tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38241962011-04-21T14:03:11.829-07:00Heckler & CochThe only bond more important than the hydrogen bond is the human bondAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comBlogger1061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1092967677922878162004-08-29T20:08:00.000-07:002004-08-31T17:22:29.586-07:00A Multitude of Signs
San Antonio Current: Multimedia message by M. Solis
Current: Can you elaborate on the concepts of Rhythm Cinema and Rhythm Space?
Spooky: "To me, every time you even look at a building or see roads of a city from above, those are different kinds of visual patterns and rhythms. What I'm doing as a DJ, writer, and artist is thinking about life in our era as kind of exploring Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1091756166375457872004-08-09T08:08:00.000-07:002004-08-10T17:55:08.133-07:00Migrating the folk process
DrunkenBlog: Convergence Kills [via Joe Katzman & Sven-S. Porst]
"[...] It's a sad truth, but yes, the iPod is going to go away. Everyone knows it; they just don't know when. This isn't dismissing the fact that it's shot out of the gates on a wildly successful run and become to MP3 players what Kleenex is to tissues, but it's eventually going to start losing share in Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1090286346666373402004-07-31T20:08:00.000-07:002004-08-06T17:06:21.426-07:00Recursive, Wide, and Loopy 2
MSNBC - How humans got the gift of gab by Kathleen Wren
"[...] The fact that a virtually infinite number of phrases can be nested inside one another gives human language an open-endedness, allowing us to express new ideas. In a commentary that accompanies the Science study, psychologist David Premack has proposed that the flexibility of human grammar may be a centralAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1089423528312809002004-07-17T08:08:00.000-07:002004-07-27T19:40:50.653-07:00Recursive, Wide, and Loopy
Puzzled monkeys reveal key language step by Gaia Vince
"The key cognitive step that allowed humans to become the only animals using language may have been identified, scientists say.
A new study on monkeys found that while they are able to understand basic rules about word patterns, they are not able to follow more complex rules that underpin the crucial next stage Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1087694839622726552004-06-19T18:14:00.000-07:002004-07-14T03:30:46.710-07:00Stigmergy & Systems Science
After Gutenberg » Knowledge Ecosystem Persistence
J.C.Winnie: "I see that Jay Cross, citing George Por, poses an interesting question: How does a community's knowledge ecosystem persist?"
Countercultural Studies: Edward Sanders' 1968: A History in Verse
Alan Gilbert writes: "[...] 1968: A History in Verse is the product of what Sanders has spent over twenty years Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1086312029383383012004-06-03T17:21:00.000-07:002004-06-22T12:48:15.810-07:00Emergent Internet Operating System
Subject: Emergent Internet Operating System
Clay Shirky: "We never got too far discussing the idea of an emergent Internet Operating System, but there are kinds of thoughts you can have with that frame of reference you can't have in a reductionist framework of assuming that operating systems are merely what runs individual machines. (You could also think of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1084841538843389952004-05-17T17:08:00.000-07:002004-05-31T05:49:33.716-07:00In Search of the Mother of All Networks
Motifs distinguish networks by Kimberly Patch (Technology Research News)
"There are many types of networks in the world -- computer webs like the Internet, connections among components in electronics, relationships among friends and acquaintances, transportation grids, food relationships among animals, connections among neurons, and interactions among Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1082862101936381662004-04-24T20:01:00.000-07:002004-05-25T16:09:24.686-07:00You crawl us and we'll crawl you
Dream of a true mythology (Part 2)
Steve Dietz: Ten Dreams of Technology
The collection of dreams includes: Symbiosis, Emergence, Immersion, World Peace, Transparency, Flows, Open Work, Other, New Art, and Hacking. The author notes that these dreams of technology have a future, even if it is not yet determined.
Topologies in Networks
"What I want to suggest is Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1082166871121332712004-04-16T18:54:00.000-07:002010-01-08T14:47:20.900-08:00Complicity Theory
We Are All Bruce Lee
"When the Urban Movement group from Mostar brought up the idea of building a statue of Bruce Lee in the center of the city, the nationalists were disturbed. [...] "Out of all the ethnic heroes and those who have a material interest in acting as victims, we have chosen Bruce Lee. Now they can rack their brains trying to decide whether he is Bosniak (Bosnian Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1081288004805017682004-04-06T14:33:00.000-07:002010-01-08T14:47:20.912-08:00Dream of a true mythology
Opera by Ralph Abraham
"Opera was born as a conscious imitation of Greek tragedy, and the beginning of opera is synonymous with Orpheus. The earliest recorded opera, by Peri in 1600, is Orpheus and Euridice. The second opera, by Caccini in 1602, is Orpheus and Euridice. The third opera, by Monteverdi in 1607, is Orpheus and Euridice. There are at least 26 operas in the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1078362423055313252004-03-03T16:56:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:20.923-08:00The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds
Our pathways differ, no bird ever knows
The secret route by which another goes.
Phil Windley - ETCon 2004: Tim O'Reilly Keynote
What's on Tim's Radar: The net is the platform. The new killer apps of the Internet, eBay, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, PayPal, Mapquest, and others are on the O'Reilly best seller list, but moreover, are running on a new Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1077755935792228292004-02-25T16:36:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:20.932-08:00I am a knot not a bullet
fUSION Anomaly. Monolith
This is a pre-recorded briefing, made prior to your departure. For security reasons of the highest importance, it has been known on-board during the mission only by your computer.
