On Economic Productivity
2024
Theoretical Project Description:
Economics faces a contradiction in how it addresses productivity models; what is productive and how it is achieved. Often, productivity modes are measured “within” existing socio-economic frameworks, where the production and reproduction of capital are common “metrics”. As a self-referential means to an end, modern economics results in a circular stagnation of the corresponding “real” and “imagined”: or otherwise, growth and recession.
If the “sphere” of global trade represents the known, or what exists in our own eye, then all that is outside of that sphere is what is unknown, uncertain and presumably imagined. Periods of expansion or contraction result in the production of the real or imagined respectively.
How does one operate productively within these two realms? The first is relatively straight forward, as it represents the common thread to which our existing culture is based. We are driven predominantly to exist within the “real”, where growth imperatives willfully exercise their power to consume, extract and proliferate. Economics primarily represents the measured world, the knowable and known, but what are the economics beyond measure? … the imagined.
Although the main tendency in the contemporary world is for one to consume the “other”, what would be a constructive model where the real and imagined are mutually productive? A threshold between them, as a meeting place, would exist in the “grey”: an extended spectrum consisting of all colour ... as an analogue of “whiteness” and “lightness”. Instead of abrupt separations, one would mediate the emergence of unknown to known, while returning to the tepid waters of concealment.
Reference can be made to the mathematical descriptions of spherical harmonics, where geometric surfaces are modulated to form algebraic groups. Applications to quantum mechanics reflect a tendency away from discrete measurable phenomena to a distributed form…existing between states, although somewhere beyond measure. Possibly spherical surfaces can have differentiated boundary conditions, where the threshold between the real and imagined exhibit the full spectrum: white “and” all colours at once.
Productivity requires the expansion or contraction of the “real” economic domain, where there is a transition from the real to imagined and the imagined becomes real. A mediative process is highly important, as it establishes an inventive dialogue. Extending capital to the imagined domain requires an investment of unknown projection, where decision making within the established economic system requires a motivational detachment. Those within the established hierarchies cannot selectively grant a capital transfer, since established metrics relies on measuring the imagined, which is intrinsically beyond measure. The imagined must operate outside rational economic systems, vitally for its productive expansion. A contradiction arises when invention itself becomes the driver of economic growth, when it is independent from the system itself.
Time may be the only factor involved in the value determination of a product, where capital investment determines the longevity and duration of productivity outside of the real domain. Since decision making within the economic system requires a metric, then it is impossible to determine the value of an imagined product. General wealth transfers are necessary outside of any “real” decision making process, since original value is produced outside of economic hierarchies. Call it a lateral transfer in other words, but it is important to understand that the process is completely removed from rational or irrational bias.
The fundamental question is “who” or “what” is generating imagined products relative to an economic system? By definition they are “agents” that are either partially or entirely outside of established hierarchies. Since power and capital hierarchies are intrinsically linked, then productivity “originates” outside of those structures.
This is the contradiction of modern economic investment: hierarchies accumulate the highest amount of capital, when productive value has its origins laterally outside of those hierarchical systems. Capital must therefor be distributed rather then concentrated to generate productivity.
Politically speaking, this outcome may not require Socialist, Cultural or Neo-Marxist structures…the solution is rather an economic one of modest and unbiased capital distribution. The greatest unknown of economic expansion “and“ contraction are the origins of “valued” productivity.
Productive Iteration and Number:
Atmospheres are spaces between objects (the earth) and fields (heavens). The real object and imaginative field, also become the imaginative object and realized fields. Evidence suggests that mysteries are still below the earth’s surface, with known and calculated celestial phenomena belonging to the stars. That threshold is where one spends time dreaming in the clouds, where the imagined product takes form. Kites, planes, birds and the extension of trees all facilitate the emergence of unknown to known, between the imagined states of the real.
The iteration allows for layered information to sequentially interact in this space of colour, form and composition. Each iteration is grouped according to a number of ordered sets, combined with singular drawings that form a conceptual basis. Ten sets of six, precisely add to a framework of atmospheres, providing at once structure “and” space.
Over time, a layered approach produces interactions of subconscious imagination, brought forward by the “real” plane; the plane of observation, digital screen or printed “surface”. Surface observations are a bridge to the traces of an imagined product, arising out of the intrinsic accident. A structured process leads to indeterminate outcomes. The accident is the primary element of creative invention, uncontrollable and only understood over time; or otherwise beyond measure. If the world is at once infinitely large and infinitely small, then there will always be the elemental accident outside of rational measure. Knowledge is therefore continually belonging to the real “and” imagined.
