My current interest is furnitures and small appliances that make a living easier and better – back/butt scratcher, head massager, or sofa arm table… Recently, I felt irritated by the fact that most of my works, paintings or drawings, ended up staying in a storage room, which take up spaces and cost money. Also, the pride and conviction that made those works are far gone now, so that I feel rather ashamed by looking at them as young, ignorant, stupid me of the past.
I love watching craft, DIY, and cleaning hacks videos
I make most of toys and sleeping beds by hand for my cat, Louis.
In a Cubist picture the conclusion and the connexions are given. They are what the picture is made of. They are its content. The spectator has to find his place within this content whilst the complexity of the forms and the ‘discontinuity’ of the space remind him that his view from that place is bound to be only partial. (Form and Concept)
The artist becomes responsible not simply for the means of conveying a truth, but also for the truth itself. Painting ceases to be a branch of natural science and becomes a branch of the moral sciences. (The Theatre Stage)
fracture of perception and individual
> fracture of meaning – Dada
absurdity
lack of or multitude of meaning
a viewer becomes participants – a viewer becomes a sort of artist who creates meaning along with the original artist
John Berger
“The only inspiration which exists is the intimation of our own potential. Inspiration is the mirror image of history: by means of it we can see our past, while turning our back upon it.” (last paragraph)
>> the moment of Cubism is the moment when we realized the past which is followed by the realization of potentiality of the future.
*****FC, The Unabomber Manifesto
(138) Technology presents clear-cut material advantages, whereas freedom is an abstraction that means different things to different people, and its loss is easily obscured by propaganda and fancy talk.
(130) To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. Success can be hoped for only by fighting the technological system as a whole; but that is revolution not reform.
THE “BAD” PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE “GOOD” PARTS
(113) .. that freedom and technological progress are incompatible.
(97) Bourgeois conception of freedom
(96) In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people.
*****Man & technics: Bernard Stiegler (video)
“.. that man and technics are indissociable.”
“Life is fundamentally conservative. But at the same time, life is negentropy, transformation, becoming.”
****BBC video – The Brain
It was interesting that genocides as group behaviour are neuro-phenomena, rooted in the function of our brains. But when Eagleman says right after the narrative of elementary school experiments (blue-eyed vs brown-eyed) that once we understand how propaganda works then power of propaganda will reduce, I was a bit doubting. The recognition of the problem can be a starting point,, but surely can we really resist against propaganda, when we’re, involuntarily or voluntarily, constantly exposed of media, internet, etc…? what if the new society tries to introduce new forms of propaganda, which we haven’t recognized as propaganda yet.? – which is linked to what Bernard Stiegler says in his video that speed of technology is far faster than culture.
The purpose was to make coat hangers from chairs legs I got from the other class.
Almost 1 week of contemplation how I would do.
I found a nice wood plank from the street.
Washed thoroughly with hot water and dish soap just in case there are bugs.
Another week of realization that nailing was not easy.
Nailed and de-nailed.. Nailed and de-nailed…
Electric drill wasn’t working ideally either.
Didn’t want to go to the school wood workshop, cause, I just don’t want.
Somehow managed the first hanger, but hammered my finger. Fuck!
I won’t do this way.
Mix of anger, fear, physical pain and a tiny bit of proudness.
Darby said why not using duck tape.
You dumb ass, it will make all ugly, it won’t stay longer.
But why not? maybe we should try.
So the work becomes from mine into ours.
Duck tape wasn’t that bad. But still UGLY!
Would it be another way?
Genius idea came in! Tried with a manual saw, seems like taking forever.
Asked Darby for electric saw.
As soon as he turned on, the edge broke and flew off.
He looked at me with fear, if I am angry because he screwed up.
But ye, I know it is not you, it was electric saw and our poor calculation.
These solid wood chair legs are too dense.
But wanted to make it to see if it works.
Another try with the manual saw.
After a couple of times hurting my hand, I did it, I made it, yay!
For the last one, I am still figuring out what and how to do.
Considering crazy glue, but not confident if it will stay with a heavy coat.
