Dead Time: The Machinery of Reality
http://www.alansondheim.org/areal.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/deadtime.txt
Dead Time: The Machinery of Reality, Obscura, 1982
35 years ago, foray into media phenomenology
"Postscript - It must be understood that this article is an
outline at best. Because of the interstitial nature of
scientific photography, its aesthetics and phenomenology draw on
such diverse areas as the philosophy of science, theories of
cognition, phenomenology and traditional photographic
aesthetics. The deepest problem is two-fold: the relation of
theory to image, and the mathematization of reality. The latter
is fundamental to scientific progress - and the former (the
"image-reality nexus") can often be reduced to an analysis of
algorithmic procedures. The gap between mathematics and physical
reality (the abstract and material "worlds") is treated
different depending on one's viewpoint (materialist,
intuitionist, conventionalist, anarchist, etc.). I tend towards
an anarchism in methodology and a Platonism in core structure.
Dead Time reflects this viewpoint, however contradictory."
(I don't want to constantly resuscitate older work, but this
seems of interest to anyone following my current thinking.
Yes, there are holes in it, but the discussion seems apropos.)
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