#transversality

Marcel Berger on Mikhail Gromov, 2000

part 1, 2

In a period of time in which everyone was very unhappy, an event sprang forth which, without being able to know precisely why, changed the atmosphere. An unexpected process led to the secretion of different universe of reference; one sees things otherwise. Not only does the subjectivity change, but equally the field of possibility change, the life projects. For example, a cook, originally from the Ivory Coast, decided to return there. However, he had no means to establish himself again in his village. He worked at La Borde for a number of years and was much loved. A group formed to help him, which transformed itself into an association in accord with the law of 1901: La Borde Ivoire. They collected twenty thousand francs to assist him in his move. Later a doctor and a nurse went to visit him. Then, in turn, a kind of village came to visit La Border for three months. Now there is a group of six patients who are going there for three weeks of vacation. Here we have a process of institutional singularization. Is this psycho-therapy? Good works? Militancy? In each case the local subjectivity was profoundly modified, especially its latent racism.

Transmission

The emancipation of a line of difference; Movement thinking itself; Becoming-imperceptible;…

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Transversality by definition is a mathematical term to reference how spaces interact. In the context of this week's lecture and readings, transversality can be understood as a way to examine how journalism has changed from its traditional form and is merging into another space: the digital/online platform. When looking at the 'framing' of the changing state of journalism as an issue, the most common debates surrounding this change both academically, professionally and socially most commonly involve loss of jobs, loss of revenue, citizen journalism, a loss of tradition, or more broadly, the general 'decline' or 'death' of journalism.

However, if we were to step outside the framing of this issue and think transversally about the 'death' of journalism, we would ask ourselves what is the actual situation with the merging of traditional journalism to digital and networked media?

Well, the short answer is journalism isn't dying, just changing. Yes traditional job roles for graduate journalists are scarce. For hopefuls like myself, the dream of having a story published on the front page of a broadsheet newspaper, printed on paper with real ink, is probably a dream best hung up to dry. Or, as soon to be graduates we could pull our heads out of the sand and embrace the new and improved state of journalism. Essentially I would say the role nor importance of quality journalism has not been lost, but rather enhanced with the potential of new media technologies. Today we can read about a news event *and* watch the actual accompanying footage of that event. Also, unlike the traditional broadsheet newspaper which advocated for a mass audience, aside from the unlikely event that your 'letter to the editor' would be published, online journalism has created a more transparent society as we can comment on published stories and be involved in debates with other readers.

Transversality is a complex notion to understand. In todays blog I will try and develop my understanding of this notion through transversality within mathematics.  According to Wikipedia, “in mathematics, transversality is a notion that describes how spaces can intersect transversality can be seen as the opposite of tangency.  Furthermore my opinion to transversality significantly relates to the notion of archives, where everything is intrinsically linked via the online world.

For example a bookstore such as the book depository, which has plenty of archives in its system linking it to millions of books. This can be seem when you search an author such a Stephanie Laurens and a list of her books will be listed, however underneath it a list of recommended books will appear within the same genre. Thus intriguing your interest to look at the recommended books or search that genre you are interested in.  Furthermore this gives us a basic example of how the archive system works, thus it can be connected to transversality. Where it is defined by considering the linearization of the intersecting spaces at the points of intersection. 

Subsequently according to Ross Atkinson, “transversality simply as the capacity to look or move across something (Atkinson 2005 p. 180).  Furthermore this term is used for many different purposes in a range of disciplines such as the library as mentioned above. Needless to say transversality a complex word to say and write is also a quite complex to understand, thus my understanding although may be incorrect significantly reminds me of the notion of archives. Where anything and everything is and will continue to be archives, from books, to music to clothes.  

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversality

http://courseweb.lis.illinois.edu/~katewill/spring2012-502/atkinson_2005_TransversalityFairWitness.pdf