Howtoexplainwhatyoudontknowtopeoplewhomightknowitbetteriftheproceduralimportfilterdefaultwasselfassigning
videokunst & electronische medien....... ort: Studio A, NB1, 14.00 mittwoch
a c t a n t
continues send>return>send and probably has little to do with what might go on..
0. Subject - looking for the Object
0. Sender - of the Subject on its quest for the Object
0. Object - looked for by the Subject
0. Helper - of the Subject
0. Opponent - of the Subject
0. Receiver - of the Object to be secured by the Subject
Some philosophers, notably of the Platonic school, contend that all nouns refer to entities. Other philosophers contend that some nouns do not name entities but provide a kind of shorthand way of referring to a collection (of either objects or events). In this latter view, mind, instead of referring to an entity, refers to a collection of mental events experienced by a person; society refers to a collection of persons with some shared characteristics, and geometry refers to a collection of a specific kind of intellectual activity. Any ontology must give an account of which words refer to entities, which do not, why, and what categories result. When one applies this process to nouns such as electrons, energy, contract, happiness, time, truth, causality, and god, ontology becomes fundamental to many branches of philosophy.
Ontology has one basic question: "What actually exists?" Different philosophers provide different answers to this question.
done to or by or from or with
or er or err or ere or ear or
r err err or or orror rrrrrrr..
th estuttering repepepetitition
of las tsemememester’s feed
back in tune..
the problem question of selection..
The number of bits registered by each atom is well known and has been quantified ever since Maxwell and Boltzmann. Each particle — for instance each of the molecules in this room — registers something on the order of 30 or 40 bits of information as it bounces around. This feature of the universe — that it registers and processes information at its most fundamental level — is scientifically uncontroversial, in the sense that it has been known for 120 years and is the accepted dogma of physics.
over de termin ated..
punctualised..
conformed..
Cat flap (Flat cap)
Bad salad (Sad ballad)
Soap in your hole (Hope in your soul)
Mean as custard (Keen as mustard)
Plaster man (Master plan)
Pleating and humming (Heating and plumbing)
Trim your snow tail (Trim your toe nails)
Birthington's washday (Washington's Birthday)
Trail snacks (Snail tracks)
Bottle in front of me (Frontal Lobotomy)
Sale of two titties (Tale of two cities)
Rental Deceptionist (Dental Receptionist)
Flock of bats (Block of flats)
Chewing the doors (Doing the chores)open space for video and audio
The ontologically crucial notion of an actant, a term which applies to anything that
acts, regardless of whether it is a social actor in the usual sense, one of the objects studied
by the natural sciences, or a cyborg that straddles those boundaries, is introduced in Part
One of Science in Action. Instead of distinguishing between natural objects, the subjectmatter
of the natural sciences, and social entities, the subject-matter of the social sciences,
he introduces the term “actant” to cover both social and natural entities, people and
things. It is defined as “whoever and whatever is represented” (1987, 84); we are also
told that its nature is not an essence, but whatever emerges from trials of strength (1987,
89.) But a reader of Science in Action is given only a hint of the role of actants in Part
Two of The Pasteurization of France (Latour 1988), where they are said to be prior to the
social and natural, which emerge out of the networks actants generate, or their importance
in his subsequent work. (from stern.. Rhetoric, narrative and argument in Bruno Latour’s Science in Action)
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9900E3D81F30F933A25752C0A9609C8B63
Punctualisation
If taken to its logical conclusion, nearly any actor can be considered merely a sum of other, smaller actors. An automobile is an example of a complex system. It contains many electronic and mechanical components, all of which are essentially hidden from view to the driver, who simply deals with the car as a single object. This effect is known as punctualisation, and is similar to the idea of abstraction in object-oriented programming.
When an actor network breaks down, the punctualisation effect tends to cease as well. In the automobile example above, a non-working engine would cause the driver to become aware of the car as a collection of parts rather than just a vehicle capable of transporting him or her from place to place. This can also occur when elements of a network act contrarily to the network as a whole
https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/citd/holtorf/3.11.html
The general model helps us making precise observations in the specific text. An actant is a genre-related type of fictional characters like e.g. the Troll, the Princess, or the young Man in the folk-tale in general, (for this read prof. student, techician, administrator, putzfrau), while an actor is the specific version of the type in the individual tale.
greimas
http://home13.inet.tele.dk/grambye/contents/generel/1.act.htm
story
http://home13.inet.tele.dk/grambye/contents/eks.primguld/primgold.htm
http://home13.inet.tele.dk/grambye/contents/eng.ind.htm
A black box is a metaphor borrowed from cybernetics denoting a piece of machinery that "runs by itself". That is, when a series of instructions are too complicated to be repeated all the time, a black box is drawn around it, allowing it to function only by giving it "input" and "output" data. For example a CPU inside a computer is a black box. You do not need to know it's inner complexity, you only need to use it in your everyday activities.
http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2004/11/actant-model.html
I
http://home13.inet.tele.dk/grambye/contents/generel/10.peirce.eng.htm#Roman
http://www.wilmccarthy.com/hm.htm
http://www.mediamanual.at/index.php
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
intertextuality
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/sem09.html
When writers write they are also written. To communicate we must utilize existing concepts and conventions. Consequently, whilst our intention to communicate and what we intend to communicate are both important to us as individuals, meaning cannot be reduced to authorial 'intention'. To define meaning in terms of authorial intention is the so-called 'intentional fallacy' identified by W K Wimsatt and M C Beardsley of the 'New Critical' tendency in literary criticism (Wimsatt & Beardsley 1954). We may, for instance, communicate things without being aware of doing so. As Michael de Montaigne wrote in 1580, 'the work, by its own force and fortune, may second the workman, and sometimes out-strip him, beyond his invention and knowledge' (Essays, trans. Charles Cotton: 'Of the art of conferring' III, 8). Furthermore, in conforming to any of the conventions of our medium, we act as a medium for perpetuating such conventions.
One of the founding texts of semiotics, the Cours de linguistique générale, itself problematizes the status of authorship. Whilst the text published by Payot in Paris bears the name of Ferdinand de Saussure as its author, it was in fact not the work of Saussure at all. Saussure died in 1913 without leaving any detailed outline of his theories on general linguistics or on what he called semiology. The Cours was first published posthumously in 1916 and was assembled by Charles Bally and Albert Sechehaye ('with the collaboration of Albert Riedlinger') on the basis of the notes which had been taken by at least seven students, together with a few personal notes which had been written by Saussure himself. The students' notes referred to three separate courses on general linguistics which Saussure had taught at the University of Geneva over the period of 1906-1911. Saussure thus neither wrote nor read the book which bears his name, although we continually imply that he did by attaching his name to it.
http://www.hum.au.dk/semiotics/docs2/whatis.html
Saussure himself referred to sound and thought as two distinct but correlated planes. 'We can envisage... the language... as a series of adjoining subdivisions simultaneously imprinted both on the plane of vague, amorphous thought (A), and on the equally featureless plane of sound (B)' (Saussure 1983, 110-111; Saussure 1974, 112).
Adam Curry compared the Weblog to the telephone in its potential to revolutionize society. If the early results are mostly lame he related that "the telephone was first used to call ahead to say that a telegram was on its way."
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2003/10/04
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1838244,00.asp
http://4d.shadowpuppet.net/4d.php
un voeu de Confucius vers la fin de sa vie ( 551-479 avant J C )
Parmi trois personnes rencontrées
sur mon chemin, il y en a au moins une,
à n'en pas douter,
qui peut me servir de guide;
je distingue ses bonnes qualités,
dont je tire un exemple à suivre,
de ses mauvaises qualités,
dont je tire une leçon.
(« du raisonnement mis en conserve » résuma Paul Valéry).
On the cru et cuit
Disambiguating lexical markers of cause and effect
using actantial structures and actant classes1
ELIZABETH MARSHMAN AND MARIE-CLAUDE L’HOMME
OBSERVATOIRE DE LINGUISTIQUE SENS-TEXTE
UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL
Abstract
The aim of this project was to develop and evaluate a method for the
disambiguation of English lexical knowledge patterns that can be used
to identify cause-effect relations. Recently, terminologists and
computer scientists have investigated various techniques for locating
informative contexts in specialized corpora automatically or semi-
automatically. Some of these methods rely partly or exclusively on
linguistic patterns that express a specific relationship (generic-
specific, part-whole, entity-function, cause-effect, etc.). Some patterns
are efficient, while others are highly ambiguous, leading to poorer
results. The method we developed focuses on the actantial structures
of lexical units in patterns and the semantic classes of terms linked by
these patterns (with the attribution of classes relying partly on external
resources). The experiment was carried out on a corpus of English
medical texts. Our results show that this approach is promising, but
also that other strategies need to be implemented in order to
disambiguate patterns completely.
http://alip.blogs.friendster.com/my_goblog/2005/11/parallel_cable_.html
Unicode
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
Unicode was a brave effort to create a single character set that included every reasonable writing system on the planet and some make-believe ones like Klingon, too. Some people are under the misconception that Unicode is simply a 16-bit code where each character takes 16 bits and therefore there are 65,536 possible characters. This is not, actually, correct. It is the single most common myth about Unicode, so if you thought that, don't feel bad.
