Process notes
△3 asks for a synthesis: how the position has changed since the start of Unit 2, which aspects are reinforced, which are untangled, and how it can be projected forward. The ∆3 draft traces one line through the unit: CONTACT asked whether a system can be neutral; Timetable narrowed this to what each grid makes legible, comparable or lost; Out of the Picture tested it against history.
- Reinforced — a method: keep the source fixed and change one declared condition.
- Untangled — in △2, cutting, collage and the online archive performed recontextualisation again instead of observing it. The method replaced the object of study.
- Turned around — after the 22 October tutorial, Benjamin is no longer only a framework: his measure of loss belongs to media conditions unlike ours, where every reproduction is already a translation.
The projection in this draft was subtraction. The portal vein figure in the Fabrica (pp. 262–263) works as a scientific statement with its letters, annotations and page; without them it can be read as a tree. The draft proposed a website that removes these layers one at a time in a declared, reversible order, so that the threshold between science and picture becomes observable. James Langdon’s “A conundrum: the visual communication of neuroscience” in Revue Faire supported this reading.
This was not the direction I kept. Week 02 shows why.