Mystery Notes: In Class
Reading/Writing
Grey walters tortoises
Behavior, purpose., teleology: Walter Wiener Bigelow Rosenblueth
Purpose vs ideology The ideology of purpose Robots
Behaviorism :
Teleology became cybernetics Cybernetics: science of feedback systems
Behavior between object and its surroundings
Feed back Machines vs non feedback A thermostat vs a clock Non feedback doesnt respond to its environment
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Reading/Writing
1500 BC: alphabet 1800: photography 1900: film and gramaphone 1950: cybernetics
All the information is comimg back together and coming available/mediated through computers and code
Oliver Leric:
Iranian rocket image. Image manipulation The version most viewed is often dubbed the "real" one Reproduction by different authors
Reproductions act as performances of the idea The increase of duplicates does not diminish the ideas but increase and update it
Reproduction of religious idols : increases its power What is new is alien so we reproduce what we know
Many worlds theory: everet
Consumed imagery becomes part of the Collective memory
Every lie creates parallel world- a world where it is true
Digital recombination
Always somehow re-reading a classic bc we have in some way encountered it before in some cultural reproduction
A sculptured is never reproduced but performs Just like a music score
Same, same but dif
Infinitely many, and increasingly divergent All outcomes exist simultaneously but do not interfere with one another All are equally real
Every lie creates paralell world, the world in which its true
Perversity: appreciation for the manipulated duplicate over the original
Ken goldsmith: on creative writing
Many things have been writing so a new asthetic of writing is compiling works of others together
Story being retold in new order to make new point Diff and divergent narratives
Work around an identity by working around the words: translation
Plagerize a pretend book never written as a new creative work
Scafolding: built or destroyed
The more it is known, the more it is inscribed
" -" as a symbol, unites and devides. Hybridizes.
Icon Uniqueness of artwork Aura
Our discorse in combinational Our perspective is Combinational
Inter-textual: images are already intertextual because words are historical and ideas continuously build
"Im not interested in a dead image, i wanna do something to it".
- Representation-> performance ****
A successful work is reproduced and the idea is taken by someone else to be built upon
Technology has decreased the need for skill in regard to creativity
You can still deliver your version, your interpretation for the idea.
Technology frees us up to write just as computers (technology) free us up to create
Feedback loop
Ever changing
Alternative views are produced as a reaction to the common place
Meaning is relational : aesthetic of relations
Claude shanon - theory of information Identified info as a unit of probability
Rat maze
Ross ashbys homeo stat
Alan turning : cybernetics Turing test- derived from a game where a woman had to convince someone she is a man
The cybernetic brain- brian
Ultimate history: alan turing
Warren pitts
We collect information to hold off on the eventual decay of our memory
Bill nichols: representing reality
How to schisms get started and how do you stop then
Homeostasis in society How do things remain dynamic -recontextualizing ideas about mechanics for social systems
Communication:
Sourse: Message: transmitter: Communications channel: destination
If information is about order, noise disrupts this order
Simplicity to complexity
Rewatch: communication primer charles and ray ehlms Painting transmitting message Source: mind of painter
Communication is what keeps society together Symbol: the abstracting of an idea Communication of an idea through symbols Also the communication from a symbol to a person
Some symbols pass through and become obscure to that only the anthropologist can read it
Ontology The world is informational Organization and sharing of data Links organisms
Its individual and its anonymous