I was interested in Donna Haraway’s Tantacular thinking essay (from 401F class). I used her thinking to locate and position my comments, favourite quotes and homeworks on this 2nd visual essay. My thinking, comments or homeworks seem linear at each time. But they are related to one another, creating giant webbing-map-kind cloud as a whole. Still when I want to go through detail of quotes and comments, I have to zoom-in and read and remember in one by one.
I guess today’s class and afternoon talk was so helpful about understanding how technology has been taken advantage of by its users, meaning ‘us’. Even though it stands for being a tool or a skill, technology is in complicate power dynamics in terms of ideology and racial problems even its existential level. The crucial question was ‘what would it be like when computer language or AI (or technology) can have and exercise (or has been doing) its own ideology?’. My opinion is that computer language, even though it seems so universal and exclusive, takes on the attitude of the expansionist, for example, Google tries to have all the information, data and knowledge. This expansionist attitude of AI seems problematic and very political, when we compare it with earlier settlers’ expansionism in North America – Everything should be discovered and categorized by settler’s order.
Also the concept of AI seems so much of Cartesian ‘Cogito ergo sum’. This western concept of AI, that has to have ‘thinking consciousness’, is problematic for me because it is through philosophical colonization, and in fact this colonial philosophy itself is very much conflicting with some of Asian philosophies where collective consciousness is over individual one.
I think that humanity, even though I am a human, tends to think about the world so ego-centric. Of course, we seem to control the world at a significant level, but the present time, in my view, is already not about human, but about capital, commodity and service.
However, it was really interesting that Harari’s view on biometric knowledge as the key for future power dynamics, almost forever-altering power, and especially his remarks that technological advance cannot be regressed, only one-directed way.
When he talked about the possible suggestion that we should gather in order to question to the ownership of data, like philosophers, poets, “even poets”, against politicians instrumenting technology creating social chaos, I wanted to make the term, ’we’ much broader. Since this intelligence* seems so important in our life and future, educational systems, which guarantee one’s intelligence and knowledge by a paper of certificate, somehow discriminate the value of one’s voice or opinion from another. If I am in this school of academy, then my voice or opinion sounds legitimate and ‘reasonable, whereas if I am uneducated and no belonging any educational institution then my voice seems silenced. I see the internet and other social networks as an area that this problem can be solved, however along with an active dissolution against curdling in voices and opinions from only certain people.
It was also interesting that this data dictatorship (attempts) is through nation-based, rather than global-based. Although the technology is global, its regulation and control become totalistic in a national level. Would this bring the Third World War? I guess so…
“intelligence community” >>> …? WTF….
“supercomputing community was just beginning to migrate from university settings into private sector”
“gather huge amounts of data and make intelligent sense of it.”
“Their research aim was to track digital fingerprints inside the rapidly expanding global information network, which was then known as the World Wide Web”
“…much like forensic scientists use fingerprint smudges to identify criminals.”
“they predicted that potential terrorists would communicate with each other in this new global.”
“…to build a massive digital library using the internet as its backbone.”
“Could the network be organized so efficiently that individual users could be uniquely identified and tracked?”
“…before they do harm”
“While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects.”
>>>Google Drive – not much private, you have to agree with their conditions, which are not really private. if they need to (or want to), they can expose my photo on my Google Drive on web search results….
>>> Before…. then how can you judge about criminality? Before it become really happening, do they arrest the ‘potential’ criminals? movie – Minority Report : Is talking about terrorism a crime? or actual terrorism is crime?
>>>wasn’t google however able to gather all of those data by people’s voluntary joining and registering?? – Google provided platform + refined algorithm in order to make a best-usages from the data that they have so far from people… And the data itself came from us, the users.. If users stop using Google, wouldn’t Good become obsolete, not-anymore-refined-web search engine?
can technology reside out side the system?
fantasy that is embedded in the concept of knowing more
what would it be where the politics fail to do its role.
governed by only algorithm?
zeitgeist
“all systems are basically corrupt” – institution – people cannot be failed
> Past, present & future of mankind Jacques Fresco – Venus project
> Jacque Fresco on religion and spirituality
The Seasteading Institution – sea floating city
Capital can no longer depict society. no longer able to represent the world > then what can?
money — art
human as organism as well as algorithm – if the system itself is embodied through our body, the social structure of systems every be able to be abolished forever like anarchists’s attempt? because in this theory, system is inevitable, almost existential ground for human beings… we never be able to get away from system?
– system not as exterior but interior of human being
– can we even be free from algorithm, system? – is anarchist a fantasy or illusion?
do we have to kill our bodies to be totally free form algorithm?
>> what about our consciousness… is it under this system? is it system?
I always thought system is anti-thesis of humanity, natural… but system stems from us, our body
induction – deduction
>> even though it can’t give the exact answer, but probability, I’d like to know about the function that gives us the statistic of the probability
>> 구조론 : http://gujoron.com/xe/philosophy/7485 : why should the story(video, movie, novel, poem…) have endings? can it be continual all the time? : because of conflicts between induction and deduction in story line.
> why our life has to be on going even though there are conflicts – that is why the life become miserable and literally ‘stuck’.
why do we keep making same mistakes, can’t we learn ?
here I think the role of art can be maximized through catharsis…
everyone is parasite…
Dacy conferences – I can’t see difference between this democratic us scientists gathering and fascistic movements…..
notion of freedom – artist and technology >> new forms of social organization.
백남준
portraits that is constructed from DNA that one pick from the street, like hair or gum
this is a fire in a madhouse
catalysis of consciousness into the collectivity
moral vision that come from the unconscious
artists as mediator and articulator to show the changing pace of humanity, and to save the soul of mankind
mystery of human mind and body
why and how to make a fist
body is nexus of mystery of life
real issue on drugs – what kind of hope, value system permitted, allowed..
body in connection within plants
sense of love, caring, mutuality
McKenna saw the universe, in relation to Novelty theory, as having a teleological attractor at the end of time,[5] which increases interconnectedness and would eventually reach a singularity of infinite complexity. He also frequently referred to this as “the transcendental object at the end of time.”[5][7] When describing this model of the universe he stated that: “The universe is not being pushed from behind. The universe is being pulled from the future toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the rim. If you do that, you know the marble will roll down the side of the bowl, down, down, down – until eventually it comes to rest at the lowest energy state, which is the bottom of the bowl. That’s precisely my model of human history. I’m suggesting that the universe is pulled toward a complex attractor that exists ahead of us in time, and that our ever-accelerating speed through the phenomenal world of connectivity and novelty is based on the fact that we are now very, very close to the attractor.”
– “why would mathematician become a terrorist…?”
– computer + LSD + hippies =?
– MIT collaboration with military and government since WW1 / Macy conferences : Predicting hunan behaviour – great weapon for cold war – new weapon using the subconsciousness, F scales…
>> why Technology is progressed and manifested in nationalistic form, almost like fascistic way? why Technology is so inclined with power, war, military?
>> Can Utopia realized by plan? or just by chance?
-Myth of civilized human being. Cause he is murderer, he is not civilized man so no need for discussing about his idea and philosophy according to David Gelernter… really????
How the ai makes the world not only survival physically regarding the end of humanity (according to Hawking) by AI, but also competition between AI and human in political and cultural way
> Saudi Arabia
> Alexa – certain attitude is needed for answer
> Google search – “please”
>>> the way of conversation and reaction… > relation
Book as technology
Skrbina, David – the Metaphysics of Technology
>“A social system is a function of its technological system.”
Siri – exists but non-object…
> youtube : non-existent object based on language*
> if there is no referent
> trickery in dealing with true and false
Meinong’s ontology : absistence , subsistence, existence
Her (movie)
*Samantha – a being who talks through phone
>software and spirit*
*Siri
> existing outside the phone, you can buy new one and she is still there
> siri that can move from one cloud device to another
> what is siri ? only one hardware is needed?
> “what do you look like?”
> what if Siri talks to you first and starts conversation, not we starting and questioning first??
***Toward a philosophy of Technology* – Hans Jonas
> existential concept of technology – Heideger’s student
> “Technology is a species of power and we can ask questions about on what object any power is exercised.”
freedom – Randian freedom
what if someone has copyright on your DNA info
shamanism : technology – spirit
gnostic enterprise
we being simulation
-afterclass conversation-
hardware : software = body : spirit
poetry VS philosophy
Science as contemporary church (CBC IDEA)
Second life world**
Collective pingpong game from documentary
> creating different kind of (power) relation between individuals
If we discern and distinguish when to use induction or deduction to problems, we will solve most 90% problems. We somehow mix-use them which doesn’t help solving problems..
