01 Again, from Jennifer Gabrys, “Atmospheres of Communication”:
"The space that wireless communications seems to cancel from view -- the ether, air, or atmosphere -- then emerges here as a necessary area of investigation. This hazy, electric, and intermediary space is, by many accounts, the medium that enables us to communicate in the first place” (52).
02 And, in speaking of clouds in relation to the ever pervasive Cloud, Gabrys states:
“Clouds appear to be at once material and immaterial, emerging through a simultaneous process of formation and dissolution. They are visible only to become invisible, spectres of transformation. Airborne and ephemeral, they also graze structures and deposit residue. Clouds layer onto other architectures, moving through and transforming these seemingly impermeable forms” (56)
03 The infamous case of Schrödinger’s Cat; Or, distinctions in what is meant by “blurry”:
“A cat is penned up in a steel chamber, along with the following diabolical device (which must be secured against direct interference by the car): in a Geiger counter there is a tiny bit of radioactive substance, so small, that perhaps in the course of one hour one of the atoms decays, but also, with equal probability, perhaps none; if it happens, the counter tube discharges and through a relay releases a hammer which shatters a small flask of hydrocyanic acid. If one has left this entire system to itself for an hour, one would say that the cat still lives if meanwhile no atom has decayed. The first atomic decay would have poisoned it. The ψ-function of the entire system would express this by having in it the living and the dead cat (pardon the expression) mixed or smeared out in equal parts.
“It is typical of these cases that an indeterminacy originally restricted to the atomic domain becomes transformed into macroscopic indeterminacy, which can then be resolved by direct observation. That prevents us from so naively accepting as valid a “blurred model” for representing reality. In itself it would not embody anything unclear or contradictory. There is a difference between a shaky or out-of-focus photograph and a snapshot of clouds and fog banks.” ~~ Erwin Schrödinger, “The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanic,” 1935, quoted in Barad (2007), 277.
04 RFID tags, objects & information
“No simple line can be drawn between things and signals as the miniature radios of billions of RFID tags are being implanted or attached to everything that moves -- including people, products, documents, and even ants. Objects simultaneously appear in front of us and within an array of databased. There is an unprecedented blurring of object and information, as if every object lives only to broadcast itself.” ~~ Mark Wigley, Buckminter Fuller Inc.: Architecture in the Age of Radio (Zurich: Lars Muller Publishers, 2015), 15.
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