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The Abode of Two Bodies
Jean-François LyotardThe Postmodern Explained Oriented to the world within and without: [Claude] Lefort [in an article about the novel 1984*] uses the name of the body to designate the two entities Merleau-Ponty tried to consider together in The Visible and … Continue reading
Loop Behaviour & Representations
Brenda LaurelComputers as Theatre – Second Edition Representation as triggers for action (one senses the ghost of ideology critique) … [Page 212] Rob Tow says that the defining characteristic of an “entity” is that it demonstrates a “perception-representation-action” (PRA) loop … Continue reading
Granularity and Modularity
Brenda Laurel Computers as Theatre – Second Edition Assembling micro events into the arc of drama… Side Bar page 81 In the sense that I speak about “human-computer interaction,” I mean enabling and representing actions with human and technological participants. … Continue reading
Intercession Deserves Its Own Verb Form
Northrop Frye on Sir James Frazer in Architects of Modern Thought: 12 talks for CBC Radio A ritual, in magic, is done for practical purposes, to make the crops grow, to baffle enemies, to bring rain or sunshine or children. … Continue reading
Subjectivation and Narrativisation
We begin with the characterization of a person. Lynne Huffer. Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory p. 117 For Foucault, as for Deleuze, subjectivation includes more than social or linguistic construction. Indeed, it includes more than the … Continue reading
Seeds Cast from a Train
This is set up by remarks by Jonathan Lethem about the anti-intellectualism of American culture: “even American arts culture has a very violent anti-intellectual streak in it.” Lethem’s remarks help us as viewers understand the poignant finale to The Polymath, … Continue reading
unbodylike objects
Giles Deleuze’s Logique du sens brought me to Émile Bréhier. La théorie des incorporels. 1962. p. 44. Ce qui fait le fond des arguments d’Aristote contre le vide, c’est que dans le vide en lui-même, on ne peut arriver à … Continue reading
Wow
I am amazed that I was able to think so coherently on an abstract plane. This is taken from MetaMimetics – HyperMnemonics From With Towards There in the book On the Origin of Objects by Brian Cantwell Smith, a passage … Continue reading
Grids, Lists, Clusters
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 347. To extrapolate: the electronic medium facilitates reading in terms of clusters, lists, and tables (a type of reading that was always available to the clever manipulator of index cards). I like to think … Continue reading
Cell is to Nature as Point is to Art
Wassily Kandinsky towards the end of the “line” chapter of Point and Line to Plane (translated by Howard Dearstyne and Hilla Rebay) contrasts nature and art. One must not, however, draw false conclusions from similar cases: the difference between art … Continue reading