au point de capiton

U-set

The empty set is a set of uniqueness. This is just a fancy way to say that if a trigonometric series converges to zero everywhere then it is trivial.

The Mnemotechnics of Morality

This precisely is the long story of how responsibility originated.The task of breeding an animal with the right to make promises evidently embraces and presupposes as a preparatory task that one first makes men to a certain degree necessary, uniform, like among like, regular and consequently calculable...One can well believe that the answers and methods for solving this premival problem were not precisely gentle; perhaps indeed there was nothing more fearful and uncanny in the whole prehistory of man than his mnemotechnics."If something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory"-this is the main clause of the oldest (unhappily also the most enduring) psychology on earth.
           
Friedrich Nietzsche


when I think of U, my mind hurts

already forgetting

on empathy

inversion_Commedia Divina_topology and ethos

(inversion) Freud uses the term ‘inversion’ to designate homosexuality, the idea being

that homosexuality is the inverse of heterosexuality. Lacan uses the term in this sense too

in his early works (Lacan, 1938:109).

However, in Lacan’s post-war works the term is used in quite a different sense.

Inversion then usually refers to a characteristic of the SPECULAR IMAGE; what appears

on one side of the real body appears on the other side of the image of the body reflected

in the mirror (see Lacan, 1951b:15). By extension, inversion becomes a quality of all

imaginary phenomena, such as TRANSITIVISM. Thus in schema L, the imaginary is

represented as a barrier blocking the discourse of the Other, causing this discourse to

arrive at the subject in an inverted form. Hence Lacan’s definition of analytic

communication in which the sender receives his own message in an inverted form.

In 1957, both senses of the term are brought together in Lacan’s discussion of

Leonardo da Vinci. Taking up Freud’s argument about Leonardo’s homosexuality (Freud,

1910c), Lacan goes on to argue that Leonardo’s specular identification was highly

unusual in that it resulted in an inversion of the positions (on schema L) of the ego and

the little other (S4, 433–4).

the 3 bodies

the self-indulgent
the violent
the malicious

decapitated genius_or the envy of the father_or feeling guilty about one's "own" creativity

ο όμιλος είναι άθροισμα στο χώρο, ενώ το παράγωγό του  είναι γινόμενο στο χρόνο

4fold

becoming
knowing
being
willing



http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Fourfold_Root_of_the_Principle_of_Sufficient_Reason

I would like U to see what I see

Just

look at the difference

Entering the Real

Four people went through the wall of language
one looked and died;
one looked and went mad;
one destroyed words;
one entered in peace and departed in peace

ΣΗΜΑ

ASJA Η MHXANIKOΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΟΝΟΔΡΟΜΟΥ

 


Ο δρόμος αυτός ονομάζεται
ΟΔΟΣ Asja Lācis
από το όνομα αυτής
που ως μηχανικός
τον διάνοιξε μέσα στον συγγραφέα




(Αφιέρωση του W. Benjamin στο βιβλίο του "Μονόδρομος", Βερολίνο 1928)

W.B. on the Web

"technical reproduction gives back what technical production takes away"-the availability of technically produced images allows a "new capacity to study modern existence reflectively"

chaos game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierpi%C5%84ski_triangle
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020424

Algorithms and information, fundamental to technological and biological organization, are also an essential aspect of many elementary physical phenomena, such as molecular self-assembly. Here we report the molecular realization, using two-dimensional self-assembly of DNA tiles, of a cellular automaton whose update rule computes the binary function XOR and thus fabricates a fractal pattern—a Sierpinski triangle—as it grows. To achieve this, abstract tiles were translated into DNA tiles based on double-crossover motifs. Serving as input for the computation, long single-stranded DNA molecules were used to nucleate growth of tiles into algorithmic crystals. For both of two independent molecular realizations, atomic force microscopy revealed recognizable Sierpinski triangles containing 100–200 correct tiles. Error rates during assembly appear to range from 1% to 10%. Although imperfect, the growth of Sierpinski triangles demonstrates all the necessary mechanisms for the molecular implementation of arbitrary cellular automata. This shows that engineered DNA self-assembly can be treated as a Turing-universal biomolecular system, capable of implementing any desired algorithm for computation or construction tasks.