#16 Hovestadt Buehlmann; Quantum City

[thehumoredhost]

Dear Murray, 

I have been unable to reply any sooner to your last letter which reached me quite some time ago. [8] I have read it twenty times. [3] There is too much irony in it, it is too knowing to be serious. [5] There is still much I don't even begin to understand, but for seven days, the bits have been clumping together into a vague picture. [7] I don't see how this could work [9]. I don't like it.[7]

Your plan contains a central tower a central observation post [10],giving you a stage to ‘talk’, with not only Venetian blinds on the windows of the central observation hall, but, on the inside, partitions that intersected the hall at right angles and, in order to pass from one quarter to the other, not doors but zig zag openings; for the slightest noise, a gleam of light, a brightness in a half opened door would betray the presence of the comedian, you[11] I wonder will you allow us totalk. [13] With you every statement is converted to a rhetorical question. [5] Always talking, never giving, staying in a good position in irreversible logic. [12] This device, by itself, politicises talking,[5] it automatizes and disindividualizes power [11]

What goals are such systems designed to achieve?[14] It’s not just you; nobody, appears to know exactly what anyone else is talking about, the terms of discussion having become either too generic or too divergent to achieve any mutual understanding. [15] People talk about you a bit: forget you. [13] They wonder if they should talk any, or talk the whole time, or what to talk about.[16]Our mind cannot embrace many objects or many situations at the same time. [17] What if there is no word, real or fabricated, which will accomplish that? [18] What will you do then?

I'm afraid I don't quite understand what all this talk of “issues" is about. [18] We know how greatly laws are disregarded during war, when all things are under the control of violence rather than reason [19] War and chaos there might have been, but these were hardly new phenomena in the recent history. [20] The body, the statue, our knowledges or memories, libraries or cenotaphs: all imprison the phantom by denying its existence. [21] lt is far easier for us to imagine chaos than the proper proportions of the universe. [17] Talking ,in this case, is just pointless. Words to put you to sleep, wine to put you to sleep, words and wine to put the tragic and comic of existence to sleep.No bread for the poor, no love for the men, no wine for the feasts, nothing, always nothing, wind, nothing but wind. [ 22]

In your letter you say: I executed this project slowly, and at different times, but with as much application and care as I was capable of employing, being fully persuaded that the repose of my life and future happiness depended on it. [3]

So I would like to know if you have any clarifications on this point, because this is what I'm thinking: [23]Happiness without glass   how stupid is that![24]

I believe that the mystery which defeats me is a mockery, a joke, that is played on me.[25] Verily, you comedians are the most pleasant people in point of tongue and the subtlest in jest, and this is but a joke of thine; but all times are not good for funning and jesting.[26]

You’re such fun, always joking, you’re so clever at it, nothing that you thought was serious ever seems to be when you’re around, and yet you're a very serious man. [27] However, it remains questionable whether you, for your part, can really be serious about the antithesis to it: "to mean it seriously.” [28]

Just a little heart to heart talk.[13]This friend, in whose company you are jesting, is in fear. [29]I see your peace of mind is in danger…For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it is a shelter. [2] It’s an obsession with you, it isn’t natural that you should always be talking about it. [30]

I know, you won’t listen. I know you’ll do exactly as you please and write it off as a joke. If you’re going to talk, then talk so we can hear you! Talk about centralisation! [25] Talk about superfluous overpackaging! [30]Talk of mysteries! [32] Talk about an irresistible offer! [16]Talk about apple dumplings, piuttosto. All a kind of attempt to talk. Talk: as if that would mend matters. [13] But don’t you dare make me a part of it! 

Istanbul 

#1 Aquinas;Summa Theologica #2 Hugo; Les Miserables #3 Rousseau;Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau #4 Eliade; The Sacred and The Profane #5 Carter; Shaking A Leg #6 Abulafia; The Boundless Sea #7 Asimov;Complete Robot Anthology #8 Spinoza; Complete Works #9 Delanda Harman;The Rise of Realism #10 Giedion; Space Time and Architecture #11Foucault; Discipline and Punish #12 Serres;The Parasite #13 Joyce; Ulysses #14 Russell Norvig; Artificial Intelligence #15 Costelloe; The Sublime #16 Hovestadt Buehlmann; Quantum City #17 Harrison Wood Gaiger; Art in Theory 1648 1815 #18 Hofstadter; Godel Escher Bach #19 Calvin; Harmony of the Law Vol 2 #20 Burke; Rethinking the High Renaissance #21 Serres; The Five Senses #22 Serres; The Parasite #23 Deleuze; Desert Islands and Other Texts #24 Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt; Twentieth Century Architecture #25 Marx; Collected Works #26 The Book of the Thousand and One Nights #27 Rand; The Fountainhead #28 Sloterdijk; Critique of Cynical Reason #29 Seneca; Complete Works #30 Proust; In Search of Lost Time Vol V The Captive The Fugitive

[daydreamerdelights]

Week 3: [1] Takeshi Kitano; [2] Kati Outinen; [3] Kati Outinen; [4] Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations; [5] Kati Outinen; [6] Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815; [7] Joyce, Ulysses; [8] Takeshi Kitano; [9] Kati Outinen ; [10] Euripides, Helen; [11] Takeshi Kitano; [12] Takeshi Kitano; [13] Kati Outinen ; [14] Bourdieu, Distinction; [15] Sykes, Constructing A New Agenda; [16] Takeshi Kitano; [17] Takeshi Kitano; [18] Kati Outinen; [19] Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968; [20] A History of Garden Art; [21] Braidotti Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary; [22] Takeshi Kitano; [23] Takeshi Kitano; [24] Serres, The Five Senses; [25] Takeshi Kitano; [26] ArtBasel, Catalogue; [27] Cicero, Selected Letters; [28] Pliny, Natural History Volume 6; [29] Palmer, Deleuze and Futurism; [30] Anzaldua, This Bridge We Call Home; [31] Jefferson, Thoughts on War and Revolution; [32] Palmer, Queer Defamiliarisation Writing Mattering Making Strange

