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{{:t01sm.jpg|}} w. [[http://xxn.org.uk|Jonathan Kemp]], [[http://1010.co.uk/org|Martin Howse]], and [[http://www.fotokatie.com/katier/|Kathrin Guenther]]




Weird Apparatus: World Brain Interface - A new approach to the brain and the world is celebrated in an action the so-called Berlin Tempelhof World Brain Interface. Direct electromagnetic induction from the earth to
human brain was executed as one of a series of recent collaborative weird apparatus works
made to extemporize the great outdoors to the possibility of breakdown on the brain's inner
horizon.

Such actions are an attempt to escape what can be described as the anti-machine, that is, the
systematic, long lasting and predominant implication of Immanuel Kant's ‘Copernican turn',
where the distinction between things in themselves and things as they are for us underwrites
the divide between human and non-human, and where reality is extruded as the necessary
correlate of human thought.

One aspect of these actions can be described as their apparent gathering together of some of
the assembling principles behind variously ill-defined technical imbroglios (that could include,
in this instance, those for making measurements of the earth's electromagnetic field). As such,
they do not describe any necessary characterization nor essential specification of how these
principles might exactly coalesce together, but rather indicate the many many modes of the
material under a gathering of uncertain techné in “the mangle of practice” that the
universalising effects of abstraction cannot describe.

Thus the example given of the Berlin Tempelhof World Brain Interface attends to a concern with
the non-present modality of objects so as to remake interface as always the just-contingent
modality of thought. It can be argued that such modalities will necessarily caricature entities in a
dystopic nihilistic form (Doing Philosophy), whether as in a forced network of things in some
manifestation of a species independent framework; or through a process of revealing entities,
that is, in the production of things that bear witness to other things; or things
that produce things from the perspective of things; or just in the meddling and mangling of
weird apparatus itself.

more [[http://www.psychogeophysics.org/wiki/doku.php?id=tempelhof:images|images]]


also see: http://www.megakastro.gr/weather_agro/solar_modulation.htm
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