12th chapter of DOD: The Death of Depth," an early 2005 video exploration of Limited Fork Poetics (as Limited Fork Theory was then known, and had been known since LFT's birth in October 2004). This video book has been reconfigured from files and file fragments salvaged from a failed external hard drive (650GB of 800GB existing, as of this writing, as unreadable information).
This video chapter is also known as "My Galactic Octopus," once the only salvageable unit of a larger project now partially restored as the video book I'd hoped for in 2005. As "My Galactic Octopus," this video poam was screened in the Video Vanguard Film Festival.
"The Death of Depth" was an outcome of the birth of forkergirl's understanding of the usual location of her (and, therefore, her/the fork's) interactions: on the surface, at the entrance to the interaction; "depth" continuously reconfigured as the yet-to-explore, the to-be-connected-with; for when something is cut into, the cutter and the interaction tends to be relocated to a surface that emerges; what is exposed by cut or entry becomes available for consideration, itself a form of interaction. The surface is suitable for study.
In chapter 12, the limited fork appears as the bifurcating nervous system of the body, pathways that link thought and idea with sensation as the entire universe of body is traversed. That the circuitry is flawed as an outcome (or poam: product of act[s] of making) of interactions with entities that transformed transmission and reception lines helps reveal principles of Limited Fork Theory:
Though the fork is a tool to bring stuff together, its also a tool unable to access all of anything because of holes between the tines or prongs, holes that assist with escape, and loss, and that help foil definitive assessments. The tool cant grasp everything it tries to access. Distance between tines is variable. Substance of tines is variable. Influence of tines on what tines manage to pick up, and influence of what is picked up with tines is variable. Shape of tines is variable. Use of the tool configures it, and the tool is/may be reconfigured as outcomes of use (which is also interaction) —so liberating and so much fun to use a fork that admits there are gaps in information!
Though the fork is a tool to bring stuff together, its also a tool unable to access all of anything because of holes between the tines or prongs, holes that assist with escape, and loss, and that help foil definitive assessments. The tool cant grasp everything it tries to access. Distance between tines is variable. Substance of tines is variable. Influence of tines on what tines manage to pick up, and influence of what is picked up with tines is variable. Shape of tines is variable. Use of the tool configures it, and the tool is/may be reconfigured as outcomes of use (which is also interaction) —so liberating and so much fun to use a fork that admits there are gaps in information!
A further consequence of the nature of the tool is an acknowledgment of interconnectedness of all that exists, so there direct and indirect paths (systems of paths) from any entity or entities to any other unit or units of existence. LFT assumes connection, and in that assumption, makes a connection. Because everything is already connected, integrative and interdisciplinary approaches are built-in; links need activation instead of creation. Activated in this case is almost a mirroring or echo; just when I am recovering sufficiently to return to fork use and the making of poams, I'm able to extract enough information from a defective external hard drive to rebuild some of most of the chapters --I like being tethered to recovery )I hope also to economic recovery).
The video book DOD explores implications of reconfiguring poetry as a dynamic system as these understandings were unfolding as of spring 2005. Identifying systems of reconfiguration that Limited Fork Theory enables is itself an ongoing system that sponsored the growth of the Limited Fork from a tool that reframes possibilities of poetry to a more generalized tool that can reframe perceptual encounters (including encounters with poetry) in, the fork will try, any situation.
LFT studies interacting systems (such as visual. sonic, olfactory, tactile, cognitive, imagined systems/subsystems on any scale[s] in any location[s] for any duration[s] of time). As a consequence of its flexible framing of inquiry, Limited Fork Theory necessarily studies how things converge, how stuff connects, where stuff connects, why stuff connects, understanding that the active nature of "interacting" suggests that any particular interaction is likely temporary and/or that the substance of the configuration may reside inside flexible or shifting perceptual spaces instead of fixed location[s].
Features early music from the founder of Strexx Quantum Orchestra.
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