research endeavours
logged::xx
this is probably more centralised as xxxxx_research (as of beginning July 2006)
see also xxxxx research institute in Berlin
Thu Jun 15 2006
1) analogue (audio) work - home-built relays replacing impossible DIY transistor
(all basic components: the pencil as resistor, foil and paper capacitor)
relays also within audio work - the switch and electromagnetics. the transformer operates by remote effect - isolating the two systems
the relay is a remote switch. transistor a valve controlling a larger flow of electricity. needle of a record player
electro-magnetic. loudspeaker also. chain through amplification. tape recording. replace or integrate elements using relay model.
current components for breadboarding: 2N3904 NPN transistor, 2N3906 PNP, 74HC11 hex inverting Schmitt trigger , 4016 quad bilateral switch, 40106 hex inverting Schmitt trigger, 741 op amp, NE555 timer
references:
http://www.crystalradio.net/beginners3/index.shtml
http://www.kpsec.freeuk.com/trancirc.htm
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/gadgets/741/741.html
http://www.cgs.synth.net/modules/cgs21_super_psycho.html
http://www.doctronics.co.uk/4016.htm
2) with reference to some of writing from alice paper for xxxxx/ future xxxxx publication (trajectory of de Quincey pre-rail into industry and rail-illusion film mechanism) - also in relation to a mechanical film machine (what follows excerpted from History of the Kinetograph... relating Edison's early experiments):
This speed yields one hundred and sixty-five thousand six hundred pictures in an hour, an amount amply sufficient, when revolved before the eye, for an entertainment. In this connection it is interesting to note that were the spasmodic motions added up by themselves, exclusive of arrests, on the same principle that a train record is computed independently of stoppages, the incredible speed of twenty-six miles an hour would be shown.
[History of the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope and Kinetophonograph W.K-.L. Dickson, Antonia Dickson]
The English Mail Coach as thus relating the crash dream of the cinematic, that is what he foresees:
De Quincey foretells technology as destruction. The trajectory of the mail coach crash will be enacted on rails of steel/industry achieving statistics. As from a distance, from within the train carriage or any carriage, distant objects maintain their place, whilst those closest rush past, a similar smear or spectrum. In addition, the exterior scene can be moved with no train motion.
Wed Jun 14 2006
and also:
http://www.discovercircuits.com/R/rftrans.htm
Thu May 25 2006
possible subject-matter:
1) Sadean live coding and the deceitful interface.
deceitful world interface with reference to the Magus and Burrough's citation/program in Cities of the Red Night:
instructions/post-description: I recorded a few minutes in all three rooms. I recorded the toilet flushing and the shower running. I recorded the water running in the kitchen sink, the rattle of dishes and the opening and closing and hum of the refrigerator. I recorded on the balcony. Now I lay down on the bed and read some selections from The Magus into the recorder.
I will explain how these recordings are made. I want an hour of Spetsai, an hour of places where my M.P has been and the sounds he has heard. But not in sequence. I don't start at the beginning of the tape and record to the end. I spin the tape back and forth, cutting in at random so The Magus may be cut off in the middle of a word ...")
2) The work of Gustav Metzger and cold war game theory
Thu May 18 2006
>> > Complete interoperability, that is the commensurablity of all >> > interface translations, implies complete access to all >> > components, a transparency to all >> >> i would argue against this statement in all respects. what is complete >> interoperability under say a car metaphor? what are the components to >> be accessed - each nut, bolt, atom. interface is brake, gearstick and >> so on in this respect. and further with world as interface. what is >> with this translation/commensurability thing also that you didn't >> reply in previous mail?
interface is the means of making understandable one domain to another so is made as an abstraction
yes an abstraction. but what does "making understandable one domain" mean? how much is made understandable is a question of abstraction. also of deceit, paranoia. rainbow return.
it appears to be understandable. again is lurking complete transparency as below.
quine says therefore that as an abstraction it is unprovable that it is the same abstraction for both domains >>
my argument as before is of course (as above) but when could it ever be the same abstraction? again unless one argues for transparency what are you saying?
....
deceitful interface - in the light also of relation de Sade to (as hinted at by Roessler in xxxxx paper) cartesianism
Because if the world is consistent relationally, then it’s a machine world and then the other human beings that you meet during daily life also are nothing but machines. Then you could in principle build a computer, build an artificial human being, artificial persons. Or at any rate, even if the computer had not been invented yet, where you could build a lower level universe to which you are the boss in the same sense as he felt there was a boss above him. Even before that, with respect to the other people in your world – to you -you can claim that, they are machines. You are outside them in the same way as the vertical exteriority, that imposed the dream of consciousness on you, is outside to you. So this is again a sadistic situation. There was a pupil of Descartes a hundred years later, called the Marquis de Sade who took this element out of Cartesianism, and wrote very cruel books – I didn’t read them – but a friend of mine did and told me the gist: and so one of the sentences is that this young lady : he tells her that it’s her own business, if she loves him. It has nothing to do with him. It’s none of his business to be loved by her. Its just her own pleasure. And this cruelty, it was made possible by Descarte's thinking. If he is the only sensing soul and everybody else is nothing but clay in his hands. So it’s a slavery type situation. So the same slavery type situation that he felt himself to be in, suddenly he is able to give to the next level ( so to speak) suddenly the others become slaves in his own – they are dependent on his fairness or not – and he can mistreat them as machines or he can treat them as machines without mistreating them.
by way of Pierre Klossowski:
The mechanist explanation of man and of nature then becomes the sole valid one. From this current thinking Sade makes essential its fundamental criterion, suspicion - which is also one of the dominant traits of his own character. I am being decieved, then I must deceive. Others are dissimulating? Then I must dissimulate....
aside: Sadean live coding.
viral and error messages perhaps as deceitful interface. crash again.
Monday May 15 2006
scripting. code as interior process for character or figure. character in code.
ballet of process. Mallarme
homage to Walerian Borowczyk http://daily.greencine.com/archives/001618.html
-
such towards fm01 project. older script/notes archived here
Please feel free to add recipes, research comments and feet travel considerations using the form below. Comments will be pickled after the event by email.