Congo genocide
More, apologies, http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/congojournal/ - Alan
Martha Stewart on fur
http://www.furisdead.com/feat-martha.asp This video is difficult to watch, be warned; at least listen. - Alan For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
birth of code unease
birth of code unease there is no birth of code, perhaps it is our universe. any representation is already embedded in another. perhaps you can't have representations without symmetrical substructures. with 2nd-level code that's certainly true. but a painting is another matter altogether. in a painting (this is a painting of code), the eye does what the eye will (what one wills) (what is emergent (out of (in relation to)) chaos). what i will <-> thinking a posteriori, the periphery. i would have willed this if it would have been willed. perhaps these sentences are phrases, unpunctured, opened the world is all that is the easement one can always try to force heidegger, i.e. retreat to alterity why is there something rather than nothing <-> not always already your words, not even the ghosts of words, not even your own (the) question(s) dissolve(/s) in the wind of presence in this sense (inverse), why/cause = god appeal to meaning, transcendence, and human culture falls to its knees in any case, my pleasure, your presence http://www.asondheim.org/birthofcode.jpg in any case, your presence, my pleasure
Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight (fwd)
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 22:45:37 -0500 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight Feingold Beats Bush In Patriot Act Fight John Nichols http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=43115 Posted 12/16/2005 @ 3:19pm Four years ago, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold distinguished himself as the Senate's premier defender of the Constitution, when he cast the chamber's sole vote against enactment of the Patriot Act. As a time when every other senator -- even liberal Democrats with long records of championing the Bill of Rights -- joined the post-September 11 rush to curtail basic liberties, Feingold stood alone in defense of the principle that it was possible to combat terrorism and protect the rights of Americans. But Feingold no longer stands alone. On Friday, he led a bipartisan group of senators that successfully blocked the administration's concerted effort to renew the Patriot Act in a form that maintains its most abusive components. A move by Republican leaders of the Senate to prevent Feingold from mounting a filibuster fell seven votes short of the number needed. A remarkable 47 senators -- including Democrats and Republicans -- backed the Wisconsin Democrat's stance. That's far more than the 40 needed to prevent a filibuster, and it means that Feingold now heads a coalition that should be able to force significant changes in the Patriot Act before the December 31 deadline for its renewal. The Senate coalition that the maverick senator has assembled is made up of members from across the political spectrum -- from Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy, the dean of Senate liberals, to Idaho Republican Larry Craig, one of the chamber's most right- wing members -- who have joined Feingold in calling for reform of the Patriot Act. This coalition did not just form overnight. It is the result of four years of hard work by Feingold and others who recognized that the fight to fix the Patriot Act would have to be a long-term struggle. Some members of Congress were swayed by Feingold's constant pressure on Patriot Act issues, and by the fact that the senator was easily reelected in 2004 after a campaign in which he highlighted his opposition to the measure and his concern for the Constitution. Others were influenced by the diligent efforts of U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, and his allies in organizations of librarians and independent booksellers, who campaigned for three years to alert Americans to the fact that the Patriot Act allowed federal agents to collect information on the reading habits of law-abiding citizens. Others, still, were convinced by the success that the Bill of Rights Defense Committee had in getting seven states and close to 400 communities across the country to go on record expressing concern about the damage done by the Patriot Act to Constitutional protections against illegal searches and other abuses. So popular did the movement to fix the legislation become that this week, with the December 31 deadline for reauthorizing the Patriot Act looming, the Bush administration and its Congressional allies were forced to use a backdoor maneuver to thwart reforms that had been unanimously agreed to by the Senate. A conference committee report that was supposed to reconcile the Senate and House versions of the reauthorization measure instead was turned into a vehicle to maintain the most controversial and unpopular components of the Act. The White House and its Congressional allies thought they could secure reauthorization of the act in a form that allowed the Justice Department and other federal agencies to continue running roughshod over the Bill of Rights by bringing the measure up on the eve of the Holiday recess and then spinning up the usual hyperventilated talk about how it is necessary to crush the Constitution in order to keep the American people safe. The maneuver worked in the House, where the report was approved Wednesday by a 251-174 vote. (The administration won that vote only because 44 Democrats, including Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Maryland, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair Rahm Emanuel and Ben Cardin, a candidate for Maryland's open Senate seat in 2006 -- voted with the vast majority of House Republicans for a measure that the American Civil Liberties Union condemned as lacking "needed safeguards to protect the privacy and constitutional freedoms of innocent Americans.") But, even as the House fell in line with the administration's scheme, Feingold refused to back down. He met the White House onslaught with a promise to do everything in his power to block reauthorization of the act in a form that does not sufficiently address concerns about federal agencies entering the homes of citizens of innocent Americans, reviewing library and medical records as part of "fishing expeditions" and secretly subpoenaing informatio
Re: What is Code?
http://www.Pro/~mise betcha getcha sumwhere On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, david divizio wrote: if yer doin whatchyer wanner yure gonner see it... Pro~mise d^vP __ Find your next car at http://autos.yahoo.ca For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
Re: What is Code?
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Re: What is Code?
