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(C) 2015 Margit Busch. Photo: Solmaz Farhang

Transciency

A new discipline

Transciency is a term that does not exist in Oxford dictionaries or Wikipedia. It is, as you might have guessed,  a combination of the word trans and the word science. As trans means across, beyond, through – transciency is a discipline dealing with something that is across, beyond, through science. It draws and builds upon knowledge from any science, tacit knowledge / experience and practical skill. It is a vast and eclectic field and attempts to reflect upon phenomena from various perspectives.
 
It has three simple rules that govern all study and research:
  • Always act as beginner
  • No, you can't make people (and yourself) to do perfect work, unless they want to
  • You can learn something from almost anything / anybody
Those rules serve as a starting point, there might be exceptions and diversification.
 
So far there are three materialisations of transciency:
  • The transmanual
  • The transmap
  • The transchamber / or translab, if you prefer
 
The TRANSMANUAL (img 1) describes briefly the meaning of the term transciency and elucidates the three major rules.
The TRANSMAP (img 2) does not fully capture the terrain but gives a rough orientation on the field of transciency. As time, space, matter and energy are fundamentals in principle of every discipline, those are the main directions of the compass rose (img 3) on the transmap. The areas on the map are representatives for issues like will / motivation, sensation, varying perspectives, subjectivity and lunacy, disciplines, reflection and decisions, encounters, translation, misunderstanding, transmission, transformation and transition, time and timelessness, uncertainty and unpredictability, relativity and coincidence.
The TRANSCHAMBER is a kind of laboratory where experiments are conducted and instruments and machines are invented – according to the areas depicted on the map.
One example of the invented machines is the  ''now-machine''. In this ''machine'' the word  jetzt (now) appears in a water droplet (img 4) and disappears with the drop falling. Ideally the drop intervall are three seconds – three seconds are commonly declared as the time span which humans perceive as the present.
 
 

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January 27, 2015