Week 2: (1 Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815), (2 Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City), (3 A History of Garden Art), (4 Takeshi Kitano, Azquotes.com), (5 Kati Outinen, celluloidVideo), (6 Takeshi Kitano, Interview), (7 Kati Outinen), (8 Kati Outinen, Interview), (9 Takeshi Kitano), (10 Takeshi Kitano, Interview), (11 Takeshi Kitano, Filmfestivals.com), (12 Takeshi Kitano), (13 Cache, Projectiles), (14 Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968), (15 Sykes, Constructing A New Agenda), (16 Zizek, Less Than Nothing), (17 Arkisto, Aalto), (18 Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations), (19 Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture), (20 Arkisto, Aalto), (21 ArtBasel, Catalogue), (22 Joyce, Ulysses), (23 Anzaldua, This Bridge We Call Home), (24 Serres, The Five Senses), (25 Seneca, Complete Works), (26 Lefebvre, The Production of Space), (27 Zizek, Less Than Nothing), (28 Palmer, Deleuze and Futurism), (29 Wollstonecraft, Complete Works), (30 Jefferson, Thoughts on War and Revolution)

[cosmiccino]

(1) Corbin, Temple and Contemplation

(2) Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

(3) Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

(4) Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment

(5) Jung, Memories Dreams Reflections

(6) Burrows, Fictioning

(7) Rand, The Fountainhead

(8) Koolhaas Obrist, Project Japan

(9) Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

(10) Seneca, Complete Works

(11) Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

(12) Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

(13) Braidotti Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary

(14) Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

(15) Kuhl, 50 Buildings You Should Know

(16) Negroponte, Being Digital

(17) Hofstadter, Godel Escher Bach

(18) Wilson, Aesthesis and Perceptronium

(19) Voegelin, Order and History 5

(20) Cixous, White Ink

(21) Hugo, Les Miserables

(22) Carter, Shaking A Leg

(23) Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

(24) Ball, The Selfmade Tapestry Pattern Formation in Nature

(25) Schmitt, The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy

(26) Davis, High Weirdness

(27) Jefferson, Political Writings

(28) Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(29) Serres, Rome

(30) Negarestani, Collapse Volume VII Culinary Materialism

(31) Henaff, The Price of Truth

(32) Anzaldua, This Bridge We Call Home

(33) Marx, Collected Works

(34) Harman, Bells and Whistles

(35) Chiapello, The New Spirit of Capitalism

(36) Derrida, Signature

[anthonyburdain]

Highway of highten hilarity

Come on in. Prepare yourself to be lifted to the latest levels of laughter, high-raised to hidden heights of hilarity. But before you begin your jovial journey of joy, let me give you a last advice: urinating in the lift is an offence,[1] it`s wrong on so many levels. Hongkong.[2] Mong Kok´s […] nightlife comes in one variety: everything. [3] Imagine living inside a giant pinball machine.[4] I […] wish[…] to elevate the people.[5] And what better way to do that than in an elevator? Imagine a place, that will come to live by the energy of its visitors and will have as much light as you can imagine... it is like living in the center of some huge bright eye.[6] One city![7] It […] is a local fire. And […] it is a signal. [8]

Let me give you a lift [9]:

I don’t take it very seriously. I mean, I take life very seriously, but not myself or the situation.[10] Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.[11] I think it's funny to be delicate with subjects that are explosive.[12]The concept is an incorporeal, even though it is incarnated or effectuated in bodies. […] It does not have spatiotemporal coordinates, only intensive ordinates. It has no energy, only intensities; it is anenergetic[13] What attracts most is the unknown[14] and this is an infrastructure where all paths join together, mix and merge as in the center of a star.[15] But its more than that. It is not just a center of interest that is being talked about, but a center of activity, an epicenter.[16] I created a place where the constant interaction between people is a mere coincidence.[17] It is a cornucopia of wordplays, wisecracks, and slapstick repetitions, many of which are either untranslatable or else require so much explanation as to be tedious.[18] My intention is not objective curiosity, but a desire to influence contemporaries, to stimulate and uplift them[19]with the pure power of positivity. Joy we should spread: sadness, prune back as much as we can.[20] The circumstances of the present moment must be used to elevate souls […][21] But how to achieve that? – Right, trough comedy you lift it.[22] It is an urban cosmetic that will facelift cities' ambience.[23] [...] The idea can achieve liftoff as never before.[24]

So let me welcome you at “the ELEVATOR”. You are begged to go everywhere. Do everything like someone is gazing at you,[25] do anything, but let it produce joy.[26] Elevators speak to me on so many different levels, so please eat, look, smell, do, be, hear. And remember, whatever you do, don't fucking pee in the lift.

[1] Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

[2] Page, Why Preservation Matters

[3] Hovestadt, Buehlmann, Quantum City

[4] Anthony Bourdain in one of his episodes about Hongkong

[5] Hugo, Les Miserables

[6] Serres, Angels A Modern Myth

[7] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

[8] Serres, The Parasite

[9] Rand, The Fountainhead

[10] Hovestadt, Buehlmann, Quantum City

[11] Charly Chaplin

[12] Jerry Seinfeld

[13] Deleuze Guattari, What Is Philosophy

[14] Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815

[15] Serres, Statues

[16] Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

[17] Marx, Collected Works

[18] Foucault, This is not a Pipe

[19] Freud, The Uncanny

[20] de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

[21] Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[22] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

[23] Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

[24] Brook, A History of Future Cities

[25] Epicurus

[26] Walt Wattman, Leaves of grass

#theELEVATOR

[towerforonenight]

[1] Rand, The Fountainhead [2] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology [3] Serres, The Parasite [4] La Mule sans frein [5] Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony [6] Woolf, Orlando [7] Joyce, Ulysses [8] Joyce, Ulysses [9] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology [10] Woolf, Orlando [11] White, A Boy‘s Own Story  [12] Rand, The Fountainhead [13] Stoker, Dracula [14] Proust, In Search of Lost Time [15] Dickens, Oliver Twist [16] Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra [17] Girard, The Scapegoat [18] Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare [19] Joyce, Ulysses [20] Ovid, Metamorphoses [21] Hugo, Notre Dame de Paris [22]Joyce, Ulysses [23] Anzaldua, This Bridge We Call Home [24] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City [25] Rand, The Fountainhead [26] Rand, The Fountainhead [27] Joyce, Ulysses

[livesandlight]

Notes

synonyms

bill murray

1. actor, many lives

2. -spectator

3. motion, performance

Duncan, The James Bond Archives

I've never seen anyone move so quickly. (14)

Latour, Reassembling the Social

What is acting at the same moment in any place is coming from many other places, many distant materials, and many faraway actors. (15)

Powers, The Overstory

I’m just a spectator, these days. (16)

Latour, Reassembling the Social

Usually, the great advantage of visiting construction sites is that they offer an ideal vantage point to witness the connections between humans and non humans. (22)

Duncan, The James Bond Archives

"A man lives inside his head. (17)

Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

How would our lives change? (29)

Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

For thousands of years, humans have lived lives structured around the fulfillment of basic needs: food, clothing, and shelter. (28)

Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

The Townman had only been here a month, and already he was interfering with men who had lived in town all their lives. (30)

Sloterdijk, You Must Change Your Life

Someone who balances on the high wire lives from giving the audience a reason to look up. (36)

 Braidotti Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary

Our lives have been immaterialized to a great extent. (37)

Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

Nobody else lives here, do they? (12)

Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

The The electric Things have their lives, too.

Burrows, Fictioning

He lives at the same (infinite) speeds as the event.

island

1. loneliness, water, earth, contrast;

land, enclave, refuge, retreat;

2. -mainland;

3. Island universe "solar system" (1846) translates German Weltinsel (von Humboldt, 1845)"

Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Jackson's Island is good enough for me; I know that island pretty well, and nobody ever comes there. (20)

Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim. (21)

Carter, Shaking A Leg (1)

But it is a Greek island.

Leslie, Liquid Crystals

And what will happen to our solar system will happen sooner or later to all the other systems of our island universe; it will happen to all the other innumerable island universes, even to those the light of which will never reach the earth while there is a living human eye to receive it.6 Heat death. (38)

da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

And if, because of some deep valley, the line on the opposite side of the well were shorter than on this side, this water would fill up the valley, however large it was, until it equalled the weight of the water in the well, although in some part the centre (of gravity) of the water and of the earth united together would move somewhat from its first position through the weight of the water, which would be increased on the opposite side of the earth where it was not at first. (8)

istanbul

1. center, border

2. -x

3. in the city, capital

Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

In the middle ages, the city served a you could have culture. (31)

Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

"People push doors between the center of the door and the free (swinging) edge, but closer to the center than handles are typically placed."

Alexander, A Pattern Language

This is bound to happen in any urban region with a single high density core.

Alexander, A Pattern Language

Obviously, it is an act of great significance; yet clearly it has nothing to do with activities at the edge or in the center.(33)

Stickley, Gustav Stickley s Craftsman Homes and Bungalows

The whole is tightly bound together by 4 inch carriage bolts, inserted through the middle axis of each board to allow for shrinkage and expansion, without splitting. (11)

Teige, The Minimum Dwelling

Business is left in the center, because it is the center of the modern city.

Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory

In March they occupied the capital, and Napoleon fled to Fontainebleau. (10)

reason

1. logic, sense, intellect, rationalisation, limits, wisdom, mind, brain;

argument, goal, proof, purpose, target, why, design;

speculate, suppose, generalise, reflect, decide, draw conclusion, study, philosophise, examine

2. -emotion, feeling

3. to question someone, to challenge, think

Aquinas, Summa Theologica

For this reason we ought, in this kind of judgment, to aim at judging a man good, unless there is evident proof of the contrary.

Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Christ. ii, 3), "compared with words all other signs are very few, for words have obtained the chief place among men for the purpose of expressing whatever the mind conceives." (9)

Seneca, Complete Works

My mind swells with pride when I survey the magnitude of my undertaking and reflect how much is unaccomplished of my plan, though not of my life.

villa

1. chateeau, house, place

2. -urban

3. villa, farm

Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Therefore every father of a family can make laws for his household.

The Book of the Thousand and One Nights

Is not the house thy house and thy place?"

The Book of the Thousand and One Nights

Thou hast utterly ruined my house and ancient family.

palazzo

1. cell

2. 

3. palace

harlequin

1. clown, antic, comedian, joker, comic, actor, card, trickster, fool;

2. -plain, simple, unremarkable

3. mythical

outside

1. external, alien, surface, far;

small, unlikely, remote;

front, skin, facade, open

2. x

3. no barrier

Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

The perfect barrier was no longer considered a protective measure to separate a "harmful" exterior from the "healthy," conditioned interior. (6)

Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

In fact, no reality exists any longer outside the system itself: the whole visual relationship with reality loses importance as there ceases to be any distance between the subject and the phenomenon. (7)

/inside

1. central, surrounded, roof, inner;

secret, privatem limited;

within;

interior, heart, soul;

2.x

3. inside job

Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture (2)

As a substance, this shadow column oscillates between two conditions: light and no light, surface and interior, both phallus and gnomon.

Frampton, Modern Architecture A Critical History (3)

creates a dilated interior space in which the wall surfaces recede from the center of the building.

Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

How can it be possible, from within history, to determine a timeless truth of its “spirit?”

face

1. air, light, clock;

cover

image;

experience

watch, meet

2.x

3. look, appereance, to see

Mallgrave, Modern Architectural Theory

Special lighting effects also changed over time or even created visual illusions. (4)

Van Eck, Eighteenth Century Architecture

30 He acted before his public as if traveling back in time.

Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

Time passes; we look back. (24)

Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968

And to understand our own problems we have to look back—much further back than the Beaux Arts. (25)

/body

1. figure, shape;

individual, person, human, mortal, being

basis, essence, main part;

group, party, society

heart, material

2.x

3. material existence, main part of anything

Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

It hovered, dropped and caught itself, gained in body, and swooped into a booming crash that had the effect of a thunderous split in a veiling curtain. (5)

brand

1. quality, variety, type, kind

symbol

2. -uniformity

3. fire, destruction, sword, to heat

cenotaph

1. memory, access, tribute, connection

2.

3. empty

Augustine, The City of God

But after this connection had been formed, then too were giants born.

Ockham A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings

Further, there should be such connection among all mortals that any of them, in relation to another, is an inferior or a superior, or both of them are inferiors in relation to the same person, so that true harmony may come about among all and each may devote reverence or love to each. (35)

Augustine, Confessions

In this connection, I’m less well known to myself than you are to me. (23)

#notes #dont judge

[virtualdetectivecollective]

[1] Mack, The Sea A Cultural History

[2] Foucault, The Order of Things

[3] Adams, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

[4] Wollstonecraft, Complete Works

[5] Mack, The Sea A Cultural History

[6] ?

[7] Abulafia, The Boundless Sea

[8] Calasso, Ardor

[9] Sudjic, The Edifice Complex

[10] Serres, Biogea

[11] Ascher, The Works Anatomy of a City

[12] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

[13] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

[14] Bradley, Smell and the Ancient Senses

[15] Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

[16] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

[17] Semper, Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts or Practical Aesthetics

[18] Calasso, Ka Stories of the Mind and Gods of India

[19] Wollstonecraft, Complete Works

[20] Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

[21] Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[22] ?

[23] Derrida, Of Grammatology

[24] The Book of the Thousand and One Nights Supplementary Nights

[25] Frankl, The Gothic

[26] Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture

[27] Blunt, Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration

[28] Serres, Hermes Literature Science Philosophy

[29] Serres, Hermes Literature Science Philosophy

[30] Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy

[31] Serres, The Parasite

[32] Marx, Collected Works

[33] Justinian, The Codex

[34] McLuhan, Understanding Media

[35] Serres, Statues

[36] Serres, Biogea

[37] Quint, Epic and Empire

[38] Serres, Statues

[39] Serres, Biogea

[stickfuzechargereason]

aquarium

I was in the Aquarium. A glass vessel, transparent, the nearby rooms penetrate into it.[9]

Fountains or monumental cisterns, richly decorated with plastic ornaments[10] and Bronze pump cylinders, with moveable bottoms of which have iron elbows fastened to their centres and jointed to levers[11] made beneficial water available[12] in the pool of twinkling, luminously green water.[13] The water flowed by gravity in most tunnels, but it was necessary to pump in some places.[14]

How very important it is, when chaos threatens, to draw an inflatable, portable territory.[15] The Inflatable Moment[16] in the depth of the waters. 

My inflatable vest keeps my head well above the chop, but I continue to breathe through the regulator.[17] 

The only thing I hear is a quiet bubbling and the noise of the immense water filter.

The aquarium (…) is that of lingering beings.[18] They intertwine in transparent flaming patterns, which flutter and melt away, in love with their own beauty mirrored in the waters,[19] doubled in reflection as they float.[20] A kaleidoscopic infinity.

Plastics and fakes invaded the world and generated a parallel universe.[21]

Huge artificial pearls,[22] inflatable beams,[23] a sort of glass submarine, [24] seaweeds, sea grass, a ton of garbage and other mysterious underwater phenomena[25]

[9] Zimmerman, Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

[10] Semper, Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts or Practical Aesthetics

[11] Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture

[12] Blonde, City and Society in the Low Countries 1100 1600

[13] Leslie, Liquid Crystals

[14] Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

[15] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus

[16] Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture

[17] Kassinger, Slime

[18] Spuybroek, Grace and Gravity

[19] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

[20] Leatherbarrow Eisenschmidt, Twentieth Century Architecture

[21] Leslie, Synthetic Worlds

[22] Buffon, Natural History Quadrupeds

[23] Clement, The Planetary Garden and Other Writings

[24] Abulafia, The Boundless Sea

[25] Freedberg, The Eye of the Lynx

[kempiegarfield]

Letter 3 (To a furniture dealer)

Dear Mr W :

Please allow me to express how much I relish the shopping window of your furniture store, with the items I know no longer existing in your warehouse. It reminded me of the milliners’ windows, which were full of impossible hats and bonnets, displayed apparently for advertisement rather than for sale.[6] Old-school style, worn-out, with unreasonable beauty and sadness. In principle the monument became furniture, and in form furniture became monument. [15]

Now I’m writing this because I’m furnishing my cenotaph, and I want to customize a “shopping window” for it,  to fill the openings on the facade, with glass clear enough to enable observation from the outside, where I will later display…something. I also have a warehouse as yours, but of memories, they are packed, sorted and well organized by time. But what I really do is just like your way of plotting the window, to create scenes having no reasonable relationship with the storage, just to evoke emotion for things that no longer there. The scenes display light entering in different directions and attract the eye to the effects rather than to the figure which displays them.[16] So I call it a cenotaph, not only because those emotional response, but also literally a cenotaph for time and things in order.

