12: The Media of Language

Fractal Pluralism 12:of:13

The Media of Language

            Information is the  feedback loop of the Gaian Consciousness system. It follows that the means of producing, storing and sharing information are  becoming accessible to ever more of the global population.  More people have the ability, feel the need, and are inspired to express their hyper context also through producing informational representations. This representational information is taking multi-media forms. In particular, the rise of audio-visual. We have moved from sign to screen, translating all our sophisticated ability to synthesize text and image as a cohesive message into the ability to read novel pairings in multi-media as a single text. As we come into the age of hyper-expressive arts and all-encompassing sensory media productions, Chris Anderson, director at TED.com, pointed out in his talk, Crowd Accelerated Innovation, that the rise of video is actually a return to an older form of communication: face-to-face.The audio-visual medium enables human activity to be shared and taught that was previously non-locally invisible simply because it could not be communicated through text and still photography alone. Scientists were wasting time and thousands of dollars making errors when trying to replicate experiments by following journal articles. These errors  are now easily avoided by seeing the experiments done through video. Video sharing is also a principal force driving cultural innovation, putting the best of the best of all these newly communicable activities in conversation with each other. Now dancers from Toyko, New York and Rio can now all see and study what the others are doing, challenging each other to continually improve, accelerating new development.           

            All of which makes me think that multi-media and video is itself a comprehensive, efficient and wide-ranging form of communication. It is certainly more suited to the mobile communicative needs of a multi-scalar global society  than plain text and still photography. Audio Visual is a more effective mechanism for weaving global connectivity up and fractaling down. Audio Visual is actually emerging as the language of this dimensional shift.

            Terence McKenna called language a dimension-exploring device.Our language is becoming multi-sensory. It always has been. Only now, technology is enabling multi-sensory communication to be shared non-locally and in novel fusions. Our multi-sensory language is able to come into a new form of itself as it evolves through the generational cycles of technology, which mates and mutates much faster then our own adaptive cycles. It is evolving in this direction. Which is to say, that we too are evolving in this way. And through this new way in which language is becoming multi-media and multi-techno-sensory, we are witnessing a occurrence similar to a phenomenon observed in the harmonics of choral chants called the ‘Angel Tone.’ When multiple voices come together in song, tones can be heard and recorded which are not being made by any of those who are singing. Where multiple forces converge, an additional element arises. As our language and communicative expression re-configures itself through our technological tools, our sensory receptive capacities are undergoing a swift evolution. While it is my personal hope that communicating non-locally through a technological hardware will lead to an organically emergent telepathic human software- a phenomenon for which I suggest the name Tech-lepathy, the mere fact of our developing the ability to cognitize technologically mediated sensory information into cohesive communication in this way signifies an adaptive perceptuo-sensory transition. 

            If our dimension exploring devices are undergoing such a rapid shift,  we are also undergoing a rapid dimensional shift. Science tells us that nature moves towards complexification through diversification, ultimately growing into co-operation at a larger scale. Applied to our own situation, we have already moved through diversification and complexification. We now find ourselves on the threshold of realizing that cooperation, potentially being able to understand and experience ourselves in a larger dimensional scale as a single, global organism.

            As part of becoming aware cells in the body of this larger planetary organism, pattern orders that we would have to contain an overall blue print of the whole. So this intense pressure of information, transmitted through a multi-sensory, multi-media language, is the accelerated process of being downloaded with the DNA of our entire earthly history. It’s the whole human repertoire. Much of it is being disseminated through this collective human brain we’ve built for ourselves called the internet. Which does indeed have the same shape and follow the same functional pattern as our own neural network-sending electrical synapses carrying information to non-local cells  throughout the body.

            Seen in this Time-Scale, it is as though we’ve gone through  the process of becoming individuals in order to come back together as a more complex organism. To have this opportunity to strive for co-operation at this level of diversity. As though, through individuality, we can reverse jujitsu into a collective, self-sustaining ecology just now coming into image-ing.