April 2013
1 post
February 2013
3 posts
“When Samuel Morse established the first commercial telegraph, in 1844, he...”
– Carl Zimmer on measuring the speed of thought.
Technology has long shaped our metaphors for the mind. (via explore-blog)
January 2013
1 post
“I think human and computer intelligence will be mixed together just as it is...”
– Ray Kurzweil (via Las Vegas Sun News)
August 2010
3 posts
“Look,” whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven.
Overhead,...”
– The Nine Billion Names of God
gasoline smell
July 2010
3 posts
Slow down
…represents the attempt to slow down information processing, to resist the dissolution of time in the synchronicity of the archive, to recover a mode of contemplation outside the universe of simulation and fast-speed information cable networks, to claim some anchoring space in a world of puzzling and often threatening heterogeneity, non-synchronicity, and information overload.
March 2010
3 posts
September 2009
18 posts
Hex
With the aid of a hex viewer we can reconstruct the layers of data that occupied a single, specific piece of magnetic media at variable points in time.
“Les F-16 sillonnent le ciel jour et nuit”
“les enfants crient, les chiens aboient…”
“Sa fille de neuf mois a eu trois doigts sectionnés”
“C’était plein de fumée et de poussiere”
“Ils n’ont aucune trace de métal dans le corps, mais des hémorragies...”
“Des membres mutilés, des cervelles qui sortaient, des tripes à l’air, des...”
“Harald est allé retrouver sa petite fille de 3 ans. Le même âge que celle...”
100
Les 100 souvenirs / drowning by numbers /
“Après une journée bien remplie, ils s’installent dans un profond canapé...”
Air
Moussorgski / sans soleil
