shapes from space
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Category Archives: umwelt
a cybernetic zoo
A collection of early cybernetic artificial organisms. The most well-known (and arguably the most interesting) are the tortoises made by Grey Walter around…
one billion years
Another interesting philosophical science-fiction book that was mentioned by Otto Rössler in his ‘Endophysics‘. The title of the english translation is ‘Definitely Maybe,…
sand seen from space
Two pictures from Google Earth, both appr. 140 kilometres wide.…
the homeostat
and some very poetic words by Pierre de Latil about how this machine finds an equilibrium in all circumstances:
“Comme l’eau des cavernes…
fab@home
An interesting project started by people from Cornell University: to develop a way in which people can build their own rapid-prototyping machine. Their…
xxxxx book
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Published September 2006 in association with mute. 476 pages.
ISBN: 0955066441
A great collection of texts,…