square white world

Wellington loved us in April

simon — Thu, 17 May 2012 01:01:56 +0000

in praise of Linus Torvald and another human being

simon — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:48:53 +0000

Am I speaking with Mr. Taylor?

Yes.

Mr. Tony Taylor?

No, his son.

Can I please speak with Mr. Tony Taylor?

No. I’m afraid Mr. Tony Taylor is no longer with us.

Has he got like a divorce?

A what?

A di-v-horse?

No. He passed away.

So who is the main owner of the computers there?

No-one is the main owner of the computers here.

Like who is the main own-ner?

What is this call about please?

You have warning signals sent out…

What kind of operating system do I have…?

No. That’s what you tell me.

I don’t have to tell you anything.

You have warnings being sent out and this is not good for anyone on the…

Are you a scammer? You sound like a scammer…

No, I am not a scammer. I am a human being.

Well, this sounds like a crank call.

This is not a prank call. I am calling because warnings are being sent out from your computer…

What do they say?

Microsoft…

I don’t deal with Microsoft at all.

No? Well then, Apple, Linux…

No, not Apple either.

That’s what I said. Linux then.

Yes.

Right, Linux. [pause] OK. [pause] Good night and god bless you, my dear.

lucky escapes

simon — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:14:22 +0000

.different fronts

simon — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:32:16 +0000

thigein & conatus

simon — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:10:53 +0000

What is important is that this
contemplation without knowledge, which at times recalls the Greek con-
ception of theory as not knowledge but touching [thigein], here functions to
define life. As absolute immanence, a life . . . is pure contemplation beyond
every subject and object of knowledge; it is pure potentiality that preserves
without acting.

- Giorgio Agamben, “Absolute Immanence,” p. 164

Spinoza’s theory of ‘striving’ (conatus) as the desire to persevere in one’s
own Being, whose importance Deleuze often underlines, contains a possible
answer to these questions. Whatever the ancient and medieval sources of
Spinoza’s idea (Harry A. Wolfson lists a number of them, from the Stoics to
Dante), it is certain that in each case, its paradoxical formulation perfectly
expresses the idea of an immanent movement, a striving that obstinately
remains in itself. All beings not only persevere in their own Being (vis
inertiae) but desire to do so (vis immanentiae). The movement of conatus thus
coincides with that of Spinoza’s immanent cause, in which agent and patient
cannot be told apart. And since conatus is identical to the Being of the thing,
to desire to persevere in one’s own Being is to desire one’s own desire, to
constitute oneself as desiring. In conatus, desire and Being thus coincide without
residue.

- Ibid., p. 166

check excerpt: follow link: first time Englished

simon — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:15:37 +0000

A Cultural

History of

Physics

by Károly Simonyi

translated from German into English

by David Kramer

then checked against the original Hungarian,

according to his son

who also brought it out

and wrote the foreword

by Charles Simonyi

Long Live The Pirate Party!

simon — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:46:33 +0000

the following images came from a Ggl find similar search:

apart from this, which is to be placed in parentheses – sheer frivolity:

& I don’t remember what it was I was searching for …

an essay on postcolonial style: exclusive series

simon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 03:47:34 +0000

non-d’hors-nom

simon — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:38:48 +0000

Drawing upon the set-theoretical ontology of Alain Badiou, the computational theory of Stephen Wolfram, the physics of Frank Tipler, the psychoanalytical theory of Jacques Lacan, and the genius of Georg Cantor, the author works to demonstrate that the universe is a computer processing the divine Name and that all existence is made of information (the bit). As a result of this ontic pan-computationalism, it is shown that the future resurrection of the dead can take place and how it may in fact occur. Along the way, the book also offers compelling critiques of several significant theories of reality, including the phenomenological theologies of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion, Process Theology, and Object-Oriented Ontology.
Reality in the Name of God explores how the concepts of Jewish mysticism can be articulated and deployed…

- from here

Bifo, Franco Berardi, on Guattari, a snap taken at intro’s end

simon — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:58:22 +0000