The Big Bang of History Visualism in Technoscience The Humanist as Engineer Book II; Ver. 2.0 Fernando Flores Morador Lund University 2012 1 FrontPage: Maria Flores Crossa Department of History of Ideas and Science University of Lund Book II: The Big Bang of History. Visualism in Technoscience The Humanist as Engineer, Book II; Ver. 2.0 Biskopsgatan 7, 223 62 Lund © Fernando Flores Morador, 2012 Layout: Maria Flores Crossa Tryck: Media – Tryck, Lunds Universitet, 2012 ISBN: 978-91-633-9204-7 2 Dedicated to Don Ihde 3 4 Contents Contents .............................................................................................. 5 Acknowledgements ........................................................................... 11 Chapter 1: The Big Bang of History ..................................................... 13 Introduction: What is a “historical” presentation? ................................... 13 The pursuit of terminology ...................................................................... 16 Case studies ............................................................................................ 18 Eidetic extrapolation ............................................................................... 21 The compactness and porosity of presentations ...................................... 22 The enigma and other extrapolations ...................................................... 24 The enigma eludes description ................................................................ 25 Chapter 2: History as explosion .......................................................... 27 Eidetic Grammar in general ..................................................................... 30 Descriptive grammar ............................................................................... 31 The grammar of history ........................................................................... 34 Textlike presentations and the sign ......................................................... 35 Descriptions, demonstrations and the icon .............................................. 40 Textlike presentations and the epistemological engine ............................ 42 From Eidetic Motor to Epistemological Engine ......................................... 43 Chapter 3: Conjectural embodiment .................................................. 49 Noematic synapse ................................................................................... 51 Tagmatic synapse .................................................................................... 52 Syntagmatic presentations: pragmatic and epistagmatic ......................... 53 Pragmatic synapse .................................................................................. 55 Epistagmatic synapse .............................................................................. 57 5 Chapter 4: Tagmatic conjecture [?-to-dock] ........................................ 59 Tagmatic conjectures built on joined series .............................................. 59 Tagmatic conjectures built on zooming-in and out series .......................... 60 Tagmatic conjectures built on mould casting series .................................. 61 Resemblances: pre-mathetic congruence ................................................. 63 Bio-tagmatic anthropognomies: physiognomy and phytognomy .............. 66 Tagmatic-mathetic promptitude: measurement ....................................... 70 Chapter 5: Pragmatic conjecture [to-do-?].......................................... 77 Performance and discontinuous time ...................................................... 78 Historical conjectures .............................................................................. 81 Case study: Historical causality ................................................................ 82 Chapter 6: Epistagmatic conjecture [because-?] ................................. 87 Epistagmatic case studies ........................................................................ 89 Chapter 7: Epistagmatic conjecture in mathematics ........................... 93 Chapter 8: A case study: from apprentice to expert .......................... 105 Chapter 9: History and action........................................................... 111 Case studies: epistemological engines as eidetic extrapolations ..............115 Case studies: metaphors of communication as epistemological engines ..123 Epilogue .......................................................................................... 127 List of names and terms ................................................................... 129 Bibliography .................................................................................... 131 6 List of Presentations Presentation 1: Demonstrative. ........................................................................................................................ 13 Presentation 2: Descriptive................................................................................................................................ 13 Presentation 3: The funeral transport of Charles XII by Gustaf Cederström, 1884. ...................................... 14 Presentation 4: A presentation of the human evolution. ............................................................................. 14 Presentation 5: a testimonial presentation of the atom. PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Vol. 80, NO. 16; October 2009. ................................................................................................................................ 15 Presentation 6: Non-testimonial presentation of the atom. ........................................................................ 16 Presentation 7: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. .......................................................................................... 19 Presentation 8: Archaeopteryx, according to the work of an artist. It is believed to be the world's earliest bird and a descendant of the dinosaurs. ....................................................................... 19 Presentation 9: Strong support for the dinosaur-to-bird transition came with the discovery of two birdlike eggs inside a fossilized female dinosaur. ....................................................................... 20 Presentation 10: Male meat-eating dinosaurs such as Troodon, guarded nests and brooded developing eggs much the way some birds do today. ............................................................................ 20 Presentation 11: An 85-million-year-old carnivorous dinosaur unearthed in Argentina had a breathing system of bellows, or air sacs, which helped pump air through its lungs. Today, only birds breathe in this manner. ................................................................................................ 21 Presentation 12: The pictograph of a rose. ..................................................................................................... 21 Presentation 13: A picture of the flail. ............................................................................................................. 22 Presentation 14: the eidetic explosion of the fisted. hand ........................................................................... 28 Presentation 15: A What-ordognomy. ............................................................................................................. 32 Presentation 16: A What-Which- ordognomy ............................................................................................... 32 Presentation 17: Where-imagognomy; disposition. .......................................................................................... 33 Presentation 18: When-imagognomy; measurement. ........................................................................................ 33 Presentation 19: The Other in a Who-presentation. ..................................................................................... 33 Presentation 20: What-artefact. ........................................................................................................................ 34 Presentation 21: The What-artefact is presented as a hearing aid. ............................................................. 35 Presentation 22: Demonstrative ....................................................................................................................... 35 Presentation 23: multistable conjectures. ........................................................................................................ 36 Presentation 24: Estrangement, embodiment through the Other. ............................................................. 36 Presentation 25: Explicative presentation. ...................................................................................................... 37 Presentation 26: Meteorology. From Duden Bildwörterbuch from 1958; p. 25. ............................................... 38 Presentation 27: From hunting and war scenarios to the arrow as a sign................................................. 39 Presentation 28: Super-determination with arrows. ...................................................................................... 39 Presentation 29: The “fantastic” presentation of the electrical streaming. ............................................... 40 Presentation 30: Mona Lisa as introspective presentation (A) and Mona Lisa as projective presentation (B). ...........................................................................................................................................