Reviews of Numerous Wonderful Books

2006-11-19 Thread Charles Baldwin
[Just for the record. It's not necessary to be "on" the list in order to post "to" the list. The list software mailman has a feature which can be enabled so that only subscribers can post to the list. But we do not use mailman, nor is that feature particularly useful, since many people are subscri

Fwd: Hi - please pass on to nettime - I promise, the last -

2006-10-22 Thread Charles Baldwin
I'm forwarding this from Alan Sondheim. >>> Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/22/06 1:14 AM >>> Thanks, Alan I want to try again to comment on the discussion on nettime, which I read in the archives on and off, and which apparently is entering the third week. Sometimes I go over what "I'd w

Re: Gender and You

2006-10-13 Thread Charles Baldwin
I'm just catching up with this debate and it's already quite complicated. Because of that, I can't pretend to address it directly. I think that most of this is beyond sorting out, and I think at this point the discussion isn't about Sondheim's "Gender and Me" post or even about "Alan Sondheim" as s

Re: RE: cybernetics and the Internet

2006-06-13 Thread Charles Baldwin
_Hamlet's Mill_ is amazing. It might be interesting to see how it emerges from the "Newtonian and Bergsonian Time" chapter of _Cybernetics_. The book is co-authored with Herta von Dechend (the Jungianism - I think she brings this along - is a limitation on the book). _Hamlet's Mill_ has fascinating

Codework / Eco / Aquinas (fwd)

2004-02-25 Thread Charles Baldwin
"The inarticulate cry which seemed to be the voice of light." * Hermes Trismegistus I was thinking about codework presenting "its object and the inscription of its object, both taken in the broadest sense," as Alan wrote recently, and about the discussion of Eco. A while back I was working ou