Ce qui est absolument singulier chez chacun de nous, ce qui est absolument idiomatique, la signature disons, c’est paradoxalement ce que je ne peux pas me réapproprier. Ça m’est absolument propre, mais je ne peux pas me le réapproprier, c’est ça le paradoxe, et c’est ce qu’un film nous donne à penser. Le film me [...]
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“Trace et archive”
Le concept de trace est si général que je ne lui vois pas de limite, en vérité. Pour dire les choses très vite, il y a très longtemps, j’avais essayé d’élaborer un concept de trace qui fût justement sans limite, c’est-à-dire bien au-delà de ce qu’on appelle l’écriture ou l’inscription sur un support connu. Pour [...]
Interview with Ben Fry (Where 2.0 2011)
I found this on Nathan Yau’s excellent blog, Flowing Data. The video link comes from Ben Fry’s firm Fathom Design, and features a talk on data visualization with Mac Slocum, O’Reilly Radar’s editor. One of Fry’s answers will get anyone into media history, media ecology or mediology to watch the whole interview: Q: A point [...]
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Excerpt from “Transhumanism Meets Design”, an Interview with Natasha Vita-More
What do you think are interesting nascent signals of biology extended through technology taking shape in current apps/services/products? Usually a signal is a flashing red light, or a sharp sound. The nascent signals my brainwaves are picking up are somewhat invisible, but exceedingly active. For example, it is as if the human body’s cells have [...]
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Imagination, the Self and Mathematical Reasoning, according to Peirce
§1. Ground, Object, and Interpretant†1 227. Logic, in its general sense, is, as I believe I have shown, only another name for semiotic ({sémeiötiké}), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs. By describing the doctrine as “quasi-necessary,” or formal, I mean that we observe the characters of such signs as we know, and from such [...]
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Parallel Processing and Open Science
“As a society, we dont understand biology yet,” says Melanie Swan, a genomics researcher and principle at MS Futures Group in Palo Alto, California. As she sees it, there are all sorts of problems with the way we conduct biological research en masse. Individuals can gain huge amounts of information about their own genetic makeup, [...]
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Transparence
De tous les idéaux dont nous avons hérité des Lumières, la transparence est peut-être le seul à ne pas avoir été profondément remis en cause à l’époque contemporaine. Tout au contraire, là où d’autres notions utopiques ont prouvé leur incapacité à résister à la récupération totalitaire, l’idéal de la transparence n’en est ressorti que renforcé, [...]
Biotic Games
One of Riedel-Kruse’s recent article abstract states: Games are a significant and defining part of human culture, and their utility beyond pure entertainment has been demonstrated with so-called ‘serious games’. Biotechnology – despite its recent advancements – has had no impact on gaming yet. Here we propose the concept of ‘biotic games’, i.e., games that [...]
La monnaie vivante – Pierre Klossowki
L’objet fabriqué, contrairement au bien d’usage (naturel), quoiqu’il se conforme encore à quelque signification coutumière (p. ex. selon l’emploi de métaux ayant un sens emblématique), perd ce caractère à mesure que l’acte de fabriquer se diversifie. Diversifié selon sa complexité progressive, l’acte de fabriquer substitue à l’usage des biens (naturels ou cultivés) l’utilisation efficace des [...]
DNA Sequencing Cost Falls
I found the news first on Slashdot to realize they’re a little everywhere. Although they misleadingly tend to depict the contemporary cost of sequencing a genome as a cheap affair compared to what it was, the graphs, coming from the National Human Genome Research Institute, look surprising. Details available on the NHGRI’s website.
