Our Mission
The Lambent Institute is the foremost research organisation in the field of applied transkleionics. We are committed to the investigation of the practical opportunities and possibilities offered by alternatives to standard kleionic pathways, and the means, methodologies and strategies for their successful navigation.
A Brief Introduction to Kleionics & Transkleionics
Named after Kleio, the Greek muse of history, Kleionics is the study of cultural temporality. It is the construction of linear temporal narratives (referred to as kleionic pathways) through the past, present and future.
Kleionics is limited by the need for these pathways to be narrative, and heavily structured. Kleionics takes as its core tenant that cause precedes effect and that given one, then the other can be rationally derived. As such kleionic pathways tend to be linearly constructed in time, or at least conform to an internal temporal linearity. Disciplines such as futurology, histography, critical theory, archaeology, geneology etc, can all be said to fall under the umbrella of kleionics.
Pioneered by Nöys Harlan, transkleionics is the meta-study of these disciplines, looking at how they together form kleionic narratives. It rejects the notion of linear history in favour of a view of time in which the past, present and future exist co-temporally, alongside and embedded within each other. Under these conditions cause and effect no longer hold a stable or predictable relationship, and the supposition that they do is taken as the prioritisation of a single kleionic narrative pathway over and above the possible multitude.
Unlike kleionics, transkleionics is not beholden to narrative structure or temporal linearity, and the structures produced are less akin to pathways than webways. Transkleionics concerns itself with the mapping of the space created by these webs and the development of techniques and strategies for the successful nonlinear navigation of pasts, presents and futures.
For a more in-depth look at the discipline of kleionics Nöys Harlan’s original 1984 paper is available upon request.