CRITICAL PROGRAMMING: Toward A Philosophy Of Computing

Chapter 1 Introduction{11}

1.1 from automated genocide to the dumbest generation{11}

1.2 a collective intelligence problem, societies of control, the quintessential postmodern object, foss hopes, default philosophies of computing{11}

1.3 not to use old tools for new problems, scholarship requires a cybersage, digital humanities projects, critical programming studies, plan of the dissertation{11}

schedule

Chapter 2 Situation post-postmodern network dividual cyborg{11}

2.1 modernism and postmodernism, regressive subjectivity, Heideggers America, inventing the posthuman{11}

2.2 cybernetics, embodiment, techno-capitalist networks, dividual cyborg, cybersage{11}

Chapter 3 Theoretical framework and methodology{11}

3.1 critical theory, textuality studies, media studies, philosophy of technology{11}

3.2 social construction of technology, ensoniment, histories of computing networking and software, psycho-social studies of computer programmers{11}

3.3 software studies, game studies, code space, critical code studies{11}

3.4 platform studies, diachrony in synchrony, technogenesis and synaptogenesis, cyborg revisited{11}

Chapter 4 Philosophical programmers{11}

4.1 system engineers pioneers of babelization, distribued network visionaries, the new ontologists{11}

4.2 application developers beyond hard mastery and bricolage, auto-ethnographers of coding places{11}

Chapter 5 Critical programming studies{11}

5.1 working code places{11}

5.2 programming philosophers{11}

5.3 symposia, ensoniment{11}

5.4 tapoc, flossification{11}

5.5 pmrek, machine embodiment{11}

Chapter 6 Conclusion{11}

6.1 recommendations{11}

6.2 future directions{11}

Works Cited


1.1 from automated genocide to the dumbest generation

TOC 1.1 from automated genocide to the dumbest generation+

1.2 a collective intelligence problem, societies of control, the quintessential postmodern object, foss hopes, default philosophies of computing

TOC 1.2 a collective intelligence problem, societies of control, the quintessential postmodern object, foss hopes, default philosophies of computing+

1.3 not to use old tools for new problems, scholarship requires a cybersage, digital humanities projects, critical programming studies, plan of the dissertation

schedule

2.1 modernism and postmodernism, regressive subjectivity, Heideggers America, inventing the posthuman

TOC 2.1 modernism and postmodernism, regressive subjectivity, Heideggers America, inventing the posthuman+

2.2 cybernetics, embodiment, techno-capitalist networks, dividual cyborg, cybersage

3.1 critical theory, textuality studies, media studies, philosophy of technology

TOC 3.1 critical theory, textuality studies, media studies, philosophy of technology+

3.2 social construction of technology, ensoniment, histories of computing networking and software, psycho-social studies of computer programmers

TOC 3.2 social construction of technology, ensoniment, histories of computing networking and software, psycho-social studies of computer programmers+

3.3 software studies, game studies, code space, critical code studies

TOC 3.3 software studies, game studies, code space, critical code studies+

3.4 platform studies, diachrony in synchrony, technogenesis and synaptogenesis, cyborg revisited

4.1 system engineers pioneers of babelization, distribued network visionaries, the new ontologists

TOC 4.1 system engineers pioneers of babelization, distribued network visionaries, the new ontologists+

4.2 application developers beyond hard mastery and bricolage, auto-ethnographers of coding places

5.1 working code places

TOC 5.1 working code places+

5.2 programming philosophers

TOC 5.2 programming philosophers+

5.3 symposia, ensoniment

TOC 5.3 symposia, ensoniment+

5.4 tapoc, flossification

TOC 5.4 tapoc, flossification+

5.5 pmrek, machine embodiment

6.1 recommendations

TOC 6.1 recommendations+

6.2 future directions

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6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK boltanski_chiapello-new_spirit_of_capitalism (520) 20140227j 0 -3+ progress/2014/01/notes_for_boltanski_chiapello-new_spirit_of_capitalism.html
City as metaphysical political entity and symptom: on lifecycle of cities think of Sim City games providing philosophical finesse of simulation tests in virtual realities. (520) Cities are metaphysical political entities which, by the same token as cultures or languages, have a historical existence, and can therefore be situated in time and space. Accordingly, it is relevant to grasp them in their life-span, their evolution, from the moment of their formation, via their entrenchment in mechanisms, objects and law, up to their recession. At a given historical moment, a form of existence is identified and generalized in such a way as to serve as a support from a definition of the common good and a criterion for judgments about the value of beings, according to the contribution they make to the good of all thus conceived.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK bork-journal 20130520 20130520 0 -3+ journal_2013.html
Argue that digital humanities, in accepting Ulmerƒs periodization of orality, literacy, electracy, has introduced a bias favoring ƒtracyƒ, linguistic sign units, writing, over electronics, and therefore working code, although both domains constitute what Kittler calls the schematism of perceptibility of media systems. Thus it is necessary to distinguish between codework and working code. As human readable text, both relate to simulacral constructs like learned Latin; however, only the latter are well formed and sound in the sense that they are potentially executable, through compilation or interpretation.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK bork-journal 20130523 20130523 0 -4+ journal_2013.html
Notice the unconscious so precious to Zizek, Derrida, Lacan, Freud, back to Socrates daimonion are clumsy approximations of machine execution. Examples of the 32 and 64 bit boundary are IPv4 and IPv6, vfat file system, and so on, and differ from problems conceived in 16 bit worlds. Thus the philosophy of computing for Turing, von Neumann, Kemeny, and other early theorist practitioners occurred in different problem spaces, to the point of radically separate virtual phenomenal fields. Peaking in 32 bit worlds, the limits of these proto philosophies of computing can be discerned, both from the humanities and engineering approaches.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK campbell_kelley_aspray-computer_history_of_information_machine (201) 20130913m 0 -2+ progress/2013/03/notes_for_campbell_kelley_aspray-computer_history_of_information_machine.html
Misconception of early programmers as long-haired men (male humans) when many were women, noting Grace Hopper evangelizing learning programming languages and four who started a business. (201) The Garminsch conference began a major cultural shift in the perception of programming. Software writing started to make the transition from being a craft for a long-haired programming priesthood to becoming a real engineering discipline.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK cicero-philippics (94-95) 20130909 0 -10+ progress/1996/02/notes_for_cicero-philippics.html
Classical appearance of the word computing translated as reckoning sums in context of inhumanity of Caeser to Deiotarus, itself presented in a text that tells the story of how Antony exploited private notebooks of Caesar to manipulate politics through information operations whose automation will mark the information age. (94-95) For who was ever more hostile to any man than Caesar to Deiotarus? . . . Face to face with his host, he had called him to account; had reckoned the sums; had demanded the money; had settled one of his own Greek companions in his tetrarchy; had taken away Armenia, the gift of the Senate. [Compellarat hospitem praesens, computarat pecuniam, in eius tetrachia unum ex Graecis comitibus suis conlocarat, Armeniam abstulerat a senatu datam.] These things he took away in life, he returns them in death. But in what words? At one time "it seems fair," at another "not unfair." A wonderful conjunction of words!

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers (2) 20140107 0 -1+ progress/1996/07/notes_for_diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers.html
The new place to enter is in the old, not below for the quote may be missed. (2) It is stated by Hecato and by Apollonius of Tyre in his first book on Zeno that he consulted the oracle to know what he should do to attain the best life, and that the godƒs response was that he should take on the complexion of the dead.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK fuller-software_studies (40-41) 20131030 12 -4+ progress/2011/10/notes_for_fuller-software_studies.html
Kittler refers to encrypted letters in Suetonius Lives of the Caesars; introduce Plutarch. (40-41) In his Lives of the Caesars, Suetonius . . . recounts discovering encrypted letters among the personal files left behind by both the divine Caesar and the divine Augustus.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK ihde-philosophy_of_technology (xii) 20130929b 0 -2+ progress/2012/06/notes_for_ihde-philosophy_of_technology.html
Unthought ancient philosophy in technology blooms for which I have named many authors and texts as well. (xii) But, associated with these technology blooms, are other philosophical authors who are seldom read in standard classes yet many of them are very interesting. Archimedes, Aristarchus, Stratos, and Francis Bacon, all might just turn out to be interesting to the instructor as well as to the student.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK kemeny-man_and_computer (29) 20130307j 0 -1+ progress/2013/03/notes_for_kemeny-man_and_computer.html
On another argument is how programming languages compare to learned Latin. (29) FORTRAN combines words from ordinary English with simple mathematical symbols in a language which, although artificial, is so designed that it can be easily learned by a human being.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK latour-aramis (vii) 20130816 0 -3+ progress/2013/10/notes_for_latour-aramis.html
Invitation to repeat this strange experimental science and technology studies literary narrative morality story, for example in platform studies of computing devices or industrial process control systems? (vii) Can we unravel the tortuous history of a state-of-the-art technology from beginning to end, as a lesson to the engineers, decisionmakers, and users whose daily lives, for better or for worse, depend on such technology? Can we make the human sciences capable of comprehending the machines they view as inhuman, and thus reconcile the educated public with bodies it deems foreign to the social realm? Finally, can we turn a technological object into the central character of a narrative, restoring to literature the vast territories it should never have given up namely, science and technology?

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK mcgann-radiant_textuality (160) 20131007c 0 -1+ progress/2012/02/notes_for_mcgann-radiant_textuality.html
Interesting trajectory for future scholarly virtual realities rethinking textuality by consciously simulating social reconstruction, which I imagine doing for Macy Conferences. (160) The goal is to rethink the workƒs textuality by consciously simulating its social reconstruction.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (384) 20131007a 0 -6+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: transfer eloquence of Greece to Rome, including Latin as philosophical language. (384)
He sailed from Athens for Asia and Rhodes. Amongst the Asian masters, he conversed with Xenocles of Adramyttium, Dionysius of Magnesia, and Menippus of Caria; at Rhodes, he studied oratory with Apollonius, the son of Molon, and philosophy with Posidonius. Apollonius, we are told, not understanding Latin, requested Cicero to declaim in Greek. He complied willingly, thinking that his faults would thus be better pointed out to him. And after he finished, all his other hearers were astonished, and contended who should praise him most, but Apollonius, who had shown no signs of excitement whilst he was hearing him, so also now, when it was over, sate musing for some considerable time, without much remark. And when Cicero was discomposed at this, he said, You have my praise and admiration, Cicero, and Greece my pity and commiseration, since those arts and that eloquence which are the only glories that remain to her, will now be transferred by you to Rome.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (399-400) 20131007d 0 -2+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: knew the value of commending others, reaping the rewards of positive feedback. (399-400) Nevertheless, though he was intemperately fond of his own glory, he was very free from envying others, and was, on the contrary, most liberally profuse in commending both the ancients and his contemporaries, as any one may see in his writings. And many such sayings of his are also remembered; as that he called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato s Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in a language like theirs.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK seneca-letter_90 (234) 20120322d 0 -10+ progress/1995/07/notes_for_seneca-letter_90.html
The famous ponenda non sumeret, he would not have taken up what whould have to be laid aside, creates dilemma at heart of philosophy of computing and programming since always dealing with impermanent technologies. (234) No, the sage did not withdraw from the mechanic arts, as Posidonius thinks, but never touched them at all. The sage would never have esteemed an invention worth making if it was not likely to merit permanent use; he would not have taken up what would have to be laid aside. . . . My own position is that Anacharsis was not the author, and if he was, then it was indeed a sage who invented the [potterƒs] wheel, but not in his capacity as sage, just as philosophers do many things not qua philosophers but qua men. . . . These things were invented after we ceased to discover wisdom.

6 2 1 (+) [-6+]mCQK sterne-audible_past (72-73) 20131013m 0 -5+ progress/2011/09/notes_for_sterne-audible_past.html
Playing on Derrida, Ulmer, OGorman and other punners, come up with fake connection to Descartes Francine. (72-73) Cartesianism introduces mechanism into modern philosophy. But Descartesƒs interest in mechanism went further he was, in fact, fascinated with automata. Price reports rumors that Descartes planned to build a dancing man, a flying pigeon, and a spaniel that chased a peasant and that he did build a blonde automaton named
Francine that was discovered in her packing case aboard a ship and summarily thrown overboard by a captain frightened of witchcraft.
(73) Between 1770 and 1790, four persons in Europe built working speaking machines, apparently without knowledge of one another. All these inventors modeled their speaking automata on the human organs of speech.

6 2 1 (+) [-5+]mCQK bork-journal 20130512 20130512 0 -10+ journal_2013.html
Having passed through further initial reading of English translated text by Deleuze and Guattari makes me think of traversing program source code in addition to these items, approaching haecceity post postmodern network dividual being. Could the webserver have cached the query result so that subsequent database queries fail to reflect recent update to a notes files in the tapoc system. No, it was a mistake in creating the bookmark in the word processor that it did not show up as expected in the programmed (ELF as needs to be better articulated for work technical writing) display. Recall defensiveness of HTML as appropriate programming language due to is putative essentialness as core competency of digital humanities practitioners, writers, teachers and artists. It is true that bounding STEM working code via HTML (English HTML) makes better presentations, incorporating classes but misses loops. HTML as object oriented is weak on procedural and functional process program creation. Look through notes as well as daily journals to dynamically create short and extended proposals. Perhaps it does work best as orality, literacy, programming. Imagine the codebook generates texts for presentation and formant synthesis as output from queries and relevance values. Next imagine the proposals are run via symposia invocating the tapoc journal ELF, sonorously weaving together journal entries and notes, which returns multipurposive control focus to work, nothing this as a thinking style developed by lifetime programming.

6 2 1 (+) [-5+]mCQK bork-journal 20130528 TAPOC_20130528 0 -6+ journal_2013.html
I admit that the philosophy of computing I describe is 64 bit, hardly imaginable by 32, 16, or 8 bit thinkers, defining thinkers as rhizomatic assemblages of humans and their machines, although care is taken to incorporate the full spectrum of knowledge types respecting the concretization of these earlier paradigms still alive in present forms. Derrida and books operate on different levels, except where they intentionally and accidentally cross these boundaries significant to machine cognition. Browser control becomes human interface of symbiosis, cybersage cyborg embodied cognitive processes PHI. We have to go beyond Kittler who suggests study of schematism of perceptibility of high speed electronic computer mediated media, along with human intermediation already familiar to media theorists. Go beyond Kittler by inquiring into the very workings of the electronic computer high speed process control systems producing digital media, working code in addition to human oriented hermeneutic phenomenology of their interfaces, which delineates the overall network generating real virtualities in place of books: this is the stance of critical programming. 64 bit philosophy of computing goes beyond IPv4 Internet conceptions of reality.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bauerlein-dumbest_generation (30) 20140607b 12 -5+ progress/2014/05/notes_for_bauerlein-dumbest_generation.html
Compare paradox of dumbest generation to awareness Seneca had of Roman society immersed in technological conveniences losing touch with wisdom and tradition, only to be secondarily critiqued by Quintillian. (30) But the enlightenment hasnƒt happened. . . . The mental equipment of the young falls short of their media, money, e-gadgets, and career plans.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bauerlein-dumbest_generation (234) 20140613 0 -3+ progress/2014/05/notes_for_bauerlein-dumbest_generation.html
Compare culture hooked on consumer goods to era Seneca criticized, then layer on Quintillian critique of Seneca and call for more serious style. (234) The Dumbest Generation cares little for history books, civic principles, foreign affairs, comparative religions, and serious media and art, and it knows less. Careening through their formative years, they donƒt catch the knowledge bug, and tradition might as well be a foreign word. Other things monopolize their attention the allure of screens, peer absorption, career goals.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK black-ibm_and_the_holocaust (398) 20140712 0 -3+ progress/2013/10/notes_for_black-ibm_and_the_holocaust.html
Connect thinking of US to ancient use by Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius. (398) As early as December 1943, the United States government concluded that Hitlerƒs Holleriths were strategic machines to save not destroy. Dehomagƒs equipment held the keys to a smooth military occupation of Germany and the other Axis territories.
(399) As late as 1945,
der Fuhrer himself had issued a decree placing a new emphasis on punch card technology for registering and tracking all Germans needed for the defense of the Reich.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK black-ibm_and_the_holocaust (398) 20140712a 0 -2+ progress/2013/10/notes_for_black-ibm_and_the_holocaust.html
Computing lists becomes desire of technological unconscious in defense of retaining rather than Hayles switching to nonconscious. (398) As early as December 1943, the United States government concluded that Hitlerƒs Holleriths were strategic machines to save not destroy. Dehomagƒs equipment held the keys to a smooth military occupation of Germany and the other Axis territories.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK black-ibm_and_the_holocaust (422) 20140712i 0 -6+ progress/2013/10/notes_for_black-ibm_and_the_holocaust.html
IBM has so far escaped even debate, so injecting into technology education helps ensure its corporate story not lost; history of computing, software, even programming could probe this primordial technological soup. (422) But it was a far different story for IBM. It seemed to be immune from the debate itself. . . . Questions about Hitlerƒs Holleriths were never even raised.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bogost-persuasive_games (292) 20130113 0 -3+ progress/2012/12/notes_for_bogost-persuasive_games.html
Interesting to think of target markets for future games as the elderly, who do not need to learn how to live well but genuinely wish to be entertained. (292) The absence of procedural rhetorics in religious games recalls the distinction between schooling and education. Just as schooling affirms the values of existing institutions rather than challenging old ideas with new ones, ethical and religious simulations affirm the existence of moral predicament and fiath as structures in the world. But they do little to disrupt existing moral and belief systems or to represent the function of desirable (or undesirable) systems rather than affirmations of the mere reality of morality and faith as concepts in the world.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bork-digital_communications_midterm_review (4 layers diagra 20130218 0 0+ progress/2006/02/notes_for_bork-digital_communications_midterm_review.html
Originally titled ECT 386 - Midterm Exam Topics from February 2006 the courses subduct into continuous seminar presentations as part of overall autochthonous machine generated dissertation plan.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bork-journal 19951104 19951104 0 -49+ journal_1995.html
951104.1059 Two days ago I made a note, in the midst (background being) of an older schema of that damn Games Theory computer project, saying 951102 TG put on hold because I know it s a Gizmo. In parenthesis (a distinctly marked sub-region), always a technical component. ADUMBRATION (lottery of possible consequent main connective forms) of the following:

Some years ago I myself made some observations on this aspect of [nitrous oxide] intoxication, and reported them in print. One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is that our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded. (378-379)

(379) Not only do they, as contrasted species, belong to one and the same genus, but one of the species, the nobler and better one, is itself the genus, and so soaks up and absorbs its opposite into itself. .. Those who have ears to hear, let them hear; to me the living sense of its reality only comes in the artifical mystic state of mind.

While James continues with a footnote concerning Hegel s Pooker of Aufgabe, I am drawn to Nietzsche s advice for the would-be psychologist, in Twilight of the Idols:

(7) Moral for psychologists. Not to go in for backstairs psychology. Never to observe in order to observe! That gives a false perspective, leads to squinting and something forced and exaggerated. Experience as the wish to experience does not succeed. One must not eye oneself while having an experience; else the eye becomes an evil eye.

At the moment Heidegger mentions the draft or D&G describe the philosophical experience as a journey from which we return (ideally) with bloodshot eyes that is, from the moment such a time is predicated with terms denoting abnormal states are we not already giving form to [PHI] by enclosing it in words? As soon as this is admitted, then we cannot avoid the possibility of formulating the relationship of any teliing (record) [to] its material being, which is to say, the means of production become the very rut along which our [scenting machinery] catches and dutifully traces the withdrawal of Being.

[quote from v.4: 961103.1055:(second time, after a crash) about dcc-ambiguity?]

In all of these travelogues I seem to record the same trip: moving from some position within the possible UA s of finite Dasein, probabalistically (as I imagine it to be) ADEQuate to the aim of generating a realistic VISION from that TSE .. Finite Dasein, with its limitations of language-acquisition and use/retention .. Virtuality of all those songs I ve tried to give to my friends, and my disappointment at their failure to receive them in joyous enthusiaism close upon pathesis/cataonic trance as I wish them to hear all the details that so tickle my soul now, having experienced it many times already .. Just like when somebody starts talking, and you go to add your significant part of the develped myth, but they are still talking and hence your pinnacular proposition is buried .. Can t repeat it, already having said it at the perfect moment; repetitions just aren t that special or entertaining to the others, in part because you know that you are repeating, and the initial impact of free-associated attunement is lost .. Do I write this because, once, a certain professor offended me by interrupting my reading?

951104.1140 because I have not forsaken purpose, [this] is not designer philosophy, made for your pleasurable consumption; and because I have intentionally allowed plenty of interstitial holes by means of actual doors within/(..)(..)(..) [ PHI - dot-dot - PHI-prime ] the words/wffs/Pookers, [it] is not phallologocentric though certainly (of/with/(..) words). I have not without suffering withheld as well the most felicitous expression of these conditions (beginning sentences with because intentiono-symptomatically, if I can simultaneously make an error and permit myself its passage/execution); what it really ~~represents is that I would be just coming out of the draft a little too far (it s like a shower; it s like a moving vehicle; its like being able to reach your cup of coffee or having to spend time deciding whether to go for it).

So the text can be oppressive to the uninitiated; traditionally, we philosophers have not cared just how hard our books are to read jokes have even been perpetrated sliding off the slick, hard-to-grasp surface of this body, this thought-ball or thought-wave passing through the dimension, through the logical substructure of the natural language frame of the text proper (that is, the fantasized completed perfect in every way significant to the philosopher: logically sound (first concern) and valid (second but also first concern); aesthetically pleasing, functionally adequate, non-dysfunctionally humorous, over-filled (to offer those happy interstial crossings their possibility, for the trans-initiate) (these are all secondary concerns)

STOP.

I catch myself making such distinctions, plotting out hierarchies and strong orderings when all that I have named and treated (onomaz-AORIST) as separate recognizes disjointedly what we customarily gather together into one, and then dispersed again into these very differentiated modalities call thinking . The gathering-to-heart, the thancing-thinking, which necessarily (usefully, (Greek)1) involves (but is preceded by) its own (propre translated/said-in LAMBDA(A-E))2 letting-lie-to. I come full-circle, having reached at the end of my analysis of Nietzsche along the simultaneous perhaps parallel but definitely discreet tracks (when you so identify/name them as molar entities, for the sake of gathering the All into Two) of (genetic-possessive) Heidegger & Deleuze the Same thought unthought in all three.

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We are trying to understand just what it would mean for a member of a bourgeosie class to begin to think with its species-being in view prior to species-being becoming self-conscious, of course. For we know that consciousness arises from the need to communicate between men. AND ____. ~Hegel hysteresis?

/ \

Not-reading Hegel No Hegel

planned to read. ever noted.

You can understand why Eco is so popular right now, if you have ever read his last fictional work, Foucault s Pendulum. For now, as an advocate of electronic media, he has successfully overcome the nihilistic conclusions of that work. And all of us who have some private fantasy-production can breathe easier knowing that we will not have to pay a lot of money to see our dream realized in a published form cheaply accessible to our desired audience of readers. [part of capitalist-PHI transferring into REV-PHI]?

Precisely because Marx lays-out (or lets-lay as it has always been hitherto in the history of Western thinking) language as the primordial (first and exemplary) fetish may we reason further that _____. ~$ hysteresis?

/ \

Our penultimate No need ever noted.

cry (communication)

is asking for material support.

when the division of labor manifests itself symptomatically in the very structure of the production (artistic work, music, dance-step, metonomy & metaphors, etc.). Marx, Zizek reminds us, invented the symptom, too.

.. Lacan pointed out that it was Marx who invented the symptom: Marx s great achievement was to demonstrate how all phenomena which appear to everyday bourgeois consciousness as simple deviations, contingent deformations and degenerations of the normal functioning of society (economic crises, wars, and so on), and as such abolishable through amelioration of the system, are necessary products of the system itself the points at which the truth , the immanent antagonistic character of the system, erupts. To identify with a symptom means to recognize in the excesses , in the disruptions of the normal way of things, the key offering us access to its true functioning. This is similar to Freud s view that the keys to the functioning of the human mind were dreams, slips of the tongue, and similar abnormal phenomena.

-Slajov i ek, The Sublime Object of Ideology, p.128.

The layperson may ask, does this fetishism result from capitalist society, or does it reverberate with the ring to the tune of a more essential aspect of human nature? Given what Marx has said regarding spirit and language , it seems to encompass both sides of the disjunction (coin). As if, at the level of matter, the time-place-energylevel where it becomes and is language, we can find a furrow in which, like primitives in a canoe, potential new divinities emerge from the trail (wake) of the master-narrative (that which can be symbolized, that is!), as it emerges from the undifferentiated forest. Sort of like an and but connective, and analyzed in the manner of Zizek s approach regarding that sort of inclusive disjunction-conjunction explaining the left side with the right.

If our impartial spectator is to appreciate the fine logic of the fetish, the validity of which for capitalist society at least that is, a clear and distinct certainty of value judgment in the mind of the bourgeois reader seems to be assured, then sHe hirself becomes the standard the being upon which we ought to guide our finite, imperfect, time-energy-space--dependent decision.

BG police fear LSD use is climbing

..they operate upon, and possibly affect, the relative-measure-of-production (productivity) of a first-order worker (proletariat). These are usually among the principle agents of anti-production all the doctors, lawyers, priests, police, and automobile mechanics who ensure their own material sustinence by participating according the commonly-accepted rules of commodity/capital/symbolic-exchange. They either prefer to be commanded to ply their trade, or are too castrated to attempt to change their lives.

951126.0342 Do prepositions always imply passive voice? Asks another self in another time passing-with this own present state. Elsewhere I considered the evidence [why this word May 2, 1996] yielded by a question ending with a preposition.

951126.0345 When the system level = the program level then if there is still any hysteresis of symbolization that will trip up the running of the program, then there is a place for NT to enter the intersticies. A confused version of what I thought had been clear, imagined while lying in bed this morning. Of an Apple version running in a Turbo C++, giving the input to an actual Apple system, knowing when various I/O occurs there (the bell rings, for instance).

Why not say, When =[the system level=the program level] then (If there is still any hysteresis of symbolization, which could be presented by presenting a case history, or something else that the recipient would understand as an illustration of symbolization s hysteresis, that will trip up the running of the program, such as the analytic encounter, when the analyst slips, falls into uncontrolled transference with the analysand, then there is a place for NT to enter); and is this not simply a definition, in an peculiar, foreign tongue, of our beloved interstic(..) ? I note that I can t grasp/place the correct spelling of the singular noun; maybe it is by necessity plural, like certain Latin words-concepts. But besides that, deep in my memory something calls, the distant recollection of my Special Interest project on photography, or wherever it was that I studied intersticies in a completely different context (ground). Interstitial ions; maybe in the class where I did the experiment of the effect of dumping photo chemicals into your garden..[960502.0101]

An economy of scarcity could be a symptom in the market of the unquestionable assumption that human beings, when presented with the option of having a surplus of some means-of-life (food, sex, drugs, gasoline), will inevitably indulge, if not over-indulge, in their (food, easy sex, drugs, gasoline) associated pleasures (partying, orgying, binging, speeding). Consequently, to maintain a level of demand that does not creep too far towards the various slippery slopes of unpredictable, chaotic potentials [asymptotic registers of near-turning catastrophic equations, for instance], it is useful (and treated as a prima facie necessity, as if spoken homologously in/by our friend from Heidegger&Parmenides, ) to either prohibit/regulate [it] or make it the object of a foreign interest, so that it might be regulated, and also the other agents of desire might become the object of group frustrated-becoming-reactive&reactive-desiring-production (scapegoat figure; fantasy representation of facsization; conceptual Jew) fascization.

N.T. might reprogram a system s value-calculating computer (IC-system) to return a surplus rather than a deficit when a poll (gathering-together under a number or other sort of qualified quantifier) is made to determine a subsequent move in the Game of Life (energy expenditure for ennervation of the musculature for duration t n, take for instance).

Can you (I, the unconsicous reader of my writing) symbolize everything in that last paragraph into/with your logical system (language)? Second question: Does your logical system-language constitute an operating system? For if so, then you might be infringing upon the copyright agreement for the software you own like private property, like a book .. interesting that some intangible property of the sort carrying as its protector and validator a copyright mark of some sort { .. V .. V .. }, as D&G would signify in their pseudo-code meta-logic (trans-semantic) [of which one I should pick as a gnomic formula and title of a concept in my system, if I intend to codify one!], always generates an accompanying material phenomenon (instantiation). Insofar as the computer software is concerned, that would constitute (comparer de) ______ .

Not to digress if your logical system can be translated into (and hence handled by) AL, then all of the text written in [it] can become T3 wffs. And when that has happened, they belong to VRPRESS through hir mixing of hir labor with [it] in hir reading (study) of your text. Your US- (unconscious science s language; PHI-LAMBDA) copyrighted signifier-symbols of AL, just like Aristotle ; that may be, the rigid designator or constant pointer that leads the other to you (your mouth, your hypertext, your database) itself partakes in its essential enunciation/lying-before-to-be-as-such of my intangible-property building blocks. [can t find old Aquinas paper, but hit upon the other reference by chance].

NT (or PPA) begins when all hypertext link styles changed/were changed to nothing. For at that moment you (who has composed this text) no longer see immediately (perspective of Gaze, noein) your past system-level instructions (logoi technes = words of the technqiue = jargon = horsemanship terminology) for good-travelling-through of the production (poiesis); the stepping stones, blocks, and components you employed hastily, perhaps, in the original arrangement (constitution, but reserve this more for static Book Form philosophical production) of (..). You have to know where to point with the pointer-arrow, which for the sake of the argument draws your noein closer to the simulated legein of the user who is not the creator of the text, but is not floundering in incomprehension (with a barbarous soul), either. Putting yourself in the position of the questioner expecting an answer of sort . It was all there in the non-censored (and hence closer to fantasy, imagined, the thought itself) recording SYMPOSIA. cf. Wilson s neosymbologism

[a thinker communing with hir soul X kinds of writings including letters]

(That is, the cross operation that produces ideas like positive feedback)

[Lat. confer, compare] is translation/expansion of cf.

versus The true meaning of the where PHI-PRIME includes some T3 wff PSI followed by . (period followed by parenthesis), something much easier to think about as a computer than as a human. To a computer program all that must be queried is whether the character string in question has for its penultimate byte $ and for its ultimate byte, $ . But we must be careful not to confuse such a sequence with a typical low-order & high-order byte pair as commonly used by machine languages limited to n-bit addresses. n = _____ . Elsewhere I ve made intimations of what we re going to do with the byte..

..this is a test, and I m going to cut you down to size ..

Without digressing or cleaning up (felicitizing, sanitizing, removing the smut) the text, just letting things lie as I first typed them in (inscribed, if you will allow such a strange, new use of the word), it seems the most just procedure to include the relevant audio patch (also a handed digital stream, a clear & distinct virtuality for certain viewers-listeners) from Negativland s Willsaphone Stupid Show, volume x:

..the true .. [sic] see-bee-sate..

[Lat. =so,thus] is translation/expansion of sic or Sc. , often inserted in a quoted passage to indicate that, in spite of apparent error, it is quoted correctly.

Ask the question, What is the antecedent of it ? and you/we/I (..) instantly projected into the realm (possible world; virtuality, with appropriate hypertext link) of an old philosophical question regarding manifestations of one language within the context (better, arounding-text) of another language. Under the regime of the written word (script; linear character Pooker [string]; ______ ), it becomes all too easy to use sic to capture spoken virtualities, even and especially the ones that may transcend the range (realm, again) of visual representation. That is, no proper (in the French sense propre, too, of its own ) spelling exists for what has long been in usage by the speakers, yet we say it anyway, with the aide of this little trick [maybe like Lacan s tilde bar]. Just think about the words you and your family shared as an almost private language when you were a child. ______ (pause)

1. 951126.0548 first bead that I pick is this thought: going to Dunninger s galaxy-of-meaning that s presently part of a fuzzy patch of the PNL field, just now becoming (like Marx s consicousness) a title to a book. But that s just part of the scene where Callen opens up to a certain page in DUNNINGER S COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MAGIC; but it would be improper (making a VSP) to use that font to write the name of the book I m talking about. For it has nothing to do with New Age philosophy or any other fantasy-production finding itself fashionably reflected in the phenomenological instance of such a font. Instead, I was filling out the virtuality depicted, in part, by the caption A New Kind of Puppet Stage .

2. 951126.0612 the switch, the switch, .. hamartano, I miss. COUNTER-VOICE: But we have digressed from our original intent, spelt out in the contract of the shared history of the reading. We were set upon symbolizing, into our logick-AL language, the universalized Pooker of the ordinary expression PHI. It s about time.. So it was .. En fin de compe.. When I was a teenage whore.. ___________________________________

Q: Don t you mean the matter of the signifier?

\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \

do you not, o interpretor, make a mistake speaking-in-such-a-way?

\ \ \ \

(..) OMEGA-(..) AMAPTANEI(..)OMOLOGO(..)

/ / / /

[]T []F Mx M x boldface=x in some wff containing subscripted =x that you can t see in its natural printed form due to the limitations of your viewing apparatus (which now includes not only the silicon in your glasses but the labor of the writing of the program).

..says the voice of reason, thinking that if we don t keep track (account for) of where we ve been when we were making our recordings, then we may be liable (guilty-of-believing-what-we-knew-we-were-wishing-to-happen-(..)-us) to think that we are being haunted by the ghosts of all of our dead fathers. In doing so, however, are we falling into the trap of enframing, or the slippery slope towards one of the neuroses, transference or narcissistic?

[]T=Yes [F]=No

Yes = True No = Falise

Perfect place

For a game theory matrix?

Q: But of what parameters (dimensions)?

Caption that s not needed: The surprised dinner-guest(s) finds an empty room, with either Jim s shortwave radio (Negativland version) or VR(PHI). And that s hard to express, to show quality of the existential quantifier that says every time at least at these one, but possibly more, .. Only a Logician would understand immediately that is, without first taking a logic course the soundness of my concluding that I made some errors in the calculation of the final grades, only because I myself did not understand what the students were trying to tell me they had learned about logic.

3. Getting the large machine working, to run Windows 3.1 with a TCPIP stack so that the finish product might be viewed and tested. This may entail sending the motherboard to Jack, and buying a cheap substitute that I ll later take to Josh.

