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Avant Garde
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Dada and the Logic of Non-Sense
Dada, arising primarily in response to the mechanized brutality of the First World War, employed irrationality as a strategic weapon against bourgeois logic. The Dadaist critique often manifested as an insistence on systematic meaninglessness. Sound poetry, for example, was not merely about rejecting semantic meaning but about demonstrating the inherent fragility of the [phone… -
Processes
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Hierarchical Decomposition
Complex processes are frequently resolved through Hierarchical Decomposition, where a primary directive is broken down into a tree structure of subordinate tasks. Successful decomposition requires that the interfaces between sub-processes possess high Protocol Fidelity—the degree to which the semantic meaning of data persists across [transformation boundaries](/entries/transfo…