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The Silence of Gathered Knowledge

Bessemer, in his industrialized innovation of carbon-removal in iron (nothing new to the 800-year antedated Song Dynasty scientists), patented this new economic boon in an explanatory method that could not be reproduced by other steel-makers. What lacked was just what lacks in peer-idealization, or the iconography of scientific communication. Peircean guessing here becomes relevant, as do the memory-tablets of Gilgamesh and the pleas against the reduced recollective-knowledge in documentation for Socrates. As Polanyi would put it, the knowledge is tacit, a silence akin to the purposeful fudges of a Davincian diagram, or the jargon-enriched self-patent in the alchemical description of chemical experiments. Bessemer could not convey the method which - though its overtly ideal form as a scientific process correlates to its pragmatic success when he took up the job - serves as a post-Goethian aesthetized instance of material epistemology, a basic instance of knowledge which Peirce r...

The Problem of Growth

Methods to Grow Plants in Your Lungs Inside the germ-pod of the carboniferous structure there is a de-watered mini-me, which needs only moisture and its own stored nutrient (saccharides) to survive a bit in human dirt slidte, revet, ufuldstændige, undersøgelse Betsy: "The proper appreciation of Deleuze is not in his endless series of jargons, his pseudosciences, his self-recursive language of pure trend, but in his work as an important writer (and embodiment) of aesthetics. (Something similar might be said about Baudrillard, though he plumbs the language of poetry to its medial denial (not its Deleuzian proliferation) which allows it to give way to physicality, immediate symbology - bearing its spiritual idea to its root in Bataillean flesh))" Plant: "Our religious formulations have shifted to mediated displacement, focussing on its figurations of sex, violence, and the miracle of an all-too otherwordly science of technique." Betsy: "In converse relation to t...

Trinity

A: The muscles of Kay Underwood - a cataplexic - fail to fire when experiencing strong emotion, such as laughter. B: Matt Frerking - a Neuroscientist - is petrified when he has a romantic impulse, or sees others as such. C: The narcoleptics Allison June Burchell and Luis Alfredo Pinilla both woke up on a slab in the morgue one day. For June, this was one of two times. The first, as a teen, was induced by a Hollywood comedy film: having collapsed paralyzed and conscious, she was brought to the hospital and pronounced dead, only to wake up hours later, oddly displaced.

Predicative Dissolutive Ontology and the Gateway to Sensation

ontology ultimately a set of instances – foundationless (albeit in ad hoc extremities) the opening leads to new being which supplants what non-definition attempts to contain in its study it is anything that can be said to be whether "transcendentally" or "immanently" or in any other conceivable manner hegel has a divide between stuff that is (has beingness) and the Geistly being of humans, the strange distinction is married by his pessimism towards a sense meaning of being as a concept alone, as its lack of predicates indicate that nothing at all remains

The Redemption of Action

In Act II, Aaron compares his attachment for Tamora, to whom he is "fetter'd in amorous chains", as one stronger than what binds Prometheus to the Caucasus as his innards are born away. She is like Semiramis, the daughter of Derketo, who was abandoned at birth, after which her mother drowned herself. First fed by doves, then found by Simmas, a sheep-herder, her story is one of millions, the abandoned child of Musean or Oedipal climes. That is, one of millions if she was an abandoned son, which she was not. Her consequent independence mirrored her wit and craft, and with time wed her to the king of Assyria. Her exploits included cross-dressing as her son (after her husband passed) to fight in battle, to gaining a reputation as the originator of both the chastity belt and male castration. At each turn, the pedigree of a female who acts was an ambiguous heritage to assume. For the individuality of action, her reward was the death by her own seed and a mixed reputation ...

Versions of Basic Materials

http://www.richardsonmag.com/post/128001/post-porn-definition-by-annie-sprinkle/ A Post Porn Modernist makes sexually explicit media that is more arty, conceptual, experimental, political, and/or humorous than mainstream porn imagery. It often has a critical sensibility and while it usually contains some hard-core sex, it is not focused on being “erotic.” Post Porn Modernism is the genre a Post Porn Modernist works in--currently and more popularly called post porn for short. Annie Sprinkle coined the term Post Porn Modernist in 1988 when she needed a title for her first one-woman theater piece. She was moving out of working as a mainstream porn actress and into being a performance artist. She resonated with Dutch artist Wink Van Kempen’s title for his art exhibit in Rotterdam, Porn Modernism (1986). It implied something both arty and pornographic. Sprinkle toured Post Porn Modernist for five years to 16 countries. She also named her autobiographical book Post Porn Modernist. The show, ...

Physiology: The Collapse of the Rational into Foundational Empiricism

To supporters of the Revolution like Comte, Broussais's work was the first serious philosophical and political challenge to the Restoration. This last piece suggests another possible source of Comte's phrenological knowledge, namely the physician Broussais. comte praises broussais for raising physiology to a positive science (no spiritual categories... all positive/observed) - furthers revolution started by cabanis, advanced by gall and spurzheim comte's very strategic use of broussais against the conservativist cousin extended the positive method (the gaze - it misses senses, but also is an important sense, and engages sensual aspects; but also its power is filled with mythology) of clinical physiology (he does not become influential in the clinical world though - but rather does only through the arguably misinterpretive uptake by comte) to "emotion" and "intellect" "excess or absence of excitation of diverse tissues, above or below the degree tha...