Monolithic Form [vide Endless Discovery]
Definitions: A monolith is, strictly speaking, a form consisting of a single stone (mono = one, lith = stone). A multilith is Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1077060685427475702004-02-17T15:30:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:20.941-08:00Probably a Cognitive Minority Report
Language Log: 46 Somali words for camel
Mark Liberman: "My list is somewhat more reliable than the unchecked serial exaggeration of Eskimo snow vocabulary originally documented by Laura Martin, and later popularized and extended by Geoff [Pullum]. At least it's an actual list of alleged words. However, no one should take it as gospel truth."
A History of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1076297380666716462004-02-08T19:28:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:20.951-08:00A Data-Dandy, an Extra-Textual, and an African Grey
BBC News: Parrot's oratory stuns scientists by Alex Kirby
The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate with people has brought scientists up short. The bird, a captive African grey called N'kisi, has a vocabulary of 950 words, and shows signs of a sense of humour. [...] When he first met Dr Jane Goodall, the renownedAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1075950525384805212004-02-04T19:08:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.101-08:00It's Mulder on the dancefloor
Philip Pullman Webchat: BBC Radio 4: His Dark Materials
From Graham King
Q: Did you base the alethiometer on Ramon Lull's medieval art for seeking the truth, his Ars Combinatoria, based on three circles each divided into topics or symbols which can be individually turned to produce endless connections?
Philip Pullman
A: Well, how interesting. I didn't know about Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1075771496448496382004-02-02T17:16:00.000-08:002004-02-09T18:12:58.000-08:00Intelligence? What intelligence?
The Onion : God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule
News flash: 'God's will' equals 'Don't murder people.'
BBC NEWS: Programmes: Newsnight: Terror network
"Mullah Krekar has been of concern to intelligence agencies around the world. They tracked his labyrinthine trail across Asia and Europe. The Dutch had found Krekar with what looked like an inventory of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1075516878478876402004-01-30T18:41:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.123-08:00Trust me, I'm a Doctor
Under the cover story by Jim McClellan
Unlike music, the book business's core demographic is older and female and not drawn to piracy. But the fear of "Napsterisation" has led to rather stringent DRM measures in e-publishing.
[...] Thanks to the spread of MP3 players, digital audio books are beginning to sell. According to Jonathan Korzen, spokesman for Audible.com, the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1075340843349044822004-01-28T17:35:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.139-08:00rhizomatic bifurcation
On Plagiarism
Parenthesis
Look mate you hike, unlike
mossy stumps and bark.
*
If vile jelly perceives just distribution
& is content with unhoused heads
& unfed sides, who will remark it?
Why, this is the world's soul.
*
My extended family forest
squats in the dark.
Sun 'sheds its skin like a snake'
"The fact that the Sun's outer layers are bubbling, and that the Sun Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1074827309498542492004-01-22T19:07:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.150-08:00Dude Wears My Tutu
Heckler & Coch are skeleton keys
terrella chambers and strawberry hints
on the lips of a stranger.
Northern Lights
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1074376703530709072004-01-17T13:46:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.165-08:00Free as Air, Free as Water, Free as Knowledge
Linton C. Freeman: Visualizing Social Networks [via M2M]
"[...] Without computers, the use of factor analysis in the early 1950s was extremely cumbersome. It did, however, have a clear advantage over earlier procedures. It employed a standard procedure and therefore it did produce results that could be replicated; different investigators, using the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1074294231056205332004-01-16T15:03:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.174-08:00seed-teeth
BBC Radio 4: In Our Time - The Alphabet
At the start of the twentieth century, in the depths of an ancient Egyptian turquoise mine on the Sinai peninsular, an archaeologist called Sir Flinders Petrie made an exciting discovery. Scratched onto rocks, pots and portable items, he found scribblings of a very unexpected but strangely familiar nature. He had expected to see the complex Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1072749912620680742003-12-29T17:26:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.182-08:00I should be so Loki
Between the Ears - Silent Key
'The cards I left with were QSL cards. The functional message-carriers, the hard-copy proof of the urge to communicate. The need to log, record, jott things down.'
Epicurus's Hooked Atoms: Poincaré's extended Metaphor
"Poincaré describes habitual thinking as anchored in an inertial frame represented by the spatial metaphor of walls to which Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1072498235335453282003-12-26T20:09:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.190-08:00The Porlock Syndrome
Robert Luke - Signal: Trace, Technology, and the Self In Formation
Jacques Derrida writes: "To write is to produce a mark that will constitute a kind of machine that is in turn productive, that my future disappearance in principle will not prevent from functioning and from yielding, and yielding itself to, reading and writing."
