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Cyrille Henry -Verbiage Végétal

“Ces arbres reposent sur une arborescence complexe composée des lettres de l’alphabet.”

language crawls thru tree tunnels
unknotting calibrated moist
interfaces of cambium cognition

DESKTOPOGRAPHY

Graphene: Strongest Material Ever Tested

If he could get a large enough piece of the material to lay over the top of a coffee cup, he says, graphene would be strong enough to support the weight of a car balanced atop the pencil.

coupland.com ~ the gum theif ~ branding

watch the entire series: coupland.com

when ad beats the art
and brands top being
lines between media
become mildly irrelevant

David Chalmers : The Conscious Mind

“Physics requires information states but cares only about their relations, not their intrinsic nature; phenomenology requires information states, but cares only about their fundamental nature.”

Prog Rock

“Within this idea of progression we have a paradoxical
storm that we are simultaneously attempting to avoid.
We all want to be new; newness is what perpetuates
all new ideas.”

Kelly Warman & Tobias Laukemper,”ProgRock” DVD, 5:17 mins

radical instability

Salon.com News | Apocalypse now

This new age, they explain, is defined both by the heating trend (whose closest analogue may be the catastrophe known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, 56 million years ago) and by the radical instability expected of future environments. In somber prose, they warn that “the combination of extinctions, global species migrations and the widespread replacement of natural vegetation with agricultural monocultures is producing a distinctive contemporary biostratigraphic signal. These effects are permanent, as future evolution will take place from surviving (and frequently anthropogenically relocated) stocks.” Evolution itself, in other words, has been forced into a new trajectory.

Lightmark | Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke

No.60 | N 70°26’36.5“ E 27°53’27.1“,Tanafjorden, Finnmark, Norway, 2007

The Decapitator

gestural painting
for nouvea misanthropes

Hofstadter, ”I am a Strange Loop”

“My argument in I Am a Strange Loop is spelled out clearly. If a person’s soul is truly a pattern, then it can be realized in different media. Wherever that pattern exists in a sufficiently fine-grained way, then it is, by my definition, the soul itself and not some kind of “mere simulation” of it.”

media-neutral cognition
& substrate-neutral emotion
equals immanence

The Itch

Atul Gawande: “The account of perception that’s starting to emerge is what we might call the “brain’s best guess” theory of perception: perception is the brain’s best guess about what is happening in the outside world. … Perception is inference.”

mind’s teeth
rip data
into teeming worlds

Hasan Elahi – Tracking Transience

“I’ve discovered that the best way to protect your privacy is to give it away”

network perforations
protect remote
places from isolation

Little Bits

littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.