looking down
and then, first looking down, ahmmm, then looking back. Bremen finished, passing away on the train, now the work of helping Christian and Steffi with this big move. tough situation. when energy...
View Articleempyre musings
John von Seggern (on empyre wireless sustainability): I agree with you, however we shouldn’t confuse the Internet/digital networks in general with the larger techno-social system within which they...
View Articleimaginary relevance
can a lack of imagination be overcome through intensive observation of the world-that-is? what is imagination? the dream of what-could-be? realizing that there are parameters of be-ing which govern...
View Articlethesis proposal :: Background
Background for Research While individual human presence in this world has fundamental repercussions on be-ing, it is the ever-present and synergistic exchange between humans — forming what I call a...
View Articleto be mindful of modalities
exploring modalities of communication. of connection, of be-ing. Kittler shows up on the radar immediately (hmmm, recalling that extremely uncomfortable evening with him in that bar in Linz before the...
View Articlesilent selection
Buber’s story illustrating that Silence is communication opens a certain mediatory path. especially that of listening, a critical reciprocal of expression, the act of open impression. a kind of...
View ArticleEnergy and Society
Excellent resource which will allow me to trace both forwards and backwards in time on this particular worldview which, although the definition of energy is strictly based on contemporary physics and...
View ArticleThe Military
(extracted and edited from The Regime of Amplification) The second example — though it is a much more complex combination of pathways in its geo-political and material deployments and in its...
View Articletechnology fails
The latch handles on both the driver- and passenger-side door are broken. There is a certain geometry on the plastic lever-arm which, over time of repeated lifting motions, fails. So I have to replace...
View Articletool-making and control
If one constructs a tool, what is one doing, and why is one doing it? How will one do it? How to control of flows around oneself? And what does this control mean? Where does the desire to control arise...
View Articledesire, complexity, simplicity, determinism (mix-up mash-up)
Today, mulling the difference between technological determinism (as a self-propagating system on its own immutable trajectory) and the reciprocal idea that human social systems selectively construct...
View ArticleMomentum
The vis insita, or innate force of matter, is a power of resisting by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavors to preserve its present state, whether it be of rest or of moving uniformly...
View Articlelife, living
Humans approach the ‘criticality’ of the global situation from a very species-centric view. (of course). If one looks at the flow of the continuance of life throughout its entire trajectory (back to...
View ArticleCLUI: Day One
Matt pushes off towards Salt Lake City for a flight back to LAX. I roll up sleeves, literally, and begin the task of altering yet another environment to conform to my needs and to optimize my time...
View ArticleCLUI residency — Energy of Situation
Some final words on the residency period: Energy of Situation Rather than producing new material configurations of the energized world as a tool for individual continuance and relevance to the wider...
View Articlegait and gluteals
The foot print, the pressure of the foot on the ground, walking in mud, on grass, ice, walking on the water. Edward Tenner’s book intimates how walking itself is, at least partially, a learned social...
View ArticleFrom The Regime of Amplification to The Road
[editor: this document was used for a mid-way doctoral assessment at the University of Technology Sydney and no longer reflects the final content of the PhD dissertation as of the April 2012 submission...
View Articleextrasomatic energy/adaptation
Life on Earth is driven by energy. Autotrophs take it from solar radiation and heterotrophs take it from autotrophs. Energy captured slowly by photosynthesis is stored up, and as denser reservoirs of...
View ArticleEnergy, Creative Action, and Sustainable Systems Workshop – Day 8 – eNZed
The official blurb for the workshop: This workshop will draw on Hopkins’ international experience in facilitating creative encounters in the context of the Temporary Autonomous Zone. With an open...
View Articlesugar
Sugarcane seems to have originated in New Guinea and, between the fourth and eighth centuries, was grown in India and the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The peoples of the Middle East and...
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