‘Dialectic: Users’ Manual’, new book
by Karl Seldon,
just published by F.E.D. Press.
Dear Reader,
The
new book by F.E.D. co-founder
Karl Seldon, entitled --
‘Dialectic: Users’ Manual’.
--
has just been published by the F.E.D. Press.
To
find out how to obtain your copy of this book from out of the small production
run of its first edition, contact webmaster@dialectics.org .
Descriptions
of this book from the inside back flap of its “dust cover jacket” --
(1) “In all of the 2,495 years since
Heraclitus, during which “dialectic” has formed an extant meme in the ‘human
phenome’, never before has there arisen an algorithmic -- indeed, a
mathematical -- formulation of dialectic, that, by virtue of being algorithmic,
or ‘recipe-al’, is thereby also learnable, potentially, not just by the
‘auto-didacticism’ of a handful of historic geniuses, but by humanity at large,
and as a whole.”
(2) “This text, which sets
forth a universal algorithmic-heuristic method, and model, of dialectic, can,
thereby, help conduct its learners from the outermost reaches of the “formal
operations” phase of adult cognitive development, to its successor phase -- to
the “dialectical operations” phase.”
(3) “A key feature of this
text, for me, is the way in which it rebalances the valuation of the
quantitative versus the qualitative, and helps to redress, and to heal, the
bias toward the “purely” quantitative that characterizes modernity, and that
reflects the uttermost root of capitalism in the unconscious paradigm of the
exchange-value: the equation of the qualitatively different apparently
by “pure” quantity alone. This text does
this healing work partly by presenting the antidote of an arithmetic of “pure”
qualities. However, its whole thrust is
toward both an everyday and an ideographical language, and a new ‘human
phenome’, that writes, and speaks, and thinks, a complex unity of
quantitative and qualitative, a ‘quanto-qualitative’ and, equally, a
‘qualo-quantitative’ universal language, and universal algebra, founded in the
«aufheben» operation, and, thus, a dialectical «characteristica
universalis».”
For more
information regarding the Seldonian insights, please see --
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/
and
www.dialectics.info
For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ -- see:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH
¡ENJOY!
Regards,
Miguel
Detonacciones,
Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia
Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Participant, F.E.D.
Special Council for Public Liaison,
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison.
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