And a separate problem is that when “reblogging”, the original source on Tumblr is hard to track down. I try to be scrupulous about linking to the original writer/creator of things, but Tumblr sites sometimes make that hard to do, or make it hard to even notice that what you’re reading/looking at originated on someone else’s Tumblr site.
✖ Via Daring Fireball: “Khoi Vinh on Tumblr and Identity”, August 5th, 2010

Reblogging is fast and effortless. If the author of a Tumblr blog (or any other blog for that matter) doesn’t take the time to track down the original source of the quote or picture he’s interested in, it will get lost in the reblogging process (for example, try to find the original artist of a picture published on ffffound!). There’s a reason why Skandalon release only two posts a day : providing adequate references can be a time consuming process. But without them, this archive won’t be a proper archive. And I’m not saying that everyone should do this. It’s a personal choice. But then again, for it to be a choice, one would have to take the time to think about it : do I want to know who’s behind this nice illustration? Do I want to spend time to look into it? Do I need the reference? What could I gain from it? And so on.



• Aug 06, 2010 link notes tagged: Skandalon  Tumblr  archive  artist  author  creator  ethic  reference  source  technology  adequate references 

Dans le passage conclusif de sa thèse, consacré à la recherche d’une définition de l’acte éthique, Simondon évoque ce qui en serait le revers, et qu’il nomme « l’acte fou ». L’acte fou est l’acte monadique, qui consiste en lui-même, incapable de réticuler, incapable d’étalement transductif. « L’acte en lequel il n’y a plus [un] indice de la totalité et de la possibilité des autres actes […], l’acte qui ne reçoit pas cette mesure à la fois activante et inhibitrice venant du réseau des autres actes est l’acte fou, en un certain sens identique à l’acte parfait. […] Cet acte fou n’a plus qu’une normativité interne ; il consiste en lui-même et s’entretient dans le vertige de son existence itérative » (IGPB, 247). L’acte éthique, à l’inverse, est celui qui, fondamentalement, inconsiste, c’est-à-dire est à même de faire réseau avec d’autres actes. « L’acte qui est plus qu’unité, qui ne peut résider et consister seulement en lui-même, mais qui réside aussi et s’accomplit en une infinité d’autres actes, est celui dont la relation aux autres est signification, possède valeur d’information »
✖ Via “L’Acte Fou” by Bernard Aspe & Muriel Combes, Multitudes 4/2004 (no 18), p. 63-71.

Muriel Combes wrote Simondon. Individu et collectivité. Pour une philosophie du transindividuel in 1999. You can read it online (French only). Learn more about Gilbert Simondon on Wikipedia.



• May 17, 2010 link notes reblogged from leftoverfest  [via] tagged: technology  philosophy  lost  loser  ethic  network  others  self  destruction  end  mean  Simondon 

The almost insoluble task consists of refusing to allow oneself to be rendered dumb, either by the power of others or by one’s own powerlessness.
✖ Via Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno, Suhrkamp Verlag, [1944]1951, part 1, §34.
“Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German-born international intellectual, sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others.” (Wikipedia)


• Jan 15, 2010 link notes tagged: philosophy  book  author  critic  power  life  war  ethic 
communication philosophy author critic power revolution politic history knowledge ethic autonomy kant
✖ Via “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?” by Immanuel Kant (1784) Shown here : the first page of the 1799 version.

“”Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?” (German: “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?”) is the title of a 1784 essay by the philosopher Immanuel Kant. In the December 1784 publication of the Berlinische Monatsschrift (Berlin Monthly), edited by Friedrich Gedike and Johann Erich Biester, Kant replied to the question posed a year earlier by the Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner, who was also an official in the Prussian government. Zöllner’s question was addressed to a broad intellectual public, in reply to Biester’s essay entitled: “Proposal, not to engage the clergy any longer when marriages are conducted” (April 1783) and a number of leading intellectuals replied with essays, of which Kant’s is the most famous and has had the most impact. Kant’s opening paragraph of the essay is a much-cited definition of a lack of Enlightenment as people’s inability to think for themselves due not to their lack of intellect, but lack of courage.” (Wikipedia)

Complete English translation of Kant’s essay here.



• Dec 01, 2009 link notes tagged: communication  philosophy  author  critic  power  revolution  politic  history  knowledge  ethic  autonomy  Kant 

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