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physiology and kinetics as politics? sensing body to body politic?

the rupture of a hydraulic system (nucleus pulposus) devastatingly cripples an electricity-based information network (spinal nerve). the amount of force applied need not be excessive — in fact, very little may do the trick — but rather must be strategically levered at a key point of weakness. trauma ensues. structures overreact to compensate and stabilize the trauma, deforming the system in the process. broader relations are compromised and reshaped around this 'choreographic moment'.

herniation as rupture as program of skin tectonics.

perhaps anthropocentric . . . . . . . . perhaps not.

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"finally, it is true of the hydraulic model, for it is certain that the State itself needs a hydraulic science. but it needs it in a very different form, because the State needs to subordinate hydraulic force to conduits, pipes, embankments, which prevent turbulence, which constrain movement to go from one point to another, and space itself to be striated and measured, which makes the fluid depend on the solid, and flows proceed by parallel, laminar layers. the hydraulic model of nomad science and the war machine, on the other hand, consists in being distributed by turbulence across a smooth space, in producing a movement that holds space and simultaneously affects all of its points, instead of being held by space in a local movement from one specified point to another."

(gilles deleuze and félix guattari, a thousand plateaus: capitalism and schizophrenia, p.363)

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"there is nothing in knowledge which has not been first in the entire body, whose gestural metamorphoses, mobile postures, very evolution imitate all that surrounds it."

(michel serres, variations on the body, p.70)

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(not black, nor white: for the g.rays of every day)

Kirk Goldsberry has mapped every shot taken in the NBA over the past five years,
in order to create a statistical baseline "average" profile of shooters in the league.

"We can see right away that Deron was good from his right and actually had a pretty off night from his left where he is usually pretty good. However, given his shot tendencies over the last few years, CourtVision would predict Deron Williams would end up with 30.2 points from Sunday night's constellation of shots. My models predict the average points per attempt from every player in the league, from every shot location, so I can plug in these 29 locations and predict an expected success for Deron from these locations. CourtVision predicted 30.2 points; Deron ended up with 36. So, Williams made 2 or 3 more shots than he would have on an average shooting night. In other words, he was +20% from the field that night" (Goldsberry).

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The rise of econometric analysis in professional sport makes explicit shifts that are taking place for working classes across a spectrum of industries. From now on, two figures will shadow every labourer whose output may be measured by some quantitative analytic: the Average and the ExpectedValue. As the econometric models continue to improve — or tighten — the length of the ExpectedValue shadow will continue to shorten, as if the klieg lights and fibre optics were approaching high noon.