(in pursuit of) HIERARCHIES OF TETHERING [a planned December pitstop for assessing attempts to ride at least 3 systems of ladders and/or other iterations of lattices)

Coming Soon
more details about this scheduled pitstop
(as the tethers blossom)

The (systems of) ladders that you will ride will be of (at least) two generalized forms, existing (to some degree) and (systems of) laddders that you construct.

Part of a purpose for these systems of ladders is to generate and operate methods of (attempts) to hold something together (such as investigations of poam systems) for some period (or periods) of time. The methods of tethering (a form also of stitching) may be (very generalized forms) coherent, incoherent, (shifting) composites.

Validity will be established via a companion vehicle to the pursuit of HIERARCHIES OF TETHERING: articulations of your rationale(s) (that shape, provide context and focus for the ride(s), journey(s).

The riding of (at least 3) systems of ladders may be parallel, curved, skewed, warped, looping, multi-dimensional, linear, folded, bent, stable, unstable —select from the gamut of possibilities (shaped by consequences of the initial gestures you make).

The 3 rides will include (you must provide, according to some rationale, the shape[s] and structure[s]) attempts to board and navigate investigative ladder systems that embrace these very generalized categories:

FORMAL
INFORMAL (sub-category [an example]: experimental)
INNOVATIVE (sub-category [an example]: experimental)

**Note that the personal is not necessarily excluded from any of these categories. Nor should it be assumed that the categories themselves do not/cannot overlap, interact (in any of the possible [you define and articulate the rationale you —attempt to— use in determining what is/isn't possible] ways that interactions do/have/will/can/used to occur.**

The hierarchies themselves establish a (or multiple) logic(s) as the journey unfolds.
They provide means of monitoring and generating reasons/ways/consequences of the order of the events in the interactions and intersections with the ladders.

—Interactions and intersections within the structures of poam system(s).
Interactions and intersections that occur as you interact with elements of poam system(s)—

The ladders function (also, perhaps, in some cases, primarily) as (forms of) scaffolding.

Ladders are Poams and systems of poams.
When/where/how/why are you boarding the ladders that are being boarded?

**The poam(s) considered for the documentation of the hierachies should provide means for you to ride a range of hierachical vehicles. Some of the documentation derives from the hierachy of how the poam is experienced (according to parameters of entry and exploration that you determine, that you examine —you are encouraged to think about systems of rules and systems of [resulting] meanings. By what is your thinking dominated? Etc.).**

Think of the (systems) of each poam as a system of ladders.
Ladders within ladders.
Each element of the poam as a (system) of ladder.

Vocabularies of the FORMAL, INFORMAL, and INNOVATIVE hierarchical vehicles will be provided (some in fulfillment of general requirements of English 240 classes), but do take care to pursue how (and why) authority of validity and ranking of hierarchies are established, challenged, threatened, maintained, abandoned, changed, misunderstood (in various contexts). You are invited to extend any of these vocabularies with your own terms (feel free to create them) that help establish/convey/identify/clarify the rationale(s) of your rides.

Please enjoy the rides!
Or: Please enjoy the pimping of vehicles of Ladder systems

(Do any of you watch Pimp My Ride? (in which the reconfiguration of cars is also form of poam (products of acts of making.

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The HIERARCHIES are also maps.
To ride is to map (something)

(possibly including dead ends —do perform autopsies).

Comments

[pchut]

I find the idea of a poem as a ladder very interesting. When I first think of a ladder, I think of a very rigid object; something that will take you from point A to point B (usually point B being at some greater height) in a straight line. But your idea of a ladder differs greatly. It seems like you use it more as a means for transportation from thing to thing. But you do not necessarily need to go from thing to thing in a straight line. (These things could be ideas, sentences, words, etc.) I like this idea because it allows for more opportunities to use the ladder. It becomes more applicable to almost anything.