form is just content bones
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Replying to @literalbanana
I literally believe this. You ever see, like, old cotton candy, or a spot where spider webs have built up and collapsed on themselves undisturbed for years? So there's kind of a fractal skeleton of strands collapsed onto each other. That's how I think about language.
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Replying to @St_Rev @literalbanana
David Chapman Retweeted Lucy Keer
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Lucy Keer @drossbucketFinally, I really like what Poincaré had to say (in 1905!). Maths instead of language, but the imagery is strikingly similar to Derrida's deserted city. He saw that meaning had to get in from the bottom end too - 'the old intuitive notions of our fathers'. https://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Poincare_Intuition.html … pic.twitter.com/AJsTRR05mmShow this thread2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes -
Replying to @Meaningness @literalbanana
The only thing my metaphor (which I have trouble verbalizing, see previous tweet) adds is the idea of, sort of *clotting* -- it's not exactly a remnant, or an part of the original structure, but of the structure stickily collapsing into itself.
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...but still hanging from the same points, so it remains some kind of web rather than a glob
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nb: I use 'fractal' in the above in the technical sense! A newly spun spider web is a rational net -- it maps out a surface like a mathematician would, it's almost a cell complex. An old web is more like a Sierpinski gasket!pic.twitter.com/PvWstqJu1l
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Please edit the above to replace 'cell complex' with 'polar coordinates'.pic.twitter.com/LxSGPsNw6h
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