstorm city.
Is there such a thing as New Wave without cameras or film? I guess I'd
say it has to bring forth the Old Wave, the original very oldest wave
of all waves. As if time were a wave, or were waves. Minds are always
capable of being reminded, so time and network time are important. If
only there were an email discussion list, cross-disciplinary, about
network time to help the Hippocratic discussion, theory, and practice
across spheres, and people really cared about it, used it, made the
most of it.
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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 15:04:29 +0000
To: Felix Stalder <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
I like this post Felix! It strikes me as having a very Hippocratic
ethos.
Certainly at the very subtlest levels of the being (not soul, but
what? person? human?) there are truths that need to be perceived with
nuance often denied even or especially to the ways we make our art and
literature lately.
Perhaps it is an integrative and syncretic time, for better and for
worse.
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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> COVID-19 questions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:33:53 +0000
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Hi Sebastian,
I think it is worth considering the ancient "goat song" in this current
crisis.
The goat song started out as a dance people did in ancient Greece when
sacrificing a goat in order to get the gods' help in a crisis. They
danced together and sang words together to help the group "get on the
same page." Another aspect was to do the goat-song-dance for the grape
harvest, when things were good, more like comedy in that the characters
in such settings would survive and laugh rather than die.
The main crises in ancient times were plague, and its political
sibling, tyranny. These were the topics of the goat-song: Classical
Greek trag�di'a, contracted from trag(o)-aoidia = "goat song", which
comes from tragos = "he-goat" and aeidein = "to sing" (cf. "ode").
Here is one interpretation we might want to consider somewhat:
"Anyway, arising from an improvisatory beginning (both tragedy and
comedy--tragedy from the leaders of the dithyramb, and comedy from the
leaders of the phallic processions which even now continue as a custom
in many of our cities), [tragedy] grew little by little, as [the poets]
developed whatever [new part] of it had appeared; and, passing through
many changes, tragedy came to a halt, since it had attained its own
nature." -- Poetics IV, 1449a 10-15[18]
Cycles don't come to halts, nor do paths, nor do networks.
"It is well-known that the 'Age of Pericles' was also the Golden Age of
Greek tragedy, whose evolution we can follow from Aeschylus' Persians
in 471 BC to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, staged in 401. It is less
well-known that this is also the Golden Age of Greek medicine. The
Greek doctor Hippocrates, who was born in 460 BC and died around 370
BC, originated from the island of Cos and came from a family of
Aesclepiads. If we may believe Plato, his younger contemporary, by the
end of the fifth century his fame as a doctor was already similar to
that of Polyctetes of Argos or Phidias of Athens as sculptors."
[1]https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
All best,
Max
From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: <nettime> coronavirus questions
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 18:04:28 +0000
To: Eric Kluitenberg <[email protected]>, Nettime-l <[email protected]>,
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>, James Wallbank
<[email protected]>
Hi Eric,
I cannot recall hearing of schizoanalysis and hesitate to look it up
via internet search (how many psychic viruses does that habit create I
wonder?) but I think I get the gist. I have always been phobic about
certain theorists and am living out the experimental hypothesis that
what is worthwhile in what they wrote can reach me just fine
indirectly, by other people and writers; it's a filtration experiment
like tracking groundwater migration.
By way of answer, I'd like to type out the following passage I read
today on the bus in to work, from a paper book:
"At certain moments I felt that the entire world was turning into
stone: a slow petrifaction, more or less advanced depending on people
and places but one that spared no aspect of life. It was as if no one
could escape the inexorable stare of Medusa. The only hero able to cut
off Medusa's head is Perseus, who flies with winged sandals; Perseus,
who does not turn his gaze on the face of the Gorgon but only upon her
image reflected in his bronze shield. Thus Perseus comes to my aid
even at this moment, just as I too am about to be caught in a vise of
stone -- which happens every time I try to speak about my own past.
Better to let my talk be composed of images from mythology."
All very best as the world lives its life!
Max
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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Fw: An Update Regarding COVID-19
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:08:22 +0000
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Hi all,
I don't want to beat a dead goat but this is an odd email.
The Guthrie Theater was founded in 1972 by Tyrone Guthrie.
My ticket to Twelfth Night has been canceled by a non-living molecule.
Non-living molecules and their ilk were the original creators of the
goat-song tragedy as well as comedy by way of grammatical balancing.
So.
Best regards,
Max
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From: Guthrie Theater <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2020 9:54 AM
Performances Cancelled Through April 5
[1]Guthrie Theater
After careful consideration, and a desire to ensure the health and
safety of everyone who engages with the Guthrie, we have made the
difficult decision to cancel all remaining performances of Twelfth
Night and The Bacchae and the upcoming performances of CENTERPLAY.
At this time, we expect performances of Emma (April 11 - May 31) to go
on as scheduled, and we will continue to reevaluate that decision as
more information about COVID-19 develops. As stated in our previous
communications, our internal task force is monitoring the situation
with care and will continue to follow the recommendations of key health
organizations.
We deeply value your commitment to the Guthrie, and we will accommodate
all patrons to the best of our ability as we manage the ticketing
logistics. If you have tickets to an upcoming performance of Twelfth
Night, The Bacchae or CENTERPLAY, you may:
* Donate your tickets
* Exchange your tickets to another performance
* Hold the value of your tickets on your account for future use
* Receive a refund
As a nonprofit arts organization, the Guthrie relies heavily on the
support of donors, subscribers and single ticket buyers. If you are
able to exchange or donate your tickets rather than request a refund,
it would help sustain the Guthrie during this uncertain time.
In the coming weeks, please contact the Box Office at 612.377.2224 or
[2][email protected] with your preferred ticketing option.
We will be fully staffed to care for your ticketing needs, and we are
grateful for your patience and understanding as we work through this
process.
Although we won't be gathering together in the near future, we remain
together in spirit. May you be well in the weeks ahead, and I look
forward to seeing you at the Guthrie again soon.
Joseph Haj
Artistic Director
[3]2019-2020 Season
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From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: What You Should Know About The Novel Coronavirus
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 17:12:28 +0000
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
The Post Most: The pandemic is upending our relationship to space, time
and each other
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=novel
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=corona
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=virus
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=vision
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=art
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=medicine
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Telomere-structure-A-Telomeres-are-
composed-by-a-double-strand-region_fig2_323523320
Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
https://www.etymonline.com/word/*weid-?ref=etymonline_crossreference
[1]https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=*weis-
From: Max Herman <[email protected]>
Subject: Agency in the Anthropocene is Hippocratic
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 19:25:32 +0000
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
This about sums it up:
[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/13/you-are-hero-we-are-waiting/
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