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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Images of the World, Inscriptions of the War
Thank you Farocki for so gracefully blowing my mind.
It’s a bot-vs-bot world out there
Apparently the sounds I’ve been listening to lately can be described as Gregorian disco.
Hangjun Lee
Without a Doubt
NYT Magazine 10.17.04 - Ron Suskind
"In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend - but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."
What initially struck me to accompany this video excerpt, is a line from A Cyborg Manifesto by Haraway.
Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.
Pride
Pride is the chief sin because it makes possible the others. In the primal state of man he was entirely obedient to God, and therefore perfect; it is through obedience to Him that man can be good, because goodness comes from God, as all things do.
Man cut off from God is like a river cut off from its tributary. Evil is simply the privation of good, and it is for this reason that evil cannot be said to come from God; an evil man is a man who has lost part of himself, and being neither complete nor annihilated, is deformed.
Since man has free will, he had power to choose to perceive the existence of distinct entities, and of good and evil, or rather to eat of the tree of knowledge. After perceiving himself as distinct from God, he perceived his obedience and submission to him, and was able to choose to be independent, and to worship himself rather than God. Because man contains nothing in himself, this decision cut man off from the source of his virtue, and so became wicked.
The Future of Writing was a design project commisioned by Microsoft Research Cambridge from the Royal College of Art in London.
“In this project we explore new ways design can make technology-supported writing and authorship more meaningful and relevant to our lives, both now, and in the future, by thinking not only about new applications but implications as well.
The aim is to inspire, stimulate discussion, and provoke debate in order to help achieve a technological future that reflects the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be.”
Japan’s national anthem contains only 11 bars
11 BARS
Gooooogle
Two things:
1) the growth of information accessibility and increased connectivity
2) And simultaneously, the decline of education
Umiliani
“Design of the Year 2015, Organs-On-Chips”
A microchip embedded with hollow microfluidic tubes that are lined with human cells gets named Design of the Year. Human innovation moving closer and closer to the symbiosis of technology and biology. Crazy.
These chips get manufactured the same way companies like Intel make the brains of a computer. But instead of moving electrons through silicon, these chips push minute quantities of chemicals past cells from lungs, intestines, livers, kidneys and hearts.
The Art of Dissent
Stranger Visions, 2015
Using assorted materials collected in public places, Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg extracts the DNA remnants of strangers to reconstruct the physical appearance of strangers. In doing so, she interrogates desires of genetic determinism and biological coding.
On similar note, 23andme is a DNA service that sends you personalized reports of your genetic information including health and ancestry. All you provide is a saliva sample in order to unlock a vast amount of information regarding your genetic traits, conditions, and inherited risks. While all genetic data is promised secure protection from third parties (such as insurance or data-mining companies), access to genetic data opens up a new realm of privacy concerns for our future.
I am not a robot. I’m a unicorn
What is God to you?
computative conversations in a world we are no longer a part of
Logic and Lawn Tennis
A Passage from The Thing by G.K. Chesterton 1929
They mean by growth an increase of the tangle; whereas we mean by thought a disentangling of the tangle. Even a short and simple length of straight and untangled wire is worth more to us than whole forests of mere entanglement. That there are more topics talked about, or more terms used, or more people using them, or more books and other authorities cited-- all this is nothing to us if people misuse the terms, misunderstand the topics, invoke the authorities at random and without the use of reason; and finally bring out a false result.
A peasant who merely says, "I have five pigs; if I kill one I shall have four pigs," is thinking in an extremely simple and elementary way; but he is thinking as clearly and correctly as Aristotle or Euclid. But suppose he reads or half-reads newspapers and books of popular science. Suppose he starts to call one pig the Land and another pig Capital and a third pig Exports, and finally brings out the result that the more pigs he kills the more he possesses; or that every sow that litters decreases the number of pigs in the world. He has learnt economic terminology, merely as a means of becoming entangled in economic fallacy. It is a fallacy he could never have fallen into while he was grounded in the divine dogma that Pigs is Pigs.
Now for that sort of intellectual instruction and advancement we have no use at all; and in that sense only it is true that we prefer the ignorant peasant to the instructed pedant. But that is not because we think ignorance better than instruction or barbarism better than culture. It is merely that we think a short length of the untangled logical chain is better than an interminable length of it that is interminably tangled. It is merely that we prefer a man to do a sum of simple addition right than a sum in long division wrong.
Now what we observe about the whole current culture of journalism and general discussion is that people do not know how to begin to think. Not only is their thinking at third and fourth hand, but it always starts about three-quarters of the way through the process. Men do not know where their own thoughts come from. They do not know what their own words imply. They come in at the end of every controversy and know nothing of where it began or what it is all about. They are constantly assuming certain absolutes, which, if correctly defined, would strike even themselves as being not absolutes but absurdities. To think thus is to be in a tangle; to go on thinking is to be in more and more of a tangle. And at the back of all there is always something understood; which is really something misunderstood.