Transfixation, a Byproduct, by The Wreckage

Transfixation, a Byproduct

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If you feel something, don't be ashamed of telling us, after all, what's emotion if not a proof that we are more than just flesh? We are more than just flesh computers, we are made of spirit and of determination. Don't trust anyone who tells you we are just flesh computers, we are more than that. We are power and we are solitude. We are chemicals but we are also the sum of all of it and everything. We are the sum of each other, every single atom in this bitch of an universe that houses us, oh so parsimoniously, even though we are infinitely small in this world, we are something. And that something, the sum of it is oh so powerful.

In functional programming type theory, there's the concept of the Void type: a type with absolutely no inhabitants. A value of this type is considered absurd, as it logically cannot exist. Someone might think that this type is useless, incomprehensible, its existence with no purpose. But everything exists with a purpose. Would you create something if you have absolutely no use for it? We think there's a lot of "useless" things, but we fail to see that they might've been created for a purpose.

Back to the Void type, once you grow more intimately knowledgeable with the type system, you start to think about scenarios where you need to erase certain inhabitants off a type. Think of Haskell's "Either" type, which is commonly used to signal that an operation may return either a value, or an error. Someone may have a parametrized type for an operation, for example, a pipe, that can return values of type T, a new value of type P, to be returned for when it stops generating values, or an error of type E. What if, for some reason, you want to create a pipe that never stops generating? What do you make of the type P?

You use the Void type.

You're erasing something, but not erasing it out of existence. It is something, but not of value for you. It doesn't mean it has no value at all, since many other instantiations of this type can, and most likely will, use this case.

Now, back to what we were discussing. When people erase your usefulness, by claiming that machines can, and will replacing you, they're not erasing it out of existence. They just don't see you as something of value, even though you are to everyone else. Is this collective that sees you as something of value what makes you powerful, even though there's the outliars who don't believe in you.

You are so much more than just a body.

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released July 16, 2023

The Wreckage = Lobo Torres (music, words) & Octavia Sheffner (music, artwork)

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Svalbard Seed Vault field recordings label. Dabbling in large-scale interactive hydrophone installations and sixth wave post- Pigfuck on the side.

Art collective est. March 1st 2017

Founded by:
Octa Möbius Sheffner
Valyri Sheffner Harris
Spencer Booth

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