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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:14:17 -0700

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Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:14:08 -0700

"Left of Standing His precision and accuracy suggesting clean cuts, leaving a vacancy, a slightly..."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:56:00 -0700

“Left of Standing

His precision and accuracy
suggesting clean cuts, leaving
a vacancy, a slightly physical
depression as though I had been
in a vaguely uncomfortable place
for a not long but undeterminable
period; not waiting.

Standing or Left Standing

His preciseness and acuity left
small cuts on the tips of my
fingers or across the backs of
my hands without any need to
sit or otherwise withdraw.”

- Left Or Standing, Standing Or Left Standing, Bruce Nauman 1971

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Thu, 15 Mar 2012 20:35:36 -0700

Einstein on the Beach

Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:10:13 -0800

Einstein on the Beach

Samuel Beckett’s Not I

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:32:00 -0800

Samuel Beckett’s Not I

Samantha Roth

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:55:42 -0800

Samantha Roth

Chris Engman

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:32:20 -0800

Chris Engman

John Houck

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:12:13 -0800

John Houck

Shannon Ebner, Leaning Tree, 2002

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:34 -0800

Shannon Ebner, Leaning Tree, 2002

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Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:42:23 -0800

A Whole Lot of Nothing

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:00:01 -0800

A Whole Lot of Nothing

"I think this is another approach to the question we once formulated like this: how can we discover..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:48:57 -0800

“I think this is another approach to the question we once formulated like this: how can we discover the obscure without exposing it to view? What would this experience of the obscure, in which the obscure offered itself in its obscurity, be?

Yes, we were seeking then to circumscribe the affirmation of impossibility, this non-power that would not be a simple negation of power. And in asking ourselves what thought it might be that could not be thought in the mode of power and of appropriating comprehension, we came to say that ‘impossibility is the passion of the Outside itself,’ and also that ‘impossibility is the experience of non- mediate presence.’ A response (if to give affirmative force to a question is to respond) that philosophy has the right to despair of.”

- The Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot

"It comes back to the issue of overinterpretation. Human cognition is geared toward finding patterns;..."

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:48:54 -0800

“It comes back to the issue of overinterpretation. Human cognition is geared toward finding patterns; that’s what we do, and we do it well. As infants, we track the changing conditional probabilities of sounds in human speech, which allows us to learn where the boundaries are between words. As children we learn new words at a rate of several per day. We hear the patterns in music, see the objects in images, understand the logic of a story in a sequence of sentences. We can’t help ourselves. We even do it when it isn’t appropriate. Sure, we learn to recognize the faces of our family members and our friends. But we also see faces where there aren’t any, in the moon, in clouds. We see causality where there is only coincidence—when a supplicant’s prayer is answered, or when the rain dance is followed by rain. And we hear coherent language use where there are only snippets of canned text.”

- Inverting the Turing Test

"I am told that the present, the specious present of the psychologists, lasts from a few seconds to a..."

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:58:04 -0800

“I am told that the present, the specious present of the psychologists, lasts from a few seconds to a minute fraction of a second; that is the duration of the history of the universe. In other words, there is no such history, just as a man has no life; not even one of his nights exists; each moment we live exists, but not their imaginary combination. The universe, the sum of all things, is a collection no less ideal than that of all the horses Shakespeare dreamt of — one, many, none? — between 1592 and 1594. I add: if time is a mental process, how can thousands of men — or even two different men — share it?”

- A New Refutation of Time by Jorge Luis Borges

4 years of evolution in 40 seconds

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:51:42 -0800

4 years of evolution in 40 seconds

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Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:59:02 -0800

"The short answer is that what CERN has observed is consistent with the existence of a Higgs boson..."

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:56:13 -0800

“The short answer is that what CERN has observed is consistent with the existence of a Higgs boson but that the number of candidate ‘Higgs events’ falls short of the number required to announce the result with more than about 50% certainty.

A slightly longer answer is that experiments like ATLAS and CMS produce results that are ambiguous. The particle is highly unstable lasting only a fraction of a second before it decays. The experiments cannot see the particle directly, they can only see the debris left when the particle decays. A single event has multiple explanations. The decay of a Higgs particle might have given rise to a particular set of tracks but so might many other processes. The only way to be sure is to perform the experiment over and over again until there are enough events to distinguish statistically.”

- This, this and this

Isabelle Cornaro

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 08:42:00 -0800

Isabelle Cornaro

"The unknown that is at stake in research is neither an object nor a subject. The speech relation in..."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:19:00 -0800

“The unknown that is at stake in research is neither an object nor a subject. The speech relation in which the unknown articulates itself is a relation of infinity. Hence it follows that the form in which this relation is realized must in one way or another have an index of “curvature” such that the relations of A to B will never be direct, symmetrical, or reversible, will not form a whole, and will not take place in a same time; they will be, then, neither contemporaneous nor commensurable.”

- The Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot