MachineMachine /stream - tagged with symbolism http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com Buying the Body of Christ http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dogma/buying-the-body-of-christ//buying-the-body-of-christ-lt-killing-the-buddha Branding the communion wafer : “We’re proud to put our name on what will become the body of Jesus.” http://t.co/RBrsOghu #transubstantiation ]]> Sun, 08 Apr 2012 01:06:18 -0700 http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dogma/buying-the-body-of-christ//buying-the-body-of-christ-lt-killing-the-buddha Borges: The Task of Art http://www.openculture.com/2010/08/borges_the_task_of_art.html/borges-the-task-of-art-open-culture Jorge Luis Borges on The Task of Art: http://t.co/1RFPLaBK via @openculture ]]> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:25:17 -0700 http://www.openculture.com/2010/08/borges_the_task_of_art.html/borges-the-task-of-art-open-culture The Clock: What time is it where? http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49723 Marclay assembled his edit in hour-long chunks, the 24-hour cycle giving him enormous scope, but also confining him to a minute-by-minute grid. “A 10.01 clip has to be within that minute, at 10.01,” he says. “But within that minute I can place it anywhere – a minute is long in film, or it can be very fast. Then, in between, I have these joints – scenes that are not time-specific, but have to relate to the previous clip and the next one and articulate those fragments and create a flow. What I put in those joints is very much personal… ]]> Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:57:00 -0700 http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/feature/49723 To Have Is to Owe http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/10/to_have_is_to_owe We need to understand what philosophers in the Middle Ages, from Italy to India to China, already understood perfectly well: Money is not a thing, and is certainly not a scarce resource. Money is a promise. And it is a promise we keep to those we value and break to those we do not. In Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, sovereign-debt default seems ever more likely. If it occurs, then what will happen? Certain promises will be kept, and others will be broken. As we learn from politicians every day, it is rarely possible to keep all promises exactly as… ]]> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 01:36:15 -0700 http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/10/to_have_is_to_owe Capitalism's Dismal Future http://chronicle.com/article/Capitalisms-Dismal-Future/126659/ A remarkable feature of the commentary on today's economic troubles is that, despite constant reference to the Great Depression of the 1930s, as well as to the many downturns since World War II, there has been little mention of the fact that business depressions have been a recurrent feature of the capitalist economy since the Industrial Revolution. But even the briefest attention to history makes recent events appear far from unusual. From the early 1800s to the late 1930s, in fact, capitalism spent between a third and a half of its history in depressions (depending on how they are dated… ]]> Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:30:54 -0700 http://chronicle.com/article/Capitalisms-Dismal-Future/126659/ 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

]]> Sun, 09 May 2010 12:37:00 -0700 http://www.flickr.com/photos/huge-entity/4593039926/in/set-72157624025953884/ Technologies of Culture: The Archive http://www.brynmawr.edu/visualculture/journal/t_theArchive.shtml "'To read what was never written.' Such reading is the most ancient: reading before all languages, from the entrails, the stars, or dances. Later the mediating link of a new kind of reading, of runes and hieroglyphs, came into use. It seems fair to suppose that these were the stages by which the mimetic gift, which was once the foundation of occult practices, gained admittance to writing and language. In this way language may be seen as the highest level of mimetic behavior and the most complete archive of nonsensuous similarity: a medium into which the earlier powers of mimetic… ]]> Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:38:00 -0700 http://www.brynmawr.edu/visualculture/journal/t_theArchive.shtml