In fact, Unicode has a different way of thinking about characters, and you have to understand the Unicode way of thinking of things or nothing will make sense.
Until now, we've assumed that a letter maps to some bits which you can store on disk or in memory:
A -> 0100 0001
In Unicode, a letter maps to something called a code point which is still just a theoretical concept. How that code point is represented in memory or on disk is a whole nuther story.
In Unicode, the letter A is a platonic ideal. It's just floating in heaven:
A
This platonic A is different than B, and different from a, but the same as A and A and A. The idea that A in a Times New Roman font is the same character as the A in a Helvetica font, but different from "a" in lower case, does not seem very controversial, but in some languages just figuring out what a letter is can cause controversy. Is the German letter ß a real letter or just a fancy way of writing ss? If a letter's shape changes at the end of the word, is that a different letter? Hebrew says yes, Arabic says no. Anyway, the smart people at the Unicode consortium have been figuring this out for the last decade or so, accompanied by a great deal of highly political debate, and you don't have to worry about it. They've figured it all out already.
Every platonic letter in every alphabet is assigned a magic number by the Unicode consortium which is written like this: U+0645. This magic number is called a code point. The U+ means "Unicode" and the numbers are hexadecimal. U+FEC9 is the Arabic letter Ain. The English letter A would be U+0041. You can find them all using the charmap utility on Windows 2000/XP or visiting the Unicode web site.
There is no real limit on the number of letters that Unicode can define and in fact they have gone beyond 65,536 so not every unicode letter can really be squeezed into two bytes, but that was a myth anyway.
OK, so say we have a string:
http://www.shroudstory.com/art.htm
http://www.edge.org/documents/ThirdCulture/t-Ch.12.html
There's a circular or network process that engenders a paradox: a self-organizing network of biochemical reactions produces molecules, which do something specific and unique: they create a boundary, a membrane, which constrains the network that has produced the constituents of the membrane. This is a logical bootstrap, a loop: a network produces entities that create a boundary, which constrains the network that produced the boundary. This bootstrap is precisely what's unique about cells. A self-distinguishing entity exists when the bootstrap is completed. This entity has produced its own boundary. It doesn't require an external agent to notice it, or to say, "I'm here." It is, by itself, a self- distinction. It bootstraps itself out of a soup of chemistry and physics.
The idea arose, also at that time, that the local rules of autopoiesis might be simulated with cellular automata. At that time, few people had ever heard of cellular automata, an esoteric idea I picked up from John von Neumann — one that would be made popular by the artificial-life people. Cellular automata are simple units that receive inputs from immediate neighbors and communicate their internal state to the same immediate neighbors.
In order to deal with the circular nature of the autopoiesis idea, I developed some bits of mathematics of self-reference, in an attempt to make sense out of the bootstrap — the entity that produces its own boundary. The mathematics of self-reference involves creating formalisms to reflect the strange situation in which something produces A, which produces B, which produces A. That was 1974. Today, many colleagues call such ideas part of complexity theory.
The more recent wave of work in complexity illuminates my bootstrap idea, in that it's a nice way of talking about this funny, screwy logic where the snake bites its own tail and you can't discern a beginning. Forget the idea of a black box with inputs and outputs. Think in terms of loops. My early work on self-reference and autopoiesis followed from ideas developed by cyberneticists such as Warren McCulloch and Norbert Wiener, who were the first scientists to think in those terms. But early cybernetics is essentially concerned with feedback circuits, and the early cyberneticists fell short of recognizing the importance of circularity in the constitution of an identity. Their loops are still inside an input/output box. In several contemporary complex systems, the inputs and outputs are completely dependent on interactions within the system, and their richness comes from their internal connectedness. Give up the boxes, and work with the entire loopiness of the thing. For instance, it's impossible to build a nervous system that has very clear inputs and outputs.
nice linked object app..
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An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Melodemes ?
April
12 ..... acte pastillé divan divas in and on ice cream
19 ... dolgic didactic der prof tries to remember what he's supposed to teach..
26 ... home movies from Lucy's Country .. visitors from never never land..
May
3 ... for there is noone to bury.. mix'nmatt which leads to the last magnolia the first sc version of which is here
10 ... visitin' from outer delhi.. pooja soot.. followed by some serious horticultural wifi surveillance.. goa constrictor mixed to the final screams.. a perfect afternoon.. by the pond. here you can see a smal stream of the orginal urshrierin
17... paparatchnik.. one of those days where yesteryear's proxies appear...
