combinaisons
from: Sebastien Truchet, ‘Mémoire sur les Combinaisons’,
in: Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, Paris, 1704.…
Category Archives: books
pandemonium
from ‘Pandemonium: a Paradigm for Learning’, by O.G.Selfridge,
in ‘Mechanisation of Thought Processes’, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1959.…
the new scepticism
“Whereas traditional skepticism challenged whether we can know, on the basis of experience, that things are as we experience them as being, the…
network practices
Recently I read a very nice collection of essays that was published about two years ago: Anthony Burke, Therese Tierney (ed.), “Network Practices…
the future is retro
The two first images triggered by the last; the first is the ‘Island Dance Restaurant’, designed by Norman Bel Geddes in 1924, the…
pragmatism
A fragment of ‘Pragmatism‘ by William James, a book written in 1907. I found this quoted in another book about which I’ll write…
more from form dynamics
Two more fragments from Louis H. Kauffman and Francisco J. Varela, “Form Dynamics“, J.Social Biol. Struct. 1980 3, pp. 171-206. They leave very…