The Anticulturalist: Granulation Systems

The Anticulturalist Granulation System: 1

Event occurs in time = Event Time

Perceived by those involved = Data Unit creation = divorced from Event Time

Multiple viewpoints = Early granulation

Retold – created about= Data Unit distortion/granulation

Uploaded = Fixed as Data Unit / Infinite versions of itself
Seen – Decontexted – Remixed – Repeated = Anticulturalist granulation

The Anticulturalist Granulation System: 2

Event occurs in time = Event Time

Seen by person – Recorded (reflected) = Data Unit creation= divorced from Event Time

Seen by multiple people/recorded from multiple angles = Data Unit distortion/granulation through language and substrate divorced from Event Time

Uploaded = Fixed as Data Unit / Infinite versions of itself
Seen – Decontexted – Remixed – Repeated = Anticulturalist granulation

The Anticulturalist Granulation System: 3

Event occurs in time = Event Time

Perceived by another person = Data Unit= divorced from Event Time

Perceived by other people = Data Unit distortion/granulation divorced from Event Time

Written, painted, created about as inspiration = Data Unit distortion

Uploaded = Fixed as Data Unit / Infinite versions of itself
Seen – Decontexted – Remixed – Repeated = Anticulturalist granulation

An event occurs. It exists only for the time in which it occurs. This is the last stage of purity of the event.  This information is now a unit of data which has no objective significance or context.

When re-told / remixed / reported / used as creative inspiration the data unit is recontexted to suit whatever effect is suitable or desired, creating inevitable distortion due to vagaries of meaning,  language, expression.  It has also become divorced from any time context.

Once uploaded onto the Internet this data unit becomes eternally granulated as it is available as an infinite copy of itself to every net user to use for their own needs, wants, memes, contexts. It has become infinite simulacra of itself.

Culture is the shared conceit of creation and/or creativity and/or social convention within a specific time/period of human understanding and is a non-static conversation by and with itself. As each individual has their own bias that they bring to the process of data unit extraction removed from Event Time for their own means and ends, this process is Anticulturalist.

Note that it is not an ‘anticulture’ as the definition of a shared cultural understanding no longer applies.

Note also that the Anticulturalist process itself inherently unstable and by nature cannot be described effectively.

The preceding paragraphs are also unstable for the same reasons.