# 합리적인 대상의 반복으로 비합리성 강조 Canonical URL: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi/texts/banpo-xism-artist-notes-2025-07-17 Type: essay / research note Author: Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) Date: 2025-07-17 ## Full text Texts I have to write: individualism (competitive individualism) and reductionism. The dead graph: G(V, E) with no live edge, as all Vs are equal. Wave-ness: identical waves, and Fourier waves. The return of the Real: within the Symbolic, how does a natural disaster (torrential rain) delay the train that runs back and forth every day, repeating like a pendulum? How do we come face to face with nature, the Real? So how is the Symbolic tied to continuous, periodic, repetitive motion (departing at the same time every day, a 24-hour periodicity, identical waves)? The Symbolic: a mixture of order and discipline (CCTV, rules, periodic waves) and petit-bourgeois fantasy (family, happiness, Banpo-Xism, the desire to own). A thermodynamic interpretation of the city? A bricolage of maps? Phase transition, self-organisation? A harmony. The Real, punctum. Some force of music rising (freed) out of the swamp of the Symbolic. Beyond all pretence, all flatness, everything Euclidean-Cartesian, every rational command: destruction, the force of the irrational (the non-Euclidean). Strategy: emphasise irrationality through the repetition of rational objects (a kind of repetition compulsion, Warhol-like, Gursky-like). Rational objects: house, land and building prices (Hans Haacke), Banpo-Xism, the Dream of Squares (a Euclidean dream), advertising (the petit-bourgeois ideal, the peddling of happiness), vending machines and so on. Hans Haacke: Manhattan. Competitive individualism (individual-collectivism): a reductive individualism. The more people compete, the more identical they become. Achieving irrationality through the repetition of rational objects. The objects mistaken for rational: competitive individualism. Neoliberalism, materialism, immediate, calculated optimisation (optimising what is right in front of you produces a greater inefficiency...). Banpo-Xism, the rules of Gangnam, neoliberalism. So: reductionism (Banpo-Xism and Gangnam, optimisation and rationalism, asset prices, quantification), its repetition (through interaction; repetition compulsion, Warhol-like; the massness of contemporary society, Gursky-like), leads to irrationality (the sum of the parts is not the whole; inter-node relationships; the edge itself is Yeongdeungpo), emphasised (punctum). From the Symbolic to the return of the Real The city: rules, discipline (Banpo-Xism). Individualism (competition): only one direction (the university entrance exam), space for the petit bourgeois. Each node is independent (a competitive relation), but actually identical to the others (homogeneity through the process of competition). There are no edges between nodes (or they form only for the spread of trends, only for pretentious directions). Anonymity, slaves of the system. Colourless, odourless, only one single objective function. The grid, flatness, the "Dream of Squares", 2D. House prices, land contracts, cram schools, bourgeois happiness: controlled by the apartment, by the Symbolic control structure of CCTV. ----> PUNCTUM through interaction From a mere collection of nodes to a conversion into nodes and edges. Emergence: each with its own rhythm. Each switching itself on and off. All periodicities differ. Each lives at its own speed and goes looking for its own "wave-ness". And emergence is generated in this. The anti-grid (a city is not a tree: semi-lattice), the Imaginary and the Real, 3D, rising up, uplift, a chaotic harmony (chaosmos). Rules, the Imaginary Competition and individualism: only nodes exist. Inter-node relationships, edges, are absent. Every node follows the same rule: part = whole, whole = the sum of the parts. The same categorical imperative, "happy machines", "the rhythm of happy machine noise (all waves coinciding)". Here, the possibility of liberation: the liberation of the square, liberation from the rules of the Symbolic, liberation from petit-bourgeois "happiness", liberation from Banpo-Xism. The recovery of smell, the recovery of colourfulness, the recovery of irregularity. Each node has now begun to play its own, different rhythm! The return of colourfulness. f1 = 300 Hz ≠ f2 = 420 Hz: echoes, beats, the diversification of Fourier waves. Colourfulness. An agent-based, complex system forms naturally. Now all agents differ. Visualising the rules, the initial state Squares. Rules, the Symbolic, petit-bourgeois commands (surveillance and happiness). Identical house sale prices, identical CCTV, identical apartments, identical and periodic traffic flows (Hannam Ogeori, the five-way junction in Hannam). The identical "symptoms" of the city. Machine, city-machine, happy machines. Enforced happiness. Then, from here, the eruption of the Real (via interaction). At first it affects only one local area or intersection; later it affects multiple areas, inter-intersection (emergence forms between intersections). Diversification through playing, the return of the Real through playing. The diversification of (λ, T, φ), the playing of (λ, T, φ). ABM, complexity science. All agents: different speed, different rhythm, a differential system. Yang Jung-uk, Fatigue Always Comes with Dreams: colourful rhythms; each agent lives by its own periodicity, and this makes a distinctive rhythm at the level of the system. From machine to nature: from the same T, the same rhythm, to each one's own autonomous, wave-like flow. --- Jeanyoon Choi (최정윤) is a Korean computational artist and researcher (b. 1999), PhD candidate at KAIST XD Lab, making multi-device web artworks. Profile: https://jeanyoon.ch/oi. 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