readings

“Why do we say that the sum of knowledge is now organized by...”
— Lévy, Pierre. Collective...

Oct 1st

“It’s a basic principle: Structure always affects...”
— Strogatz, Steven. Sync. The...

Sep 30th

“We read contrast, our cognition depends on it; therefore we...”
— Alexander, Christopher. The...

Sep 29th

“Since human beings are the first creatures on Earth who have...”
— Alexander, Christopher. The...

Sep 29th

“Each living being, no matter how simple, has a set of innate...”
— Hofstadter, Douglas R. I Am a...

Sep 28th

“Just as we believe in other people’s kidneys and brains...”
— Hofstadter, Douglas R. I Am a...

Sep 27th

“The notion of an instruction manual is obsolete. The fact...”
— Negroponte, Nicholas. Being...

Sep 26th

“The medium is not the message in a digital world. It is an...”
— Negroponte, Nicholas. Being...

Sep 25th

“While current philosophy appears mostly as the essay or the...”
— Kolb, David. “Socrates...

Sep 24th

“Just as we need our eyes in order to see, we need our “I”’s...”
— Hofstadter, Douglas R. I Am a...

Sep 23rd

“Tristan Tzara said: “Poetry is for everyone.” (…) Cut-ups...”
— Burroughs, William S....

Sep 21st

“Instead of adapting Dadaist poetry as software, one could...”
— Cramer, Florian. “Concepts,...

Sep 20th

“In the field of plastic arts, the idea [of recombination]...”
— Berge, Claude. “For a...

Sep 19th

“(…) François Le Lionnais wrote: Every literary work begins...”
— Lescure, Jean. “Brief...

Sep 18th

“Therefore, according to Newton at least, none of what I have...”
— Cope, David. Computer Models...

Sep 17th

“The delay necessary for apprehension is determined by the...”
— Moles, Abraham. Information...

Sep 16th

“To summarize: 1. The creative thought of man gives birth...”
— Xenakis, Iannis. Formalized...

Sep 15th

“Digital technology is turning out to be one of the more...”
— Bolter, Jay David. Writing...

Sep 14th

“John Perry Barlow (…) “The idea of connecting every mind to...”
— Flichy, Patrice. The Internet...

Sep 13th

“In the [1975 Coevolution Quarterly] editorial [Stewart]...”
— Flichy, Patrice. The Internet...

Sep 12th

“The twenty-first century will not have the same craving for...”
— Zielinski, Siegfried. Deep...

Sep 11th

“One could say that a man can “inject” an idea into the...”
— Turing, Alan M....

Sep 10th

“Observing physical computations is a simple human pleasure.”
— Rucker, Rudy. The Lifebox, the...

Sep 9th

“I am reminded of an off-hand remark once made by Henri...”
— Sack, Warren. “Painting...

Sep 8th

“It took quite a while then for space — the absence of a mark...”
— Levy, David M. Scrolling...

Sep 7th

“— Universal automatism proposes a thesis: Your mental...”
— Rucker, Rudy. The Lifebox, the...

Sep 6th

“The infinite sequence of the whole numbers is digital — each...”
— Wilden, Anthony. The Rules Are...

Sep 5th

“Another example, which a friend with a background in...”
— van Schaik, Michael. “The...

Sep 4th

“People are used to opposing simulation to authenticity; a...”
— Kamper, Dietmar. “We...

Sep 3rd

“In 1902, to save money on a ten-minute film called The Life...”
— Wilden, Anthony. The Rules Are...

Sep 2nd

“Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light...”
— Haraway, Donna. “A...

Sep 1st