Symbolizing existence : Metalithikum III / edited by Vera Bühlmann, Ludger Hovestadt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bühlmann, Vera, editor.

Hovestadt, Ludger, editor.

Series:

Applied virtuality book series.

Applied Virtuality Book Series, 2196-3118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coding theory.

Signs and symbols--Data processing.

Signs and symbols.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Die Beiträge des Symposiums Symbolizing Existence folgen der immer rascher fortschreitenden „Deterritorialisierung“ von Realität: Die Art und Weise, wie der soziale Raum mittlerweile informationstechnisch durchdrungen wird, stellt ein eigenartig a-territoriales Substrat dar, das für die Entwicklung eines digitalen Konstruktionsdenkens eine tragende Rolle spielt. Denn heute erfasst und beschreibt ein elektronischer Code den gesamten Bereich dessen, was sich geometrisch, funktional und logisch darstellen lässt. Solche „Beschreibungen“ etablieren in dem, was sie beschreiben, logistische Ordnungen: als Netze von vielwertigen Punkten, die sich unterschiedlich verbinden und verteilen lassen. Ein Punkt etwa kann hier nicht mehr länger als „das, was keine Teile hat“ (Euklid) erachtet werden, sondern müsste, so der Fokus des Symposiums, als „das, was in reziproker Weise doppelt artikuliert ist“, erachtet werden. Ein interdisziplinäres Lesebuch für Architekten mit Interesse an Mathematik, Informatik, Geometrie – und an deren Bedeutung für aktuelle Entwicklungen des digitalen Entwerfens.

Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening “deterritorialization” of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index the entire realm of what can be expressed and represented through a cascade of geometrical, functional, or finally logified schemes. We are currently experiencing a rapid loss of “grounding” of that which we once considered binding in our cultural and intellectual history. How can we obtain an articulate, cultivate way of thinking about “instances” that does not fall back into a schematic model Platonism (thereby falling behind Plato), and that does not remain enmeshed in an Aristotelian realization dynamics with a naturalism organized by original genus, kinds, and specific marks of distinction?The central phenomenon considered was the technological process of doping material: At the quantum level, a particle or its representation, the point, is no longer “that which has no parts” (Euclid).

Contents:

Frontmatter

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ON THE BOOK SERIES

Introduction – Symbolizing Existence

I. A Scheme for a Fantastic Genealogy of the Articulable

II. Topologies of an Aesthetics of the Virtual in Music

III. Media Metaphorology: Irritations in the Epistemic Field of Media Studies

IV. Fro m Pebbles to Digital Signs. The Joint Origin of Signs for Numbers and for Script – Their Intercultural Standardization and Their Renewed Conjunction in the Digital Era

V. Foucault , Boole, And Our Deleuzean Century

VI. A Mathematical Drama Articulating a Thing Entirely in its Own Terms

VII. ‘On the Baroque Line: the Mind-Body Problem’ 212 and the Art of Cryptography

VIII. Nudged Viands

Image references

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

3-0356-0379-0

OCLC:

953294978