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Keridwan, History and the Prospective Collectivization of the Hideous

according to the legend, keridwan, whose name comes from kerydd, the word for a love that abrases – that chides – and gwen, the white colour that also gives description to the consequent guinevere and jennifer. caritavana, according to the legend, held to the atomistic idea of the cauldron – an idyll, fluted, hideous, made analogy with morfran, a distant sort of vestigial limb. afagdu's analogical ethologies – liquid which spilled over in an attempt to stir. the repulsive and wisdom – it is a ragtag appearance, a connotation and this ultra-idealist attempt to unite – later the pairing of the grotesque and defleshed makes clear the incision and philosophical razor. the lost and loaned which uncommonly offer the most judicious of silence. the word is spoken with liquid – wisdom the translocation of strangling. karjita's attempt to raze to the ground the mishandling, and the shifting – through phenomenological drifts that share and kiss; rabbits, dogs, fish, otter, birds and...

Semiotics and the Grotesque

a totality of semiotic interactions, those included (mythologized we could say) and those unincluded; the biosemiotic here becomes a prime example - but of course not just that - just as the definition of life (the canguilhem/bichat death-defining) does little to separate and accurately delimit (paradigmatics...), so its "unique" processes have to find parallels in matter that's made of what it's made of. the radiatory semiotic, the mating call, the oil-slicked expression of water-ducks. as sensationalism - visuality perhaps - makes fodder for mythologization, so the heterosemiotic becomes acceptable insofar as it fills the role of the mythical icon; so the victim-duck becomes a medial other as a definition and a kind of textual experiment (foucault defining the other); but the mythologized semiotic becomes "all" the duck is (evidently the extent of the barthesian semiotic) the suffering of the duck is the suffering of anti-trends whose stakes are invested i...

Identity Protocols

Yami-ichi makes the move of commodifying internet art, of saying how can it be materialized and sold.  So we move from immaterial patterns (file types and codebases etc) to a material snapshot that also gains an existence as a physical product.  It's a print-on-demand world of algorithmic objects - at the hub of this is the notion of merchandise identity - the immaterial world asks "what is a thing now?" and computers respond that it is a calculation - that yes, we can produce things like we had, but if we lose one print-out it doesn't matter - what matters is the digitally encoded pattern to make more.  So we have market ephemera, but ephemera whose basic existence lies in the calculation towards reproduction (the digital file, the program/settings use to create and print, etc). What does brand and cultural space look like in the world of the algorithmic object?  It becomes about the rules with which to make a brand - slogan, logo, company name, etc., as opposed ...

Scientific Cultures of Incomprehension

Ever since you were born in a mall, you haven't been able to understand who your parents are and whether they've told you the truth (even if they were a stork this wouldn't change how irrelevant biological geneology is to the automated toaster) The Empty Name Reference and description:  the resurrection of the linguistic turn's death is one of returning to analytic modes of linguistics (vs the whateverism of cultural relativism whose use is exhausted after the language-entity relation is fully explored, that is events are not necessarily linguistic) as a means to reparse the needs of language distinction backgrounded by the generic historicism of philological data.  The empty name here becomes a failed analysis as referential demand (the Referential Society is the one that doesn't survive without deferred documents, the demand towards document confusion (and away from to "essentialist" immediacies) What are you referring?  Why when speaking, is refe...

Post Terrain

computation integrated through objects, pulse rules in respiratory sequence what is this thing - what does it do (where the environment meets a remade one meets a remade one meets a remade one) life as a minimally electric mode of being - enough to power what is slight // inapproachable // alien computer newly styled plug-and-play biopolitics sculptural interaction meets code glitches contructed into environments - entropic sound, limited lifespams, non-dimensional spaces the organismal becomes an inevitable space of reckoning for the technological - bringing the technologies into evolutionary space, what happens (bio art meets the oblique) the science behind objects - the stories behind them - how much this doesn't matter and then things are there, present, inscrutable gonzo biology (the controller (screen, code) has no life but its deadness is entirely unsavoury) sustainable interactors - grassroots comrades built of free-range laboratory elements how do com...