Showing posts with label rainbow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rainbow. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 February 2014

latent dream content

for us a new psychic material intervenes between the dream content and the results of our investigations: and this is the latent dream content or the dream thoughts which are obtained by our method.

Monday, 9 September 2013

interoperability


In the theoretical domain as in the ethical domain, technics are concerned with the element. In the sciences the contribution of technics consisted in making possible a representation of phenomena one by one by breaking them down into simple elementary processes similar to the operations of technical objects; such is the role of the mechanistic hypothesis that enabled Descartes to represent the rainbow as an overall result of the point by point trajectory taken by each luminous corpuscle in each drop of rain in a cloud; and it was also according to the same method that Descartes describes the functioning of the heart by breaking down a complete cycle into simple successive operations and showing that the functioning of the whole is the result of the play of elements necessitated by their particular disposition (for example, that of each valve). Descartes does not ask himself why the heart is made in this way, with valves and cavities, but how it works given how it is made. The application of schemas drawn from technics does not account for the existence of the totality, taken as a unity, but does account for the point by point and instant by instant functioning of that totality.

422    Gilbert Simondon  On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects

Monday, 3 December 2012

Velleity/// splendid weaknesses

Velleity has been defined primarily as "the lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act". Thomas Pynchon, in Gravity's Rainbow, described "[t]his connoisseuse of 'splendid weaknesses', run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope".

Sunday, 11 November 2012

block



The struggle for depth (presence) is always effaced (blocked and/or hijacked) by surface-as-information (mediation),or that information flowing through mediatic (mediatized) capital and across the face of commercial architectures as  both style and apparent “surplus” value. 
  


Tuesday, 6 November 2012

donkey rainbow pony sunspot




11 Can an ass be tragic? To perish
under a burden one can neither bear nor
throw off? The case of the philosopher.

rainbow pony gun