Ray Lucas
Ombretta Romice
Gordon Mair
Wolfgang Sonne
Observe the street, from time to time, with some concern for system
perhaps.
Apply Yourself. Take your time.
Note down the place: the terrace of a café near the junction of the Rue de
Bac and the Boulevard Saint-Germain
the time: seven o’clock in the evening
the date: 15 May 1973
the weather: set fair
Note down what you can see. Anything worthy of note going on. Do you
know how to see what’s worthy of note? Is there anything that strikes you?
Nothing strikes you. You don’t know how to see.
You must write about out it more slowly, almost stupidly. Force yourself to
write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common,
most colourless.
The haptic system Touching Mechano- Skin (including Exploring of Deformation of Contact with the
receptors and attachments and many kinds tissues, earth,
possibly thermo- openings), joints configuration of mechanical
receptors (including joints, stretching encounters,
ligaments), of muscle fibres object shapes,
muscles material states,
(including solidity or
tendons) viscosity
The taste-smell Smelling Chemo-receptors Nasal cavity Sniffing Composition of Nature of
system (nose) the medium volatile sources
Tasting Chemo- and Oral cavity Savouring Composition of Nutritive and
mechano- (mouth) ingested objects biochemical
receptors values
The visual system Looking Photo-receptors Ocular Accommodation, The variables of Everything that
mechanism (eyes pupilary structures in can be specified
with intrinsic and adjustment, ambient light by the variables
extrinsic muscles, fixation, of optical
as related to the convergence structre
vestibular organs, exploration (information
the head, and the about objects,
whole body) animals, motions,
events, and
places)
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Step 4: Corroboration
Corroboration
Step 5: Temporality
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Step 5: Temporality
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Step 6: Narrative
Step 6: Narrative
Step 7: Analysis of results
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