Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:22:52 -0400
From: Aetherometry Info <info-AT-aetherometry.com>
Subject: Introduction to Aetherometry Vols.1 & 2


Dear Friends and Colleagues,


AKRONOS Publishing is pleased to announce that the much awaited text, 
"Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry Vols.1 & 2" by P. and A. Correa,
is now available on its website:

     http://www.aetherometry.com
     
This text forms a comprehensive overview, both scientific and philosophical, 
to the monographs in Experimental Aetherometry which have been published
on the AKRONOS website during the last two months. It comprises the following
sections, each of which forms a separate HTML document:

  1. The basic problems in Reich's theory of the ORAC anomalies, and the 
      trajectory of the aetherometric solutions 

  2. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 1

  3. Overview of Experimental Aetherometry Vol. 2

  4. The Specter of Wilhelm Reich

  5. Why speak of an Aether?

  6. On 'wishful thinking' at the merger of BioPhysics and Philosophy.
  

"So if we slide in our discourse from one register to the other, from Science 
to Philosophy or vice versa, this should, if anything, be seen as the sign of 
the power of aetherometric thought - that it can cut easily from one level to
the next to pick out the effective elements at play in a field - on whatever 
level they are playing. For everything that happens in reality does not just 
happen on one register. Registers are superimposed on one another: 
political, economic, social, sexual, psychological, scientific, technogical 
factors and structures coexist in the same Space and Time, in the same 
flux of energy and in the same durations of lives or in the same lives. So, 
in fact, to be able to connect in this way a minor scientific discourse, 
let's say to a philosophy that did not wish to be nihilistic or merely 
limited to deconstruction - as the philosophical discourses of Nietzsche 
or Deleuze, for example, aspired to - obliges one to effectively confront 
the political, the economic, the sexual, ethical, etc, issues associated 
with scientific research, just as there are scientific aspects associated 
with those other factors themselves when they are expressed, let us say, 
on a level that is even with the social structures they have been assigned 
to. It is precisely in this sense that there is a science that serves the 
State because it is a subject of the politics of that State, including its 
military politics. Likewise, there are political factors and consequences 
and micropowers associated with a unitarian science that employs 
microfunctionalism indistinctly as a philosophical, analytical or scientific 
and synthetic tool. 

The deeper reason why one inevitably has to straddle both discourses 
- philosophical and scientific - comes from the fact that the basic steps 
that lead to Aetherometry imply at once some closeness to, and some 
distance from, both Philosophy and Science. It is not possible for us to 
raise the argument of the energetic nature of Space and Time without 
learning from Nietzsche's notion that Space and Time themselves need 
to be explained as a "play of force", "the game that the aeon plays with 
itself." This was his own language employed at the advent of the concept 
of energy. And likewise, it is not possible for us to argue with Einstein 
without first reading the criticisms that Bergson and Deleuze addressed 
to him. It is not possible to relate Space and Time as distinct 
multiplicities, at once quantitative and qualitative, without taking 
account of Deleuze's criticisms; but also, likewise, without taking an 
immense distance from Deleuze's position, or analyzing it in order to 
demonstrate the errors and mistakes that prevent us from a new theory 
of manifolds. 

So, effectively, Aetherometry only carries the load it needs to carry - 
because Aetherometry is not Deleuze's theory, it is not neo-Deleuzeanism, 
any more than it is a Reichian theory, or a neo-Reichian theory or an 
'orgonomic school of thinking', any more than it is a Nietzschean current, 
any more than it makes the apology of anyone else. Aetherometry is about 
science. And science uses names with respect to effects that are actual or 
'material'. And if Science today has ceased doing this, it is because its 
real creativity and discovery are virtually dead. Aetherometry is, in a sense, 
the continuation of the scientific project now virtually abandoned by a 
science that is subordinate to mass-marketing of technologies and the 
policies of mass-control."


                           From "Introduction to Experimental Aetherometry"






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