You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Reading about remediation and the mixing of various arts and forms and how a new medium appropriates the techniques of the older medium until it finds its own, that's all very interesting.
But reading about something being gendered, the "male gaze" this the "female form" that, is really tiring. Especially if the text goes into Freud.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
My thought on it is that yes, everything is inherently male and female, for varying definitions of "inherent." Male and female is a natural and social binary like computer codes use binary.
But 0 and 1 as well as male and female mean nothing in isolation, independent of each other. Binary is formed into a symbol, which is fitted into a system of codes, a language, with which we create meanings and understandings. Those are the problems.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My thought on it is that yes, everything is inherently male and female, for varying definitions of "inherent." Male and female is a natural and social binary like computer codes use binary.
But 0 and 1 as well as male and female mean nothing in isolation, independent of each other. Binary is formed into a symbol, which is fitted into a system of codes, a language, with which we create meanings and understandings. Those are the problems.
i disagree
Binary relations in the social sense are not binaries in the sense that computer codes use binary
they're not two discrete values that can't be otherwise
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
That's exactly my point, though. Social binaries are formed of our language. Our unwieldy, imprecise language.
This is my reconciliation of Daoism with modernistic thinking. That ascribing innate qualities to "male" and "female" is ultimately useless, because when you reduce something to its basest parts, you get nothing, because it is nothing.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
These are the Eight Trigrams. A straight line represents Yang, the male, bright aspects. A "broken" line represents Yin, the female, dark aspect. The point of this is that everything is made up of complicated aspects, and reducing something to nothing but a singular aspect is unideal and unrealistic.
What I object to is that we associate anything at all to either aspect. Because when you look deep enough, what is light? What is dark? Why do we ascribe emptiness to 0 and substance to 1 when both is required to make anything at all?
I also have no objection to the idea of the male gaze, in the context of being a male in society, viewing others as society teaches us to. What I object to is an ultra-granular approach that states that the "singular" viewer is practicing the male gaze and the "plural" viewer is practicing the female gaze.
Oh OK, that's interesting, and clarifies things. i don't disagree.
Your second paragraph there sounds a lot like poststructuralism, btw. Or maybe i should say that certain poststructuralist ideas sound a lot like a Daoist concept.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
I can honestly say that lots of people who practice Daoistic principles are not critical of the binary opposition, but I feel like they can be. It's right there, written into our language and our code, of both forces working and acting in concert.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The clock in my room is weird. Instead of going clockwise, like a normal clock, it's goes anti-clockwise. The 12 and the 6 are in the same place, but the 3 is where the 9 should be, the 9 is where the 3 should be and so on...
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The clock in my room is weird. Instead of going clockwise, like a normal clock, it's goes anti-clockwise. The 12 and the 6 are in the same place, but the 3 is where the 9 should be, the 9 is where the 3 should be and so on...
Aww man I've gotta get one of these for my collection
Like a counterclockwise clock is practically an oxymoron
The clock in my room is weird. Instead of going clockwise, like a normal clock, it's goes anti-clockwise. The 12 and the 6 are in the same place, but the 3 is where the 9 should be, the 9 is where the 3 should be and so on...
I do have to check that I am not going back to time somehow. I do like it, and want to get one for myself, but it does freak me out when I forget that it's a backwards clock.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I wasted a whole bunch of time following random railways around Indiana on Google Maps
Then I ran to the end of that track and picked up a different one in Kentucky
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
*gives Tools and Tachyon and Jane magic lollipops*
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I'll bet that cost more than a normal clock because the mechanism would have to be custom made to tick backwards instead of using the super cheap internals of every other quartz clock
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, searching the American Amazon yields quite a few such clocks
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Binary relations in the social sense are not binaries in the sense that computer codes use binary
they're not two discrete values that can't be otherwise
Not a pleasant one, but its existence shouldn't be disregarded.
Your second paragraph there sounds a lot like poststructuralism, btw. Or maybe i should say that certain poststructuralist ideas sound a lot like a Daoist concept.
That day of sunshine I had yesterday was a miracle.
Now it's back to raining heavily.
How are you?
How about you? i hope the rain clears up.
I stayed up late even by my standards
Like a counterclockwise clock is practically an oxymoron
where me and Tools are it's been morning for some time a Looking-Glass Land clock!
Then I ran to the end of that track and picked up a different one in Kentucky
http://i.imgur.com/1AtJOA2.jpg
neat
I never noticed that! Goddamnit.
I need one.
I shall haunt every clock shop until I find one.
"Sorry, we can't deliver this item to the United States"
:(