Mission — a linear tiling of a nonlinear plateau

The third plateau of A Thousand Plateaus, "10,000 B.C.: The Geology of Morals (Who Does the Earth Think It Is?)", is a lecture by a fictional professor who is himself double, and it switches register without warning: Conan Doyle pastiche, geology textbook, Hjelmslev's glossematics, a puppet theatre of nineteenth-century anatomists, molecular biology, medieval Scholasticism, Leroi-Gourhan's palaeoanthropology, Foucault, and finally Lovecraft. The argument is sprawling because the object is sprawling: a theory of stratification that must hold for rocks, organisms, and languages at once.

This kasten tiles that chapter. The spine walks the plateau at paragraph resolution, grouping contiguous paragraphs into passages that share a context. Onto each passage it tiles the concepts being built there and the references being drawn on, using the plateau's own endnotes ({{ref:src-atp-geology-of-morals|ATP endnotes}}), Adkins's guide ({{ref:src-adkins-geology-of-morals|Adkins ch. 3}}), and Somers-Hall's commentary ({{ref:src-somers-hall-geology-of-morals|Somers-Hall ch. 3}}). Reading the spine front to back gives a linear path through a text that has none; reading a context note gives one voice of the text isolated; reading a concept note gives one term followed across every passage that turns it.

What this kasten is not: it is not a summary to be read instead of the plateau, and it reproduces none of the sources. Every passage note points into the text by page and paragraph. The speculation layer (syn-, claim-) is deliberately empty; filling it is the reading.

Related: - {{ref:atp-geology-of-morals|The Geology of Morals}} - {{ref:conventions|Conventions}} - {{ref:src-atp-geology-of-morals|The plateau}} - {{ref:syn-what-the-geology-is-for|syn-what-the-geology-is-for}} (yours to write)