Rhyme and treason: John Sutherland reviews Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1071977819185502212003-12-20T19:36:00.000-08:002010-01-08T14:47:21.199-08:00bull cycle and verbomotor
Exposing the Nerve: Notes on Memory, Hypertext & Poetry
"Ted Nelson's utopic vision of the "docuverse" represents no more than the culmination of our collective hope to inhabit a universe of externally perceived memory, where once an invisible memory inhabited us, silently directing our thoughts and actions. Nelson envisions nothing less than a new storage system which Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1070331702795266872003-12-01T18:09:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.761-08:00introducing the absence of the work in progress
Vegetal and mineral memory: The future of books [via ALD]
"A hypertext can give the illusion of opening up even a closed text: a detective story can be structured in such a way that its readers can select their own solution, deciding at the end if the guilty one should be the butler, the bishop, the detective, the narrator, the author or the readerAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1069638209072375652003-11-23T17:42:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.795-08:00war anti-war and peace in the global village
Lecture by Marshall McLuhan - Florida State University - 1970
"One of the strange implications of the phonetic alphabet is private identity. Before literacy, before phonetic literacy, there had been no private identity. There had only been the tribal group. Homer knows nothing about private identity, Homer's world of the acoustic epic, the tribal Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1069202874875716032003-11-18T16:46:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.857-08:00ventilating data-chains with an act
Letter from Marshall McLuhan to Harold Adams Innis
"One major discovery of the symbolists which had the greatest importance for subsequent investigation was their notion of the learning process as a labyrinth of the senses and faculties whose retracing provided the key to all arts and sciences (basis of myth of Daedalus, basic for the dreams and schemes of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1068164685037975702003-11-06T16:24:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.890-08:00The sixth sense of Henry the Sleuth
Counting Coots - By Corey S. Powell and Paroma Basu
"The coot - a clumsy bird so unloved that its name is a synonym for an eccentric old man - has a remarkable ability to recognize and count its eggs, says behavioral ecologist Bruce Lyon of the University of California at Santa Cruz. Coots need to be crafty because of the unusual way the animals compete: One Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1068077079128518992003-11-05T15:38:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.913-08:00Detective Gold forks on Ardour Street
Art and Science Meet With Novel Results - by Emily Eakin [also here]
"Radiant Cool" has the makings of a gripping noir thriller: a missing body, a tough-talking female sleuth and a mustachioed Russian agent mixed up in a shadowy plot to take over the world. But the novel, by Dan Lloyd, a neurophilosopher at Trinity College in Hartford, is also a serious workAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1067735763216193922003-11-01T17:15:00.000-08:002010-01-08T15:19:04.933-08:00breaking open the head
Information wants to be valuable by Tim O'Reilly
"Information doesn't want to be free. Information wants to be valuable." I first heard this gem from Larry Wall, creator of the Perl programming language. Like many other open-source software authors, from Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, to Tim Berners-Lee and his spiritual descendants at the Apache web server project, Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-106687078982908562003-10-22T17:59:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.015-08:00residual beads succeed the 'killing' of the lead
The Bread-and-Butterfly
Through the Looking Glass
Caduceus
"Hm?" says I.
Gregory Bateson: "A great addition to the Theory of Evolution - which theory Lewis Carroll I guess didn't like. The Bread-and-Butterfly has wings of bread and butter and a head made of a lump of sugar. Alice says, 'What does it live on?' The answer is, 'Weak tea with cream Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1066435991054557652003-10-17T17:12:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.052-08:00encounter textual recombination machines
Mediamatic: Geert Lovink: The Archeology of Computer Assemblage
The 'Ars Combinatoria' of Berlin philosopher-engineer Werner Künzel.
Künzel: "An engineer-philosopher is someone who derives his concept of reality from the media he works with. This is a huge break with the concept of reality as it has been taught up to the present, which is still based on Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1066008076051891102003-10-12T18:11:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.092-08:00delving with mammalian spacecraft
Alpha and Omega: Mysteries of the Cosmos
"The past decade has been a golden era for observational cosmology. After a century of trying, we have finally pinned down many of the fundamental dimensions of cosmology that seemed impenetrable even 20 years ago. We have determined, with reasonable precision, the age of the universe, and even its geometry. We have Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1065397226670326672003-10-05T16:32:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.170-08:00sonic fiction
Sample Culture Now
"Since the early 20th Century witnessed the advent of collage, artists have sought to reprocess cultural residue from the past to create new systems of representation. As the flow of cultural and visual data continues to proliferate in society, new sampling strategies have emerged to further redefine the comprehension of history, information and their depiction.
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1064715031928017462003-09-27T19:08:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.205-08:00remembering, amongst others, ilya prigogine
Slim Dusty receives Australian state funeral
Darren Moosha, 42, who is part Aboriginal, travelled to the funeral from Broome, in northwest Australia.
"It's that Australian-ness that's neither black nor white," he said of Dusty's appeal.
Singer Robert Palmer dies
Rock journalist Paul Lester, from Uncut magazine, said Palmer rose from northern clubs toAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1064535470406927362003-09-25T17:17:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.229-08:00archive supper
Science as Democratizer - Robert Lawrence Kuhn
Does the pursuit of pure science make sense in a world of scarcity and strife?
In Search of a Scientific Revolution
Controversial genius Stephen Wolfram presses onward - reports Peter Weiss
"... Wolfram has spun off a lot of exhilarating ideas about where this new approach can lead. For example, rather than needing Darwinian Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1063843852687201282003-09-17T17:04:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.286-08:00on resonance and messaging
Don Tapscott looks further ahead to a wireless digital jukebox: [via blogcritics]
"Instead of clinging to late-20th-century distribution technologies, like the digital disk and the downloaded file, the music business should move into the 21st century with a revamped business model using innovative technology, several industry experts say. They want the music industry Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1062970732827833202003-09-07T14:38:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.330-08:00embedded togetherness
"You and the world are embedded together."
