ANTILOG_09June26a

"THE ARTIST IN THE FIELD." Self-portrait by A.G. (c) 2026. All Rights Reserved.

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ANTILOG_09June26a

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2026-06-09 05:32:26

- I began writing another antilog on the 8th of June, 2026, but never got around to finishing it or publishing it; Here is what I had written at the time:

2026-06-08 05:10:06

- Yesterday, I accomplished quite a lot of stuff; I ended up recording quite a bit of music, new music, some for my "DAYBREAK" album, some just my general, run-of-the-mill ambient, experimental sound design; I plan on recording new compositions for organ and piano soon, for my Seasons of The Heart Project; yesterday was a good day, as I said I accomplished quite a lot, the day was slow but just in the right way;
- I did a lot of research early in the morning yesterday, printing out materials, reading and highlighting them and taking notes, you know the general pattern by now; I can't really print stuff out when I want to, since I'm usually working around 4am or 5am, which is too early to run a printer which is as loud as mine is; still, I manage, I just do the printing after 8am, generally.

- Today, I will treat of the many novels that I have designed over the years, and also why most if not all have been abject failures;
- Unbeknownst to me, there was a fatal flaw in the Novel-as-a-System, my proverbial novelistic phenomenology;
- Essentially, the novels I designed were far too grand in scale and scope; they would require me to write 1000 pages for each;
- I decided, then, since I have literally dozens of unfinished novels in varying states of disrepair, that I would just start documenting the design concepts for my novels;
- I will try to stick as much as possible to a kind of design science, even though I am not a scientist by any standards; I did get a degree in design, specifically Computer-Assisted Sound Design; I eventually came to apply the design principles that I learned, but to my writing AND my visual art practice; it was easy, it turns out it's the same thing for any discipline, mode of expression, or genre;
- In the past, whenever I architected my next masterpiece and begun working its theory and outline, the course of history itself, and much grief and loss, interrupted me and interfered with my work, in such a way that the work was abandoned and scrapped, and I was never to return to it; it ended in trauma and the death of the artist's soul; now my biggest fear is being interrupted and losing my soul again;
- There's something wrong with the system, the works are too grandiose; they should be encapsulated in much shorter pieces; the novel, such as The Nihilist or In The Name of Beauty & Truth, are Design Concepts; in any given day, I can only write one single facet or module for the (Cultural) Software Library; I can't finish a 1000-page novel in one sitting, but I can "write" ("design", the concepts of) 1000 novels in one sitting; there is a tragic flaw in the narratological system that must be patched, corrected;
- I began treaing novels/novellas as "databases-of-images" back in 1998, back when I was working on a concept of Textbook Art, textbooks which weren't really textbooks, but were a kind of "disciplinary allegory" where the textbook that you were ready of whatever discipline was actually a mystical allegory; it looks like, say, a Physics Textbook, except everything is slightly wrong as you get deeper into the text; then you start having epiphanies; I also developed the concept of a "Surrealist Textbook" and also an "Abstract Handbook"; I've written countless pages about these design concepts, yet was never able to get around to actually writing them, and its a really difficult concept in the first place; then I thought of just writing a massive Glossary of Art History where I would treat of every known concept in art history and art historiography, aesthetics, the philosophy of art;
- These days, I'm thinking less about these grandiose mega-projects much of the time as I try to focus on more quotidian things;
- Don't get me wrong, it's great, I think, to try to build a Cathedral of Dreams, to have a Grand Vision, an artistic vision that you work towards with what I call holy ambition for the sacred journey;
- It literally takes a microsecond to come up with the design concept for a new novel, at least when you practice what I call the novelistic phenomenology; that is, it's really the Novel-as-a-System, a kind of simulation one runs in one's mind; the actual novel itself can take on a multitude of forms; the design concept is necessarily pluraL, as it can take many forms; I think, however, that I'm just going to try to write a page per day towards these novel-concepts, working on many different novels on any given day; I figure if I can write 10-20 pages per day, in 100 days, that's at least 1000 pages, if not 2000; or another way to look at it, 10 pages per day is 3650 pages per year, and so in 10 years I could potentially have written 36,500 pages, which is a lot of pages, more than enough to finish the totality of my novels that are extant, and then some;
- I will expand, elaborate, and extrapolate on this later on, if not today, then tomorrow or the days that follow; for now, I want to finish documenting what I never got around to finishing on the 8th, as mentioned above; it has to do with some more developments in my workspace theory; I quote it at length here; please know that these were just my research notes from yesterday morning; I always start the day with research, research of different depths, of different densities; this research was pretty deep; know that they are merely in note-form, really rough notes; you have been forewarned; here are yesterday's notes:

2026-06-07 05:37:13

- THE ALGEBRA OF WORKSPACES: 
- Workspace theory, autonomous AI agent integration, and topological workspace matrices, bring to the reader cultural and technology markets; the primacy of the continuous spatial field (le continu, Fernande Saint-Germain, les Automatistes); a painting is not a collection of discrete, isolated objects, but the unbroken relational manifold where every single intervention dynamically alters the energetic tension of the whole; by treating history, memory, and creative output not as a linear timeline (a Euclidiean grid), but as a relational manifold, I am essentially practicing a form of historical topology (SEE Rosalind Krauss, "Grids");
- My farmework dictates how the intellect navigates the archives => A research log placed next to an analog painting creates a conceptual voisinage (neighborhood) that alters the meaning of both (montage, literary, cinematic); Fernande: Western thought was crippled by its reliance on the discrete, linear nature of words (The 1D bottleneck of words, SEE: a Critique of the Podcast Circuit);
- She championed the non-verbal as a primary, hyper-sophisticated mode of intelligence ("spatial intelligence" and AI world models); My methodology of polytextuality ("Reading-Without-Reading", "Writing-Without-Writing") => The nonlinear manifold + somatic rhythm => I do not read texts in a Euclidean line => my simultaneous, nonlinear engagement with multiple texts and digital assets treat literature exactly how Fernande Saint-Germain treats a canvas => I am flattening the discrete nature of books into a continuous, spatialized field of ideas => her later work emphasized that the perception of space is a somatic, affective act; we feel boundaries, enclosures, and densities in our bodies; my physical oscillation between workstations, texts, and canvas is literal, bodily enactment of Saint-German's topological trajectories; the movement of my body through the studio space mirrors the movement of the eye across the continuous canvas; Refcard-as-Colpème => its true meaning is entirely dependent on its localization within my taxonomic schema;
- Stop and write a Refcard, Stop and write a Refcard; carry it to the other station, transcribe + carry it back; Write another Refcard, ad infinitum;
- Because my system must scale across complex projects, the relationship between the refcards must be topological rather than rigid (elastic taxonomy!); they must be able to stretch, deform ("gently") and re-cluster without losing their core relational integrity; when I rearrange my Refcards, I am altering their voisinage (proximity) and enveloppement (containment, "containerization"), transforming the continuous field of my research database (dB-ART) without tearing the underlying conceptual fabric;
- The workspace manifold; delta-workspace theory and topology, delta-workspace theory studies the dynamic, shifting boundaries (envelope, permeable/ipermeable, canvas) of focus, tool integration (technique-paintings, or action syntax cards), and creation production within the physical and digital environment;
- Enveloppement (enclosure) => the psychological and somatic feeling of being INSIDE the creative process (or Historiotheque workspace); the workspace as a protective womb or container (black box + secular temple) that stabilizes high-level abstract thought => topological invariants => succession (order); the operational pathways, habits, and oscillatory rhythms that guide my daily creative movement thorugh the studio;
- The workspace is not just a room with desks, etc.; it is a dynamic topological manifold that expands or contracts based on the somatic state and cognitive load of the researcher; (*DANGER: I cannot stress it enough, that this kind of work can be extremely exhausting, or worse; people can become decompensé / disorganized because of lack of experience navigating such spaces; it is therefore necessary for the Chief Art Operator to "set the tempo" for each workday; more on all of this soon; (sooner or later).

- That's it for now; I had a prolific day yesterday, the 8th; I wrote and recorded 3 or more songs; it's hard for me to count them since to me it's all just one song, the same song, it feels to me, that I play over and over across time and space, and also the truth of the matter is the music lives inside of me, welling up from within, as though I had a "spring of life" inside me in the inward plane; later this morning, I'm likely going to go to a family member's house to write and record some musical compositions for organ and piano; I'm falling asleep, as I have said multiple times, and will say many times more, I will come back to this sooner than later; I always follow the trail of breadcrumbs back to where I left off the last work session; tomorrow morning early in the morning, I will do some more review of the previous day and previous week, month, year; Stay tuned!