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:

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

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

'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"

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