Gerald Edelman
quoted by Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch in
'The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience'
(MIT Press, 1993, page 200)
Encyclopaedia Autopoietica: Autopoiesis & Enaction Compendium
"Our central nervous systems are not fitted to some absolute laws of nature, but to laws of nature Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1062200651576690702003-08-29T16:44:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.361-08:00when are the lights coming back on?
Cultural history of the night
Festive and frightening: In history, nocturnal urban darkness was the norm
"During the most recent blackout, many people remarked that there was a strangely "festive" atmosphere as many neighbours and strangers started talking to each other on the streets. "Night tends to be associated with leisure, with freedom, with the release Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1060986361851960932003-08-15T15:26:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.387-08:00Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe
Conduits and Resonance
"The whole organism can be considered as a coded representation of its environment. We can say that the wings of a bird 'represent' the air and the legs of man the land, and similarly that their brains contain representations in code that allow them to fly or walk, and their nerves carry code messages about relevant features of the world.
This Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1059866832664128602003-08-02T16:27:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.414-08:00interficial intelligence
Greg Ritter - Why RSS is (or should be) as irrelevant as HTML
"Phones, electricity, cars, CD players -- these are mature technologies that have abstracted their guts behind common, usable interfaces. Why should we expect less from syndication/aggregation software? Or software in general?"
Gene J. Koprowski - Socially Intelligent Software: Agents Go Mainstream
"Beyond Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1059165973740208412003-07-25T13:46:00.000-07:002004-01-30T17:28:40.153-08:00dreams go on branching out
Tjebbe van Tijen: Ars Oblivendi
"The landscape is a collective memory device that maps stories of the past in actual space ... Tales and stories can thus be remembered as one walks along a trail. Similarly the nomenclature of streets and sites in villages and cities, and topographical naming in general have a function to remind us of the past -- of historical figures, Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1058654570434558642003-07-19T15:42:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.467-08:00world knot found
'Imagination is the true fire, stolen from Heaven, to animate the cold creature of clay'.
Mary Wollstonecraft
A �maybe� state of mind
A regular study group meets at Wilson's house to discuss his two favorite authors, James Joyce and Ezra Pound about whom he is currently writing a book "Tale of the Tribe."
"They're very important writers for our times," he said. "They were bothAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1057785212900014162003-07-09T14:13:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.494-08:00towards a democracy of the senses
seeing with tongues
"The gear I'm wearing was invented by Paul Bach-y-Rita, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Bach-y-Rita has devoted much of his career to a single, revolutionary concept: that our senses are interchangeable. The brain, Bach-y-Rita and many other neuroscientists believe, is an organ of astonishing plasticity ...
"We Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-1057192638266865612003-07-02T17:37:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.513-08:00Cogitating Environments
The Veil of The Temple - by Sir John Tavener
"Worlds are created by brains. At a simple level, bees, migratory birds, dogs and even limpets, which return to a particular spot after feeding, contain internal maps of their surroundings. Humans, who think abstractly, create more complicated inferential maps going beyond their known surroundings, to include the world, Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-959621752003-06-23T16:31:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.532-08:00lives of (th)robbing myth
Inca may have used knot computer code - Steve Connor - The Independent - 23 June 2003
Gary Urton, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, has re-analysed the complicated knotted strings of the Inca - decorative objects called khipu - and found they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information.
... If Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-953911702003-06-06T17:31:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.567-08:00gripping tyre, hidden driver
Nessun Dorma
Greetings, self-organizing systems!
Kevin Kelly - Out of Control - Chapter 23 - Wholes, Holes, and Spaces
In one fell swoop 35 years ago, Dr. Weyl outlined my whole 1994 book on the breaking science of adaptive, distributed systems and the emergent phenomenon they engender.
June 6 - 8, 2003 - PlaNetwork: Networking A Sustainable Future
Global Systems:
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-947565002003-05-22T14:58:00.000-07:002005-01-18T18:18:41.336-08:00interview with an empire
Coming Soon
Correspondent John Mirror confronts the Well-Dressed Man
Kung Fu Philosophers
The Matrix Reloaded: The Corporate Mofo Guide
If you're a white suburban Matrix resident, driving your Matrix SUV to your Matrix golf club, why doubt the nature of reality?
Telewood : telematic connections : tube telematics
Neo is the one because, despite the staggering complexityAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-945989602003-05-19T14:08:00.000-07:002005-01-24T17:13:23.090-08:00consensual cave diving
Number Theory and Time
"I have sometimes thought that if we were able to perceive time in some multi-dimensional way, more like a surface than like a line, then perhaps the distributions of prime numbers would be entirely self-evident, and not seem at all mysterious to us."
Recycling Topology
"A Möbius surface has only one side and one edge. You can make a Möbius band by Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-941284562003-05-10T19:01:00.000-07:002010-01-08T15:19:05.607-08:00today's special
At birth, we emerge from dream soup.
At death, we sink back into dream soup.
In between soups, there is a crossing of dry land.
Life is a portage.
