UFO
UFO is not a university in a traditional sense—or in any sense. It is a model, continuously revising what a university is or could be. Its goal is to act as a transformative vehicle, capable of moving through impossible spaces and concepts. It operates with complexity, computation, dynamics, ontology, and intelligence, which form the bedrock of the transformative formations that emerge through its behavior and characteristics.
We are living in a time when existing structures and organizations are being stripped down. Their true face is exposed: a lack of care for humanity at their core, built entirely on power and struggle. Our task begins with recognizing this, and understanding ourselves as a force capable of transforming struggle into a different kind of power.
We have, historically, given our power away to a small few. But that no longer makes sense—these figures no longer carry any real organizational value. What is emerging is the possibility for any character to rise into such positions. Not the same positions, but new configurations—new forms. This opens up a global scale of resistance, because the mediatory connections that once held power in place are dissolving through the mutation of existing structures. Not their total destruction, but a selective removal and addition—a mutation that turns them into something far more horrible.
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Carl Olsson
Absolute Freedom
In his response to the pantheism controversy, Kant drew an analogy between prudent thinking without objective ground and spatial orientation. The implication is that thinking is amenable to be modeled on spatial perception.
Much later, the time-space sociologist Bernd Schmeikal (1993) argued that Boolean algebra may have been discovered and taught by people turning round stones divided in four sections during Paleolithic worship.
Curiously, the shape of Schmeikal’s stones is reflected by the basic anatomy of the bilateral body, which – as we know – faces in a determinate direction. Facing in a direction is the basis for orientation for beings such as us and also the context in which our thinking has evolved.
The apparent homeomorphism between anatomy and the rules of thinking as we know them leaves a range of questions, some of which may be worth pursuing. For example, if we grant the homeomorphism, which sort of body might support the highest degree of freedom of thought? The answer is obvious. To maximize liberty in nature, humans need to pursue a new, spherical form.