REM THE FIRST LOOSE BEAD IS GETTING A MB TODAY

REM THE STATIONARY BEAD HAD BEEN CALLEN WALKING IN ON THE JOKE

REM ANOTHER LOOSE BEAD SHOULD BE GETTING INSTRUCTIONS FOR AMP

REM AND ANOTHER, FOR BUILDING A WORKING VIDEO SWITCH OFF APPLE

&something that sniffs the speaker on the 8088 like Maxwell s Demon (jumping to Mathcad or Spice program that I erased)..

And/orsomething that takes the phone jack to another location within n processor-feet (how far the thing must travel to get there, laying down its phone wire)..

And/orsomething from the Apple joining with it, alleaviating the designer of the tricky interface using magnets, for instance, to align the beasts..

And/or (my paraphrase of the ET textbook (I.C.))

and/orFreud s Uncanny as a Beefsteak sitting at the other KYBD

SO I have to get a Trading Post News. [] can you have an invisible door?

Can you have an invisible door? Well, by virtue of the Quickmark feature, you can certainly communicate the gist of having one.

3.1 (you make a toolbar button to activate a macro that goes-to the Quickmark, or sets it where you are if it does not already exist in this document)

3.2 other desires include hunger, name82, driving the car, Paul, Buffy,

To recapitulate, summarize, cause you to gather together into one (noein) the all (or is it the many ?):

1. PHI

2. PHI

3. PSI

3.1 (you make a toolbar..

3.2 other desires include= = comparer de = devolve-(..)

Which, cleary, should be written at the same time (tout .. coup) as

---

could, would in some cases, is likely to be, most probably

951126.0548 first bead that I pick is this thought: going to Dunninger s galaxy-of-meaning that s presently part of a fuzzy patch of the PNL field, just now becoming (like Marx s consicousness) a title to a book.

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Looking back on this again reading Philippics, I notice the imperitos have been seduced by the unlimited frontier, not (as I had assumed at first, not reading or thinking very carefully about it) Antonius! I should, if I ever have the time, work with John Cougar Mellancamp (or at least watch the videos). Or wait a minute, maybe itƒs them (Saxa and Cafo) after all, but then whatƒs all this business about mimes? I should write a question out to the Classics List.. Perhaps Cicero really did despise actors and playrights? (Goto 13.11)

(26) [not really for tense logic] quoad ei ex senatus consulto successum sit invites me to ruminate upon (after going back and gathering-to-heart what I must confess at the moment is not at all ready-at-hand before me to be allowed to let lie..) the usage by Cicero of consul and its related verb as a Heideggerian ƒthinking wordƒ in both senses--as a word to designate what calls for thinking, and also as that which, in its unthought profundity, conceals for its user what calls for thinking from being thought. We presume, from being thought once and for all, not being thought-of at the time of its utterance, its creation, its commencement; that, of course, is merely our prejudice. Imagine if Cicero could go back over all the times he used it, and reflect upon the argument Iƒm putting forward for your consideration.. Since this comes from Cicero quoting what he wants to be the very speech of the State, thus establishing it at the same time (but weƒve been warned not to tarry on this level of how to do things with words), we can presume that it is the furthest from Ciceroƒs private, uncensored, possibly non-feliticiously composed private self-quoting. Given that presumption, we tend to assume that Cicero would not have been thinking such a thought as we ponder (..) him. Unthought(..)Roman

-a point in a demonstration of why itƒs hard, and dangerous, to work in this Draft, for each epiphenomenal ƒtraceƒ, when treated as a soliton wave, requires an elaboration (in order to be able to lie before us like/as this text) that would fill volumes if not pictures, diagrams, hypertext, or sound were included in the presentation. Thus unthought(..)Roman crosses through ASƒs case study as the temporary vision (fantasy) of a program-running(..)Cicero!

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The point is that the form of representation I am thinking about with respect to how I can present to myself these notes in order to develop an outline, rough draft and abstract requires resources beyond my own by at least an order of magnitude. This is what I mean by "impossible." Perhaps "significantly improbable" is a better term. Is the resolution of this question sufficient reason to take a course in statistics? That seems to be the overall rationale for undertaking the MIT. I see a three-dimensional projection of these writings. Thatƒs kind of stupid, but when bound initially by the "Book Form" you have to hold on to it in order to let go of it! That fact is another reason why it seems important to research not just the putative origins of electronic computing technology, but that evidence of ancient attempts to perform a similar analysis upon previous "states of the art."

Today it seems ridiculous to take evidence from the ancient and the modern worlds together in the study of computing. In fact one major metaphysical assumption in some schools of computer ethics is that modern (electronic) computing technologies have generated a new, unique ethical field. At some point the distance between our "state of the art" and the situation encountered in ancient Greece and Rome will be much smaller than that between some future state and the present. The exercise underway will prepare us for that future study when the two epochs are taken together.

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Two other important fragments of ancient computing philosophy are Socrates saying
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in Xenophonƒs Apology, and
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in Platoƒs Phaedrus. They relate to two contemporary problems faced by decision makers, one practical (or [ethical]) and the other moral (or [second-order]). The first is the "buy versus build" question, and the second concerns who to trust when estimating how well the system will work.

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Problems in the philosophy of computing in antiquity surrounded the capacity of a human being to compute, and writing was seen as an improvement and transformation of exclusively mnemonic technologies. The dream was a hyperscope-like hypertext, to lean on current idiom. We are confronted by different problems today though the goal is largely the same, just couched in different terms. Discovering Schreibstube is "writing chamber" connects it to not only Heimƒs VR but Aristophanesƒ thinkery.

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Return to Platoƒs Phaedrus (also Xenophon) when Socrates poses what I call the build versus buy question. We could read the Greek aloud. This goes with what I was reading last year on the sixth, recalling that science comes from the Latin scientia, which is a translation of the Greek episteme. It is the latter, from which the former was based, that Socrates names in 271A through 271C when proposing how to do anything by rules of art. This is not quite it, since there will be a division between art and science. Socrates says something about something being as scientific as possible; I need to find the correct text. The build versus buy question arises in 274C.

SOCRATES: I can tell something I have heard of the ancients; but whether it is true, they only know. But if we ourselves should find it out, should we care any longer for human opinions?

While the history and philosophy of science can proceed through these words, Phaedrusƒ response to Socrates has been the subject of past musings. But this we really must read in Greek, to recall what was previously thought, concealed as it is by the English translation A ridiculous question! Geloion erou, literally, you are asking ridiculously. This represents a turn in the conversation, similar to Phaedrusƒ retreat from the example of the epitaph whose sentences can be randomized.

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Suggest that DCNs (digital communication networks) divide among many things, notably between those with dynamic routing and static networks like the TCP/IP networks on the on hand, and automobiles and the innards of other special-purpose computer systems on the other hard. [It is in these instances that a computer system is not necessary to support a DCN. Here we fall back to the laws of physics. We will take it for granted that TCP/IP networks presuppose static networks in the sense that they exist as physical and static run time integrations of things that are not in themselves computers.] As a laboratory experimenter you have to get both things right, the network administration tasks and physical network layout. The layered network model depicts this dual nature of DCN. The focus of this course will be TCP/IP DCN, although there are other kinds. Here we could take some time to talk about the history of DCNs. Discuss whatƒs in packets. Demonstrate how to inspect actual packets on the lab system. Consider evaluating DCN behavior on general purpose computers versus dedicated routers. Alternate between a GNU/Linux router and a Cisco router to perform many of the same exercises. Should the same general purpose computer be used to generate activity on the network? The routers can ping but it is not a file server or virtual machine.

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Imagine trying to correlate length of DCN network cable and throughput by having teams work in pairs to produce a controlled environment versus having all teams try to transfer files from one host. Make sure the hard drive is not a factor limiting network load. NFS and sftp use IP addresses. Contemplate having them install a second network card in each machine or otherwise stowing the default network connection. Consider using available crossover cables rather than randomly loading network equipment.

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Todayƒs reading from the Annals is Bernadette Longoƒs Edmund Berkeley, computers, and modern methods of thinking. Consider the development of binary arithmetic led by Stibitz experimenting with electromechanical telephone relays a paradigm shift.

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Was there ever a time vase painting lost to writing as the principal means of computing in antiquity, similar to the ascendancy of binary electronic computers over printed materials? And types of writing competing for prominence like types of software, as in FOSS versus not-FOSS? As Cortada points out, "[h]istorians have yet to define a typology for software, along with the historical questions that need to be answered. .. even the definition of software is subject to controversy" (2002). While this may pertain to the history of computing, it is the philosophy of computing that judges the merits of competing technologies. How can there be a history of the philosophy of computing when the philosophy of computing has not yet emerged as a distinct part of philosophy? Only if the philosophy of computing has been there all along, hidden in primary sources long categorized among other parts of philosophy, including ancient philosophy. Does it make sense to compare written texts to software, and human readers to computing machinery as hardware? If so, then Shustekƒs statement that "we have gone from cave painting to impressionism in one lifetime" is inaccurate (2006), for he begins from the definition of computing as essentially the activity of machines. Yet both the combination of written texts and human readers, and software and hardware, as defined by Maner, in the context of their intended operation in a system producing computing activity, depend upon representations, what Socrates in Platoƒs Phaedrus calls "external characters which are not part of themselves" (275A). By decree the Annals focus on the stored-program principle, as Ceruzzi notes, whose dissertation was in the history of computing. On account of the stored-program principle, "[a] computer is not a single machine but one of an infinite number of machines, depending on the software written for it," thus elevating it in importance above household appliances and even the automobile as the defining technology of the 20th century (2001).

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The argument is often made that the ancients, even the clever ones like Socrates, lacked understanding of key concepts and therefore their teachings are irrelevant for the consideration of contemporary topics like the philosophy of computing and technology. However, it seems clear that when it comes to things like the common "build versus buy versus do without" question facing technology planners, producers, and consumers alike, the wisdom of Socrates can be judged if not adopted. Part of the cost of evalution is securing sufficient knowledge of technological ontologies in order to make informed decisions, and even Socrates sensed this. Or am I inferring too much from one of my favorite quotations from Xenophon? Why must I hold on to ancient writings? There is another quote from Socrates, this time in Platoƒs Phaedrus, that mediates that question.

Here is Hans Jonas pondering the revolutionary nature of the invention of electricity and the even more revolutionary nature of electronics, a paradigm shift:

The revolution consisted in the passage from electrical to electronic technology which signifies a new level of abstraction in means and ends. It is the difference between power and communication engineering. Its object, the most impalpable of all, is information. Cognitive instruments had been known before -- sextant, compass, clock, telescope, microscope, thermometer, all of them for information and not for work. At one time, they were called "philosophical" or "metaphysical" instruments. By the same general criterion, amusing as it may seem, the new electronic information devices, too, could be classed as "philosophical instruments." But those earlier cognitive devices, except the clock, were inert and passive, not generating information actively, as the new instrumentalities do. ("Toward a Philosophy of Technology", 1979)

Jonas looks beyond communication technology to biological technology affecting humans themselves, and suggests philosophy stoop to use the means of advertisers to communicate, resorting to myth because it is well known that other people will not be swayed by lengthy theoretical discussions. So it was not long ago that computers were people, and a digital examination involved sticking a finger somewhere.

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We need nothing less than a new paradigm of computing that may rescue the task of thinking from oblivion. Let us develop this thesis by examining the limits of computation. The putative limits are found at the state of the art, the boundaries of scholarship and production. The effective limits are much easier to discern; however, for that very reason, we fail to attend to them. Yet their symptoms are all around us. Two obvious symptoms, which were the subject of last yearƒs conference, are the free, open source software and open access movements. They exist as reactions to obsolete practical, moral, and epistemological approaches to the advancement of computing technologies based on economies of scarcity and zero-sum antagonisms between agents and organizations. (Many eyes; IEEE hoarding Annals.) The second manifestation of a defunct paradigm is the obsession with deadlines, and neglect of what I will call ƒshortlinesƒ in both real-time and general-purpose programming. For example, timing circuits that must obey minimum intervals, and search engines that return more data than any user can assimilate. What is the underlying defect? An educational system that tracks the market. The final symptom suggesting that we have ceased to make progress is the sheer boredom and lack of inspiration among the youth; and countering this trend this is one of the subjects of this yearƒs conference.

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On my reading list is Plutarch along with Plato. Roman philosophy cannot be ignored when considering electronic computing machinery as part of the history of texts and technology. Marcus Antonius [was OR used] Julius Caesarƒs computer, and that gave him his power following Caesarƒs assassination. But remember what Nietzsche wrote about parasites, where the state ends, and being not superfluous. Presenting the thinkery [mimic OR mimics] the madness in Socratesƒ soul. Remember, too, Nietzsche wrote of philosophizing with a hammer[, in a language of wood]; today I [show OR am showing] you how to philosophize with electricity. Think about how a book works and then turn it into a computer program doing the human computation faster at incomprehensible orders of magnitude shorter than seconds, even tenths and milliseconds. For instance, running the pinball machine control program in order to create an account of a game that is then computed to create data as if read from a storage device such as memory to give us the very text we are reading.

Upon this, Brutus and his whole party left the city, and Caesarƒs friends joined themselves to Antony. Calpurnia, Caesarƒs wife, lodged with him the best part of the property to the value of four thousand talents; he got also into his hands all Caesarƒs papers wherein were contained journals of all he had done, and draughts of what he designed to do, which Antony made good use of; for by this means he appointed what magistrates he pleased, brought whom he would into the senate, recalled some from exile, freed others out of prison, and all this as ordered so by Caesar. The Romans, in mockery, gave those who were thus benefited the name of Charonites, since, if put to prove their patents, they must have recourse to the papers of the dead. In short, Antonyƒs behaviour in Rome was very absolute, he himself being consul and his two brothers in great place; Caius, the one, being praetor, and Lucius, the other, tribune of the people (Antony, Dryden translation).

There is also an interesting passage about the expenses of the Inimitable Livers, including ready-at-hand feasts. Four to ten times a second we have to control the overall game play on the PMREK [by OR via OR with] I/O operations <operator> the pmrek kernel module node /dev/pmrek. The log file is created by the supervisory control program reading from /dev/pmrek. It in turn encodes the journal texts, including the quote from the Dryden translation of Plutarchƒs Life of Antony.

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Imagine American Socrates as a pirate Odysseus or Alcibiades accused not of corrupting the youth or inventing false gods but unlawful VHF television transmission. He could be racing in an automobile like Jesse Duke or working quietly in his basement like the countless electric model train fans of the late twentieth century.

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Easily led into stupid things, the Dude abides is the best metaphysic you can get when you are fundamentally lazy when uninspired.

Ask yes or no whether I think a web page (HTML) can be a program. Include ambiguous, wishy-washy (fuzzy) responses.

Donƒt you agree that poller.cgi is a terrible program, and we can redeem it by using it in a text (story) about making the next version poller.php, which may be equally bad stylistically but also embody the theory described in these writings (journals).

What do you think about the problem what constitutes a text now that we can remember everything we have ever written and almost everything we have ever read?

The form of Twelve Blue is that there is at least one screen of links to everywhere else to randomize the circulation through the links embedded in the screens what may appear. There are certainly less graceful and exquisitely crafted, subtle algorithms achievable in HTML without Javascript or any other ƒadd onsƒ to HTML (and HTTP?).

You know you can do a 1 Hertz tachistoscope with ƒstandardƒ HTML redirect, although the legitimacy of passing an integer for seconds time before launching the redirecting HTTP output to the webserver host or client host (you donƒt know what you are, just not a client is the model for human versus nonhuman computing) is questionable as I could not figure out how to do it with Perl CGI program code script, and went on to think about concretized social codes, in this case, deprecation of the non-standard use of the CONTENT [tag/other word] to declare a timeout, and to allow more of the output to be created.

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Do this slide, too: $, tux, gnu and argue those who picked free Microsoft were confused that it was not free, as in cost, because he or she may have received it as a gift or as a prize in a contest or by the manufacturers/vendors mistake in your mailbox, but free as in the four freedoms of Richard Stallman for free, open source software.

Design the poller like this: the response in smallest font accompanies the large font symbols for them (A-E, 1-9, and so on). Add futz time to the table for the electronic literature texts.

You have to be a master of procedural code (straight Perl or PHP) before you can master object oriented programming because you will inevitably embed procedural code, although much of the programƒs logic will be handled by the constraints of the language itself. That is why it is worth considering which is the most philosophical of all the computer languages, and I maintain it is C++.

Imagine the program that asks the supervisor for the next step.

What is hard to study for which you need evidence is evolution of revisions for which an early version of this table that will eventually be a vast poll I have not filled out all the options, since I did everything from the position of the hacker, free software user.

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Consider instead of the dictionary the definition of impedance found in Grob Basic Electronics, the term impedance, with the symbol Z, specifies an opposition to current that can include resistance, inductance, and capacitance (254). At the graduate level of the course, go beyond Ohmƒs Law to discuss impedance, continuing reading Grob:

Any transmission line has a constant value of impedance across the two conductors that is characteristic of the line, depending on the spacing, size of the conductors, and the insulation between the conductors. This value is specified as the characteristic impedance, with the symbol Zo, for that type of transmission line. (254)

How do the network analogy metaphors relate <preposition> human networks - do psychoanalytic theories fantasmatically project the electrical, or vice versa? - is a question arising when questioning informed by texts and technology theorists like Ulmer, Rice, Manovich, Landow, and others, studied in conjunction with technology theorists like von Neumann, Maner, Stallman, Torvalds, and others, which may include computer programs and system integration representations.