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
(No Exit Press, 2001, page 302)
A Fish called Hamlet
" ... many plant and animal species make both eggs and sperm during their lifetimes, making the idea of distinct "male" and "female" bodies untenableAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-940736792003-05-09T14:11:00.000-07:002003-05-10T13:25:24.000-07:00antipodes of the mind
One Encounter, One Chance
This book takes a fresh look at the traditional principles of Karate, and especially a concept fundamental to all martial arts - that of the "empty self." It asks readers to let go of preconceptions of Karate as merely a system of self-defense techniques and to realize the true intentions of this remarkable martial art: a means for Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-939939972003-05-08T08:11:00.000-07:002003-05-31T17:44:56.000-07:00orientate - mediate - emancipate - mutate
Common Sense & Wonder
"Modern man aspires to live outside of the family; his need is to make of birth and death mere null points in order to destroy time's body. Thus modern society submits equally the womb and the grave to its cosmetic denials."
John O'Neill - Making Sense Together (Heinemann, 1975, page 34)
Hackers and Painters
"What hackers and Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-938104502003-05-05T10:21:00.000-07:002003-05-11T12:36:59.000-07:00bollocks to the fraught noughties - witness and thrive
Young Minds Force-Fed With Indigestible Texts
Mice, along with rats, roaches, snakes and lice, are considered to be upsetting to children
The First Steps Towards Asimov's Psychohistory - Slashdot
Psychohistory repeats itself
"Psycho-history" is the statistical treatment of the actions of large populations across epochal periods - the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-937190162003-05-03T14:03:00.000-07:002003-06-06T14:37:13.000-07:00A beat buried beneath a shifting cyber-surface
Judith Johnson Sherwin
"I try to make a rough music, a dance of the mind, a calculus of the emotions, a driving beat of praise out of the pain and mystery that surround me and become me. My poems are meant to make your mind get up and shout."
Synchronicity surrounds us
Researchers propose a mathematical model of marriage - David Glenn
The germ of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-929057302003-04-19T15:24:00.000-07:002003-04-29T17:56:13.000-07:00Built With The Nonverbal Signs of Body States
"An immutable order binds mutable things into a pattern, and in this order things which are not simultaneous in time exist simultaneously outside time."
Prosper of Aquitaine
Bard on the Brain
"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."
Joseph Campbell
Around the Sixth Century B.C., the Greeks Began to Question
Thales, Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-916255222003-03-29T16:32:00.000-08:002003-04-25T14:37:24.000-07:00Satellite & Vine
"Paradise absent is different from paradise lost."
A War of Ghosts - James Berger
"Trauma, as LaCapra writes in Writing History, Writing Trauma, creates a break between lived experience and cognition, so that "one disorientingly feels what one cannot represent; one numbingly represents what one cannot feel." But the mind, the psyche, the soul struggles to find itself again and Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-913749722003-03-25T15:25:00.000-08:002003-04-22T15:42:34.000-07:00New Life Arises Within The Shells Of Repetition
Introducing the Hermit Crab
I said Hermit Crab
"Both modernism and postmodernism are caught in the paradox of an attempt to 'make it new', to be absolutely modern, to be 'post' everything, that always turns out to be a repetition, most often a parodic repetition, of something that has already occurred in the past. In an analogous way the American Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-909582772003-03-18T16:58:00.000-08:002003-04-18T16:14:03.000-07:00Ghostprobes Hone Radio, A Cyberspace Rhyme Interview
What kept you?
"It's an odd experience to look long and hard at one's own brain."
Magnetic Vision - Bruce Sterling
"The discovery of X-rays in 1895, by Wilhelm Roentgen, led to the first technology that made human flesh transparent."
Ten ways of thinking about deconstruction - Willy Maley
"Derrida likens reading to dunking for apples, headAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-903759762003-03-08T16:13:00.000-08:002004-01-30T17:07:52.326-08:00MIND IN THE CAVE
A trail of images leads from the entrance into the depths
The Mind in the Cave
What prompted people to undertake hazardous journeys into the dark inner reaches of caves to carve or paint animals and other features onto the rock faces?
David Lewis-Williams draws thoughts from the paintings themselves, from anthropology and neurological science, to propose an important link Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-902077592003-03-05T17:12:00.000-08:002003-03-28T03:43:41.000-08:00SYSTEMS - OPEN & LIVE
The Nature of Systems
Philosophy was born when the early Greeks learned to view the world as a kosmos which was intelligible ... One formulation of this cosmic order was the Aristotelian worldview with its holistic and teleological notions. Aristotle's statement that the "whole is more than the sum of its parts" is a definition of the basic system idea.
Open Systems are Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-893401092003-02-18T17:03:00.001-08:002004-02-02T12:24:38.046-08:00A HISTORY OF ETERNITY
"Time is commonly held to flow from past to future, but the opposite notion, established in Spanish verse by Miguel de Unamuno, is no less logical:
Nocturno el río de las horas fluye
desde su manantial que es el mañana
eterno ...
[Nocturnal the river of hours flows / from its source, the eternal tomorrow ...]
The Scholastic concept of time as the flow of the potential Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-890009212003-02-12T16:03:00.000-08:002003-04-18T16:28:28.000-07:00UNIVERSAL ORGANISM
"... scientists have long been guilty of projecting on to nature categories that are rooted in human society. The Greeks built a cosmological scheme based on musical harmony and geometrical regularities, because musical and geometrical instruments were the current technological marvels. Newton's universe was a gigantic clockwork mechanism. Bertrand Russell's was an imperfect Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-889439752003-02-11T17:09:00.000-08:002004-02-02T12:43:39.153-08:00IMMUTABLE? KEEPING UP WITH THE SPEED OF LIGHT
"What I haven't figured out yet is the range of things they don't understand. The normals. The reals. The ones who have the degrees and sit behind the desks in comfortable chairs."
speed of dark - published by orbit, 2002, page 2 - & written by elizabeth moon
Physics, Fast and Furious - Is the Speed of Light Variable?