As my partner works as a modern rag-picker (picking freebies from craigslists, and resell them through craigslists), I’ve been interested in how a ragpicker functions as one of new phenomena under modernization and industrialization in the 19th C France.
Also, I find it fascinating as a potential way to fight against system both from outside the system and from inside the system. It seems a ragpicker is passive in system, but in a way that he/she slowly eradicates the system by rejecting the very core operation of the system would be powerful enough if the number grows.
“The appeal of the ragpicker in the nineteenth century could be found in his relative freedom from the temporal discipline of industrial or commercial labor. Like the peasant, the ragpicker operated outside the new bourgeois and proletarian standards of work-time discipline. But unlike the peasant, the ragpicker was wholly integrated into the economic and geographic life of the city. He operated directly within an exchange economy. Thus, the ragpicker presented a paradox; on the one hand, he was outside the normal standards of work, often celebrated for his freedom, while on the other, he also served as a reminder of the actual functioning of the system of capitalist exchange. He was both wholly within and standing outside modernity’s increasingly instrumentalized restructuring of the general conditions of everyday life and the specific conditions of the experience of time….. The ragpicker is the social equivalent of the déclassé” (Marnin Young, 2008)
9p
The essence of technology is nothing technological – Martin Heidegger
197p
Technological autonomy exists only in an inverse relationship to human autonomy; every gain it makes comes at the direct expense of our own freedom. As the system’s autonomy accelerates to unbounded heights, our freedom collapses to zero. Thus its victory over humanity is assured: “No technique is possible when men are free . . . It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. For technique, this is a matter of life of death. Technique must reduce man to a technical animal, the king of slaves of technique. Human caprice crumbles before this necessity; there can be no human autonomy in the face of technical autonomy. ” (138)
209p
When we focus on the human role in technology, we miss the larger metaphysical context. There is a permanent and immutable pressure toward complexity and order in the universe. This is the true meaning of technologi- cal determinism. But even if we cannot stop it, we can still alter the direction of this advance, we can shape it, and we can accelerate or delay it. It is in this fact that our true saving power resides.
They discovered the sun, which Plato uses as an analogy for the fire that man cannot see behind. Like the fire that cast light on the walls of the cave, the human condition is forever bound to the impressions that are received through the senses.
My current interest is furnitures and small appliances that make a living easier and better – back/butt scratcher, head massager, or sofa arm table… Recently, I felt irritated by the fact that most of my works, paintings or drawings, ended up staying in a storage room, which take up spaces and cost money. Also, the pride and conviction that made those works are far gone now, so that I feel rather ashamed by looking at them as young, ignorant, stupid me of the past.
I love watching craft, DIY, and cleaning hacks videos
I make most of toys and sleeping beds by hand for my cat, Louis.
a short film that s written by a machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=92&v=LY7x2Ihqjmc
The Moment of Cubism – John Berger
In a Cubist picture the conclusion and the connexions are given. They are what the picture is made of. They are its content. The spectator has to find his place within this content whilst the complexity of the forms and the ‘discontinuity’ of the space remind him that his view from that place is bound to be only partial. (Form and Concept)
The artist becomes responsible not simply for the means of conveying a truth, but also for the truth itself. Painting ceases to be a branch of natural science and becomes a branch of the moral sciences. (The Theatre Stage)
I made pickled radish + beet + onion that are cube shapes, combining my mom’s recipe and one on the internet.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=920650441447624&id=100005080293765&set=rpd.100005080293765&source=49&ref=bookmarks
Class note – Jan 12 Friday
fracture of perception and individual
> fracture of meaning – Dada
absurdity
lack of or multitude of meaning
a viewer becomes participants – a viewer becomes a sort of artist who creates meaning along with the original artist
John Berger
“The only inspiration which exists is the intimation of our own potential. Inspiration is the mirror image of history: by means of it we can see our past, while turning our back upon it.” (last paragraph)
>> the moment of Cubism is the moment when we realized the past which is followed by the realization of potentiality of the future.
