Excited to receive some new reading materials, just in time for the weekend:

Actual sighting today: This is egregious across so many dimensions of outrageousness my mind started to melt as soon as I saw the label:

Since they emerged at roughly the same time, it's too bad John Cage & Hank Williams never toured together. Hey Good Lookin' & 4’33” came out within a year of each other, so they could have done a duet--perhaps a long silence solo during Hey Good Lookin', using a fiddle instead of a piano for 4’33”

w00t: Excited to dive into some new textuality via two recent acquisitions: "The Living End: Painting & Other Technologies, 1970-2020" from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, & "Quantum Ecology: Why & How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies" from MIT Press
#mcachicago #mitpress

In addition to the problem described here, there's also the fact that the infinite number of infinitely-typing monkeys type would also eventually succumb to infinite cases of carpal tunnel syndrome

The NFL should stop timing football games using quantitative measures of clock time & instead use Henri Bergson’s notion of time as duration (la durée), i.e., a qualitative continuum of temporality as a perpetually incomplete succession of multiplicitous heterogeneity without absolute distinction

My hypothesis: The drones flying around the northeast USA are piloted by the clowns that lurked around the forests during the pandemic, who are now searching for all those monoliths that kept popping up circa autumn 2020 so they can get their deposit back from the monolith-rental company

'Tis the season to remind everyone of the bizarre fact that the font used for the end credits of the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie is essentially identical to the font used on the hardcover edition of the Macquarrie and Robinson translation of Heidegger's "Being and Time"

County agent Hank Kimball of "Green Acres" is the quintessential distillation of the contingent, 'in-between' uncertainty of radically decentered subjectivity

Somewhere in the multiverse there's a version of Earth where Moe Tucker was in the Three Stooges and Moe Howard was in the Velvet Underground

Books that entangle art & aesthetics with information theory & complex adaptive systems studies make great holiday gifts!

Get my book, "Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics" for 40% off before Dec 13 from the Duke UP site (direct link in the first comment)

The fact that Frosty the Snowman can sustain a stable consciousness / personality / memory across multiple manifestations or regenerations year after year suggests that, like Turing computation and wave pattern hydrodynamics, the operation of Frosty's subjectivity matrix is substrate-independent