CLUI: Day One
Matt pushes off towards Salt Lake City for a flight back to LAX. I roll up sleeves, literally, and begin the task of altering yet another environment to conform to my needs and to optimize my time...
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A few notes on techno-social systems: In analyzing the affect of technology on a social system it is critical to identify and understand 1) what actors or protocols are determining the pathways of...
View ArticleCLUI residency — Energy of Situation
Some final words on the residency period: Energy of Situation Rather than producing new material configurations of the energized world as a tool for individual continuance and relevance to the wider...
View Articlearrival and meditation
Have an incredibly erotic dream with Jennifer D., back from the Culture Capitals 2000 project in Prague. Will have to email her. Otherwise watery squint-eyed watching of rotating the stellar field....
View Articlewestern terminus Yampa Bench
Sleep difficult, not sure why, whether simple discomfort, though the back of the truck seems very comfortable in the immediate impression, warm, soft enough, but body cannot find a comfortable...
View Articlethere it goes
What does the law of maximum entropy production have to do with order production? Given the foregoing, the reader may have already jumped to the correct conclusion, namely, if ordered flow produces...
View Articleadvertising
Advertising :: Congregatio de Propaganda Fide The root vertere, to turn; Sanskrit vartayati he turns; advertere, to turn towards. Drawing the attention (attendere, to wait for). To wait to be turned...
View ArticleThe End of the Road and The Onset of Dreaming
ed: This short note is the epilogue for the Migrating:Art:Academies: book. Because of the heavy-duty editorial tasks, I otherwise didn’t have time to write something more comprehensive on the ideas...
View Articlework, labor, action
Arendt‘s tripartite approach to the sociopolitical — Work, Labor, Action — in “The Human Condition” suggests the expenditure or the flow of energy. All three are intertwined within the do-ing, the...
View Articleargh, done
finished the rolling-over process from the travelog to this blog. pain in the arse! 2850 entries at this point, now the hard work of adding several thousand images along with much more audio, and other...
View Articleinwards / outwards
I keep thinking — oh, I should stop at the cafe that is on my way to school to record the ambiance there; oh, I should make portraits of my house mate and his frequent guests; oh, I should get out of...
View Articlesnippet
The sensual world is a phenomena apprehended imperfectly through our senses, as it suffuses through our entire being. Or is it received perfectly? As energy is characterized by radiant movement (from a...
View ArticleAll Roads Lead to Rome :: Transportation, Energy, and Creative Action
Fragment of an un-submitted proposal for ISEA 2012 in Albuquerque: Exploring the concept of movement as a feature of the contemporary Techno-Social System: What is it to move? What is the relationship...
View ArticleModel assumptions: Dynamic Energy Budgets
There are two state variables: structural body volume and energy reserve density. There are six energy fluxes: assimilation; somatic maintenance; somatic growth; maturation; maintenance of the state of...
View Articlequantitative living systems science
Living Systems Theory is a general theory about how all living systems “work,” about how they maintain themselves and how they develop and change. By definition, living systems are open,...
View Articleenergy input drives energy output
The English character (explaining the rise of Empire) might be explained (by Shakespeare): Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils. Warriors...
View ArticleBridget Ann Klauber 1957 – 2014
For those who could not join the many who did attend Bridget’s Celebration of Life in Boulder 15 August 2014, I recorded the event (despite the poor room acoustics!):: (01:17:01, stereo audio, 184 mb)...
View Articleone thousand hammer blows
(00:28:51, stereo audio, 69.2 mb) Concrete is a major energy-intensive product that makes a significant contribution to total global energy usage. The house had a tremendous amount of poorly poured...
View Articlesans-filtre: politics of the absurd
politics theater of the absurd… proceeding. into histories. as present/future seem not to supply a place to occupy. Our acquiescence to the thorough mediation of the world as sensed through our...
View Articledevoir: a re-naming
Further, deeper, wider, (more iconoclastic), what is research? Merely to search again? The broadening of a socially-sanctioned knowledge-base? A connecting-of-threads to historic tradition? A discovery...
View ArticleRedirecting the Flows of Energy in Natural Systems
(but wait a minute, LIFE is, by definition, a redirecting of the flows of energy in a natural system — a redirecting that is a necessary (but not sufficient) condition of living systems — according to...
View Articleabuse of power
Mills, using the key word, power, sketches out the relation between the individual and small groupings of people and their often problematic relation to those exercising power within The State. It is...
View Articlethe American Dream is only to survive
David Brooks, columnist at the New York Times writes in this commentary on New Years Day: Many people seem to be in the middle of a religious crisis of faith. All the gods they believe in — technology,...
View Articlefealty to nexus
without framing the precise context, a couple quick notes to Rob, regarding the Internet of Things (IOT) and social pro-activity: sotto voce: I’m not sure these two concepts — decentralized and...
View Articleinnovation
Fundamental innovations almost always seem to come from outside the established market leaders, who suffer ‘path dependency.’ Established firms are usually too committed to a particular conception of...
View Articlemore on the archive
A bit overwhelming, faced with thousands of images and texts in analog form. How to go about it, especially as there is no possibility of waving hands and all get transformed to digital gems. Dross...
View Articletwo months in and now what
This blog is rapidly becoming the site of moribund emptiness. Material accumulates, but j-o-b interferes with any creative expression. This raises many questions relating to how life is lived versus...
View Articlesix months in
[Already] ’cause time is going so fucking fast. Happened that I got a migraine the same day, so had to take my first day of sick leave. Uuh, important factoid? Nah. Glazed eyes, with four monitors at...
View Articlefriends?
Been mulling this one for the last year, since starting this regular job. Most self-time/energy is consumed in maintaining the psycho-neuro structure necessary to hand over that life-time and...
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