'Random Expressive Flow' - from conceptual to performative

Conceptual (De Bono) -  Poetic/Intuitive (Poeisis/Heidegger) - Performative/Improvised(Delanda/Eshleman)

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I see 'Random Expressive Flow' as a possible simple inclusive access point to the creative commons of our planets evolutionary capacity.(c.f Deleuze bWo, morphogenic potential (Delanda)) I am not implying that Quality and Fit will inevitably emerge, just that the experiment, if it can be designed safely, should be done before we impose order based on assumptions(bad faith?c.f pragmatism) (Hogarth Hume) (1.)


An extended, experimental notion of rationality may be required, certainly extended from a "naturalised" instrumental rationality(Habermas)   (Strategic >Communicative Discourse) . Derrida has also called for an extended rationality(ref)
Without rationality being extended in this way, it will be left out of, rational discussions which allocate funds and  the decisions of institutions etc.

1. One argument presented from a traditional rational position is that our 'rationality' is what makes us human(ref) and seperates us frome the beasts.  Koestler pointed out that organised human activity has been responsible form many times more deaths...(ref) and Deleuze argues for becoming animal(ref), however I beleive we need an extended notion of rationality to responsibly explore (2). the value of "random expressive flow" in different contexts.


2.  Theory is often assumed to be abstract, located solely in the realm of ideas and separate from practice. However, this view of theory emerges from a set of ontological and epistemological assumptions of separating meaning from matter that are taken to be foundational, when this need not be the case. Drawing upon what variously might be termed materialist, performative or post-human(?) positions, the article suggests that it is possible to re-enact theory as a matter-ing practice—of matter and meaning. The assumption of a separation that divides theory from practice is challenged in this article, which suggests that theory matters by being entangled with the material and that a separation of matter from meaning is an effect. This approach enacts things as matters of concern by contrast with the representation of objects as matters of fact. In this way, educational theory becomes a form of responsible experimentation rather than simply a representation of others. Edwards




Deleuze, 1000 Plateaus
Edwards R (forthcoming). Theory Matters: Representation and Experimentation in Education. Educational Philosophy and Theory.
Hogarth, R. Valid Experiments.