*****FC, The Unabomber Manifesto
(138) Technology presents clear-cut material advantages, whereas freedom is an abstraction that means different things to different people, and its loss is easily obscured by propaganda and fancy talk.
(130) To fight each of the threats separately would be futile. Success can be hoped for only by fighting the technological system as a whole; but that is revolution not reform.
THE “BAD” PARTS OF TECHNOLOGY CANNOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE “GOOD” PARTS
(113) .. that freedom and technological progress are incompatible.
(97) Bourgeois conception of freedom
(96) In order to get our message before the public with some chance of making a lasting impression, we’ve had to kill people.
*****Man & technics: Bernard Stiegler (video)
“.. that man and technics are indissociable.”
“Life is fundamentally conservative. But at the same time, life is negentropy, transformation, becoming.”
****BBC video – The Brain
It was interesting that genocides as group behaviour are neuro-phenomena, rooted in the function of our brains. But when Eagleman says right after the narrative of elementary school experiments (blue-eyed vs brown-eyed) that once we understand how propaganda works then power of propaganda will reduce, I was a bit doubting. The recognition of the problem can be a starting point,, but surely can we really resist against propaganda, when we’re, involuntarily or voluntarily, constantly exposed of media, internet, etc…? what if the new society tries to introduce new forms of propaganda, which we haven’t recognized as propaganda yet.? – which is linked to what Bernard Stiegler says in his video that speed of technology is far faster than culture.
I made my kitten’s toy (on the right), taking an example from the one that my friend gave as a present (on the left).
I used a plastic plant support stick (the plant way long dead) and one sock that lost its pair.
I braided the strings so that it would stay longer.
Unexpectedly, it was destroyed 2 hours after the play with the kitten… gotta make new one this weekend!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1fiSlWLfK6tHMuVEsEBJpJP1oY1CAv88S
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1viO503k5yzW0ESEA_vUdP1_cxbIPaa63
VISUAL ESSAY due 2nd Feb
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bDVNYwnPGFeBqtQKbaSD6ImA8eTBv6NX/view?usp=sharing
The purpose was to make coat hangers from chairs legs I got from the other class.
Almost 1 week of contemplation how I would do.
I found a nice wood plank from the street.
Washed thoroughly with hot water and dish soap just in case there are bugs.
Another week of realization that nailing was not easy.
Nailed and de-nailed.. Nailed and de-nailed…
Electric drill wasn’t working ideally either.
Didn’t want to go to the school wood workshop, cause, I just don’t want.
Somehow managed the first hanger, but hammered my finger. Fuck!
I won’t do this way.
Mix of anger, fear, physical pain and a tiny bit of proudness.
Darby said why not using duck tape.
You dumb ass, it will make all ugly, it won’t stay longer.
But why not? maybe we should try.
So the work becomes from mine into ours.
Duck tape wasn’t that bad. But still UGLY!
Would it be another way?
Genius idea came in! Tried with a manual saw, seems like taking forever.
Asked Darby for electric saw.
As soon as he turned on, the edge broke and flew off.
He looked at me with fear, if I am angry because he screwed up.
But ye, I know it is not you, it was electric saw and our poor calculation.
These solid wood chair legs are too dense.
But wanted to make it to see if it works.
Another try with the manual saw.
After a couple of times hurting my hand, I did it, I made it, yay!
For the last one, I am still figuring out what and how to do.
Considering crazy glue, but not confident if it will stay with a heavy coat.
DIY Car Cup Holder.. https://drive.google.com/open?id=17SZolkAzdzjN_Po6V7g9KRwe6OOCuMAl
My computer is somehow so slow with New Hive.. so I used Prezi presentation tool..
https://prezi.com/view/FXUkDCnjnmuWzXMGzAOd/
I was interested in Donna Haraway’s Tantacular thinking essay (from 401F class). I used her thinking to locate and position my comments, favourite quotes and homeworks on this 2nd visual essay. My thinking, comments or homeworks seem linear at each time. But they are related to one another, creating giant webbing-map-kind cloud as a whole. Still when I want to go through detail of quotes and comments, I have to zoom-in and read and remember in one by one.
