User:Ssstephen/Reading/Paper Machines
P63 In Praise of the Cross-Reference
Index card system as authors assistant when cross referencing is used, or communication partner
Conscious and unconscious cross referencing
Clarifying creative prompts
Intentional (re conscious unconscious?) incorrect references can stimulate. Like Denis Diderot in Encyclopedia
Index cards as stars
Index cards as neurons
Index cards as stock prices
Index cards as sex in the city characters
Mapping
Scope/accuracy of a reference... Reference to mathematics vs reference to godels incompleteness theorem. Focus
“ Every note is only one element"
Claude Shannon Entropy
Nikolas Luhmann physical index cards in the late twentieth century (Anonymous . 1929c . “ Kartei ” als Warenzeichen gelöscht! Rationelle Betriebsführung, n.p.) ( Vogt , Victor . 1922 . Die Kartei: Ihre Anlage und Führung. Vol. 5 of Orga-Schriften. 2nd edition , revised by Dr. Porstmann. Berlin : Organisation Verlagsanstalt)
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P65 On the Gradual Manufacturing of Thoughts in Storage
poetological - to do with the knowledge of creation? Don't have a dictionary right now
Konrad Gessner possible inventor of index cards
"the production of innovations is always based on the fortifi ed recombination of the existing."
Heinrich von Kliest midwifery of thought (On the Gradual Produc-tion of Thoughts Whilst Speaking 1805) borrowed from Kant
analects --- what is this?
Conversation creates ideas
The Text claims index cards are a valid substitute for the new connections and perspectives offered by a human in conversation. To me this implies the humans creativity is the same as the connections offered by the references; surprising, useful, inspiring, but also predetermined?
Index cards as "precise" "infallible", generally true compared to humans but a) has limits and b) has negative results as well as positive
Kliest - knowledge as a "condition" or state rather than a property
Recombinatory power comes from material nature of cards shuffling juxtaposing etc
"born from the spirit of sloth" index cards as laziness
Index cards as boredom