User:Kim/reading/The truth of fact, the truth of feeling

by Ted Chiang Subterranean Press Fall 2013

#1

I mostly think of writing and reading together - when we write we read and when we read we write (annotate, inscribe)? : interesting how there is such a huge gap between both here

I am curious to think of how technology shapes our ways of memorizing : maybe not only in the most common doom "we loose ability to remember" but also how we benefit or change

I also thought of the the “Extended Mind Thesis” originally established by philosopher and cognitive scientists Andy Clark and David Chalmers in 1998 ( the mind does not exclusively reside in the brain, or even the body, but extends beyond and into the physical world )

lastly I find it interesting how with remem memory becomes very reliant on image/ the visual apparatus (and all the ideologies/ predispositions that come with visibility?)

#2

europeans :,(

materiality: paper

"how can paper tell a story?" I really liked the question, feel it adheres to something/ questions that understands paper as an active/living being with its own materiality and individual relations (different than human or animal ones maybe)

paper is a record, writing is recording

this is about time: preserving (future), looking back (history, past)

"interpreting" reminded me of the browser and protocols - the machine/ code knows one interpretation while the human one is ambigous