Sociology

The plausible positing and repeated empirical corroboration of hypotheses explaining collections of facts regarding persistent interaction among agents or the behavior of agents that share an infrastructure they are embedded in; the mathematical modeling of relationships among factors involved in such persistent interaction, shared infrastructure or coordinated action among agents; and the statistical analysis of observed patterns within interactions between agents, in the impacts of shared infrastructure upon agents, and the outcomes of strategies or tactics of coordination among agents.

The Torture Rack

Cracking, stretching and snapping, sinews become joined by annihilation, pouring crimson rivers and tears over the wood. The body torn, having been pulled in maximum tension–facilitated by the binding of the extremities to the two ends of the rack. This torture is one that has existed before and after its material invention and medieval practice, as in my experience it serves as imagery for the bifurcation of the social body into a symbolic binary.