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I always like to look for concrete fractal examples of such trend hypothesis. A sort of ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny type progression whereby individual creative output mirrors longer cultural patterns... and also as-above-so-below hermeticism
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One I can see in my own life is the progression in my blog writing First couple of years: choiceless/systematic Gervais principle: beginning of my personal countercultural era Blogchains: my current subcultural mode Atomized: this is twitter draining some of my energy
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Fluid: this is the aspiration behind my "constructions in magical thinking" tagline for future writing. Blogchains are almost, but not quite, multitemporal. The call-and-response blogchain with is closer to true multitemporal.
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It would be *nice* if multitemporality meant a single coherent and smoothly evolving tunnel reality for each person. But that's degenerate. The minimum complexity is for each of us to have a headspace that is a braid-like long garden of forking paths that orbit each other.
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Waldenponding is degenerate multitemporality where the stress of a braid-like personal reality makes you want to simplify down to a single stranded or low-coupling multi-stranded subjectivity. The design fiction of New Nature gets at why this is too simple.
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