I'm aware of qualia. I'm not sure this has any application at all on the level of the lifeworld or neural functioning. I tend to agree w/Edelman; even Penrose would have a different take. But I'm not going to keep going on about this - as I wrote you backchannel, we're worlds apart on this and there's not much space for discussion. And lumping all the analytic phils. together doesn't do justice to their viewpoints or changes, as W's PI's problematics of representation. I also pointed out that Edelman addressed this question directly at SLSA - from the viewpoint of deep neurophys. - and said that the mind is _not_ turing-computable, _not_ encodable, etc., and then gave at least for me sufficient reason. Classic AI takes a diff. viewpoint and so does classic anal. phil, but these are outmoded by decades in terms of neurophys. and phys. for that matter. Interesting that below JS has no refs. to neurophys. at all - apparently you can 'know' how consciousness works w/ out look at the mind. - Alan On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, phanero wrote: The Field of Qualia Jack Sarfatti August 26, 1996 How are our thoughts -- our consciousness -- translated into action?" I actually have a detailed theory of this based upon an extension of Bohm's 1952 quantum pilot-wave/classical material hidden variable theory. Note, the more modern term for "hidden-variable" is John Bell's term "beable". The inner quantum information density field I(x,t), whose range is in quantum Hilbert space H and whose domain is in classical configuration space C , is, quite literally, the "field of thought patterns" that make up the implicate order. These patterns of I(x,t) exert a quantum force Fq = - Grad Q Q = -(1/2)[ (GradI)^2 + (Grad)^2I] on the brain material beable B moving in C. That's how thought is translated into action. The field of thought-patterns or qualia I(x,t), together with external environmental classical forces Fe create basins of attraction for the flow of the brain system point B in C. Qualia are encoded in these attractors. When B occupies a given attractor basin the corresponding thought-pattern is felt i.e., experienced. This attractor structure in C is the quantum version of the fractal strange attractors of classical chaos theory which leaves out the thought-field force from I(x,t). In the classical limit only Fe creates the attractor structure in C. The pattern of classical Fe forces represent the Darwinian natural selection pressures of the environment. To complete this model of a complex conscious adaptive system, we need a mechanism for self-organization. Without self-organization there is no conscious intent, no purposeful explicate behavior, and no "felt" implicate conscious experience. I have shown how implicate thought becomes explicate action. We now have to show how the brain-beable B in C literally and directly changes its thought-field I(x,t) whose range is quantum Hilbert space H. This is the back-action b mechanism by which the structure of H is modified by the actual path taken by B in C. But, that path of B in C is determined by both the implicate Fq = - Grad Q and the explicate Darwinian Fe. Therefore, Fq,Fe, from I(x,t) to B, together with back-action b from B to I(x,t) is a self-organizing cybernetic feedback-control creative strange loop that creates the conscious experience and allows the I-B system to make freely-willed choices which are the results of classically nonalgorithmic quantum computations. Now I can prove rigorously, that only when such a strange loop of Godel self-reference is operating, is there an experience of one actual world. This is a Bohmian ontological model that derives Wigner's and von-Neumann's epistemological idea that "consciousness collapses the wave function". The strange loop means that the mind (I)-brain (B) complex adaptive system is continually measuring itself. Only then, is there the inner "felt" experience of "qualia". This is the quantum dynamo generating our streams of consciousness. "the wave function is linear or passive in that it requires an outside agent to select events ." That is exactly what back-action is -- it is the "outside agent", except it is really inside. It is the generator of consciousness. To be more precise. The usual picture of quantum measurement has a measuring apparatus M and the system being measured N. They are not the same system. That leads to the measurement problem which you discuss pretty well in its different aspects. Now Bohm thought he had solved this measurement problem and up until recently I thought he was correct. But now, in dialogue with Henry Stapp, I see a non-fatal, but serious, flaw in Bohm's argument. Bohm is able to correctly show why it is that fringes disappear in the double slit experiment if a measurement of "which slit 1 or 2?" the particle P passes is made even though the particle wave packets and overlap on the screen. Where x is the position on the screen. This is because of the EPR correlation |M,N)
Re: What is Code?
