Re: [NetBehaviour] looking back in time into absences

2021-12-29 Thread Johannes Birringer via NetBehaviour
dear Alan, and all: Thanks for your reply on the Watts Telescope launch, and you are enlightening me about your confidence in astronomy's reach back in time, 13+ billion years you think? reaching out to the furthest reaches of the universe, catching what exactly? light rays or waves that stretc

Re: [NetBehaviour] looking back in time into absences

2021-12-29 Thread Max Herman via NetBehaviour
Hi Johannes, As the year draws to an end I like the idea of looking backward in time. For me 2021 was mostly about studying Dante Alighieri's works and their effect on the works of Leonardo. Like two black holes at the center of the modern galaxy, these two figures perhaps more than any other

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Meredith Finkelstein via NetBehaviour
In light of Dawn of Everything - of which I am mixed although I Graeber's Debt did change my life I am reminded to this quote in the last chapter "For most of history... the zone of ritual play constituted both a scientiļ¬c laboratory and, for any given society, a repertory of knowledge and techniq

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour
thanks Ruth and Eryk The Kei Kreutler article managed to have me smile and "hope". - Dear friends and colleagues, *please don't send me your signatures systematically* - sending bits costs energy and is POLLUTING On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 11:39 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour < netbehavi

[NetBehaviour] being, mathesis

2021-12-29 Thread Alan Sondheim
being, mathesis http://www.alansondheim.org/sein.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/sein.jpg Hohner 64 Chromonica Professional, revrev, cosmos ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/l

Re: [NetBehaviour] The Situationist Blockchain

2021-12-29 Thread Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour
Dear Eryk, Thanks so much for your long and super-helpful response. Some fragmented thoughts... I LOLled at my discovery of the hidden pages ; ) Sorry about that. It seems that my time in the "crypto tent" (as you put it) has conditioned me to sniff out questions of funding and governance in blo