To the philosophically minded, the pleasures of window shopping, and the ideas to be gleaned therefrom, may well be as keen as the joys of actual purchase, and are certainly less expensive. [17] But they fail to realize they are paying for the illusions, paying for their imagination. It’s same with my audience. It is a very good sign when the harmonious bores are at a loss about how they should react to this continuous self parody, when they fluctuate endlessly between belief and disbelief until they get dizzy and take what is meant as a joke seriously and what is meant seriously as a joke. [18] After the show, I will surely laugh on their “window shopping”, on their excitement as if they really experienced something. They first came the loss of images, and only then get tangled in their own feet, which caused them to tip sideways, fall, and roll over and over.[19] They pay for what is not my own experience, nor that of others whom I have known [20]. However, an experience is never true or false in itself,  just as there is no such thing as pure experience [21].

I may also need a room furnished for sound,yet a history of sight cannot dispense with a history of hearing. [22] But so far, I have no clear idea about that.

I will write you later.

Best regards.

Bill

[1] Komjathy, Introducing Contemplative Studies

[2] Munster, Materializing New Media Embodiment in Information

[3] Musil, The Man Without Qualities

[4] Casey, The World on Edge

[5] Siemens, A Companion to Digital Literary Studies

[6] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

[7] Watson, Heaven s Breath

[8] Bacon, Selected Philosophical Works

[9] Camus, Summer in algiers

[10] de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

[11] Century Dictionary

[12] Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[13] Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815

[14] Frankl, The Gothic

[15] Semper, Style in the Technical and Tectonic Arts or Practical Aesthetics

[16] Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

[17] Saunders, The Art and Architecture of London

[18] Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815

[19] Handke, Crossing the Sierra de Gredos

[20] Plato, The Republic

[21] Publishing, The Riddle of the Real City

[22] Gaudreault, A Companion to Early Cinema

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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living

It's cold dence dry. I feel alone even though im surrounded by the wast amount of people circulating around everyone in its line in order. Guided by the human made path moving on lines like robots trying to make it to the next day.

— “Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.”(1)

This idea that it was merely a pretence of wickedness spoiled her pleasure.(2)

Joy echoes in the air.(3)

"Trouble?”(4)

But no, it's just trouble, trouble, all the time.(5)

“We do not have the same relations to reading, writing, images, space, sex, the body, the night, the sun, pain, as we had only ten years ago.(6)

Hell, the life of fools, the life of the mad, hell, life sick of itself.(7)

It is an almost universal disease  hate for hate.(8)

In school we learnt that hate breeds hate!(9)

They’re designed to avoid a catastrophe, where you give somebody a drug and they die, or they get more sick.(10)

If she makes the wearing of mourning sound, very often, like neurotic rituals of compulsive obsession, then there is nothing like a good, strong dose of the reality principle to clean the air.(11)

It was a poisoned dose and a large one.(12)

What will happen next?(13)

What softens the heart of a man, shipwrecked in storms dire, Tried, like another Ulysses, Pericles, prince of Tyre?(14)

I prom-mise. I p-promise.

Don't trust the teller, trust the tale.(15)

Her desire, does not enter the picture at all.(16)

But this desire seems immediately struck by a strange powerlessness. (17)

Weak?(18)

Light!(19)

What grim irony!(20)

The air hangs motionless and black night broods over a sluggish world.(21)

In one case the soul is sleeping, in the other more or less slumbering; but there is always darkness, perpetual Cimmerian darkness.(22)

Yes, from the point of view of the human race. No, from the point of view of the individual. Progress is man’s mode of existence.The general life of the human race is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called Progress.Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress. “God is dead, perhaps,” said Gerard de Nerval one day to the writer of these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption of movement for the death of Being. He who despairs is in the wrong.(23)

Emission always goes out of a certain point and spreads its waves throughout its environment. At first it is very clear where and how the signal is sent but the further it moves the more it's being changed and diffused until it clashes with another signal. At this point the fusion of 2 or more subjects is being created. What happens in those moments and which subjects are fusing?

Rubber dinosaur heads, fish-faced monsters, and plastic princess crowns?

Implicitly described, the men were at the women’s service at all times, being used as furniture, transportation, or simply objects of pleasure.

(1)Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

(2)Proust, In Search of Lost Time Vol V The Captive The Fugitive

(3)Youngquist, A Pure Solar World Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism

(4)Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(5)Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(6)Watson, Guattaris Diagrammatic Thought

(7)Serres, The Birth of Physics

(8)Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(9)Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

(10)Holen, Etops Headache

(11)Carter, Shaking A Leg

(12)Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(13)Carter, Shaking A Leg

(14)Joyce, Ulysses

(15)Carter, Shaking A Leg

(16)Carter, Shaking A Leg

(17)Ranciere, Aisthesis

(18)Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

(19)Hugo, Les Miserables

(20)Marx, Collected Works

(21)Seneca, Complete Works

(22)de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

(23)Hugo, Les Miserables

#First_Try #do revenge #crylater #enjoythemoment

[thealienxx]

Chapter TWO

Father of Nature

You: disaster on disaster! Meantime the rains continue, the sky becomes still more threatening, and thus, for long, disaster is heaped upon disaster. What disaster overwhelms my house? [9]

Father: Holy Father, weather conditions in Rome are critical. [10] Now no other cause save God can justify the ungodly, even as nothing save fire can heat water. [11] And this parting no care can shun, no good fortune can remove, no power can prevent. [9] shall thy jealousy burn like fire? shall thy wrath burn like fire? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. [12] 

You: Wilt bar paths where I might fall to death? [9]

Father: That’s the fire in my soul. [13]

You: They are dying of hunger. [14]

He decided to starve to death, but first he wrote her this letter of complaint: Ί saved you, because of me you wère saved, yet because of you I am dead.’”[15]

Father: Practically, this habit is dangerous to social order. [16] If you wish to respect your father, honor the good, and the io good alone. [17]

You: Why should the destruction of the one imply the destruction of the other? [18]