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, phanero wrote: When did code ever 'order the world'? Not even the Dewey Decimal System does that. I'll have to differ on this.. the words themselves are the stumbling blocks, but it seems to me like your overdetermining the concept of 'order', and yet there can also be a sense where the overdtermination is also valid..(ie, the clock) I wasn't the one who used 'order' - it was in the quote. I also don't see how I'm 'overdetermining' it nor do I see how a clock is overdetermining? there is |order| which includes all notions of purposive 'arrangement' but within that absolute value we encode also all the non purposive orderings which would be something called disorder.. Why? Non-purposive orderings aren't necessarily disorder at all. these are pretty antique terms.. something hipper and more up-to date might be 'state of affairs' or 'vector-state' Both seem to reference QM; I don't see how the latter fits at all. When did code ever order the world? The 'world' when apprehended through a human body is always already encoded. Take seeing. There is a discrete encoding process which turns visual information which is itself a form of encoding by which electron spin states and other atomic phenomena pass a discrete quality through the substrate of the environment, which is in effect the channel, though this is quite reductive, but in effect a 'coding'. Scientists have just within the last few weeks made some major breakthroughs in this area if you were reading your Kurzweil. They soon will be able to translate with a prosthesis visual information from the world directly into the brain.. Whew. Obviously vision is represented. To say it's 'code' is something else - in fact Edelman's talk at SLSA was precisely why it _wasn't_ code. You can say that man's mind is encoded in his body, although more and more man's 'mind' is outside his body.. at any rate with man, you can generally say, that the human mind has changed the world.. Any mind changes the world <-> is a change in the world. But 'encoded'? Since you gave a source, read Lingis. And yes, mind's increasingly externalized, Merlin Donald writes on that a lot, but that doesn't mean coding or code. that's the simplest way to restate one way in which an instantiation of coding has indeed |ordered| the world.. another way is to consider plants, Plants use a genetic code and they have completely altered the physical envirnoment of the world.. here again is another instantiation of a code operating in a global fashion.. i don't see what the problem with this is.. Every single idea you possess or are able to express has to be encoded in some fashion for it to even be said to have an existence.. just because a theorist explicitly addresses 'code' as 'code' or doesnt doesnt mean that their work has nothing to do with code or coding.. No. It doesn't mean code at all. I'm not sure an 'idea' even has a recognizable instantiation. Since you're giving sources below, check Hadamard. Youve got Frege, Russell, Tarski, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice, Quine, Davidson, Donnellan, Kripke, Putnam, Evans, Marcus, Chomsky, Dummett, Burge, Millikan, Pierce, and thousands more Uexkull etc.. All of these people are thinking through coding in one sense or another.. Oh please, analytical philosophy doesn't equate to coding or encoding or anything like it. If you want we can take these one by one but it would be a waste of both our times. I think you're radically misinterpreting this kind of philosophy except for Carnap; Tarski for example points to the problematic of truth within formal systems, which problematizes code in the first place. This is also a lot of older thinking moving on to classic AI, Minsky, etc. which is pretty much overthrown now. Even Witt. - look at early TLP which seems to go towards coding but if you unpack the formulas they're of the form of a radicalized sheffer stroke, pointing to 'heaping' negations - I have Jack Sarfatti''s email addr. I wonder what his take on 'code' is.. Maybe I could get his sense of 'code' from a physicist's point of view.. No, just his point of view. Check out Finkelstein or Edelman for others. - Alan For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt . Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .
Re: What is Code?
The Field of Qualia Jack Sarfatti August 26, 1996 How are our thoughts -- our consciousness -- translated into action?" I actually have a detailed theory of this based upon an extension of Bohm's 1952 quantum pilot-wave/classical material hidden variable theory. Note, the more modern term for "hidden-variable" is John Bell's term "beable". The inner quantum information density field I(x,t), whose range is in quantum Hilbert space H and whose domain is in classical configuration space C , is, quite literally, the "field of thought patterns" that make up the implicate order. These patterns of I(x,t) exert a quantum force Fq = - Grad Q Q = -(1/2)[ (GradI)^2 + (Grad)^2I] on the brain material beable B moving in C. That's how thought is translated into action. The field of thought-patterns or qualia I(x,t), together with external environmental classical forces Fe create basins of attraction for the flow of the brain system point B in C. Qualia are encoded in these attractors. When B occupies a given attractor basin the corresponding thought-pattern is felt i.e., experienced. This attractor structure in C is the quantum version of the fractal strange attractors of classical chaos theory which leaves out the thought-field force from I(x,t). In the classical limit only Fe creates the attractor structure in C. The pattern of classical Fe forces represent the Darwinian natural selection pressures of the environment. To complete this model of a complex conscious adaptive system, we need a mechanism for self-organization. Without self-organization there is no conscious intent, no purposeful explicate behavior, and no "felt" implicate conscious experience. I have shown how implicate thought becomes explicate action. We now have to show how the brain-beable B in C literally and directly changes its thought-field I(x,t) whose range is quantum Hilbert space H. This is the back-action b mechanism by which the structure of H is modified by the actual path taken by B in C. But, that path of B in C is determined by both the implicate Fq = - Grad Q and the explicate Darwinian Fe. Therefore, Fq,Fe, from I(x,t) to B, together with back-action b from B to I(x,t) is a self-organizing cybernetic feedback-control creative strange loop that creates the conscious experience and allows the I-B system to make freely-willed choices which are the results of classically nonalgorithmic quantum computations. Now I can prove rigorously, that only when such a strange loop of Godel self-reference is operating, is there an experience of one actual world. This is a Bohmian ontological model that derives Wigner's and von-Neumann's epistemological idea that "consciousness collapses the wave function". The strange loop means that the mind (I)-brain (B) complex adaptive system is continually measuring itself. Only then, is there the inner "felt" experience of "qualia". This is the quantum dynamo generating our streams of consciousness. "the wave function is linear or passive in that it requires an outside agent to select events ." That is exactly what back-action is -- it is the "outside agent", except it is really inside. It is the generator of consciousness. To be more precise. The usual picture of quantum measurement has a measuring apparatus M and the system being measured N. They are not the same system. That leads to the measurement problem which you discuss pretty well in its different aspects. Now Bohm thought he had solved this measurement problem and up until recently I thought he was correct. But now, in dialogue with Henry Stapp, I see a non-fatal, but serious, flaw in Bohm's argument. Bohm is able to correctly show why it is that fringes disappear in the double slit experiment if a measurement of "which slit 1 or 2?" the particle P passes is made even though the particle wave packets and overlap on the screen. Where x is the position on the screen. This is because of the EPR correlation |M,N) = |m1)|n1) + |m2)|n2) Therefore, (x|M,N) = |m1)(x|n1) + |m2)(x|n2) So, |(x|M,N)|2 = |(x|n1)|2 + |(x|n2)|2 because (m1|m2) = 0. That is, the two measuring wavepackets have zero overlap in their classical configuration subspace Cm. The EPR correlation between M and N implies an incoherent superposition of the particle wave packets (x|n1) and (x|n2) even though they do overlap in their classical configuration subspace Cn. Bohm then makes an incorrect next step for the actual path of the hidden variable P in Cn. He says that one can think that P is really in either (x|n1) or (x|n2) . The occupied wave packet is the "active information" and the empty one is "inactive information". Bohm is trying to establish that only one of the wave packets for P is totally determining the classical mechanical, possibly chaotic, attractor structure for the path of P in Cn. That is, Bohm wrongly thinks that, because of the EPR correlation of N to nonoverlapping packets in Cm, that the attractor structure in Cn i
Re: how does this work...?
