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Plate 2: Six Flags, Bodies, Music and Machines.
From Earth’s lower orbit, rollercoasters probably resemble war-machines: red and yellow catapults hurling and terrorizing human bodies, not for…
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Brandon Avery Joyce
Notes for "QUESTIONS of POWER" (6), Infinite Plasticity, Time, Space, and Alien Dynamics
The British humanist-pragmatist F.C.S Schiller was quoted by William James as saying that “The world is essentially _______, it is what we make it. It…
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Brandon Avery Joyce

August 2023

Notes for "QUESTIONS of POWER" (5), the Ontology of Mechanism, Time, and Rhythm.
The crux of Aristotle’s Metaphysics is the relation of being and change. In the first parts, he treats us to some choice cliffnotes on how the problem…
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Brandon Avery Joyce
Notes on "QUESTIONS of POWER" (4), The Investigator.
A WINTER’ S TALE: Somewhere in the long shadow of Chicago, a housefire blazed in the cruel winter’s night. The home was one-storey, with faded-yellow…
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July 2023

Notes on "QUESTIONS of POWER" (3), Modes and Configurations.
The categorical conception of power covers both the everyday, efficacious, empowering, productive forms, on the one hand, and the prohibitive…
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Brandon Avery Joyce
Plate 1: Rube Goldberg's "Idea for Dodging Bill Collectors."
Above is a cartoon by Rube Goldberg entitled “Idea for Dodging Bill Collectors.” The caption runs: “Professor Butts mistakes a lot of broken glass for…
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Brandon Avery Joyce
Notes on "QUESTIONS of POWER" (2), the Science of Accidents.
The first section began with the somewhat gnomic phrase that power neither is, as a rejection of ontology, nor is not, as a rejection of ideology. What…
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Brandon Avery Joyce
Notes for "QUESTIONS of POWER" (1), Pandynamism and the Meaning of Power.
Power neither is nor is not. Instead, power is what makes and unmakes our world, or to put it more comprehensively, whatsoever makes and unmakes the…
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