Pre~liminaries

The book of preliminary procedures taken to define polysingularity through the words and actions that are about to come. Printed matter: Polysingularity Letters, Volume 3.

  • Stairs

    When a subject walks over the stairs, they experience polysingularity. The intention is the same, but the appearance is different. The solutions can be reached using many possible pathways. The slight deviations in the route make each solution unique. There’s a strong proposition from the stairs, which make the differences between these unique solutions as […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • Black Waters

    When you look at the ocean, the waves form the wells over the surface. These are strange attractors, the areas of temporary non-equilibrium stability. This is how water’s polysingularity expresses itself and its ability to maintain permanence through interaction between the local and global dynamics.

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • Denim Shirt and Cotton Panties

    A denim shirt and a pair of cotton panties can come together in a lot of different ways. It depends on the person who is wearing them, the situation, the perspective we take, the place, the moment, the mood, the way they are combined. Polysingularity of denim shirt and cotton panties manifests itself through the […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • People on Ice

    Polysingularity is when multiple solutions are possible and yet only some are actualized at every moment of time. The same solution can be actualized through various different rules and function. It’s possible to arrive to the same point even if you start from a different place or follow a different route. The traces on ice […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • Army Day Parade

    Army is a good example of the social structure where polysingularity of an individual is sacrificed for polysingularity of the group. Uniform, strict regulations, formal and informal codes of behaviour and embodiment ensure that the solutions that are available to each individual are subordinate to those of the army. Photo “Taiwan Army Day Parade” by […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • 777 Beginnings

    Every beginning is different and it leads to a different end. Polysingularity of intention emerges when deviations among the beginnings tends to correlate with deviations among the endings. That’s when it becomes evident that while there are many different ways to reach the multiple solutions that are possible, they all have something in common. That […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • Block Houses

    Panel housing blocks may look grim, but they represent the kind of architecture that manifests polysingularity in a very subtle way. Every window looks the same and yet it is slightly different. Slightly deviant repetition produces polysingularity of the house. The expressive capabilities in the midst of this uniformity are pushed to the extreme. All […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • A Tree in a Forest

    Every tree in the forest is different, manifesting its polysingularity. When the difference between the differences is falling within a certain predictable range, we have a case of non-equilibrium stability. When something dares to be much more different than anything else, this is an act of commitment to its own specificity. Such action deserves a […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 23, 2012
  • Synth Wave

    Polysingularity in music is the persistence of repetition to maintain its individual specificity through a slight difference in occurrence. When an analogue synth wave is left to reign on its own it gains consciousness through subtle malfunctions rendering each repetition unique. The amalgamation of these differentiated malfunctions is what produces expressive power of this musical […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 22, 2012
  • Polysingularity of Environment

    Polysingularity is one of the basic features of the environment. It refers to the fact that everything is in a constant state of flux. Polysingularity is a process within an object. A table is alive. The timescale and spatial dimensions of its evolution are not relevant to our survival, that’s why we don’t notice them. […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 22, 2012
  • Polysingularity of Social Relations

    Polysingularity is a practice of belonging to several communities, forging random encounters, and exploring new social circles. Below we will demonstrate the current predicament using the example of real Facebook networks and then show how the practice of social polysingularity can improve it. Every community can be represented as a network. The nodes are the […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 22, 2012
  • Polysingularity of Thinking and Sensing

    Polysingularity of thinking is knowing that several solutions are possible and yet only some are actualized at every moment of time. It is inspired by the human brain and especially its ability to remain simultaneously stable and flexible through a combination of local and global synchronization. Local clusters of neurons engage in winnerless competetion to […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 22, 2012
  • Polysingularity of Itself

    Polysingularity is the natural condition of our mind, our body, and our world. On a very simple level polysingularity is when things could have been like this, just like they are right now, but also – like that, and like this, and also like that, and like this, and like this, and like that… But […]

    Dmitry Paranyushkin April 22, 2012