MachineMachine /stream - tagged with movement http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net The Temporary Autonomous Zone http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html I believe that by extrapolating from past and future stories about "islands in the net" we may collect evidence to suggest that a certain kind of "free enclave" is not only possible in our time but also existent. All my research and speculation has crystallized around the concept of the TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE (hereafter abbreviated TAZ). Despite its synthesizing force for my own thinking, however, I don't intend the TAZ to be taken as more than an essay ("attempt"), a suggestion, almost a poetic fancy. Despite the occasional Ranterish enthusiasm of my language I am not trying to construct political… ]]> Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:43:13 -0700 http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html Incredible Journeys http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/incredible_journeys/ Some animals can instinctively solve navigational problems that have baffled humans for centuries. Now, researchers are uncovering how. The nervous system of the desert ant Cataglyphis fortis, with around 100,000 neurons, is about 1 millionth the size of a human brain. Yet in the featureless deserts of Tunisia, this ant can venture over 100 meters from its nest to find food without becoming lost. Imagine randomly wandering 20 kilometers in the open desert, your tracks obliterated by the wind, then turning around and making a beeline to your starting point—and no GPS allowed! That’s the equivalent of what the desert… ]]> Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:17:00 -0700 http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/incredible_journeys/ Coriolis effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. For example, consider two children on opposite sides of a spinning roundabout (carousel), who are throwing a ball to each other. From the children's point of view, the ball's path is curved sideways by the Coriolis effect. From the thrower's perspective, the deflection is to the right with anticlockwise carousel rotation (viewed from above). Deflection is to the left with clockwise rotation. Newton's laws of motion govern the motion of an object in an inertial frame of reference. When… ]]> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:57:00 -0700 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect Transitzone/ Against an Aesthetics of Noise http://www.ny-web.be/transitzone/against-aesthetics-noise.html Ray Brassier – My stance is not particularly original: it’s indebted to the work of several more genuinely original philosophers. The confluence of their influence in my thinking represents my attempt to address what I see as the fundamental issue facing contemporary philosophy: how does human experience fit into the world described by science? Contemporary philosophers can be sorted into two basic camps: in the first, there are those who want to explain science in terms of human experience; in the second, there are those who want to explain human experience in terms of science. The former argue that science… ]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:38:00 -0700 http://www.ny-web.be/transitzone/against-aesthetics-noise.html Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/mapping-the-cracks-part-i.html

Part One

by Daniel Rourke

"The spacetime of the lightcones and the fermions and scalar are connected to the chocolate grinder. The chocolate grinder receives octonionic structure from the water wheel."

- Tony Smith, Valdosta Museum Website

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, EvenIn 1927 Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass was broken in transit. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, Duchamp's title for the piece, depicts a mechanical Bride in its upper…

]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:04:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/mapping-the-cracks-part-i.html The Movement of The Middle http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/movement-of-the-middle

Evaporating Black-Hole

Words, bread, and wine are between us, beings or relations. We appear to exchange them between us though we are connected at the same table or with the same language. They are breast-fed by the same mother. Parasitic exchange, crossed between the logical and the material, can now be explained… Do we ever eat anything else together than the flesh of the word?[...]

Mediations, relations - one can make believe one is lost in this fractal cascade…… ]]> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:05:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/movement-of-the-middle Way more about paths at UC Berkeley than you'd ever want to read http://www.peterme.com/archives/000073.html How architectural and design choices are mediated and ultimately over-ruled by user choice, reflexion, repetition and desire. ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 12:21:00 -0700 http://www.peterme.com/archives/000073.html Desire Paths/Lines: the original translation and related concepts/terms http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/122978 Desire Paths / Lines: a term apparently coined by Gaston Bachelard in The Poetics of Space. What was the original French he used? and are there any other terms for the act and outcome of paths that emerge through routine, reflexion and the feedback of movement. What was Bachelard's original name for desire lines, in French?

Also, I am not just interested in desire lines as object/artefact, but the actual act of creating/adding to desire lines. Is there a different term for this? or a series of related terms? any terms from other areas/disciplines which… ]]> Mon, 25 May 2009 11:37:00 -0700 http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/122978 Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia http://www.artpool.hu/Fluxus/Higgins/intermedia2.html Art is one of the ways that people communicate. It is difficult for me to imagine a serious person attacking any means of communication per se. Our real enemies are the ones who send us to die in pointless wars or to live lives which are reduced to drudgery, not the people who use other means of communication from those which we find most appropriate to the present situation. When these are attacked, a diversion has been established which only serves the interests of our real enemies. ]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:03:00 -0700 http://www.artpool.hu/Fluxus/Higgins/intermedia2.html