Saturday, September 18, 2010

Looking for Breakthroughs Across the Landscape of Uncertainty

Now that I have set a title to the post, I suddenly find myself faced with a challenge to accomplish a breakthrough into whatever this post was supposed to be in the first place. Basically I must be intending to convey that breakthroughs are right there where I need to define what a breakthrough is. Is uncertainty a part of any breakthrough? I assume it is. It especially is when something reaches an end and something else is imminent to commence in its place. Landscapes are about seeing where one goes. Uncertainty is about figuring out just that when their parameters are less than given. Narratives seem to stitch attempts at either attaining a breakthrough or at mapping out the criteria for doing so into what can be passed off for either or both of these. It is as if any narrative is an outcome of a narrative surgery upon an unyielding material of external circumstances of inner or outer space. Overhearing shards of stories and actions over the virtual airwaves of web streams creates interferences that transform what I probably am and how I must see what surrounds me. It is as if every piece of overheard and seemingly unimportant nonsense ends up being the foundation, a canvas on which I draw my maps, routes and itineraries. It is as if I were becoming different from what I have been had I been exposed to different information environment or not. Different either way. Breakthrough becomes then something that one, and in this case I, calls one.

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