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—The Crystalpunk Manifesto | —The Crystalpunk Manifesto | ||
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+ | When our animal senses are all awake, our skin rippling with sensations as we palpate the surroundings with ears and eyes and flaring nostrils, it sometimes happens that our body becomes part of the larger Body of the land—that our sensate flesh is taken up within the wider Flesh of the breathing Earth—and so we begin to glimpse events unfolding at other locations within the broad Body of the land. | ||
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+ | The smartphone replicates something of this old, ancestral experience of earthly acumen that has long been central to our species: the sense of being situated over Here, while knowing what’s going on over There. | ||
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+ | Perhaps it is easier to understand, now, why we’re so enthralled by our digital technologies, | ||
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+ | —David Abram | ||
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+ | Charisma makes us hesitate, wavering in its force field. What if charisma were actual? What would the emission of such an energy field imply? It would imply, for a start, that art isn't just decorative candy. It would imply what " | ||
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+ | What art gives us, argues Kant, is the feel of data, the data-ness of data, otherwise known as givennes (datum, Latin for what is given). This data-feel is, he argues, an attunement space, the one place in the whole universe where mesmerizing hesitation can happen—a very important mesmerising hesitation, because it underwrites the existence of a priori synthetic judgement, because in this experience, I get a magical taste of something beyond my graspable experience, a transcendental beyond-ness... | ||
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+ | Attunement is the feeling of an object' | ||
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+ | So, image for a moment an object, a material, which can literally do anything. It can move across categorical boundaries with no difficulty whatsoever. So what do I mean? I mean that if you possess the philosopher' | ||
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+ | —Terence McKenna, Lectures on Alchemy | ||
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+ | When you cook bread from a recipe, you’re following an algorithm. When you knit a sweater from a pattern, you’re following an algorithm. When you put a sharp edge on a piece of flint by executing a precise sequence of strikes with the end of an antler—a key step in making fine stone tools—you’re following an algorithm. Algorithms have been a part of human technology ever since the Stone Age. | ||
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+ | The response to technology in this period thus confounded familiar oppositions: | ||
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References | References | ||
+ | * Abram, David. Magic and the Machine | ||
* Amato, J. A. Dust: a history of the small and the invisible | * Amato, J. A. Dust: a history of the small and the invisible | ||
* Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread | * Blohm, H., Beer, S. Suzuki, D. Pebbles to Computers: The Thread | ||
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* Cohen, J. Stories of Stone | * Cohen, J. Stories of Stone | ||
* Calvino, I. & McLaughlin, M. L. Collection of sand: essays | * Calvino, I. & McLaughlin, M. L. Collection of sand: essays | ||
+ | * Emergence Magazine Issue No. 3: Technology https:// | ||
* Harris, P.A. Turner, R., Nocek, A.J. Rock Records, SubStance Volume 47, Number 2, 2018 (Issue 146) | * 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 | * Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Earth Trilogy | ||
+ | * Lingis, Alphonso. The Imperative | ||
+ | * Morton, Tim. Attune | ||
* Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | * Ogden, J. G. The Kingdom of Dust | ||
* Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet | * Thacker, E. In the dust of this planet | ||
+ | * Tresch, John. Romantic Machine | ||
* NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https:// | * NIST. Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures. https:// | ||
* Sonic Acts. Living Earth | * Sonic Acts. Living Earth | ||
* Sonic Acts. The Geologic Imagination | * Sonic Acts. The Geologic Imagination | ||
+ | * Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions | ||