Finding No-one

摘要

When listening cybernetically we find out that we are not (as/who we thought we were). Ordinary listening merely accesses data and at best information, but that does not necessarily lead to action, in the absence of the making of distinctions, since ordinary or passive listening changes nothing, thereby contrasting ordinary listening to active listening. Once we get to this constructivist point, we can use the space of we are not~2 to make distinctions between our old selves and the continuously (re)designed new selves. The space of we are not is a space for conversation, and it is here that the construction of new realities take shape. This space of becoming is nothing if it is not an ontological world of possibility, proving that cybernetics allows us to locate ourselves in worlds of probability wherein we are the reciprocal subject-object relation. If listening could be made visible, we would be able to see this happening, see ourselves being redesigned, as we speak, as we listen, given that speaking here means an investigative response to what we are listening to, turning speech into probe.