Constellation: Evance
Chance events of fundamental advance in the organization of reality, evances represent paradigmatic shifts that create new processual systems illegible to the forms preceding them. The three evances so far manifest are: (1) the emergence of self-replicating code from matter; (2) the emergence of sentience overcoding drive and affect; (3) the emergence of technics/symbolization overcoding sentience, which produces free subjectivity.
Evance
Source: Metastaseis by Iannis Xenakis Ethics via Evance (Extract) Evances represent paradigmatic shifts in reality that create processual systems that are uncodable in terms of the level of reality preceding them: i.e. mechanical being is illegible to pre-differentiated reality, sentient life as bound being is illegible to mechanical being and symbolic life as free being…
The City Without Organs
Source: A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley Lobe (Excerpt) …circumstances of a post-consumer society will in time mimic the effects of Lobe on an individual pre-social transformation. Society itself becomes the embodiment of a Lobe-induced perspective. With this marriage of the internal and external, the mode of maintaining the impetus of social change…
