Mulitplicity

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Yes this is binary code, a series of 1's and 0's, but I chose this image because it represents multiplicity very well in that the numbers are repeated multiple times. But in all seriousness this image shows how each are dependent on one another to maintain form and function. Calvino comments that "understanding meant allowing [oneself] to become tangled in a network of relationships...and always understanding everything in the multiplicity of codes and levels of things without ever allowing oneself to become involved, we have to record this one fact common to both: the inability to find an ending" (p. 110) The inability to find an ending is what makes binary code so complex and practically uncrackable, because there are numerous sequences that it can take on. The idea of multiplicity is in my opinion best represented by the binary code for this very reason, there is no ending.