Showing posts with label negarestani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label negarestani. Show all posts
Monday, 2 September 2013
Definition of the Composite
Definition of the Composite
Any body, assumed under a determined name, is divisible, as we consider it act of the body.
Definition of the Whole and the Part
In the whole the part is identified by any thing you individuate as smaller than the whole; the whole is that which results as a composite of all the parts.
Definition of the Figure
The figure is that which is limited by a curved line or by more than two straight lines, that is, a determined proportion of body and plane.
De Minimo IV, vii, 284-287
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To this end, the process of bringing the materials together (orchestration) in the minimum is not of composition but is determined by squeezing, wrapping endlessly, creasing within and over creases, compressing into each other, shoving upward and downward, pressing out from the sides, staging all processes that bring together through the dynamics of forces risen between materials and masses, yield and stress, nonlinear elasticity and flow plasticity: an architectural forge-press.
Reza Negarestani
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digital dark ages
A famous real example is with NASA, whose early space records have suffered from a Dark Age issue more than once. For over a decade, magnetic tapes from the 1976 Viking Mars landing were unprocessed. When later analyzed, the data was unreadable as it was in an unknown format and the original programmers had either died or left NASA. The images were eventually extracted following many months of puzzling through the data and examining how the recording machines functioned
Any body, assumed under a determined name, is divisible, as we consider it act of the body.
Definition of the Whole and the Part
In the whole the part is identified by any thing you individuate as smaller than the whole; the whole is that which results as a composite of all the parts.
Definition of the Figure
The figure is that which is limited by a curved line or by more than two straight lines, that is, a determined proportion of body and plane.
De Minimo IV, vii, 284-287
…………………………………………
To this end, the process of bringing the materials together (orchestration) in the minimum is not of composition but is determined by squeezing, wrapping endlessly, creasing within and over creases, compressing into each other, shoving upward and downward, pressing out from the sides, staging all processes that bring together through the dynamics of forces risen between materials and masses, yield and stress, nonlinear elasticity and flow plasticity: an architectural forge-press.
Reza Negarestani
……………………………
digital dark ages
A famous real example is with NASA, whose early space records have suffered from a Dark Age issue more than once. For over a decade, magnetic tapes from the 1976 Viking Mars landing were unprocessed. When later analyzed, the data was unreadable as it was in an unknown format and the original programmers had either died or left NASA. The images were eventually extracted following many months of puzzling through the data and examining how the recording machines functioned
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
etruscan torture
If they would bind me to that lifeless trunk and let me freeze to death
The Etruscan torture has been described as chaining the living person to a rotting corpse, face to face and limb to limb until the living person perishes by the decay of the corpse. Only when the living person was blackened by putrefaction, the Etruscan robbers freed the living, now a corpse, from the chains. A metaphysical torture and a model for the intelligible ontology, Aristotle suggests that the relation between the body, the soul (psyche) and the intellect (nous) as the triad of his ontology can be explained as follows: ‘their bodies [those who have fallen into the hands of the Etruscans], the living with the dead, were bound so exactly as possible one against another: so our souls, tied together with our bodies as the living fixed upon the dead.’ (Cicero quoting Aristotle in Hortensius)
The Corpse Bride: Thinking with Nigredo Reza Negarestani
The Duchess of Malfi
If they would bind me to that lifeless trunk and let me freeze to death
The Duchess of Malfi
If they would bind me to that lifeless trunk and let me freeze to death
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