Eliminative Culinarism: Lecture series on the universalist thought of the open. « Category Theory: recommended readings | Main | Decay Modernism » Lecture series on the universalist thought of the open If you are in Stockholm between 17 to 22 November, I will be talking over skype on limits and possibilities of speculative thought within a universalist framework. Details below: In this seminar Reza Negarestani will take a systematic approach to the modern landscape of thought where reason and speculation, earth and cosmos, regional and universal resources of thought intermingle and synthesize so as to deliver us remorselessly into the open. Dates and Times 17 Nov 10.00 13.30 Introduction to seminar and Reza Negarestani by M? Reza Negarestani Seminar 1: The Map and the Compass Outlining the modern landscape of thought (a schema) Sketching a speculative philosophy for navigating the modern landscape (a scheme) Introducing alternative speculative schemes 18 Nov 10.00 12.30 19 Nov 10.00 12.30 21 Nov 10.00 12.30 22 Nov 10.00 13.00.
Simulacra and Simulations - I. The Precession of Simulacra. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true. -Ecclesiastes If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly (the decline of the Empire witnesses the fraying of this map, little by little, and its fall into ruins, though some shreds are still discernible in the deserts - the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction testifying to a pride equal to the Empire and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, a bit as the double ends by being confused with the real through aging) - as the most beautiful allegory of simulation, this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.*1 Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept.
What can the army do about simulators? Agrippa (a book of the dead) Agrippa (a book of the dead) is a work of art created by speculative fiction novelist William Gibson, artist Dennis Ashbaugh and publisher Kevin Begos Jr. in 1992.[1][2] The work consists of a 300-line semi-autobiographical electronic poem by Gibson, embedded in an artist's book by Ashbaugh.[3] Gibson's text focused on the ethereal nature of memories (the title is taken from a photo album). Its principal notoriety arose from the fact that the poem, stored on a 3.5" floppy disk, was programmed to encrypt itself after a single use; similarly, the pages of the artist's book were treated with photosensitive chemicals, effecting the gradual fading of the words and images from the book's first exposure to light.[3] Some people have said that they think this is a scam or pure hype … [m]aybe fun, maybe interesting, but still a scam.
But Gibson thinks of it as becoming a memory, which he believes is more real than anything you can actually see.— Kevin Begos Jr., End Notes, [7] NIST Puts Smart Phone Translation Technology to the Test. 4: ZeNeZ and the Re[a]dShift BOOM! by Sher Doruff. INFLeXions No. 4 (Dec. 2010) Transversal Fields of Experience NODE: edited by C.
Brunner, T.Rhoades Transversal Fields of Experience Christoph Brunner and Troy Rhoades i-viii ZeNeZ and the Re[a]dShift BOOM! Sher Doruff 1-32 Body, The Scrivener – The Somagrammical Alphabet Of “Deep” Kaisa Kurikka and Jukka Sihvonen 33-47 Anarchival Cinemas Alanna Thain 48-68 Syn-aesthetics – total artwork or difference engine? Icon Icon Aden Evens 95-117 Edgy Colour: Digital Colour in Experimental Film and Video Simon Payne 118-140 “Still Life” de Jia Zhangke: Les temps de la rencontre Erik Bordeleau 141-163 To Dance Life: On Veridiana Zurita’s “Das Partes for Video” Rick Dolphijn 164-182 Jazz And Emergence (Part One) - From Calculus to Cage, and from Charlie Parker to Ornette Coleman: Complexity and the Aesthetics and Politics of Emergent Form in Jazz Martin E.
TANGENTS: edited by B. 3 Poems Crina Bondre Ardelean Healing Series Brian Knep 278-280 Matter, Manner, Idea Sjoerd van Tuinen 311-336. Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc. History of wikis. The history of wikis is generally dated from 1994, when Ward Cunningham gave the name "WikiWikiWeb" to the knowledge base, which ran on his company's website at c2.com, and the wiki software that powered it. c2.com thus became the first true wiki, or a website with pages and links that can be easily edited via the browser, with a reliable version history for each page. He chose "WikiWikiWeb" as the name based on his memories of the "Wiki Wiki Shuttle" at Honolulu International Airport, and because "wiki" is the Hawaiian word for "quick".
Many alternative wiki applications and websites appeared over the next five years. In the meantime, the first wiki, now known as "WardsWiki", evolved as features were added to the software and as the growing body of users developed a unique "wiki culture". By 2000, WardsWiki had developed a great deal of content outside of its original stated purpose, which led to the spinoff of content into sister sites, most notably MeatballWiki. Encyclopedia. Encyclopedias have existed for around 2,000 years; the oldest still in existence, Naturalis Historia, was written in ca.
AD 77 by Pliny the Elder. The modern encyclopedia evolved out of dictionaries around the 17th century. Historically, some encyclopedias were contained in one volume, but some, such as the Encyclopædia Britannica or the world's largest Enciclopedia universal ilustrada europeo-americana, became huge multi-volume works. Some modern encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, are electronic and are often freely available. The word encyclopedia comes from the Koine Greek ἐγκύκλιος παιδεία,[8] transliterated enkyklios paideia, meaning "general education" from enkyklios (ἐγκύκλιος), meaning "circular, recurrent, required regularly, general"[9] and paideia (παιδεία), meaning "education, rearing of a child";[10] it was reduced to a single word due to an error[11] by copyists of Latin manuscripts.
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