Note to myself:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4762.1997.tb00012.x/abstract



Reconceptualising local community: environment, identity and threat

Pier Vittorio Aureli, Fabrizio Ballabio, Peggy Deamer, Fabrizio Gallanti, Maria S. Giudici, Peer Ilner, Francesco Marullo, Andreas Rumpfhuber

Architecture and Labour

Series: Symposium 
Date: 13/11/2015 
Time: 10:00 
Venue: Lecture Hall

Ok, So you want to know what is a non-Objective

I have been, quite frankly, self-deterred from writing anything on this blog since I "wrote" a post on White Mediocrity, a concept which I believe and like, but that I exposed rather poorly. Hence deterred for really not taking more seriously my writing, since what I enjoy is well-intended and researched academic writing, which tends to be quite rigorous. 

On the other hand I do dislike when rigorousness becomes distracting, taming or plain dry. Save the academic from a calculating mind. I inertia-pray for him.

So this really, what is has to do with is with the setting of objectives, which is no task for the faint.(:I)

If you think about it and you like the concept of leaps provided by intuition, you would definitely not like to work in a regimented, controlled space where clear objectives and procedures ares set. Contrary to that, you might want to call it for now, anarchy, or an absence of order. Where feelings are sovereign. Here it seems inevitable to think of attempting balance, and hence we fall into the ever-so boring idea of binary distribution, the locus of heteronormative foundation and expression. 

So for the sake of not falling into these distributions or lets say, architectures, we Shall think of an objective as a deformation of an equilibrium continuum. This is the prevalence of one of the forces, that of order.

Objectives are funny because they have a white-wall like end. Is the crash perfect scenario, and yet they supposedly lead to fulfillment. I would argue that rather than being helpful to produce some form of intelligence or progress, they generate an scenario of completion. Being such a limited being as I am, I cannot help breaking down things into smaller buts. I have inevitably caught and become part of the contemporary pandemic of parceling. This issuing individualism we so closely hold to our hearts. But lets keep it simple for now, let parcel of a goal, create an objective.

Now that we have a stunningly vague definition of an Objective, we can move on to define it. Lets parcel it off. Under this rigorous theoretical framework we have already assumed a medium. Writing is for now our system for recording expressions of thought, as opposite to other forms like mathematical expressions, painting, music, or any other forms that can showcase forms of development or progression.

What do we do with writing now! We have a theory of the Objective, and a uncritically, yet instinctively adopted medium. Writing as our vehicle with all its virtues and not so virtues, is going to be our place holder for our so aforementioned Objective. For the sake of simplicity I am going to state that in this case the subject matter and the existing literature are going to define this form of proceeding. So from now on I will not be handling my own thinking, but an interation of voices and cacophonies which unravel trough time to your well encapsulated headvoice.

My objective, as described in my previous post is Tone or Toning. The act which I broadly see as the act of sculpting the body. In this sense I am more interested in preparing a plan of action, that becoming the David (Inertia forgoes!). This requires a further taxonomic exercise of the composing parts of the body, and their interactions with matter inserted trough the so called mouth (how gross!). These have effects which medicine as widely studied, and which I am assuming to be right with no critical eye. I am already accepting this idea of a relationship between appearance and nutrition. And yes you go, food trough your mouth is now nutrition, accept it!

 In this relationship I am taking as truths the specific ideas mentioned below without dipping into any sauce with political content as an ingredient (inertia forbid!). Let keep it simple. The objective here is the gain of muscular volume trough the breaking down of type II tissue, which helps people to carry anaerobic exercise out (this is up for revision). At this point we must not forget that this exercise is all up for sculptural value, so the types of fibers or combination of these to train will be selected on their sculptural/form(al) value. 

So the break down this into smaller bits. We need a taxonomy of the muscles in the body. We need to understand how food intake has the ability to affect the performance and development of these fibers, and last but not least, design or sculpt the desired silhouette (the combination of all these muscles) to fit purpose. In conclusion, to design a desired form.

Now we have an objective, which is the acquisition of a socially inflicted body-form.

To conclude, you might want to ask several questions. Why has bodybuilding have to be so complicated? What does bodybuilding have to do with the concept of an Objective? Why does it say Non-Objective in the title? Which are the consequences or better, the catalyzers for a desire in body conditioning? 

All good questions I must acknow. But for the sake of simplicity we are eliminating from the equation any economico-socio-political taint in our painting called Perfection, or better, the Pursue of Perfection. Still I hope you not to be such fool to think these can be effectively eliminated, rather what we do is ignore them, since our vehicle in itself is a product of culture. But lets keep this piece of thinking and writing contemporary, let's keep it Formal.