Father: And then a little after he goes on: "Though our Twelve Tables attached the penalty of death only to a very few offenses, yet among these few this was one: if any man should have sung a pasquinade, or have composed a satire calculated to bring infamy or disgrace on another person. [19] Desperation turned him to sarcasm. [120]

You: It is an error that appears to me unsustainable because these phenomena would have had to have been aroused in an extraordinary manner, either by God or by demons. [21] Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity; on the arrival of which, he will be prepared to show, that a beadle properly constituted: that is to say, a parochial beadle, attached to a parochial workhouse, and attending in his official capacity the parochial church: is, in right and virtue of his office, possessed of all the excellences and best qualities of humanity; and that to none of those excellences, can mere companies' beadles, or court of law beadles, or even chapel of ease beadles (save the last, and they in a very lowly and inferior degree), lay the remotest sustainable claim. [22] Rejection is not ungratefulness, it's a beautiful and sincere longing for a sane and sustainable tomorrow. [23]

Father: It is copying nature. [9] Then I'd expose him to children, adults, mature men, old men, subjects of all ages, of both sexes, drawn from all walks oflife in a word, to every kind of nature. [24] Nature does not pardon him. [25] Mankind are benefited, human nature is ennobled by them. Both these passions are by nature the objects of our aversion. [26] We know from the line of thought in the preceding critiques that knowledge (Erkenntnis) does not have to do with human nature pure and simple, but with nature as conception, nature as fabrication, with unnatural nature. [27]

[9] Seneca, Complete Works

[10] The Young Pope -

[11] Aquinas, Summa Theologica

[12] King, James Bible

[13] Virgil, Aeneid -

[14] Marx, Capital Volume One -

[15] Demetrius, On Style

[16] Voegelin, Order and History 2

[17] Ficino, Platonic Theology Volume 3 Books IX XI

[18] Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

[19] Augustine, The City of God

[20] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

[21] Bayle Bartlett, Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet

[22] Dickens, Oliver Twist

[23] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

[24] Harrison Wood Gaiger, Art in Theory 1648 1815

[25] Michelet, The History of France Vol 1

[26] Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

[27] Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason

[momaeder]

LETTER

LETTER

My dear friend Gutiérrez Please forgive me for having left the vatican without a word to you. I just could not bear the thought anymore of remaining in this situation I felt constrained. constrained by this system the ubiquitous logics and regulations of the economy, the legal system, the political system, the mass media, the church [1] Bound to a mortal body, by bonds as strange as they are powerful, my care for the preservation of this body tempts the soul to think only of self, and gives it an interest opposed to the general order of things, which it is still capable of knowing and loving [2] The only place where I was at peace was in my garden. Where I would watch the songbirds on their travel to africa. So free and close to the sky. Moving freely not because they had to but because they wanted to. I watched in silence over our mortal agonies, guide of messengers, bonds and cords, angel flying in limpid air, nimble as a rocket, leading us toward the other world. [6] it was on one of those afternoons when I heard a bird chirping, singled out and trapped between the branches of a bush the heaven had sent an ortolan So sweet that bird, and dear to me, May it sing on ever sweetly sang, among the blossoms free, Singing with such mastery. [4] I felt a youthful, holy, vital bliss In every vein and fibre newly glowing. [19] But not in holy reverence to our Lord, but in lust. [20] I could not let go of the images that arose in me and that came along with the thought of consuming the bird with all its feathers and freedom. The memory of an angel, or rather the becoming of a cosmos. [5] With this thought it dawned on me If moral precepts seem laughable, if the person preaching is irritating, for no one lives like an absolute angel, then vital experience matters eminently.The foolish life doesn’ t expose itself; the good one puts himself in danger, like intelligence when it wants to invent.It dives into this experience, into this adventure, exceptional and everyday, in which destitution, suffering, failure, frustration, mistakes and sin itself teach us more than every other thing in the world. [7] Religion connects the disconnected. But I will unbind the connected, unbind the priest more than he unbinds himself; unfasten the shackles, knots and connections.It is in this way that in space and the world atomism is profoundly irreligious : principles separated by the void. but if I disconnect the connected, then physics comes back down to religion.Then the atom is indeed the same word as templum, the temple, the distinction of local variety within the global space. [3] The restaurant I opened up. The palais ortolan. For my getaway I found a perfect site, bringing with it it’s own luggage like I am, yet willing to turn things around. The house that used to be an absolute identity, [...] in a determined guise, that is, as identical absolute

, it was posited as such by reflection over against opposition and manifoldness; [...] the negative of reflection and determination in general. [8] but it has grown tired of the Absolute anonymity of the representer and absolute loss of the selfsame [9] it wants more. It wants to understand me and my doings and moreso it wants to unveil to the world what I try to do secretly. Reversing the processes of becoming in my restaurant as to present it to the world. It has become a tracing element; it reveals the network of unobservable relations in the box. Because it’s not their sum that produces the cooks and ingredients. It’s the trace of blood on their shirts. It traces routes in the black box. [10] On the line that it is tracing, there is only  matter and movement, movement which is more or less complicated, more or less delayed. [12] Yet The moment of the exclusion of madness in the subject who seeks the truth is necessarily hidden from the point of view of the architectonic ordering of the system [11] it does not completely get what I am doing, unveiling the goods and guests that enter my place, tracing the fumes and scents through the building projecting the red light of my pandemonic kitchen onto the veil I put up. But yet it cannot fully grasp my intentions, my way of dissolution. But somehow even if we do not work together, we work between the two. [14] It’s better to find a symbiotic equilibrium, even fairly primitive, than to reopen a war that is always lost because we and the enemy find renewed force in the relationship. [13] Even if it is a bit unconfortable for me that all the traces of my workings are reveald to the city it provides me with the spaces to hide in plain sight behind the veil of my apparent workings, to cultivate as much of my land as I require to grow the figs I need for [16] the birds to gorge on. To collect Locked in frozen layers, a universe of ancient creatures that awaits another chance at life. [15] To Transform substances into a dissolution of forms, a passage to the limit or flight from contours in favor of fluid forces, flows, air, light, and matter, such that a body or a word does not end at a precise point. [17] To move freely between earth, water, fire and air. Growing, cultivating, conserving, dissolving and cooking the artefacts I collect on my way. To create something that has never been sensed before. To witness the veil of maya being torn apart [21] as all the symbolic faculties of man are stimulated to the highest pitch of intensity; something never before experienced struggles towards expression, the annihilation of the veil of Maya, unity as the spirit of the species, even of nature. [22] To stare my guest in the eye as his whole world unravels and witness the revelation that. Dreams and madness then reveal themselves to be made of the same substance. [18]

