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

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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