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+ | Here is the Stillness, which is not still even on a good day. Now it ripples, reverberates, | ||
+ | Eventually. (...) Eventually meaning in this case in a few thousand years. | ||
+ | —NK Jemisin | ||
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+ | Human beings have from prehistoric times recognized the potentialities within the lithic to send communication across vast spans of time. Hence our fascination with structures like Stonehenge, designed to persist across atemporal duration no human culture can surmount. As information endurance devices, such rocks communicate long after their successive human co-dwellers have been obliterated. (...) Human immediately becomes posthuman as a consequence of the enlarged temporal frame that geology demands. Such a stone-etched counter-vision invites reflection on what it means to inhabit a world that is potentially indifferent to humanity and yet is intimately continuous with us. (...) Rocks possess much of what is supposed to set humans apart.They are neither inert nor mute, but like all life are forever flowing, forever filled with stories. | ||
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+ | The Anthropocene marks the fall of humanity from cosmic Big History into terrestrial Deep Time. The Big History narrative is an evolutionary epic, a bio-centric teleological tale of emergence and ascending complexity that culminates in a cosmic anthropic vision of human beings as the universe becoming conscious of itself. By contrast, Deep Time is a rocky ride, a disaster movie, a lithic-centric cyclic story of explosions and extinctions, | ||
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+ | The geologic record, the rock cycle, the movements of tectonic plates, stratigraphy: | ||
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+ | —Paul A. Harris, Richard Turner, A.J. Nocek | ||
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+ | A post-digital re-reading of his stones might invoke entirely new kinds of narratives. By reinterpreting Caillois' | ||
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+ | The crystal deposits in stones might now chronicle the arching trajectories of boids as they trace pathways defined by chaotic parabolas of a Lorenz Attractor. In other rocks, mineral accretions may delineate facsimiles of reaction diffusion patterns—the scattered pointillist aftermaths of activator-inhibitor liaisons. Other patterns tell tales of cellular automata self-assembling themselves into unpredictable, | ||
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+ | (...) their values are intrinsic and without external reference," | ||
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+ | In its exile from the Earth' | ||
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+ | —Nigel Clark | ||
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+ | Rock is passionless. "Stone hearted" | ||
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+ | —Jeffrey Jerome Cohen | ||
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+ | Deleuze and Guattari introduce the concept of a " | ||
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+ | —Patricia Pisters | ||
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+ | Stones in Chinese gardens or natural settings that are so distinct as to seem out of place are sometimes referred to as Stones That Flew Here. This designation references an obscure Buddhist myth about stones that were magically transported from India to China, landing in unlikely locations where they were incompatible with the local geology. The myth is most likely a way of explaining stones that have been moved by glaciers great distances from their places of origin. | ||
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+ | We extract millions of tons of minerals from the earth annually for the manufacture of computers, mobile phones, television sets and other electronics. When these products become obsolete, they are returned to the earth in the form of e-waste, which often pollutes the earth and can be a significant health hazard for workers involved in processing the e-waste. | ||
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+ | 假作真时真亦假,无为有处有还无。(Truth becomes fiction when the fiction' | ||
+ | —Cao Xueqin | ||
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+ | In all of history the crystal is perhaps the most overloaded symbol; used by writers, prophets, medicine-man and orators of all times to express in one clear psychogeonamic object otherworldliness. Novalis, poet and student of mining, held the crystal to be a dark, soul-eating parasite transforming the human heart into the dead cold of a stone; some believe it to be an early apocalyptic warning against the cyborg. The sentiment is easily understood; is it, after all, not true that it is with more than just amazement we listen to the stories about that Indian sect that refuses to eat anything organic and, consequently, | ||
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+ | —The Crystalpunk Manifesto | ||
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+ | symmetry breaking (algorithmic technique) | ||
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+ | antichain (definition) A subset of mutually incomparable elements in a poset. | ||
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+ | Bloom filter (data structure) A data structure with a probabilistic algorithm to quickly test membership in a large set using multiple hash functions into a single array of bits. | ||
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+ | Simulated annealing (SA) is a probabilistic technique for approximating the global optimum of a given function. Specifically, | ||
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+ | The name and inspiration come from annealing in metallurgy, a technique involving heating and controlled cooling of a material to increase the size of its crystals and reduce their defects. Both are attributes of the material that depend on its thermodynamic free energy. Heating and cooling the material affects both the temperature and the thermodynamic free energy. The simulation of annealing can be used to find an approximation of a global minimum for a function with a large number of variables" | ||
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+ | Hydrological Cycle Algorithm (HCA) simulates nature’s hydrological water cycle. More specically, | ||
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+ | The field of meta-heuristic search algorithms has a long history of finding inspiration in natural systems. Starting from classics such as Genetic Algorithms and Ant Colony Optimization, | ||
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+ | References | ||
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+ | * Amato, J. A. Dust: a history of the small and the invisible | ||
+ | * Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread | ||
+ | * Caillois, R. [[https:// | ||
+ | * Cohen, J. Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman | ||
+ | * Cohen, J. Stories of Stone | ||
+ | * Calvino, I. & McLaughlin, M. L. Collection of sand: essays | ||
+ | * Harris, P.A. Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) | ||
+ | * Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy | ||
+ | * Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | ||
+ | * Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet | ||
+ | * NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https:// | ||
+ | * Sonic Acts. Living Earth | ||
+ | * Sonic Acts. The Geologic Imagination | ||
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