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 Hydrating the dead with their fluid logics. Hydrating the dead with their fluid logics.
  
-Billions of thinking machines, human and non-human, all coming from and going to the same place, the earth.+
  
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 Shift the fog-bound or waxy instruction pointer completely into the outside. Shift the fog-bound or waxy instruction pointer completely into the outside.
  
-Logic attempts the domestication of the material in that it normalizes elementary particles: matter is broken up into universal elements according to the double bind of the contemporary (Aristotelian) frame: position and motion.+Logic attempts the domestication of the material in that it normalizes elementary particles: matter is broken up into universal elements according to the double bind of the contemporary frame: position and motion.
  
 Life and death are passive, distinguishable only when pulling at the frame. To give direction to death, it is all the logic of the sacrifice, of the execution ritual. Life and death are passive, distinguishable only when pulling at the frame. To give direction to death, it is all the logic of the sacrifice, of the execution ritual.
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 There really is more of everything. There really is more of everything.
  
-Every thing in this world is more sluggish than its neighbour; easily condensed and more ready to fall prostrate in the face of our earth.+Every thing in this world is more sluggish than its neighbour; easily condensed and more ready to fall prostrate in the face of your earth.
  
-The world is packed with mutant objects that have struck hard bargains to become and remain temporarily as they are, even when humans do not see them. 'Anything does not go' - some aggregates and associations are forced to the front, and others ultimately fail, and so the relativists idea of equivalence is lost.+The world is packed with mutant certainties, thrusting to become and remain temporarily as they are. 'Anything does not go' - some aggregates and associations are forced to the front, and others ultimately fail; so nothing here for the piss prophets to read.
  
 You are nothing but a heap of earth. The problem is not that the learning curve is so flat; the problem is that your slope is so negative. You are nothing but a heap of earth. The problem is not that the learning curve is so flat; the problem is that your slope is so negative.
  
-Revelations of hidden stratum, attuning rocks to humans; carry outs fashioned from the cuts made into the Universe by its vertiginous schizophrenic subjects. 
  
-Obsessed with how words relate to things or how the mind represents the world, and working back and forth between crumpled thought experiments and the smooth space of text, you systematically translate and distort yourself and the earth.+The revelations of hidden stratum, attuning rocks to humans; these are the carry outs fashioned from the cuts made into the Universe by its vertiginous schizophrenic subjects.  
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 +Obsessed with how words relate to things or how the mind represents the world, working back and forth between crumpled thought experiments and the smooth space of text, you systematically translate and distort yourself and the earth.
  
 Terrestrial thought depends on the memory of the sun, buried thought depends on the memory of the cosmos. Terrestrial thought depends on the memory of the sun, buried thought depends on the memory of the cosmos.
  
-Ablated minds, flickering switches, extinct mammoths.+Abbreviated mammoths, flickering switches, ablated minds.
  
 There are always two forces which serve to hold everything together in its own proper connection and proper form, as the strata and the limit of the literary palaeontologist's regard. There are always two forces which serve to hold everything together in its own proper connection and proper form, as the strata and the limit of the literary palaeontologist's regard.
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 Certainty is completely barriered against demonic entropy, tracing a harsh world-line. Certainty is completely barriered against demonic entropy, tracing a harsh world-line.
  
-That which simply _cannot_ be executed, which refuses to be executed in the world as it is.+That which simply cannot be executed, which refuses to be executed in the world as it is.
  
 Enclosure is the foundation of abstraction and language; a theatre of cruelty and of leakage. Enclosure is the foundation of abstraction and language; a theatre of cruelty and of leakage.
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 How can it be that any crash is always tearfully faked and falsified? How can it be that any crash is always tearfully faked and falsified?
  
-Technology is for the Morlocks, the underground people. Witness the hacker's delight in bunkers, in underground data centres. 
  
 With every (computer) crash, the programmer should be forced to drag her fingers through the earth endlessly. With every (computer) crash, the programmer should be forced to drag her fingers through the earth endlessly.
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 All these dendritic exchanges, stacked, stored; all combined in the same operation of artificial insemination and premature ejaculation. All these dendritic exchanges, stacked, stored; all combined in the same operation of artificial insemination and premature ejaculation.
  
