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:"By 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard had developed punch cards to hold encoded mechanical patterns for use in his looms. The art of weaving, allowed some human flexibility as a handicraft, was translated into the hard, coded grammar of algorithmic execution." ([[Galloway and Thacker 2007]] 112-3) | :"By 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard had developed punch cards to hold encoded mechanical patterns for use in his looms. The art of weaving, allowed some human flexibility as a handicraft, was translated into the hard, coded grammar of algorithmic execution." ([[Galloway and Thacker 2007]] 112-3) | ||
== People becoming trees == | |||
[[Ovid, Metamorphoses]] I.754-762 | |||
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- "Men may dream in demonstrations, and cut out an illusory world in the shape of axioms, definitions, and propositions, with a final exclusion of fact signed Q.E.D. No formulas for thinking will save us mortals from mistake in our iimperfect apprehension of the matter to be thought about . . . [and] the unemotional intellect may carry us into a mathematical dreamland where nothing is but what is not." -- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, quoted in McKenzie 2002; for use with Logic of Sense project?
Milton, Areopagitica; books have "a potencie of life" since "they preserve as in a violl the purest efficacie and extraction of that living intellect which bred them ... a good book is the pretious life0blood of a master-spirit, imbalm'd and treasur'd up on purpose to a life beyond life" (qtd on 23 in McKenzie 1986)
- for use with book-flowers project?
Cicero's librarian-slave Dionysus making off with his books (Casson 2001, 71-2)
Cassiodorus; created model monastery named Vivarium after ponds for raising fish nearby; had library (Casson 2001, 144)
"the London 'polyglotte' of 1657 was announced by a prospectus which boasted of its superiority to all prior editions (in terms which were later echoed by Bishop Sprat in his praise of the Royal Society)." (Eisenstein 1983, 68)
- "SELL YOUR LANDS, your house, your clothes and your jewelry; burn up your books. On the other hand, buy yourselves stout shoes, travel to the mountains, search the valleys, the deserts, the shores of the sea and the deepest depressions of the earth: note with care the distinctions between animals, the differences of plants, the various kinds of minerals, the properties and mode of origin of everything that exists. BE NOT ASHAMED to study diligently the astronomy and terrestrial philosophy of the peasantry. Lastly, PURCHASE COAL, build furnaces, watch and operate with the fire without wearying. In this way and no other, you will arrive at a knowledge of things and their properties." (Peter "Severinus" Soerensson, Idea Medicinae Philosophiae, 1571)
Saturday, October 2, 2010; Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk, by Kevin Kopelson.
- "'People are lines,' Deleuze suggests. As lines, people thread together social, political, and cultural elements." (Galloway and Thacker 2007 35)
Weaving
- "By 1801, Joseph-Marie Jacquard had developed punch cards to hold encoded mechanical patterns for use in his looms. The art of weaving, allowed some human flexibility as a handicraft, was translated into the hard, coded grammar of algorithmic execution." (Galloway and Thacker 2007 112-3)
People becoming trees
Ovid, Metamorphoses I.754-762