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Pocket 7: Unknown unknowns

Zero is the largest number, holding potential for all that is unknown. Draw your own zero.

Zéro est le plus grand des nombres, porteur de tout ce qui est inconnu. Dessine ton propre zéro.

Our calculations failed.

“Not only is life as we know it a tiny share of the universe, but it is also close to unthinkable that it exists.” (Ania Molenda)

U.S. Army, Ester Gertston and Gloria Gordon Bolotsky reprogramming ENIAC (1946), Public domain from the archives of the ARL Technical Library

Nous cherchons “l’accès à un univers énigmatique, dont on ne possède pas toutes les clés” (Golnaz Behrouznia Golnaz Behrouznia, Dramaturgy of Biospheric Cycles (2024). )

Golnaz Behrouznia, Dramaturgy of Biospheric Cycles (2024), Dessin technique mixte. Copyright and courtesy of the artist.

Tongue-tied, we turn to one another

“I seek the nature, subject, words of the other story, the untold one, the life story.” (Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986). )

Reading material

Ursula K Le Guin, The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986).

Golnaz Behrouznia, Dramaturgy of Biospheric Cycles (2024).

Lakkaraju, H., Kamar, E., Caruana, R. and Horvitz, E., 2017, February. “Identifying unknown unknowns in the open world: Representations and policies for guided exploration.” In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 31, No. 1).

Powers of Ten (1977), directed by Charles and Ray Eames.