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Process - a film by Kahlil Joseph (excerpt)

See also: “The Black Excellence of Kahlil Joseph” in The New Yorker

One thing I think I learned from Wittgenstein is the following: The target of one’s philosophical criticism should be a form of philosophical temptation that one is able to get going in oneself. I have taken this maxim to heart in my own philosophical work. I try to take as central targets of criticism in my work only forms of philosophical confusion which I can make alive for myself, which can truly move me and perplex me ... Often the moments that I have most been concerned to focus in on in my own writing therefore are precisely the sorts of moment in philosophizing when I’ve found that I am moved to insist upon something, to lay down a requirement, and where, if I really think through what it is that is pushing me to insist in this way, I find, in the end, that it is empty. But at the time it grips me, it does not seem empty: indeed, it strikes me as deep, as having an aura of profundity and necessity. But when I try to think it through, it falls apart on me. Often there is a truth in it, but not one that one can get into focus either by affirming or denying what I initially wanted to insist upon. Much of my work therefore is about thinking things through to the point where they fall apart, while trying to excavate and salvage the underlying insight that pushes one in such cases initially to insist in this way.

James Ferguson Conant, Wittgenstein Initiative interview

#Wittgenstein #James Conant

Jacolby Satterwhite, Healing in My House (2016)

#jacolby satterwhite #healing in my house

“Could Virtual Reality Become 'The Evilest Invention Of All Time'?,“ On Point with Tom Ashbrook, WBUR (November 29, 2017)

See also: Interview with Jaron Lanier on The Takeaway, WNYC (November 21, 2017).

(Image: Michael Probst/AP)

#on point wbur #on point with tom ashbrook #virtual reality #jaron lanier

Mound (2011) by Allison Schulnik

#allison schulnik #mound #stop motion #animation

“Microfluidic Large-Scale Integration,” Science Magazine Vol. 298 (October 18, 2002)

The Supreme Court Tackles Digital Privacy

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The Daily for Monday, November 27, 2017: “We also look at how a string of armed robberies in Michigan and Ohio has led to what could be the most important case on electronic privacy to go before the Supreme Court. Guests: Maggie Haberman, White House correspondent; Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court.”

(Image: Slate)

#the daily #the daily nyt #stingray

#vox #film history #shirley card

“A Mathematical Theory of Communication” by C. E. Shannon, published in The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 27 (October 1948).

(Image: “RUIS / Information and Noise” by Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman, 1989)

#claude shannon #information theory #bell labs #information and noise #neil gaiman #ruis

Trust (2015), Bronze 56k

#bronze 56k #palace #peter sidlauskas

“Our Aesthetic Categories: An Interview with Sianne Ngai,” Cabinet Magazine, Issue 43 (Fall 2011)

“You could say that zaniness is essentially the experience of an agent confronted by—even endangered by—too many things coming at her quickly and at once. Think here of Frogger, Kaboom!, or Pressure Cooker, early Atari 2600 video games in which avatars have to dodge oncoming cars, catch falling bombs, and meet incoming hamburger orders at increasing speeds. Or virtually any Thomas Pynchon novel, bombarding protagonist and reader with hundreds of informational bits which may or may not add up to a conspiracy.“

#Frogger #Sianne Ngai #Cabinet Magazine #Atari #aesthetics

The plan is expected to be approved in a commission vote on December 14.

#net neutrality #ajit pai #FCC

twohundredfiftysixcolors (2013) by Eric Fleischauer and Jason Lazarus, 97:00, silent

“Crafted from over 3,000 animated GIFs, twohundredfiftysixcolors is an expansive and revealing portrait of what has become a zeitgeist medium. Once used primarily as an Internet page signpost, the file type has evolved into a nimble and ubiquitous tool for pop-cultural memes, self-expression, and artistic gestures. The film is a curated archive that functions as a historical document charting the GIF's evolution, its connections to early cinema, and its contemporary cultural and aesthetic possibilities.”

See also: “A brief history of the GIF (so far)” (2014), “The Animated GIF: Still Looping After All These Years” (2013), “All the Feels: The Morphology of the Reaction GIF” (2015), “Brief Thoughts on the Art of the Animated GIF” (2016).

#twohundredfiftysixcolors #jason lazarus #eric fleischauer #gif movie #gif history #gifs #new media

“Checking Your Flower” by Tom Chitty for The New Yorker (November 20, 2017)

#checking your flower #tom chitty #new yorker cartoon

Electronic vs. Digital

In a court of law, electronically stored information (ESI) is defined broadly, referring to any “information created, manipulated, communicated, stored, and best utilized in digital form, requiring the use of computer hardware and software” (Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 2006). In the everyday world, while the two often overlap, not every piece of digital information is rendered as an electronic document (they may be, e.g., metadata on an electronic file), nor could we go “completely” digital.

Electronic data (document): “Electronic data is typically in the form of documentation that is static. It is a file - whether workable or not. The majority of distributed documentation should be in a non modifiable format, such as a .pdf file, either scanned with signatures, or rendered from the modifiable format. The files are electronically tangible, you can see them, work with them, update them.“

Digital data: “Electronic data is typically in the form of documentation that is static. It is a file - whether workable or not. The majority of distributed documentation should be in a non modifiable format, such as a .pdf file, either scanned with signatures, or rendered from the modifiable format. The files are electronically tangible, you can see them, work with them, update them.“ (E.g., an Excel file)

I admittedly haven’t spent enough time yet thinking about this distinction, but this is how I understand it for now.

#electronic vs digital #definitions

Contenders for an essay film, pt. 1

そのとき (moments) by Amanda Belantara (2011)

November by Hito Steyerl (2004)*

Organism by Hilary Harris (1975)

Letter to Jane by Jean-Luc Godard (1972)

Argument by Anthony McCall and Andrew Tyndall (1978)

Notes on Blue by Moyra Davey (2015)

Alter Bahnhof Video Walk by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller (2012)

Junkopia by Chris Marker, Frank Simeone and John Chapman (1981)

(See also: “In Search of the Centaur: The Essay-Film” by Phillip Lopate)

#essay film #ubu

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