drawing

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:24:31 GMT

old networker-friend, Paul Rutkovsky (of floridada) and I have some nodes in common in Lithuania of all places. he was just there and here in Berlin as well. he sends this invitation from a recent show of drawings on paper that he had in Vilnius. suspended ambronesia, the whole week gets screwed up. and what do I have to show...

strictly Berlin

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:52:19 GMT

the opening of...

a pic from Loki

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:15:52 GMT

sound constructions

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:08:19 GMT

A transformation whose only final result is to convert heat, extracted from a source at constant temperature, into work, is impossible. (...) I believe the tendency in the material world is for motion to become diffused, and that as a whole the reverse of concentration is gradually going on. I believe that no physical action can ever restore the heat emitted from the sun, and that this source is not inexhaustible; also...

migrating reality

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:00:21 GMT

Miga asked if I would participate in these two projects, in the first as redacteur, in the second as a presenter and as a performance artist. should be interesting. especially as it is occurring at the same time as the conference in Savannah. of necessity, I will appear in Savannah virtually, and...

strike continues

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:21:21 GMT

she's got fond memories of sitting in public transportation and being so focused on playing a computer game, thumbs twitching faster than orgasm throbs, she misses her stop. but is so engrossed she can't take the time to swear. or to notice my phone camera in her face. too bad, only a...

dark matter

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:26:24 GMT

if the world vs human population system is not sustainable, it will collapse. the BVG is on strike as of 0300 this morning. at least until 14 March! thank gawd I have that bike. uh, okay, the Regime...

sound constructions

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:11:02 GMT

Jodi sends an announcement about one of her curatorial efforts, Sound Constructions, in collaboration with

ICE

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:56:27 GMT

from Rod -- he thinks it's a good idea. me too, seems to be, at least (please note that this article has nothing to do with InterCity Express (ICE) trains here in Germany): We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory but nobody, other than ourselves, knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have...

ultraintelligence?

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:53:57 GMT

Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even...

the gift of cash

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:33:29 GMT

what could be more banal and even demeaning than receiving a gift of cash? huh, what are you talking about? sheesh, what's wrong with cash? okay, that's a gut response as I formulate the core of an essay The Regime of Amplification, exploring the dynamics of...

back home

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:53:04 GMT

last day spent at ISNM yesterday, apparently for ever. the school is in its final stage of collapse. although I wasn't deeply involved in the establishment process, I did have some input when Hubertus, the founder, was framing the concept and curriculum back in, what 1999 when he was in Kiel? or so....

more brainstorms

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:36:12 GMT

sotto voce (to brainstorms on the XO laptop deployment): And there is the entirely OTHER issue -- that of autonomy. The techno-social system (in this example, the entire combined system that is providing the XO) deploys a device, it is not a simple movement of material items or even socio-cultural values (although that is the lever of most of the critique IMHO). It is also the tying in of...

swimming

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:35:42 GMT

out to the pool. well, one of the 50-meter pools is for competitive swimmers (remember the East German women's swim team in the 1970's?). the pool open for those sub-human non-competitive swimmers is pretty crowded at 20:30, but I manage to do 700 meters. have to wait for slow folks, there is no lane speed criteria. and I forget my earplugs. everybody wears bath sandals -- does this mean there are virulent foot fungi around? no pull-buoys or any...

after the full moon

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:40:09 GMT

this was a night of the full moon, and the eclipse which takes place here in the early morning, well before sunrise, deeply affects the character of sleep. noting the next...

info growth

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:13:35 GMT

the creative use of digital networks needs to proceed with an understanding of the underlying principle of human relation as the situated potential for the real exchange of energy. I have stated this so many times, in so many variations that I've gotten tired of it. is it obvious? or useless? the following from the introduction to a

on helicoptering

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:08:51 GMT

sotto voce (posted to Brainstorms): Isn't it such that rather than looking at this helicoptering as a totally new development -- it would seem to me that a possible baseline is the extended but specifically located family. I was based in Iceland for 6 years, married to an Icelander, and it was strange -- as a typical 'nuclear' American (father an engineer for the gov't, dislocated several...

Pool!

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:31:57 GMT

faugh! still on those get-to-know-the-neighborhood rambles when I get tired of thrashing letters around on the screen. today, I discover the Schwimm- und Sprunghalle im Europapark a mere 200 meters from the flat. with not one, but TWO 25x50 meter pools and a third 21x25 meter...

sunshine

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:46:37 GMT

April 26 through May 4 is Sun Microsystems' Worldwide Volunteer Week; a mass mobilization of Sun Microsystems' employees to volunteer their time. We are seeking project options that utilize the IT knowledge and talents of these employees. If your organization has an IT related need, please email...

Michael Shanks

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:21:52 GMT

not sure where the link to Michael Shanks site comes up, but the syllabus for his course Ten Things is deLightful and incisive. he's got some really interesting thoughts on the life of objects, the presence of humans, and the history...

garden house

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:05:55 GMT
Der letzte Soldat des Kaisers ist gestorben Köln -- Wie erst kürzlich bekannt wurde ist am 1. Januar der letzte deutsche Veteran des Ersten Weltkriegs in Pulheim bei Köln gestorben. Erich Kästner, nicht verwandt mit dem namensgleichen Schriftsteller, wurde 107 Jahr alt. Der Sohn eines Verlagskaufmanns kam 1900 in Leipzig zur Welt. Im Juli 1918 wurde der...

seminar

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:58:05 GMT
busy day, at home online all the time -- a performance to check out with Helen Varley Jamieson as hosted by Annie Abrahams' Breaking Solitude project. along...

another TAZ?

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:37:12 GMT
this marks a shifting point for the travelog for the next weeks, months likely. landed in Berlin on this effort to focus in place on writing. very unsure of the outcome, but the attempt is necessary to explore whether or not text production is possible, and by social weight of text, whether social viability of the pathway is an illusion or a reality. success or failure will not particularly matter, but will determine future pathways. so, writing will...

1,000,045

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:33:18 GMT

neoscenes.net travelog

náttúra

back in town

Wiegemesser

The Regime of Amplification: A Primer

Nan Hoover

lake swimming

imaginary relevance

Bo Diddley

end of a long month

remembering

dkfrf review

rear-view mirror

day three - rain

C-47

dkfrf

metrics

people to see, to talk with

around town

élan vital

burp

back in Belgium

dinner

Die Mauer

practicing levity

mikropaliskunta and more

empyre musings

teaching parameters

artsufartsu

drawing

strictly Berlin

dabeisein ist alles!

desk

tea

Frane the Virtual

Weizenbaum

a pic from Loki

sound constructions

migrating reality

strike continues

dark matter

sound constructions

ICE

ultraintelligence?

the gift of cash

back home

more brainstorms

swimming

after the full moon

info growth

on helicoptering

Pool!

sunshine

Michael Shanks

garden house

seminar

another TAZ?

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