"According to prevailing Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-888171852003-02-09T14:59:00.000-08:002003-02-21T16:12:14.000-08:00WAVES OF PINES
Emergence and Emergent Computation
"For people in Fuling, the sense of self seemed largely external; you were identified by the way that others viewed you. That had always been the goal of Confucianism, which defined the individual's place strictly in relation to the people around her : she was somebody's daughter, somebody else's wife, somebody else's mother; and each role had Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-881864042003-01-28T16:59:00.000-08:002003-01-28T18:41:15.000-08:00OPERATIONS IN THE MATRIX
"Living forms have two fundamental modalities of existence, Bakan thought: agency denotes the existence of an organism as an individual, and communion denotes participation of the individual in some larger organism of which the individual is a part. Agency manifests itself in self-protection, self-assertion, and self-expansion; communion manifests itself in the sense of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-881314602003-01-27T18:22:00.000-08:002003-02-18T16:46:05.000-08:00And Socrates -- what of him? And ... costs!
"The great flood of the archives is both cause and effect of an expanding collective electronic memory and an enlarging field of inquirers and inquiries."
Mapping Memory: from Papyrus to Digitization - Maureen Flynn-Burhoe
*
"Navy: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision.
Civilian: Recommend you divert your course 15 Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-880226962003-01-25T15:23:00.000-08:002003-04-04T15:22:29.000-08:00OF SHROPSHIRE LORE
Blame it on Housman - Germaine Greer
"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
A.E. Housman (1859-1936)
'The one who most moves me to tears - when poetry can - is Housman,' wrote Robert Lowell, and in 1927 T.S.Eliot Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-879776472003-01-24T14:00:00.000-08:002003-04-02T11:12:52.000-08:00THE HERMITAGE AT HAWKSTONE
�Hermits were obtained by advertisement, and it never seems to have been difficult to get one; indeed one young man, Mr. Laurence from Plymouth, did not merely answer advertisements but himself advertised in 1810 that he wished to retire as a hermit (to a convenient spot) and was willing to engage (for a gratuity) to any nobleman or gentleman who was desirous of havingAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-879235922003-01-23T15:10:00.000-08:002003-01-24T13:56:12.000-08:00BEAST OF BURDEN
A naive donkey who had heard it was good not to have baggage and had none
Was nevertheless weighed down upon
Sometimes a fellow donkey, amply laden, would pass by led by a peasant
In these moments the life of our unladen beast was pleasant
His mysterious burden was lifted and would remain like that the whole day
But each day thereafter it would return, getting heavier until Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-877489002003-01-20T14:22:00.000-08:002003-01-22T17:35:58.000-08:00DYNAMISM AND STASIS
Chapter One: The One Best Way
"A central organizing principle is at the heart of all stasist prescriptions. But stasists do not agree on what that principle should be - or what the transformed and henceforth unchanging society should look like."
Excerpt from The Future and Its Enemies
By Virginia Postrel
Mickey Mouse Clubbed
After the copyright smackdown: What next?
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-876456842003-01-18T10:25:00.000-08:002003-01-20T17:43:11.000-08:00HEART MIND LIVING BRAIN
Intellectual Climate Change
Globalisation today: a human experience
At the heart of globalisation is the interlocking of shared, universal human experience with national borders and identities. Tom Nairn�s exceptional and challenging series continues.
"Not only is consciousness important in all this, it is much more salient since the 9/11 turning point. It�s difficult Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-873273122003-01-12T17:01:00.000-08:002003-01-20T14:14:42.000-08:00REASON RHYTHM & RHYME
I am blessing two, not one.
This was prophesied to the sea lily
Which reaches down into the mud,
The origin of creation.
The time of creation has come.
(An Ifa poem from 'The Penguin Book of Oral Poetry', edited by Ruth Finnegan)
"The hope there is is that we will hear the news." Gertrude Stein
INUIT INTUITION
Song of Joy
The personal song of the shaman Uvavnuk, which Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-871941472003-01-09T17:37:00.000-08:002003-01-11T17:41:39.000-08:00ENVIRONMENT AND ORGANISM
"The individual mind is immanent but not only in the body. It is immanent also in pathways and messages outside the body; and there is a larger Mind of which the individual mind is only a sub-system." Gregory Bateson
Making Amends to the Myriad Creatures by Stephanie Mills
"You gave me a boot (signs on it!) and I ate the wind. I quizzed you a quid (with for what?) and Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-870835162003-01-07T15:56:00.000-08:002003-01-11T16:45:41.000-08:00INTERSENSORY TORONTO
"All media are active metaphors in their power to translate experience into new forms. The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. Words are a kind of information retrieval that can range over the total environment and experience at high speed. Words are complex systems of metaphors and Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-870813622003-01-07T15:02:00.000-08:002003-01-10T14:43:42.000-08:00ON METAPHOR
A man's reach must exceed his grasp or what's a metaphor
"This discovery that language is basically metaphoric, which emerged gradually in the early 19th Century, inspired Emerson's famous dictum that we speak to each other in fossil poems."
