In Kyborg 9, I introduced the idea of an ontological opening, a rapid reordering of the map of reality. The modern era has an ontological opening, but it’s a two dimensional one with two perpendicular axes. These are the two Copernican revolutions. The first of the two is of course Copernicus’s own revolution which overthrew Geocentrism and in the long run led to the discovery that physical space is much much greater than anything that we might have imagined before - it’s both more vast and more microscopic than any picture that the ancients might have drawn.
Kyborg 22: SOS6
Kyborg 22: SOS6
Kyborg 22: SOS6
In Kyborg 9, I introduced the idea of an ontological opening, a rapid reordering of the map of reality. The modern era has an ontological opening, but it’s a two dimensional one with two perpendicular axes. These are the two Copernican revolutions. The first of the two is of course Copernicus’s own revolution which overthrew Geocentrism and in the long run led to the discovery that physical space is much much greater than anything that we might have imagined before - it’s both more vast and more microscopic than any picture that the ancients might have drawn.