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Flux Schematica: May 2007
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Vile'm Flusser (Philosophy of Photography: The Image). Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, “something ‘out there’.” Images are reduced from “four dimensions of space and time” to “two surface dimensions.” (8). Imagination is this specific ability to abstract surfaces out of space and time and to project them back into space and time. The significance of images is on the surface. The magical nature of t...
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Flux Schematica: Vile'm Flusser (Philosophy of Photography: The Image)
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Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Vile'm Flusser (Philosophy of Photography: The Image). Images are significant surfaces. This means that images signify, as well as make comprehensible as an abstraction, “something ‘out there’.” Images are reduced from “four dimensions of space and time” to “two surface dimensions.” (8). Imagination is this specific ability to abstract surfaces out of space and time and to project them back into space and time. The significance of images is on the surface. The magical nature of t...
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Worlds: Worlds
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Open-source 3-d worlds extension to Processing. Sunday, December 21, 2008. This blog will document the ongoing development of the Worlds library/package for the Processing environment. Worlds will be an open-source 3D extension to Processing. Ideally, it will combine at least the following features:. Procedural construction of interactive three dimensional spaces. Generation and rendering of 3-d planets, landscapes and simple models (vehicles, buildings). Intuitive encapsulation of Processing camera.
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Worlds: December 2008
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Open-source 3-d worlds extension to Processing. Thursday, December 25, 2008. A few updates this Christmas day. I've expanded the ability of the cls3DLandscape class to use random midpoint displacement for landscape generation. (The results of this method, when viewed as 2D bitmaps, are sometimes called "cloud" or "plasma" fractals.) Here's an example with the "topological" shading method:. And here's one as a simple wireframe of the 3-d mesh:. Alright, that's about it. Merry Christmas! With luck, I'll ha...
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Flux Schematica: Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (Parts I, II)
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Thursday, May 17, 2007. Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (Parts I, II). For every organ-machine, an energy machine (1). Schizophrenia and the time before the man-nature dichotomy/split (1). Nature lived as process of production (2). Oedipus presupposes a fantastic repression of desiring-machines (3). The schizophrenic experiences not nature, but nature as a process of production (3). Production is immediately consumption and a recording process, without any sort of mediation (4). The object presuppose...
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Flux Schematica: Deleuze's Bergson (Part I)
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Thursday, May 17, 2007. Deleuze's Bergson (Part I). Bergsonism: Intuition as Method. Intuition as method entails: 1. stating and creating problems; 2. discovery of genuine differences in kind; 3. apprehension of real time (duration) (14). First rule: Apply the test of true and false to problems themselves. Condemn false problems and reconcile truth and creation at the level of problems (15). Discovery vs. invention—we must invent new ways of posing the problem (15). Bergson’s analyses are famous:. What B...
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Flux Schematica: Debord: Society of the Spectacle Notes (Part 1)
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Thursday, May 17, 2007. Debord: Society of the Spectacle Notes (Part 1). But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence…illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. In its totality—spectacle is the outcome and...
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Flux Schematica: Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Introduction, Parts 1-2)
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Thursday, May 17, 2007. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition (Introduction, Parts 1-2). This book enquires on the condition of knowledge today in highly developed societies (xxiii). It is also situated in the crisis of narratives (xxiii). Philosophy legitimates the rules of science’s language games (xxiii). 8216;Postmodern’ designates incredulity toward metanarratives (xxiv). This is not a structuralism or a systems theory but a pragmatics of language particles (xxiv). Still, the postmodern condition is as ...
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Flux Schematica: Deleuze and Guattari's Thousand Plateaus: Introduction to the Rhizome
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Thursday, May 17, 2007. Deleuze and Guattari's Thousand Plateaus: Introduction to the Rhizome. D G have reached the point where it is no longer of any importance whether one says I [This, of course, is preceded by similar assertions about the schizophrenic in Anti-Oedipus]. (3). A book is an assemblage and a multiplicity:. D G insists upon ‘Stratometers, deleometers, BwO units of convergence. Not only do these constitute a quantification of writing, but they define writing as always the measure...D G ass...