AERO- SOL- NAUTS Travelling Time: Aerosol Wormholes [Potujoci cas: aerosolne crvine] Ljubljana, junij 2021 February 2014 – First cases of Pestis africana suum (African But through these silent meltings, our many memories of swine fever, ASF) registered in Poland. our untold stories started to scream even louder. Stories are January 2019 – Massive “reduction” of the wild pig population a powerful tool for keeping memories, but they also hide the in order to prevent cross-contaminating and spreading the ASF unwanted ones and create those that we desire. They all virus to farm animals. followed 11 principles, [1] which I wove into a fable that I tell July 2019 – A 14.7 km section of the express road connecting to youngsters now. I tell it as a song for all to sing before their the southern part of Olsztyn, Poland with the eastern part. bedtime, to make it part of their daily rhythm: January 2020 – First cases of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) registered in France. (1) They may scream at us, chase us or worship us, but we are March 2020 – All territorial borders in Poland are closed down beyond their moral judgment. due to quarantine. (2) We are all different, just like they have different furs. May 2020 – “Wild pigs conquer the city of Olsztyn.” (3) We feed on them each time they bite our flesh. (4) We have different powers, but we all have our roles to play. I have seen her passing by my usual spot where we grab some (5) We can hide, transform and mutate snacks after dinner. It was just a glimpse, I remember her (6) and we live among many others. well, as it was rare that my eyes met with theirs in mutual (7) We can kill their gods and bring justice to earth, curiosity. Sometimes I doubt if she ever existed, maybe it was (8) but we can also destroy and plunder. just my imagination, maybe what is left is just my memory of (9) We are powerful but never seek attention for our deeds. a comfortably tensed co-existence with a stranger. I wonder if (10) We can make you sing in excitement, she is still alive, whether she survived. (11) revealing our wisdom that tells the story now, please sing with us before we go silent. Now, after the great virus which led many of us to be killed, and rumour had it that we would be wiped out completely, it seems So we learned how to keep quiet in hope to be accepted as that centuries have passed since I last saw her. The traces of them. We murmur our songs before we go to sleep to keep who we were seem so fragile, almost irrelevant now. Some of remembering the strategies of survival. But with each day, our us managed to run to the small forest in their lands just before silence and mutations into one started to give a result we did they made a mechanic river of many streams impossible to not anticipate. We became silent, and they do not see us. We control and keep up with. stopped talking and they do not know that we even exist. I escaped with Sofia. She did not want to leave our nest that At least these were our thoughts … is filled with all our memories and the stuff that kept us who we were. Sofia is proud and stubborn, but I love her. She is They pass by us, sometimes stop in front of us, but seem to my secret escape to the comfort of security, and despite her look right through us without a sign of recognition. At first, I seeming detachment from the materiality of life, she is gentle was afraid for Sofia as she seemed too detached to be careful. and can guide you with her tingled murmur. She kept on reciting all the maps back home, even though we all knew all the roads were long gone. So here we are, there are dozens of us. By that time, there were already hundreds of us, among them, Day after day, we move further into the stones, the smell is we merged with the stones. Sometimes I see the curious too good not to. I read somewhere that if you melt with others looks, as if it was looking straight into my soul that I can feel and you do not say a word, you become as them. So it felt as a through the shivers deep down under my skin, constituting my perfect weapon of survival at the time. every cell. Sometimes I think they are like us, also hoping not to be seen for who they are not. And sometimes that we are just lost in this game of hide and seek, buying time before we cease to feel. One afternoon, when we had a nap, I heard her voice in my dream, which is strange, as I have never heard how she sounds. Her eyes were big and sharp, her high-pitched voice almost irritating and yet welcoming. I imagine she knows what it feels like being finite, when all can change and mutate, only you are penalised when you do. In dreams, I can travel backwards, against all logic and laws, to that moment when I saw her. My belly was empty and I could feel how hers was too. Is she multiple? Can she resist the destiny? I wonder how great it would be to not be afraid to be seen, for it to be possible to mutate with them, to feast as multiple among them. But I know it is a dream, I know we’re just buying time by making us appear as one, and they will soon notice us, because the speed of our change that conditions us is accelerating. But even though I think it is a dream, I surely cannot have doubts that I could see her! So maybe it is travel to the future? I remember a scientist preaching that “at the precise moment when heat is produced, the process is irreversible: the past differs from the future. It is always heat and only heat that distinguishes the past from the future,” [2] and it makes me realise that each night I see her, I wake up with sweat under my pits and on my neck. At first I did not make much of it, but the sweat of the dreams would indicate that heat was released from my body with unusual speed, as during the day my skin is dry and cold as sandstone … Is that possible? Did I travel to the future to see her? During one of these travels, instead of looking away, I kept on staring at her so that I could tell her my story, and my voice was merging with hers, and my eyes started to see what she was seeing, and together we became the constellation of changing bodies, neither one nor many. I became with her a little, and she became with me a little, and our bodies became a little smoother, and a little stronger, and a little more porous, and a little more hairy, and a little more more, and … [1] Based on the characteristics of a demon in Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh’s ‘PlaguePod Bonus: Principles of Coronademonology’, Urbanomic, accessed 13 May 2020, https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/plaguepod-bonus-principles-of-coronademonology/. [2] Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity, trans. Simon Carnell and Erica Segre, First American Edition edition (New York: Riverhead Books, 2017), 221. Photo: BK and EP, CC BY 2.0 Agnieszka Leslie She walked through the forest quickly, even though she knew Could this be a case of algorithmic truth? it will not shorten the distance. A path has to be walked, the A myriad of possibilities true/false. travel has to be felt, no matter how you will define time and Would it be worth evaluating my imaginings from a boolean space now. perspective? The sweat on her skin was sticky and she already felt the warm To run a series of commands until the computer is no longer coolness of the lake, imagining its crystal surface behind the able to continue evaluating this reality? trees. The sand floating from the ground was already irritating Reason for failure: -lack of memory- of course. her skin, scratching the surface of her feet. It is due to a lack of memory that we find ourselves unable to A sweet smell of rotting fruits started to become nauseating. reach the confines of the truth? By now she assessed the same stones, marked by the same Perhaps the adiaphora in which I am immersed is the proof curves of little fingers. that my entire environment is a simulation. Am I lost? she asked herself out loud, but with disbelief, as she Every time I name myself, every time I name something … I had memorized the path hundreds of times. make it exist. But when the trees started to bow and the grass danced into So maybe it’s time to be silent, shut down the computer and the pulsating rhythm of a song never sung, she gained her stop executing commands. confidence: “It has begun!” she thought. me $ sudo shutdown -h now It was breathing