soundform 2: noospheric congruence
Google Skyview Concept Pitch:
subverting, confusing and distorting the underlying concepts of cartography, google skyview would allow users to explore any given city grid with only the daytime sky as their landscape. with no visual cues or landmarks to guide their way, wanderers would be forced into aimless exploration as they move on to nowhere in particular. google skyview would serve as a helpful reminder that, in the age of posthumanity, it is important to keep intact the other side of our nature: the human desire to float, the desire to lose oneself in time and place.
soundform 1: strange loop
“not a physical circuit but an abstract loop in which, in the series of stages that constitute the cycling-around, there is a shift from one level of abstraction (or structure) to another, which feels like an upwards movement in a hierarchy, and yet somehow the successive “upward” shifts turn out to give rise to a closed cycle. That is, despite one’s sense of departing ever further from one’s origin, one winds up, to one’s shock, exactly where one had started out.”
-hofstadter