24 an hour and a half to set up.. takes 3 lumpenproletariat inclusive of the gastarbeiet professor.. the road to overload.. culminating as ever on the pauline plains of uncertainty.. matti saves the afternoon with the real thing and köln klön take it on from there.. 2 more hours to come to a rest and clear up.. then system admin on the monday network.. all in all a pretty good result.. now if only importing worked on the inferno and the flame could render locally... it says framestore full when its a quarter empty.. oh dear forgot that was HD.. 5 x more space.. gonna write a general mail about renting in an HD maz..
31 since last week was such cabling stress we thought we could go and check out all the new gear at Mediatec.. let someone else do the setting up for a change... anyone interested please mail me.. I'll pay the Ubahn.. came the day.. we decided to do that tomorrow.. and since only 2 people passed by the seminar.. aprat from the a part of de olde lags.. its gonna feel cheap.. meanwhile some visitors. yolande appeared and disappeared in the direction of a gps .. past the brewery and later into a TRAFFIC JAM ?¿.. I suddenlly remembered Bryan Saunders from Johnson city whilst Heiko was telling me about the person .. nichols .. ¿ who had written a seminal text on Trocchi.. hey.. you remind me I just got this great CD from the mouth itself.. heiko later sent this spoonerismismus but I'm not sure what it had to do with trocchi .. maybe this
june
7, 8, 9 discreet workshop .. see aushang and a couple of snippets.. effectiveichat
14 Bob may well come and explain the media network and all that hangs off it.. and if david is lucky we may well be graced by a visit from his husband.. so yes.. no Bob, but Akiko visited, the bunnies made friends with SC, Julia Scher ¿ fused their brains metaphorically with amplified light .. juliana showed her test paint gun terrorist activities.. jasper shot sc caught in beefheart's mirror... and here's one Heiko shot .. also some charming ¿ pages (bar some of me... she put up later..
21 scrambled hackz.. sven könig 's appropriate flying in from zurich on german wings.. just to talk to us and explain some of what he already explained in one of the links above.. says his biological clock dont put up with early flights very well.. fingers crossed since he's supposed to be bringing WDR with him.. well.. he made it.. funny session.. all 4 hours of it.. he had planned on a short session and packed up but we sort of carried on desultorily until our resident copyright expert.. heiko.. thought about saying something.. that's 2 hours in.. no point in making an embedded start since one has to download the whole thing anyway.. 500MB or so.. sorry that's 25% of my monthly allowance I know.. and definitely not worth it.. but Heiko put his part on appropriation on google video.. then some visitors from the NoReal CD launch.. (which is on the 28th at 20.00.. and continues til 02.07.. at offene raum fur kunst & musik Aachener strasse 43.......... improved the emotional dynamic range of the audio .. finally da prof does a highland jig.. and all goes quiet.. by the way the link to the lsd research is here as is a new leary book..
28, 29,30 patrick zanoli workshop.. so we'll figure out how to make something like this whether using maya, flame, aftereffects, or wotever comes to hand..
this is one patrick made before inside one patrick made before inside one patrick made before just so one had an idea about cameleon vision.... movies for millipedes maybe next one.. shoot in the studio wednesday and apply it to something else.. sense and sensor.. .. well we didn't get what we wanted done for the blue box but made a pretty chaotic stream.. this will have to do as material.. .. 29th.. various hiccups but by 30th we put this together as a tricam example.. just camera out of window etc. agit prop bkground gegen studien gebuhren.. (student fees..) will probably make a better version for here later... they were installing the compositing beamer all day.. nice but not yet cabled.. should be HD anyway.. the original of this is 2260 so cant project .. und so weiter.. in the end Matthias and a section and sascha from Zamosc warsaw sent a mp3... all got stuck together like this.. (292 MB download..4 min) stream here
july
3&4.. Zil organised excellent vvvv workshop session
with Philipp Rahlenback and Tebjan Halm.. if I was windows I'd take it up..
5 sem.. caspar de stracke lite.. is showing work in Bonn morgen so he promised to drop some by here too.. this is an opener... sadly he couldn't make it coz the guys in Bonn switched his sscreening to august 4th and .... (I'll fill this in later.. with his permission) so coincidentally we had the visit of Joe from Vinten in Mainz explaining the ins and outs of the autoscript prompter that we've been trying to get at KHM since '98.. so that was good replacement talent..
12 no sem.. open door