3 | Do you want a hug?
3-way conversation between Brother Nut 坚果兄弟, UBERMORGEN and The Third Sister
亲爱的兄弟，
你还想再要一个拥抱吗？
过去几周是冷热交替的日子：失去、迷失、失败感交织——用来重启我的大脑与神经系统，以便承受疯狂、混乱、恐怖、美以及这个世界能提供的一切可想与不可想之物。天很冷。冷到结冰，零下，我们都戴着巴拉克拉瓦头套，穿着重型靴子与厚夹克。为在弯道上活下来所需的那些破玩意……俄罗斯的油气被“其他”油气部分替代，我拧开暖气，狭小公寓立刻变热。方便。奢侈。看似容易。
2026—27：计划。利用混沌。计划越不落地，意外越会到来。更用力地计划。但如何在一个你无法处理、不知其规则、且时时受威胁的世界中航行？系统、机构与结构都可能致命。冬天里没有鸟。并非如此。乌鸦在雪地的乡野与城景中成了美学性的固定装置。东欧。聪明的有机黑影注视、处理，并随时“行动”。
你的乌鸦与我们的概率在同一条沟渠相遇：在取样瓶触及水面的地方。以数学来运行。量化论（Quantism）是我们的世界观。现实最好被理解为一系列概率、期望值与数学分布。
在 UBERMORGEN 的实践中，我们把计算当作“材料”，把“思考”视为新的艺术材料——就像颜料或像素——把先锋艺术从静态物件推进到动态的系统建造、基础设施与制度领域。采用概率视角，我们把激进的不确定性转化为美学性的“信念雕塑”，让每件作品都成为临时的、可修订的模型，而非最终声明。共识性幻觉的方法使我们得以在启发式生存与数量化优化之间张力中行走，用数学这枚可靠罗盘去承担典型机构所回避的高风险。对我们而言，量化论不是数学 COSPLAY，而是实地技艺。
机构惧怕非零风险。我们接受它，并把它计价进去。
如果这个冬天你们村子里有一件“信念雕塑”，它每小时会测量什么？
是的，我承认，我还不想死，不想枯萎，不想逃跑……但我还想要一个拥抱！
Luzius
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Dear Brother
Do you want another hug?
The last weeks were hot-and-cold weeks of loss, lostness, loserness, a way to reboot my brain and nervous system to withstand the madness, chaos, horror, beauty and all the imaginable & unimaginable things our world has to offer. It is cold. Ice cold, minus degrees and we are all running around in Balaclavas and heavy-duty boots and jackets. Shit you need to survive on a curve... The Russian Oil and Gas has been partially replaced with ‘other’ Oil and Gas and I can turn on the heater and it’s hot in my tiny apartment. Convenient. Luxury. Seemingly easy.
2026-27: The Plan. Use the chaos. The less plans manifest, the more the unexpected arrives. Plan harder. But how to navigate a world you can’t process, don’t know the rules, and are constantly under threat? Systems, institutions and structures have the potential to be deadly. No birds in Winter. Not true. The crows are an aesthetic fixture of the snowy land- and cityscapes. Eastern Europe. Intelligent organic black shadows watching, processing and going into ‘action’.
Your crows and our probabilities meet at the same ditch: where a sample bottle touches water. Working with math to operate. Quantism is our worldview. Reality is best understood as a series of probabilities, expected values, and mathematical distributions.
In UBERMORGEN’s practice, we treat calculations as ‘materials’, we consider ’thinking’ as new artistic material—just like paint or pixels—to move avant-garde art beyond static objects and into the realm of dynamic system-building, infrastructure and institutions. By adopting a probabilistic lens, we transform radical uncertainty into aesthetic ‘Belief Sculptures,’ where every artwork is a provisional, revisable model rather than a final statement.
Consensual hallucination approaches allow us to navigate tensions between heuristic survival & quantitative optimization, using math as a reliable compass to take high-stakes risks that typical institutions avoid. Quantism for us is not math cosplay. It is fieldcraft.
Institutions fear non-zero risk. We accept it and price it in.
If you had a ‘belief sculpture’ in your village this winter, what would it measure every hour?
Yes, I admit, I don’t want to die or wither or run away yet… but I want another hug!
Luzius