Designing Complexity
The point is that there is no ‘easy energy future’. We’ve got to stop trying to sell people the idea that there are obvious ways to deal with the kinds of complex systems that govern both our social and environmental…
Fract – “Indie Adventure Game”
FRACT – Indie Adventure Game from Richard Flanagan on Vimeo. “FRACT is an atmospheric adventure game set in an abstract forgotten world of analog sounds, samples and glitches. Myst + Rez with a heavy dose of Tron.” The game, designed…
Dynamics and technology
By the early 1990s, remarkable advancements in two commercial 3–D modeling software packages, Alias/Wavefront and Softimage, offered revolutionary possibilities for architectural design. Alias, the forerunner of todays Maya, was developed for the automobile industry to model complex car parts, and…
“Lost,”
When I found this on Phil Jone’s Blog, Benjamin’s description of a work of art’s aura came back to mind: What, then, is the aura ? A strange tissue of space and time: the unique apparition of a distance, however near…
“The Balloon the the Mind”
HANDS, do what you’re bid; Bring the balloon of the mind That bellies and drags in the wind Into its narrow shed. – Yeats, W. B. The Wild Swans at Coole. New York: The Macmillan company, 1919; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/148/. [Date of…
Semacodes
Found Conor McGarrigle’s work online and was amazed by the ways he applies the notion of hybrid space to his work. A hybrid space happens where the distinction between information space and real physical space collapses, while hybrid space is…
Ontologies
Is an artificial creature a form of life, or a compound of organs ? Should it also be subsumed under the notion of artificial intelligence ? When an “and” is placed between two terms (artificial/natural, natural/cultural, immanent/transcendent), where should the…
Imaginings
Desire thus understood is for Spinoza man’s very essence insofar as it is conceived to be determined, from any given affection of it, to do something. Spinoza’s concept of desire is closely connected with the concept of conatus, which he…
About place: Chorography
Chorographies were promiscuously inclusive natural and civil histories of domestic European localities that described everything from natural productions to social customs and political structures. The natural history of the colonial Americas was written in this heterogeneous vein, driven by a…