Super happy to finally hold a physical copy of my book. It will be out and available after the summer, please contact me if you are interested to review it or to organize an event around it.
#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MediaArchaeology #AnalogComputing #ExperimentalCinema #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena
copublished with KASK&Conservatorium Ghent, designed by Isabelle Vigier, final editing by Bureau Doove.
An informative but also entirely uncritical and unapologetic 'great men'-style biography of Henri-Georges Doll, the engineer who developed the electrical oil prospecting technology that made Schlumberger a large company.
Almost done putting the parts together and hoping to start testing things tomorrow.
Great talk "We The Bacteria, Notes Toward Biotic Architecture" by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley at CIVA in Brussels. Thinking of architecture as our expanded (and common) gut. Pictured is the sink in the entrance of Le Corbusiers Villa Savoye, one of their many illustrations of modernist architecture as anti-biotic.
#BeatrizColomina #MarkWigley #CivaBrussels #SystemsThatMatter
Two new arrivals that go very well together: another very promising-looking Hélène Metzger book (I am starting to be a fan), this one from 1938, with the pages still uncut. And a 1971 book on more or less the same topic.
#HélèneMetzger #TrevorLevere #HistoryOfChemistry #SystemsThatMatter
A passage from a book from 1696 by Nicolaas Hartsoeker, explaining the corpuscular chemical theory that was in vogue after Descartes: the properties of different substances are direct consequences of the shapes of the particles they are composed of. Salts and vitriol for instance consist of small particles with sharp points and edges that tear up other particles around them.
One of the very rare (is it the only one ?) books on cybernetics that appeared in Dutch before the 1960s, published in 1959 by the neurophysiologist S.T.Bok. Didn't realize there was a Dutch word for 'negative feedback': "tegenkoppeling", which translates as 'counterlinking'.
Today, progress in the overkill department has been considerable, but less than hoped for.
Today there were some exciting developments in the overkill department !
When you sketch a circuit with solder and tinned wire, you are already building it !
Spent some time today trying to reduce the ringing on top of this PWM switching of a 200W load. Nice to be using that oscilloscope again.
Bit by bit (it would go a bit faster if that Ethernet board would have been better documented, but we're getting there)
Just started this one but so far it is absolutely mesmerising. Originally published in 1923.
That was a very nice evening in the Kunsthal in Ghent yesterday; an interesting discussion in front of a good audience, between Catherine Willems, Bert de Roo, Giliam Ganzevles and myself around three recently completed bookprojects, expertly moderated by Edith Doove. (there will be a proper launch of my book once it is actually printed and available, after the summer)
#DisobedientPractices #SchoolOfArtsGent #LiberateTheMachines!
#DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
An interesting page from the 1790 "Elemens de Chimie" by Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal, a central figure in the emergence of the chemical industry in France in the 18th century.
#JeanAntoineClaudeChaptal
#historyOfChemistry
#SystemsThatMatter
Now that it is finally working, that temperature sensor seems great.
These esp32 boards with ethernet are great but it took a while to get the first one working.
#WT32ETHO1 #SystemsThatMatter #79 #83
Very curious about this one, the long-awaited follow-up of 'Unthought'.
Finally started on building a modest crystal farm !
#SystemsThatMatter #79 #SemiConductingCrystals #PiezoElectricCrystals
PaleoDarwinism is so much more interesting than NeoDarwinism !
