Dear Friends and Colleagues,
AKRONOS Publishing is pleased to announce that the much awaited text,
"Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry Vols.1 & 2" by P. and A. Correa,
is now available on its website:
http://www.aetherometry.com
This text forms a comprehensive overview, both scientific and philosophical,
to the monographs in Experimental Aetherometry which have been published
on the AKRONOS website during the last two months. It comprises the following
sections, each of which forms a separate HTML document:
1. The basic problems in Reich's theory of the ORAC anomalies, and the
trajectory of the aetherometric solutions
2. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 1
3. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 2
4. The Specter of Wilhelm Reich
5. Why speak of an Aether?
6. On 'wishful thinking' at the merger of BioPhysics and Philosophy.
"So if we slide in our discourse from one register to the other, from Science
to Philosophy or vice versa, this should, if anything, be seen as the sign of
the power of aetherometric thought - that it can cut easily from one level to
the next to pick out the effective elements at play in a field - on whatever
level they are playing. For everything that happens in reality does not just
happen on one register. Registers are superimposed on one another:
political, economic, social, sexual, psychological, scientific, technogical
factors and structures coexist in the same Space and Time, in the same
flux of energy and in the same durations of lives or in the same lives. So,
in fact, to be able to connect in this way a minor scientific discourse,
let's say to a philosophy that did not wish to be nihilistic or merely
limited to deconstruction - as the philosophical discourses of Nietzsche
or Deleuze, for example, aspired to - obliges one to effectively confront
the political, the economic, the sexual, ethical, etc, issues associated
with scientific research, just as there are scientific aspects associated
with those other factors themselves when they are expressed, let us say,
on a level that is even with the social structures they have been assigned
to. It is precisely in this sense that there is a science that serves the
State because it is a subject of the politics of that State, including its
military politics. Likewise, there are political factors and consequences
and micropowers associated with a unitarian science that employs
microfunctionalism indistinctly as a philosophical, analytical or scientific
and synthetic tool.
The deeper reason why one inevitably has to straddle both discourses
- philosophical and scientific - comes from the fact that the basic steps
that lead to Aetherometry imply at once some closeness to, and some
distance from, both Philosophy and Science. It is not possible for us to
raise the argument of the energetic nature of Space and Time without
learning from Nietzsche's notion that Space and Time themselves need
to be explained as a "play of force", "the game that the aeon plays with
itself." This was his own language employed at the advent of the concept
of energy. And likewise, it is not possible for us to argue with Einstein
without first reading the criticisms that Bergson and Deleuze addressed
to him. It is not possible to relate Space and Time as distinct
multiplicities, at once quantitative and qualitative, without taking
account of Deleuze's criticisms; but also, likewise, without taking an
immense distance from Deleuze's position, or analyzing it in order to
demonstrate the errors and mistakes that prevent us from a new theory
of manifolds.
So, effectively, Aetherometry only carries the load it needs to carry -
because Aetherometry is not Deleuze's theory, it is not neo-Deleuzeanism,
any more than it is a Reichian theory, or a neo-Reichian theory or an
'orgonomic school of thinking', any more than it is a Nietzschean current,
any more than it makes the apology of anyone else. Aetherometry is about
science. And science uses names with respect to effects that are actual or
'material'. And if Science today has ceased doing this, it is because its
real creativity and discovery are virtually dead. Aetherometry is, in a sense,
the continuation of the scientific project now virtually abandoned by a
science that is subordinate to mass-marketing of technologies and the
policies of mass-control."
From "Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry"
AKRONOS Publishing is pleased to announce that the much awaited text,
"Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry Vols.1 & 2" by P. and A. Correa,
is now available on its website:
http://www.aetherometry.com
This text forms a comprehensive overview, both scientific and philosophical,
to the monographs in Experimental Aetherometry which have been published
on the AKRONOS website during the last two months. It comprises the following
sections, each of which forms a separate HTML document:
1. The basic problems in Reich's theory of the ORAC anomalies, and the
trajectory of the aetherometric solutions
2. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 1
3. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 2
4. The Specter of Wilhelm Reich
5. Why speak of an Aether?
6. On 'wishful thinking' at the merger of BioPhysics and Philosophy.
"So if we slide in our discourse from one register to the other, from Science
to Philosophy or vice versa, this should, if anything, be seen as the sign of
the power of aetherometric thought - that it can cut easily from one level to
the next to pick out the effective elements at play in a field - on whatever
level they are playing. For everything that happens in reality does not just
happen on one register. Registers are superimposed on one another:
political, economic, social, sexual, psychological, scientific, technogical
factors and structures coexist in the same Space and Time, in the same
flux of energy and in the same durations of lives or in the same lives. So,
in fact, to be able to connect in this way a minor scientific discourse,
let's say to a philosophy that did not wish to be nihilistic or merely
limited to deconstruction - as the philosophical discourses of Nietzsche
or Deleuze, for example, aspired to - obliges one to effectively confront
the political, the economic, the sexual, ethical, etc, issues associated
with scientific research, just as there are scientific aspects associated
with those other factors themselves when they are expressed, let us say,
on a level that is even with the social structures they have been assigned
to. It is precisely in this sense that there is a science that serves the
State because it is a subject of the politics of that State, including its
military politics. Likewise, there are political factors and consequences
and micropowers associated with a unitarian science that employs
microfunctionalism indistinctly as a philosophical, analytical or scientific
and synthetic tool.
The deeper reason why one inevitably has to straddle both discourses
- philosophical and scientific - comes from the fact that the basic steps
that lead to Aetherometry imply at once some closeness to, and some
distance from, both Philosophy and Science. It is not possible for us to
raise the argument of the energetic nature of Space and Time without
learning from Nietzsche's notion that Space and Time themselves need
to be explained as a "play of force", "the game that the aeon plays with
itself." This was his own language employed at the advent of the concept
of energy. And likewise, it is not possible for us to argue with Einstein
without first reading the criticisms that Bergson and Deleuze addressed
to him. It is not possible to relate Space and Time as distinct
multiplicities, at once quantitative and qualitative, without taking
account of Deleuze's criticisms; but also, likewise, without taking an
immense distance from Deleuze's position, or analyzing it in order to
demonstrate the errors and mistakes that prevent us from a new theory
of manifolds.
So, effectively, Aetherometry only carries the load it needs to carry -
because Aetherometry is not Deleuze's theory, it is not neo-Deleuzeanism,
any more than it is a Reichian theory, or a neo-Reichian theory or an
'orgonomic school of thinking', any more than it is a Nietzschean current,
any more than it makes the apology of anyone else. Aetherometry is about
science. And science uses names with respect to effects that are actual or
'material'. And if Science today has ceased doing this, it is because its
real creativity and discovery are virtually dead. Aetherometry is, in a sense,
the continuation of the scientific project now virtually abandoned by a
science that is subordinate to mass-marketing of technologies and the
policies of mass-control."
From "Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry"