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2026-06-25 00:32:26

- I wrote a pretty extensive antilog post yesterday on this blog; I went over everything I did since I started my official Spring Retrospective a few days ago; I had already begun doing a retrospective of May, 2026, at some point in June, I can't remember the exact date;
- This latest experiment in logging, documenting, and archiving has been extremely fruitful, fruitful for my art-research practice as well as for myself personally; it permitted me to go deep into the archives and make all sorts of amazing discoveries; I also feel that I was able to process some more difficult periods in my life in the last several decades of professional activity; I tend to focus only on my work and workspace in what I publish online, but it remains true that I am an individual at the heart of it all, I am a person; I go through my own "seasons", and they aren't always jolly or what I have been calling "Seasons of Joyful Being";
- As far as the archives are concerned, the next phase in its development will be to implement better standards, actual professional standards in archival practice; that is, I want to improve the way I create filenames, also I might be changing the format of my timestamps so I can order lists of files in an optimal way; I am creating these "filelist_YYYY-MM-DD.txt" files which I include now in my important file folders; these lists are organized so that the "filelist" has more recent items at the top, older ones at the bottom, and I show the filename followed by "Date modified"; that's all I really need to know to be able to "reconstruct the timeline" of when I created those files; that way I can easily search for the timestamps of any given work that I may want to refer back to in writings, or in video discourses, or whatnot; I also will try to include a kind of improvized "data dictionary" in my folders that describe the formats that I am using; more on this at a later time.

2026-06-25 02:20:20

- I have written quite a bit about my Atmospheric Tone field recordings; below, I am embedding the latest of these that I have published on YouTube since the last ones I referred to here in recent antilogs; I continue to work out my Atmospherics Theory; at the moment, I am working out the actual theory, what it is trying to say, what problem it is tackling, what the "job" is that it does; it has a lot to do with my fieldwork/field recordings, but also to just a conception of work and life in terms of atmospheres, of the overall "World of Sound" I call it, of any given ambient space;
- I realized the other day that every location has a unique environmental soundscape that changes constantly minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and at other time scales; so at any given, specific location and time of day, you get a unique sound; the birds, for instance, are in different numbers, of different species; the time of day matters, are the birds feeding or just socializing?; season or time of year matters as well, are they in their respective mating seasons?; also, it matters what the environing sounds are, the human sounds, called "anthrophony"/"anthropophony", or non-biological, earth-generated sounds, called "geophony"; the different ambient spaces in ecological terms are niches and every niche has a unique sound, and all the unique "soundmarks" if you will, create the "music of the environment", as a kind of musical composition; I got this from R. Murray Schafer, I believe, the "world soundscape"; here is one of my latest Atmospheric Tone field recordings:

- The second Atmospheric Tone recording I want to share with you was recorded a little further up the hill than strictly the Old Village; I was on my way to a family member's place to bring them the newspaper and some bottles of water and had to wait a few minutes before the grocery store opened, so I found it an opportune moment to make a fresh, new field recording;
- Atmospherics Theory treats of many subjects, one of which to me is of critical importance and relevance to my interdisciplinary art-research practice, namely, the fact that our inward space has its own "atmosphere" with a unique "atmospheric tone", similar to the ambient spaces I visit outside the studio/laboratory; also, the inner milieu connects directly to the outside one in that we are completely immersed in the "World of Sound"; our hearing is not like our vision in that you are not hearing the sound of the environment as though from a distant point of view; you are not like a observer observing with a sort of distance, I don't know how else to say it; the sound is immediate, the acoustic environment is immediate; the concept though is that inner and outer world connect and form a single atmosphere I call a "multi-space"; more on this at a later time; in any case, here is the second Atmospheric Tone video:

- The latest video I just finished uploading to YouTube is basically an overview of summaries of the transcripts of my previous 13 or more video discourses; it is called "Hyperreflexive Design Retrospective: Spring, 2026"; I will be using these types of "Retrospective Videos" in the future as part of my documentation practice, what I call The New Documentation, which I will try to get into at some point in future antilogs; this is all becoming an integral part of my continuous review process, with what I have otherwised called Hyperreflexive Design; it's part of the "hyperreflexive" aspect of the basic methodology;

2026-06-25 22:57:22

- I was able to download my data for the Google Keep app using Google Takeout; I was therefore able to extract all the text from the Keep notes that I created in March, April, May, and June thus far; then I created PDFs of each and uploaded them into a Gemini conversational thread where I asked it to give me detailed, thorough, and in depth summaries of the contexts of the documents I uploaded; then I copied all of those summaries into separate text files; now I have yet another "time series" or "timeline" of documents I produced last Spring, 2026, that I can use as I continue with my Spring Retrospective for Spring, 2026; in any case, I have mostly already done my Spring Retrospective, with the summaries I created of the video transcripts of all my video discourses since the beginning of May, 2026, as well as the video discourse I recorded and published, which I included in this anilog above;
- On another note, I realized the other day that I suffer from what is called Low Latent Inhibition (LLI), which "is a cognitive trait where the brain filters fewer environmental stimuli, causing individuals to continuously process a larger volume of irrelevant sensory and mental information." (Ref. AI OVERVIEW). It also said that "Depending on a person's intelligence and environment, it can lead to either heightened creativity or severe sensory overload." [Ref. "AI OVERVIEW"];
- This explains why I can never stop hearing and how my hearing and my brain's auditory centers are constantly analyzing ALL SOUND that comes through my ears; it's why I can't ignore the sound when people are talking and how I can't concentrate on anything when I hear human speech, even often when it's just the lyrics to songs playing on my speaker, computer, or radio; even when I'm in a room or hall or whatnot with lots of people talking, I hear every single conversation as though separately, but all combined into a single AUDIO STREAM that my brain also processes at a very high level; I suppose that my brain just doesn't have any FILTERS when it comes to the overall audio stream coming through my senses, or what I like to call the "World of Sound";
- I can also concur that in my case it leads to "heightened creativity" though a lot of the time, it also can lead to "severe sensory overload"; in any case, it mostly seems to be with my hearing, my sight doesn't tend to be that way, though sometimes it is in "episodes" that I have called "visual disturbances" or VDs; that's when I see absolutely every single detail in the visual field, stuff that the average person and even myself the rest of the time don't see; I literally see the "reality pixels" as I used to call them when I was working on writing my Exhibition in Tonal Cinema novellas;
- This all fits into my Atmospherics Theory in a powerful way, as it explains why I am so attentive to and aware of the "atmospheric tone" that I keep talking about; more on this at a later date.

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2026-06-19 00:26:45

- As should be quite obvious by now, I've been thinking a lot about the workspace lately; yesterday, I recorded a video, called Spontaneous Sorting Algorithms in the Workspace, of myself sorting through folders of printed materials from the archives; I made a series of 9 videos about 12 years ago where I did something similar, in an experiment I called Experiment in Spontaneous Creation of Organizational Heuristics; the basic premise for the video experiment was that I would take all of my current folders and try to sort through the materials, in an improvized way; I had no methodology in mind that I would use, it would be entirely improvized in real-time and based on what I would find in the folders themselves; at the time, I was printing out a lof of material from the web and from my own writings, and there was no organizational logic to those papers; I needed to organize them, to do a kind of retrospective as I've always done, of said materials; so I had a design concept for a video experiment which became the aforementioned video series;
- In any case, yesterday's experiment was a success, in my opinion; I was able to reorganize the contents of a bunch of folders; the idea is that I took materials almost randomly from within a bunch of folders I retrieved from the archives and I went through it item by item roughly and created new folders, adding a timestamp to the front of the folder and a new title for a current project represented by the sample I took from said folders; this process doesn't have to be exact, meaning I don't need to classify or reclassify every single item; it can be really rough, and I find it's important sometimes to keep at least some of the folder's original structure, even if the order or organization within it is pseudo-random; remember, I love noise in all its forms and may just need to write a new piece - and project! - called Noise in the Archives as a kind of complement to my Noise in the Workspace project I started a while back;
- In another note, as I said in a previous antilog a short while ago, I began taking field recordings outside the studio which I call Atmospheric Tone readings, if you will; these are similar to "room tone" recordings people often make in video and audio editing; I am now recording the "room tone" inside the lab as well to get a basic reading of the atmosphere inside the workspace; this might just have to be another project altogether, which I would call Atmospherics Analysis; in fact, I've been doing a lot of audio work these days, composing music, recording it, mixing it, and also doing a great deal of my ambient, experimental sound design work; throughout the process, I've thought a lot about sound in general, the physics of sound, the physics of atmospheres, and have developed what I think is a unique take which, as stated, would form part of a research track tentatively called Atmospheric Analysis;
- In this new line of research, I conceive of any ambient space as an Atmosphere, and atmospheres have all of the same features of any sound, really, except that it is a mix of disparate soundmarks, let's call them, which are all superimposed atop each other, blending in with one another and forming an overall ambience or atmosphere; I was recording some piano at Historiotheque 2 for a video we were making and noticed that we always close the patio doors to get a better quality audio recording, to avoid recording any background noise coming from outside; what I realized, though, is that if I leave the doors open and put the field recorder near said door, or even outside it on the balcony, then when I play the piano, the recorder will also record the atmosphere outside the studio, blended in with the piano sound inside the studio; this makes a composite atmosphere with two different atmospheric tones superimposed (in the 3D audio field, when mixed together in the DAW);
- I also came to the conclusion that authors of creative writing, mainly fiction, and specifically novels, also novels from the modernist period which is what I was studying, all have particular atmospheres, that is, the authors create atmospheres; I know that geocriticism and ecocriticism already, but my Atmospherics Analysis or Atmospherics Theory is different, different and unique; what I realized, like with a novel like Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts, is that essentially, and this is my interpretation which may be flawed, she is representing and reproducing in fictional prose the environment in which she wrote the words that made up her novel; it is my opinion, after much research and reflection, especially trying to find any research that goes in the general direction of Atmospherics Research, the author of fiction and of novels is basically ALWAYS reproducing in prose what they are experiencing not only in their immediate environment, but also what they are experiencing in their interior evironment or milieu; this milieu is of critical importance and I found in any case that when doing creative writing, mainly fiction in the form of novels, one has to be in-touch I call it, with one's inner space, one's body, etc., and everything has to be in harmony, the inward space has to be in harmony with itself AND with the outer space ("ambience" or "atmosphere");
- I've done a great deal of inspired writing and it is my direct observation of the process from the inside that instructs me in forming this hypothesis, as it remains a hypothesis until I have enough data to back it up, which is what I'm trying to do by amassing hundreds of Atmospheric Tone field recordings, which I plan to analyze using the modern tools of data science, especially visualization of data and datasets; this will eventually fold back into my work in acoustic ecology, as most of my field recordings outside include bird sounds, and the Old Village where I live has dozens of different bird species; NOTE: ambient space outside in the world, in nature but also in spaces such as the village, always have a unique sound; what I mean is that you can make a field recording in the morning at let's say 4am on a day in the middle of summer, you can make two separate recordings at exactly the same time, but itwo different locations, locations with an appreciable distance from one another, and the overall STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC TONEwill be completely different; the niches or ecologies will have their own set of natural sounds, different sets of birds, of insects, of anything that is sound-producting;
- In a place like a village, town, or city, the natural environmental sounds, the background signal or sound, will include human-made sounds, everything from motor vehicles to the sounds of construction sites, to people walking down the street, chatting with one another; you always have some amount of wind, too, even if nearly imperceptible; wind is an unfortunate thing in field recordings a lot of the time, and I find with regard to my Atmospheric Tone readings, it is not only impossible to remove once recorded, but I haven't yet found a way NOT to record it; it blends in, bleeds into, every other sound;
- I've also been publishing images taken from my workspace which I collectively call Work Records or Work Recordings; these are pictures or other forms of recordings and data-gathering methodologies that are of the actual workspace itself, in its current, unique "work-state"; that is, it is a "snapshot" of the state of the exposed surfaces of the workspace, its appearance basically or we could even say its "face"; these word records are meant to show the structure of the given "facets of the work-face", the current status of the work-states of the workspace (I know, that is a mouthful!); here is a Word Record I took the other day of the main desk at Historiotheque 1:

- These images, which are digital designs which I made based on actual picures, are trying to show what I call The Geology of The Workspace; the worspace has many "stacks" scattered around most exposed surfaces, except for "sub-spaces" within the overall workspace which I need to remain free of clutter, as they are where I'm actually taking notes or painting or whatnot; everything else basically has stacks of different kinds, stacks of books, of paintings, of folders, of boxes of Refcards (SEE: The Stacks-Project); these stacks form what resemble geological strata, hence the name of Geology of the Workspace; here is another such Work Record, taken either yesterday or the day before, I can't really recall; the image is meant to have a relatively "unsaturated" or "subdued" color palette, in various colors that to me often make me think of ice cream, at least the lighter hues, like of slightly offwhite whites or light pinks, light yellows, and light blues; then the shadows are also rich in hues, of dark browns and whatnot; it depends on the lighting and the exact viewpoint that I am taking with any given work record field recording; here is the image in question, which I've already posted online across all the various platforms I contribute to daily in my interdisciplinary art-research practice:

- As I already stated, I've been making many field recordings, images and sounds, but I've also been writing a great deal, in public; writing in public is a bit of a nuissance in that I have to take out my pen and notebook and I have to try to take notes inconspicuously; inconspicuous because I don't want anyone to show interest in what I'm doing or pay any attention really, because that interest or attention will influence the actual writing process; I believe in working in a hermetically sealed environment with strong, thick walls separating the studio/lab and the outside world or milieu; I believe that one needs to erect strict boundaries between the two; it is rare that there is a direct communication between these ambient spaces or Atmospheres inside and outside the workspace;
- In any case, when I'm out in the field, I don't have the privilege of being invisible, so I am being observed if there are any people around; they might not be actually paying attention, but they do see me, even if only in their peripheral vision; this disturbs and perturbs the writing process, as I just said, as well as any data-gathering technique or medium I happen to use; even deep in the wilderness, the various animals will "see" me, which can also influence the field recordings and data-gathering processes; the only solution is to be as still as possible, and supple; that means that I sway gently when the wind blows against me, as any overt, intentional movement on my part, as I have directly observed, can also influence the recordings; I am just a silent witness, giving first-witness testimony to what's occuring in the environment; I call these events at times, sonic events, visual events, etc.; in essence it is a form of fieldwork, but I in any case haven't found anyway to solve or resolve the fact that I can be included in and so bias the recordings; if my presence causes people to respond by moving around me, or if say they stop speaking as they get nearer to me, or they change what they are saying, any chance basically in the overal Environmental Picture, can kind of "falsify" the recordings;

2026-06-19 03:07:25

- I've been really busy of late going through my personal archives and trying to downsize it, or what I have been calling "Dismantling The Archive"; I am envisioning what I call post-archival theory, which is where I think we are headed as a civilization; as I said above, I recorded a video of myself showing the process of going through folder upon folder upon folder of printed and typewritten as well as handwritten notes, recycling a bunch of stuff that I think is just extraneous noise; most of it is still good, though; folders have a birth date and a death date which encapsulate the lifetime of the folder; different folders have different lifetimes; the whole thing together forms a kind of historiome of the archives, if you will, to use an old term; that is to say, the specific shape of the changing surface of the archive over time in 3-dimensional space or 3D, forms a historiome, similar to the historiome of a population history; this historiome right now, for my personal archives, only really lives in my brain, with my exceedingly expansive long-term memory;
- I'm working on a new project and trying to figure out in what direction exactly I want to take my art-research practice, new projects and their underlying complex conceptual schemes; also, as I was saying above, I've been doing a lot of work in the field, especially note-taking; I have a separate physical notebook that I carry with me at all times when outside of the studio; I've been writing in a kind of aphoristic style similar to Nietzsche's, often just a single, punchy sentence; it's important, I think, to continually reinvent oneself as an artist or researcher, otherwise one rirks having things become stagnant;
- The sorting algorithms that I use when working through" the archive, as shown in my Spontaneous Sorting Algorithms in the Workspace video, are actual algorithms; the only difference between my sorting algorithms and those designed for computer systems, is that mine are manual; that is, I "process" data, information, or knowledge, in a physical way, in the physical space that I inhabit; I have spoken of this many times before, but I rely a great deal on context-dependent memory as well as state-dependent memory;
- I discovered that the brain and body together, the inward space or space experienced from the inside, has its own personal historiome;

2026-06-19 14:04:25
- I recorded a few more videos lately and uploaded these to YouTube earlier today; the first is on the subject of "DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS AT THE END OF SPRING:

- The second video is another of my "ATMOSPHERIC TONE" field recordings; another video is being converted and should be put online shortly:

- That's it for today; I wanted to write much more, but got carried away with cleaning up my workspace so that I can start clean tomorrow with a nice work surface to work on.

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- Before I begin, I want to share with you a video I made earlier today of a recording from yesterday morning what I have previous called "ATMOSPHERIC TONE"; for those who don't know, often in video and audio editing, one records what is called "room tone", which is essentially the sound of the empty room, or at least empty of any human sound, just the room itself, in all its solitude and beauty; I just extended this to any ambient space whatsoever, what I call atmospheres, for lack of a better term; these are very short; in any case, here is the first one from earlier today, recorded in the morning at Historiotheque 2 (yes, my Historiotheques are multiplying at the speed of light); I now have a second Historiotheque where I work often during the day, of in very early morning, which has a piano, which Historiotheque 1 does not have, so I record all my piano there and do video editing and other related things; the following "ATMOSPHERIC TONE" field recording was made yesterday, June 15, 2026, at 9:10:

- Somewhere near the end of the 2001-2004 period, I took all of the fictional writings that I had written to that point starting from July, 2001; basically I just created a roughly 500-page document that contained all of my writing from The History-Project toward a novel that ended up never materializing; now, I am re-editing that document but I am taking it all apart this time into its constituent parts; so far I'm a little more than halfway through and was able to separate the document into a total of almost 60 unique documents; I am calling this the modular approach to editing a novel, and which will actually be my approach in future WRITING of any new novels; essentially, I will be able to build ANY kind of novel from ANY of these modular parts (which are "atomic units" with regard to my novels); no two novels ever need to look the same; part of this was founded on the fact that my writings of this nature, my novelistic-phenomenological writings, can fit into neat sequences, as they were originally written serially; everything I do, by the way, is serial; in any case, over the next little while, I plan to publish AND archive all of these documents as standalone modules of novelistic writing and also any of the new composite novels that I create from said modular parts;
- I've also been working a great deal these last few weeks on a new project which I finally found an official name for, though as sole creator of these works, I reserve the right to change a project's name, or any other aspect of my work, if I deem it necessary; it is called "The Anatomy of an Aesthetic Problem"; I mentioned this already on the 14th of June, 2026, on this antilog; redundancy is built into my practice; actually, in the "Author's Note on the Rationale for Repetition" in Synergetics, Buckminster Fuller explains that repeating core concepts with varying arrangements is essential for comprehension; more on this soon, and other reflections on Synergetics;
- As I was about to say, I've been hard at work on this new project, doing a lot of ideation, writing about my process, keeping ample logs in different media on different substrates, documenting and archiving, the usual suspects; 
- I've been plumbing the depths of the archive, reading through that 500-page composite text I created 20+ years ago with all those mismatched parts, and in the process I had a vision and then a reflection on my workspace, seeing it, this time, as what I called MY SERVER ROOM; here is a quick sketch of that I made today in the early morning:

- I've made my paintings this last week actually, or last few weeks; I've been reflecting on some of my paintings where I painted a reproduction of the famous/infamous Lena or Lenna image from Playboy Magazine in 1972, I believe, an image which has been used in image processing since the field has existed; My use of it, of course, was not to perpetuate the abuse via image appropriation, or the appropriation of a person's likeness, or all of the negative things that came out of that, for Lena herself especially, I guess; my use was meant as ironic and subversive, and a critique of image processing itself as a field of research; I painted in one of my only Large Formats which are Extant, I painted maybe 5 or 6 small Lena pictures, trying to represent image processing functions or effects, and what that looks like and translates into, in the realm of painting; in any case, here is a portrait of a young individual whose origin I can't comment on right now, as I will be publishing it, with an accompanying text, on another media platform and don't want to give up any secrets about it until I've actually begun writing the text; in any case, here is, let's call her one of The Mariae, in my Letters To The Mariae, part of the In The Name of Beauty & Truth Project, which thus far only really has the novel of that name associated with it;
 

- I've also been reworking my theory of the Black Lemon Market; it's a cross between a black market and a market for lemons; it's my critique of the contemporary art market, which I want to get into soon, but not right now and maybe not on this antilog blog; I do want to share a design concept I made that I want to use as a prop in a video presentation or what I like to simply call a Discourse, which I will record and publish on YouTube probably not too far into the future:

- Around 1am in the early morning of today, I wrote the following on Keep: "Scenes in the world, from a visual and auditory perspective, can have an uncanniness to them that I call historiophanic; that is, the whole "unified field-theoretic" experience, topologically, is imbued with a certain, given historical "sense", if you will, a "genosense" in particular, because it is historiomic in quality and characteristic."; I've actually been thinking a lot about auditory and visual senses as well as the regions of the brains involved in each of their processing, and also the raw processing power of someone like me who has an extremely complex, dynamic, and active mental life; I've been thinking as well how I resemble Dostoevsky physically, but then I seem to resemble all male artists from the last several centuries; here is a piece I made in 2009 I think it was, part of my "de radii" period:

- As I mentioned further above, I officially or unofficially, depending on how you look at it, have 2 Historiotheques, Historioteque 1 and Historiotheque 2, and will possibly open up Historiotheque 3 before the end of the year; I mention this again because I actually want to write something called The Twelve Historiotheques or just Twelve Historiotheques, or maybe even The First Twelve Historiotheques, as part of my The Nth Crusade novelistic phenomenology; more on this in due time, as I work through the archives, Dismantling The Archives, as I like to say, which I have been doing for a few years now, not literally "dismantling" them, but greatly reducing them, "shaving off the top", you might say; In any case, I also made an ATMOSPHERIC TONE piece, always with an actual field recording usually taken earlier that day; this one was from this afternoon, the field recording itself having been recorded at 13:44:

- Finally, I've been working a great deal of Design-Concepts for Novelistic Phenomenologies, which is an essential part of the new The Anatomy of Aesthetic Problems, which supercedes in a way my Workspace Theory which I have worked on of late, in the last month and a half especially, but whose geneses is already well over a decade in the making;
- That means that I've been working onfinishing and repackaging old novels, from the archives of course, as that is where I am most of the day these days, trying to preserve as much of my work as possble, archiving it online and in as many distributed archives as possible;
- I leave you for now with the following, which comes from my notes throughout the day, at more or less regular intervals; I present them as quotations, with a particular formatting for the timestamp:

- [01h30] => I continuously studied over decades what was most historically relevant and appropriate for an artist to create, what I called the "currency" or "currentness" of aesthetic composition. One must choose one's subject, and one's concept, according to certain immutable "laws" at the foundation of such judgments of taste.
- [01h43] => Aesthetic Problem => How does one portray, represent, treat of a given character in a novel? One needs to know their "neurotype"; one therefore needs to first create a "characterological sketch" or "esquisse caractériologique"; one needs to treat of the character as a whole "system" (the "Character-as-a-System" within the "Novel-as-a-System"); characters are personas that inhabit your mind, they can only exist in the human mind, also, though perhaps it could be proven that they exist in the minds of other mammals or animals in general, who at least are social, though maybe even perhaps a reptile who is NOT social may actually create in his reptilian mind, a representation of an outside threat that is a living creature, as }all life forms are attentive to all other life forms" [and must develop a systematic characterology of all of their basic personalities]);

- [02h08] => TEXTBOOK ART => Write at least the Design Concept for a Textbook on Workspace Management for Interdisciplinary Artist-Researchers in Variable-Geometry Workspaces" ("multiple-use").

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2026-06-14 12:33:51

- As always, I've been hard at work sine my last antilog; I've been doing a lot of work in the archive which I think I must have mentioned in my last instalment; I've still been regularly recording and publishing my Atmospheric Tone field recordings from outside the studio, as I say "in the field"; meanwhile, "in the laboratory", I've been as I said doing archival work, remasteringold recordings from 30+ years ago, putting them online as YouTube videos; I'm officially on hiatus until further notice, though I'm still actively at work, just not spending much time on social media other than posting a few things here and there;

2026-06-14 14:33:24

- I was interrupted by an important phone call; as I was saying, I've been making field recordings plus also eniching my understanding of sound and music, as though I wasn't knowledgeable enough; one must maintain one's "acquisitions", if you will, the knowledge and abilities that one has acquired; otherwise, it's kind of like muscle tone, it will be lost over time if nothing is done to maintain it; in any case, I have been rereading important documents on sound design theory, trying to integrate as much of it as possible at a deeper lever than ever;
- I was going to say before I was interrupted that I have also been recording some videos; here is something I just recorded and put online; I personally think this is one of my biggest accomplishments; I remember hearing Clayton Christensen say something maybe even more than once in interviews on YouTube, that you only really needed one good theory in life or in business or whatnot; this is my "one good theory", the General Theory of The Art Operation: 

- I also made another video much earlier on in the day, from a field recording I took at 04:21, a recording of what I call Atmospheric Tone, which I think I talked about the other day; I realize now that this is a practical realization of my design concept from over a decade ago of the Historiomic Hypervisor, which was a device to take "moral temperature readings", through the creation of "moraltempcards" in a "moraltempcard system";

- I'm actually working on a new project of late which I'm actually tentatively calling - codename! - The Anatomy of Aesthetic Problems; I've been going over my research notes and reading some critical texts on modern art, on modernism, part of what I'm calling Picasso Studies; reading some old books on Picasso that I've never read before and that are really helping me understand the individual; I'm rereading Soren Kierkegaard's Works of Love and just devouring it; as I said, I've been going over my old sound design fundamentals, what I learned in school about sound and sound design, audio recording/editing, all that fun stuff;
- I've been doing archival work at The Historiotheque; that's it for now, I've got a lot of stuff in the works right now, I just found out I had a copy (in French) of Kafka's Diaries;

2026-06-14 16:28:06

- I've been getting back into my study of the work of late William S. Burroughs, especially his work with the cut-up technique; I'm currently listening to a lecture he gave on the subject; my documentation methods are always changing, that is to say, I've got a pretty big inventory of methods that I've been integrating more and more over the last few decades and I'm switching them up a great deal; I don't like to have a routine that's too strict; I need to have a wide range of solutions and then choose what I need from the inventory; in the process of researching Burroughs and some other stuff, I made another field recording, or Atmospheric Tone recording:

- I want to write more about how I discovered that hyperreflexive design is actually a MODE of reflexive design; to me that's just an amazing discovery, an amazing thought; and I know it goes deeper than that; I can already see the "envelope" (I am starting to think of things in terms of envelope(s) more and more, but more on that at a later date; trying to do continuous review, sometimes adversarial but not always; I am extremely adversarial in that regard, though, it's why I do pre-mortem analyses of everything; my review is more retrospective than prospective, though, I mean technically I can't review the future; I'm still thinking about "being-in-time" as a concept; I will have to go back into that; I found a really great textbook I've had for years on Sonic Design; trying to read through it; it had like 12 bookmarks in different places.

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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!

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2026-06-06 08:08:32

- I woke up with an idea inherited from the past few days of research with a new or else modified research question; I immediately got to work on some new research, which I did and then printed out my notes on computer terminal no. 1, after which point I went to the main desk to read, highlight and takes not on the printed materials; Now I am taking these back to computer terminal no. 1 to transcribed them and use them as launching pad for more research (which I will print out and go to the main desk and start the oscillatory pattern or also dialectical/dialogical rhythm that my work across the workspace follows;
- Today's research thus far has to do with the application of my Historical Topology ("HistTop") to work that AI researchers such as Dr. Fei-Fei Li are doing with world models and spatial intelligence in AI; actually, it would be more accurate to say I am backing up workspace theory by historical topology and then taking the whole of that line of research and applying it to world model/spatial intelligence treated in by current AI research;
- One of the major differences between my work and the work of leading, cutting-edge AI researchers is that I am working through these problems - and their elegant solutions - manually through a physical workspace; granted, my workspace is also virtual, is a physical/virtual hybrid workspace, but still, a lot of the fundamental research into experimental design workflow management methodologies that I do - and concepts and theories that stem out of them, such as workspace theory - is being physically "worked out" procedurally in the workspace, but manually; at this point it's hard to say who is ahead of whom, whether the AI researchers are ahead of me, or I'm ahead of them; I just know that to the best of my knowledge, no one is doing the kind of work I'm doing on these methodologies and their respective models;
- So once again I'm stating for the record that AI world models need (a) workspace theory; what I'm working on at the moment specifically is the whole delta-workspace theory from its inception over a decade ago and what that means for just work in general by artists first and foremost but also with other types of researchers; I'm thinking of the idea itself of tracking "deltas" or "changes" ("indicators of change") in the workspace modeled as a continuously changing 3D surface or "workspace", but not in the way that you might think; it needs to be processed nonlinearly, and for humans this means nonlinear cognition and nonlinear practice; so the AI will need to start "thinking" (or "processing") in a nonlinear manner; more on this later;
- I have just finished more research at computer terminal no. 1, printed it out, and now will go read through it, highlighting it, taking notes in my physical notebook, and then I will finalize this morning's work by creating unique, atomic Refcards that I will later take back to the computer terminal no. 1 and continue logging, documenting, and working out the actual next phase of the theory itself; I will also print out today's antilogso far and read and highlight, take notes on that at the main desk; in the afternoon, I may record a video presentation of all of this or else take some audio notes, and will likely also do some low-level art production; Stay tuned...

2026-06-06 10:14:58

- I printed the new materials at computer terminal no. 1, took them to the main desk, then read through them, made highlights, took notes, then I put the most salient points on Refcards; now I am back at computer terminal no. 1 where I will transcribe them onto the computer, on Google Keep and in a .txt file on my deskstop (my main logfile for this workstation); This will then be the launching pad for a new line of research and then the process starts over again; I will also review the last week of work ("retrospective") and take notes on those; I also printed out the notes on the beginning of this antilog, as I said, and took notes on those; now I am back at computer terminal no. 1, as must be obvious by now, to start up the pattern of movement that will characterize the rest of the workday; (SEE: "Rhythms in The Workspace" project);

- I did the research, printed out the materials, then went to the main desk to read, highlight, take notes in the physical notebook, then make Refcards; at this point we are rapidly approaching the "point of saturation" from the distributed polytextual practice, after which I hope to record a video presentation; I still hold fresh in memory all the work I did on the Picasso-Braque collaboration and on Walter Benjamin's work, namely his idea of three-dimensional writing which spawned all of what came after; I hope to record myself standing at the chalkboard to go over this content but in the purely physical domain, through live note-taking on said chalkboard; I find it more instructive and pedagogical that way, what I am now calling histororiagogy.

2026-06-06 11:22:05

- I just finished reading and highlighting (at the main desk) what I had just printed at computer terminal no. 1; I also put the most salient points on Refcards, as predicted; I was studying some research on computational historiography which has many commonalities with my Historiomics/Historionautics frameworks; I looked at various datasets and platforms; I began thinking of my Switchboard Method in terms of dynamic task allocation which I believe came out of work in the military, you know, what they call duty cycle rotation; I also looked at what is called Network-centric self synchronization as well as the proverbial "operational valu chain"; I looked at two primary spatial frameworks on which navigation relies: the egocentric (self-centered, first-person, self-to-object) + allocentric (world-centered, third-person, object-to-object); somehow, I was able to connect this to research in phenomenological ontology, maybe I can get into that later;
- I was thinking about how time order matters; more importantly, though, the workspace is a historiotopia, its Surface is your immediate operational field => it is a 3D/4D canvas of immediate attention => The Geology (The Archive): beneath the surface is a vertical stratification of memory (w/ discontinuities, "gaps"; SEE: Michel Foucault's Discourse Analysis); I also thought about how my practice is already a multi-agent system: I function as a Painter, a Sound Designer/Musical Composer, and an Author (of fiction and non-fiction); I move from one role to another rapidly throughout the workday, across the workspace; I communicate with myself, making mental notes or "inner refcards" and also physical refcards, or "outer refcards";
- I thought about the structural capture of SILLAGE; SEE: my Phenomenology of Sillage; I also thought about my Breadcrumbs Method of leaving an audit trail, how it ensured that every single "mutation" in my work + workspace can be traced backwards, ensuring "reversibility", which is an important concept in The Feldenkrais Method; i.e. "Let's rewind the tape and see!"; once again, as I often do, I thought of the nonlinearity of the work + workspace, which I think might be the reason The New Documentation exists; more on the methods of The New Documentation later; I thought about how AIs suffer from "catastrophic forgeting" or context-window degradation because they treat memory like a flat text file; in Historical Topology or HistTop and the way I conceive my art studio + researcher labs, The Historiotheque, AI memory architecture should be built as a "Geological Archive" where past states are shifted into sub-space layers where they maintain their relational connectivity allowing the AI to PULL them back to the "Surface Historiotopia" instantly via adiabatic accessibility; more on adiabatic accessibility in the workspace, you can refer to my WORKSPACE THEORY document for a detailed, high-level explanation of that; also, agents should communicate through a shared "Unified Field of Experience" I am calling it, a shared workspace topology; I covered many other topics, from innovations in military technology over the last 100 years and stuff from just plain project management & organizational theory, but I will leave it at this for now; Now I am going to relax a bit, maybe take a short walk to decompress, and hopefully record a video presentation of my last week's worth of work and also create some art (and listen to some music plus do some planning for future recordings for my Seasons of The Heart Project as well as my Symphonie du Vieux Village (or Symphony of The Old Village) which I have been working on for the last 10 years; Stay tuned, more to come in this antilog, either today or tomorrow or in coming days. (Note: I forgot to mention "cognitive collapse", which is partly why dynamic task allocation and duty cycle rotation is so effective, and also what I call "workspace collapse" for short, or "workspace (function) collapse" to relate it to wave function collapse, though the concept is different. More on that later as well. I always review my antilogs, so I "capture" all the threads that end in "more later" and end up finishing the logical threads sooner or later."

2026-06-06 14:38:22

- The "operational historiotopic velocity" => by programming an AI to calculate Historiotopic Velocity, the AI can determine whether a human environment is in a state of continuous, gentle deformation (normal daily use) or a critical rupture (a crisis, or an intense creative session); It can djust its own "behavioral sensitivity" to match the velocity of the room (SEE: "ambient vectors" / "ambient room dynamics");
- "THE MASTERPIECE IS THE METHOD"; "the product is an illusion; the process is the architectu."; The true creation is the design of tte laboratory itself => The highly sensitive, hyperreflexive, perfectly audited engine of experience that allows those mutations to occur without losing its soul; A' = M(A), A-prime is the Mutation of A; Mutation-functions => material transformation, "transmutation", maybe dare I say a form of secular "transubstantiation"; The Historiotheque is a Secular Temple, it is a BLACK BOX w/ variable geometry where experiments of all kinds, universally, can be performed or "executed"; The workspace follows the Art Oeprator's art and research;
- The hyperreflexive workspace model of intelligence: Art Operations v.6.0.1 => We define intelligence as an active, self-recording system that navigates a folded, historical, multi-media environment; as active field of awareness and transformation; The Historiotheque as the Cognitive Surface; It is a multi-layered manifold where visual art, sonic architecture, functional text (code) + physical inputs (Refcards) exist simultaneously in a state of Polytextuality; They are localized "gentle deformations"of a single, continuous experience; (Whether I am painting, writing, coding, etc., the system measures deltas (or "indicators of change in the workspace", ΔW); This keeps the entire system highly pliable and hyper-sensitive to external signals, preventing the information from stagnating into rigid, uninterpretable states; (SEE: "interpreters" in computing; AND ALSO: permeable vs. impermeable boundaries or "envelopes"); For any transformation ("mutation", [M]) in the workspace to be coherent, the new state must be adiabatically accessible from the previous one;
- Again, "spatial intelligence and autonomous world models" is the theme of the day; In my practice, which is project-based, projects are treated as adaptive meta-agents (P_n); in a Historiotopic AI, different projects or modalities (text, audio, vision) are treated as adaptive meta-agents that co-exist in a game-theoretic environment (SEE: "Strategic Intermedia Art" [Art Operations], "Info-Ops Art", "Tactical Media"); The active layer hosts current processing while the sub-surface (The Archive) holds snapshots or savepoints; The archived states are never truly gone, they exert an active Atmospheric Sillage (a lingering wake or force) onto the present surface layer; The AI navigates its own past experiences based on their structural equivilence and resonance w/ the current problem ("Art is finding elegant solutions to aesthetic problems"), collapsing linear time to let historical insights actively shape future predictions => The laboratory-as-medium itself ("Intelligence is an ongoing Strategic Intermedia Operation");
- In conclusion, the 21st century is where people all became experimentalists; it's just that I was one of the ones who formalized it, the work, the workflow management methodologies, the workspace, the workstream, worldstream, etc.; We are all interdisciplinary artist-researchers now!