Skip to main content
eScholarship
Open Access Publications from the University of California

UC San Diego

UC San Diego Electronic Theses and Dissertations bannerUC San Diego

teenage kicks

Abstract

TEENAGE KICKS is a multimodal project that describes certain problems that lie within the margins of human thought, time, material, and rocks. It focuses primarily on the decay function that is established when these components converge around a specific set of actions. The actions are nodes in constant flux, the time is expandable but not compressible, the material is molecularly fixed, and the thought behaves as a generator governor does when it begins to fail. The rock, of course, is inert. The oscillation itself starts oscillating and eventually a new superfrequency arises – removed by at least three orders of magnitude from the baseline 60 Hertz – that describes how we produce and destroy material whose half-life outstrips any of our physical terrestrial limits.

This document is meant to provide a discrete foundation for some of the processes and manipulations mentioned in the introduction, which lays out the scope and physical intent of the project. The subsequent sections are versioned outputs of the work as a whole, and follow a structure that includes interpretations of the production process, generative analyses and critiques of the fields that this work engages (advanced fabrication and technologically-driven thought, high empiricism and laboratory conditions, nonlinear patterns of logic), and raw data output from the various machinic instruments that were used to produce this work. These sections are either primary or auxiliary components of the project, depending on which reference frame they are viewed from: that of the machine, of the generator, of the observer, or of the rock.

Main Content
For improved accessibility of PDF content, download the file to your device.
Current View