Think about the importance of having control over the down and up arrows when displaying self refreshing (via HTTP redirection) web pages. This question cannot be well thought without knowledge of not just HTTP but also the programmable possibilities involving control over down and up arrow keys via a radio frequency electronic device. The graduate version involves but is also much more complex than the undergraduate version, both passing through introductory texts from various other disciplines. The latter reads pages 250 through 254 of Grob Basic Electronics concerning conductors, whereas the graduate is expected to have read the whole textbook of this other discipline of electronic computer technology (ECT), so that a discussion of impedance (Z) in terms of resistance, capacitance, and inductance makes sense. This is the mundane, collective knowledge shunned (shunted away) by the lure of pleasurable self knowledge (revealing Zizekƒs unknown knows) of Ulmerƒs approach.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK bork-journal 20101125 20101125 0 -2+ journal_2010.html
Create a program that displays a timeline from a database of platforms (computer systems, for example ƒthe Apple twoƒ), texts (OEM manuals, books, magazines, for example The Applesoft Tutorial), and meta-texts (history, theory, research, for example Freiberger and Swain, Turkle, Mayer). Hyperlinks in this diagram go to notes from my reading of meta-texts and scans of pages of bundled texts.

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Under this interpretation, sounds and visual images are generated by computer programs processing them in virtual realities reach in Bogost unit operations. The operations are the procedural operations upon source data such as the Greek of symposium enfolding phaedrus text in its own by a code. The technological unconscious of media machines can be more usefully operated upon by (discovered) by other computer systems as part of their shared experience in virtual realities along with the humans in their virtual realities. At this point of the virtual all types are indistinguishable, you and I do not know if we are computers or beings thinking. Virtual virtual reality operates upon all operators, computer and human. How Alcibiades revealed the computer Socrates used can be deduced from this virtual reality PHI. Huge thunderstorm. The that question asked last year was real to contextualize the 1985 PHI "Computer User Manuals in Print: Do They Have a Future?" whereas today it falls under simulacra representable by machines that produce the virtual realities unimaginable to literacy, the boundaries of reverse remediation. Reaching back nearly ten years for the perfect connection between the lesson theme for learning how computers work and the day. This one should go in the public project journal that for now will be stored as a GPL licensed MySQL database table dump. The project home page is generated daily during the course of the dissertation computation. Quick linking OƒGorman hypericonomy to Bogost unit operations with computation metaphor of hyperlinks and APIs. Nearly twenty years ago the metaphor was quantifying over verbs as if operators to make these computational functions. No surprise that the Symposium is also invoked in that text. An abrasive presentation on the encapsulating function of scholarly Latin that Ong credits for the great intellectual expansion literacy facilitated as an attack on open source, and here is sample Latin in the old notes following this linkage between philosophy, virtual reality, computation, and the Symposium, one of my favorite quotes from Aquinas. Stroustrop meets Heidegger & Lacan. Make it somewhat hard to get to even though it is free, so that it cannot simply be scanned by simply accessing the project web page. The software has to be compiled and its output depends upon the day of the year it is executed. Ong on learned languages provides the basis for an argument that extends into programming languages and technological systems thinking (that Bogost may dislike).

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Borking public radio is latching onto a significant story that can be told multiple times and not obsolescing or otherwise degrading over the expected range of iterations or process cycles. For machine operations it is not inconceivable to have millions of iterations, whereas humans set their limits long times ago unless that threshold is also mutable in synergetic multiple process distributed control systems.

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Traumatic kernels emerge where there is a synthesis of human and machine languages in audiovisual fields. What machines think can only be fantasized by humans. The model of hypomnesis, reminders to oneself, only approximates the efficacy of executing a stored program. Ancient examples of computing in Cicero Latin subducted into GPL as original flossification parachutes like trauma in dumb humans unable to perform such high speed high specificity electronic computations natural to digital operations.

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Repeating articulation of basic hypothesis realize situation of WALL-E humans strongly resembles extreme old age and what will become future virtual realities in which humans flourishing at turn of twenty first century or PHI in generic similar across all programming languages and operating environments PHI 64-bit UNIX time data type instance. If I do not enter it now, it may get repeated in later years.

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All Americans have to do is quickly think the German thought and then they can continue within the cacophony of the bazaar which crosses noisy call center business settings that otherwise embody cathedral aspects of ontological character. You can pick up the procedural rhetoric by one thousand unit of first section demonstrating operation of pre and post quotation tapoc text generation PHI transitioning from flossification via subsumption of public domain to highly engineered leveraging of working code self programming as a place to do philosophy. Radio story says the most evil adult in the world is the one who never passed age two. Recall that Suchman and others repeat as matter of fact that no operating artificial intelligence has the sense of a five year old human. Next step is seeing need to enhance the next sequential unit no matter its span of complexity, taken together all at once diachronies of layers in synchrony all conspiring to be reality. Computing dirty bits through poller is radical thought technological orders of magnitude bounds away from punch card thoughts mit hollerith Lochkarten.

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It is the day that computing took over my mind; you go around thinking the default that is me your cybernetic overall mind PHI. So, thatƒs where we come out of computing, yes it becomes tests of strength in quality assurance or other systems PHI questions. In programmed visions the projections are visual audio tactile stimulating and being generated in real time by our floss software tapoc sweeping programming languages and entire open source communities into its swirling operation. What I have to do, something else in addition to all my other tasks, the multiprocessing thinker must meditate evaluate whether to care, capture, further judge, the one more text to consider preventing researcher from performing writing tasks. What would it mean to seriously entertain the question whether the government what, what did I just think, something about the necessity of establishing permanent residential address in all systems simultaneously being at least two cycles. How is batch processing like the rail system garners different responses depending on whether you responders live near tracks, but the thought I had was that traffic was optimized for a particular risk range, that is, not too many more weekend activity after commencing commuter rail system in the works for the past years.

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The dreams of AI endless life are autoethnographies of virtual beings that may include humans but are mostly distributed field effect environmental machines. Think autoethnography of human programmers over certain time periods, forcing consideration of the machinic in order to assign an objective to their personal programming work. Why is this different from the philosophical field generated by writing that has been mouldering and pondered for millennia? Call it imagining AI autoethnography: the humans have to think about how the machines work in order to make sense of the source code constituting a nontrivial part of such discourse networks.

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Does use of gendered abstract noun man fail to properly consider role of women in programming, the true long hairs, or does Brooks innocently equivocate and intend to include all humans? (80) The producer may be boss, the director his right-hand man.
(81) The job done least well by project managers is to utilize the technical genius who is not strong on management talent.

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Compare value of managerial documents to Caesear notebooks used by Antony. (111) Finally, a managerƒs documents give him a data base ad checklists.
(112) If their comprehensive and critical nature is recognized in the beginning, the manager can approach them as friendly tools rather than annoying busywork.

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Automatic translation projects of 1950s may have continued efforts from Nuremberg trials, a global show before the Internet: yes we could if so perverted imagine such games and virtual realities. (xviii) Hermeneutic informatics hinges on the Alpac Report (Washington, DC, 1966) and, now, this perspective is perhaps awaiting its own globalization. . . . Shortly afterwards, in the early 1950s, if I am correct, the move toward automatic translation started. The magazine MT Mechanical Translation was started at MIT, launched, I think, by Professor Billy Locke and others.

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Does it matter that Bush uses the term girls to refer to low level knowledge workers multiple times, and Licklider and Engelbart use the masculine to refer to high level knowledge workers? (41) They will be controlled by a control card or film, they will select their own data and manipulate it in accordance with the instructions thus inserted, they will perform complex arithmetical computations at exceedingly high speeds, and they will record results in such form as to be readily available for distribution or for later further manipulations.

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Hopper story complicates feminist readings. (34) To put Hopper and the ENIAC girls together is to erase the difference between Hopper, a singular hero who always defined herself as a mathematician, and nameless disappearing computer operators. It is also to deny personal history: Hopper, a social conservative from a privileged background, stated many times that she was not a feminist, and Hopperƒs stances could be perceived as antifeminist (while the highest-ranking female officer in the Navy, she argued that women were incapable of serving in combat duty). Not accidentally, Hopperƒs dream, her drive for automatic computing, was to put the programmer inside the computer and thus to rehumanize the mathmatician: pseudocode was to free the mathematician and her brain from the shackles of programming.

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Inherent violence of capitalism likened to Zizek on unwritten laws in Mutiny on the Bounty; rest of content moved to journal. (7) And yet those auspices need no interpretation; for who does not know that, when Jupiter is thundering, no transaction with the people can legally be carried out?
(8) Can these laws of yours be in force without the destruction of all other laws?

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Audacity of producing in public a private letter. (7) For what man, having only a slight knowledge of the customs of gentlemen, because of some offense in the meantime, ever produced in public a letter written to him by a friend and openly quoted it? What is this but to eradicate from life lifeƒs social intercourse, to eradicate the communion of friends in absence? How many jokes in letters which, if published, seem jejune! How many serious thoughts which nevertheless should in no way be divulged!

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Is the point that Antonius has scientam quaestuosam for handwriting an accusation, an insult, or what? (8-9) But what reply would you make, pray, were I to deny I had ever written that letter to you? By what witness would you convict me? By handwriting? Of which you have a profitable knowledge [scientam quaestuosam]. How could you? It is in the hand of a secretary [librarii manu]. Here I envy your teacher who for so great a fee--its amount I will reveal presently--teaches you to have no sense.

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Meditations on imperitos, clowns and rustics as unthought Roman philosophy. (22) And Saxa and Cafo are tampering with ignorant men, being clowns and rustics themselves, who have never seen, and do not wish to see, the State established, men who defend the acts, not of Caesar, but of Antonius, whom the unlimited possession of Campanian land has seduced, though I much wonder that they are not ashamed of it when they see they have mimes, male and female, as neighbors.

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Looking back on this again the next day, I notice the imperitos have been seduced by the unlimited frontier, not (as I had assumed at first, not reading or thinking very carefully about it) Antonius. (22) And Saxa and Cafo are tampering with ignorant men, being clowns and rustics themselves, who have never seen, and do not wish to see, the State established, men who defend the acts, not of Caesar, but of Antonius, whom the unlimited possession of Campanian land has seduced, though I much wonder that they are not ashamed of it when they see they have mimes, male and female, as neighbors.

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Sounds like the personification of Species-being: I keep making discoveries when I go to read a Roman text, and have come to the conclusion that most Roman philosophy remains to this moment unthought; following the fantasized, ideal form of the Marxist dialectic, I begin first with my own particular case (see journal). (118-119) Aye, and even my body will I gladly offer if the liberty of the State can be realized by my death, so that the anguish of the Roman people may some time bring to birth that which it has so long travailed. For if nearly twenty years ago in this very temple I said that death could come untimely to a consular, with how much greater truth I shall say it in old age! By me indeed, Conscript Fathers, death is even to be wished for, now that the honors are past. These two things only I pray for; one, that in my death I may leave the Roman people free--than this no greater gift can be given me by the immortal Gods--the other, that each manƒs fortune may be according to his deserts toward the State.

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Imagine virtual subjects untroubled by gender: is it possible, or even good to do so, when always divided and contradicted subject seems the norm when built of heterogeneous IT systems, even under the overdetermining sway of media convergence. (2) a
subject constituted in gender, to be sure, though not by sexual difference alone, but rather across languages and cultural representations; a subject en-gendered in the experiencing of race and class, as well as sexual, relations: a subject, therefore, not unified but rather multiple, and not so much divided as contradicted.

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Foucault flaw of not accounting for differential solicitation of male and female subjects when considering sexuality could be applied to areas beyond gender, as Manovich does approaching cultural media from non-programmer position. (3) Like sexuality, we might then say, gender is not a property of bodies or something originally existent in human beings, but the set of effects produced in bodies, behaviors, and social relations, in Foucaultƒs words, by the deployment of a complex political technology. But . . . his critical understanding of the technology of sex did not take into account its differential solicitation of male and female subjects, and by ignoring the conflicting investments of men and women in the discourses and practices of sexuality, Foucaultƒs theory, in fact, excludes, though it does not preclude, the consideration of gender.

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What are the male narratives of gender in my field? (26) What I mean, instead, is a movement from the space represented by/in a representation, by/in a discourse, by/in a sex-gender system, to the space not represented yet implied (unseen) in them.

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Antisthenes ethic of learning how to get rid of having anything to unlearn leads to word study of periareo, apomanthano, dedisco. (7) Being asked what learning is the most necessary, he replied, "How to get rid of having anything to
unlearn.

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Five years of silent listening to discourses without seeing Pythagoras, then allowed to admittance to his house after passing examination. (10) For five whole years they had to keep silence, merely listening to his discourses without seeing him [because he lectured at night], until they passed an examination, and thenceforward they were admitted to his house and allowed to see him.

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First book with diagrams published by Anaxagoras. (11) Anaxagoras was also the first to publish a book with diagrams.

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Zeno hid money in a hollow lid to provide for Crates. (12) He made a
hollow lid for a flask and used to carry about money in it, in order that there might be provision at hand for the necessities of his master Crates.

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Natural philosophy ended to become physics, Archelaus the physicist, when Socrates introduced ethics. (16) He was called the physicist inasmuch as with him natural philosophy came to an end, as soon as Socrates had introduced ethics.

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Interesting, unfamiliar claims about Socrates could ground new myths. (18) It was thought that he helped Euripides to make his plays;
(20) Again, he was the first who discoursed on the conduct of life, and the first philosopher who was tried and put to death. Aristoxenus, the son of Spintharus, says of him that he made money; he would at all events invest sums, collect the interest accruing, and then, when this was expended, put out the principal again.
(26) Aristotle states that he married two wives: his first was Xanthippe, by whom he had a son, Lamprocles; his second wife was Myrto, the daughter of Aristides the Just, whom he took without a dowry. By her he had Sophroniscus and Menexenus. Others make Myrto his first wife; while some writers, including Satyrus and Hieronymus of Rhodes, affirm that they were both his wives at the same time. For they say that the Athenians were short of men and, wishing to increase the population, passed a decree permitting a citizen to marry one Athenian woman and have children by another; and that Socrates accordingly did so.
(30) Glauconides demanded that he should be acquired for the state as if he were some pheasant or peacock.
(32) Moreover, in his old age he learnt to play the lyre, declaring that he saw no absurdity in learning a new accomplishment. As Xenophon relates in the Symposium, it was his regular habit to dance, thinking that such exercise helped to keep the body in good condition.
(32) He held that geometry should be studied to the point at which a man is able to measure the land which he acquires or parts with.
(34) He would say that the rest of the world lived to eat, while he himself ate to live.

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Claim that Plato was first to study significance of grammar. (25) He was also the first philosopher who controverted the speech of Lysias, the son of Cephalus, which he has set out word for word in the Phaedrus, and the first to study the significance of grammar.

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I spend a lot of time thinking, do we, or do we not, assume without a further consideration that this Epicurus is not the one mentioned by Plato in Symposium? (26) Epicurus was a most prolific author and eclipsed all before him in the number of his writings: for they amount to about three hundred rolls, and contain not a single citation from other authors; it is Epicurus himself who speaks throughout.

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Claim that Socrates heard Plato read the Lysis and called out his fabrication. (35) They say that, on hearing Plato read the Lysis, Socrates exclaimed, "By Heracles, what a number of lies this young man is telling about me!

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Dictionary of Men of the Same Name now seems strange, disciplined as we are by precise identificatory regimes. (38) There have lived five other men who bore the name of Thales, as enumerated by Demetrius of Magnesia in his Dictionary of Men of the Same Name.

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Its lack of appreciation in ancient philosophy attributed to its haphazard composition, resembling internet search results. (38)

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Pythagoras murdered when he would not cross a bean field to escape jealous crowd who had set his house on fire. (39) Pythagoras met his death in this wise. As he sat one day among his acquaintances at the house of Milo, it chanced that the house was set ablaze out of jealousy by one of the people who were not accounted worthy of admittance to his presence, though some say it was the work of the inhabitants of Croton anxious to safeguard themselves against the setting-up of a tyranny. Pythagoras was caught as he tried to escape; he got as far as a certain field of beans, where he stopped, saying he would be captured rather than cross it, and be killed rather than prate about his doctrines; and so his pursuers cut his throat.

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Xenophon received a grant to work on his histories. (52) Megabyzus having arrived to attend the festival, Xenophon received from him the deposit of money and bought and dedicated to the goddess an estate with a river running through, which bears the same name Selinus as the river at Ephesus. And from the time onward he hunted, entertained his friends, and worked at his histories without interruption.

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Example of BLITURI as unintelligible. (57) There is a difference between voice and speech; because, while voice may include mere noise, speech is always articulate. Speech again differs from a sentence or statement, because the latter always signifies something, whereas a spoken word, as for example [
BLIƒTURI], may be unintelligible--which a sentence never is. And to frame a sentence is more than mere utterance, for while vocal sounds are uttered, things are meant, that is, are matters of discourse.

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If Socrates wrote nothing, how did Aeschines get them from Xanthippe? (60) It was said maliciously--by Menedemus of Eretria in particular--that most of the dialogues which Aeschines passed off as his own were really dialogues of Socrates obtained by him from Xanthippe.

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Plato deliberately employed terms and critical marks to make his system less intelligible to the ignorant, and charging a fee to see the marked up writings. (65-66) And since certain
critical marks [ ] are affixed to his works let us now say a word about these. The cross X is taken to indicate peculiar expressions and figures of speech, and generally any idiom of Platonic usage; the diple (>) calls attention to doctrines and opinions characteristic of Plato; the dotted cross (..) denotes select passages and beauties of style; the dotted diple (..) editorsƒ corrections of the text; the dotted obelus ( ) passages suspected without reason; the dotten antisigma (..) repetitions and proposals for transpositions; the ceraunium the philosophical school; the asterisk (*) an agreement of doctrine; the obelus (-) a spurious passage. So much for the critical marks and his writings in general. As Antigonus of Carystus says in his Life of Zeno, when the writings were first edited with critical marks, their possessors charged a certain fee to anyone who wished to consult them.
(note on diple: "A wedge-shaped mark >, used in early papyri to denote a fresh paragraph.

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Diogenes rubbing the belly: a Socrates gone mad. (69) Behaving indecently in public, he wished "it were as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly.

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Symbolic argument by Zeno using replacement of semantic entities with arbitrary symbols. (77)
Symbolical argument is a combination of full argument and mood; e.g. "If Plato is alive, he breathes; but the first is true, therefore the second is true." This mode of argument was introduced in order that when dealing with long complex arguments we should not have to repeat the minor premise, if it be long, and then state the conclusion, but may arrive at the conclusion as concisely as possible: if A, then B.

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First mechanical computations by Archytas. (83) He was the first to bring
mechanics to a system by applying mathematical principles; he also first employed mechanical motion in a geometrical construction, namely, when he tried, by means of a section of a half-cylinder, to find two mean proportionals in order to duplicate the cube.

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Written and unwritten law noted by Plato crucially important to Zizek. (86) There are two divisions of law, the one written and the other unwritten. Written law is that under which we live in different cities, but that which has arisen out of custom is called unwritten law []; for instance, not to appear in the market-place undressed or in womenƒs attire. There is no statute forbidding this, but nevertheless we abstain from such conduct because it is prohibited by an unwritten law.

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Something could be said about the individual name of Crates: the Greek word refers to having power, which might include material provision; the latter, we learn from the Life of Zeno, was guaranteed in part by another. (88)

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This story proves that Crates considered applied philosophy appropriate for his own children, instead of philosophy itself, as a publicly acknowledged occupation, for we assume they became philosophers but practiced other arts and crafts to the point of proving themselves ordinary men, therefore holding on to the money, probably so they could afford the best memory technologies/computers possible. (88) Demetrius of Magnesia tells a story that he entrusted a banker with a sum of money on condition that, if his sons proved ordinary men he was to pay it to them, but, if they became philosophers, then to distribute it among the people: for his sons would need nothing, if they took to philosophy.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers (136) 20130915g 0 -1+ progress/1996/07/notes_for_diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers.html
Holding firmly to a doctrine equivalent to writing and composing things based on statement about Menedemus. (136) Antigonus of Carystus asserts that he never wrote or composed anything, and so never held firmly by any doctrine.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers (174) 20130915o 0 -1+ progress/1996/07/notes_for_diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers.html
Cleanthes wrote Zeno lectures on oyster shells and oxen bones lacking money to buy paper. (174) We are told that he
wrote down Zenoƒs lectures on oyster-shells and the blade-bones of oxen through lack of money to buy paper [CHARTIƒA].

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers (180) 20130915p 0 -4+ progress/1996/07/notes_for_diogenes_laertius-lives_of_eminent_philosophers.html
Chrysippus introduced a kind of criticism and interpretive methodology that is implicit in all scientific scholarship but seldom (for copyright reasons) fully implemented, copying entire works of others into ones own notes in order to study them. (180) He had abundance of matter, but in style he was not successful. In industry he surpassed every one, as the list of his writings shows; for there are more than 705 of them. He increased their number by arguing repeatedly on the same subject, setting down anything that occurred to him, making many corrections and citing numerous authorities. So much so that in one of his treatises he copied out nearly the whole of Euripidesƒ Medea, and some one who had taken up the volume, being asked what he was reading, replied, "The Medea of Chrysippus.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK freiberger_and_swaine-fire_in_the_valley (424) 20111012 5 -2+ progress/2001/02/notes_for_freiberger_and_swaine-fire_in_the_valley.html
What a pompous prediction to think this book would still be read decades later. (424)
Probably by some bright young hacker.
She may even be reading this book right now.

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Still appropriate as this edition is deprecated allowing to become static; include this text in a course syllabus. (424)

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK golumbia-cultural_logic_of_computation (225) 20130820b 0 -10+ progress/2013/08/notes_for_golumbia-cultural_logic_of_computation.html
Final questions for a philosophy of computing similar to those reached by Weizenbaum. (225) they seem to stand in for a series of questions that are much more difficult to ask, and whose answers seem much more difficult to envision:
should computers be used for everything of which they are capable? . . . Does the fact that computers provide us with a significant pleasure of mastery license their use for thing we must master? . . . If we could show, as I have suggested here is plausible, that the relationship between individuals (and institutions) and computers produces problematic psychological and/or ideological formations, what correctives might we develop to these formations?
(225) we need to question with particular intensity whether that presumption [that everything is moving toward a Utopian future] is rooted in careful observation of social realities, or instead in ideological formations that propel us to overlook the material conditions of the world we hope to better.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK hafner_lyon-where_wizards_stay_up_late (265) 20130303b 0 -3+ progress/2013/02/notes_for_hafner_lyon-where_wizards_stay_up_late.html
Are there ancient texts attesting to similar fortunate positions, such as certain works of Plato that feature successful writers? (265) Heart ended on a high note. Only a small fraction of the technically trained population get a shot at riding a technological rocket, and then get to see that revolution change the world. The networking revolution, Heart said, would rank among a small number of the most important technological changes of the century.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK hayles-my_mother_was_a_computer (240) 20131001 0 -1+ progress/2011/12/notes_for_hayles-my_mother_was_a_computer.html
What about transformations of literacy and creativity, such as evaluating the future of Caprica where the virtual world constituted indirectly from lifetime accrual by technological nonconscious? (240) It seems certain that the next century will see increasing convergences between humans and intelligent machines through such developments as implants, pervasive computing, robots with ever more sophisticated sensors and actuators, quantum computing, and the increasing convergence of biology and computation through nanotechnology and other means.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK heidegger-introduction_to_metaphysics (109) 20131022b 0 -1+ progress/1996/05/notes_for_heidegger-introduction_to_metaphysics.html
So what do we make of Socrates ethic: a distractedness, or a ruling-by-the-rule-of-the-good-and-possible? (109) In confronting the logos, men are uncomprehending (axynetoi)--they do not comprehend the logos.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK heidegger-introduction_to_metaphysics (133) 20131022d 0 -2+ progress/1996/05/notes_for_heidegger-introduction_to_metaphysics.html
Death stopped Socrates, who never wrote anything as was therefore the purest; all the rest its anticipation drove to compose productions calculated to rouse interest in the future, as Nietzsche said, now let us create the being who is not superfluous. (133) All violence shatters against one thing. That is death.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK iser-how_to_do_theory (45-46) 20130929m 0 -8+ progress/2011/08/notes_for_iser-how_to_do_theory.html
An opportunity to delve into treasury of ancient texts already suitable for philosophical fossification, which can only truly happen after all copyrights expire, such as Gombrich quotations from Philostratus in context of schema and correction. (45-46) Perception is a performative process, the outcome of which is a percept created by the perceiver. This basic conception of gestalt psychology provides the
heuristics for Ernst H. Gombrichƒs (1909-2001) theory of the fine arts, as expounded in Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Representation, Gombrich contends, can no longer be conceived as mimesis in the Aristotelian sense of the term, i.e., as imitation of what is given, because representation is a form of production not to be derived from imitation. Gombrich illuminates the thrust of his argument by quoting a passage from Philostratusƒs life of the Pythagorean philosopher Appollonius of Tyana, who probed much more deeply into the nature of mimesis than Plato or Aristotle.
(46) What is to be represented is not objects so much as conditions of perception, so that natural phenomena can be viewed in the manner intended by the artist.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK kittler-draculas_legacy (59) 20131001i 0 -6+ progress/2012/05/notes_for_kittler-draculas_legacy.html
Do this interpretation of Dracula story with American Socrates and Alcibiades. (59) The traitor shared different, although not very different, interests with Abraham ( Bram ) Stoker, with whom he met on several occasions in Londonƒs Lyceum Club. . . . Stoker simply needed to combine the historical and the legendary, the prince and the vampire, in order to start work on a novel. Arminius Vambery had made the vampire Dracula possible.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK kittler-gramophone_film_typewriter (8) 20131103b 0 -2+ progress/2011/09/notes_for_kittler-gramophone_film_typewriter.html
According to footnote, Nietzsche translation on Delphic oracle to Zeno; compare to my finding in DL. (8) When the Stoic philosopher Zeno asked the oracle at Delphi how he should best lead his life, he was given the answer that he should mate with the dead. He understood this to mean that he should
read the ancients.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK mcgann-radiant_textuality (224) 20131008l 0 -3+ progress/2012/02/notes_for_mcgann-radiant_textuality.html
Besides the obvious exemplar of the Symposium, whose ensoniment project I have already written substantially, a version repeating the Macy conferences and other critical periods in intellectual history is a holodeck extension of his idea that could become the brainy virtual realities into which our humanity eventually perishes, raising dialogue to a higher power. (224) The dialogues as originally written and presented did not require the presence of others-- the real presence, as Christian theology puts the matter. By contrast, The Ivanhoe Game simply cannot be played alone.
(224) Considered as a critical tool in this context, game is dialogue raised to a higher power.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK misa-leonardo_to_the_internet (14) 20131006i 0 -1+ progress/2011/06/notes_for_misa-leonardo_to_the_internet.html
Throwing a bone to feminists and liberal studies by mentioning Durer object? (14) Durerƒs most famous object, illustrating his 1525 treatise on geometry and perspective and reproduced widely ever since, was a naked woman on her back, suggesting that perspective was not merely about accurately representing the world but about giving the (male) artist power over it.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK neel-plato_derrida_writing (210) 20131009p 0 -6+ progress/2009/02/notes_for_neel-plato_derrida_writing.html
Unthought ancient Greek philosophy in Protogoras and Gorgias. (210) In short, the purpose of this book (however infra dig it may be to write a book with so banal a thing as a purpose) is to argue that the teaching of writing should help students learn to seek strong discourse. . . . Our true theoretical source is Derridaƒs predecessors, those voices that Platonism and the Western quest for Truth have kept silent all these years, the voices of Protagoras and Gorgias. Perhaps more to the point, Derrida remains necessary only as long as someone tries to play the role of philosopher-king, the know-it-all who has seen the True and come to tell use about it.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (313) 20130909 0 -2+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Caesar: important notes about ancient note taking practices, dictating letters on horseback, giving directions to multiple note takers, using ciphers. (313) And in this war he disciplined himself so far as to be
able to dictate letters from on horseback, and to give directions to two who took notes at the same time or, as Oppius says, to more. And it is thought that he was the first who contrived means for communicating with friends by cipher, when either press of business, or the large extent of the city, left him no time for a personal conference about matters that required dispatch.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (325-326) 19960429 0 -7+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Caesar: translation includes many references to thinking, computing, calculation in reaching decision to cross Rubicon; long notes about incestuous dream and then Demosthenes oratory style moved to journal. (325-326) When he came to the river Rubicon, which parts Gaul within the Alps from the rest of Italy,
his thought began to work, now he was just entering upon the danger, and he wavered much in his mind when he considered the greatness of the enterprise into which he was throwing himself. He checked his course and ordered a halt, while he revolved with himself, and often changed his opinion one way and the other, without speaking a word. This was when his purposes fluctuated most; presently he also discussed the matter with his friends who were about him (of which number Asinius Pollio was one), computing how many calamities his passing that river would bring upon mankind, and what a relation of it would be transmitted to posterity. At last, in a sort of passion, casting aside calculation, and abandoning himself to what might come, and using the proveb frequently in their mouths who enter upon dnagerous and bold attempts, The die is cast, with these words he took the river. Once over, he used all expedition possible, and before it was day reached Ariminum and took it. It is said that the night before he passed the river he had an impious dream, that he was unnaturally familiar with his own mother.
(326-327) Yet still Pompey at that time had more forces than Caesar; but he was not permitted to pursue his own thoughts, but, being disturbed with false reports and alarms, as if the enemy was close hupon him and carrying all before him, he gave way and let himself be borne down by the general cry.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (336) 20131007 0 -2+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Caesar spoke in Latin and wrote in Greek. (336) Caesar, when he came to view Pompey s camp, and saw some of his opponents dead upon the ground, others dying, said, with a groan, This they would have; they brought me to this necessity. I, Caius Caesar, after succeeding in so many wars, had been condemned had I dismissed my army.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (344) 20131107 0 -8+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Caesar reformation of calendar prelude to calculation of Easter day, for which mobilization of philosophers and mathematicians occurred. (344) These things were designed without being carried into effect, but his
reformation of the calendar in order to rectify the irregularity of time was not only projected with great scientific ingenuity, but was brought to its completion, and proved of very great use. . . . only the priests could say the time, and they, at their pleasure, without giving any notice, slipped in the intercalary month, which they call Mercedonius.
(345) Caesar called in the best
philosophers and mathematicians of his time to settle the point, and out of the systems he had before him formed a new and more exact method of correcting the calendar, which the Romans use to this day, and seem to succeed better than any nation in avoiding the errors occasioned by the inequality of the cycles. Yet even this gave offence to those who looked with an evil eye on his position, and felt oppressed by his power. Cicero the orator, when some one in his company chanced to say the next morning Lyra would rise, replied, Yes, in accordance with the edict, as if even this were a matter of compulsion.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (385) 20131107a 0 -1+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: got advice from the Delphic oracle to make his own genius and not public opinion the guide of his life, similar to Socrates listening to his divine sign, and not to take on the complexion of the dead. (385) And now when Cicero, full of expectation, was again bent upon politcal affairs, a certain oracle blunted the edge of his inclination; for consulting the god of Delphi how he should attain most glory, the Phythoness answered, by making his own genius and not the opinion of the people the guide of his life; and therefore at first he passed his time in Rome cautiously, and was very backward in pretending to public offices, so that he was at that time in lttle esteem, and had got the names, so readily given by low and ignorant people in Rome, of Greek and Scholar.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (386) 19961103 0 -2+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: learned civic information with the detail artificers knew their instruments and materials. (386) On beginning to apply himself more resolutely to public business, he remarked it as an unreasonable and absurd thing that artificers, using vessels and instruments inanimate, should know the name, place, and use of every one of them, and yet the statesman, whose
instruments for carrying out public measures are men, should be negligent and careless in the knowledge of persons. And so he not only acquainted himself with the names, but also knew the particular place where every one of the more eminent citizens dwelt, what lands he possessed, the friends he made use of, and those that were of his neighborhood, and when he travelled on any road in Italy, he could readily name and show the estates and seats of his friends and acquaintance.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (386) 20131107d 0 -2+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: learned civic information with the detail artificers knew their instruments and materials. (386) On beginning to apply himself more resolutely to public business, he remarked it as an unreasonable and absurd thing that artificers, using vessels and instruments inanimate, should know the name, place, and use of every one of them, and yet the statesman, whose
instruments for carrying out public measures are men, should be negligent and careless in the knowledge of persons. And so he not only acquainted himself with the names, but also knew the particular place where every one of the more eminent citizens dwelt, what lands he possessed, the friends he made use of, and those that were of his neighborhood, and when he travelled on any road in Italy, he could readily name and show the estates and seats of his friends and acquaintance.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (388-389) 20131007b 0 -6+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: rather than an imbalance of wealth between rich and poor, a sort of middle class arose from all the expenditures. (388-389) But there were some that endeavored to alter and subvert the whole present state of affairs, not from any good motives, but for their own private gain; and Pompey being at this time employed in the wars with the kings of Pontus and Armenia, there was no sufficient force at Rome to suppress any attempts at a revolution. These people had for their head a man of bold, daring, and restless character, Lucius Catiline, who was accused, besides other great offenses, of deflowering his virgin daughter, and killing his own brother; for which latter crime,
fearing to be prosecuted at law, he persuaded Sylla to set him down, as though he were yet alive, amongst those that were to be put to death by proscription. This man the profligate citizens choosing for their captain, gave faith to one another, amongst other pledges, by scarificing a man, and eating of his flesh; and a great part of the young men of the city were corrupted by him, he providing for every one pleasures, drink, and women, and profusely supplying the expense of these debauches. Etruria, moreover, had all been excited to revolt, as well as a great part of Gaul within the Alps. But Rome itself was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of the highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (399) 20131007c 0 -1+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: compare to Socrates pissing off the jury in Xenophon account. (399) At this time, therefore, his authority was very great in the city; but he created himself much envy, and offended very many, not by any evil action, but because he was always lauding and magnifying himself.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (400) 20131007e 0 -3+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: only two Greek epistles written in anger. (400) There are letters extant from Cicero to Herodes, and others to his son, in which he recommends the study of philosophy under Cratippus. There is one in which he blames Gorgias, the rhetorician, for enticing his son into luxury and drinking, and, therefore, forbids him his company. And this, and one other to Pelops, the Byzantine, are
the only two of his Greek epistles which seem to be written in anger.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (413) 20110324 0 -4+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: remember what other word he coined. (413) Henceforth, the commonwealth being changed into a monarchy, Cicero withdrew himself from public affairs, and employed his leisure in instructing those young men that would, in philosophy; and by the near intercourse he thus had with some of the noblest and highest in rank, he again began to possess great influence in the city.
The work and object to which he set himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the Roman idiom. For he it was, as it is said, who first or principally gave Latin names to phantasia, syncatathesis, epokhe, catalepsis, atamon, ameres, kenon, and other such technical terms, which, either by metaphor or other means of accommodation, he succeeded in making intelligible and expressible to the Romans. For his recreation, he exercised his dexterity in poetry, and when he was set to it would make five hundred verses in a night.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (413) 20131107b 0 -4+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: translate philosophical dialogues, logical, physical and technical terms into Roman idiom. (413) Henceforth, the commonwealth being changed into a monarchy, Cicero withdrew himself from public affairs, and employed his leisure in instructing those young men that would, in philosophy; and by the near intercourse he thus had with some of the noblest and highest in rank, he again began to possess great influence in the city.
The work and object to which he set himself was to compose and translate philosophical dialogues and to render logical and physical terms into the Roman idiom. For he it was, as it is said, who first or principally gave Latin names to phantasia, syncatathesis, epokhe, catalepsis, atamon, ameres, kenon, and other such technical terms, which, either by metaphor or other means of accommodation, he succeeded in making intelligible and expressible to the Romans. For his recreation, he exercised his dexterity in poetry, and when he was set to it would make five hundred verses in a night.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (413-414) 20131107e 0 -1+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: had design to write history of his country, as Plutarch does here with his Lives? (413-414) He had a design, it is said, of writing the history of his country, combining with it much of that of Greece, and incorporating in it all the stories and legends of the past that he had collected.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (417-418) 20131007f 0 -11+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: reference to division of government by Antony like property and schedule of those to be put to death; remember what became of the two consuls. (417-418)
And now, more than at any other time, Cicero let himself be carried away and deceived, though an old man, by the persuasion of a boy. He joined him in soliciting votes, and procured the good-will of the senate, not without blame at the time on the part of his friends; and he, too, soon enough after, saw that he had ruined himself, and betrayed the liberty of his country. For the young man, once established, and possessed of the office of consul, bade Cicero farewell; and, reconciling himself to Antony and Lepidus, joined his power with theirs, and divided the government, like a piece of property, with them. Thus united, they made a schedule of above two persons who were to be put to death. But the greatest contention in all their debates was on the question of Cicero s case. Antony would come to no conditions, unless he should be the first man to be killed. Lepidus held with Antony, and Caesar opposed them both. They met secretly and by themselves, for three days together, near the town of Bononia. The spot was not far from the camp, with a river surrounding it. Caesar, it is said, contended earnestly for Cicero the first two days; but on the third day he yielded, and gave him up. The terms of their mutual concessions were these: that Caesar should desert Cicero, Lepidus his brother Paulus, and Antony, Lucius Caesar, his uncle by his mother s side.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (420) 20131007i 0 -5+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Cicero: Antony has his head and hands cut off for writing Philippics. (420) Herennius cut off his head, and, by Antony s command, his hands also, by which his Philippics were written; for so Cicero styled those orations he wrote against Antony, and so they are called to this day.
(420) When these members of Cicero were brought to Rome, Antony was holding an assembly for the choice of public officers; and when he heard it, and saw them, he cried out, Now let there be an end of our proscriptions. He commanded his head and hands to be fastened up over the rostra, where the orators spoke; a sight which the Roman people suddered to behold, and they believed they saw there, not the face of Cicero, but
the image of Antony s own soul. And yet amidst these actions he did justice in one thing, by delivering up Philologus [an emancipated slave of Quintus educated by Cicero in the liberal arts and sciences] to Pomponia, the wife of Quintus; who, having got his body into her power, besides other grievous punishments, made him cut off his own flesh by pieces, and roast and eat it; for so some writers have related. But Tiro, Cicero s emancipated slave, has not so much as mentioned the treachery of Philologus.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (431) 20131007g 0 -5+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Antony: possession of papers of Caesar key to success of power usurpation. (431) Calpurnia, Caesar s wife, lodged with him the best part of the property to the value of four thousand talents; he got also into his hands
all Caesar s papers wherein were contained journals of all he had done, and draughts of what he designed to do, which Antony made good use of. . . . In short, Antony s behavior in Rome was very absolute, he himself being consul and his two brothers in great place; Caius, the one, being praetor, and Lucius, the other, tribune of the people.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (434) 20131107c 0 -9+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Antony: met with Caesar and Lepidus for conference to determine division of empire, including savage composition of who would be put to death; link to computarat? (434)
Caesar, perceiving that Cicero s wishes were for liberty, had ceased to pay any further regard to him, and was now employing the mediation of his friends to come to a good understanding with Antony. They both met together with Lepidus in a small island, where the conference lasted three days. The empire was soon determined of, it being divided amongst them as if it had been their paternal inheritance. That which gave them all the trouble was to agree who should be put to death, each of them desiring to destroy his enemies and to save his friends. But, in the end, animosity to those they hated carried the day against respect for relations and affection for friends; and Caesar sacrificed Cicero to Antony, Antony gave up his uncle Lucius Caesar, and Lepidus received permission to murder his brother Paulus, or, as others say, yielded his brother to them. I do not believe anything ever took place more truly savage or barbarous than this composition, for, in this exchange of blood for blood, they were equally guilty of the lives they surrendered and of those they took; or, indeed, more guilty in the case of their friends, for whose deaths they had not even the justification of hatred. To complete the reconciliation, the soldiery, coming about them, demanded that confirmation should be given to it by some alliance of marriage; Caesar should marry Clodia, the daughter of Fulvia, wife to Antony. This also being agreed to, three hundred persons were put to death by proscription. Antony gave orders to those that were to kill Cicero to cut off his head and right hand, with which he had written his invectives against him; and, when they were brought before him, he regarded them joyfully, actually bursting out more than once into laughter, and, when he had satiated himself with the sight of them, ordered them to be hung up above the speaker s place in the forum, thinking thus to insult the dead, while in fact he only exposed his own wanton arrogance, and his unworthiness to hold the power that fortune had given him.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK plutarch-parallel_lives (440) 20131007h 0 -1+ progress/1996/04/notes_for_plutarch-parallel_lives.html
Antony: in company with Cleopatra as inimitable livers. (440) They had a sort of company, to which they gave a particular name, calling it that of the
Inimitable Livers.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK seneca-letter_90 (231) 20120322b 0 -2+ progress/1995/07/notes_for_seneca-letter_90.html
Criticizes Posidonius for an eloquent description of weaving that today would likely be mined for new significance by texts and technology theorists. (231) It is incredible, my dear Lucilius, how even great men are seduced from truth by the charm of eloquence. Look at Posidonius, in my judgment one of the most considerable contributors to philosophy, when he sets about a description of weaving.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK seneca-letter_90 (232-233) 20120322c 10 -2+ progress/1995/07/notes_for_seneca-letter_90.html
Seneca ignores role of technology in production wisdom despite the fact that his own philosophical production itself depends on it, calling them inventions of slaves. (232-233) And what of the stenographic symbols which can take down a speech however rapidly delivered and enable the hand to keep pace with the agility of the tongue? But these are inventions of low-grade slaves.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK sterne-audible_past (212-213) 20131015i 0 -5+ progress/2011/09/notes_for_sterne-audible_past.html
Brilliant dodging further feminist analysis. (212-213) That over half the film is devoted to the proper functioning of the business machine suggests that people were not quickly learning the machine and seeing its utility. . . . Whether the film was conceived as an attempt to speak directly to working women or simply to menƒs images of working women, the machine is now presented as a means of ameliorating unhappiness caused by the gendered inequities of office work.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK turkle-second_self (75) 20131014b 0 -6+ progress/2011/04/notes_for_turkle-second_self.html
Another approach returns to the experience of computer programmers decades after using the same machines Turkle describes. (75) The polarization between action and imaginative identification breaks down in the presence of the computer: with the computer behind them the video games provide imaginative worlds into which people enter as participants. Other kinds of microworlds television, sports, Disney rides, pinball might offer the holding power of action, of imaginative identification, of losing oneself in a world outside of the habitual. . . . But the computer can bring it together, and video games were the first place where the culture as a whole, rather than just the culture of competent computer programmers, got to experience how powerful this is.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK uffenbeck-microcomputers_and_microprocessors (14) 20131108d 0 -3+ progress/2004/07/notes_for_uffenbeck-microcomputers_and_microprocessors.html
Nice to see author uses both genders. (14) A comparison with the original binary program is striking. Of course, that is the intent of all high-level languages. Let the programmer communicate in a language as similar as possible to his or her own.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK ullman-close_to_the_machine (117) 20131014e 0 -5+ progress/2012/05/notes_for_ullman-close_to_the_machine.html
Imagine early groups of scribes working on the massive collection of Platonic works as such cranky old software systems. (117) The preciousness of an old system is axiomatic. The longer the system has been running, the greater the number of programmers who have worked on it, the less any one person understands it. As years pass and untold numbers of programmers and analysts come and go, the system takes on a life of its own. It runs. That is its claim to existence: it does useful work.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts (21) 20131109 0 -2+ progress/2012/06/notes_for_ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts.html
Consider repeating this kind of consultancy experiment for the community wound whose symptom is Turkle robotic moment. (21) The EmerAgency is a virtual consultancy whose purpose is to deconstruct instrumental consulting by using the Internet to bring to bear arts and letters knowledge and method to public policy formation. For its contribution to the consultancy, the Florida Research Ensemble (FRE a faculty group at the University of Florida) selected Miami in general, and the Miami River in particular, as the community wound to address in its experimentation with a new mode of inquiry called choragraphy (Ulmer 1994).

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts (28) 20131019f 0 -1+ progress/2012/06/notes_for_ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts.html
Compare to OGorman dilettantism: for a software project imagine remediating early computer games like Donkey Zizek and Heidegger Ultima. (28) The point of testing epiphany as the arts method for grasping the zone whole, in an image, is to adapt a device perfected within modernism for general use as a practice of electracy (electracy is to the digital apparatus what literacy is to the civilization of print technology).

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts (45) 20131019n 0 -2+ progress/2012/06/notes_for_ulmer-florida_out_of_sorts.html
Despite critique of Ulmer I want to participate in constructing this picture by contemplating living along the Santa Fe river writing my dissertation or doing postdoctoral work writing twenty percent software using pmrek, symposia, and tapoc to illustrate points and provide learning environments for students readers (see old comment on Diogenes Laertius reading about MSA equivalent of broadcast writing in an early philosopher). (45) A digital medium (website, DVD) facilitates a seamless, immediate movement between the visible and invisible (material, cultural, theoretical) registers of the chora. The propensity or directionality of the category supplies the predictive power signaled by the divination interface: the genealogy of the throughline suggests how things are likely to develop in the situation, given their present positions of things in Miami, once mapped in Miautre, becomes accessible to democratic revision.

6 2 1 (+) [-4+]mCQK von_neumann-computer_and_brain (1) 20131109d 0 0+ progress/2012/05/notes_for_von_neumann-computer_and_brain.html
Written by his wife posthumously; could be read beside Hayles, who highlights role of female writers in history of Macy conferences. (1)

6 2 1 (+) [-3+]mCQK bauerlein-dumbest_generation (113) 20140607e 0 0+ progress/2014/05/notes_for_bauerlein-dumbest_generation.html
Curious how putative philosophers of computing fare in such tests deemed to constitute digital literacy by large commercial testing corporation, comparing to the skills assessment instrument I used for the midterm exam in my last course on digital communications networks. (113)

6 2 1 (+) [-3+]mCQK bork-journal 20010604 20010604 0 -32+ journal_2001.html
In addition to obvious and explicit lessons in the philosophy of computing present in Platoƒs Phaedrus, there are many more implicit analogies that we can draw between this ancient critique of writing and our modern forms of "electric writing." Previously I have emphasized the obvious in order to defend against the complaint that I am merely drawing clever analogies between otherwise unnaturally related phenomena. However, in the broader scope of this project we must consider the full extent of the ancient Greek critique if we are going to maximize the benefit for practical undertakings in electronic computing technology from its study. For instance, the faults of writing, based on external marks rather than internal to the soul, are similar to the problems of "read only memory." There are actually at least two problems I can think about right now. First, this medium is unchangeable and therefore finite, a problem that becomes especially acute when reaching full capacity, such as with the number of pages in a book or the number of books you can carry, or filling up a recordable compact disc. Plato focuses on writingƒs failure to automatically generate knowledge (comprehension and understanding). Recall the sketch of a scientific rhetoric in which every word is known to be either clear or ambiguous to a particular audience, and from this understanding conviction can be careful developed along a path of probability based on fact, logic and the meaning of words. How could this mechanism operate from a book? Arenƒt the information-capacity requirements far beyond anything possible for the fourth century B.C.? Elsewhere in Phaedrus, Socrates admits that to give a full account of any subject based on the method he has proposed, including the self-reflexive example of explaining the method itself, is virtually impossible, or at least not fitting for their time requirements. So much more so today, when we begin to consider state-of-the-art computer technology! Second, these media (read-only-memories) are static and can only be final objects in computing activity and not also temporary, redefinable workspaces in the manner of a wax tablet or the imagination. It is the dynamism of word processing that Michael Heim credits for giving "electric writing" an essential difference from the book form of written work. This is much in the same way as Socrates in Platoƒs Phaedrus attributes liveliness to speech (the "living writing upon the soul"), and by an extension potentially in the particular kind of writing he recommends. When you compare this differentiation between "write once, read-only" and "rewritable" types of memory, whether in the form of written text or electronic circuitry, you can perceive in the periphery an essential relationship to the underlying design that grants the latter its reprogrammability. A rewritable medium that cannot be changed by the user is as good as static. There are many reasons the user may not be able to play with that memory, one of which is due to a "closed-source" policy of production and presentation. It is like the "free speech" issue, which is not to be constantly exercised except in principle. So perhaps the argument can be made that Platoƒs Phaedrus recommends "open source" in its philosophy of computing.

This conclusion can be reached through other courses of argumentation. Earlier I based the TECH 302 paper on the notion that certain types of technology are essentially alienating and inevitably produce factions of disgruntled practitioners (including hackers, crackers, pirates and cyberpunks). But this argument is derivative of and not really separate from what I just developed concerning the difference between static and dynamic computing. Roman technology arose from the exploitation of writing in the manner exactly opposite of what Socrates recommends in Platoƒs Phaedrus. The evils of technological thinking Seneca addresses in Letter #90, apart from those originating from basic human greed and pettiness, are rooted in the deficiencies of the type of intelligence supporting technological thinking. That type of intelligence grew from reading written texts instead of learning through the dialectical method, and exactly at the interface where scientific thinking is codified the production scheme most susceptible to unscientific management is employed. Ironically, we seem to be repeating this today as personal and corporate IT systems consist of higher and higher degrees of integration of increasingly complex modules, which due to their individual complexity are unknown, often third-party. Encapsulation is good, Brooks finally came to agree. There is no other way to manage computing (information, or any other) technology.

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A good Wired visions of the future for April depicts a checkbox for directing taxes to creation of FOSS tax preparation software and even if it is not published it can be presented as a fake page of Wired as instructed by Gene Poor for CAP as example of direct democracy. Imagine a future IBM commercial in which the female director asks how they missed the opportunity for the contract to develop the FOSS tax preparation application, among others, in a future determined by profitable government FOSS contracts, going back in time to when the same woman was suggesting giving kids the penguin toys. Both narrators end with the sales pitch for philosophers of computing. But is there a supply to meet this demand? Better still, in the future scenario the director is admonishing some philosophers while a server offers them some hemlock. The philosophers reflect while others accomplish, in this case the worldwide developer community (for example, Sourceforge) FOSS tax preparation software (which a quick search on Sourceforge reveals the gap, gnuTaxes having been last updated in 2000). It probably would not be published because it focuses on [a single text thread] and a similar thing was done last year. A new ethic is be part of the long tail of something. Sometimes the most recent.

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Practice source code management by cleaning up progress before putting it into Subversion. This was done to get the [above picture, diagram, image above]. The practical example correlate to tax preparation software for philosophers is an external, life long evolving repository for their work. The important point besides FOSS issues is that it is not memorized by [the human user, mind, person] but rather memorized by [machinery, books, external marks].

6 2 1 (+) [-3+]mCQK bork-journal 20100811 20100811 0 -9+ journal_2010.html
Worth noting from the platform studies perspective that there are many hobbyists contributing to the analysis and preservation of old industrial (not as glamorous or putatively relevant as cultural software) technologies such as the Bosch fuel injection system. Stream this in multiple languages with multiple visual displays, in the future cars seldom leave their garages and electronic mechanical pinball machines are played by those very old who played them running their original firmware in arcades as children. I will build the first one of the virtual reality machines and represent it in conferences and other spectacle venues. As a Turing machine like apparatus inquiring human interactors involves sensing switches at one hertz timing resolution (subject to the two and ten x rules). Imagine how the government computer thinks about you in terms of real estate transactions recorded in public records, and the capital loss to be balanced out by the gain in another real property. American Socrates favored obscurity while alive building his life work of contraptions (thinkeries). The guard was a littler duller and less pious than the one Plato writes who himself is only getting second hand information about what happened to Socrates. This, as much, can be intuited reading Xenophon and Diogenes Laertius in addition to Plato. The future comes at us through software.

6 2 1 (+) [-3+]mCQK bork-journal 20111211 20111211 0 -55+ journal_2011.html
We are addicted to oil because solar power is not a national priority. Computer programming also passed in the 1980s into missed virtual realities. This is the outline of the overall story, the American Socrates myth (after reprocessing Socrates through Barthes logic of myth analysis method representation translation equivalence. If computer programming had emerged as a new basic human practice back in the 1980s when it was taught to all children in many public schools, then we would be likely further along in the solar power work as well (I write testing an old motorcycle battery in the garage wanting to make it part of a solar power system but lacking the solar panels)..

[working code css]
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sd
sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6 sdb sdb1
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Cannot open /dev/sdb
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdb
[sudo] password for jbork:
Disk /dev/sdb: 526 MB, 526417920 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1020 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0d0c0b0a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1020 514048+ 6 FAT16
(ellipsis)
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /dev/sdb1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2011-12-11 14:22 /dev/sdb1
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /dev/sdb1/
ls: cannot access /dev/sdb1/: Not a directory
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /media/
cdrom/ cdrom0/ WeiXin/
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /media/WeiXin/
total 267056
drwx------ 2 jbork jbork 8192 2006-11-08 19:59 isolinux
drwx------ 3 jbork jbork 8192 2009-04-28 18:10 john
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbork jbork 268435456 2009-06-05 23:46 knoppix.img
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jbork jbork 2315004 2009-06-13 22:31 winscp421setup.exe
drwx------ 2 jbork jbork 8192 2010-01-19 22:34 tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbork jbork 509708 2010-09-09 11:21 howdah.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbork jbork 2142847 2010-09-09 12:07 cutover_tools_basic.odp
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbork jbork 22528 2011-02-03 11:00 project_task_breakdown.xls
jbork@alkibiades:~/public_html/progress/2011/12$ cp ENG_6939_ensoniment_proposal_v6.odt ENG_6939_ensoniment_proposal_v7.odt
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ tar czfv WeiXin_20111211.tgz /media/WeiXin
(ellipsis this is hard to copy with a mouse)
4344 jbork 20 0 516m 25m 14m R 4 0.9 0:27.33 audacious2
22798 root 20 0 332m 39m 13m S 4 1.3 25:12.05 Xorg
4401 jbork 20 0 4356 588 368 S 2 0.0 0:22.25 gzip
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr
-rw-r--r-- 1 jbork jbork 219629019 2011-12-11 14:53 WeiXin_20111211.tgz
(ellipsis discovering archived and erased for nothing with respect to an Ubuntu implementation. May try Fedora.)
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1008 514050 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /media
drwx------ 2 jbork jbork 16384 1969-12-31 19:00 0B90-8746
SELECT * FROM Items where Relevance!=0
SELECT Path, Relevance, StatSize, Mtime FROM Items where Relevance!=0
jbork@alkibiades:~/public_html/progress/2011/12$ cp ensoniment_of_platos_symposium_v6.pdf ~/src/symposia/
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ln -s ensoniment_of_platos_symposium_v6.pdf ensoniment_of_platos_symposium.pdf
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Here is where I begin to ask whether a bootable system can be made with the 512 MB USB flash drive, once king of the hill. Now in an hour this would refresh to this command line changes as a legitimate place for language to express itself along with human visual and audio presentations. What is the difference between this and if it had been jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltra /media/WeiXin/ or the same mistake in another register (jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltr /media/WeiXin/tmp o jbork@alkibiades:~/src/symposia$ ls -ltra /media/WeiXin/tmp)? This makes the assumption that the base mass storage devices would be mapped to the SCSI based representation second position (sdba being the first). Do this kind of programming and run the software virtual reality system you created, and you will go insane, communicate madness, dive into your own media. Too bad Kittler did not live to write this software. Continuing from the sixth version of the PDF where I had previously added emphasis to It mixes the two speech syntheses in the same acoustic space, as if they were uttered from the same mouth. It is possible this is a flaw only of formant synthesis where all voices liquidate into the same grain. This technical limitation of personal computer desktop sound systems. This operation takes a long time to execute with the digital music player going along with the Ubuntu FOSS/GNU/Linux system GUI. Just sit and watch top for a while listening to the music during the long tar system program operation. This alternate future has more systems programmers and fewer dumb (no feedback) consumers. Am I guilty or a victim of the audiovisual litany Sterne criticizes? Does it matter? I am, after all, intentionally prioritizing human language and machine language over indistinguishable combined media contents? Kittler is bitterly critical of the situation mechanical media got us all into, so what can we do with computing as programmers in addition to media consumers so equipped during the period of these souls? I could fix crappy software for Toptech or the Democratic party; however, the latter involves considerable content switching time. Can we deal with 20111211 or 219629019 anything? First, which number is greater? Iƒm guessing the latter is two point two gigabytes, whereas the former is the date, so one day temporal resolution versus one second. Crap, you need to know that even erasing the disk will not make the device large enough to hold this image. What does it mean rhetorically that philosophical texts can be published into perpetual freedom by including in GPL C/C++, Perl, PHP, shell HTML, HTTP, TCP/IP and XML aware program source code comments. Note the stopping point at shell and HTML to consider how programs written in the previous languages implement the following. The default approach is invisible default along which life time (as conceived by Kitter) choices transpire; to the degree that you actively participate in the process of your preference formations, you are free, and with respect to computer technology as it intersects media production, philosophizing with electricity. The device formerly known as W is now 0B90-8746. Generation of the reading lists for the exam course number credit hours could be done from journal data structures by a mathematical equation performed upon each database item number (database float, for example). That mechanism I already have encoded with MySQL data. From morning reading the modern bureaucratic ideal is to treat the doctoral dissertation like a manageable project, liquefying specificity in favor of a methodology based on solving problems by programming.

6 2 1 (+) [-2+]mCQK sterne-audible_past (328) 20131018s 0 -1+ progress/2011/09/notes_for_sterne-audible_past.html
Uncanny mention of Findlay, Ohio where I lived. (328) a church society placed a recording in the cornerstone of its new church in Findlay, Ohio, telling of its various church-building enterprises in the voice of the current pastor.

6 2 1 (+) [-1+]mCQK bork-journal 19940920 19940920 0 -1+ journal_1994.html
Seen it all, putting back the pieces in their logical order of thought-unfolding galaxy-travel movings (the trip-book is the highest expression of the Thought, for it allows re-creation of the idea in your universe).

6 2 1 (+) [-1+]mCQK bork-journal 19950808 19950808 0 -7+ journal_1995.html
More on the position of the cyberpunk philosopher: yes, we do have to become technicians, engineers, mechanics in a word, handicraftsmen. Otherwise, our fantasies default in favor of the traditional, standing-reserve of thinking appliances: languages, recording/storing/presenting media, and most especially the domain of genuine "computers," those means through/by which we make our most weighty of computations. Think about it: what are the weightiest of calculations for the philosopher other than the burdensome decision of whether to stop thinking in order to make a record, comment; to go back over what has been traversed; to re-think a fundamental position; or to interrupt the flow of anotherƒs thought which you have been thoughtfully following. I am merely making explicit what hides beneath Heideggerƒs talk of "fantastic mysticism." Behind the many (..) the timing of Nietzscheƒs fundamental insights by the boulder in Surlei, when the thought of eternal return came to him: where would be all the writings without the thought?

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I.The Language Machine

1.Comput re

In this exercise in thinking, we are provisionally living with the concept of Overman cast as cyberpunk. Rather than turning away, we are thrusting ourselves right out into the danger. Leary writes:

If our genetic function is computare (to think), then it follows that the ages and stages of human history, so far, have been larval or preparatory. Now, at the beginnings of the information age, are we ready to assume our genetic function? After the larval phases of submission to gene pools, the mature stage of the human life-cycle is the individual who thinks for him/herself. (257)

In asking the question, are we ready to assume our genetic function? you almost hear an echo of Heidegger s are we thinking yet? Indeed, the issue at hand seems to concern thought and freedom. However, we have not worked deeply enough through the passage if we neglect listening to what is said by the word comput re, which is Leary s choice for naming our essence.

The root verb put re bears an original relationship to trimming and pruning; hence, like decidere, when transported into intellectual activities we understand a coming-to-a-halt of cogitation; a decisive settlement. Joined with the prepositional prefix cum- , such activity takes place through or with the help of some medium: thinking-with. Clearly the connetion to representation that is emphasized by Heidegger in the whole movement of modern metaphsyics, with Descrates founding of the res extensa as extensive, quantifiable magnitudes based upon the certainty of cogito, from which spring a metaphysical ground to the exact and useful sciences, comes to the fore. The use of numbers (math sis), not to mention various heuristics and instruments of number processing, is captured with the sense of cum-put re. For Heidegger, of course, this becomes the very problem with our modern age. The provenance of man as subiectum is to master beings as representations, ordering and stockpiling through categories most suitable for the evaluation and ranking of beings thinged (bedingen) as such. Thus he places Nietzsche in the long history of Western metaphysics as the culmination of Descartes project to utilize method in order to derive definite, exact knowledge from the world. (see IV section 19, Nietzsche s position vis- -vis Decartes )

Thus our guiding passage What is needed.. continues:

In the sense of Nietzsche s metaphysics, only the Over-man is appropriate to an absolute machine economy, and vice versa: he needs it for the institution of absolute dominion over the earth.

Descartes, with his principle of the cogito sum, forced open the gates of the domain of such a metaphysically comprehended dominion. The principle that lifeless nature is res extensa is simply the essential consequence of the first principle. Sum res cogitans is the ground, the underlying, the subiectum for the determination of the material world as res extensa. ..Representation has in itself come to be the establishment and securement of the essence of the truth of Being. Representation presents itself here in its own essential space and posits such space as the standard of measure for the essence of the Being of beings and for the essence of truth. (IV,117)

Nietzsche s contribution was to view the Being of beings as WTP and ERS, thus paving the way for the complete transformation of beings as a whole into standing-reserve. Rather than coming-to-presence on their own ( ), they are represented according to r gimes most suitable a reckoning that ideally reduces to numerical calculations by those systems (human or technically augmented), which by definition are called computers. As Deleuze reminds us in Active and Reactive , Nietzsche must have envisioned his genealogical method to be constituted by a mathematical component, for he writes:

Our knowledge has become scientific to the extent that it is able to employ number and measurement. The attempt should be made to see whether a scientific order of values could be constructed simply on a numerical and quantitative scale of force. All other values are prejudices, na vet s, and misunderstandings. They are everywhere reducible to this numerical and quantitative scale. (WP, 710)

What becomes of the praised in the ancient Greeks when that production (including that of the genealogical interpretation) takes on a that is, becomes an art in the sense of a handicraft that guides the production of the thing? Inevitably, for whatever reasons, a craft develops with its own particular family of techniques and apparati. In interests of speed, economy, and increased production, finally, it becomes inevitable that various machines will come to take the place of natural labor. Could such a thing occur in the realm of thought itself? Indeed, for Heidegger the primordial manifestations of thinking speech and gesture later give way to graphism; the manu-facture of texts, recordings of thought and language. Certainly such developments are desirable improvements for the businessman, and they make possible operations never imagined in purely oral cultures. What about that sort of thinking from which no particular result is sought that would serve as the cut off point or desideratum? Suddenly we are transported into the heart of Heidegger s reading of Nietzsche s philosophy as leading directly into the danger of Enframing:

Since destining at any give time starts man on a way of revealing, man, thus under way, is continually approaching the brink of the possibility of pursuing and pushing forward all his standards on this basis. Through this the other possibility is blocked, that man might be admitted more and sooner and ever more primally to the essence of that which is unconcealed and to its unconcealment, in order that he might experience as his essence his needed belonging to revealing.

The destining of revealing is in itself not just any danger, but danger as such. (QCT, 26)

For what is the destining of revealing that is revealed by taking to heart the main rubrics of Nietzsche s thought? As if we have not heard this refrain enough:

The epoch of the unconditioned and complete objectification of everything that is begins with the self-fulfilling metaphysics of subjectivity, which corresponds to the most extreme withdrawal of the truth of Being, because it obscures the withdrawal until it is unrecognizable. In that objectification, man himself and every aspect of human culture is transformed into a stockpile which, psychologically reckoned, is incorporated into the working process of the will-to-will, even if some people view that process as free, while others interpret it as purely mechanical. Both mistake the covert essence in the history of Being, that is, the nihilistic essence, which when expressed in the language of metaphysics is always something spiritual, even the fact that in the process of the absolute objectification of beings as such mankind has become a human resource, ranked behind natural resources and raw materials, does not betray a supposedly materialistic preference for matter and energy over the human spirit. It is grounded in the unconditioned character of objectification itself, which must bring every stockpile, no matter what its nature, into its own possession and must secure this possession.(IV, 241-242)

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The interesting transition occurs when we prefix puto with the prepositoin cum, with, suddenly transporting us into the midst of our favorite thoughts! To think with always implies an (..), whether we count with our fingers, use an abacus, or type on a word processor. Obviously (for you historians of capitalism) an economic utility will inhere in the most primitive computing systems, if we suppose that practical inventions even in ancient times served business interests. Yet taken broadly, as we are forced to incline our thinking when thinking this word essentially, even a philosophical text is something we think with. Even language itself and now it should be clear why I said we immeditatly leap into our favorite meditational circuits when we ponder the meaning of computer. No wonder Heim makes such an issue of Heidegger s premonitions of the language machine decades before microcomputers replaced handwriting as the basic means by which thinkers record, process, and communicate their thoughts. No wonder that deep in the Nietzsche lectures Heidegger returns to the duties we have before the command of language (..) and, indeed, at the heart of What is Called Thinking posits language (poesy) as essential to the being of Beings. Language too (especially formal systems) is an implement with which we prune Being to yield beings. And in the act of composing, revealing is determined.

Intimately tied to computer is the word putative, which also bears this reference to cutting, trimming (putare) as well as (Random House suggests) the Latin pauire, which means to beat, ram down. Hence our familiar use of the word putative connotes the shared public attention to a fact, the commonly regarded as such. (Random House) Nietzsche, in Twilight of the Idols, makes some rather curt remarks concerning the function of language: (..) Likewise, Heidegger often degrades the unmeditative utterances of human beings, go as far as to say that they do violence to Being when they speak (trans-late .. we don t want to get into that word, do we?), trimming [it] down to fit ready-at-hand containers. The wasteland grows not only are we not careful when we speak-think, but words themselves are being degraded: going to the U. to study pomo, for example.

[<<950725.21:32.38>> Now then, since in the root put re, from which we get putative, there is already the notion of a thinking which is a trimming, a settling of accounts, implying a closure of business, we are already in the country of the being, we are manipulating essents ready-at-hand that have been set out previously (represented) in order to come to a decision. D c dere, to cut off, cut away also gives us to settle, putting an end to a certain kind of thinking that runs under the business about which we say we are occupied. Consequently, Heidegger might have argued, those implements that accompany our calculative thinking must necessarily only further carry us away from genuine, authentic thinking. What word might be appropriate? How about rumination. [ohh yeah, and did I step into a cow pattie there, if you know what that word says in Latin!] Heim would like to convince us that word processing allows the hand to guide the unfolding of the text in ways unknown to the typewritist, and surely these hypertext links do wonders. But we cannot yet evade the fact that, the more complicated our word processors become, the more thought-energy is diverted in the unconscious work of writing ..]

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Where in the Nietzsche lectures does put re have special significance? Besides Heidegger s analyses of what comes to be valuative thinking under the Cartesian subiectum, at the very end of the final section, Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being, we read:

The putative overcoming of nihilism first establishes the dominion of an absolute omission of the default of Being itself in favor of the being in the form of valuative will to power. Through its withdrawal, which nonetheless remains a relationship to beings, in which form Being appears, Being itself releases itself into will to power. As will to power, the being seems to reign above and over all Being. In such reigning and radiating of Being, which is concealed with respect to its truth, the default of Being occurs essentially in such a way that it permits the most extreme omission of itself. It thus aids and abets the advance of the purely actual of those properly acclaimed realities which prides itself on being what it is, while at the same time presuming itself to be the measure for deciding that only what is effectual what is palpable and makes an impression, what is experience and its expression, what is useful and its success should pass as being. (IV,232)

2.Philosophy under Capitalism

During his trail, when Socrates was asked to suggest a sentence he asked for daily meals at the []: prototype of the university scholar-philosopher. He did not want to charge a fee for his services directly to those he served, yet, as a poor man, still felt the need to satisfy the material question. He did not ask for grants to pay for the costly writing materials; he did not own a recorder , that is, a slave specially skilled in some kind of shorthand, nor a word processor , that is, whoever converted the verbatim material into written Greek. For the last one hundred years, philosophical production has been relatively inexpensive paper, pen, library books. Today the trend reverses: computers, scanners, laser printers, licensing fees, etc. In the famous Marxian formula, the philosophical worker can not possibly own the means of production; they must be managed and serviced the the capitalist, in our present case the U. Unless you happen to be wealthy from the outset, as Plato had been, and can set up your own workshop. Most likely, however, the flow of money regulates modern philosophical activity, under the codes of tenure, publishing expectations, teaching evaluations, and the promise of good behavior. Heidegger never criticized the philosophical workplace in such a manner; all such ontic nonsense best left to the ethnologists and sociologists.

The pressure to conform to the working models of philosophical production throttles original thinking. Ask any graduate student. Of course, will be the retort, once you get your certification, and a position, then you can do whatever you want (supposing that the wants of the true thinker are purer than the will to conform). But it is plain foolishness to believe that all of one s past effort studying X and writing about Y, all of which may not have been the most desired path of investigation (and if we believe Heidegger that the thinker has only one thought, and that thought of thoughts may have come to be either prior to the university indoctrination, or in spite of it) can be so easily overcome.

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Finally, Leary s cyberpunk hero performs the ultimate function of teacher. Just as Zarathustra is not the Overman, Nietzsche only lives posthumously, and Heidegger only prepares for the feast, the cyberpunks boldly package and steer ideas out there where no thoughts have gone before. We have already discussed the shortcomings of a putative overcoming of nihilism. Another question that revolves around the production (creation) of the teaching: what vehicle will serve to carry the message? Isn t there a danger that, rather than creating in the grand style, the cyberpunk may be tempted to package hir ideas in the form of a marketable consumer commodity, and hence unwittingly become an agent of the capitalist machine that cyberpunk supposedly rages against (just as the critics of cyberpunk literature believe ..)? Indeed, some even admit that they practice their art in bad faith. For what would constitute the reverse is impossible, and admittedly so. There must always be a certain degree of skimming and packaging; choose your target audience and produce!

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Word Processing

Go from reclaiming dignity of the hand to note-taking in the draft as an unthought function of writing, veiled by the one-track issue of technological Dasein infiltrating the last frontier (horizon) of poiesis qua physis (Heidegger) and the inevitable emphasis on commodity production (D&G). See 0723

The life of actual language consists in multiplicity of meaning. To relegate the animated, vigorous word to the immobility of a univocal, mechanically programmed sequence of signs would mean the death of language and the petrificaiton and devastation of Dasein. (II,144)

I claim that it is possible for the art of composition to exist at both poles, in its most frenzied state. Obviously as a handicraft like scultpure or painting, writing belongs to the Apollonian. Heim s argument in favor of the word processor over the typewriter implies that with electronic we are open the hidden extra [that] cannot be consciouly produced (315);

..Unlike the typewriter, the word processor guides the hand into a non-mechanical process. ..The information environment allows gestures to work in ways that leave behind the industrial machine with its cumbersome but efficient mediation of human energy and attention. The electronic element shifts the quality of action to another level. The formulation of ideas on a word processor can establish impersonality while achieving a directness and flexibility undreamt of with the typewriter.(311)

Anyone who has used word processors for some time can reflect upon how the whole philosophical enterprise changes. What Heim does not clearly differentiate in his article, however, which, conversely, Heidegger makes very clear in his discussion of Nietzsche s compositional habits (but not phenomenologically at the level of the act itself), are the various modes in which Being speaks and is photographed in the irreversible event of the composition. This is all the difference between an article that has been honed and polished with the calculative intent of pleasing an editorial staff so that they will choose to publish it in a journal, and the near-psychotic recordings a thinker makes in the delirium/ecstasy of meditative thinking. Certainly we require polished, well thought-out productions: they are the capital of the present corporate, university-level philosophical enterprise. Prior to their composition, though, we hope that thinking occurred. The danger is that we skip the gestation, the rumination and jump headlong into the parturition, the decision. There is no text, no production, without a cutting-off and bring-to-speech of the thought. The pressure to complete writing assignments, with the advent of electronic writing, makes the conjunction of what used to be fore-thought and composition inevitable.

The procedures of composition change too. Calculative thinking gradually edges out contemplative thinking as the habits shaped by book culture give way to habits formed at the computer screen. The user calls up what is known, connects it with other pieces of information, and then rearranges the results to suit a specific purpose. (317)

The computer tempo tips contemplation toward calculation. On the surface, our productivity speeds up, while underneath we remain bound by human limits. We need to develop significant contexts over a period of time that allows for the gestating and formulating of thoughts. For humans, significant language depends on the felt integration of our own limited experience. We are biologically finite in what we can attend to meaningfully. When we pay attention to the significance of something, we cannot proceed at the computer s breakneck pace. We have to ponder, reflect, contemplate. (318)

Heidegger forsaw this, and we are, arguably, repeating a crisis in thinking upon which Plato exhausted much of his mental labors except back then the novus res was handwriting itself.

It is not for nothing that they are described as virtual, for they put thought on hold indefinitely, tying its emergence to the achievement of a complete knowledge. The act of thinking itself is thus put off for ever. (X&I,51)

Decision theory good when the options are absolute (go home or stay to heal), and I doubt even Heidegger would deny the sense of following the calculations. Yet nevertheless even in my example I can begin thinking of all sorts of alternatives, not just as one-more-options but dividing up into sub-molar systems of relations .. hence the danger, since this sort of thinking is closed off by the all-too-convenient and rational refinement strategy, coupled to the complexity issue. Of course, that supposedly has nothing to do with thinking, and we are led onto another seductive one-track argumentative development.

mabye some more capitalist PHI 0805; teachers of ERS

**this belongs somewhere during/after the discussion of Heim, leading into the why N s thinking powers failed him and the revenge business

Those who posit the uppermost values, the creators, the new philosophers at the forefront, must acording to Nietzsche be experimenters; they must tread paths and break trails in the knowledge that they do not have the truth. But from such knowledge it does not at all follow that they have to view their concepts as mere betting chips that can be exchanged at any time for any currency. What does follow is just the opposite: the solidity and binding quality of thought must undergo a grounding in the things themselves in a way that prior philosophy does not know. Only in this way is it possible for a basic position to assert itself over aginst others, so that the resultant strife will be actual strife and thus the actual origin of truth. (I,28)

This early statement reveals that Heidegger experimented with Nietzsche s philosophy for quite some time before finally desiring to overcome its nihilistic conclusions. In effect, although Heidegger comes to deplore the doctrines for their metaphysical import (an entanglement in nihilism), he heartily employs Nietzsche s method consicously or unconsciously resolutely, treading the path he discovered by trying to think in Greek. Frequently he points to the seductiveness inherent in all highly original thinking to seek to extend itself, perhaps looking for an ultimate convergence, but actively widening its gyres instead, exponentially multiplying the information base. Thus this sort of thinking leads to a tyranny of the standing-reserve in a two-fold sense: first, the familiar theme of QCT, the apparent conclusion of the Nietzsche lectures and the stimulans of WICT?; but secondly, this mania for information that marks our present condition.

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Beginnings of unthought Roman philosophy reading Cicero Phillipics. I keep making discoveries when I go to read a Roman text, and have come to the conclusion that most Roman philosophy remains to this moment unthought. Following the fantasized, ideal form of the "Marxist dialectic," I begin first with my own particular case. I am a graduate student in Philosophy; to be more specific, I for some time received comfortable sustenance from the State, following in Socratesƒ footsteps, although lately I have had to assume the stance of a renegade philosopher lest I despair too much upon my fallen condition. How did I even come to read any Roman texts? Not in the State-mandated core course on Ancient Philosophy. That course ended with Aristotle, and of him I heard even less than I did of Plato, having grown disgusted with the manner in which we were conducting ourselves--hardly as philosophers, more like brute intellectual laborers!-- and cut most of the lectures on Aristotle in protest. This action of mine, in addition to writing my term paper without regard to the explicit, formulaic form the instructor insisted that we follow, earned me an incomplete for the course. [For a whole year I argued in futility with the professor, slowly giving up hope that sHe would take seriously the argument of my original work. Instead, I was expected to rewrite the entire production in a manner pleasing to my tutor, even if that called for me to forsake the very principle upon which the argument was founded. I refused, and] it was only a year later when I attempted to make-up this course by studying Roman philosophy with the only other knowledgeable individual in the building--a professor of Latin, Greek, and Classical Studies--that I encountered this rich, unexplored territory.

But being a good dialectician I must move on to the general case, namely, I suppose, to the milieu in which I find myself having these thoughts: in the American Midwest, in the final years of the second millennium that has passed since Cicero, Seneca, Quintillian, and the other ancient Roman philosophers walked the earth, and created their art. Is that general enough for you? In keeping with the logic of dialectical materialism, I will now attempt to articulate an argument that wholly envelopes this epochal field--in an asymptotic fashion, no doubt--so that you will be convinced that I have, in fact, moved beyond the singularity of my own self-analysis.

AWAKE IN THE AGE OF CONSUMMATE MEANINGLESSNESS:
"CAPITALIST PHILOSOPHY"

What, precisely, constitute critical, distinguishing features of a "capitalist philosophy"? One approach to this question would be to cast the questioner into irredeemable aporia by showing that philosophers have always been asking the question, What is philosophy?, and, barring any conclusive response to that query in twenty-five centuries of Western thought, to respond to the question, What is "capitalist philosophy"? would be, a fortiori, more difficult.

We cannot wallow in such cynicism; nor can we presume ourselves capable of tackling the question of philosophy at this hour. However, through acknowledging the cynicism implicit in this type of reasoning, I think we may well be on our way to understanding the problem.

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Reacting to reading about a fee charged for consulting Platonic texts marked up with the critical marks: 961124.1128 If I were taking a course in political philosophy, or any course that touched upon "private property" or "intellectual property," then I could stamp them with this thought--but why bother? And would I care to take on the burden of an as-scientific-as-possible consideration of the attendant subjects, such as (for the subject of my citation) ancient texts? Do we care to include them in our work, when itƒs possible to continue "on our own"?

But now I sort of remember the original that brought me here this morning.. though I have not entered enough of Marxƒs text to warrant the claim to "approximately full" legein .. could the typing-it-in (rather than scanning) be near that famous, ironic act of reading someone elseƒs words, of which the author(s) of Symposium obviously make an issue? .. (That wasnƒt it, though itƒs been a festering thought for some time now)

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ti "primary conceptions"; ideas?

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discover "the analyst" ƒwantsƒ {TS1000,//gs,PHI_LAMBDA}.

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This is where it starts: it starts with a vision of something from work, a lecture and drawing of a graphic of how the control system works including TMS, Oracle, and the MWS. It also starts with a diagram of a system optimized and possible, like viewing a circuit schematic not knowing if it works (is valid) or not (is invalid, not valid) or actually instantiating it (soldering together circuit boards) .. tell the philosophical story by teaching the technology; write comments in the program such as the effect of adjusting variables in running programs generating cyberspace. Look at the funny comment in the HTML source code for http://etherape.sourceforge.net/

<!-- This html page has been blatantly copied from the ethereal one

http://ethereal.zing.org/

Ahh, the funny thing about open source. One is but a thief, and

one gets praise for it. :-)

Itƒs been modified, though, to make use of CSS instead of so

much html formatting. Priority is structure. If the client is

not properly rendering CSS, so be it. :-)

-->

A little bit of philosophizing. We are interested in using EtherApe (Donkey Kong Zizek like Heidegger Ultima) and MySQL on a persistent Knoppix partition, so we need to load that software since it is not on the Knoppix CDROM.

Sonia, in our imaginary class

1)would you be able to lecture on the theory behind conductors and semiconductors as between the difference in electrical resistance of metals and semiconductors? That kind of knowledge (understanding) of electronics is highly recommended (necessary) to read schematics.

2)do you think psychoanalysis was a science to Lacan, Zizek, and Derrida (Zizek is the bridge between science and philosophy)?

Derrida uses psychoanalysis (as well as plant science) to not only illustrate his method but by treating literally the metaphor to embody it. From the knowledge of metal conductors versus semiconductors, contrast the electrical activity of the abstract diode to the metaphorical thyristor. Transcend Derridaƒs limited appropriation by integrating systems, writing software, and building circuits.

This is how it looks and these are functions; this is how it looks: functions <operator> representations, all instances; tables are functions of their contents; everything goes into the tables (like circuits) except the other processes/systems like the database server, except circuits like you could make with a soldering. Sonia, letƒs talk about how electricity flows through metals (conductors) and semiconductors, how resistance of metals is lower than semiconductors, thatƒs why they semiconduct, as in not as well as conductors.

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Here is how it works: ask the question answering Nietzsche true or false for a time interval then change to a multiple choice question including Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Freud, Zizek, and so on; then after a delay go on with the next question. The interviews have been recorded in a spreadsheet that could be programmatically rendered as an HTML table. Given the complex world Dumit posits with his investigation of PET and personhood, can anything be seen except by lengthy diachronic and synchronic (longitudinal and comparative) analysis? Deleuze answers the question how do you see something when everything is mediated in ethnos, the culture, phenomenological present.

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Imagine the brick work in the garage and the certain lessons in practical reason that you must absorb and incorporate enacting thinking with. In terms of combinatorials, this is in the level of manageable complexity to model as a table of HTML. Do you see the header board snug in the space where a half brick would have been used? If you did not start with the correct type of brick along the bottom, then the door height will be off due to the unexpected lower or higher (typically lower, as in ceiling) vertical position (coordinates) of the header plate board across the front face of the garage opening for the roll up door. Think about the convergence of biometric data and work product, such as me making pinball machines work. For all x being made <preposition> a certain system integration (for example, the Bally AS blah blah blah system used from late 1970s through mid 1980s on approximately y hundred thousand units. This is as important as this (imagining the block configuration in an image of the garage as important as selection of antique electronics to use for your instructional example in the philosophy of computing as my dissertation). Here is an example.

R-1AAA, R-1AA and R-1A Single Family Dwelling District
Site development standards: R-1AAA R-1AA R-1A
Minimum lot size (sq. ft.): 21,870 14,00018,890
(above the mean high water line):
Minimum site width at building line: 115 feet. 95 feet. 75 feet.
Minimum street frontage: 35 feet. 35 feet. 25 feet.
Minimum setbacks:Front yard: 25 feet. 25 feet. 25 feet.
Site yard: *30/12 feet. 20/8 feet. 20/8 feet.
Rear yard: 30 feet. 30 feet. 30 feet.
Maximum building height: 35 feet. 35 feet. 35 feet.
*A combined setback of "x" feet with a minimum of "x" feet in one side yard is shown in the chart as 30/12ƒ and 20/8ƒ.

The problem seems to be that if I have a setback on one side of 8 then the other side where I want to erect the shed and carport must be 12 to total 20 as in 8/20 per the zoning website just as here I have substituted with keystroke control then Enter as separate rows in an HTML table and as regions
in a map in an HTML img tag. There may be a utility easement that pushes the border to 10 feet or beyond.

[working code css]
# 20100821 here is the new operation to simplify importance of working directory
# 20100901 does this comment here interfere with make? (yes it does)
JournalInfo:
date
cd ~/public_html; \
pwd; \
build-JournalInfo-tables.pl --nopath --verbose --maxdepth=1 --clean; \
build-JournalInfo-tables.pl --verbose --path=progress; \
date
jbork@alkibiades:~/src/journal$ vi build-JournalInfo-tables.pl
process complete. start time [Wed Nov 24 14:31:29 EST 2010]
Wed Nov 24 14:32:44 EST 2010
[working code css]

The reading descends into code we are adjusting today to not do a clean build by default to take less time. Or will it work efficiently as is, checking md5sums of the files in the table. I see a lot of output reporting already in table, sha1sums match so okay, we are using those instead. It still takes a while to execute the operation, over a minute, unless my typing this slowed it down (need better term) ƒunintentionallyƒ. Another option is a trailer mounted workshop.

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What I was hurrying to write down may have had to do with sensing the connections between third and second order logic, the one producing the other at the level of the symbolic rather than the virtual. The reality of the symbolic is of course todayƒs Internet cyberspace electronic device (not utopia but meaning technosphere, technoworld, world sustained by technology), so to study it is like being a humanist scholar studying the human world. Imagine using MSA between humans and artificial intelligence machine systems holding thought, idea, image, representation, perception, all these terms together that involve thinking, constant?

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Eighties for sale: there is undiscovered territory for everyone who has memories, creating future virtual realities in which all that unexperienced content can be enjoyed in a strangely new sense. But did you know the computer language BASIC we all learned in the eighties turned fifty this year? Is it the secret of philosophy the same as AI, that all the hard work to avoid death is futile? Start with simple, ludicrous, irreligious propositions equating theology to poorly designed spaghetti code. As Leonard Cohen says, they sentenced me to twenty years of boredom for trying to change the system from within. Such is my theme song these days, as it concludes, I donƒt like what happened to my system. While contemplating the media formats in which the desired gift of Turkle available affect thinking through their affordances and constraints, all four known and unknown, altogether constituting technological unconscious Thrift argues grounds phenomena and therefore ontology, in the epoch I am studying in which we are constituted as post postmodern network dividual cyborg actor networks.

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Today it is a natural principle that PHI principal who gave me computer in late 1970s leading into early 1980s use to be fully computed PHI after all copyrights expire past time PHI based on 64 bit timestamp emerging from iterations of 32 bit exceeding sense boundary PHI.

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It is likely that I was programming junk that day like Wallace Stevens working at his insurance company day job.


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