At 07:31 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote: Great! I think it's because after a while you exhaust your photo-receptors. it's interesting that if you follow the blank around, you DON'T see green. It also has nothing to do with staring at middle, if you cover up most of the screen, just the process of taking the pink away temporarily makes the green appear. I'd bet, it has something LARGELY to do with the grey background as well as the temporary removal of pink. p
Re: What is Code?
When did code ever 'order the world'? Not even the Dewey Decimal System does that. I'll have to differ on this.. the words themselves are the stumbling blocks, but it seems to me like your overdetermining the concept of 'order', and yet there can also be a sense where the overdtermination is also valid..(ie, the clock) there is |order| which includes all notions of purposive 'arrangement' but within that absolute value we encode also all the non purposive orderings which would be something called disorder.. these are pretty antique terms.. something hipper and more up-to date might be 'state of affairs' or 'vector-state' When did code ever order the world? The 'world' when apprehended through a human body is always already encoded. Take seeing. There is a discrete encoding process which turns visual information which is itself a form of encoding by which electron spin states and other atomic phenomena pass a discrete quality through the substrate of the environment, which is in effect the channel, though this is quite reductive, but in effect a 'coding'. Scientists have just within the last few weeks made some major breakthroughs in this area if you were reading your Kurzweil. They soon will be able to translate with a prosthesis visual information from the world directly into the brain.. You can say that man's mind is encoded in his body, although more and more man's 'mind' is outside his body.. at any rate with man, you can generally say, that the human mind has changed the world.. that's the simplest way to restate one way in which an instantiation of coding has indeed |ordered| the world.. another way is to consider plants, Plants use a genetic code and they have completely altered the physical envirnoment of the world.. here again is another instantiation of a code operating in a global fashion.. i don't see what the problem with this is.. Every single idea you possess or are able to express has to be encoded in some fashion for it to even be said to have an existence.. just because a theorist explicitly addresses 'code' as 'code' or doesnt doesnt mean that their work has nothing to do with code or coding.. Youve got Frege, Russell, Tarski, Carnap, Wittgenstein, Austin, Grice, Quine, Davidson, Donnellan, Kripke, Putnam, Evans, Marcus, Chomsky, Dummett, Burge, Millikan, Pierce, and thousands more Uexkull etc.. All of these people are thinking through coding in one sense or another.. I have Jack Sarfatti''s email addr. I wonder what his take on 'code' is.. Maybe I could get his sense of 'code' from a physicist's point of view..
Re: how does this work...?
Great! I think it's because after a while you exhaust your photo-receptors. -Peter -Original Message- From: mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:17 -0600 Subject: how does this work...? can anyone explain how this works? http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/Illusion.htm
can anyone name the poet?
THE ORIGIN OF VERMILLION, OR THE LOVES OF PAINTING AND MUSIC In days that's past past beyond our ken When Painter's saw like other men And music sang the voice of truth Yet sigh'd for Painting's homely proof Her modest blush first gave him taste And chance to Vermillion gave first place As snails trace o'er the morning dew He thus lines of beauty drew Those far faint lines Vermillion dyed With wonder view'd - enchanted cried
Note
"Monumental" is two lines, with the break after the word "image" when asked the breath of those words poetry escorts still you show slumbers, graven image, as though Anacreon's your oblivion, and these silences come from no other courier's hand
Monumental
when asked the breath of those words poetry escorts still you show slumbers, graven image, as though Anacreon's your oblivion, and these silences come from no other courier's hand
WWF: Breaking News from WWF's Pygmy Elephant Study!
Penelope, Your Pygmy Elephant... Pygmy Elephant Mom and Calf photo: Christy Williams Dear Alan, Today marks the 6-month anniversary of the first-ever scientific study of five female pygmy elephants involved in the pioneering WWF project. And we have some news: Penelope, the pygmy elephant WWF supporters like you helped name, travels in the largest herd -- 30 - 40 elephants. Unfortunately, she lives in a forest that is being actively logged, which is likely causing her herd to move more because of the disturbance to her home. In July, WWF outfitted five pygmy elephants with collars transmitting GPS locations to WWF daily via satellite. That data has supplied WWF scientists with revolutionary research data. Today, we're bringing the research study to your desktop. Track the elephants' movements online! Groundbreaking Research Findings: The elephants' movements are noticeably affected by human activity. Elephants living in areas with the most human disturbance, such as logging and commercial agriculture, spend more time on the move than elephants in more remote areas. Pygmy Elephant emerging from the woods photo: Christy Williams Most of the elephants spend at least some of their time in palm oil plantations or near human habitation, which leads to conflict with people. In recent years, much of the elephants' habitat has been converted to tree plantations that produce palm oil. Each elephant belongs to a herd of 30-50 elephants but often splits off into smaller groups for days or weeks at a time. Since elephants live in matriarchal societies, WWF collared only adult female elephants so that each elephant collared represents a whole herd's movements. The elephants' diet consists of at least 162 species of plants. This was determined during field tracking that supplements the satellite tracking. It was proved that certain forest quality could also influence the diversity and distribution of the elephant food in the forest, with encroachment into palm oil plantations being higher along the degraded forest-oil palm areas. The reality is the once-lush forests of northeast Borneo - the only home for pygmy elephants in the world - have been cleared extensively over the past 30 years in order to establish tree plantations to satisfy the world's demand for palm oil. Our findings suggest that Penelope's behavior could be due to the stresses associated with habitat destruction. WWF must continue studying this newly identified subspecies in order to gain greater insight on their behavior so that we can implement a common sense and inclusive conservation solution. Please help us continue our groundbreaking research. Any gift you give today will be put to immediate use. But when you make a contribution of $50 or more, you'll receive this limited-edition elephant plush as a special thank you. Please help protect pygmy elephants - like Penelope - today! Sincerely, Bruce Harris Director, Member Services P.S. Every dollar you contribute today makes us that much more effective in our conservation efforts. Remember, if you donate $50 or more, you can receive your FREE limited-edition elephant plush to serve as a reminder of the important conservation work you support. Free Elephant Plush This FREE limited-edition elephant plush is yours with a $50 donation!
Re: What is Code?
Personally I find the wd. code so miused at this point as to be close to pointless itself. I go back to things like Shannon/Weaver/information theory on one hand, Eco on the other. D/G have nothing to say about it, and for me overly-theorizing/metamorphizing the concept makes it even more useless. It's the new cant word in a sense; everything is now code instead of mediation/representation/structure/post-structure/existent/blahblah. I don't think most people would understand code in a technical sense, and like Lacan's borrowing from topology, it's in danger of Sokolic critique. The word is also used verbally in the senses of 'I code' = I translate X into code in the sense of Morse or other code; or I program computers. When did code ever 'order the world'? Not even the Dewey Decimal System does that. If you want to pick apart 'code,' why w/ D/G in the first place? I get so tired of theoretical stuff - and for me, and I'm being selfish here, narcissistic, it's a shame, because somewhere in rhetoric there's something to say/be said/make a difference in the world (re: Bateson's difference that makes a difference). But most progressive, whatever, functional thinking today isn't in philosophy or theory; it's in the scientific/cosmological/fundamental particle/technological/computational sectors. The humanities seems backwards in thinking through these things, moving back and forth (Lacan, D/G) from the ideolectical. - Apologies, the article seems to me to be sloppy thinking - Alan On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, phanero wrote: This is a great article.. Have a character. JP: Perhaps to ask code and coders to think again about the way in which they see the world, to move from objects to things, and practice code as poetry (poeisis). Rather than code as ordering the world, fixing and overcoding. Code as a craft, 'bringing-forth' through a showing or revealing that is not about turning the world into resources to be assembled, and reassembled forever. A nice bit of punch and judy, although that hammer word 'code' seems to get in the way abit of the thinking (whatever that is..). and I don;t say that to be rude to the authors who are obviously just warming up to their 'subject'.. and I agree that poeisis is poetry and vice versa, but you won't find many 'poets' saying this.. This is something the philosopher knows, something she says offhanded as a matter of course.. no big deal.. Because substance itself IS the only poetics.. Let's call it a "facet" of the meaning and just move on. but there are some glaring absences in the text.. for one.. in the above section: Code as a craft, 'bringing-forth' through a showing or revealing that is not about turning the world into resources to be assembled, and reassembled forever. Well, as this is mostly the only possible way for the world to work. I'll have to say "good luck".. How old are the water molecules in your body? the 'bringing-forth' is possibly best represented as tecne itself.. tecne is 'a letting appear' tiktein is to give birth. tektein to build.. there is also epiphaneia (an appearing).. Code is daidala, a 'daidalonics' within the body of tecne, and the body of tecne is not unlike the curious working or daidala of incarnation within Greek religion, within the pleroma, the pneuma, the breath which is both made and the maker: Gods were divine because they were athanatoi, deathless. This unending appearingness of the Greek gods, their genesis which is life and movement, is what resided in the scintillating surface of the daidalon. Insofar as the appearing of the daidalon was understood as itself the product of reassembly, the daidalon must also have been understood as something that could always be remade. Like the gods, and unlike the human person (brotos, mortal), the daidalon never entirely disappeared. It is because it was itself a deathless appearing that the well made, the cunningly crafted thing was able to reveal an unseen divine presence. Thus, for example, are the gold and silver dogs, crafted by Hephaestus, which guard Alcinous' palace in book VII of the Odyssey, athanatous ontas, deathless beings, just like gods.. (or applets, or golems, or daimons, etc) It's like tecne is always already the field, like sheldrake's morphological fields, and code like the daidalon appears within the appearing of tecne daidala is the expression of techne, the same way code is the expression of a kind of rhizomatics.. maybe I'm getting mixed up.. at any rate they missed the fundamental tecne reference which I think is really essential, because code isn't modern or post-modern at all. ITS PRIMORDIAL and we are still living within a PRIMORDIA.. another thing I found a bit lacking was any reference to the discussion of 'code' itself within Deleuze and Guattari' A Thousand Plateaus. There is a pretty extensive discussion of 'code' (in various registers) within that text that might have been useful to pick apart.. anyhoo.. still reading.. thanks for sending this out..
Re: how does this work...?
the green dots are afterimages... optical residue, the green is the complimentary color of the pink. when the pink dot disappears in the rotation, you see the after image... On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:09:17 -0600 mIEKAL aND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: can anyone explain how this works? http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/Illusion.htm
how does this work...?
can anyone explain how this works? http://www.iol.ie/~dluby/Illusion.htm
Re: That Dopamine Buzz
Nice work! My Tourette Syndorme is caused by a deficiency of serotonin & a surplus of dopamine, so I'm riding a dopamine buzz all the time. I think I just got an explanation of why I write the way I do. Vernon__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Why We Love George Bush
Beautiful! Horrible! you got it down - John At 12:43 PM 12/16/2005, you wrote: Why We Love George Bush George Bush is a strong man and always says what he means. He speaks simply to the common people who understand him. We know that every word he says is a dagger to the intellectual. Those people would stop us reading the Bible and take God away. God helps George Bush fight those people. He clarifies things in a world that only seems complex. He doesn't use all those words that don't mean anything anyway. He asks us to stay the course and we're his men for the job. If you ask me he was lucky to get out of military service. He's a deeply religious man and God leads our destiny. He'll never back down to any of those countries in Europe. He has a loving wife and two incredibly sexy daughters. He's got to keep those daughters of his under wraps. George Bush can fail just like the rest of us. But he finds greatness in every man and we find greatness in him. He's turned his back on that Yale education of his. He's come back to the land and understands how wealthy it is. He knows the animals were put on God's green earth just for us. He's an oil man and we'd all be oil men if we could. George Bush listens to the preachers not the professors. He prays ever day for the nation to stay on the path of righteousness. George Bush is a tough man who never listens to the polls. George Bush can spot a liberal or a homosexual when he sees one. He is our man in the White house. He has gone a long way to giving colored people their place in government. We'd love to have a beer with George Bush and talk about everything. George Bush is really one of us. He really loves sports and hunting and fishing and doesn't forget to pray. George Bush is the first President really love. He doesn't forget that his nation was forged by Christ under God. He doesn't forget every newborn child. He sticks it to the rest of the world. George Bush understands that you have to attack Godless evolution. He knows what sorts of dirty stuff the kids are learning in school. He knows just how bad the Jews are. He stays away from the Jew media and then gives it to them. George Bush says America First to the rest of the world. He's going to bring Freedom to dictators everywhere. George Bush is so successful in Iraq people don't see it. Because of him our children are fulfilling their destiny. Bringing God and Freedom to the whole wide world is really wonderful. George Bush has really given it to Al Qaeda. He knows those people should be tortured and he tortures them. He'll say what he has to say but then he tortures them. He's probably tortured them himself just to get the information. George Bush knows that freedom comes at a cost. Look how well he has handled New York City after the planes hit. People in New York City think he loves them. George Bush secretly hates New York City but he doesn't tell anyone. He is a true Born-Again who follows the Righteousness of his Faith. God tells George Bush to slay the pagans and he does. He is the most courageous President we have ever had. He will do what God not man tells him to do. George Bush would get down on his knees and pray with us. He has the sexiest greatest daughters in the world. George Bush has the perfect family with problems like our own. We can tell that he likes laying back with a beer now and then. If George Bush wasn't President he'd be down at the local bar with us. You know he talks our talk and walks our walk. He could fail at everything but he can't fail at being President. He understands that God has created the greatest nation on earth. George Bush won't let the white people down. He knows that the white people came here first. He knows the white people are the real Americans. George Bush knows that a woman belongs in the home with her children. With George Bush you could play cards and he might even cheat. Then if George Bush were caught he'd give us that great smile of his. It reminds me of the game we had last week when Larry was drinking. Of course Larry's not President but his hands were a bit messed up. I think it's his wife and that cooking course she's taking. Of course we'll all eat her cookies. George Bush would sit down and eat her cookies like everyone else. He'd wait his turn like everyone else. It's incredible how great he is and how the country's prospering. Those liberals could take a lesson from him. He answers only to God. (I bet he answers to his wife too!) __ Dr. John M. Bennett Curator, Avant Writing Collection Rare Books & Manuscripts Library The Ohio State University Libraries 1858 Neil Av Mall Columbus, OH 43210 USA (614) 292-3029 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.johnmbennett.net ___
Re: Copland
