Things and not-things

I've been thinking about a kind of pathway that I’m going to describe as outside —> inside. The focus here being on what may be a shape or flow or directionality. Somehow, what I want to pinpoint with this framing is the exact feeling I get when I read “2 > 1.” The movement that takes place from the 2 to the 1. (The greater than sign functions as a kind of arrow?) Whatever this is, it feels like a particular category for me right now, a mode that I've taken up--bringing something from the outside in. But it also occurred to me that this is how I understand stacks , which is a term Rachel Yanku put into my mind when we had this little exchange about her work. This is where we started: (One of us had never thought about stacks before. The other: living a life immersed in stack thoughts.) Rachel then defined stack for me: I liked that stacking was a way to see, while also being a way to act on something you were seeing. This is where I relate it to this outside/inside thi...