-Its not just that the question of putting in the scene the distance between the dead writing and the live reader. More, its a question of highlighting the irreducibility of the play within the electronic system: to exceed its movement, accelerate its cycles until saturated, constrained in an urgent tautology (the assertion of the assertion).+It's not just that the question of calculating, in this mise en scène, the distance between the dead writing and the living reader. More, it's a question of highlighting the irreducibility of the play within the electronic system: to exceed its movement, accelerate its cycles until saturated, constrained in an urgent tautology (the assertion of the assertion). 
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 The electronic circuit = electric circuit + Input/Output. The double bind of death and life, a rhythmic interval in its real time I/O, excluding the not yet births and already done (to) deaths. The electronic circuit = electric circuit + Input/Output. The double bind of death and life, a rhythmic interval in its real time I/O, excluding the not yet births and already done (to) deaths.
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 The vulgarizing of the earth in the binary of the logic gate by supposing the transfer of charges in a system of material energy carried in and out from zero value. Zero is wedged into hardware to exist in its literal read/write, an effect of the flat trompe-l'oeil of language, locked up in a circuit where the promised play of neutralizing the earth as superfluous is contained. The vulgarizing of the earth in the binary of the logic gate by supposing the transfer of charges in a system of material energy carried in and out from zero value. Zero is wedged into hardware to exist in its literal read/write, an effect of the flat trompe-l'oeil of language, locked up in a circuit where the promised play of neutralizing the earth as superfluous is contained.
  
-The false logic of where the instruction wants that which is given is never returned.+The false logic of where the instruction wants that which is given, is never returned.
  
 The computer says: “I will automate your logic” and the logic says “I will tell you what your programs mean”. The computer says: “I will automate your logic” and the logic says “I will tell you what your programs mean”.
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 Crash _is_ the site of execution of language. Crash _is_ the site of execution of language.
  
-Marlowe's Faust specifies that the “characters of signs” force the spirits, just as for Turing it was the teleprinter.+Faust specifies that the “characters of signs” force the spirits, just as for Turing it was the teleprinter. 
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 +Forever conjoining earth with the play of symbols; limed in this dead reality, they never left the place where they were made to be.
  
 The confinement of the spirit of this logic inside what is a niched mineral stack can be brought closer to the ritual conspiracies of demons, or pacts with the devil. The confinement of the spirit of this logic inside what is a niched mineral stack can be brought closer to the ritual conspiracies of demons, or pacts with the devil.
  
-When you construct something like a computer, its thanks to an idealism contained in desultory turns: computers are made of circuits, and circuits render symbols, and symbols bear meaning.+When you construct something like a computer, it's thanks to an idealism contained in desultory turns: computers are made of circuits, and circuits render symbols, and symbols bear meaning.
  
-The read/write gives life to the dead symbol, at the price of the excluded human middle; quotation is nothing but fantasy. +The read/write head gives life to the dead symbol, at the price of the excluded human middle; quotation is nothing but fantasy.
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-The daydream of symbols without hyper-referents, the unchanging of the earth.+
  
 ACTIVE FRAME N ACTIVE FRAME N
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 Thinking is to be dragged in reverse from absolute animism all the way back to the Cretaceous. Unburying or violently expulsing a stack overflow or extinction event. Thinking is to be dragged in reverse from absolute animism all the way back to the Cretaceous. Unburying or violently expulsing a stack overflow or extinction event.
  
-Thought can give only after it has received; by itself it is nothing but an empty heap. The sun might not rise tomorrow, which isn't ever contradicted.+Thought can give only after it has received; by itself it is nothing but an empty heap.  
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 +====== diagrams ====== 
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 +{{:leuphana:ice_stack.jpg|}} 
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 +{{:leuphana:turing_js_r.gif|}}
  
-  Within this circle is Jehovah's name, 
-  Forward and backward anagrammatiz'D, 
-  Th' abbreviated names of holy saints, 
-  Figures of every adjunct to the heavens, 
-  And characters of signs and erring stars, 
-  By which the spirits are enforc'd to rise: 
-  Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, 
-  And try the uttermost magic can perform. 
  
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