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7 February 2024

  • 19:0019:00, 7 February 2024 diff hist +1,212 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/teachingmachineshowtoactCreated page with "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAg66jrvpHA&t=581s https://www.hellbrunn.at/en/trick-fountains/mechanical-theatre-1 Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein The automaton as theatre, machines as actors. Bots trying to pass as human. the city becomes a kind of vast mechanical opera Performance/machines as models of poteential society. Machines are virtual, performances are the same as tools they all have a magic circle. Rosenegger conducted the work on this theatre under..." current
  • 18:5118:51, 7 February 2024 diff hist +119 User:Ssstephen/ReadingNo edit summary

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  • 10:5710:57, 28 December 2023 diff hist +12,960 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/scratching the surfaceCreated page with " <pre>why would anyone want to read about graphic design? ... designers are usually too busy to spend time reading about their craft.</pre> Even Aido knows we're all veeery busy. In this situation I am reading about graphic design in the early 21st century to understand where some of my own beliefs and those of my contemporaries came from. This book is a collection of essays about design written by a British man in the period of 1995–2013. What were our views ten or t..." current
  • 10:5710:57, 28 December 2023 diff hist +2,405 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/the world the flesh and the DevilCreated page with " ===Introduction by McKenzie Wark=== Bernal was what we would now call an accelerationist. He was an Irish landowner and had a "precocious identification with the cause of Sinn Fein" <pre>Bernal broached the question of what it meant to be a citizen of science and a citizen as a scientist.</pre> <pre>for Bernal, utopian thought ought to replace religion as a way of feeling out the relation of present to future. In place of heaven or apocalypse, he offered a kind of wr..." current
  • 10:5610:56, 28 December 2023 diff hist +4,816 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/digitallethargyCreated page with "In the 1850s manual labour began to be replaced by immaterial or communicative work. We still use our hands though. <pre>these changes led Western society to increasingly idealise a subject who is less a follower of norms or fixed rules than one who takes responsibility and initiative to make their own rules.</pre> Alain Ehrenberg, La fatigue d'etre soi. Autonomy is the root of burnout and depression. The metaphor of the dam in Sleep Dealers as control of resources,..." current
  • 10:5510:55, 28 December 2023 diff hist +258 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Cruel OptimismCreated page with " ===Introduction=== <pre>conceiving of a contemporary moment from within that moment. One of this books central claims is that the present is perceived, first, affectively: the present is what makes itself present to us before it becomes anything else</pre>" current
  • 10:5410:54, 28 December 2023 diff hist +3,025 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Lecture about biological underpinnings of religiosityCreated page with " https://youtu.be/4WwAQqWUkpI?si=UmaN4SONkCNvzJm7 Metamagical thinking more common with schizotypal people, the people who were most likely the shamans for most of human history. <pre>We impose this totally arbitrary useless destructive structure, at a time when everything else feels like you're walking on quicksand. We all do this as some sort of adaptation to periods of anxiety</pre> <pre>very mathematical qualities to it and it's never quite right and you've gotta..." current
  • 10:5410:54, 28 December 2023 diff hist +1,657 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/thereisnoidentityorselfCreated page with " https://www.meer.com/en/66048-there-is-no-identity-or-self <pre>I prefer the term “mattering” to meaning for its ability to encompass and enfold, to embrace meaning and caring, mind and heart, feelings and ideas, for they are not separate nor are they related in a linear “cause and effect” sequence. Instead they are inextricably intertwined, each implicate in the others and deeply enfolded in the matrix of human experience.</pre> <pre>there are no isolated and..." current
  • 10:5110:51, 28 December 2023 diff hist +1,109 User:Ssstephen/Reading/On the Inconvenience of Other People→‎3: On being in life without wanting the world current
  • 10:4910:49, 28 December 2023 diff hist +632 User:Ssstephen/ReadingNo edit summary
  • 10:4210:42, 28 December 2023 diff hist +155 User:Ssstephen/Reading/A Thousand PlateausNo edit summary current

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  • 18:2718:27, 10 November 2023 diff hist +3,863 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Edible FeminismsCreated page with "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG9cDpkOnA0 <pre>what things connect contemporary american food culture with the production of science, with facts, with data, with claims about the nature of how things work in the world?</pre> <pre>fermenting what is normally thrown out, in fermentation technologies what is ugly old, or funky could be made delicious, desirable to eat, and significantly more valuable</pre> <pre>the potential for science to turn ick into yum</pre> Ther..." current
  • 15:1515:15, 10 November 2023 diff hist +102 User:Ssstephen/ReadingNo edit summary

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  • 19:4619:46, 30 October 2023 diff hist +536 N Printing/xml-plotter-2Created page with "=carlos= carlos is a BBC Goertz Metrawatt SE-283. carlos is full of dust and broken bits of cogs. carlos is like a siemens c1630 (?). carlos has ten black screws on the bottom they're all the same. carlos has four silver screws inside the pen holder, one facing up with a washer and three facing sideways behind where the pens go. carlos speaks two languages, HPGL and GGL. carlos knows the difference between ANSI and ISO. carlos needs a new ribbon cable and two ne..."

27 October 2023

  • 13:0813:08, 27 October 2023 diff hist +507 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Why Publish Noise?Created page with "https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/82/pdf <pre>because. because causes are the earth. because once unchecked & unleashed, the visual/verbal thought form is instinctively sensory behaviour.</pre> <pre>experimental publishing is the reversal of a disposable media which reduces all information to identical & easy to swallow info pills... Oftentimes, obscurity is a survivalistic necessity & the only action is producing disinformation-objects which threaten æsthetics..." current
  • 13:0513:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +83 User:Ssstephen/ReadingNo edit summary

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  • 11:3011:30, 25 October 2023 diff hist +1,618 N User:Ssstephen/imposingCreated page with "Every time i try to do this I forget. It would be nice to make a bash script but I think there are a lot of variables to consider. It is a complex ritual that depends on sensitivity to many conditions. For now I'll just document how I'm doing it today. First we need to find out the width of the pages. Its called PageMediaDimensions and is usually the last line of this: pdftk input.pdf dump_data Usually the aim is to crop to half the width from each side, so we will e..." current
  • 11:1311:13, 25 October 2023 diff hist +89 User:SsstephenNo edit summary
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