I guess today’s class and afternoon talk was so helpful about understanding how technology has been taken advantage of by its users, meaning ‘us’. Even though it stands for being a tool or a skill, technology is in complicate power dynamics in terms of ideology and racial problems even its existential level. The crucial question was ‘what would it be like when computer language or AI (or technology) can have and exercise (or has been doing) its own ideology?’. My opinion is that computer language, even though it seems so universal and exclusive, takes on the attitude of the expansionist, for example, Google tries to have all the information, data and knowledge. This expansionist attitude of AI seems problematic and very political, when we compare it with earlier settlers’ expansionism in North America – Everything should be discovered and categorized by settler’s order.
Also the concept of AI seems so much of Cartesian ‘Cogito ergo sum’. This western concept of AI, that has to have ‘thinking consciousness’, is problematic for me because it is through philosophical colonization, and in fact this colonial philosophy itself is very much conflicting with some of Asian philosophies where collective consciousness is over individual one.
Will the future be human? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hL9uk4hKyg4)
I think that humanity, even though I am a human, tends to think about the world so ego-centric. Of course, we seem to control the world at a significant level, but the present time, in my view, is already not about human, but about capital, commodity and service.
However, it was really interesting that Harari’s view on biometric knowledge as the key for future power dynamics, almost forever-altering power, and especially his remarks that technological advance cannot be regressed, only one-directed way.
When he talked about the possible suggestion that we should gather in order to question to the ownership of data, like philosophers, poets, “even poets”, against politicians instrumenting technology creating social chaos, I wanted to make the term, ’we’ much broader. Since this intelligence* seems so important in our life and future, educational systems, which guarantee one’s intelligence and knowledge by a paper of certificate, somehow discriminate the value of one’s voice or opinion from another. If I am in this school of academy, then my voice or opinion sounds legitimate and ‘reasonable, whereas if I am uneducated and no belonging any educational institution then my voice seems silenced. I see the internet and other social networks as an area that this problem can be solved, however along with an active dissolution against curdling in voices and opinions from only certain people.
It was also interesting that this data dictatorship (attempts) is through nation-based, rather than global-based. Although the technology is global, its regulation and control become totalistic in a national level. Would this bring the Third World War? I guess so…
Google’s true origins – mass surveillance
“intelligence community” >>> …? WTF….
“supercomputing community was just beginning to migrate from university settings into private sector”
“gather huge amounts of data and make intelligent sense of it.”
“Their research aim was to track digital fingerprints inside the rapidly expanding global information network, which was then known as the World Wide Web”
“…much like forensic scientists use fingerprint smudges to identify criminals.”
“they predicted that potential terrorists would communicate with each other in this new global.”
“…to build a massive digital library using the internet as its backbone.”
“Could the network be organized so efficiently that individual users could be uniquely identified and tracked?”
“…before they do harm”
“While most Americans think it was created to catch terrorists, the Patriot Act actually turns regular citizens into suspects.”
>>>Google Drive – not much private, you have to agree with their conditions, which are not really private. if they need to (or want to), they can expose my photo on my Google Drive on web search results….
>>> Before…. then how can you judge about criminality? Before it become really happening, do they arrest the ‘potential’ criminals? movie – Minority Report : Is talking about terrorism a crime? or actual terrorism is crime?
>>>wasn’t google however able to gather all of those data by people’s voluntary joining and registering?? – Google provided platform + refined algorithm in order to make a best-usages from the data that they have so far from people… And the data itself came from us, the users.. If users stop using Google, wouldn’t Good become obsolete, not-anymore-refined-web search engine?
Why technology is not global but nationalistic? In manifetation and application…. Will it be another totalist’s means?
class note – Feb 2 / VISA 481
can technology reside out side the system?
fantasy that is embedded in the concept of knowing more
what would it be where the politics fail to do its role.
governed by only algorithm?
zeitgeist
“all systems are basically corrupt” – institution – people cannot be failed
> Past, present & future of mankind Jacques Fresco – Venus project
> Jacque Fresco on religion and spirituality
The Seasteading Institution – sea floating city
Capital can no longer depict society. no longer able to represent the world > then what can?
money — art
human as organism as well as algorithm – if the system itself is embodied through our body, the social structure of systems every be able to be abolished forever like anarchists’s attempt? because in this theory, system is inevitable, almost existential ground for human beings… we never be able to get away from system?
