Neither ‘image’ nor ‘impression’ is the concept of a picture, although in both cases there is a tie-up with a picture, and a different one in either case.
Wittgenstein, Zettel 638
∴ by extension one could argue that the nostalgia for the book and angst surrounding ostensible digital condensation mistakes medium for approach, cursoriness for style. To place issues of labor (i.e., reading, writing, expertise) onto medium is a marginal reading of Marx at best, pun intended.
If we ask for victory and do not know what we mean by it, we shall find the ghost knocking at our door.
Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics
Luciano Floridi’s The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere is Shaping Human Reality
With the Westphalian order (1648), the nation-state becomes the dominant information agent. Post-Bretton Woods, a “variety of multi-agent systems” emerge and empower non-state agents, from individuals to collectives (168-79).
Jim Gee Principles on Gaming
The first conversation between conscious A.I.
“Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker”
244. If someone says ‘I have a body’, he can be asked ‘Who is speaking here with this mouth?’
Wittgenstein, On Certainty
STEVEN WEXLER 