Hi,
..on Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 09:33:12AM +0100, Simon Biggs wrote:
I am using agency in a sense that some might find contentious as I am
considering it as an ontological phenomena in a context where individuals,
whether human or animal, alive or inert, physical or virtual, are not where
..on Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:00:59AM -0700, { brad brace } wrote:
My FB account with 5000 appreciative 'friends' was
immediately disabled once I began to sell collections of
(enhanced/enlarged) profile portraits. The hierarchical
social network hasn't changed a bit.
I've moved the project
Hi Julian
Yes, all your points are of interest. I hadn't thought of the Serres
connection, but clearly as this is to do with the autopoeitic then
cybernetics is part of the mix, particularly that of Maturana and Varela.
Bergson's view is echoed during the modern era by Heissenberg, who was less
Absolutely so Simon: and more power to you for having the bottle to go
ontological. The axiom can be -- should be -- further reduced: what is the
materiality of the formative agency which constitutes relationships and
forms things? (You already know which rabbit is in the hat, simon, but allow
me
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On 15/07/10 09:33, Simon Biggs wrote:
I am using agency in a sense that some might find contentious as I am
considering it as an ontological phenomena in a context where individuals,
whether human or animal, alive or inert, physical or virtual, are not where
agency is located. Rather, I
Hi Martin
All good stuff, although I would resist any mystical interpretations of what
I am considering. I see it as concerned with the materiality of things. You
might be able to take a Lovelockian view of what I am proposing, although I
am not entirely happy with that idea either. I am not
Is going ontological similar to going nuclear?
Simon Biggs
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Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
Hi Sean, Simon, but to reduce to some primordial state, seams hardly a
reflection of conscious behavior. It seams to lead to a human math, no good no
bad, no empathy, just unconscious reaction. We are still operating our lives in
the concrete world of language, (as this post supports, in it's
