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Ask Metafilter the "undifferentiated mass of organic sensation" origin In this text from 1966, Robert Smithson quotes Roland Barthes as saying the “undifferentiated mass of organic sensation.” But I can’t find the origin of the quote. A skewed translation? or possibly just made up by Smithson? Any ideas where it might come…

March 14 2024, 1:38pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter Help me find this quote about living in possible worlds/utopias I read a quote recently, and cannot find it again. It was in an article or interview about better worlds, about the possibility of utopia. And the person writing/being interviewed quoted another thinker's doctrine, something like: "A possible world is only worth considering…

April 28 2018, 5:30am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but..."
“Our usage of the word ‘objectivity’ (French objectivite; German Objektivitdt) is hopelessly but revealingly confused. It refers at once to metaphysics, to methods, and to morals. We slide effortlessly from statements about the ‘objective truth’ of a scientific claim, to those about the ‘objective…

October 24 2012, 5:33am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is..."
“The perfect – complete, clear, and distinct – knowledge that the subject has of the object is entirely external; it results from manufacture; I know what the object I have made is; I can make another one like it, but I would not be…

April 25 2012, 4:24pm | Comments
Tumblr “I’m not sure I want to evolve, when it comes right...

March 18 2012, 5:25pm | Comments
Findings Trans Terra Form: Liquid Architectures And The Loss of Inscription
by Marcos Novak To inscribe is to write in, to place the mark of one thing within the fabric of another. Carving is the prototypical kind of inscription, though every other kind of writing partakes in this modification of one substance by another: the…

March 16 2012, 7:31am | Comments
Tumblr "Models of communication are…not merely representations of communication but representations for..."

February 20 2012, 7:21am | Comments
Findings quote from High Techne - Rutsky
The position of human beings in relation to this techno-cultural un-conscious cannot, therefore, be that of the analyst (or theorist) who, standing outside this space, presumes to know or control it.It must in-stead be a relation of connection to, of interaction with, that which…

January 6 2012, 7:52am | Comments
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November 2 2011, 6:51am | Comments
Tumblr Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable...

October 31 2011, 6:42am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) "Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or..."
“Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or events from their contexts in time and space. This obsession with the specific activity of quantified functions is what science shares with pornography.” - J.G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition…

September 30 2011, 5:16am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Natural Contract
“Suppose two speakers, determined to contradict each other. As violent as their confrontation may be, as long as they are willing to continue the discussion they must speak a common language in order for the dialogue to take place. There can’t be an argument…

August 9 2011, 5:36am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus
“All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Cognitive Program of Constructivism and a Reality that Remains Unknown
by Niklas Luhmann The source of a distinction's guaranteeing reality lies in its own operative unity. It is, however, precisely as this unity that the distinction cannot be observed--except by means…

November 12 2010, 7:10am | Comments
Findings The Ship Argo

May 9 2010, 12:37pm | Comments

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