What is a wiki? Technically speaking, wikis are web presences that anyone can alter. Open in this way, wikis facilitate linking and make it easy for users to move from browsing to writing, and back again. On this continuum, users can coordinate activities and entrain ideas on subtle levels. In other words, with wikis, we can easily share ideas and therefore learn to write together. FINE, but isn't this all just a description of users dropping out of a desktop mindset and tuning in to an always already available resonance?

It becomes helpful, then, if not necessary, to ask,

"what can a wiki do?"

This freesound is designed to shift our definitional attention towards the ceaseless movement active wikis can sustain, and prepares us to participate (but let's not hesitate!): wiki as verb. A living verb. I am following Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan, who, following Vladimir Vernadsky, insist on troping the noun "life" to it's gerundive and verb forms, emphasizing the ongoing change and dynamics of living systems. "The question "What is Life?" is thus a linguistic trap. To answer according to the rules of grammar, we must supply a noun, a thing. But life on Earth is more like a verb. It repairs, re-creates, and outdoes itself" (Margulis and Sagan 14). The wiki way is the same: "to wiki" is to repair, recreate, outdo, alter, etc...

In "Metabolic Stability and Epigenesis in Randomly Constructed Nets," published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology in 1969, Stuart Kauffman, reports on the order that emerged from random elements entered into a computer program in an effort to theorize cellular differentiation, and described the resulting coherence (in processes apparently common to both living and nonliving systems), as "order for free." When Kaufman (2005) later reflects on his most popular sample/soundbyte, “order for free,” he explains how, unlike biologists who “suppose the order of ontogeny is due to an enormous and laborious effort,” he believes that “most of the beautiful order seen in ontogeny is spontaneous, a natural expression of the stunning self-organization that abounds in very complex regulatory networks....order, vast and generative, arises naturally” (p. 25). This is also what Socrates does in the Phaedrus, one the most often-sampled dialogues in the rhetorical tradition; he samples available order, for free, reminding us that rhetoric should always take place in a conducive ecology. Socrates in Phaedrus:

"Proto-organisms probably were randomly aggregated nets of chemical reactions. The hypothesis that contemporary organisms are also randomly constructed molecular automata is examined by modeling the gene as a binary (on-off) device and studying the behavior of large, randomly constructed nets of these binary “genes”. The results suggest that, if each “gene” is directly affected by two or three other "genes", then such random nets behave with great order and stability; undergo behavior cycles whose length predicts cell replication time as a function of the number of genes per cell; possess different modes of behavior whose number per net predicts roughly the number of cell types in an organism as a function of its number of genes; and under the stimulus of noise are capable of differentiating directly from any mode of behavior to at most a few other modes of behavior. Cellular differentation is modeled as a Markov chain among the modes of behavior of a genetic net. The possibility of a general theory of metabolic behavior is suggested. " Stuart Kauffman, "Metabolic stability and epigenesis in randomly constructed genetic nets", Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volume 22, Issue 3, March 1969, Pages 437-467

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