on another note As my actions have drawn attention, the media, members of the public, and politicians have begun to pay attention. [23] Recently I have gotten a reservation from a name familiar to me from the Michelin Guide. I will report to you how it went as soon as possible. My dearest regards go out to you LENNY

[1] Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture Vol 2 [2] Rousseau, Collected Works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau [3] Serres, The Birth of Physics [4] von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde [5] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [6] Serres, The Natural Contract [7] Serres, The Incandescent [8] Hegel, The Science of Logic [9] Derrida, Of Grammatology [10] Serres, Rome [11] Foucault, History of Madness [12] Deleuze, Bergsonism [13] Serres, History of Scientific Thought [14] Deleuze, Dialogues [15] Braidotti Hlavajova, Posthuman Glossary [16] Montesquieu, Persian Letters [17] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [18] Foucault, History of Madness [19] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City [20] Zizek, Less Than Nothing [21] Costelloe, The Sublime [22] Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy [23] Zimring, Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste

#palaisortolan #text

[meteoradominic]

Elizabeth Murdoch

The Chaotic State

The gray point starts out as nonlocal izable, nondimensional chaos, the force of chaos, a tangled bundle of aberrant lines.[1] From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. [2] Only mixture and disorder, wrangle and chaos give the illusion of matter. [3] Like once at the beginning, our planet was no more than a chaos of fire, a cloud of agglutinated dust particles, like so many similar clusters in the universe. [4] In the case of knowledge and of the universe, there is history, through this mixture of prediction and unpredictability; inversely, conceiving of history now becomes easy, because the encounter of determined reason with chaos never ceases. [5] 

The mass media, the great people’s organizations of the party or union type, are machines for reproduction, fuzzification machines that effectively scramble all the terrestrial forces of the people. [6] The globalization of information and communications, and demographic and territorial shifts produced major changes in contemporary life. [7] This results in a chaotic noise surrounding the daily lifes of humans. It is true that it satisfied a very urgent need to escape from the chaos of multiple names. [8] 

The Sublime of Media and Informations

The Brand of Elizabeth murdock stands above this chaotic landscape of information and media. From the elevated platform vision is unobstructed. [9]  At that height one could look into the top rooms from the elevated pathway.[10] Whereas sublime objects were immense, dark, and obscure, and beautiful objects were small, smooth, and delicately colored, picturesque objects were instead characterized by their variety, intricacy, and roughness. [11] 

The Absence of Time and Space

The Infrastructure of the Media and Internet allows for this abundance of sensual stimuli to be accessed anytime and everywhere. Struggles over structural transformation are tantamount to fighting for historical redefinition of the two fundamental, material expressions of society: space and time. And, indeed, control over space, and the emphasis on locality, form another major, recurrent theme of various components of the environmental movement.(…) The space of flows organizes the simultaneity of social practices at a distance, by means of telecommunications and information systems.The space of places privileges social interaction and institutional organization on the basis of physical contiguity. What is distinctive of the new social structure, the network society, is that most dominant processes, concentrating power, wealth, and information, are organized in the space of flows. Most human experience, and meaning, are still locally based. [12] 

A Virus leaving Traces

Coming from the void, Elizabeth’s Brand spreads though the existing infrastructure.  “It’s like a virus,” creator Thomas von Klier says.“And it’s spreading fast.” [13]  The blackness is emptiness vast emptiness stretching out infinitely. [14]  Leaving traces in as many places that exist. The latter would have no trace of the past if we had not been to look for its seed in the past. [15]  And so far as they rival, overlap, cross and cut into each other, they trace a path full of obstacles in visual space, and they do not make themselves heard without also being seen, for themselves, independently of their sources, at the same time as they make the image readable, a little like a musical score. [15]  It would thus leave traces, footprints that rippled both ways in the event, forward and backward.Disorder might be non sense, but the only information that I can draw from chaos is that the numberless and uncountable multiplicity either dissipates in all directions or flows in one direction. [16] 

Immortality

This self declaratory reflexivity is also discernible in regard to fame: people can be famous for this or that, but they can also be famous simply being famous. Recall the phenomenon of Paris Hilton, an absolute nobody adored by the trashy media, who report on her every step.She is not famous for doing or being something special; the dialectical reversal in her case consists in the fact that the media report on her most banal behavior—jumping over a car in a crowded parking lot, eating a hamburger, shopping at a discount store—simply because she is a celebrity. [17] 

Aware of these mechanics of todays world, Elizabeth stands above time and space. Saturating the tangle and thus conserving her legacy forever.

