MachineMachine /stream - tagged with object http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/21811775211 “The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be able to make another being like me in the way that a watchmaker makes a watch (or that a man in the “age of the reindeer” made a blade of sharp stone), and as a matter of fact I don’t know what the being is that I am, nor do I know what the world is… ]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:24:52 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/21811775211 quote from High Techne - Rutsky https://findings.com/therourke/finding/163295 The position ofhuman beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot,therefore,be that ofthe analyst (or theorist) who,standing outside this space,presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation ofconnection to,ofinteraction with,that which hasbeen seen as “other,”including the unsettling processes oftechno-cultureitself.To accept this relation is to let go ofpart ofwhat it has meant to behuman,to be a human subject,and to allow ourselves to change,to mu-tate,to become alien,cyborg,posthuman.This mutant,posthuman sta-tus is not a matter ofarmoring the body,adding robotic prostheses,ortechnologically transferring consciousness from the body;it is not,inother words,a matter offortifying the boundaries ofthe subject,ofse-curing identity as a fixed entity.It is rather… ]]> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:52:17 -0700 https://findings.com/therourke/finding/163295 The Cyberspace Real (Between Perversion and Trauma) http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real Are the pessimistic cultural criticists (from Jean Baudrillard to Paul Virilio) justified in their claim that cyberspace ultimately generates a kind of proto-psychotic immersion into an imaginary universe of hallucinations, unconstrained by any symbolic Law or by any impossibility of some Real? If not, how are we to detect in cyberspace the contours of the other two dimensions of the Lacanian triad ISR, the Symbolic and the Real? As to the symbolic dimension, the solution seems easy — it suffices to focus on the notion of authorship that fits the emerging domain of cyberspace narratives, that of the "procedural authorship":… ]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:33:41 -0700 http://www.egs.edu/faculty/slavoj-zizek/articles/the-cyberspace-real The Neolithic Age is over! http://032c.com/2011/the-neolithic-age-is-over/ Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the fifth century BC, and even the Neolithic age. For example, if there are no more peasants today, when did peasantry ­begin? In the Neolithic age. We can now say that in the year 2000, the Neolithic age is over. But who announced this in the news­papers? We didn’t read in any paper that “the Neolithic age is over”!

And we are equipped in our thinking for this… ]]> Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:36:11 -0700 http://032c.com/2011/the-neolithic-age-is-over/ On Seeing (an Imitation) http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/01/on-seeing-an-imitation.html

by Daniel Rourke

“Mimesis here is not the representation of one thing by another, the relation of resemblance or of identification between two beings, the reproduction of a product of nature by a product of art. It is not the relation of two products but of two productions. And of two freedoms... 'True' mimesis is between two producing subjects and not between two produced things.”

Jacques Derrida, Economimesis

Enlarged pupil (an eye with iritis)
As the day drew closer to its end so I strained…
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