Collapse

Collapse I is an unprecedented collection of work by leading practitioners in diverse fields of enquiry. Conceived as a meticulously compiled and compendious miscellany, a grimoire or instruction manual without referent, as a delirious carnival of sobriety, Collapse operates its war against good sense not through romantic flight but through the formal insanity secreted in the depths of the rational ("the rational is not reasonable").

Collapse aims to force unforeseen conjunctions, singular correspondences, and unnatural cross-fertilisations; to diagram abstract regions as yet unnamed.

The first volume of Collapse investigates the nature and philosophical uses of number through interviews with philosophers scientists and mathematicians, essays on the mathematics of intensity, terrorism, the occult and information theory, and graphical works of multiplicity.

Colapsul I este o colectie de lucrari fara precedent realizata de practicieni de frunte in diverse domenii de cercetare. Conceput ca o miscelenie meticulos compilata si compendioasa, un grimoire sau manual de instructiuni fara referent, ca un carnaval delirant al sobrietatii, Collapse isi opereaza razboiul impotriva bunului simt nu prin fuga romantica, ci prin nebunia formala secretata in adancurile rationalului („ rational nu este rezonabil "). Colapsul isi propune sa forteze conjunctii neprevazute, corespondente singulare si fertilizari incrucisate nenaturale; pentru a diagrama regiuni abstracte inca nedenumite. Primul volum al Colapsului investigheaza natura si utilizarile filozofice ale numarului prin interviuri cu filosofi oameni de stiinta si matematicieni, eseuri despre matematica intensitatii, terorismului, teoria oculta si a informatiei si lucrari grafice de multiplicitate.