Mark Rakatansky: Motivations of Animation
Keywords: map, territory, translation, difference, representation, character, charecterizing, anamorphosis
Summary: Everything is a translation; every object begins as notional form, then moves to material form as representaion. Rakatansky discriminates between map and territory, the elements of difference and the quality of their translation defining the merit of resultant performance or design. The connection between animation and architecture demonstrates the translation of territory to map (or vice-versa) and suggests an ability to produce restrained animation within architectural space drawing on representational difference. ie vectors; anamorphic, suggestive forces.
The affect as emergence is linked to the motivation of animation. Animation as an affective emergence is linked to the consciousness of life. The non-parallel evolution between affect and emergence is what brings about the becoming of animation and creates the percept on behalf of us.
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you never see the territory as a whole in the way you can look over an entire map, the entire diagram, you just see bits and pieces. Only these bits and pieces of entanglement, give you the character; it is only these bits and pieces from which you will attempt, retroactively, to construct some character. Rakatansky
a difference that makes a difference Gregory Bateson
the map is not the territory Alfred Korzybski