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to be grokked

Well. I did make a foray into the high desert near Sycamore Canyon a couple days ago. Not far, however. Too much virtuality has left me stunned. Too much driving especially, that oh-so-virtual reality...

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snow

There is snow. Hard pellets strike the flank of the X2000 train racing on slick steel ribbons across the land. NORTH NORTH NORTH. No chances now of spring in the near future. Almost horizontal, this...

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The GenerativeCollager

As a test-review for furtherfield neoscenes reviews a random online project by Sandra Crisp: Hmmmm. Recalling a review I did some years back for kunstnet in Oslo, it seemed interesting to pretend for a...

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Sarah Chung

former student Sarah lets me reprint this article she wrote recently about her creative practice: Sarah H. Chung :: http://www.myspace.com/sarahhdot I am an experimental multimedia artist, a student,...

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negative lands

Sarah invites me to go to a morning pre-screening in the Atlas Center of the movie Speaking in Code along with David and some of the other principles from the Boulder Media Festival. they are...

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health care

got to weigh in on health care. so sick(!) of the toxic blather going on within the US, although it might just be that it is a spent nation-state, in the throes of becoming less relevant in the world....

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affects and intentions

The idea comes that I can place different narratives and sonifications in the aporee context, making a global mapping of ideas mixed with sounds mixed with voices. But somehow this seems flat. Not that...

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The Science of Disorder

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CLUI: Day Six — intention

The psychical framing of intention within the making/creating of a reductive tracing of the phenomenal world would seem to be critical. What is the intention of an image, for example? Is it as...

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Trail Draw and Upper Pool Creek Canyon

An Outward Bound group rafts in, and are lectured to in the Trex seating arranged for “camp fire talks” here in the campground. I find it really bizarre, when there a thousand ‘natural’ places to sit...

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From 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...

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Wanderlust

I kept coming back to this route for respite from my work, and for my work too, because thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented culture, and doing nothing is hard to...

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work, labor, action

Arendt‘s tripartite approach to the sociopolitical — Work, Labor, Action — in “The Human Condition” suggests the expenditure or the flow of energy. All three are intertwined within the do-ing, the...

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Tuesday, 28 February, 1961

Discussed the need for single thread analysis with Major McCarren, a most competent officer. He, in the afternoon, told us the details of the transit of intention to fire a nuclear weapons through the...

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Thursday, 02 March, 1961

Wrote comments to Col. Bavarro on his briefing on the Phase I Report; principle point is that integration of function is not contemplated. Reported to JFN on results of trip, noting the graphs on p. 56...

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easy out

this page intentionally left blank … To write something compelling, in a sustained long form or even a short note, requires the writer to step outside normative social existence. Writing, as with any...

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movement brings encounter

Movement brings encounter. It is as we find our way through life that we meet the people who change us. The character of these encounters forms an armature upon which we build our internal and external...

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attention deficit?

I find that I am able to attend voluntarily, now to one and now to the other system of lines; and that then this system remains visible alone for a certain time, whilst the other completely vanishes....

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Thursday, 01 March, 1962

Drove today. Clear – cold Drove today. Saw Mr. Henshaw in Purchasing re: a spring-loaded center punch; ordered the Starrett 5″ @ $4.40. He said he thought he could arrange for a personal check to be...

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Thursday, 08 March, 1962

WLZ & I met with John Rheinstein for an hour to discuss the Bendix & Chrysler Conduction contracts. Dr. Pike did not think that Convair w/ Boeing has anything to do with the STV program. Clear...

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Full dissertation text: The Regime of Amplification

Well, I guess it’s about time to put the PhD dissertation text out there in .pdf form, so, here it is: The Regime of Amplification. Have at it, be polite, no grabbing, pushing, or shoving. Do not fold,...

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