In her recent essay The Infinite Sales Bay of the Universe , Amy Ireland laid out a theory of habit and novelty. I used these in my last post, Maximum Sales Bay of Exception as well. A "habit" is a backwards-looking organization of past events, and is then used to "extrapolate those events into the future." Habit is a projection of the past into the future and "organizes reality in every instant." The inverse of a habit, according to Ireland, is "novelty." Novelty is unforeseeable, unimaginable, and is "sometimes catastrophically unpredictable." The truly novel, or creative, is often impersonalized, seen as a force which a person can only hope to fleetingly channel. Freed from the chains of anthromorphism, radical novelty is a force Ireland succinctly describes as "arriving from the future." Alongside novelty, Ireland lays out a trope in science fiction she dubs "The Zone." A Zone is a realm of pure novel...
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