updated: 26-05-2008

An Observatory of Premonition

Like any observatory, the present one qualifies and sharpens its significations in a labile relationship between the occurrence of the observation and the careful and subtle delineation of those observations - the exegesis of the mapping.
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A Concept?
Two points in space (x,y, is z too ambitious?) connected by a scintillating gossamer cord. Pluck the cord. Wave function manifests. Function within specific range (amplitude check one-two, one-two...) results in specific behavior.
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A Question?
This would be a very valid comment for a simple work of fiction.
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Do I miss the harpsichord?
My ideal Bach CD would be a choice of performances by Edwin Fischer.
The "Fantasia (Prelude)" in A minor shows Bach as the improviser: you never know where it will go.
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The end of the journey?
If today, as Virilio warns, speed threatens to overshadow the light of knowledge and interpretation altogether, then his metaphorical, 'tendential', accidental texts also allow us to glimpse the possibility of and for critical thinking.
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Roland Barthes a coward?
Why can't postmodernists handle ambiguity and doubt?
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Nerve Theory
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Nine beliefs
Before I got mixed up in the bureaucratic blender I derived nine beliefs I still live by:
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La Marioneta
If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say.
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Cities & Signs 5
No one, wise Kublai, knows better than you that the city must never be confused with the words that describe it. And yet between the one and the other there is a connection.
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"WEB 2.0" AS A NEW CONTEXT FOR ARTISTIC PRACTICES
By Juan Martin Prada
- and published here with his kind permission.
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ARPA's 50th Anniversary and the Internet: a Model for Basic Research
By Ronda Hauben
- and published here with her kind permission
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"To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
-- Carl Sagan

I am not
I am not the arms on the Victory of Samothrace.
I am not the cause of the Peloponnesian War.
I am not Hank Williams.
I am not the book you left on the subway.
I am not a rainbow trout.
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I am not II
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no people. i am not an eagle and i am not powerful and fly higher than any other animal." i am not the "proud lion, wise and far-sighted." i am not the "humble mole, burrowing beneath the "world."
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Does it matter what order things are said in?
not is important order word
not is important word order
not is order important word
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Ontological Impossibility
When does the concept make contact with the condition of objects. The condition, not the object or set.
Volume and weight, mass and density emerge from the object. Colors saturate the emoting eye.
The aspect of time in a thing and groups of things.
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Multimedia instead of law?
The cultural predominance of the book and writing is coming to an end. Digitization, computerization and electronic media are the technologies that dominate cultural development, no longer the printing of books. The image is superseding text as the main cultural medium.
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Dream Skepticism

MORPHEUS:
Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real?
MORPHEUS:
What if you were unable to wake from that dream, Neo? How would you know the difference between the dreamworld and the real world?

Google INC. vs. Wisdomized Clouds
By Grischinka Teufl
- - and published here with the author's kind permission
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