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Denn die weibliche Temporalität fließt nicht nach einem Plan, sondern wiederholt sich ziellos.

More than that, if Hayek is right about a particular level of complexity being unable to understand its own or a higher level of complexity, it would be impossible to understand the nature of sociotemporality in the first place.

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The Internet, to dateboth a repository of information that could be useful for acting in the worldand an instrument of fantasy escape, has expanded potentiality. We do not yetknow to what end.

Our awareness of time may be a function of alanguage ability that developed to facilitate adaptation to a directionless butconstantly changing environment, or it may be a function of awareness ofa basic directional force in the universe preexisting the human brain.

What the Internet has done to date is expand the potentiality formore widespread, instantaneous awareness of activity and consequences on aglobal scale. This means that verifiability need not be personal—so long asreliable information can be retrieved from information systems. But havingretrieved the information or having it instantaneously available does not meanthat we have the capacity to act upon it.

While it is clear that technologies of communication change societiesand permit different forms of human organization, it is not clear that theychange the basic human thought processes embedded in language. The humanbrain does adapt differently to different technologies (recall the differences inbrain wiring between readers of ideograms and of phonetic alphabets), butthe evidence to date indicates the human brain adapts in order to translateinformation into language, so as to exchange information and permit concertedaction with others with whom we communicate. This concerted action is nolonger, as at the dawn of language, action undertaken by people in close contactbut rather is activity undertaken because of reliance upon expectations storedin individual and social memory.

Und es stellt sich die Frage, ob der eigene, subjektiv als sinnvoll empfundene Umgang mit der Zeit sich gegen die Macht einer immer noch weiter vorangetriebenen Beschleunigung und Zeitdisziplinierung behaupten kann.

„Es gibt keine primitive Intuition der Gleichzeitigkeit.“

PlanungstypenBearbeiten In der Chronopsychologie wird unterschieden zwischen Through-timern und In-timern, die es in einem Verhältnis von 50:3 geben soll. Es sind zwei verschiedene Planungstypen in der Wahrnehmung des Zeitverlaufs bekannt: Through-timer planen ihren Tages- und Wochenablauf termingerecht, halten sich an festgelegte Zeiten und überblicken größere Zeitspannen. In-timer dagegen sehen vor allem den jeweiligen Moment und leben im Augenblick. Deshalb kann es zu Schwierigkeiten mit ihrer Pünktlichkeit kommen.

So müssen optische Eindrücke 20 bis 30 Millisekunden auseinander liegen, um zeitlich getrennt zu werden, während für akustische Wahrnehmungen bereits drei Millisekunden ausreichen.

Gemeinschaftliche Arbeit, Koordination, Organisation sind ohne Berücksichtigung des Zeitaspekts nicht möglich.

Weis, Kurt (Hrsg.): Was ist Zeit? . München 1995, S. 53–80

Hermann Lübbe: Schrumpft die Zeit? Zivilisationsdynamik und Zeitumgangsmoral: Verkürzter Aufenthalt in der Gegenwart In: Weis, Kurt (Hrsg.): Was ist Zeit? . München 1995, S. 53–80.

Soziale Zeit ist vor allem an Arbeitsrhythmen gekoppelt.

"Linearisierte und homogenisierte Zeit wird vom Menschen bewußt geplant und verplant und kann damit -...- der unmittelbaren Verfügung anderer entzogen werden. Hier wird Zeit selbst zum interessengesteuerten Machtfaktor – Zeit wird unmittelbar zum Herrschaftsinstrument."

Rainer Zoll (Hrsg.): Zerstörung und Wiederaneignung von Zeit, Frankfurt am Main 1988

Wendorff, Rudolf (Hrsg.): Im Netz der Zeit. Menschliches Zeiterleben interdisziplinär. Stuttgart 1989

"Das Wort „Zeit“, ..., ist ein Symbol für eine Beziehung, die eine Menschengruppe, also eine Gruppe von Lebewesen mit der biologischen Fähigkeit zur Erinnerung und zur Synthese, zwischen zwei oder mehreren Geschehensabläufen herstellt, von denen sie einen als Bezugsrahmen oder Maßstab für den oder die anderen standardisiert."

"Drei Dinge sind es, die uns hindern, so daß wir das ewige Wort nicht hören. Das erste ist die Körperlichkeit, das zweite Vielheit, das dritte ist die Zeitlichkeit. Wäre der Mensch über diese drei Dinge hinausgeschritten, so wohnte er in der Ewigkeit und wohnte im Geiste und wohnte in der Einheit und in der Wüste, und dort würde er das ewige Wort hören."

Digitale Selbstverteidigung

Die Bilder des Digitalen haben keine Referenz auf die Materialität des Digitalen. Ausgehend von dieser These diskutiert Francis Hunger, warum die Bilder der Digitalisierung, vor allem Bilder davon sind, was Menschen sich darunter vorstellen, aber nicht davon, was sich aus einer Materialität des Digitalen ergibt.An historischen Beispielen zeigt der Künstler und Medientheoretiker Francis Hunger auf, was eine Materialität des Digitalen überhaupt bedeuten kann. Damit wird auch der Begriff der Digitalisierung klarer. Er spricht über drei wesentliche Konzepte: 1. Daten, 2. In-Formationsmodell 3. Algorithmus.Indem zu oft vom ›Algorithmus‹ gesprochen wird, bleibt der Blick darauf verstellt, wo ein Punkt politischer Intervention anzusetzen ist. Der Referent fokussiert auf das Informationsmodell, also die Entscheidung darüber, wie Realität im Computer modelliert wird.

Optimism is an occupational hazard of programming: feedback is the treament.

Work when you’re fresh; stop when you’re tired.

At some point software design becomes less about what and more about when.

The resilience of any such ecosystem is equal to it's diversity + interconnectedness.

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Furthermore, we prove that a maximally coherent network with constant interaction strengths will always be linearly stable. We also propose a simple model that, by correctly capturing the trophic coherence of food webs, accurately reproduces their stability and other basic structural features. Most remarkably, our model shows that stability can increase with size and complexity. This suggests a key to May’s paradox, and a range of opportunities and concerns for biodiversity conservation.

A simple model we propose to capture this feature shows that networks can, in fact, become more stable with size and complexity, suggesting a possible solution to the paradox.

Here we show that food webs (networks describing who eats whom in an ecosystem) exhibit a property we call trophic coherence, a measure of how neatly the species fall into distinct levels.

Principle #3: Intentionality is satisfying. Digital minimalists derive significant satisfaction from their general commitment to being more intentional about how they engage with new technologies. This source of satisfaction is independent of the specific decisions they make and is one of the biggest reasons that minimalism tends to be immensely meaningful to its practitioners.

Principle #2: Optimization is important. Digital minimalists believe that deciding a particular technology supports something they value is only the first step. To truly extract its full potential benefit, it’s necessary to think carefully about how they’ll use the technology.

Principle #1: Clutter is costly. Digital minimalists recognize that cluttering their time and attention with too many devices, apps, and services creates an overall negative cost that can swamp the small benefits that each individual item provides in isolation.

Digital Minimalism: A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.‍

Intention trumps convenience

Intentionality is satisfying

Optimization is important

Clutter is costly

Principles of Calm Technology

Is Your Computer Stable?

Open Source Ecology

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Open collaboration is collaboration that is egalitarian (everyone can join, no principled or artificial barriers to participation exist), meritocratic (decisions and status are merit-based rather than imposed) and self-organizing (processes adapt to people rather than people adapt to pre-defined processes).

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Atlas of the Invisible

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Figure 1. The relationship between models, documents, source code, and documentation.

The Algebra of Open and Interconnected Systems

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The Normative Order of the Internet

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In general, it is best to assume that the network is filled with malevolent entities that will send in packets designed to have the worst possible effect.

an ever-changing “now,”

By making the storage and organization of information everyone’s responsibility and no one’s, the internet and web could grow, unprecedentedly expanding access, while making any and all of it fragile rather than robust in many instances in which we depend on it.

humanity’s knowledge production available to all

“A May 2020 TikTok video featuring the Reversible Octopus Plushies now has over 1.1 million likes and 7.8 million views. The video can be found at Girlfriends mood #teeturtle #octopus #cute #verycute #animalcrossing #cutie #girlfriend #mood #inamood #timeofmonth #chocolate #fyp #xyzcba #cbzzyz #t (tiktok.com).”

is disintegrating before our eyes (or worse, entirely unnoticed)

the concept of a link—a “uniform resource locator,” or URL—

It turns out that the physical law (as distinct from the laws of physics) takes up a lot of space, and Harvard Law School was sending more and more books out to a remote depository, to be laboriously retrieved when needed.