"clothing" = "turning the Pnyx" I think Thoth had it right.. Text is the destruction of memory. Text is the devil, and bedevilment of memory's automony.. I think Giordano Bruno might agree. as text is autonomous it is also the fundamental impurity, the engine of both entropy and extropy within culture/nature.. Latour might allow it to be called the sine qua no[n] of factishes the lack is its desire to draw meaning to itself.. the temporal engine it supposes within its constructed subject both destroys the timeless onenesss of unreflexive being and drags us inexorably back to that state through the catastrophe of manifold ideologies being as naked thought might be a form of purity but to conceive of 'text' as a clothing of purity is simply a reification of utilitarianism as seen through a kind of nunnery of arbitrary permutations of the social.. our living bodies are capable of more... - Original Message - From: "Peter Ciccariello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 9:09 AM Subject: Re: Copland Yes. Especially "If a person wanted to show purity, the clothing would be text. The moment lacking is the next to come." -Peter Ciccariello http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:46:34 -0800 Subject: Copland Just now no untouched places need repair. And damages pass usual anxiety. The gloves dissolve. In these accustomed eyes of mothering and even quiet, pale chords have occurred. Each period of year, placed on soft surface. Pianissimo brass instruments retreat to reeds. If a person wanted to show purity, the clothing would be text. The moment lacking is the next to come. Choice follows blades of grass fulled into sheaf's comported space. One is treble tempting bass. A lull to blur this edge. sheila e. murphy
Why We Love George Bush
Why We Love George Bush George Bush is a strong man and always says what he means. He speaks simply to the common people who understand him. We know that every word he says is a dagger to the intellectual. Those people would stop us reading the Bible and take God away. God helps George Bush fight those people. He clarifies things in a world that only seems complex. He doesn't use all those words that don't mean anything anyway. He asks us to stay the course and we're his men for the job. If you ask me he was lucky to get out of military service. He's a deeply religious man and God leads our destiny. He'll never back down to any of those countries in Europe. He has a loving wife and two incredibly sexy daughters. He's got to keep those daughters of his under wraps. George Bush can fail just like the rest of us. But he finds greatness in every man and we find greatness in him. He's turned his back on that Yale education of his. He's come back to the land and understands how wealthy it is. He knows the animals were put on God's green earth just for us. He's an oil man and we'd all be oil men if we could. George Bush listens to the preachers not the professors. He prays ever day for the nation to stay on the path of righteousness. George Bush is a tough man who never listens to the polls. George Bush can spot a liberal or a homosexual when he sees one. He is our man in the White house. He has gone a long way to giving colored people their place in government. We'd love to have a beer with George Bush and talk about everything. George Bush is really one of us. He really loves sports and hunting and fishing and doesn't forget to pray. George Bush is the first President really love. He doesn't forget that his nation was forged by Christ under God. He doesn't forget every newborn child. He sticks it to the rest of the world. George Bush understands that you have to attack Godless evolution. He knows what sorts of dirty stuff the kids are learning in school. He knows just how bad the Jews are. He stays away from the Jew media and then gives it to them. George Bush says America First to the rest of the world. He's going to bring Freedom to dictators everywhere. George Bush is so successful in Iraq people don't see it. Because of him our children are fulfilling their destiny. Bringing God and Freedom to the whole wide world is really wonderful. George Bush has really given it to Al Qaeda. He knows those people should be tortured and he tortures them. He'll say what he has to say but then he tortures them. He's probably tortured them himself just to get the information. George Bush knows that freedom comes at a cost. Look how well he has handled New York City after the planes hit. People in New York City think he loves them. George Bush secretly hates New York City but he doesn't tell anyone. He is a true Born-Again who follows the Righteousness of his Faith. God tells George Bush to slay the pagans and he does. He is the most courageous President we have ever had. He will do what God not man tells him to do. George Bush would get down on his knees and pray with us. He has the sexiest greatest daughters in the world. George Bush has the perfect family with problems like our own. We can tell that he likes laying back with a beer now and then. If George Bush wasn't President he'd be down at the local bar with us. You know he talks our talk and walks our walk. He could fail at everything but he can't fail at being President. He understands that God has created the greatest nation on earth. George Bush won't let the white people down. He knows that the white people came here first. He knows the white people are the real Americans. George Bush knows that a woman belongs in the home with her children. With George Bush you could play cards and he might even cheat. Then if George Bush were caught he'd give us that great smile of his. It reminds me of the game we had last week when Larry was drinking. Of course Larry's not President but his hands were a bit messed up. I think it's his wife and that cooking course she's taking. Of course we'll all eat her cookies. George Bush would sit down and eat her cookies like everyone else. He'd wait his turn like everyone else. It's incredible how great he is and how the country's prospering. Those liberals could take a lesson from him. He answers only to God. (I bet he answers to his wife too!)
