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Key Ideas
- Formless as an operation, not a category → It’s not a look or style, but an action that declassifies and destabilizes form.
- Against hierarchy and order → Challenges traditional binaries (high/low, figure/ground, structure/chaos).
- Base materialism → Emphasizes the raw, the abject, the bodily—pulling art down from idealized form into material reality.
- Horizontal thinking → Rejects vertical hierarchies in favor of flattening distinctions and collapsing systems.
- Entropy and degradation → Focus on processes of breakdown, decay, and transformation rather than permanence or purity.
Why It Matters
- It provides a lens for embracing mess, breakdown, and instability as generative forces in design and systems thinking.
- It aligns with your instinct toward deconstructing rigid structures (traditional websites, linear publishing) in favor of more fluid systems.
- It supports building JPL as a space where order and disorder coexist, allowing meaning to emerge through interaction rather than strict hierarchy.