MachineMachine /stream - tagged with palimpsest http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron text@machinemachine.net Writing off the UK's last palaeographer http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1310/writing-off-the-uks-last-palaeographer Dry, dusty and shortly to be dead. Palaeographers are used to making sense of fragments of ancient manuscripts, but King's College London couldn't have been plainer when it announced recently that it was to close the UK's only chair of palaeography. From ­September, the current holder of the chair, Professor David Ganz, will be out of a job, and the subject will no longer exist as a separate academic discipline in British universities. Its survival will now depend entirely on the whim of classicists and medievalists studying in other fields.

The decision took everyone by ­surprise. "It… ]]> Sat, 29 May 2010 10:04:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/1310/writing-off-the-uks-last-palaeographer reCAPTCHA http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/840/recaptcha reCAPTCHA is a system originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University that uses CAPTCHA to help digitize the text of books while protecting websites from bots attempting to access restricted areas. On September 16th, 2009, Google acquired reCAPTCHA.[2] reCAPTCHA is currently digitizing the archives of the New York Times.[3] Twenty years of The New York Times have been digitized and the project hopes to have the 110 other years done by 2010.[4] reCAPTCHA supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the… ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:52:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/840/recaptcha Mapping The Cracks: Thinking Subjects as Book Objects http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/11/mapping-the-cracks-part-two.html

In Part One of this article I wrote about the instability of the art-object. How its meaning moves, and inevitably cracks. In this follow-up I ponder text, the book, page and computer screen. Are they as stable as they appear? And how can we set them in motion?

Part Two

"There’s a way, it seems to me, that reality’s fractured right now, at least the reality that I live in. And the difficulty about... writing about that reality is that text is very linear and it’s very unified, and... I, anyway, am constantly on the lookout for…

]]> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:02:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/11/mapping-the-cracks-part-two.html Seed Magazine Salon: Hershman and Shanks Interview http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/744/seed-salon-magazine-hershman-and-shanks-interview ]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2009 05:48:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/744/seed-salon-magazine-hershman-and-shanks-interview Mapping the Cracks: Art-Objects in Motion http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/mapping-the-cracks-part-i.html

Part One

by Daniel Rourke

"The spacetime of the lightcones and the fermions and scalar are connected to the chocolate grinder. The chocolate grinder receives octonionic structure from the water wheel."

- Tony Smith, Valdosta Museum Website

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, EvenIn 1927 Marcel Duchamp's The Large Glass was broken in transit. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, Duchamp's title for the piece, depicts a mechanical Bride in its upper…

]]> Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:04:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/10/mapping-the-cracks-part-i.html Writing (Hyper)text and Image http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/02/writing-hypertext-and-image-a-polyptychal-discursion.html A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a writer's statements, but through a reader's response. A spiral of concepts ruptures the words, burrowing underneath the palimpsest, pulling you, the reader, into the written phrase. Response is required of any reading. The internet is a form capable of allowing a reader's response to influence the writer's trajectory; to send the written back into itself, melding… ]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:07:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2009/02/writing-hypertext-and-image-a-polyptychal-discursion.html Simon Biggs http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/13/simon-biggs Website and interactive portfolio of artist ]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:02:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/stream/items/view/13/simon-biggs How Technology "Reveals" the World http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/4091/How-Technology-Reveals-the-World
“There was a time when it was not technology alone that bore the name techné... Once there was a time when the bringing-forth of the true into the beautiful was called techné. And the poïesis of the fine arts also was called techné.”

Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology (1954)

For Martin Heidegger the essence of technology is to be understood as distinct from technology itself. Etymologically the word technology stems from the Greek techné, "the name not only for the activities and… ]]> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:19:00 -0700 http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/4091/How-Technology-Reveals-the-World The Metaphor is the Message Part II: Palimpsests Palimpsests Palimpsests http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3786/The-Metaphor-is-the-Message-Part-II-PalimpsestsPalimpsestsPalimpsests
This slice in hyperspace follows on from these past posts:
  • How things 'become': The infinity of definition
  • The Archaeology of 'The Book'
  • hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message" (Part I)

    • ...and is a direct response to this post by Robokku:
  • Temporal Hypertext

    • Time is important in the definition of any model, hypertextual or otherwise. At the moment I am interested in how new technologies allow us new ways to see, to realise the world around us. This constant re-definition of our realities can actually add temporality to… ]]>     Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:57:00 -0700 http://spacecollective.org/Rourke/3786/The-Metaphor-is-the-Message-Part-II-PalimpsestsPalimpsestsPalimpsests