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Jodorowsky's Dune/Fictional Computers/ objects that never existed, but had a significant impact
the right to be forgotten: removing oneself from the grid
overlooked media
theft at Kunsthal by Romanian thieves, the copy substitutes the original
Duchamp's fountain, a replicated myth woven into popular culture
obsolete media
Apollo 11 tapes
painting a kangaroo when you've never seen one
internodal: refusing to be indexed
Kingdom of Lovely: a failed micronation
'those missing from the stadium are always right', Paul Virilio 1982
patents: making reference to objects that may or may not exist
House of Wisdom/ Library of Alexandria: libraries that have been destroyed
International Corporation of Lost Structures
disappearance as resistance
Quaero: Europe's answer to Google, a multimedia search engine that never existed, but had a vivid presence in the public mind
Matthew Rothenberg creates a website that deletes itself once it's indexed by Google his code here
Amber Room: curious attempted de- and reconstruction of a room hinting at its objecthood
phantom islands/lost minor planets: observers losing track of the planets' positions
Bas Jan Ader - the artist lost at sea
Solange Frankort - missing from social media for a week
Chris Burden, "Disappearing", 1971
Link rotting

Hito Steyerl

But what, then, is the state of missing itself? Does it take place inside Schrödinger’s box, so to speak? Is it being both dead and alive? How can we understand its conflicting desires: to want and to dread the truth at the same time? The urge to both move on and keep hope alive? Perhaps the state of missing speaks of a paradoxical superposition that cannot be understood with the conceptual tools of Euclidian physics, human biology, or Aristotelian logic. Perhaps it reaches out to an impossible coexistence of life and death. Both are materially interlaced in limbo—as long as no observer opens the “box” of indeterminacy. Which is, in many cases, a grave.

Additionally, the twentieth century also perfected observation as a method of killing. Measurement and identification became tools of murder. Phrenology. Statistics. Medical experimentation. Economies of death. In his lectures about biopolitics, Michel Foucault described the stochastic calculus that determined life or death.9 Counting and observing were radicalized to make sure that anything that entered the box died when the box was reopened.

