Negarestanian Diversion 3: Openness

 

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"In economic openness, affordance does not refer to either the restrictive or restricting affordability of one or multiple systems, but the whole reciprocal horizon in which both the subjective and objective sides of economical openness must survive and undergo a dynamic but economical participation. Affordance does not work on a univocal or a unidirectional line - from the subject of openness to its objective or vice-versa. It is economically collective. Affordance moulds an horizon of economically-secured openness which accommodates both sides as bodies synchronous to each other. Correspondingly, openness is dynamically determined by the survival of both subjective and objective sides as a mutual living process, rather than survival as the evasion of peril. If affordance cannot be subjectively or objectively dismantled, this is because it is established mutually. In regard to its subjective and objective poles, affordance is basically mesophilic, meaning that it always comes in-between. Participations, becomings, lines of tactics and communications must all be based on the meso-sphere of affordance and its survival machineries." [1.]

"To become open or to experience the chemistry of openness is not possible through 'opening yourself' (a desire associated with boundary, capacity and survival economy which covers both you and your environment); but it can be affirmed by entrapping yourself within a strategic alignment with the outside, becoming a lure for its exterior forces. Radical openness can be evoked by becoming more of a target for the outside. In order to be opened by the outside, rather than being economically open to the system's environment, one must seduce the exterior forces of the outside: you can erect yourself as a solid and molar volume, tightening boundaries around yourself, securing your horizon, sealing yourself off from any vulnerability ... immersing yourself deeper into your human hygiene and becoming vigilant against outsiders. Through this excessive paranoia, rigorous closure and survivalist vigilance, one becomes an ideal prey for the radical outside and its forces." [2.]

[1.] & [2.]: Reza Negarestani, 'Cyclonopedia', Melbourne, Aus, re.press, 2008