Zeno of Elea

“…he purpose of the arguments was a defense of his teacher’s ideas. Parmenides believed that reality was one, immutable and unchanging. Motion, change, time and plurality were all mere illusions. This, of course, attracted many critics. Zeno’s paradoxes attempted to show that holding the opposite position, that reality was many, was contradictory and absurd. Therefore, “the one” must be the correct philosophy.”

Source: MathCS.org – Real Analysis: 9.12. Zeno of Elea (495?-435? B.C.)

Dziga Vertov • Senses of Cinema

Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.

—Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926

Source: Dziga Vertov • Senses of Cinema

Deconstructing Time, 2nd Edition: Illustrated Essay-blogs About the Human … – Rick Doble – Google Books

The 2nd Edition of Deconstructing Time – essay-blogs about the human experience of time. We are immersed in time. We take time as a fact of life and think very little about its workings, yet we are at its mercy. In a sense time is all you have: on your gravestone will be your name and the date you were born and the date you died. What could we gain by obtaining a perspective, by standing a bit outside of time? Although the clock will still continue to tick, your relation to time will be changed. It is the modern human — i.e. Homo sapiens sapiens — sense of time that is the key difference between humans and the other animals. And further I believe that time, as we experience it, is created by our uniquely human brains and is critical to our sense of consciousness.

Source: Deconstructing Time, 2nd Edition: Illustrated Essay-blogs About the Human … – Rick Doble – Google Books

Moving with the times | Tate

Moving with the times Eadweard Muybridge I David Campany 1 September 2010 Tate Etc. issue 20: Autumn 2010 Eadweard Muybridge Self-Portrait 1885 Albumen silver print 22 x 18 cm © The Archives of American Art The pioneering nineteenth-century Anglo-American photographer is best known for his images of animal and human subjects in motion, but was …

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DAM :: Essays :: Dietrich: Thought-Experiments 1987

“On one hand, the repercussions of digital simulations are an ever-increasing dematerialization of, among others, aesthetic activities and objects. On the other hand, they provide sensuously apprehendable simulations in situations where scientists previously felt compelled to check theories with thought-experiments because the instrumentarium used to conduct and measure physical experiments was inadequate to provide measurable data.”

 

Source: DAM :: Essays :: Dietrich: Thought-Experiments 1987

Bluebird animation based on Charles Bukowski’s poem –

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I’m not going
to let anybody see
you.
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he’s
in there.

there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there’s a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I’m too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody’s asleep.
I say, I know that you’re there,
so don’t be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he’s singing a little
in there, I haven’t quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it’s nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don’t
weep, do
you?