Robert Anton Wilson - The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science (Falcon Press, 1987, page 11)
"The mind is Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-869752542003-01-05T14:00:00.000-08:002003-01-23T16:26:39.000-08:00FORM, SUBSTANCE AND DIFFERENCE
"It is the attempt to separate intellect from emotion that is monstrous, and I suggest that it is equally monstrous�and dangerous�to attempt to separate the external mind from the internal. Or to separate mind from body.
Blake noted that 'A tear is an intellectual thing', and Pascal asserted that 'The heart has its reasons of which the reason knows nothing'. We Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-869348642003-01-04T14:00:00.000-08:002003-01-04T15:38:18.000-08:00ORPHIC RESONANCE
Re-recording the Book of the Heart
"Speech is not of the tongue, but of the heart. The tongue is merely the instrument with which one speaks. He who is dumb is dumb in his heart, not in his tongue ...
As you speak, so is your heart."
Paracelsus
"It is no small irony that writing - which Plato denounced in the early days of Western literacy as an alien technological threat to Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-867689392002-12-31T17:12:00.000-08:002004-02-04T15:10:23.860-08:00ALMOST AN AMPHIBIAN
"The Invention of Printing, though ingenious, compared with the invention of Letters, is no great matter." Thomas Hobbes
Bewilderness
"The original and natural idea of knowledge is that of "cunning" or the possession of wits." Odysseus
"Every letter is a godsend" - James Joyce
"We are like early amphibians, so to speak, struggling out of the waters that have hitherto Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-859179932002-12-12T15:43:00.000-08:002003-04-02T14:29:53.000-08:00AN OAR TO CARVE SUCH A HUGE HAM
"But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret thoughts to any other person, though very far distant either in time or place, speaking with those who are in the Indies, speaking to those who are not yet born, nor shall be this thousand or ten thousand years? And with no greater Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-858084382002-12-10T16:02:00.000-08:002003-04-04T14:55:29.000-08:00EQUATIONS - MADE OF DHARMAS
On the Chemistry of Plato's Timaeus by John Visintainer
"At the beginning of Greek philosophy there was the dilemma of the one and the many. We know: there is an ever changing variety of phenomena appearing to our senses; still somehow we believe that ultimately it should be possible to reduce everything to one principle. We try to understand the phenomena and, in Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-854763072002-12-04T03:15:00.000-08:002003-04-06T09:11:59.000-07:00THE PARTNERSHIP ENTERPRISE
"The first thing Parmenides is told when he arrives in the underworld is 'Welcome young man, partnered by immortal charioteers.' But people don't care too much what he's told, so they translate it as 'Welcome young man, accompanied by immortal charioteers.'
That sounds a much simpler statement for the goddess to make. And yet it's also to misunderstand the meaning of aAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-854063132002-12-02T17:23:00.000-08:002002-12-04T03:16:59.000-08:00METANOIA - A CHANGE OF HEART
When Robert Oppenheimer was asked in 1947 about what the atomic bomb meant for physics, he responded, "In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humour, and no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose."
"To repent of an action is to modify the past."
Oscar Wilde
January 1999 - Dr. Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-852290142002-11-28T15:25:00.000-08:002002-12-02T17:18:30.000-08:00THE OCCULT SCIENCE OF BUSHCRAFT
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-851787442002-11-27T12:59:00.000-08:002003-04-04T14:57:38.000-08:00HARRY POTTER SKA
In the Global Memory Theatre
Does anybody remember if
Ever we'll turn delight on
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made.
What's a sundial in the shade." Benjamin Franklin
THAT HAPPENS
Heckler & Coch (salt-sulphur-mercury)
A rolling thunder tour
Through the meaning of rock
"If our senses were fine enough, we would experience
the slumbering cliff as a dancing chaos."
Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-851313572002-11-26T15:00:00.000-08:002003-01-20T17:55:01.000-08:00IN THE KICK OF TIME
When he tried to prove quantum mechanics isn't as odd as it seems, this unlikely guru [John Bell] ended up twisting reality another turn into the weird zone where particles light-years apart may communicate instantaneously
"Locality is the idea that consequences propagate continuously, that they don't leap over distances. And so the question immediately posed itself: Is thatAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-850708212002-11-25T12:36:00.000-08:002003-08-18T16:41:19.090-07:00THE BEAUTIFUL GAME
"Mathematics is a collective activity of human brains, working under certain constraints."
Ian Stewart (Start the Week - BBC Radio 4, 25/11/02)
"We may compare the observer of a physical phenomenon not with the audience of a theatrical performance, but with that of a football game where the act of watching, accompanied by applauding or hissing, has a marked influence on the Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-849843822002-11-23T15:01:00.000-08:002003-08-31T08:39:05.616-07:00Elixir Lips Shocks Body Unlocks Encoded Streaming Life
Trees are the zipper between the earth and the sky
Grasp and release the true vine of being and become a wild real world-child
"Let each jewel reflect all the others, each according to its own faculty"
Destratify the Chain of Command; Receive
Ainsoph, 'this upright one, with that noughty'
Embrace, retrieve & install soul-force, create Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-848380692002-11-20T15:00:00.000-08:002003-08-18T16:36:55.303-07:00007 - THE HUMAN BOND
All the Ages
Passing the Lantern to Bacon
Twilit Grotto: Archives of Western Esoterica
Voynich Manuscript Resources
Cryptography and John Dee
On 28 May 1555 Dee was arrested and charged with "calculating".
