Nicholas Komodore: Amphoteric Poiesis - Left Curve

Amphoteric Poiesis (selections)
Published in Left Curve no. 37 (2013)
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Nicholas Komodore
The word Amphoteric comes from the Greek word Amphoteros, which means “both”. The
theory of Amphoteric Poiesis rejects the authoritarian-Aristotelian “final result” or/and the
articulation of a simple-sole-binary effect. Amphoteric Poiesis is an amalgamation of
Polydiabinaries (dynamic attributes) and Dialinguistic Geometries (substrata) that collaborate,
functioning as a transitional force (poems as engines): from—political/philosophical/
architectural—Ex/Capitalism (idealization of contradiction-private) to Exo/Demodome
(Public: the main centrifugal/centripetal force). The creative process in this new category of
multifarious formation is vital. Every poem is shaped according to what I call Trojan Horse
Dialectics (embedded/grafted dialogical syllogisms/ascriptions), Metadomesis (evolving
structure) and (E)TH(E)OLOGY (poems as ethical/maieutical tholoi/topoi). Every
Amphoteric Poem is a pulsating “tiny eternity”, amphoterically imploding/exploding into
knowledge and the overall construct a “dialogical evolving equation” that promotes/proposes
an Architecture of Negative Entropy (storage/formation of structure towards progress). In
the next decades I plan to compose thousands of Amphoteric Poems that will include (both in
form and content) musical compositions, photography, films, text and building (or/and urban
planning) designs, thus creating a manifold 4 dimensional space with the purpose of constructing
a new lexicon/universe of poetics, architecture and philosophy, an open laboratory
of ideas that can be implemented in political, philosophical, scientific, pedagogical, poetic discourse
and praxis.
Not a Hyperbole
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e-Fugue
Circuit
In between
Insurrectionary Plateau and the Staircase Effect (on Perpetual Praxis)
ETHOMATICS
Nicholas Komodore is an experimental writer, poet, filmmaker and activist living in Oakland, CA.
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