Mapping systemic connectivity of fucking rights


Universal Declaration of Fucking Rights (Part #11)


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The form of conventional declarations as a list of points reinforces an unfortunate degree of linearity -- to the extent that a connecting thread can even be detected between them. There is little call for configuring such points otherwise to highlight semantic and other connectivity beyond such linearity -- as a concept map in two dimensions or three, appropriate to a global knowledge-based civilization.

One experiment at presenting sets of articles of various rights conventions is described separately (Dynamic Exploration of Value Configurations: polyhedral animation of conventional value frameworks, 2008). This explored the mapping of such articles onto various polyhedra in 3D according to the number of articles:

Illustrative screen shots of 3D configuration of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
30 Articles displayed on 1 face-type
of a rhombicosidodecahedron
Selected "open" faces Partially (un)folded polyhedral net
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3D images and animations prepared using features of the Stella Polyhedron Navigator application

As a "proof of concept" exercise, no attempt was made to position the articles in terms of their potential systemic linkages. Any such mapping makes evident the constrained "oversight" of the "other side" of the polyhedron. This suggests the need for understanding how some rights may be somehow unrecognized ("in the shadow") at any one time -- as might be the case of "fucking rights".

The various separate explorations of polyhedral configuration, with which the above images are associated, notably make reference to the work on management cycbernetics of Stafford Beer on tensegrity (Beyond Dispute: The Invention of Team Syntegrity, 1994). Any systemic consideration of the fucking connectivity implied by the above argument could be further explored from a topological perspective, as separately argued (Reframing the Dynamics of Engaging with Otherness: triadic correspondences between topology, Kama Sutra and I Ching, 2011).


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