Steve Byers Jennifer Kydd

WRAPPING PROCESS, Cyclic LOOP, MARATONDA ... ABSTRACT

'What is a Caucus-race?' Said Alice, not that she wanted much to know, But The Dodo paused as if it HAD That thought somebody ought to speak, and no one else Seemed inclined to say anything. 'Why,' Said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.' (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter-day. I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, ('the exact shape doesn't matter,' it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no 'One, two, three and away!', but they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out 'The race is over!', and they all crowed round it, panting, and asking 'But who has won?'

"Che cos'è un Carosello elettorale [una Maratonda , nei]? "Said Alice, not that he cared a lot to know, but the Dodo had paused as if dropped someone were to take the floor, but no one had dreamed of doing. 'Well, "said the Dodo," the most democratic way to explain it is to do it. "(And in case you want you also to experience a winter's day, now I will tell you as organized the Dodo.) First trace the track, a kind of circle ("circle or square that is just a track," he said) and then all the party were placed along the circuit in any order. There was no "One two three go!", but each would withdraw at will, so was not so easy to determine whether had cut a goal. However, after everyone had been running half an hour they were all beautiful and dry, the Dodo said curtly: "Finish the race!" and all gathered around, panting, and asked: "Who won?"

Universal Classics Economica Feltrinelli, Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland", trans. com. Aldo Busi

addition to the cycles shown in Maratonda of Alice, Carroll's book makes you think on another question: will Alice

country of nanomeraviglie

" In his novel Alice in Wonderland , Lewis Carroll's Alice imagine the amazement of the little that after drinking a strange concoction, is reduced to the size of a mouse, opens up the world so that everything is a discovery : the keyhole of a lock is no longer just the place to insert a key, but becomes a passage between two rooms, and a glass of water upside down it stops being something to hide from the mother to become a dangerous storm. A wonderful world, even before meeting cats and mad hatters villains: for Alice, a mere change of scale changes the perception of reality into something new. "

Dario Narducci, "What is nanotechnology, the instructions for use the next scientific revolution" Sironi Editore

The jump (real, imagined or projected) is the engine of discovery, Jencks identifies as a generator as well as the universe: a complex system that evolves in jumps (see Charles Jencks, The Architecture of the Jumping Universe )......