Preliminary notes on the Societies of the Vector and the Vidual
David M. Berry "Each line is broken and subject to changes in direction, bifurcating and forked, and subject to drifting ( derivations) ." (Deleuze 1992b). The Draughtsman of the Lute by Albrecht Dürer (1525) The vector medium produces a form of power I propose to call "gradience". This is a form of power that operates by probabilistic computation, which I have elsewhere called vector computation. In this regime of power the operative function is the incline , the residue left by gradient descent once training has ended, along which thought slopes towards the dense fields of vector space (see Chatonsky and Citton [2026] for a discussion of the "distension" of memory and quaternary retentions as retentions of retentions). I suggest a new form of subjectivity that will emerge through this mediation which I call the "vidual". [1] Foucault (2020) identified the individual subjectivised through the operation of discourses in and around instituti...
