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The following paper was brought to the attention of the Royal Society of Exploratory Studies on a Tuesday. By Thursday all three committee members owning right of veto resigned, resulting in an emergency meeting that night, called by the previous president. No minutes were recorded in the meeting, but by Monday an application was put to the Small Businesses and Clubs Registry for a name change. The paperwork was apparently rushed, and approval was received on the 4th of the next month, securing the new name: Royal Academy of Sciences. Comparison of member records between November and July show complete replacement. The following paper was brought to my attention by a PhD student researching the evolution of publishing houses and their role in the segregation of information, after it was found in RAS archives. The following paper:
A methodology of perspective; or, a phenomenological, auto-suggestive tool-kit for the psycho-mimesis of interval trajectories of thought, employing conceptual attention, mindful distraction, and recursive refraction
L., P.A. (27 Jan 3)
Preface
We step onto a new frontier. A gaze to our backs reveals a well-spring of delusion that had threatened to drown our kingdom and erase our true names. Look forward! The games of our youth bore us visions of reality no less certain than the confidences we are habituated to wont so dearly now. Look forward! The proof that a house is not the world lies across the threshold of the door. Look forward! The bubbles of our egos may threaten destruction, but the world outside their doors exist no less surely and defiantly. We must be pioneers as we were in the moment of our birth, discoverers of epiphanies that spark revolts within the mind.
We step on giant’s shoulders, but what are giants to a generation of ladders and cranes! Let us be inspired by the pathfinders of yore, who planted seeds that became edifices of a million faceless artisans. But let us combine their artistry for genius, together with our prefabricated materials, our cybernetic libraries of Babel, and a new cosmopolitan intuition that transcends the concept (rightly now archaic) of syncretism. This is our brave new world, but let us be brave.
The medium of humanity’s life can only ever be the human life, experienced singularly, and shared exponentially with every contact. The medium of the human life is the entirety of that which is experienced singularly and shared intersubjectively. The medium of human life is the fundamental substrate of exploration, no matter the distractions of each time, filled with places and things and ideas that demand their own truth.
Introduction
It is time to define the premises of our investigation. Let it be said! Let it be said, and let it be taken as a story that consumes its own tale (sic), or a map in the constellations to be studied between the passing of two clouds. Let it be said:
The perception of a thing is the unification of axioms according to an instantiating logic. A thing perceived is a metaphor determined by the signals of its receptions and the criteria for a singular fate.
This is not an epistemology, this is a phenomenology. This is not a phenomenology, this is a ladder. This is not a ladder, this is a constellation. This is not a constellation, this is a truth. This is not a truth, this is an epistemology.