[1] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [2] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [3] Serres, History of Scientific Thought [4] Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities [5] Serres, Troubadour of Knowledge [6] Deleuze Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus [7] Ockmann, Architecture Culture 1943 1968 [8] Serres, History of Scientific Thought [9] Alexander, A Pattern Language [10] Hollis, Cities Are Good For You [11] Doherty, Is Landscape Essays on the Identity of Landscape [12] Castells, The Power of Identity [13] Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City [14] Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology [15] Deleuze, Cinema 2 The Time Image [16] Hays, Architecture Theory since 1968 [17] Zizek, Less Than Nothing 

#utpdt

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1.      Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City

2.      Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture Vol 2

3.      Bart Vrancken, Hier is ze dan, de nieuwe elektronische identiteitskaart mét vingerafdruk

4.      Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture

5.      Eco, Baudolino

6.      MICHEL THILL, A System of Insecurity Understanding Urban Violence and Crime in Bukav

7.      Darwin, Voyage of the Beagle Round the World

8.      MICHEL THILL, A System of Insecurity Understanding Urban Violence and Crime in Bukav

9.      MICHEL THILL, A System of Insecurity Understanding Urban Violence and Crime in Bukav

10.   Marx, Collected Works

11.   Serres, The Parasite

12.   Schumacher, The Autopoiesis of Architecture Vol 2

13.   Zizek, Less Than Nothing

14.   Freedberg, The Power of Images

15.   Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

16.   Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

17.   Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology

18.   Anzaldua, This Bridge We Call Home

[anthonyburdain]

Video Essay

(300 words; Quote, JAKOB, text)

Everybody’s  scared to make a move.[1]

Here we go…[2]

You know what  happens is, everybody gets safe. [3]

Hong Kong…[4]

And when  everybody gets safe and nobody tries anything, things get boring.[5]

I’ve been to  Hong Kong many times before, but not like this. [6]

0MORE  & Jakob Matthaei

starring  Anthony Bourdain

DO YOU KNOW ANTHONY BOURDAIN?

You may also know him as A television  megastar, a fluid and conversational writer, a social-media gadfly, a pointed  cultural commentator, and seemingly everyone’s best friend.[7]

Making fun is serious business.[8] You’re bringing music to people who don’t  normally get to hear it. Try making jokes or doing whatever you can to get  people out of their shells. Just keep connecting and having fun.[9]

BUT in this world, whenever  there is light, there are also shadows.1F[10]

POVERTY, CORRUPTION, WAR, PANDEMICS, CLIMATE CHANGE, HUNGER, PAIN,  STRESS, INEQUALITY

This is crazy.[11]

We think too much and feel too little.[12]

Why so serious?[13] Think about yourself at  least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world. [14] I could solve the world’s problems if I… cared. [15]

presenting

this  year

RIDING ON AN ELEVATOR IS  AN UPLIFTING EXPERIENCE. IT`S LIKE A RUSH - A SUGAR RUSH.

You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.[16]

Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker.[17]

Remember, if you don’t sin, then Jesus  died for nothing.[18]

[1] Chris Rock, The Breakfast Club, 17.05.2021

[2] Anthony Bourdain

[3] Chris Rock, The Breakfast Club, 17.05.2021

[4] Anthony Bourdain

[5] Chris Rock, The Breakfast Club, 17.05.2021

[6] Anthony Bourdain

[7] The New Yorker, July 15, 2021

[8] From an article by Chaplin called “Making Fun” in the December 1916 issue of The Soil

[9] Hovestadt, Buehlmann, Quantum City

[10] Masashi Kishimoto

[11] Alexander, A Pattern Language

[12] Charly Chaplin

[13] Heath Ledger in Batman

[14] Charly Chaplin

[15] Ricky Gervais

[16] Charly Chaplin

[17] Bruce Willis, Die Hard, 1988

[18] Ricky Gervais

#trailer #video #essay #300words

[arkhipmariakallergis]

She should have sensed it from the beginning. Friends of friends had murmured his name when she and Boris talked about buying a home. Arkhip Maria Kallergis. "Yes, I think he has that queer thing genius."(1), one acquaintance remarked. "Everywhere he made a great amount of noise and conducted business."(2) , another recalled. "A beauteous youth, majestic and divine, He seem'd; fair offspring of some princely line. "(3) Carl was hesitant, but she was also intrigued. Eventually she got her hold on one of his buisness cards. "I sell the stuff; I don't make it."(4), it said, writen plainly in pink on a sky blue surface. She took Boris to the stated adress, a slender, twentysomething-storeyed apartment building. Arkhips bureau was located on the ninth floor, in the back office of an informal hair salon. "I’m so pleased to meet two of you when I had been expecting but one."(5), Arkhip exclaimed when the couple entered. "I know your talents, the readiness of your wit, and your zeal for your master's interest.(6), Carl said, sitting down across from Arkhip. "Why build ye not me an house of cedar?(7) To dwell therein forever.(8) Make me braver, make me calmer, make me the equal of Fortune, make me her superior."(9) Arkhip contemplated her request. “I will do anything you, in the name of gods or mortals or such creatures as you may invoke, command me to.(10) I will throw away my life to content you both!(11) Now let me make a few things clear to all of you."(12) Nervously Arkhip stood up from his chair. "When the new emerges, it may disrupt a previous ecology and force dramatic changes, also in terms of power relations.(13) Given that technological change is driven in part by crisis, it remains to be seen where our current situation will take us, although, and if past experience is of any value, it may be in ever narrowing circles."(14) Arkhip hesitated for a moment and sat back down on his chair. "Why should I lead you through all these details?"(16) He reached into a drawer of his desk and pulled out a form. "Sign here."(17) Carl thought about it for a moment and signed. The deal was done. Now all that remained was to wait for their new home. (1), Joyce, Ulysses (2), Strabo, The Geography (3), Homer, Iliad (4), Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology (5), Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology (6) Goldoni, The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni (7) King, James Bible (8) Voegelin, Order and History 1 (9) Seneca, Complete Works (10) Hovestadt Buehlmann, Quantum City (11) The Book of the Thousand and One Nights (12) Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology (13) Elsaesser, Film Theory An Introduction Through the Senses (14) Koolhaas, Elements of Architecture (15), Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology (16), Seneca, Complete Works (17), Asimov, Complete Robot Anthology