Touchez – The Poetics of Turbulence

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Notes

¹ See later in this issue and references.

² For reference and interesting discussion, see Lazzarato 2010.

³ ‘[I start] to think about my own thoughts of the situation in which I find myself. I even think that I think of it, and divide myself into an infinite retrogressive sequence of “I's” who consider each other. I do not know at which “I” to stop as the actual, and in the moment I stop at one, there is indeed again an “I” which stops at it. I become confused and feel a dizziness as if I were looking down into a bottomless abyss.” (Pais, 1991, 400.) For the influence of Poul Martin Møller (and this sentiment in particular) on Niels Bohr's theory of complementarity, see Stenholm 2011: 32.

⁴ See John Townley and Robert Schmidt, ‘Paul Kammerer and the Law of Seriality’ for the influence of these ideas on the development of Jung's notion of ‘synchronicity’. Both meditations occur in the context of the discoveries being made by physicists like Wolfgang Pauli which suggested that at the sub-atomic scale at least the position and the direction of a particle could not both be known at once: what you knew was inseparable from what you chose to know. See also Elena Nichita, ‘Some Considerations on Seriality and Synchronicity,’ Brain, Issue 1 (Jan 2010, 49-54.

⁵ Tomasz Downarowicz, ‘Law of Series’ accessed at www.scholarpedia.org/article/Law_of_series. Accessed14 October 2013.