Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics Heinz von Foerster SEHR, volume 4, issue 2: Constructions of the Mind 4 June 1995 Ladies and Gentlemen: I am touched by the generosity of the organizers of this conference, who not only invited me to come to your glorious city of Paris, but also gave me the honor of opening [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2007
the discreteness of time
most of the time we experience time as a continuous flow. our perceptual systems blend input from the five senses into a continuum we call reality. there is a lot of work done on this reality before we have a conscious apprehension of it, and this allows for all kinds of interesting coloration of reality. [...]
ruby slippers update
there’s a chance we’ll be showing the ruby slippers in 16mm this february–details to follow. in the meantime, here’s a small taste of how things are developing.
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[sidebar] self-destructing media
One of the salient features of digital media is its apparent permanence. Because it is information and not material, the content goes undiminished by repeated playings. The RIAA would like to change that of course, because undiminished media means diminished sales. They advocate a licensing model whereby only the original owner (or device) would be [...]
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group ops
There’s been a lot of confusion about how exactly you capture the difference between two different media expressions of the same content. After a lot of hand waving I remembered the Pathfinder tools in Illustrator which address precisely this problem. Here is a diagram illustrating how the overlap of two media might be expressed. Both [...]
group theory
Here’s a new idea for the ruby slippers series. Q: What is the most popular recording of all time? A: Bing Crosby’s 1942 White Christmas, it’s sold over 50 million copies. Q: How was this originally consumed? A: On 78rpm records. Q: How do most of us know the song today? A: Either from television, [...]
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