– system not as exterior but interior of human being
– can we even be free from algorithm, system? – is anarchist a fantasy or illusion?
do we have to kill our bodies to be totally free form algorithm?
>> what about our consciousness… is it under this system? is it system?
I always thought system is anti-thesis of humanity, natural… but system stems from us, our body
induction – deduction
>> even though it can’t give the exact answer, but probability, I’d like to know about the function that gives us the statistic of the probability
>> 구조론 : http://gujoron.com/xe/philosophy/7485 : why should the story(video, movie, novel, poem…) have endings? can it be continual all the time? : because of conflicts between induction and deduction in story line.
> why our life has to be on going even though there are conflicts – that is why the life become miserable and literally ‘stuck’.
why do we keep making same mistakes, can’t we learn ?
here I think the role of art can be maximized through catharsis…
everyone is parasite…
Dacy conferences – I can’t see difference between this democratic us scientists gathering and fascistic movements…..
notion of freedom – artist and technology >> new forms of social organization.
백남준
portraits that is constructed from DNA that one pick from the street, like hair or gum
not Feb 2 but March 2
***Terence McKenna – Catalyzing Consciousness, Language, and the Role of Artists
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGVSsZWKvw)
this is a fire in a madhouse
catalysis of consciousness into the collectivity
moral vision that come from the unconscious
artists as mediator and articulator to show the changing pace of humanity, and to save the soul of mankind
***Terence McKenna – A Spark To Ignite A New World
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr11Ed3PA4U)
mystery of human mind and body
why and how to make a fist
body is nexus of mystery of life
real issue on drugs – what kind of hope, value system permitted, allowed..
body in connection within plants
sense of love, caring, mutuality
***wikipedia – Terence McKenna
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_McKenna)
McKenna saw the universe, in relation to Novelty theory, as having a teleological attractor at the end of time,[5] which increases interconnectedness and would eventually reach a singularity of infinite complexity. He also frequently referred to this as “the transcendental object at the end of time.”[5][7] When describing this model of the universe he stated that: “The universe is not being pushed from behind. The universe is being pulled from the future toward a goal that is as inevitable as a marble reaching the bottom of a bowl when you release it up near the rim. If you do that, you know the marble will roll down the side of the bowl, down, down, down – until eventually it comes to rest at the lowest energy state, which is the bottom of the bowl. That’s precisely my model of human history. I’m suggesting that the universe is pulled toward a complex attractor that exists ahead of us in time, and that our ever-accelerating speed through the phenomenal world of connectivity and novelty is based on the fact that we are now very, very close to the attractor.”
***The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet (FULL) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr5M6oEx2j4)
– “why would mathematician become a terrorist…?”
– computer + LSD + hippies =?
– MIT collaboration with military and government since WW1 / Macy conferences : Predicting hunan behaviour – great weapon for cold war – new weapon using the subconsciousness, F scales…
>> why Technology is progressed and manifested in nationalistic form, almost like fascistic way? why Technology is so inclined with power, war, military?
>> Can Utopia realized by plan? or just by chance?
-Myth of civilized human being. Cause he is murderer, he is not civilized man so no need for discussing about his idea and philosophy according to David Gelernter… really????
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/29/saudi-arabia-which-denies-women-equal-rights-makes-a-robot-a-citizen/?utm_term=.bbcfb6396e26
March 16 class
Stephen Hawking – machine : techno-human
> for others, the technology as being more than human.
>him, the technology for him as being a human
Champman brothers work on Hawking – sculpture : “superman”
Saudi Arabia – robot’s citizenship that denies women’ rights
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2017/10/29/saudi-arabia-which-denies-women-equal-rights-makes-a-robot-a-citizen/?utm_term=.bbcfb6396e26
How the ai makes the world not only survival physically regarding the end of humanity (according to Hawking) by AI, but also competition between AI and human in political and cultural way
> Saudi Arabia
> Alexa – certain attitude is needed for answer
> Google search – “please”
>>> the way of conversation and reaction… > relation
Book as technology
Skrbina, David – the Metaphysics of Technology
>“A social system is a function of its technological system.”