"History is moving pretty quickly these days" James Bond
john dee and cosmo-politics
Biographies of alchemists and hermetic philosophers
John Dee, the Queen's Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-847233582002-11-18T12:43:00.000-08:002003-02-05T14:19:12.000-08:00EMPTINESS AND FORM
"Apparently we only read because the writing is already there, laid out before our eyes. Apparently. But the first person who ever wrote, who cut into stone and wood under ancient skies ... changed all relations between seeing and the visible. What he left behind him was not something more, something added to other things; it was not even something less - a subtraction of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-846699172002-11-17T11:47:00.000-08:002003-01-20T18:11:06.000-08:00OF BEING NUMEROUS
"In earlier times, when the relevant social unit was the tribe, the religious sect, a nation, or even a civilization, it was possible for the local mythology in service to that unit to represent all those beyond its bounds as inferior, and its own local inflection of the universal human heritage of mythological imagery either as the one, the true and sanctified, or at least as Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-845948532002-11-15T13:54:00.000-08:002003-09-01T15:22:09.973-07:00Monotheism - Monototheism
"When I was in Sinai - the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments - I had a sort of negative revelation ..."
Michel Houellebecq
Holism and Islam: The Tawheedian World-View - Jeremiah D. McAuliffe Jr
"Islam is profoundly and intelligently holistic. Fourteen hundred years ago Muhammad had regular periods of non-ordinary experience, we Muslims would say a Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-843638182002-11-11T07:02:00.000-08:002002-11-22T15:46:44.000-08:00Beware of the Dead Metaphor
"We may remember now the poets' insistence, particularly Mallarm�'s and Pound's, that method in metaphor is not only exactitude in the figure but potential of development in that figure."
Elizabeth Sewell - The Human Metaphor (University of Notre Dame Press, 1964, page 59)
"With "dead" metaphors, we can say, rigor mortis has set in: they have no flexibility, no forceAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-843287552002-11-10T13:16:00.000-08:002003-04-07T02:26:25.000-07:00MATTER MODEL MUSIC
"Nature, artistically considered, is no model. It exaggerates, it distorts, it leaves gaps."
As Steven Johnson conceives it, the unnerving gap between "raw information and its numinous life on the screen" is the setting for the interface, the evolving medium ...
God, Man, and the Interface by Harvey Blume
Of Slime Mold and Software
"Consciousness is really only a net of Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-842525022002-11-08T14:58:00.000-08:002002-11-11T06:51:22.000-08:00TRACES OF EMERGENCE
Why cities behave like ant colonies
"A city seems to pulsate with its own rhythm, as if it is a living, breathing organism." Anjana Ahuja
"What is the relationship between the disparate elements of consciousness, communities and computer games?"
"Joined together, the great mass of human minds around the earth seems to behave like a coherent, living system. The trouble is Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-840301762002-11-04T16:09:00.000-08:002002-11-24T07:28:19.000-08:00THE ABSENCE OF THE BLOG
"This is the music, anyone who has ears should hear." Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok
Poetry is the plough that turns up time
"Now, ever since Mallarm� we have felt that the other of language is always posed by the language itself as that in which it looks for a way out, in order to disappear into it, or for an Outside, in which to be reflected. Which means not simply Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-838893852002-11-01T12:32:00.000-08:002002-11-01T18:19:17.000-08:00Axiomata Esoterica
These fragments shall serve as starting conditions for a self-organising dynamical system. The system is non-linear in that there are infinite possibilities contained in the starting conditions. Growing each fragment separately assures maximum freedom for each node of thought to expand to its full potential. Rather than being laid out in a linear fashion, harnessed to a Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-836561592002-10-28T03:15:00.000-08:002002-11-10T13:07:02.000-08:00HOUSEHOLD WORLDS
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awoke - Aye, and what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Anima Poetae 1816
"In Die Christenheit, oder Europe (published 1826) Novalis sees, that humankind's historical and spiritual apotheosis will be Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-834740402002-10-24T12:32:00.000-07:002002-10-24T14:10:36.000-07:00Meanings
"Meanings are not merely the whisper of bats in the night; they cohere into flocks to sleep in the caverns of social thought and reemerge in thunderous flight to ignite a million imaginations together." (Walker, Peter. 1997. Minimalist Gardens. Washington: Spacemaker Press.)
The World is a Shared Dream
"Science" studies the material dimension of the World, the consequences and Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-830298482002-10-15T13:29:00.000-07:002002-11-04T15:48:27.000-08:00Release for Peace
THE BALLAD OF FALSE AMERICAN RAY'S EXTENSION
Don't mention the weft
Don't mention the rime
Don't mention the warp
A band called Co
row through history to the end of time
they never look back, singing out -
you were my twentieth century fantasy heckler,
you were a nightmare from which I've awoken
Don't mention the well, the lonely.
Don't mention the fact that the house isAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3824196.post-829795842002-10-14T13:36:00.000-07:002010-01-08T14:58:50.954-08:00TRANSFORMATION
"A fixed image is the basic mortality error, a ME that cannot be allowed to change ..."
William S. Burroughs - The Western Lands (Picador, 1988 Page 158)
Journey to Immortality
If the sea were ink to write the words of my Lord, verily the sea would fail before the words of my Lord would fail. Koran 18.110
'Jesus, son of Mary (on whom be peace) said: The world is a bridge; Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01319637451773336344noreply@blogger.com