Adorno? A bit of a useless question about the usefulness of art while equating usefulness with power, however without having any idea about Adorno-like ideas that sperate notions/practices of art from entertainment.. This guy got into the very same ideas from a different direction.. Does it “mean” the ideas of arts own domain are in […]
Month: December 2014
Meritocracy, from a suppressed satirical joke to world domination? Does it feel funny? It feels like the fascists are winning, no? The interlockage between business, state, authoritarianism (that’s required to keep this going), and economic/political/social power is embedded in the practice that sets its own bars and accepts into its own people that fit the […]
Am still checking very elementary basic functional language tutorials like: The interests in these is not so much programming as it is the imagination of programing or the abstracts of programing, or indeed – imagining all these.. Without an intent to dis anyone, am checking: main = putStrLn “Hello, World!” It seems like a functionalist […]
#Id say, for example, roman number || is an abstraction of 2 objects placed in one time. I have || keys, I have || stars, etc. Number 2 is an abstract. It can be-linked to 1+1 objects, like 2 cars or apples, however, in and of itself it has new and different characteristics. Its easier […]
was just watching http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_%28film%29 On the face of it, this appears to be a colonial, racist, sexist and misogynistic film. It begins with the special criminal status of kasbahs. They are of strange people and impregnable by police. The main dude is a criminal that treats women like dirt. However, despite the declarations of dubious […]
was looking at haskells’ Prelude> True == True True Prelude> True == False False say colour == true when colour == true all else == false could have been all colour == false all else == true however, lets see if we can go beyond the false/true by using either one of them, or something […]
Palestine is a name, no? yes. So why not just call it “israel”? It seems to me that the name “israel” distorts what there is there in terms of groups and groupings of people. (assuming the naming thing is to do with people rather than giving winds directions..) How so? Lets say we called the […]
With baka as the sense and practice of mistaking one thing/element with another. As objects can be bought and sold; invested and owned -while ideas are less obvious to do as such. (hence the problems of intellectual properties and claims such as: you can destroy my body, but never the idea from which my life […]
Perhaps I want to live like a dna sequence. Isa this mad? Or is it that larger structures Must be – in terms of living – very different from their micro selves? Also, It occcures that perhaps in order to Be there is a need/requirement for some sort of end of self on its own […]