Author: 01ek
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Marcolli’s Case for Cybernetic Communism
Matilde Marcolli’s recent paper “The Problem of Scale in Anarchism and the Case for Cybernetic Communism” (signed Aurora Apolita), is an important and timely contribution to anarchist and communist thought, weaving together rich knowledge of these histories with advancements in complexity theory and algorithmic information theory. I completely agree with her that we need to…
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The Virus and the Tree
Alexander Wilson 2020-04-06 LOCKDOWN THEORY #19 How does the parasite usually take hold? It tries to become invisible. – Michel Serres, The Parasite 1. From a biological perspective, humans inhabit the outer branches of the so-called tree of life; or, perhaps more accurately, a minuscule and most fragile twig, a freshly sprouted thorn. 2. This putative tree…
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Why Process is Extrinsic to the Digital Domain
Alexander Wilson, 2014 The term “process” usually connotes continuity. The canonical heraclitean river, different each time one enters it, presents the essential character of process: it flows. Digital processes, however, are characterized by cuts, breaks, and jumps. The digital is given as a series of discontinuities. We look at the river flowing: it seems continuous,…
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…of the trace
…of the trace …of the trace is an installation that intervenes in public space. It makes use of a laser steering system similar to the one in The Fine Tuning, however instead of being fed pure signals from electronic oscillators, it traces salient features of some architectural element in public space. A video camera is…
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Asymmetry and Subjectivity
The following is an exerpt from: Pharmacology of the Feedback Loop, Alexander Wilson, 2012 Even if the question of the symmetry of time is still a field of debate in the philosophy of science, it is undeniable that, if we agree with the probabilistic monism of contemporary science, and posit that the universe is time-symmetric…