Comparative Vandalism by Peter Shield

Author:Peter Shield [Shield, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9780429828379
Google: tHd0DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-26T03:43:14+00:00

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‘Situlogy is the transformative morphology of the unique’1

An attack on a ‘central perspective of time’

The triolectic diagrams represent Jorn’s second attempt to draw his philosophical method. The first, in the spiral drawings, was probably abandoned because he could find no way of establishing a connection between the individual spirals. The triolectic diagrams appear just as isolated, but Jorn’s discovery of topology, during his search for insights from science and mathematics to further his artistic endeavours, led him to see that each triangle was a representative of an infinite series, the members of which grew out of and fell back into each other. Jorn’s statement that he was ‘aiming at a polydimensional cosmos at the surface’ applies just as much to his triolectic writings as to his painting.2

The effectiveness of the triolectic method lies in its facilitation of transformations. Jorn perceives that this ability to cross conceptual boundaries, to open up new areas by the use of analogy, homology and correspondence, even of metaphor, is itself analogous to the principles of homeomorphic topology. His first fumbling attempt in 1960 to use these principles ‘intuitively’ to differentiate between spontaneous situationist transformations in the present and the Franco-German Existentialist ‘situation’, where the present is always determined by the future (see 1:7 and 6:291, int. al. for Jorn’s awareness of this),3 recognized the importance of including time as a dimension. Before his elaboration of triolectics, Jorn called this ‘situgraphy or … plastic geometry’,4 and when applied to the situationist ‘situation’, it became a dialectic of opposed tendencies, the ludic, of art, or ‘the creation of variabilities within a unity’ which necessarily comes first, and the analytical, of science, ‘the search for unity amongst the variables’.5

A year later, Jorn returns to the theme in The Order of Nature with his triolectic method in place, and over some 20 pages develops a set of homeomorphic transformations to illustrate the scope of the idea. The approach is summed up in a triolectic, which could perhaps be called the situational or causal domain:

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