Norman Bel Geddes’ models have added an extra dimension to pictorial reporting. By recreating large or small parts of the sea and the earth’s surface in miniature they have made it possible for the camera to take positions which would normally be highly unusual or impossible. By the use of these models, the lens may [...]
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Le modèle réduit selon Lévi-Strauss
Quelle vertu s’attache donc à la réduction, que celle-ci soit d’échelle, ou qu’elle affecte les propriétés? Elle résulte, semble-t-il, d’une sorte de renversement du procès de la connaissance : pour connaître l’objet réel dans sa totalité, nous avons toujours tendance à opérer depuis ses parties. La résistance qu’il nous oppose est surmontée en la divisant. [...]
Ripped Cover
I accidentally ripped the cover of a book I really appreciated. Hearing and seeing the tearing affected me so much I had to reflect on that surprise. I thought it was caused by my attachment to the book: an old, mass market paperbound edition of Bateson’s Steps to an Ecology of Mind. I realized a [...]
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Excerpt from: DeLanda Destratified, by Erik Davis
Chris Langton at Los Alamos later set out to classify all possibly cellular automata — which basically means abstract spaces with many dimensions — depending on how many rules they have. He discovered that there’s a range, a magic region if you will, where your cellular automata game will develop all the unpredictable patterns that [...]
