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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Dead Time: The Machinery of Reality
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2017 00:46:01 -0500 (EST)
Dead Time: The Machinery of Reality http://www.alansondheim.org/areal.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/deadtime.txt Dead Time: The Machinery of Reality, Obscura, 1982 35 years ago, foray into media phenomenology "Postscript - It must be understood that this article is an outline at best. Because of the interstitial nature of scientific photography, its aesthetics and phenomenology draw on such diverse areas as the philosophy of science, theories of cognition, phenomenology and traditional photographic aesthetics. The deepest problem is two-fold: the relation of theory to image, and the mathematization of reality. The latter is fundamental to scientific progress - and the former (the "image-reality nexus") can often be reduced to an analysis of algorithmic procedures. The gap between mathematics and physical reality (the abstract and material "worlds") is treated different depending on one's viewpoint (materialist, intuitionist, conventionalist, anarchist, etc.). I tend towards an anarchism in methodology and a Platonism in core structure. Dead Time reflects this viewpoint, however contradictory." (I don't want to constantly resuscitate older work, but this seems of interest to anyone following my current thinking. Yes, there are holes in it, but the discussion seems apropos.)