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aphorisms and scribbled notes on the history and philosophy of media

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

the encyclopaedia and the database: utopian potentials

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A fragment from a conversation with Lanfranco Aceti on Time, to be published at some point. The first line refers to Eco 's idea that ...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Distinguishing 'instant' and 'moment'

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Cybernetic connectivity has a different character to the continuum, even as it emulates its ecology of mutual mediation. A relational databa...
Monday, July 10, 2017

The past and present beauty of Saturn

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If beauty is to stand, the monument that outlast perennial bronze, then it is already posthumous at the moment of its birth. The Imagist i...
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Logistics and behaviours

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In the history of consumerism, the Keynesian response to the 1929 Crash built on the foundation of the nuclear family which became responsib...
Sunday, January 29, 2017

Blogging at Winterthur

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My current duties make blogging an intermittent process but I am doing a series of posts for fotomuseum Winterthur, where recent, brilliant ...
Sunday, November 6, 2016

is truth virtuous?

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the disinformation society in which consciously manipulated statistics, invented figures and downright untruth circulate unchecked on a par...

Mediating (Not Defining) Truth

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Working slowly towards the large project I hope to start towards the end of 2017, some posts tagged "political aesthetics" There...
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