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Systems work because they do not work. Nonfunctioning remains essential for functioning. And that can be formalized. Given, two stations and a channel. They exchange messages. If the relation succeeds, if it is perfect, optimum, and immediate, it disappears as a relation. If it is there, if it exists, that means it failed. It is only mediation. |
✖ Via The Parasite by Michel Serres, tr. Lawrence R. Schehr, Minneapolis, University of Minesota Press, 2007, p. 79 [Amazon] |
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Feb 18 link notes reblogged from Leftovers
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Without further ado, the 2009 Word of the Year is: unfriend.
unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook.
As in, “I decided to unfriend my roommate on Facebook after we had a fight.”
“It has both currency and potential longevity,” notes Christine Lindberg, Senior Lexicographer for Oxford’s US dictionary program. “In the online social networking context, its meaning is understood, so its adoption as a modern verb form makes this an interesting choice for Word of the Year. Most “un-” prefixed words are adjectives (unacceptable, unpleasant), and there are certainly some familiar “un-” verbs (uncap, unpack), but “unfriend” is different from the norm. It assumes a verb sense of “friend” that is really not used (at least not since maybe the 17th century!). Unfriend has real lex-appeal.” |
✖ Via OUPblog, “Oxford Word of the Year 2009: Unfriend” (November 16, 2009). About the OUPblog : “The talented authors, staff and friends of Oxford University Press provide daily commentary on nearly every subject under the sun, from philosophy to literature to economics. OUPblog is a source like no other on the blogosphere for learning, understanding and reflection.” (read more) |
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Nov 22 link notes
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Very nice collection of images. I like how blogs have made random finds more accessible. |
✖ Via Design Observer I just found this comment on the Design Obsever’s blog. Made me wonder how “random finds” can be made more or less accessible and, if so, how they can remain “random”. Is it about giving order to the chaotic flux of information we experience everyday? What kind of order can be created out of tools like Tumblr? And how this order informs our experience of the world in return? Is the world more or less random because of these tools? Or are those tools a necessary response to new kind of experience, more fragmented, more random, more chaotic? |
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Apr 11 link notes
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On voit que la passion est inconsciente, l’action consciente. Car toute conscience suppose un dédoublement, une séparation d’avec soi. Avoir conscience de soi, c’est se prendre pour objet, et donc ne plus coïncider avec soi, renoncer à ce que l’on était. Toute conscience est séparation : par là, elle est temporelle et inquiète, mais par là elle est action et progrès. Et l’on comprend aussi que la conscience guérisse les passions, ainsi en localisant leurs sources. Par la passion, je reviens à mon moi passé, j’assimile, je coïncide, je retourne à l’unité. Telle est l’inconscience passionnelle. Localiser un souvenir, c’est, au contraire, se séparer de lui, le distinguer du moi présent. Et nous croyons que c’est par une telle localisation qu’opère la psychanalyse. Ici est rendu au temps ce qui nous paraissait éternel, et notre amour même de l’éternel. |
✖ Via Ferdinand Alquié, La Conscience affective, «Le refus du temps», éd. Vrin, Paris, [1979]1998, p. 259. |
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Mar 30 link notes
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