Siri – exists but non-object…
> youtube : non-existent object based on language*
> if there is no referent
> trickery in dealing with true and false
Meinong’s ontology : absistence , subsistence, existence
Her (movie)
*Samantha – a being who talks through phone
>software and spirit*
*Siri
> existing outside the phone, you can buy new one and she is still there
> siri that can move from one cloud device to another
> what is siri ? only one hardware is needed?
> “what do you look like?”
> what if Siri talks to you first and starts conversation, not we starting and questioning first??
***Toward a philosophy of Technology* – Hans Jonas
> existential concept of technology – Heideger’s student
> “Technology is a species of power and we can ask questions about on what object any power is exercised.”
freedom – Randian freedom
what if someone has copyright on your DNA info
shamanism : technology – spirit
gnostic enterprise
we being simulation
-afterclass conversation-
hardware : software = body : spirit
poetry VS philosophy
Science as contemporary church (CBC IDEA)
Second life world**
Collective pingpong game from documentary
> creating different kind of (power) relation between individuals
If we discern and distinguish when to use induction or deduction to problems, we will solve most 90% problems. We somehow mix-use them which doesn’t help solving problems..
What is data in materialistic perception by scientists?
what is information inmaterialistic perception by scientists?
As my partner works as a modern rag-picker (picking freebies from craigslists, and resell them through craigslists), I’ve been interested in how a ragpicker functions as one of new phenomena under modernization and industrialization in the 19th C France.
Also, I find it fascinating as a potential way to fight against system both from outside the system and from inside the system. It seems a ragpicker is passive in system, but in a way that he/she slowly eradicates the system by rejecting the very core operation of the system would be powerful enough if the number grows.
“The appeal of the ragpicker in the nineteenth century could be found in his relative freedom from the temporal discipline of industrial or commercial labor. Like the peasant, the ragpicker operated outside the new bourgeois and proletarian standards of work-time discipline. But unlike the peasant, the ragpicker was wholly integrated into the economic and geographic life of the city. He operated directly within an exchange economy. Thus, the ragpicker presented a paradox; on the one hand, he was outside the normal standards of work, often celebrated for his freedom, while on the other, he also served as a reminder of the actual functioning of the system of capitalist exchange. He was both wholly within and standing outside modernity’s increasingly instrumentalized restructuring of the general conditions of everyday life and the specific conditions of the experience of time….. The ragpicker is the social equivalent of the déclassé” (Marnin Young, 2008)
Metaphysics of Technology by David Skrbina
9p
The essence of technology is nothing technological – Martin Heidegger
197p
Technological autonomy exists only in an inverse relationship to human autonomy; every gain it makes comes at the direct expense of our own freedom. As the system’s autonomy accelerates to unbounded heights, our freedom collapses to zero. Thus its victory over humanity is assured: “No technique is possible when men are free . . . It is necessary, then, that technique prevail over the human being. For technique, this is a matter of life of death. Technique must reduce man to a technical animal, the king of slaves of technique. Human caprice crumbles before this necessity; there can be no human autonomy in the face of technical autonomy. ” (138)
209p
When we focus on the human role in technology, we miss the larger metaphysical context. There is a permanent and immutable pressure toward complexity and order in the universe. This is the true meaning of technologi- cal determinism. But even if we cannot stop it, we can still alter the direction of this advance, we can shape it, and we can accelerate or delay it. It is in this fact that our true saving power resides.
http://newhive.com/dahee/visa481march23
newhive
http://newhive.com/dahee/visa481march23
Now I have a ceiling window on my basemet suite room.
and I am shone by the sun light.
https://subsequent-roar.glitch.me
compilation of favourite quotes over the semester.
https://picayune-wedge.glitch.me
allegory of the cave
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_Cave
They discovered the sun, which Plato uses as an analogy for the fire that man cannot see behind. Like the fire that cast light on the walls of the cave, the human condition is forever bound to the impressions that are received through the senses.