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Chaosmosis Stills 1.Quotations
"Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard." ("A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.") ‘The universe is the game of a child throwing dice." "The most beautiful arrangement is a heap of garbage disposed randomly." Heraclitus. "Because, Soferim Bebel, if it goes to that, (and dormerwindow gossip will cry it from the housetops no surelier than the writing on the wall will hue it to the mod of men that mote in the main street) every person, place and thing in the chaosmos of Alle anyway connected with the gobblydumped turkery was moving and changing every part of the time: the travelling inkhorn (possibly pot), the hare and turtle pen and paper, the continually more or less intermisunderstanding minds of the anticollaborators, the as time went on as it will variously inflected, differently pronounced, otherwise spelled, changeably meaning vocable scriptsigns." J. Joyce http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/jj/jajweb.html "The conceptual persona and the plane of immanence presuppose each other. Sometimes the persona seems to precede the plane, sometimes to come after it - that is, it appears twice; it intervenes twice. On the one hand, it plunges into the chaos from which it extracts the determinations with which it produces the diagrammatic features of a plane of immanence: it is as if it seizes a handful of dice from chance-chaos so as to throw them on a table." "Every thought is a fiat, expressing a throw of the dice: constructivism." "What defines thought in its three great forms - art, science, and philosophy - is always confronting chaos, laying out a plane, throwing a plane over chaos." "Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way, may the difference between past and future and therefore irreversibility enter its description." "Irreversible processes are the source of order- hence the title Order out of Chaos. It is the processes associated with randomness, openness, that lead to higher levels of organization, such as dissipative structures." "Crossing a bifurcation is a stochastic process." "Randomness remains essential on the macroscopic level as well. Since we can no longer simultaneously measure position and momentum in quantum theory, classical determinism is breaking down." Prigogine-Stengers "Order, disorder, the organizational potentialities have to be thought together at the same time in their well known antagonistic character and in their complementary character. These terms return to one another and form something like a loop in motion." Morin "The masterpiece is declared in the final analysis by the spectator[...] it’s the viewers who make the pictures.[...].Art is a product of 2 poles; there’s the pole of the one who makes the work and the pole of the one who looks at it. I give the latter as much importance as the one who makes it." "What belongs to the essence of the world cannot be expressed by language." "All Art is a game with and a fight against chaos." A. Hauser "Art is distinguished from science as a practical from a theoretical faculty." "The description agreable art applies where the end of the art is that the pleasure should accompany the representations considered as mere sensations, the description fine art where it is to accompany them considered as mode of cognition." "Fine art is a mode of representation which is intrinsically final, and which, although devoid of an end, has the effect of advancing the culture of the mental power in the interests of social communication." I. Kant "A work of art is an articulated whole, it arises by the realization of the concept, or conception of the work. Every aspect of the concept finds expression in some aspect of the work, and, conversely, every aspect of the work expresses some aspect of the concept." F. Hegel "The political form of post-modernism, if there is any, will have as its vocation the invention and projection of a global cognitive mapping on a social as well as spatial scale." F. Jameson "A contemporary image is characterized precisely by its generative power: it is no longer a trace (and thus retroactive), but a program (and thus as such, active)." "A photograph is elaborated from the recording of a physical impact, whereas the digital image does not result from the movement of a body, but from a calculation." "Art only fulfills its critical responsibility toward technology when it displaces the implications of the new techniques. Thus the major effects of the computer revolution are only visible today in the works of artists who do not use computers." N.Bourriaud "The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing." J. Joyce http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/jj/jajweb.html
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