Secret History: Yves Fissiault, Artist of the Cold War Era
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"She couldn't stop watching his eyes. They were black, surrounded by an incredible network of lines, like a laboratory maze for studying intelligence in tears."
- Thomas Pynchon
        The Crying of Lot 49



Notes from Yves Fissiault's
FIVE LAWS OF RANDOMNESS

the question
    of questions (RANDOMNESS)
placement of the boundary between
predictability under invariant law
  and the multifarious possibility
of historical contingency.

(randomness)
    equilibrium based explanations
non-equilibrium based explanations

1. viability of hypothesis
2. consistency of hypothesis
3. confirmation of hypothesis

*****NON-NESTED HIERARCHIES*****
open and connectable in all dimensions

fine-scale manifestations in which fragmentation
promotes diversity across spatial and temporal scales

EVIDENCE?
     Where does the boundary
     between determinism aqnd
     contingency lie?
(It depends.)

Evidence:
   RHIZOMES
   SITE FACTORS
   ACCIDENT?            Y.F
Yves Fissiault working on Optical Comparator in Manhattan Beach, California Laboratory, 1956
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