User:Elleke Hageman/Trimester1/Thematic/Notes 5

As we may think

Scientists have shared greatly and learned up until now. The lasting benefits of science: increased control of material environment, increased knowledge of his own biological processes so that there's progressive freedom from disease and increased lifespan. Increase of mental health.

Growing mountain of research. Because of the overload of research there's no time or place in a researhers mind to undwerstand and remember what the research conclusions are.

Yet it is necessary to have specialisation for progress. Publication has been extended far beyond our presentability to make real use of the record.

There's a tranformation evolution in mechanical aids which can effect the storage of scientific resources. The evolution of mechanical aids: inventions should not come to early for there will be no market or means of production for them.

Machines with interchangeable parts perform reliably and economy is ready for them.

2 A record must be stored and consulted. The progression of photograpy towards producing with dry photography. Process of photography first wet plates, wet development maybe there will become a certain point dry photography. Integrated papers dark light up where electrical contact touches them.

Line by line, dry photography which has similarities to screens. Improvement of microphoto full clarity when enlarged. If this would improve it would have great impact on ways of storing.

Compression is impotant when it comes to costs.

3 To make a record we now use manual entering. By altering existing entry mechanisms we can make a new form of productive recording. Vb Girl strokes keys and speech is produced.

Present languages are not well adapted t thus sort of mechanisations. Much needs to happen for a certain system to come into life. Braille????? There's now a clumsy way of writing that exists. Recording positionally. Punch card system are in embryo. In the future there will be far more versatile machines.

4 For machines of advanced analyses there is no market yet. Mathemetic machines.

5 Scientists manipulation of data. Whenever logical processes of thought are employed there's an opportunity for a machine. Equation transformers. Manipulation of ideas and insertion into record. There allready exist simple selection devices which are slow but will be speeded up. Selection by association rather than indexing. Memex.

7 Memex uses associative indexing.

The association has to be done manually. Sets of dots for photocell viewing.

8 New forms of encyclopedia patenting.

Boris groys

Traditionally the main occupation for human culture was the search for totality. To get rid of their specific points of view. The desire for totality is a desire for freedom.

Myths of emergence of the world functioning unavoidable end. Transcendental subject, the unconscious, the absolute spirit. Overcome it's own finiteness it's own mortality.

The materialist understanding of the world seems to deny human beings acces to the totality of the world thats was secured to them by religous and philosophical tradition.

The materialist discourse state all things are finite but all of them are involved in the infinite material flow. There is material totality – totality of the flow. Can a human reach totality?

Yes it can in a way because it is subjected to the same universal flow. The materialistic totality is a negative. You should not make any attempt to escape into fictive metaphysical etc beyond the material world.

That human's bodies are in the flow does not neccessarily mean that the humans persons are also in flow. Social orders material supports of our personalities are state archives. Revolution is an artificial acceleration of the world flow. It is an act of impatience. That's why revolution is the only way by which post metaphysical materialist man can access the totality of the flow.

These revolutionary efforts of self-fluidization, understood as dissolution of ones own person, public image are documented by modern contemporary art as the effort of self eternalisation were documented by the traditional art.

Old material support decays and must be substituted by new supports. To get acces to the flow the form itself must be made fluid- it can not become fluid by itsself. That is the reason for artistic revolutions. The revolution takes effort.

Wagners Gesammtkunstwerk. Wagner states that the typical artist of his time is an egoist who is completely isolated from the life of the people and practices his art for luxury of the rich. In so doing he follows the dictates of fashion. . The artist of the future must become radically different.

Becoming communist is possible only throuhg self dissolution in the collective. The Gesammtkunstwerk. The great united artwork which must gather up each branch of art.

Becoming communist is possible only through self-renunciation in the collective. The last completest renunciation of personal egoism is by his necessary death.

All other artist achieve their own artistic signifigance solely through participation in this ritual of self-sacrifice performed by the hero. After self sacrificion a new dictator will rise. The gesamtkunstwerk shows the descent of the hero into the material flow. The event becomes a form that can be repeated.

Malevich: progressing disfiguration. The work of permanent destruction.

The image of destruction of the image. Every act if destruction leaves material traces. There is no total annihalation.

Life knows what it's doing, and if it's striving to destroy one must not interfere, since by hindering we are blocking the path to a new conception of life that is born within us.

Malevich: do not keep or save things but let them go without sentimentality and remorse. Indestructable character of art. Both religion and factory(modern technique) are a strive for perfection. Perfection of the individual soul and the material world.

This is impossible because the humans time and energy is finite. This finitude prevents humanity from achieving any kind of perfection.

The moment a person would achieve perfection it's goal in life would no longer be and thus the purpose of our existence. Thus it is the failure that opes an infininte horizon of human and trans human existence. Malevich saw art as a virus; constantly changing living ever furtherchangning its hosts and transforming itself through time but still keeping it's identity.

The contemplation on god and eternal ideas shares the fate of descent into material flow. However all religious illuminations and scientific evidences can be interoreted as products of our own imagination that is determined by the material condiions of our existence. The anti archive demonstrates that the flow was never really entered.

The main place of archives is the internet. The internet is anti-flow. Copies are siteless they haveve no particular inscription in historical time. The internet is by no mean siteless. The digital data produces not copies but new orgnials.

The internet is a material archive in the middle between the material flow. Now material flow is infinite and cannot be grasped by finite means. And internet is still finite.