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READER
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION
4
DECAY
8
DECAY ACTIONS
12
SCHEDULE
13
SELECTED READINGS
22
INTRODUCTION
4
glass, plastics, and in combination
with vernacular expressions of
environment and organic life.
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DECAY
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The paradox is that while edges may be defined at one scale
of representation but remain implicit or invisible on another,
nonetheless explaining something in terms of its larger bits
doesn't render those smaller bits any less real, any more than,
inversely, 'zinc and sulphuric acid cease to react in a certain
way when we explain their reaction in terms of the atomic
reaction' (Bhaskar 1975). Whichever way round they are, the
dynamics of these
edges, while dog-
gedly epistemo-
logical and onto-
logical, are heavily
dependent on
representational
and regulatory*
expenditures used
to detail many
finer-grained
inter-reactions and fluxes that influence earth and its (impos-
sible) observation.
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and plant are modulated. They are nonlinear, chaotic and have
'memory-effects', with absent (past) configurations influential
on present and future determinations. Thus in this iteration
of the SHIFT REGISTER project we will foreground how things
decay both as a modulating and disruptive force in our epis-
temic zoning of earth and ourselves, and as one with which
to register other than 'objectifying' procedural responses to
earthly process.
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DECAY ACTIONS
as a series of practical
exercises around which
to discuss decay cycles
(anthropogenic, earthly).
We will then construct
the TOKYO EOA from the products of these exercises and 'acti-
vate' it on location during a 2nd day field trip. The location for
installing the EOA will be determined by plotting those 'lines
of intersection' generated from processing confluences of site
geo-locations - including those vectorized from Jomon shell
middens, NTT data centres, nuclear sites and Median Tec-
tonic Line shrine sites – and then finally determined in their
bisection by two GPS tracks from 'leaked' radioactive w.a.s.t.e
material sent from Fukushima to the workshop.
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The schedule is proposed to include
Saturday April
29th, 11:00-19:00
Workshop discussion
19:00-22:00
MAP REFERENCES
#000
Plot data:
NTT
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38.401111, 141.499722
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37.061111, 136.726389
35.538333, 132.999167
35.522222, 135.504722
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43.036111, 140.5125
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GENERAL NOTES
SOURCES:
REFERENCES:
SELECTED READINGS
1_
ECOLOGIES
OF
THOUGHT
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A CLASSIFICATION OF ECOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES David L
Strayer et al. 2003
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FURTHER
READINGS
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2_
DECAY
AND
ITS
DISCONTENTS
FURTHER
READINGS
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these different orderings until the moment of their exponen-
tial and violent re-enactment in the bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki which turned them “in the instant of a flash,
into massive cameras; the victims grafted onto the geography
by the radiation, radiographed ... [which] unleashed an excess
visuality that threatened the material and conceptual dimen-
sions of interiority and exteriority”.
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3_
BURIED
MEMORY
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MALANGGAN: ART AND MEMORY A MELANESIAN
SOCIETY Susanne Küchler 1999
FURTHER
READINGS
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CARTOGRAPHIES OF THE ABSOLUTE Alberto Toscano and Jeffrey
Kinkle 2015
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The TOKYO SHIFT REGISTER event is generously hosted
by Higure 15-17 cas and our great thanks go to all our friends
there; to Ele Carpenter and Noi Sarawagi for permission to
reproduce the texts linked to here, Merle Ibach for designing
the Reader and to Hohi Ikeda for all her hard work and sup-
port in making this event happen.
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