Re: Copland
Yes. Especially "If a person wanted to show purity, the clothing would be text. The moment lacking is the next to come." -Peter Ciccariello http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/ -Original Message- From: Sheila Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA Sent: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:46:34 -0800 Subject: Copland Just now no untouched places need repair. And damages pass usual anxiety. The gloves dissolve. In these accustomed eyes of mothering and even quiet, pale chords have occurred. Each period of year, placed on soft surface. Pianissimo brass instruments retreat to reeds. If a person wanted to show purity, the clothing would be text. The moment lacking is the next to come. Choice follows blades of grass fulled into sheaf's comported space. One is treble tempting bass. A lull to blur this edge. sheila e. murphy
Re: What is Code?
This is a great article.. Have a character. JP: Perhaps to ask code and coders to think again about the way in which they see the world, to move from objects to things, and practice code as poetry (poeisis). Rather than code as ordering the world, fixing and overcoding. Code as a craft, 'bringing-forth' through a showing or revealing that is not about turning the world into resources to be assembled, and reassembled forever. A nice bit of punch and judy, although that hammer word 'code' seems to get in the way abit of the thinking (whatever that is..). and I don;t say that to be rude to the authors who are obviously just warming up to their 'subject'.. and I agree that poeisis is poetry and vice versa, but you won't find many 'poets' saying this.. This is something the philosopher knows, something she says offhanded as a matter of course.. no big deal.. Because substance itself IS the only poetics.. Let's call it a "facet" of the meaning and just move on. but there are some glaring absences in the text.. for one.. in the above section: Code as a craft, 'bringing-forth' through a showing or revealing that is not about turning the world into resources to be assembled, and reassembled forever. Well, as this is mostly the only possible way for the world to work. I'll have to say "good luck".. How old are the water molecules in your body? the 'bringing-forth' is possibly best represented as tecne itself.. tecne is 'a letting appear' tiktein is to give birth. tektein to build.. there is also epiphaneia (an appearing).. Code is daidala, a 'daidalonics' within the body of tecne, and the body of tecne is not unlike the curious working or daidala of incarnation within Greek religion, within the pleroma, the pneuma, the breath which is both made and the maker: Gods were divine because they were athanatoi, deathless. This unending appearingness of the Greek gods, their genesis which is life and movement, is what resided in the scintillating surface of the daidalon. Insofar as the appearing of the daidalon was understood as itself the product of reassembly, the daidalon must also have been understood as something that could always be remade. Like the gods, and unlike the human person (brotos, mortal), the daidalon never entirely disappeared. It is because it was itself a deathless appearing that the well made, the cunningly crafted thing was able to reveal an unseen divine presence. Thus, for example, are the gold and silver dogs, crafted by Hephaestus, which guard Alcinous' palace in book VII of the Odyssey, athanatous ontas, deathless beings, just like gods.. (or applets, or golems, or daimons, etc) It's like tecne is always already the field, like sheldrake's morphological fields, and code like the daidalon appears within the appearing of tecne daidala is the expression of techne, the same way code is the expression of a kind of rhizomatics.. maybe I'm getting mixed up.. at any rate they missed the fundamental tecne reference which I think is really essential, because code isn't modern or post-modern at all. ITS PRIMORDIAL and we are still living within a PRIMORDIA.. another thing I found a bit lacking was any reference to the discussion of 'code' itself within Deleuze and Guattari' A Thousand Plateaus. There is a pretty extensive discussion of 'code' (in various registers) within that text that might have been useful to pick apart.. anyhoo.. still reading.. thanks for sending this out.. your rustic code-mythographer schitzo-idiot person Lanny
20 by Márton Koppány
Wryters, The minimalist concrete poetry site at: http://www.logolalia.com/minimalistconcretepoetry/ has been updated with 20 pieces by Márton Koppány. It is like this: paradigms don't shift around pillars, posts, or pedestals; they pirouette on point. Come see the daring young man on the flying trapeze of language. Bring the word "yes", you'll need it. Regards, Dan
Kritikos, V.II December 2005
Kritikos, V.II December 2005 What is Code? A conversation with Deleuze, Guattari and Code...(d.berry and j.pawlik) http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/berry%20and%20Pawlik.htm When West was North: Spirits of Frontier Experience, or Can the MacGuffin Speak?...(j.bruce-novoa) http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/when%20west%20was%20north.htm Portents of the Real: The Heart's Filthy Lesson...(n.ruiz) http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/%7Enr03/portending%20the%20real.htm -- Nicholas Ruiz III ABD/GTA Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities Florida State University Editor, Kritikos http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~nr03/
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Just now no untouched places need repair. And damages pass usual anxiety. The gloves dissolve. In these accustomed eyes of mothering and even quiet, pale chords have occurred. Each period of year, placed on soft surface. Pianissimo brass instruments retreat to reeds. If a person wanted to show purity, the clothing would be text. The moment lacking is the next to come. Choice follows blades of grass fulled into sheaf's comported space. One is treble tempting bass. A lull to blur this edge. sheila e. murphy
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Itch spin
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