The Journal for Patterns Recognised

[Monroe, Dave]

The Journal for Patterns Recognised


The Journal for Patterns Recognised is a new journal dedicated to the study
of distorted pattern recognition. We can recognise sheep in clouds, faces in
4 well-placed rocks and a tree in a mathematically produced set of lines.
This ability to recognise familiar objects in formlessness is said to be the
engine behind imagination. Therefore we understand pattern recognition gone
wrong as the well from which human culture, roughly defined as the framework
of socially accepted interpretations of the real, flows. Small wonder that
in the long history of research into speculative modes of knowledge
practised by writers, artists and revolutionaries of all sorts, methods for
experimental pattern recognition have always been important (i.e. cut-ups,
scrying, generative walks, hallucinatory substances). The Journal for
Patterns Recognised seeks to widen the understanding of these methodologies.
Only in our own time, the fundamental importance of pattern recognition for
cognition has come into full view, consequently we can only now place the
phenomena centre-stage in the history of counterculture.

The editors of The Journal for Patterns Recognised are currently looking for
material for the first edition. All genres and mediums (literary,
scientific, historic, sociological, psychological, artistic, texts, images,
diagrams) are welcome. Deadline: half march 2005.

The Journal for Patterns Recognised will be published online as PDF at
socialfiction.org. When Submitting material you commit yourself to print at
least 5 copies of the journal and distribute them among your friends and
peers.

The Journal for Patterns Recognised can be contacted via: info [at]
socialfiction [dot] org 

http://www.socialfiction.org/JPR.html
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20050308/b0363e9c/attachment.html>