hyperreal Hyperreal number >From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The hyperreal numbers or nonstandard reals (usually denoted as *R) are an extension of the real numbers R that adds infinitely large as well as infinitesimal numbers to R. The study of these numbers, their functions and properties is called nonstandard analysis which some find more intuitive than standard real analysis. When Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz introduced differentials, they used infinitesimals and these were still regarded as useful by Leonhard Euler and Augustin Louis Cauchy. Nonetheless these concepts were from the beginning seen as suspect, notably by Bishop Berkeley, and when in the 1800s calculus was put on a firm footing through the development of the epsilon-delta definition of a limit by Augustin Louis Cauchy, Karl Weierstrass and others, they were largely abandoned . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number hyperreal = HYPERREAL ENCODING We use the term 'hyperreal' to refer to video techniques that encode a heightened awareness of reality as it is mediated by television. Actually, hyperreal encoding attempts to connote a sense of unmediated reality, but always via a coding system that is mediated. Technique overwhelms substance as a semiotic system. The semiotics of technique dominate the reading of advertising texts which seek to convey a heightened sense of realism. Seamless technicolor realism, so popular from the 1950s through the 1970s, backgrounded technique and disguised the camera's presence. This is what Jean Baudrillard (1983, p.1) had in mind when he used the term "hyperrealism" - a world where reality is represented as more perfect than real. Baudrillard refers to the hyperreal as "The generation by models of a real without origin or reality," such that one can no longer tell the difference between what is real and what is a representation of the real . . . http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/hyperreal03.html hyperreal = Don't give in you got to keep going Move it up right top to the very tip top And when you get there You won't want to quit climbing Ascending Rising Harmonising Fantasising Healing Feeling Hyperreal only way to go Lets do it.... "Hyperreal," The Shamen, 1990 http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/01/80/97/e7_1_b.JPG hyperreal www.hyperreal.org Originally a Sun box at UC Berkeley where Brian Behlendorf was a student and sysadmin and started the sfraves mailing list in 1991. Later moved to other hardware at Stanford and then to a colo Somewhere in Silicon Valley where it lives on today hosting numerous mailing lists, FAQs, DJ sets and other resources. And 313 of course, which is approaching its 10th anniversary. http://music.hyperreal.org/lists/313/ fred ---------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 20:00:21 -0400 (EDT) From: MORGAN GEIST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: George bio? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. Perhaps this should have been a personal mailing, but too late. How about a bio about this George 313-list originator? I'd be interested. George, no prying meant. We don't have to get into background if you don't want. But starting a list seems indicative of a real dedication to the "scene"....whassup? Hope 313 thrives... So what's the take on MATRIX Records, people? And does anyone know if ART OF DANCE is doing anything? -morgan geist Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 23:45:37 -35900 From: "George M. Smiley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: George bio To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi. Perhaps this should have been a personal mailing, but too late. >How about a bio about this George 313-list originator? I'd be interested. > >George, no prying meant. We don't have to get into background if you don't >want. But starting a list seems indicative of a real dedication to the >"scene"....whassup? Hope 313 thrives... Nah, starting the list was meant solely as an effort to help get me through the period between Submerge mailings. As for the bio, that will have to wait for the WWW page. Was that answer evasive enough? - George
