Why Reticulation? Why Forces of Reticulation?

Dr. Yuk Hui

Reticulation

Credit: John Gerrard, Exercise Dunhuang (2014)

Joseph Josenhans, “Bilder aus der Missionswelt. Für die deutsche Jugend nach englischen Originalien bearbeitet u. mit kurzen Erklärungen versehen,” Scholz, Mainz ca. 1860

Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989)

Gestalt Psychology: Ground and Figure

Nature vs Culture:cosmo-geographic a priori

techno-geographic milieu

Look at this antenna of television as it is ... it is rigid but it is oriented; we see that it looks into the distance, and that it can receive [signals] from an emitter far away. For me, it appears to be more than a symbol; it seems to represent a gesture of sorts, an almost magical power of intentionality, a contemporary form of magic. In this encounter between the highest place and the nodal point, which is the point of transmission of hyperfrequenies, there is a sort of “co-naturality” between the human network and the natural geography of the region. It has a poetic dimension, as well as a dimension having to do with signification and the encounter between significations.

Simondon, Entretien sur la mécanologie (trans. Y.Hui)

Epistemology

Jacob Levy Moreno(1889-1974)

Sociometry

Episteme

[Episteme is a] strategic dispositif which allows the selection, among all possible enunciations, of those that will be acceptable within [...] a field of scientificity of which one can say: this is true or false.

Michel Foucault, ‘Le jeu de Michel Foucault (Entretien sur l’histoire de la sexualite)’, in Dits et Ecrits III (Paris:

Gallimard, 1994), 297–329: 301.(trans. Y.Hui)

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