reminder to search for this book

reminder to read this

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-*Jodorowsky's Dune
+*Jodorowsky's Dune/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_computers Fictional Computers]/ objects that never existed, but had a significant impact
-*The right to be forgotten
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten the right to be forgotten: removing oneself from the grid]
-*Kickstarter failed projects
+*[http://www.creativeapplications.net/reviews/evil-media-distribution-centre/ overlooked media]
-*Grey Media - Matthew Fuller
+*theft at Kunsthal by Romanian thieves, the copy substitutes the original
-*Fountain
+*Duchamp's fountain, a replicated myth woven into popular culture
-*Romanian painting thieves
+*obsolete media
-*Internodal – refusing to be indexed
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes Apollo 11 tapes]
+*[http://hyperallergic.com/187566/painting-a-kangaroo-when-youve-never-seen-one/ painting a kangaroo when you've never seen one]
+*internodal: refusing to be indexed
+*Kingdom of Lovely: a failed micronation
+*'those missing from the stadium are always right', Paul Virilio 1982
+*[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html patents: making reference to objects that may or may not exist]
+*House of Wisdom/ Library of Alexandria: libraries that have been destroyed
+*[http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0207/msg00221.html International Corporation of Lost Structures]
+*[http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/the-invisible-committe-to-our-friends#toc9 disappearance as resistance]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero Quaero: Europe's answer to Google, a multimedia search engine that never existed, but had a vivid presence in the public mind]
+*[http://portfolio.mroth.info/ Matthew Rothenberg creates a website that deletes itself once it's indexed by Google] [https://github.com/mroth/unindexed his code here]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Room Amber Room: curious attempted de- and reconstruction of a room hinting at its objecthood]
+*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_island phantom islands]/[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_minor_planet lost minor planets: observers losing track of the planets' positions]
+*Bas Jan Ader - the artist lost at sea
+*Solange Frankort - missing from social media for a week
+*Chris Burden, "Disappearing", 1971
+*Link rotting
-_Snippets from 'The Noise of the Observer'_
-_by Peter Weibel_
+''[http://www.e-flux.com/journal/missing-people-entanglement-superposition-and-exhumation-as-sites-of-indeterminacy/ Hito Steyerl]
-*Noise, therefore, threatens information in several ways. The classic communication theory of information theory or cybernetics firstly simplified the problem of noise by excluding semantic problems, and secondly. viewed it naively, for example, by interpreting the observer not as a source of errors but as a corrector of errors. In a way, it represents a partial retrogression to the time before the thermodynamic theory of entropy. The approaches of quantum physics and chaos theory to information and entropy, as derived from thermodynamics, appear to me the most promising for neutralising the paradoxes and aporia of the theories of entropy and information, as exemplified by Maxwell's Demon, Szillard's machines etc. because they place the problem of the observer at the centre of attention. The noise of classical communication theory is more or less the noise of one's own signal, where the observer acts to correct errors. The noise in quantum physics is the noise of the observer, unavoidably and necessarily producing errors.
+*But what, then, is the state of missing itself? Does it take place inside Schrödinger’s box, so to speak? Is it being both dead and alive? How can we understand its conflicting desires: to want and to dread the truth at the same time? The urge to both move on and keep hope alive? Perhaps the state of missing speaks of a paradoxical superposition that cannot be understood with the conceptual tools of Euclidian physics, human biology, or Aristotelian logic. Perhaps it reaches out to an impossible coexistence of life and death. Both are materially interlaced in limbo—as long as no observer opens the “box” of indeterminacy. Which is, in many cases, a grave.
-*The world is only ever defined at the interface between the observer and the rest of the world, Thus, the observer's position, is a regulator that can be moved on a frequency between paradise (information) and hell (error). Information is therefore unavoidably observer-relative. Of necessity the observer creates noise. He can escape this noise of observation only by himself becoming a part of the information model.
+*Additionally, the twentieth century also perfected observation as a method of killing. Measurement and identification became tools of murder. Phrenology. Statistics. Medical experimentation. Economies of death. In his lectures about biopolitics, Michel Foucault described the stochastic calculus that determined life or death.9 Counting and observing were radicalized to make sure that anything that entered the box died when the box was reopened.
-*Observation by an observer is, therefore, no longer sufficient to increase information; rather, what is required is an increased correlation and co-variance of observers and observations. It is questionable, however, whether we can grasp these correlations.
-*Quantum physics has acquainted us with the fact that in observing systems and objects we must not dismiss the role of the observer. Niels Bohr promulgated the famous theory that the act of observation in turn influences the very object of our observation. Archibald Wheeler went even further by saying that a phenomenon is a phenomenon only if it is also an observable phenomenon. Here, the informedness of the observer is of central importance. A condition noted by the internal observer is different from that which "objectively exists" and can be observed from the outside. Quantum Demon therefore describes the problem of the noise-generating observer within information systems.
-*A quantum theory of cultural theory is sorely needed. We must part with the traditional historical notion that there is a pure and objective description of the occurrences in the world of the mind, where the observer's contribution to the phenomena under observation can be disregarded or subtracted. We must take leave of this cliché and this illusion. For, on the contrary, in the world of the media in particular, Wheeler's Theorem applies that only an observed phenomenon is a true phenomenon. Only what is represented in the media also exists. and the form in which it exists in the data space equally depends on the position of the observer. Thus, the critic and the theoretician of culture act, willy-nilly, as real-life observers. The observed object's own signal becomes inseparably mingled with the observer's own signal or noise.
+[https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/memory-practices-sciences reminder to search for this book]
-* Information and the observer can no longer be divided. The noise of the observer, the indeterminacy-relation between information and observer is not arbitrarily reducible. In the present world, in which, from medicine to economics, access to information and the spread of information are gaining an ever-more fundamental and central importance worldwide, the above-mentioned limitations are particularly noteworthy, since quite obviously there is a danger; firstly, of mistaking noise for information and, secondly, of not eliminating this noise with any increase in the amount of information, but of increasing it, in accordance with the theorem of quantum- and endo-physics, where the internal observer does not know that he is an observer and takes his own noise for the information from the situation under observation.
+[http://median.newmediacaucus.org/art-infrastructures-information/counter-infrastructures-critical-empowerment-and-emancipation-in-a-networked-world/ reminder to read this]
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