MachineMachine /stream - tagged with quote 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 “I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/19545387424

“I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right down to it.”

]]> Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:25:09 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/19545387424 Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription https://findings.com/therourke/finding/213609 To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the particles of ink lodge themselves within the roughness of the paper and will not leave without a trace. Even invisible ink enters the pores of the paper upon which secrets are trusted. Visibility itself is not a measure of inscription, modification of the substratum is. Digital writing celebrates the loss of inscription by removing the trace from acts of… ]]> Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:31:02 -0700 https://findings.com/therourke/finding/213609 "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 “Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for communication: templates that guide, unavailing or not, concrete processes of human interaction, mass and interpersonal.”

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James Carey, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society

The Shannon and Weaver Model - The Late Age of Print

 ]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:21:08 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/17947545876 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 Threshold science http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/12236448007/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases-lapidarium-notes Threshold science: How walking through a doorway increases forgetting : http://t.co/npVLfW8H ]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:51:34 -0700 http://aminotes.tumblr.com/post/12236448007/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases/how-walking-through-a-doorway-increases-lapidarium-notes Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/12159601444

Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas

Lewis F. Richardson

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:42:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/12159601444 "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..." http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10845009111 “Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.”

- J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition (hat tip outsiderindustries) ]]> Fri, 30 Sep 2011 05:16:45 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/10845009111 Michel Serres, The Natural Contract http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8687570754 “Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument between two people if one speaks a language the other can’t understand. […] Can an individual actor, lost in these gigantic masses, still say ‘I’ when the old collectivities, themselves so lightweight, have already been reduced to uttering a paltry and outmoded ‘we’?”

- Michel Serres, The Natural Contract ]]> Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:36:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8687570754 Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7350819493 “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing. Stable, immutable, redundant. It recopies the same writings, with the same atom-letters. The law is the plague. Reason is the fall. The reiterated cause is death. Repetition is redundancy. And identity is death. Every­thing falls to zero: the nullity of information, the emptiness of knowledge, non-existence. The same is Non-Being.”

- The Birth of Physics by Michel… ]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:03:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7350819493 Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7233736409 “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.”

- Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus ]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:02:43 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/7233736409 The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4zYzG8bHA5oC&lpg=PP1&ots=G_V3DQxB0x&dq=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of%20a%20Scientific%20Revolution&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of by Niklas Luhmann

The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means of another distinction which then assumes the function of a guarantor of reality. Another way of expressing this is to say the operation emerges simultaneously with the world which as a result remains cognitively unapproachable to the operation. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that the connection with the reality of the external world is established by the blind spot of the cognitive operation.… ]]> Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:10:00 -0700 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=4zYzG8bHA5oC&lpg=PP1&ots=G_V3DQxB0x&dq=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of%20a%20Scientific%20Revolution&pg=PA64#v=onepage&q=Wolfgang%20Krohn%20Self-organization%3A%20Portrait%20of The Ship Argo http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4593039926/in/set-72157624025953884/

Mr. Daniel posted a photo:

The Ship Argo

Extract from 'Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes', page 46

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