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ubimage design and test a contemporary practice of correspondences, constructing
a system of macro-micro-cosmos for an electrate wisdom. Ubimage is a practice
of “macroimaging” (arts equivalent of macroeconomics, each dealing with the
dynamics of information circulation).
3.6
Obscenario
The obscenario is a transitional alternative to the
scenarios
of conventional consult-
ing, as a means to imagine the future in order to decide policy in a flash. Concepts
are literate, and the purpose of Philosophy, according to Deleuze and Guattari, is to
create concepts (Deleuze and Guattari
1994
). Transition from literacy to electracy
requires learning how to extend conceptual thinking within electrate media, in
order to imagine our way into the new apparatus. Deleuze and Guattari analyzed
“concept” into three components: an idea (term), a problem field addressed by the
idea, and a conceptual persona who dramatizes the import of the idea in a situation.
Obscenario shifts the emphasis from literate foregrounding of the eidos (abstract
configuration of properties) to persona in a situation, which lends itself to imaging.
The prototype of a conceptual persona is Socrates, dramatizing “dialectic” as idea
in the dialogues of Plato. We rely on this analogy to move into the invention of a
post-literate practice: an avatar of concept. The phrase is ambiguous: the concept of
“avatar,” and an avatar of “concept” (which itself may not appear). The first step, in
other words, is to develop within literate skills a concept adequate to the invention
of konsult: a practice that does for electracy what the dialogue did for literacy.
The relay from Socrates is useful to identify the features of obscenario. There
are several levels for emulation: (1) Plato creates the dialogue as a device to
communicate in writing the new logic of dialectic. Students are introduced to
dialectic (analysis and synthesis) through an interface metaphor, the behavior of the
gadfly Socrates. Dialogue as pedagogy requires a certain attitude: a commitment
among friends to suspend competition in order to discover what is objectively
(logically) true; (2) the scenario proper is Socrates encountering an interlocutor on
the streets of Athens, in everyday life, as in
Euthyphro
, for example (Plato
2006b
).
Euthyphro is in a situation: he has decided to prosecute his father for impiety.
Socrates asks Euthyphro to define his terms: what does he mean by “impiety.”
Of course to define a term produces a concept - a literate skill, but Euthyphro is
illiterate; (3) The context for the apparatus is the invention of practices of logic to
augment pure reason, as a capacity of selfhood (individual identity) in a democratic
state (collective identity). The instruction is to extrapolate to our own case.
Concept Avatar is not dialogue or dialectic, but uses those to generate an
electrate equivalent, to do for EmerAgency konsult what dialogue did for Plato's
Academy. The capacity to be addressed, supported, augmented in konsult via
ubimage is not reason (logic), but affect, sensory perception (aesthetics). The
medium (equipment) is not alphabetic writing, but ubiquitous computing (pervasive
computing: mobile devices in smart environments). Euthyphro in the midst of a
situation encountered in the streets of Athens the gadfly Socrates. Egent (intern of
