This article will focus on creation of the First Chapter of Brunaria Path – Pluto Undertone as well as on a first series of Brunaria Universe artefacts – Sphere of symbols.
The first illustration of Brunaria Path ‘’Pluto Undertone’’ chapter with a dialog between Brun and SageDruid and its cover as well as an artefact of Sphere Navigation Path Act use an original artwork ‘’A Section of the Constellation Cygnus’’ of Paul and Prosper Henry as a background illustration. I used it to describe the sphere – an extension form of the internet and information structure. It covers my thought that nothing is hidden and may be accessible by a point of view or a focus on a spiritual level as well as by power, control and capital tool on a physical level.
As a result, I imagine this future internet more as tendencies of access, gateways, levels, doors and dimensions. It may include the concepts of Jorge Luis Borges library of knowledge, Renaissance mnemonic techniques of mind palace, Hermann Hesse spirit game structure and mythical Alexandria Library. This is also an analogy of the universe as we observe and perceive it – a star sky and human associations about the infinite.
A concept of analogies as a provider and a cement for the creation of digital worlds comes from my inspiration of Frances Yates search. To my mind, her analogy way of searching might be a reason that pointed her to Renaissance hermetic zeitgeist and to the works of Giordano Bruno. I also find inspiration from the concept that the Renaissance was a reading of antic texts through the Cristian prism and operated a lot by associations and new meaning of the ancient texts.
This point of view gave me a way to imagine a sort of futuristic semantic web where a trail and a link may synthesize social, cultural, scientific discoveries. It may also lead to creation and development of new materials and digital mediums, ideological and metaphysical forms of existence. Analogies as well as theirs quality, form, origins and sources, may also be a subject of capital and new patents as well as political control and management.
The use of analogies as a provider of development of digital worlds may need its acts and protocols to operate and organize Sphere. Aby Warburg works on iconography and reading symbols were a source of inspiration for the Iconographic protocol.
A Psyche Program Resolution is a possible result of new and massive interaction between human mind and information expression. I think that every massive industrial revolution comes with new illnesses, new forms of work and new impact and challenge to a mind and a body.
SageDruid is a reference to ancient Celtic culture in French Britany. I use it as a symbolic and mythological form of communication between human mind and information rather than between a human and a machine. Analogies are often link to the concept of synchronicity and synchronicity itself points to such practice as runes in ancient cultures.
A Wall as a gateway is a metaphor of symbolic data structure. I propose an alternative way to common idea that Sci fi fiction and futuristic world is an abundant visual data world. We already live in a world with a number of data needed to deal. Its increase may come with some sort of disruption. I refer to a story (not surely true but possible) of hysteria at the beginning of the 20th century about an increase number of horses in London. Some thought that the number of horses will increase a number of horse shit and it will lead to an ecological catastrophe of the city. In a decade, this question disappeared with the beginning of the automobile era.
I used real wall fragments of fresco in Roman villas to illustrate Brunaria Path Sphere Walls and gateways. I got this inspiration partly from Ernst Kretschmer’s methaphor on schizoid’s accentuation personalities studies. I cannot find an original quote (although it may come from his work Physique and Character), but I found that Pyotr Gannushkin, a Russian psychiatrist of the beginning of the 20th century who also worked on psychology typology development, may quote Kretschmer in his works. Id’ like to translate this possible reference to Ernst Kretschmer’s quote and metaphor about schizoid’s accentuation personality: ‘’Many schizoid people are like Roman houses and villas with their simple and smooth facades, with windows closed from the bright sun with shutters, but where festivities take place in the twilight of the interior’’.
I use this metaphor as a multidimensional communication and multiples analogies in Sphere, which are hidden under the minimalistic symbolic Walls. It is also my metaphor to multiple levels of symbolic reading. At least but not last, it is a way to express human conditions and states that cannot be limited to categories. I express the idea that behind data identification there is a hidden personal inner universe.
Name Ornaments forms find their inspiration in Hermann Hesse novel ”The Glass Bead Game” where a thought way is incrusted in glass beads forms. I also refer to Penrose tiling. It is not my understanding but my perception of his ideas on consciousness as organic dynamic states of mind more than a coded or decoded data.
BRUN.AR.IA abbreviation is my irony of actual buzz around Artificial Intelligence and Augmented or Virtual Reality. I do think that these forms will take their place in some way or another, but I think that there will be alternative ways of relationship between humans and machines and more importantly, between consciousness and digital spaces.
In this case, Analogy Research and Information Archeology is an inspiration of archeological adventures of the beginning of the 20th century and spiritual search for synthesis between East and West traditions, between experimental psychology and ancient mind practices.
This is my practical method tip about a beginning of the Brunaria Universe creation and exploration. You can find more in Analogy Bubble First Chapter ”Pluto Undertone”.
My method comes from the narration practice, which I expressed in a presentation article Compass Universe. Presentation: not tell a story – show it.
Or, do not show or hide until some characters need to tell or express it. You may not know or invented all of the details of your world and I think that a natural and organic state of fiction. So, you may just do not express it. Some details of the fiction world can exist but not be seen or not needed in a particular dialog, text or phrase. Some characters may not know about their world or live in their illusions, or it may not function for them at this moment. You may take it as a metaphor for the dynamics of the world and its life.
In Brunaria Path fiction, I used it with a symbolic form of information and multidimensional concept of access. It’s not only a part of my idea of a symbolic data expression but a way to show a fictional world without description at the beginning. I put only a date and an hour in a discussion feed between Brun and SageDruid as I thought that they might know and interact with each other before, so all other data may not appear and take place.
The Wall presentation is my way to not struggle with Sci Fi common futuristic forms but use a symbol that existed all the time – a door or a wall that separates two spaces.
A Sphere illustration idea as a star sky is also my way to go deep into a story without thinking too much about a form of the future information interaction. I use an archetype of unknown and discovery – Universe – from a human perception.
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