providing matter with a mouth
I encountered this fragment by Stanislaw Lem that resonates with many things I have been reading recently, now helped by Lem’s clarity and…
Category Archives: umwelt
a thing speaking for itself
As a consquence of my recent explorations of radar display tubes, I’ve become not only interested in tubes that turn electronic signals into…
life
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more Meno
An unexpected encounter with an old question on pages 21-22 of Michael Polanyi, “The Tacit Dimension”, University of Chicago Press, 2009:
“It is…
roads not taken
Some time ago I referred to one of David Noble’s books, since it led me on to the writings of Lynn…
fine distinction
Since I wrote my somewhat longish post on analog computing, many things have happened. For instance, I have become the proud owner of…
scanning electrometer
At the moment I am working to improve a rather elementary sensor for electrostatic fields, in an attempt to use it to make…