loudly now and she felt their presence in every -bash: command not found pore. Am I going to faint? she asked them, looking for a safe place to stop before her eyes filled up with the purple spots indicating Špela the passage was close. But there was no silence. The fans kept purring. A glass She stopped her breath; her eyes froze until they were filled marble that had been teetering at the edge of the desk gave with dry needles, forcing her to blink. The shimmering voice in to a gust of wind and fell to the ground, producing a string started to whisper: of chimes as it bounced off the worn-down limestone tiles. Just as the creature slumped into the comforting embrace "There is no adiaphoria although we can imagine it. And of the oversized leather armchair, anticipating the afternoon indeed, we fail to understand the eternal return if we make daze when the body floats in unreflected materiality, the it a consequence or an application of identity. We fail to marble and the breeze entangled to jerk her to attention. understand the eternal return if we do not oppose it to identity The creature tensed and without hesitation dropped to the in a particular way. The eternal return is not the permanence floor, eyeing the unruly object. The marble rolled lazily out of the same, the equilibrium state or the resting place of the of reach and came to a stop beneath the commode. She identical. It is not the ‘same’ or the ‘one’ which comes back in pressed her cheek to the dusty ground. Of all the worlds she the eternal return but return is itself the one which ought to had called into existence, this one still belong to diversity and to that which differs.” [3] felt the grittiest. Here most elements had imaginations of their own. The marble was She began to murmur: marble-ing, the dust was dust-ful, the floor was floor-some and the wind wind-ly. Am I in adiaphoria or in the eternal return of my imaginings? She lay there, transfixed If adiaphoria is only an imagining, can imagining its return on the glass ball, be considered reality? Does double negation make something desiring to touch true? it, to keep it close, in her hands, her mouth, atop her eyeball. She wanted it to take its position in her throat, to lodge itself in her belly button, to travel down her spine and nestle in the pelvis. She was practicing connection; after all, it was her world. She had spent three months training and was by now getting good at what she called shimmering in digital realms. Shimmering in material scapes would, however, Adriana require a rare type of attunement, more of a happenstance, a Before it could do so, it needed operators to act on it: synchronology. A persistence. contorting, stretching, squeezing, splaying, twisting, She lay there, bleeding heat into the old house until she could modulating. The operators smothered, waited, supported, barely feel herself, or think herself. ganged up, caressed. These were acts that transformed … seeming individuals, such as the demarcated and Like a tired rubber band the erotic snaps, creating something comprehensible marble, into a more diffuse, yet localizable, like a groove, an inclination, though the ground remains packet of matterwaves. The packet slunk towards the horizon, unchanged. The marble grasps the pull. It rolls down the its motion governed by the field that was itself transmogrified groove, licking it ever faster, towards the beating flesh. But by the packet’s existence. Relations that might have been then the forces shift. It follows them through a curve. There forgettable began to leave marks on the packet’s form as is air, there is surface, there is movement, there is spinning. it was attracted to the horizon and the inky, dripping point There is an orchestra of crackles as it twirls. It makes its way infinitely beyond. Here everything began to brake dow n to the stairs, through the door. bcmng bth moe comprsd aaaaaaassssssssss weeeellllllllll As the marble takes the path of the shimmer traveller, we a s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s _ m m m m m m o o o o o o o r r r r r e e e e e e e leave the solipsistic space of the creature behind. It is time eeeexxxxxxxxxtttttttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnn-for the glass ball to name everything, to make it exist. dddddddddddddddddddddd and the packet found itself in a state of rest. Taking up the same space there were billions more of itself. This co-presentness caused the packets to vibrate a bit out of sync, like billions of violinists trying to play the same note. Each packet, while spatially co-present, was temporally out of joint. A bit before, a bit later, eons ago, thousands of years from now. Here the packet would remain hidden with the others in the thick, sticky, lugubrious darkness. Soon, relatively, an entity in the light out there would move in the just right way and thus meld with the packet to wring it into the vastness beyond. Ingrid Through this motion, a drop would form suspended in the cold dark. A drop that holds all the possibilities of becoming. Asking to be drunk, or just tasted. Igniting all potential in this sensuous moment where touch is returned to its rightful experience. And when she was moving her limbs through the bulbous field of made-up reality, the profundity of her own thoughts ceased to die. She opened her eyes to find herselves already in the cesspool of passages. In the turmoil she could not catch their breath, even though their hearts were steady and loud: we are them, as them, as the shimmering return of the multiplicity of times. [3] Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy (Continuum, 2002), 43. This is what I mean when I say I would like to swim against the I started drinking while she was explaining to me. stream of time: I would like to erase the consequences of certain events and restore an initial condition. “Psilocybes are a very special family of mushrooms, all —Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller mushrooms are special, but these are portals, they are capable of transforming the chemical materiality of our “I would like to talk about time.” brain and putting it in a state of high perception and With a freshly brewed tea in his hands, she looked at me and learning; it’s a bit like serotonin, only stronger and more replied, immediate. Our ancestors dedicated their lives to observing reality, to understanding how portals operated. They found “So, are you one of those who believe in linear time? Right out that all that is alive is in a state of perception, we all now while I’m talking to you, everything you hear happens have different sensorial systems, which allow us to collect in the past, I speak in the present, but you listen to me different types of experience, everything that is alive is, in the past, and this is simply because your brain takes observing, interacting, and gathering knowledge. So the time to receive the already processed signal from my voice point is that all this experience of the other is there for us. into electrical impulses. You see, reality exists in multiple dimensions, multiple speeds, you know as an object moves “When life developed on the planet, it was all closer to the speed of light, everything is perceived much microorganisms, there were bacteria, fungi and viruses, slower … time and space are closely linked.” all newcomers from space. But now I want to focus on the fungi. Imagine the moment in which their evolution The tea had the smell of the earth, of the summer became rhizomatic, mycelium began to create small afternoon when the rain flooded the gardens of networks, to transfer energy from one point to another, it is all the houses, a smell that reminded me of my as if the blueprints for creating wormholes are stored in the grandmother, sitting in her chair while I ate the dirt epigenetic memory of these fungi, they may have learned it from her garden. on their journey through space.” “We are now going to perceive time in a different My attention was becoming more and more defined, it was as way, the way of the psilocybe,” she says. if nothing existed outside this room, only she and I, we were immersed in this sphere, breathing in circles. Little by little Hearing her words brought me back to this reality, somehow I began to feel my collective and unified body, each cell, each only the smell of that tea that I have not yet consumed led me particle, I could feel its existence in me, the gravity of my body, to a temporary journey back in time, back to my childhood. My the gravity of the earth, I was there. brain was already rewired by a chemical influence created by the scent of that brew. “Humanity cannot understand all of reality, not if it seeks a beginning and an end. Events happen in a linear order, a to do so with its western tools, that’s where things collapse chronological expression that is embedded in the progress and the forces they call supernatural surpass them. For us, narrative. everything has intelligence, everything talks and dances around us. The agency of the material. Then we start to “In the end our definitions of time rely on the way we understand that life is a form of expression, so matter can organize all of humanity’s events; for example, the second also express itself in language, movements, forms of what was defined as one-sixtieth of a sixtieth of a twenty-fourth is alive.” of the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution around its axis, and this definition was useful until we She looked at me and with a very gentle voice continued to discovered that the Earth is slowing down, one second explain … every few years, but this messes up the precision. So all atoms of Cesium always radiate light that has a frequency “I have been trying to understand viruses outside the of 9,192,631,770 cycles per second; they are quite precise biological framework for a long time, mainly due to the so we can say we move from a mechanical perception of temporary restrictions of life, for them, things work on time to an atomic one, or as scientists call it, coordinated a different scale, they can survive thousands of years in universal time.” a dormant state. You could say that they are our original ancestors ‘Ex Virus Omnia’ (from virus everything). Time is a complex and beautiful invention to encompass reality in an almost musical quality. Sometimes when I dream, “Viruses can exist independently of genetics, solely in everything happens at once, I’m here, I’m there, and time is a the symbolic dimension of evolution. A virus is nothing dense crystalline medium. Years happen in seconds. more than an idea until it finds a host within which it can replicate itself. You see, for them time is nothing more than an execution state, the switch is on, the task is to propagate the genetic information, the concept of which they are made of. After that, they become part of the narrative of the biological, they become us, sometimes as features, other times just as ecosystemic marks. But now in a different time and a different dimension. At that time I remembered something I read long ago about memory as some sort of a viral feature, there are some scientific suggestions about epigenetic modifications in viruses in the early stages of life on the planet that made it possible for more complex organisms to acquire the ability to store and remember information. “But let’s go back to the main question,” she said, “even if you don’t really formulate what time is, we can try to explore this from the philosophical perspective, or perhaps try to understand those physics theories that surround this concept. For the ancestors, time was the result of the cosmic dance, time was cyclical and circular. In this vision of the future, the things that we cannot perceive because they haven’t happened yet were located at the end of the circle, in the past, while the ones that we know and can see are the ones in the front. Events repeat themselves, as the sun comes out every day, the planet rotates around it, the rivers flow, and we breathe, events have an unalterable order, they are part of an infinite sequence of consecutive cycles. Nothing is created and nothing is lost, the changes are rather manifestations of these cycles in which events are made, undone and remade in a perpetual way. “But there are other ways to perceive time. In western culture, time is irreversible, unique and unrepeatable; it has [ This lecture includes a PD patch “EnergyFieldRes-emotional level, but can also modify the physical conformation onator” to play the frequencies.] of matter. Synchronization is the coordination of events For this exercise it is important to use headphones or audio mon-to operate a system in unison. itors, sit in a comfortable position and be prepared to oscillate as Systems that operate with all parts in synchrony a synchronous system. are said to be synchronous or in sync – and those that are not are asynchronous. 1. Pineal: Note C, nm (750–650) Hz (90–104) The pineal gland, conarium or epiphysis cerebri is a small Time synchronization can occur between systems around the endocrine gland in the brain of most vertebrates. The pineal gland world through satellite navigation signals that depend on the produces melatonin, a serotonin-derived hormone that modulates oscillatory features of Cesium atoms that radiate light at a fre-sleep patterns in both circadian and seasonal cycles. quency of 9,192,631,770 cycles per second. We live in a time of atomic synchronization. 2. Pituitary: Note D, nm (640–590) Hz (106–115) The pituitary gland or hypophysis is an endocrine gland about Oscillation refers to any Periodic Motion moving about an equilib-the size of a pea and weighing 0.5 grams (0.018 oz) in humans. rium position that repeats itself over and over for a period of time; It is a protrusion off the bottom of the hypothalamus at the base for example, the Earth behaves like a gigantic electric circuit. of the brain. Hormones secreted from the pituitary gland help to Its electromagnetic field surrounds and protects all living things control growth, blood pressure, energy management, all functions with an oscillatory frequency of 7.83 hertz on average – the so-of the sex organs, thyroid glands and metabolism. called “Schumann resonance”, named after physicist Dr. Winfried Otto Schumann, who predicted it mathematically in 1952. 3. Thyroid: Note E, nm (580–550) Hz (117–124) The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits low on the front According to Dr. Konstantin Korotkov’s electro photonic analysis of the neck. The thyroid secretes several hormones, collectively study, the human body is capable of emitting oscillatory radiant called thyroid hormones. The main hormone is thyroxine, also energy that is in the range between 380 and 750 nm in wave-called T4. Thyroid hormones act throughout the body, influencing length. Electrophotography has revealed 7 main points from metabolism, growth and development. which this energy is emitted, and they are located in the following glands: 4. Paraganglion: Note F, nm (520–490) Hz (128–139) The nerves of the autonomic nervous system are not under con-1. Adrenocortical scious control. They innervate the heart, adrenal medulla, vascu-2. Gonads lar smooth muscle, and smooth muscle in visceral organs, and 3. Pancreas control cardiac rate and output. 4. Supracardiac Paraganglia/Thymus 5. Thyroid/Parathyroid 5. Pancreas: Note G, nm (480–460) Hz (142–148) 6. Pituitary The pancreas has both an endocrine and a digestive exocrine 7. Pineal function. As an endocrine gland, it functions mostly to regulate blood sugar levels, secreting the hormones insulin, glucagon, so-These sources of biophotonic energy coincide with the points matostatin and pancreatic polypeptide. As a part of the digestive known as chakras in the worldviews of Hinduism, Theosophy system, it functions as an exocrine gland secreting pancreatic and Gnosticism, or koru (spiral) in the Mayan tradition. The term juice into the duodenum through the pancreatic duct. Chakra means “wheel” in Sanskrit and it was used in the Vedas to refer to the energy centers of the human body. 6. Gonads: Note A, nm (430–390) Hz (158–174) A gonad is a mixed gland that produces the gametes (sex cells) These findings were made possible by the use of bioelectrogra-and sex hormones of an organism. phy, a technique for diagnosing and monitoring the informational state of human energy that uses computerized gas discharge 7. Adrenal glands: Note B, nm (380–280) Hz (179–243) (GDV) visualization. With this technique, the emissions of these The adrenal glands (also known as suprarenal glands) are glands as a source of radiant energy can be grouped into wave-endocrine glands that produce a variety of hormones including length and hertz ranges. adrenaline and the steroids aldosterone and cortisol. Using this information I developed an application programmed With the same ability you have to imagine and perceive time, try in PureData that attempts to synchronize each of these points to imagine and perceive yourself in sync with your own oscilla-using the resonance principle. The patch is made up of 7 oscil-tions, with the others, with the planet. Consider this as a fine lators with a range of variation in hertz and wavelength. It is a tuning: as a musician tunes their instrument, we must tune or well-known phenomenon that sound does not only affect us on an own bodies. In computer science, synchronization refers to one of two dis-Intuition: tinct but related concepts: synchronization of processes and synchronization of data. Process synchronization refers to the idea We agree to entangle in the com-that multiple processes are to join up or handshake at a certain plex and sophisticated form of point, in order to reach an agreement or commit to a certain se-intelligence that is intuition. quence of action. Data synchronization refers to the idea of keeping multiple copies of a dataset in coherence with one another or to maintain data integrity. Process synchronization primitives are commonly used to implement data synchronization. Awareness For this exercise, I would like to use the analogy of the handshake so that we can reach a point of agreement and synchronize our-We agree to gather all informa- selves with the ability to perceive and be part of the series of tion and knowledge to create an changes the planet is overcoming. awareness. To do this, we will use physical programming techniques based on the mudra, that is, the “seal”, “mark” or “gesture”, to create our handshakes. Dimension Please follow the gestures of my hands and repeat with me: We agree that all that we are per-We agree to entangle in the complex and sophisticated form of ceiving is occurring at a multidi-intelligence that is intuition. mensional level. Creation We agree to work on the creation of the proper conditions that make it possible for us humans to synchronize with the phenom- ena, matter and otherness that inhabit this planet with us. Light oscillators Synchronization of multiple interacting dynamical systems can occur when the systems are autonomous oscillators. For instance, integrate-and-fire oscillators with either two-way (symmetric) or one-way coupling can synchronize when the strength of the coupling (in frequency units) is greater than the differences among the free-running natural oscillator frequencies. Poincare phase oscillators are model systems that can interact and partially synchronize within random or regular networks. Now rest yourself in your newly tuned state. A bubble suspended in glass. Not half a year ago, we were caught in the infinity mirror that is the status quo. Crisis to crisis, encompassing climate change to surveillance capitalism, the trap drew its power from the unprecedented. With warm pride, we felt our experience severed from that of the people who came before as much as we were powerless to imagine a livable future. The viral load cuts into the thick now. Then these parasitic moieties, collectively acting as a pandemic, reframed time and dropped us, rather painfully, on a chronology where the exceptionalism of the present could itself be just another illusion of grandeur. Divining linkages across timelines. This research writes tales of curious conjunctions that require attunement to the threads that the virus makes graspable, albeit barely. We construct shortcuts between histories and futures, just as the virus jumps species to share molecular memories between beasts that have long since separated. Florence Nightingale. Dancing mania. Anarcho-primitivism. Shutting-up. Dynamics of fluids. Dynamics of power. Runners and slipstreams. Plague aesthesis. Shrieks of interregnum resonance. A tower and a nest. “Time is constituted only in the originary If we want to practice ontologies of processual relations, where synthesis which operates on the repetition bodies are generated through relations of transformation and of instants. This synthesis contracts the conditioned by change, we need to accept that time as a uni-successive independent instants into one versal and given category does not exist. Time is produced by another, thereby constituting the lived, those that move, namely bodies in their relationality. If relations or living present. It is in this present of transformations constitute the onto-epistemological condition that time is deployed. To it belong both of existence, then a timespace is only a characteristic of a body the past and the future: the past in so that is already in transition. far as the preceding instants are retained in the contraction; the future because its From this we can deduce that we are indeed already time travel-expectation is anticipated in this same ling, since the past and the future are already enveloped in the contraction.” [4] present through the relations that condition bodies. In face of this, what is at stake is to accept the travel as not only an inevitable ontology of life, but an epistemo-ethical way of its practice. There is no “yet” to happen, there is no “past” to be lost. The past and the future collide, determining the present. Present passes into past, actualising it and transforming yet another present, and making the past eternally fluid. The future is present in the moment of actualising, initiating the travel of eternal return. We are in a constant movement of change happening. [4] Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), 70–71. So far, the year of the pandemic has been marked by too many the without with the within. Meaning the “outside”, the ruptures to think through them and come to some sensible unknown, the mundane, the somatic gets brought into apprehension of events. Instead, Aerosolnauts, as we call contact and melded with that which is already codified and ourselves, embrace the opportunity to travel the margins of understood. What we do with the shadows consistently mutates this experience together. We liken our efforts to observing a through encounters between us, each already mutated by shadow in the dark that you can only see moving when you look our own chance encounters, desires and imaginations. elsewhere, but are still fully attuned to the periphery of your Xenomethodology results in storytelling with more than one vision. Because shadows, demons and ghosts can be excellent narration, with interweaving, forking and crosspollination. We guides through these times. practice contamination as an ontoepistemology. As other participants of Braiding with Friction, The Aerosolnauts And before we even understood what we were doing, a chance too are a fascinating group of people so rich with knowledges encounter with a paragraph from Deleuze on the eternal return, and accolades that I’ll avoid using flattening labels and only plants that change our perception of time and quantum foam introduce us via overly particular details of my choosing. creating its own spacetime nudged us towards a journey which lead us to write a travel-without-a-guide instructional. Besides Adriana is a xenologist weathering these times with her the turmoil these potent aerosol agents have triggered, they’ve queer sister in Wichita, Kansas. She sometimes spends hours opened portals between us – so we’ve transmogrified Braiding watching the shimmer of Midwest storms through a refractive Friction to Braiding with Fiction and finally to the Bulbous Time foil on the window. This seems very much in line with her We Spend Together Till We Meet Again. pursuit of the melding of various temporalities, from quantum physics to music to space travel, at their intersection with queer poetics and aesthesis. On the other hand, as a non-philosopher during coronatimes, Agnieszka took up sewing at her abode in Deventer (NL). Perhaps it was the mesmerizing action of the sewing machine that sparked her interest in philosophical storytelling. Or the invasion of wild pigs in her hometown in Poland. Or perhaps simply the comfort of her reading chair. Leslie has been growing things – at her place in Mexico City, she plays her synths, algos, algae and lived experience to share with us what flourishes when western physics theories meet the cosmological visions of ancestral Latin-American narratives. She showers us with gifts, one of which we will share with you in a bit. During quarantine, Ingrid’s fully committed herself to somatics, which includes dancing to music each evening till she drops from exhaustion. Rituals, she says, are materialist practices that connect us to the here and now, even to the ghosts we can only discern from their traces. Her practice is very much influenced by plants. And while Ingrid visits her enchanting community gardens in Brussels, I stuff our Amsterdam Red Light District apartment with plants that should’ve been grown outdoors. I think I might be a plant myself, but while in the process of getting to the bottom of this, I stubbornly keep looking for the silver lining in this situation. So what have we been doing? We’ve been exploring what we call a xenomethodology – transient practices that enfold Someone also sent me this quote by Heiner Müller that I would like to share with you: "Andererseits ist durch nichts erwiesen, dass der Mensch auf der Erde das herrschende Lebewesen ist. Vielleicht sind es ja die Viren, und wir sind nur Material, eine Art Kneipe für die Viren, Der Mensch als Kneipe, auch das ist nur eine Frage der Optik." aus: Da trinke ich lieber Benzin zum Frühstück (1989) A loose translation to English would be: “On the other hand, there is no proof at all that the human is the ruling lifeform on this earth. Maybe the viruses are, and we are just material, a sort of bar for the viruses, the human as a bar, also that is just a matter of perspective.” We, a way to not only live but thrive the aerosol travellers, is through and not against demons. declare the virus that made all To quote Deleuze: to collapse into singularity of the infinite disembodiment “Demons are different from gods, because gods have fixed to pass into the demonological bodies of multiplicity. attributes, properties and functions, territories and codes: they have to do with rails, boundaries and surveys. What demons do We, the multiple travellers, take the task to restore the is jump across intervals, and from one interval to another.” [7] contamination and multiplicity of time, the mutability and pollination of bodies We are taught to forget about demons and to be scared of ghosts. We thus belittle demons as medieval fantasy and magical and generate time-spaces across the planets. thinking, and tame ghosts by incorporating them into movie entertainment. But here, between demons and ghosts, lies the To consider a virus to be a demon might, to a respectable rational profound ontological schism. It penetrates our bodies each time mind, be part of a magical thinking, awkwardly naïve and we open our mouth and speak in language to describe difference inappropriate in academically professional surroundings. And yet, in its demonological change. In differing through our bodies we under the surface of numbers, graphs, analysis and prediction of escape the ghost of an identity. corona spread, the word that is used to describe contemporary phenomena is no other as this one: pandemonium. [5] Demons don’t give a damn about morality. To understand the curious curiosity of how that word is used, it is Demons don’t care about time, as they make time, collapsing all imperative to look at its etymology: into a new transformation. They are beyond good and evil but they generate your good and evil actions. Demons cannot be identified According to Oxford English Dictionary: as in the moment of capture they are already something else by becoming. pandemonium, n. Demonology is thus not of past, but of beyond from ancient Greek denotes: time-space, because it is forming terms relating to the whole of the universe or the time-space. mankind, or denoting that the second element exists or operates at the universal level Demons are the relationality of the movements of elements. a demon means Any evil spirit or malevolent supernatural being, a devil Now, close your eyes that habitually were captured by gods in their ocularcentric Pandemonium denotes thus the abode of all demons; hell, the propaganda. infernal regions (a place represented by Milton in Paradise Lost as the capital of hell, containing the council chamber of the Evil Close them. Spirits). And surrender your multiple selves to the It can also mean a centre of vice or wickedness; a haunt of evil, demonological rhythm of change. a place or state of utter confusion and uproar; a noisy disorderly place. [6] Th pandemic is thus a state of lack of control, a state of confusion [5] Bergquist, R., & Rinaldi, L. “Covid-19: Pandemonium in our time. Geospatial and chaos because what governs the world is not a centralised Health,”15(1), 2020, accessed 13 May 2020, https://doi.org/10.4081/gh.2020.880. system of power, but unstoppable relationality and contamination [6] ‘Pandemonium, n.’, in OED Online (Oxford University of an entity that is neither one nor many. Press), accessed 13 May 2020, http://www.oed.com/ view/Entry/136751. If a virus, like a demon, exposed our fear of multiplicity, noise and [7] Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II, contamination, making us clustered behind flickering screens of trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam universal time, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 40. ~15th-century Strasbourg flourishes as a major agri-her and were shocked by her stamina. cultural market and transportation center, but the majority of the As evening set, she collapsed into a state of sleep. How-people are obligated to turn their profits over to their employer or ever, Frau Troffea began her dance early the next morning with to the Church. renewed energy and continued doing so for six long days. She ~1492 For a third consecutive year, abnormal cli-danced with horrendous bruising, bloody sores, mate change destroys crops. Famine strikes. New and lacerations on her feet. Those who witnessed the occurrence taxes are issued. Those unable to pay the Church’s said she was possessed by the Devil or some other evil spirits. tariffs are threatened with excom- She danced in a deep state of trance brought forth munication. by extreme levels of stress-anxiety-and-pressures. The trance ~1493 Several young men estab- allowed Frau Troffea to ignore the pain beyond conscious aware-lish the Bundschuh, a clan- ness. destine association of peasants that plot against the clergy Eventually an estimated four hundred citizens joined her in the and landlords, who pressure them to cultivate the lands under streets of Strasbourg, exhibiting the same symptoms. They at-severe conditions. One of their own betrays them, most tained extremely high levels of endurance … and so even are beheaded or hung for high treason. the weak were viewed as strong due to this phenomenon. ~1495 Europe is introduced to syphilis. Preachers view syphilis “as a punishment for the lusts of the flesh”. Puzzled, the Council of Strasbourg turned to leading physicians of ~1496 The bubonic plague appears twenty miles the time for advice on the matter. They looked into south of Strasbourg. the stars and planets for an explanation, but then resorted to con- ~1502 The Bundschuh again revolts against the cler-temporary medical reasoning for the cause of the dancing plague. gy and landlords to restore the rights of the common citizen. The They stated the “dance is a natural disease, which comes from movement is foiled by a member within the group and partici-overheated blood”. In fact ... the physicians encouraged pants are executed. the afflicted to continue dancing so that it may pass. ~1503 Bishop Albrecht concludes that Strasbourg is a The city created several stage platforms in which those affected “battleground between the Lord’s and Sa- could continue their dance accompanied by music. This, however, tan’s forces”. However, his calls for change did not help any of them. fall on deaf ears amongst the clergy, who refuse to leave Finally, a pilgrimage to the town of Saverne was their concubines behind when the Bishop himself had suggested. This journey gave Strasbourg a glimmer of hope as intimate affairs with prostitutes and the medieval church in Saverne aided many of those affected. fathered bastard children. Because the ritual at the church in Saverne spoke spe- ~1517 smallpox sweeps through Strasbourg. The few city’s cifically and directly to the peasants, replacing the past years hospitals are overcrowded and can’t care for those in-of neglect and horrendous experiences with months of fected. attention from the religious and civic ~1517 A disease called “English sweat” reaches sectors of the city. Strasbourg. The symptoms of acute anxiety are followed by extremely violent shivers and fa- Such is the story of how the Stras- tigue, sweat begins to pour out of the victim’s body in large bourg Dancing Plague of 1518 achieved amounts, and death follows soon after. care for the exploited classes. ~The oppression of the poor continues, the Church raises the peasants’ debt. ~The Bundschuh movement strikes again, mur- dering the magistrates and civic leaders. However, the movement is once again betrayed by a fellow conspirator, and the rebels are promptly executed. The dream of a utopian peasant soci- ety vanishes. ~By 1518, misery within the peasantry reaches an all-time high. A week before the festival of Mary Magdalene, Frau Troffea began awkwardly dancing without reason. Many spread rumours that she was upset with her husband and danced in public to shame him. But even with her husband’s pleas, Frau Adapted from the seminar "The 1518 Plague of Strasbourg: A Dancing Fever" by Troffea continued dancing vigorously. A curious crowd surrounded Carlos Bracero, 2014. Imagine a universe without time. Or where time isn’t the ever If time does not exist, perhaps we can conjure our world present “background” on which existence is played out. How differently. We don’t have to think of the past as a precedent to be might you live, how might you relate to the plants you take care followed. Perhaps we can be not so tied to old ways of thinking, of of, how might you relate to your own dissolution, your supposed making, of doing, of existing in our bodies, and instead manifest beginning, your connection to the actions of your mother, your possibilities for modulating ourselves into something entirely relationship to the flux of the sun. Does it matter if SARS-CoV-2 other. came first, or HIV, when death still feels final in a universe without time? Does it matter if you danced at the party in the summer of Perhaps we can think about this as quantum queerness. Recently 2006, or did a glitter makeup tutorial in May 2020, when time the drag queen Amrou Al-Kadhi (aka Glamrou) has spoken about does not exist? Does it matter that we believe that July comes the relationships between quantum mechanics and his queer after June comes after May comes after April comes after March identity: the ways that both can be indeterminate, the flitting comes after February comes after January in the year 2020, when in and out of existence of small particles of being, the flux of time does not exist? transitioning from one way of orienting yourself to the world with another. Physicists have endeavored for decades to unify theories of gravity and quantum mechanics. Whether the quest for unification is And queers—and the xeno ones too—know that the plague of our reasonable or not, let’s ignore that for now. But at the quantum moment is also the plague of our past, the virus that destroyed level, in the theories of what is called loop quantum gravity, tens of millions of lives. That continues to destroy lives, as that time as we know it does not exist. It is an emergent property of plague intertwines with this plague. But queers and xenos know loops of spacetime flitting in and out of existence, creating what also the power of living our lives as a big FUCK YOU to the people physicists call “spinfoams”. There is no directionality to time. who see the future as only the extension of the recent past. There is no arrow. Past, present, future: these are convenient fictions for us. What we term the future can exert its influence on So that’s why we make ourselves up for battle and for partying. We what we term the present, and likewise, the past can change the conjure that which is hidden with these words: present, and the present can modify the past. Deleuze wrote a bit about this, not exactly like this, but in enough resonance with the Adorn yourself with the colors of the universe. Color your eyes for physics understanding to be uncanny. travel without time. Make sure they link up with the times you want to create. Realize that the latent vectors of the universe hide Carlos Rovelli, one of the main people behind loop quantum the ghosts. The ghosts of the future that the majority lets happen, gravity, has written: but also the ghosts of the future that we can create. The ghosts of the past that still haunt us and that we have not made amends “We must not think of time as if there were a great cosmic clock to. Project to demonize. Once made material, get to know your that marks the life of the universe. We have known for more nearest neighbor demon, knowing that it might be behind you, than a century that we must think of time instead as a localized beside you, within you. phenomenon: every object in the universe has its own time running, at a pace determined by the local gravitational field. In the words of the glitter poet CAConrad in his CORONA DAZE 18, written in the early days of the lockdown: But even this notion of a localized time no longer works when we take the quantum nature of the gravitational field into account. if we are to dream anything Quantum events are no longer ordered by the passage of time at during this plague the Planck scale. Time, in a sense, ceases to exist. let us please consider What does it mean to say that time does not exist? the things we do not want First, the absence of the variable time from the fundamental to return to normal equations does not imply that everything is immobile and that change does not happen. On the contrary, it means that change is ubiquitous. Only: elementary processes cannot be ordered along a common succession of instants. At the extremely small scale of the quanta of space, the dance of nature does not develop to the rhythm kept by the baton of a single orchestral conductor: every process dances independently with its neighbors, following its own rhythm. The passing of time is intrinsic to the world, it is born of the world itself, out of the relations between quantum events which are the world and which themselves generate their [8] Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to own time.” [8] Quantum Gravity (New York: Riverhead Books, 2018), 178. A tarot reading on time. Read on the 14th of July is trying to tell us is to take action now. Even if we do not yet 2020 about an ongoing future that is also a repetition of the past. fully know where our actions lead, even if our transformation is not yet complete. The future is asking us to fight. To embrace our Using my Rider-Waite tarot deck, I ask the following questions in wild side. But also to remain aware that there is much we do not search of tools for time travel: know yet. What do we need to remember from the past? What do we learn from the future? What do we mix into the now? What do we I came across these notes in my notebook, I think it is spread around as noise? something Adriana said: How to jump into a different timeline? Time time as a characteristic of a body What do we need to remember from the past? a body having multiple times I draw JUDGEMENT. retrocausal quantum theory On the card we see people rising from their coffins, arms held I am reshaping my past with the energy of up to the sky where an angel is playing a trumpet. There is the future something both morbid and joyful about this card, I always find it difficult to place. The card of Judgement speaks of “listening Reoccuring dream: I am stuck in a building, and I to the call”. A moment of transformation is announcing itself; know something terrible is going to happen. There the futures we are working towards can already be heard from are other people here, and I am wondering if they are afar. Relating this card to the question “What to remember from the terrible thing that will happen. It is uncertain if they the past?” makes me wonder whether the calls we are hearing are also trapped, or if they are trying to kill me. I try to are those of the future or of the past? If time is not linear, if remain unsuspicious. I smile, I make small talk, I do when we tell stories we are simultaneously recalling the past, my best to seem unsuspecting of the fact that we are living the story in the present, and making predictions about the in deep, deep trouble. I start to sweat, I need to get future, then Judgement might be telling us to listen closely to the out. I wander off, in search of an exit. I start running songs of transformation, change, rebuilding, death and rebirth through the hallways of the building. I open doors, I that have already been sung in the past. Maybe those songs of crawl through windows, I hide in a closet when I hear death and rebirth are not memories, but predictions. Not fiction, someone arriving. But I cannot find an exit. And then but visions. I feel them, the keys in my pocket. And I know that if I turn the key, the door will suddenly open to the outside Re-membering, bringing all the lost members back and I will be saved from this ominous, invisible threat. together. I am sitting under a tree and all my limbs I take the keys in my hand, but I notice that I can no come flying back to me in the form of black crows. longer see clearly. The keys are a blur, my eyes keep For a moment, the figure under the tree is a black, falling shut, keep failing me. I hold the keys so close vibrating blob. I am being put together again. From to my eyes they almost poke them. I still can’t see. memories that are mine and not mine, the molecules I can’t see and therefore I cannot figure of animals, mountains, plants, oceans. They all out which key fits. I can’t see and I can’t find each other again. Chattering away in my body, figure out how to get the keys to fit the telling stories. Re-membering themselves into a new lock. I can feel the danger, but I can’t constellation. I get up and walk through the forest. see the way out yet. I hold the keys in Still pulsing with the black-green glow of feathers. between my fingers as a weapon, like I would walking home alone at night. I What can we learn from the future? start running through the building, eyes I draw KNIGHT OF WANDS. closed, keys charged in front of me. A knight on a staggering horse is holding a wand in their stretched arm. In the background we can see a desert, and pyramids. What do we mix into the now? Wands are generally understood to be a symbol of fire and long-I draw KING OF CUPS. term projects. The fire that keeps us going, that keeps us thinking A king is sitting on a stone throne, holding about the future. The knight is considered an adolescent figure. a cup in one hand and his scepter in the There is a wildness to the knight, there is fearlessness to the other. The heavy throne is floating on a knight, there is also naivety to the knight. We can see that the stormy sea. The cups are considered the knight is wearing a cloak with fire-salamanders. The salamander suit of emotions, creativity and intuition, – being a creature that lives both on land and in water – often they hold the element of water. The king signifies transformation. But the salamander here is not yet is typically seen as the master of the biting its own tail – the transformation has not yet come full suit, representing the suit in terms of circle. If wands represent fire, projects and action, then the knight social responsibility, accomplishments of wands represents the action of action. Maybe what the future and maturity. They have managed to master the powers of creation, and orient them to social goals. How do we jump into a different timeline? But the wild sea underneath the throne reminds us that water I draw THE TOWER. always flows, and cannot be contained. Too much suppression An image of two people falling from a tower. A crown sits atop of dreams and creativity can lead to aggression or resentment. the tower and is struck by lightning. The background is black. The king of cups is a hopeful sign of both accomplishment and A cataclysm, or revelation and liberation coming as a sudden focus, but warns us to stay in touch with our intuition, and allow lightning bolt. To jump into a different timeline is to experience our creativity to flow in unexpected directions in order to navigate the world as completely different from one moment to the next. The the now. tower also tells us that this kind of sudden change is inevitable, no matter how strong the towers of our psyche and ego are. To Reoccuring dream: I need to get someone to the jump into another timeline is to remember these sudden moments hospital quick, but I don’t have a driver’s license. We where our view of the world and time has been destabilised. To step into the car, and somehow I have learned how revisit these experiences in order to recognize when we encounter to drive. The car floats over the roads, the wheels them again. don’t even touch the ground. We lift up and fly over the landscape. I see trees and fields, the sunset, but Excerpts from our talks in my notebook: no hospital in sight. I realize I am flying, and all of a Today we tell each other stories sudden we are catapulted, both flying and falling The dream: The space itself is changing towards an unknown destination. We never land. you return but never in the same place What do we spread around as noise or as creation? I draw THE MOON. Time We see a dog and a coyote howling at the moon. Behind them a time as a characteristic of a body lobster emerges from the water. Two towers in the distance create a body having multiple times a frame through which we see the face of the moon, its troubled retrocausal quantum theory expression looking downwards. The moon points towards visions, I am reshaping my past with the energy of the myths and images. But these are the images seen in the shadows future of the night. The myths that have been distorted and manipulated, speaking to our collective fears, anxieties and demons. But we are already traveling in time. We are deferring The moon shows us our nightmares. They are very real, and inform the destination, not the travel. our actions. We have to face these nightmares, invite the demons Now close your eyes – breathe out – see, feel and for a tea, in order to transform. know how time is moving in your body. Where does it move? In what directions does it move? Inviting your demon for tea: Close your eyes and take a couple of deep, conscious breaths. Imagine yourself in a protective circle of light, hold this image of you inside the circle as strongly as you can. Now set the table in front of you, and call your demons’ name. They will appear seated in front of you at the other side of the table. Observe what they look like. Now ask your demons what they are doing, what they want from you, and what they want you to learn from them. Listen carefully to their answers. Now thank them for their knowledge and tell them to go away. Now change position, go sit where the demons used to sit, and call out to see your protectors. See them appear across the table from you. What do they look like? Ask them what they want you to learn from them. Now ask them how you can find them again. Xenobitmancy, or how to have an encounter with quantum np.put(arr, range(len(arr)+num,len(arr)), queerness. We learn from the writings of James Wootten and his default) machinations within the quantum realm. elif num > 0: In [1]: np.put(arr, range(num), default) from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, Aer, execute, IBMQ return arr from qiskit.visualization import plot_histogram, plot_ def populate_array_counts(counts, shots = 4096, num = 4, bloch_vector offset = 0, log = False): from math import pi a = np.zeros((1, 2**num)) import os, random #print(a) import pickle as pickle if log: import numpy as np a += np.log(1/10) import matplotlib.pyplot as plt #print(a) from matplotlib import cm for state in counts.keys(): import scipy.ndimage i = int(state, 2) from qiskit.providers.aer.noise import NoiseModel if log: a[0, i] = np.log(counts[state]/shots) Link up with the distant machines and feel for their profiles. If else: you are unable to make this link, read below for the path you a[0, i] = counts[state]/shots must follow. max_a = np.max(np.abs(a)) In [2]: #print(max_a) provider = IBMQ.load_account() a = a/max_a backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_16_melbourne') if (offset != 0): coupling_map = backend.configuration().coupling_map a = shift2(a, offset) return np.abs(a) Through the connection, make a copy of their profiles for your def plot_array(array_counts, own use. num = 4, In [3]: smooth = False, # Generate an Aer noise model for device cmap_name = 'gray', noise_model = NoiseModel.from_backend(backend) save = False, basis_gates = noise_model.basis_gates dpi = 300, stem = "xenobitmancy", Arrange the qubits simply, at first, with no logical ordering. folder = "graphics"): In [4]: grid_size = int(np.sqrt(2**num)) def initialize_qubit_circuit(num = 6): b = array_counts.reshape((grid_size, grid_size)) qc = QuantumCircuit(num, num) if smooth: b = scipy.ndimage.zoom(b, 6) # Randomly set qubit to be 0 or 1 fig, ax = plt.subplots() for n in range(num): fig.set_size_inches(8,8) if (random.randint(0, 1) == 1): cs = ax.contourf(b, 25,vmin=0,vmax=1,cmap=cm.get_ qc.x(n) cmap(cmap_name)) if (random.randint(0, 1) == 0): plt.axis('off') qc.h(n) if save: return qc if smooth: num = 8 if folder is not None: qc = initialize_qubit_circuit(num = num) plt.savefig(os.path.join(folder, "{}_{}_smoothed. qc.draw(output='mpl') png".format(stem, cmap_name)), dpi = dpi) else: Arrange a means of divining the results. if folder is not None: In [5]: plt.savefig(os.path.join(folder, "{}_{}.png". meas = QuantumCircuit(num, num) format(stem, cmap_name)), dpi = dpi) for j in range(num): else: meas.measure(j,j) plt.savefig("{}_{}.png".format(stem, cmap_name), #mqc = qc + meas dpi = dpi) #mqc.draw(output = 'mpl') plt.show() def entangle_qc(qc, steps = 5, rate = pi/16., max_factor Cast the spell! = 6): In [6]: num_qbits = qc.num_qubits backend = Aer.get_backend('qasm_simulator') for qbit in range(num_qbits): shots = 1024 if (steps > 2): counts_normal = execute(qc + random_steps = random.randint(steps - 2, steps) meas,backend,shots=shots).result().get_counts() else: counts_noise = execute(qc + meas, backend, shots = print("No steps, returning qc unchanged") shots, return qc coupling_map=coupling_map, for step in range(random_steps): noise_model=noise_model, axis = random.randint(0, 2) basis_gates=basis_gates).result().get_counts() if (axis == 0): qc.rx(random.randint(1, max_factor) * random. Collect the executable words. choice([-1, 1]) * rate, qc.qregs[0][qbit]) In [7]: elif (axis == 1): # Taken from choice([-1, 1]) * rate, qc.qregs[0][qbit]) # use np.roll and np.put by IronManMark20 elif (axis == 2): def shift2(arr, num, default = 0): qc.rz(random.randint(1, max_factor) * random. arr=np.roll(arr,num) choice([-1, 1]) * rate, qc.qregs[0][qbit]) if num<0: # random cnot if (random.random() > 0.5): 'bwr_r', random_qbit = random.randint(0, num_qbits - 1) # 'cividis', 'cividis_r', while(random_qbit == qbit): # 'cool', 'cool_r', 'coolwarm', 'coolwarm_r', 'copper', random_qbit = random.randint(0, num_qbits - 1) 'copper_r', 'cubehelix', 'cubehelix_r', 'flag', 'flag_r', qc.qregs[0][qbit] # 'gist_earth', 'gist_earth_r', 'gist_gray', 'gist_ qc.qregs[0][random_qbit] gray_r', 'gist_heat', 'gist_heat_r', 'gist_ncar', 'gist_ qc.cx(qc.qregs[0][qbit], qc.qregs[0][random_ ncar_r', qbit]) # 'gist_rainbow', 'gist_rainbow_r', 'gist_stern', return qc 'gist_stern_r', 'gist_yarg', 'gist_yarg_r', 'gnuplot', def save_qc(orig_qc, entangled_qc, noise_model, basis_ 'gnuplot2', gates, run, stem = "xenobitmancy_8xenobits", qcs_dir = # 'gnuplot2_r', 'gnuplot_r', 'gray', 'gray_r', 'hot', "qcs"): 'hot_r', 'hsv', 'hsv_r', 'inferno', 'inferno_r', 'jet', qcs = [orig_qc, entangled_qc] 'jet_r', if qcs_dir is not None: # 'magma', 'magma_r', 'nipy_spectral', 'nipy_spectral_r', with open(os.path.join(qcs_dir, "{}_{:03d}. 'ocean', 'ocean_r', 'pink', 'pink_r', 'plasma', pickle".format(stem, run)), "wb") as f: 'plasma_r', pickle.dump(qcs, f) # 'prism', 'prism_r', 'rainbow', 'rainbow_r', 'seismic', else: 'seismic_r', 'spring', 'spring_r', 'summer', 'summer_r', with open("{}_{:03d}.pickle".format(stem, run), # 'tab10', 'tab10_r', 'tab20', 'tab20_r', 'tab20b', "wb") as f: 'tab20b_r', 'tab20c', 'tab20c_r', 'terrain', 'terrain_r', pickle.dump(qcs, f) # 'twilight', 'twilight_r', 'twilight_shifted', 'twilight_ shifted_r', 'viridis', 'viridis_r', 'winter', 'winter_r' View the simple conjuring. #%mkdir -p graphics In [8]: plot_array(diff_normalized, num, a = populate_array_counts(counts_noise, num = num, log = cmap_name="gray", True) smooth = False, plot_array(a, num) save = True, stem = "xenobitmancy_8xenobits_{:03d}".format(run)) Entangle the simple one beyond our comprehension. In [9]: How to link up with the machine? Take the secret code you entangled_qc = entangle_qc(qc, steps = 32, rate = pi/24) received from the algorithm. Save them close to you. Do this only (entangled_qc + meas).draw(output='mpl') once, and only if you feel a need to link with the ones who claim to have all the power. Cast this entangled spell! In [ ]: In [10]: from qiskit import IBMQ entangled_counts_normal = execute(entangled_qc + IBMQ.save_account('') meas,backend,shots=shots).result().get_counts() entangled_counts_noise = execute(entangled_qc + meas, Tallying how the sticks fall backend, shots = shots, In [ ]: plot_histogram(counts_normal) coupling_map=coupling_map, In [ ]: plot_histogram(counts_noise) noise_model=noise_model, In [ ]: plot_histogram(entangled_counts_normal) basis_gates=basis_gates).result().get_counts() In [ ]: plot_histogram(entangled_counts_noise) Ensure that we can refer to this spell again, if it is deemed interesting. In [11]: run = 35 #%mkdir -p qcs save_qc(qc, entangled_qc, noise_model, basis_gates, run, stem = "xenobitmancy_8xenobits") Prepare things for viewing. In [12]: entangled_a_noise = populate_array_counts(entangled_counts_ noise, num = num, offset = 9) entangled_a_normal = populate_array_counts(entangled_ counts_normal, num = num, offset = 9) Examine the nooks and cranies for that which does not want to be felt. In [13]: diff = np.abs(entangled_a_noise - entangled_a_normal) diff_normalized = diff/np.max(diff) Show us! In [14]: plot_array(entangled_a_normal, num, cmap_name="gray") In [15]: plot_array(entangled_a_noise, num) In [16]: # 'afmhot', 'afmhot_r', 'autumn', 'autumn_r', 'binary', 'binary_r', 'bone', 'bone_r', 'brg', 'brg_r', 'bwr', Aerosolnauts Travelling Time: Aerosol Wormholes [PotujoCi Cas: aerosolne Crvine] Izdal in založil: Zavod za kulturo, umetnost in izobraževanje Kersnikova | Zanj: Issued and published by: Zavod za kulturo, umetnost in izobraževanje Kersnikova | Klemen Kristan | Avtorice besedil in avtorskega slikovnega gradiva: Aerosolnauts Represented by: Klemen Kristan | Authors of the texts and visual materials: (Leslie García, Adriana S. Knouf, Špela Petric, Ingrid Vranken in Agnieszka Anna Aerosolnauts (Leslie García, Adriana S. Knouf, Špela Petric, Ingrid Vranken, and Wołodzko) | Prevod naslova: Potujoci cas: aerosolne crvine | Urednici: Živa Brglez, Agnieszka Anna Wołodzko) | Translated title: Potujoci cas: aerosolne crvine | Špela Petric | Oblikovanje: Miha Turšic | Lektura: Miha Šuštar | Elektronska izdaja. Editors: Živa Brglez, Špela Petric | Design: Miha Turšic | Proofreading: Miha Šuštar | Publikacija je brezplacna. | Izid publikacije so omogocili: Evropska komisija – | Electronic edition. | This publication is free of charge. | This publication was Ustvarjalna Evropa, Ministrstvo za javno upravo Republike Slovenije, Ministrstvo made possible by the European Commission – Creative Europe, the Ministry of za kulturo Republike Slovenije in Mestna obcina Ljubljana – Oddelek za kulturo. Public Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, and the Municipality of Ljubljana – Department of Culture. ISBN 978-961-95386-1-6 (PDF) ISBN 978-961-95386-1-6 (PDF) Ljubljana, junij 2021 Ljubljana, June 2021 Publikacija je rezultat delavnic in javnih predstavitev delovne skupine Aerosolnauts, ki so se izvajale v okviru spletnih aktivnosti Braiding Friction This publication is a result of workshops and public presentations carried out by med aprilom in julijem 2020. Braiding Friction so v marcu 2020 kot odziv na the e-working group Aerosolnauts between April and July 2020 in the framework pandemijo COVID-19 vzpostavili partnerji konzorcija Biofriction, raziskovalnega of Braiding Friction online activities. Braiding Friction was established in March projekta Ustvarjalne Evrope, ki se osredotoca na ustvarjanje in podporo prostorom 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic by the partners of Biofriction, a za transdisciplinarne izmenjave in eksperimentalne predloge. 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