If you find a suitable archive URL, then you can add it to the citation. If the citation uses one of the common templates (e.g. {{cite web}}, {{cite news}}, {{Citation}}), then you can edit as follows: Leave the |url= unchanged, pointing to the source URL. Add |archive-url=, pointing to the archive URL. Add |archive-date=, specifying the date when the archived copy was saved. YYYY-MM-DD format is usually easiest but any format can be used. Add or change |url-status=. Use |url-status=dead if the old URL does not work. Use |url-status=unfit or |url-status=usurped if the old URL has been usurped for the purposes of spam, advertising, or is otherwise unsuitable. Use |url-status=live if |url= still works and still gives the correct information, but you want to preemptively add an |archive-url=. Leave the |access-date= unchanged, referring to the date when a previous editor last accessed the |url=. Some editors believe |access-date= should be removed once a working |archive-url= is established since the |url= is no longer available, maintaining an |access-date= is redundant clutter.

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»Das Umkämpfte auf diesem Kampffeld ist letztlich die Vergesellschaftung. Im Effekt haftet die Moralform an allem Vergesellschaftungshandeln, ohne dass explizit zwischen der Verständigung über die Gestaltung der je eigenen Verhältnisse und der Sozialisation in die symbolische Ordnung von Herrschaft unterschieden würde. Erst mit dieser Unterscheidungsfähigkeit hebt aber wirkliches Denken auf diesem Gebiet an.«

It remains a blank page –a means of getting human clusters of infinite variety on the same page.

the Web as a way to have a conversation

The Web is not, first, what Tim Berners-Lee thought he was designing in the early ’90s: a collaborative medium for researchers working together at a distance.  That part, for a variety of technical and legal reasons, just didn’t work.  Neither is the Web a superhighway of anything, if the highway motif makes you think of concrete, steel, and fixed routes to anywhere.  The Web is not, and must never be, the avenue of a monoculture.  It is not the outline of a universal brain that will reduce human beings to mere neurons in a Global Mind.  It is not a monument to the “Me Decade.”  That is, it’s not all about expressive blogging.  Or rather: it’s equally about listening and learning.  It is about them as much as it’s about us.  It is not, he insists, a structure.  It is not an active agent

diese Wortwahl ist hochgradig unsachlich — so, wie es auch unsachlich war, elektromagnetische Wechselfelder in der Berichterstattung über Mobiltelephonie als "Strahlung" zu bezeichnen, denn damit assoziiert die Allgemeinheit i.d.R. schädliche ionisierende Strahlung mit Wellenlängen ab hartem UV.

Was ihn auszeichnete war etwas, das ich einen philosophischen Humor nennen würde. Er hat die ganzen kleinen Absurditäten des menschlichen Lebens gesammelt und sie in seinen Romanen zu Gags gemacht. Vielleicht sind seine Bücher deshalb im Jugend- und Reifealter besonders bekömlich, weil man später selbst zu sehr in die Absurdität eingewickelt ist.

"Sometimes one sees so far that expression refuses to follow as tho it were afraid." -E Varese

"In all the arts there is a physical aspect that we can no longer consider or deal with as we have in the past. Neither space, nor time, nor matter any longer represents for us what it has always represented before. We must accept that all these changes necessarily transform the technique of art, influence even the faculties in invention--influence them deeply enough to modify the conception of art itself." -Paul Valery as quoted by E.Varese

"Language can only have been born spontaneously." -Levi-Strauss

"All living art will be irrational, primitive & complex; it will speak a secret language & leave behind documents not of edification but of paradox." -Hugo Ball

"Music will release the powers lying within that abstract center of hearing and even of vision, which is Comprehension, while Comprehension, in all its spaciousness, will lend equal power to the printed page." -Mallarme

"The acoustic element and the sculptural quality of sound have always been essential to me in art, and in terms of music maybe my background in piano & cello drew me to them. Then there was the use of sound as a sculptural material to enlarge the whole understanding of sculpture from the point of viewing materials. There for not only solid materials like metal, clay, stone, but also sound, noise, melody using language -- all become the material of sculpture, and all acquire their form through thought, so thought too is taken as sculptural means. That is an extreme position, the real transcendental position of production in general." -Joseph Beuys

"No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the artist's consciousness of this discrepancy between his conception and the realization that assures his progress." -E. Varese

"Clear prose indicates an absence of thought....Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on." -M. McLuhan