This article is part of the following series: Translating Vitalities
…Thirty spokes converge in a hub
There where there is nothing,
That is the chariot’s usefulness.
Fashion earth to make a vase from it,
There where there is nothing,
That is the vessel’s usefulness– Lao Zi
Emptiness…makes it possible to move about freely and succeeds in ‘letting pass’. The important thing is not to determine ‘what’ passes – assuming
This article is part of the following series: Top of the heap
For this installment of the Top of the Heap series, I spoke with Alexander I. Stingl, who is a sociologist and a research consultant for Medical Humanities and Social Sciences with the Institute for General Medicine (IAM) of the University Clinic of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
On dancing with the smarts: Cleanse and repeat!
My current …
January, 2525. Below ground. Chemical fumes and white walls. A barely functional weblink with the following webpage, read to the sound of steady beeping:
The science of reading the electrical activity in the cerebral cortex is called encephalography; the material representation of the different electrical folds of the brain an encephalogram.
A biosignal like no other, the EEG is used …
Put the gaze in motion—sweep it across a field: take it all in, without pause. Binoculars along the horizon. Or if not the gaze, sweep with an energy that can lend itself to vision. Ultrasound, across the ocean bottom. X-rays, around a body. Electron beam, across a sample. Or sweep with the Archive’s electronic eye: inventory gun, across the barcode. …
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