[spectre] request for clarification: digital

2012-08-28 Diskussionsfäden Mathias Fuchs
Dear Heath, I always thought digital comes from lat. "digitus" - the finger. So when counting digitally you do it with your fingers and you abandon any idea of a quality of the numbers counted. But then I saw that there are things like DigitalBrighton, DigitalUK and DigitalNightclubs, and eve

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2012-08-27 Diskussionsfäden christoph theiler
first: clench your fist second: rise up your third finger third: go to first step best - wechselstrom - heath bunting schrieb: dear spectres can someone precisely define the word 'digital' for me please ? hope all is well heath __ SPECT

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2012-08-27 Diskussionsfäden j
my own favourite consideration of the digital was ron briefel's exemplar with a beer can, a 2-state clicking of 0 and 1, at the end of last years Decrystallization salon event which Heath unfortunately missed. :-) jjj hi heath, of the very many ways of considering what is digital (and

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2012-08-27 Diskussionsfäden stephen kovats
hi heath, of the very many ways of considering what is digital (and to avoid some of the many disambiguations in our equally ill defined age), one of my personal favs is this snippet from wikipedia: A beacon is perhaps the simplest non-electronic digital signal, with just two states (on and

[spectre] request for clarification

2012-08-27 Diskussionsfäden heath bunting
dear spectres can someone precisely define the word 'digital' for me please ? hope all is well heath __ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre