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Teaching and Research

Tue, 24 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Overview of my Academic Teaching and my Practice of Analysis and Consultancy

The detailed descriptions and syllabi are on linked to the pages on my Github:

Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH)

AI Humanities

As director of the WIIH I develop an AI Humanities program. The aim is to revisit and reclaim artificial intelligence as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.

Courses:

Introduction to Creative Industries and Business Basics for Creative Industries

Arts and design as a business: Two courses to work through the concept of creative industries, learn product development and product management, marketing, financial planning, how to get funded, etc.

AI Introduction

This block seminar gives a short introduction to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI): The theory, philosophy, and first code examples for the most common neural network models.

Media Entrepreneurship

This course introduces how to draft and plan a startup in interactive media: The goal is to contribute to forming a critical understanding of current media culture, by thinking and acting like a startup entrepreneur.

Information and Communication Technologies

From the earliest alphabets to our current interactive media: History and critical theory of technologically mediated communication.

Media Audiences

Looking at the recipients of media, audience theory, the cultural industry, taste, fandom, propaganda, and conducting empirical audience research.

Media Law and Ethics

Introduction to ethics and law for digital media professionals.

Understanding Interactive Media

Digital media as art, activism, and part of culture.

Future Punk

Speculative fiction, strategy planning, future studies: We work our way through the field of futurism and use its methods as our creative tool.

Politics of Code

Deconstructing the design and implementation of software as a political medium and re-building functional alternatives.

Nature of Code aka Decoding Nature

Capturing and modelling complexity in code: Laws of motion, complex systems, generative art.

Mashups

Remixing the internet.

Blockchain Fiction

“Blockchain is the new Internet” (or not).

Analysis and Consultancy

Future of Democratic Governance and Participation with Digital Technology

Trustless communication

Peer-to-peer communication based on privacy preserving computation and federated learning.

About Me

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:14:54 -0800

Joerg Blumtritt is an entrepreneur, researcher, and Director of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH) at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. He teaches digital media at Wheaton College, at NYU New York and in Abu Dhabi. Joerg co-founded data science and research&development companies in Munich, Gdansk, London, and New York. He consults businesses and public institutions in technology driven transformation. As political activist and researcher he works on projects pertaining to the future of media, publishing, and democratic participation. Joerg is co-author of the Slow Media Manifesto which has been translated into 25 languages and is topic of numerous lectures and PHD theses.

Paraidox Session | April 23 — The Paradoxes of AI and Human Systems

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Online event organized by Gudio van Nispen. Featuring Vint Cerf, Joerg Blumtritt, Dr Tamás Dávid-Barrett, and Gregorio Ameyugo.

Date: Thursday, 23 April 2026
Time: 1700 to 1800 CEST, 1100 to 1200 ET

Registration Link:

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/e7ff7a0e-6e3e-4a76-81df-d738617720e3@f02e8ee2-1b05-4906-bb9d-5a8b2d6cc996

What will history post AI look like? What will we see when we look back 50 years from now? Will there still be historic reality? Or will there be a multitude of alternative world-models, generated from synthetic data? Will the simulacra generated by our AI models drift away from reality, become their own reality?

I will talk about high-dimensional models of reality, simulation and synthetic data, simulacra and the hyperreal.

My work with privacy preserving model training and homomorphic encryption has been leading me along this journey, and confronted me with all kinds of weird stuff, like model poisoning and model collapse, the curse of dimensionality, reality hidden in low-dimensional submanifolds … and the question, whether the model after which we are chasing with AGI is the “Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it” ?

«Le simulacre n’est jamais ce qui cache la vérité – c’est la vérité qui cache qu’il n’y en a pas. Le simulacre est vrai.»

Time has come for me to remember ...

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Une heure est venue pour moi où quand je me rappelle ce baptistère, devant les flots du Jourdain où saint Jean immerge le Christ tandis que la gondole nous attendait devant la Piazzetta il ne m’est pas indifférent que dans cette fraîche pénombre, à côté de moi il y eût une femme drapée dans son deuil avec la ferveur respectueuse et enthousiaste de la femme âgée qu’on voit à Venise dans la Sainte Ursule de Carpaccio, et que cette femme aux joues rouges, aux yeux tristes, dans ses voiles noirs, et que rien ne pourra plus jamais faire sortir pour moi de ce sanctuaire doucement éclairé de Saint-Marc où je suis sûr de la retrouver parce qu’elle y a sa place réservée et immuable comme une mosaïque, ce soit ma mère.

Marcel Proust, Albertine disparue

Temps retrouvé

Memory Hygiene

Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

“Et c’est en somme une façon comme une autre de résoudre le problème de l’existence, qu’approcher suffisamment les choses et les personnes qui nous ont paru de loin belles et mystérieuses, pour nous rendre compte qu’elles sont sans mystère et sans beauté ; c’est une des hygiènes entre lesquelles on peut opter, une hygiène qui n’est peut-être pas très recommandable, mais elle nous donne un certain calme pour passer la vie, et aussi — comme elle permet de ne rien regretter, en nous persuadant que nous avons atteint le meilleur, et que le meilleur n’était pas grand’chose — pour nous résigner à la mort.”

Marcel Proust, À l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs.

New Class: Understanding AI

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

At Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. Spring 2026. DMC 298 – Platforms and Industries.

The world is turning around Artificial Intelligence. But what is AI? What makes technology intelligent? And what does that mean and do for us?

The course Understanding AI introduces into the concept of AI and machine learning. We will explore how systems learn through training with or without pre-set rules, and how they generalize from their training data to quite arbitrary tasks. We will look into creative experiments with AI and applications outside the “ready-made”, “pre-packaged”, “shiny boxes” of Chatbots and prompt-based image generation, to get an idea on the true potential of AI (and also its limitations).

Each week will be divided into three sections: concept and theory, practical examples, and creative experiements.

Prerequisites: Outside the necessary interest in general digital media and communications topics, some basic coding experience in any programming language will be really helpful, as well as some general openness to mathematical thinking (i.e. if you want to enjoy the class you should not generally hate math and computers).

AI: Is it creative or just crap?

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Wednesday, December 03, 500 pm At Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. Mary Lyon Hall, Woolley Room (2nd floor).

AI attacks stereotypical New England scholastics. AI artwork made by students.

AI and the creative industries — What does it do? What can’t it do? What will it enhance? What will it make obsolete? What will it retrieve that might not happen otherwise?

Moral panic. AI artwork made by students.

This session will feature creative work by Wheaton students, critical, celebratory, academic, satyrical.a pink brain raises a sharp pencil towards a grey and black robot which holds a blue blob

Back at Wheaton - Opening Convocation

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

… link: Memmel, Matthias, and Gabriele Wimböck, eds. Die Herren Der Kette. Rektorenporträts an Der LMU. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 2011.

Wheaton College, looking the same as it did when I left almost a year ago …

Jupiter and Lucifer

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

καὶ Φωσφόρος καὶ Δεύς

Flower arrangements

Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Colophon

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Imprint

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Waldeinsamkeit

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

While the forest on the left is still somewhat populated, although by a French soldier lost in the German thicket, probably hiding from Lützow’s infamous hunt, the solitude of the spruce thicket on the right is complete. The spectator is on their own, confronted with sublime nature. The sketch for the “thicket” (the right picture) is from the same time as the left picture, the time of the Napoleonic War.

Caspar David Friedrich, Büsche im Schnee, oil on canvas, 1827-1828

“Towards the midnight part of our little country Austria a forest brushes its dusky ranges to the west for about thirty miles, starting at the spring of the Thaia river, continuing to that three state corner where Bohemia runs into Bavaria and Austria.

August Cappelen, Tree Study, oil over black chalk on paper, mounted to paper-covered wood, c. 1850. Morgan Library New York.

There, like often seen with the needles of a crystal formation, a bustle of mighty mountain ridges and passes charged into each other, and pushed up a rough massif, that would then present its blue woods to the three countries, and send out wavy hills and gushing brooks in all directions.

At first, dense forest stands of monotonous spruce and pine lead up from the Moldau valley for hours, then follows timidly climbing out of the river Seebach, open land; - but it is a wild deposit of torn valley bottoms, consisting of nothing but pitch black soil, the dark death bed of a thousand years of vegetation, where many balls of granite are scattered, like pale skulls, standing out from the ground, as they have been washed clear by the rain, washed and rasped round. Here and there might lie the white bones of a fallen tree, and chunks washed up. The Seebach’s water is brown and full of iron, but so clear that in sunlight the sand glitters from the riverbed, like grains of gold reddishly flickering up. No sign of human intervention, pristine silence.

After an hour of hiking, a whiff of young spruce trees welcome us, and stepping out from the black velvet of its bottom, we stand at the even blacker surface of a lake. A feeling of deepest loneliness takes over irresistibly whenever I enjoy climbing up to the fairy lake. It lies between the hard bluffs, seamed by dense bands of sprout trees, dark and sincere, whereoff some single trunk stretches, barren of branches, like a single antique column.

He (God) has described everything so vividly, all the woods up there, too, vast and impermeable, so that our own appear like gardens in comparison. A black magic lake should rest in their centre, and miraculous rocks and miraculous trees stand around it, and a high forest surrounding it, in which no axe has been heard since creation. The hunter said that he would not yet have gone so far in to reach the water, but soon he would do it, and carry a blessed silver button with him, to shoot down the murderer and poacher, as soon as he would spot him, because they stand fast against lead.”

Adalbert Stifter, Hochwald (‘High Forest’, my translation).

Caspar David Friedrich, Landhaus in einem Laubwald, 1797. Friedrichs first landscape from his study time in Copenhagen

During the Thirty Years War, Heinrich, lord of Castle Wittinghausen hides his two daughters Klarissa and Johanna from the approaching Swedes in a cottage, tucked away in the forests.

But there is no escape. The High Forest, written by Adalbert Stifter at the peak of romanticism, 1841/42, the years leading up to the revolution in March 1848, depict the Bohemian Forest so that Friedrich’s images are fitting illustrations.

Caspar David Friedrich, Friedhof im Schnee, oil on canvas, 1826-1827. Leipzig, Museum der Künste.

Unfortunately, the story and its characters are so wood cut and full of kitchy piety as we too often find with Stifter (and Friedrich).

In the company of trees one is usually found in the forest. Living in community, -which is in biology ‘in symbiosis’- i.e. mutually depending. Mushrooms, fungi live communally with trees like that; which is well known. The mycelium socialises with the roots. When the tree dies, a fairy ring grows out of it …

Fungi -heterotrophic- cannot generate their calories on their own; they receive carbohydrates and other detritus from the tree to which they convey different nutrients in return. Humans -also heterotrophic- are seen on Friedrichs images, in community with trees, too.

Carl Gustav Carus (from left:), Deutscher Mondschein, Erinnerungen an Rom, Italienischer Mondschein, oil on canvas, 1833. Leipzig, Museum der Künste.

Cities, however, in Friedrich’s time, are like islands in nature. They are seen from afar, from the safe distance of a hide-out, just like it is evoked in Stifer’s High Forest.

Cities are the result of the long struggle to bring spatial and psychological distance between humankind and the hardships of nature; the safety of the cities, which in Stifter’s time would start to be connected by safe railroad travel, becoming knotted together to grow into a single ecumenopolis. It is only then that the idea of nature could be tied to a longing for something that would stand outside this network, something other.

Caspar David Friedrich, Blick ins Elbtal, oil on canvas, 1807.

Der Jäger Abschied
(Hunters' Farewell)
Wer hat dich, du schöner Wald,
Aufgebaut so hoch da droben?
Wohl den Meister will ich loben,
So lang‘ noch mein‘ Stimme erschallt,
Will ich loben,
So lang‘ noch mein Stimme erschallt!
Lebe wohl, lebe wohl, lebe wohl, lebe wohl,
Lebe wohl, lebe wohl, du schöner Wald!
Lebe wohl, lebe wohl, du schöner Wald!

J. v. Eichendorff, 1810

Giambatista Vico writes in 1725: “The order of human affairs progressed like this: at first there were the forests, then the huts, then villages, later the cities, and finally the academies.”

Throughout the occident we find a stable base system of emotions in relationship to the forest. The forest was never a habitat to people, only outcasts would dwell in the woods. This gives us the background for the attributions.

Since the emergence of villégiature, or Sommerfrische, leisurely walks and outings into the landscape, i.e. since the second half of the 19th century, most people in Western and Central Europe regard their forest in the sense of the classic commons, a space which serves the public for recreation, on which everyone has a claim. But this notion is so recent and has had so little impact on our allegorical repository, that it is worthwhile to look into the development of the forestal metaphors.

Until the rise of the early civilisations people could experience the forest only along the edges or at clearings and would almost completely stay out of the deeper woods. Greek antiquity could unfold a more differentiated image of the woods. There are the titanic primordeal forests, remaining in the dard, similar to other tabooed locations. There was, however, also the grove-often a holy place; and here we find already the dialectic of the forest that is so typical for European culture: The grove is a place where the chased creature can find refuge, even from the gods, like Daphne from Apollo-but also a place where the nymphs walk abroad, giving Ovid the plot for many of the unlucky Metamorphoses. It is a place where men have to pay due attention to “female nature” not to be lead astray by sad Echo.

Caspar David Friedrich, Spaziergang in der Abenddämmerung, oil on canvas, c. 1835. The discovery of early medieval manuscripts in the secularised monastic libraries after 1803 brought to light the lost history of a pagan past to Germany, most famously known through Wagner’s operas. The Germans were constructed as the wild counterpart to the civilised Romans. Prehistoric monuments like the dolmen in Friedrich’s paintings gave the stage to thus invent the Germanic culture.

Interesting is the construction of a German Identity from the forest in contrast to Roman civilasation, which Tacitus sketches already around 100 AD in his Germania. In the defeat of Varrus in the Teutoburger Wald, the realm of the arch-barbars, we find the genesis myth of the Germans as wild people of the woods. This allegorical connection of German with forest might also explain why the Baumfrevel, which is an actual German legal term which means ‘sacrilege against the tree’, and Waldsterben, the dying of the woods from pollution, hence committed by civilisation, have become even somewhat global terms.

Up to the end of the medieval times people had a primary exterminatory relationship to the forests: On clearings which the hoovers cut into the woods, hoof-shaped hides, piece by piece the Virgin Soil would be upturned. Forests contributed very little to people’s nourishment except for honey.

Caspar David Friedrich, Das Riesengebirge, oil on canvas, 1830-1835

Thus the forests were mostly dreaded, mostly for losing one’s way in it, and being the hideout for highwaymen and robbers. The holy grove of antiquity degraded into the dwelling for cobolds, schrats, and similar rabble.

Carl Gustav Carus, Verschneiter Wald mit Steinkreuz, oil on canvas, 1823

During the renaissance the loss of cultural meaning becomes strikingly obvious. Christianity based on Mediterranean traditions that evolved from a rather arid climate would give little surface to link with forests; only the Cisterciens would on occasion reclaim forests for agriculture.

Problems with massive deforestation from ship building and heating houses, but also salines, gives rise to systematic forestry. The concept of Sustainability emerges from the direct experience of the silviculturists to balance their harvest into a dynamic equilibrium between culture and nature. In the baroque age the hunt becomes the cultural anchor of the court ritual.

And then, with the turn to modernity and the rapid growth of cities, urban culture forms the image of forests as complementary to culture; the night and the woods; beauty and the sublime, the dialectic of romanticism.

Adolf Levenstein published Questions concerning the worker (Die Arbeiterfrage) in 1912, a study based on empirical surveys of 8,000 workers. “What do you think when you lie on the ground in the forest?” he wanted to know. The written responses demonstrate how much the forest had already become the metaphor for the entire nature. A textile worker from Berlin, e.g. makes the attempt to express his feelings in the style of romantic poetry: “Yes. I lie on the moss and look up to the pure firmament. Nothing is moving, nothing bothers me, an endless, comfortable feeling streams through the chest. I feel becoming one with the vast, infinite universe.” (Quoted after Lehmann in „Der Bürger im Staat“, Nr. 51,1, 2000).

Johann Christian Dahl, Zwei Männer vor einem Wasserfall bei Sonnenuntergang, oil on canvas, 1823. Dahl painted this homage to artistic friendship in 1823, the year he became Friedrich’s upstairs neighbor. The man on the left, in a fitted coat and black top hat, appears in many of Dahl’s paintings, while the one on the right sports the trademark beret and cape worn by many of Friedrich’s figures. Their appearance side by side in this scene reflects the close relationship between the two artists. The landscape is recognizably that of northern Europe, although the waterfall was likely inspired by Dahl’s recent sojourn in Italy. (quoted from the exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

The woods as a symbol of subjectiveness, inward looking, and secret tremble. Dusky woods and shady gorges in the rocks are most beloved panoramic images of romanticism. The hunt, the castle (sometimes on fire), the hermite (pilgrim, monk), the thunderstorm, the moonlit night, the window (maybe the gothic windows of a church ruin) as motive of desire and the longing for expanse, and furthermore the forest fire as eschaton. The forest encloses human settlements which by that get shifted to the centre of our world.

Refuge - those who in a fairy tale are in distress, go into the forest. The forest is the place for apparition, for jack-o’-lanterns. The myth puts things of the sublime (sun, moon, stars, forest) in relation to the mundane. In the forest this is done in expectation of witches, dragons, giants, dwarfs, even robbers, or in hope to run into a good fairy. The sublime is the complement to the beautiful. The sublime stands above us and our own helplessness.

In Gesellschaft von Bäumen, “In the Company of Trees”, is the title of the second book of Bottom’s Dream (Zettels Traum), Arno Schmidt’s longest typoscript novel, written 1963-1969. The four main characters spend a secluded summer weekend together to get into the right mood to begin their project: The translation of Edgar Allen Poe into German. They start their day before sunrise, to go for a hike (or rather a long walk), starting on “The Field of Horrors” (Das Schauerfeld, i.e. rather the field of shivers …), which is an open patch of heath close to Schmidt’s actual home in Bargfeld, near Celle in Lower Saxony. From there they go on, into the woods (into the company of trees), to finally arrive at Dan’s Cottage, the fictional house of Schmidt’s alter ego. It is in this second book of Schmidt’s extremely voluminous work-a book that is a heavy read not only because it ways almost ten kilograms- where we find the environment in a very romanticist way brought into context with the sublime. The four hikers in the forest make the attempt to put themselves “into the folds of the time of the 19th century”, as they begin to more and more see the world through the eyes of a contemporary to Poe. Blue pebbles at the wayside are transformed into ejections from volcanos on the moon, and finally Dan wishes to be struck dead by a meteorite to find a fitting egomaniac end. Mushrooms are foraged, while the stilted, even construed conversation circles around books that would frame Poe’s romantic mind.

A specific role comes here to an utopian novel, mostly forgotten today: Niels Klim’s Underground Travels by the Norwegian writer Daniel Holberg-still famous today not only because of Edward Grieg’s suite From Holberg’s Time (probably a long gone time for Grieg already …). In this satirical novel, a subterranean parallel world is discovered by the natural scientist Klim. In the reality of the 17th century, the astronomer Edmund Halley, comparing the masses of earth and moon, had deduced that the earth would have to be hollow inside. This triggered a whole fashion of hollow world stories. Casanova’s Iscameron is a contemporary example, but also the fairy tale of Regentrude by Theodor Storm or Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol, Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym, and of course Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth are testimony to the suggestive power which this idea exercised on the 19th century minds. And Holberg’s novel was one of the most popular of those visions, from the late 18th to the mid 19th century.

Nils Klim, Holberg’s hero, after a considerable time in free fall lands on a subterranean planet, in the middle of a group of trees, of tree-people, who dwell in the country of Potu in an egalitarian and liberal society without class boundaries, and with emancipated genders. Potu’s hierarchy is a res publica litteraria, a society of letters (hence of particular appeal for Schmidt who had written a novel Die Gelerhtenrepublik). This closes the loop within Vico’s cyclical order of the world, as mentioned above, which ends with the academies that for Holberg’s Potu already sit in the forests.

One of Holberg’s tree-people from an engraving of an early print of Niels Klim acts as the cover image for the first edition of Arno Schmidt’s Bottom’s Dream:

Der verirrte Jäger

Ich hab gesehn ein Hirschlein schlank
Im Waldesgrunde stehn,
Nun ist mir draußen weh und bang,
Muß ewig nach ihm gehn.

Frischauf, ihr Waldgesellen mein!
Ins Horn, ins Horn frischauf!
Das lockt so hell, das lockt so fein,
Aurora tut sich auf!“

Das Hirschlein führt den Jägersmann
In grüner Waldesnacht,
Talunter schwindelnd und bergan,
Zu nie gesehner Pracht.

Wie rauscht schon abendlich der Wald,
Die Brust mir schaurig schwellt!
Die Freunde fern, der Wind so kalt,
So tief und weit die Welt!“

Es lockt so tief, es lockt so fein
Durchs dunkelgrüne Haus,
Der Jäger irrt und irrt allein,
Findt nimmermehr heraus.

J. v. Eichendorff

My woods: /tags/forest

The Sublime

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The Metropolitan Museum New York had a seminal exhibition on Caspar David Friedrich that for the first time allowed me to see the bulk of his paintings in context. The develpment of Friedrich’s aproach to landscapes is striking, starting from sketches and ink in his Copenhagen time, to the large format oil that made him famous.

Ostküste von Rügen mit Schäfer. Brown ink and wash over pencil, with white opaque watercolor, on wove paper, 1805-1806. New York, Metropolitan Museum

New York

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Luther's Image

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

... here is another one by Cranach: Young Luther in disguise as Junker Jörg:

(Leipzig, Nationalgallerie)

AI Humanities: Reclaiming Artificial Intelligence

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

As Director of the Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities (WIIH), I curate a programme to look at artificial intelligence from the perspective of the humanities. I want to revisit and reclaim AI as an endeavour of the humanities, deeply philosophical, artistic and creative, a project for the liberal arts.

How can we understand artificial intelligence as part of the liberal arts, and of the humanities in particular, and not just as another piece of technology?
How does AI affect the humanities and how should AI be shaped by the humanities?
What philosophy comes implicit or even explicit in AI? What philosophy can potentially be modelled with AI?
How can higher education, liberal arts education in particular, make use of AI? What are risks?
How does AI touch the life and experience of the students already now, and in the foreseeable future?

Reach out to me if you have suggestions or comments or ideas to participate:

blumtritt_joerg@wheatoncollege.edu

An Oral History of the Early Internet

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A series of video conversations.

The word Cyberpunk was coined in 1980 by Bruce Bethke, cyberspace came 1982 by William Gibson. 40 years later we think it is time to talk about how it felt when it all started: The promise of an utopian new age that would come through digital culture and the internet.

And now that we are living in that cyberspace with billions of people connected, what is left of it? What is there beyond our disillusionment, the culture of vanity and harassment, surveillance capitalism, cultural dominance, and precarious labour?

We want to work on something like an ‘Oral history of the Internet’. So we invited pioneers, artists, leading voices to tell us their story of the Net.

We talked with Douglas Rushkoff, Ruth Catlow, Bruce Sterling & Jasmina Tešanović, Ricardo Dominguez, Geert Lovink, Mendi & Keith Obadike, Jane Metcalfe, JR Carpenter, and more to come.

This program is initiated and hosted by Heather Dewey-Hagborg and myself, and sponsored by The NYUAD Art Gallery and the NYUAD Institute:

https://www.nyuad-artgallery.org/en_US/resources/watch/an-oral-history-of-the-internet/

The conversations are currently transcribed, edited, and will be published as a book scheduled to come out 2026. Once the book is ready, the video recordings will be available, too. If you are interested in review copies or have specific questions, please send your inquiries to internethistory [at] f3c [dot] me.

I-40, AZ

Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The FUTURE is now!

Wed, 08 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Silicon Valley …

Horses on the Highway

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I-90, WY

Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Rainbow over the Thames River

Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Another London, another Thames.

Little Germany: I Goes to Fight mit Siegel

Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In the 19th century, the Lower Eastside housed more than 50,000 German immigrants. Going on a historic walking tour, we would sing “I goes to fight mit Siegel” at Tomkins Square Park:

I GOES TO FIGHT MIT SIGEL (1863)

Words by F. POOLE
MUSIC: The Girl I Left Behind

Ven I kums from Deutsche Countree
I sometimes works at baking;
Den I keeps a lager bier saloon
Und den I goes shoe-making;
But now I was a sojer been
To save the Yankee Eagle
To schlauch dem tam Secession volks
I goes to fight mit Sigel.

Ja, das ist true,
I speaks to you
I goes to fight mit Sigel.

Ve Deutschen mens, mit Sigel’s band
At fighting have no rival;
Und ven Cheff Davis mens we meet,
Ve schlauch ’em like the deivel;
Dere’s only one ting vot I fear
Ven pattling for the Eagle;
I von’t get not, no lager bier
Ven I goes to fight mit Sigel.

Ja, das ist true,
I speaks to you,
I goes to fight mit Sigel.

DuBourg Book of Hours

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The DuBourg Belles Heures, attributed to the Master of Jean Charpentier, Tours (?) 1475-1480.

The illuminations in the picture show Saints Adrian and Sebastian.

The Horarium contains 13 large and 14 small illuminations of Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Circumcision, Adoration of the Magi, Presentation in the Temple, Massacre of the Innocents, Flight into Egypt, King David in Prayer, dedication page, and images of saints.

This late gothic book of ours is a centre piece in the permanent collection of Wheaton College, a wonderful and ecclectic treasury.

To my class on the history of communication technology, the Wheaton Permanent Collection offers the most valuable opportunity to experience communication artefacts like this beautiful manuscript of the time of Louis le Prudent.

Stereograph of the Montparnasse derailment

Tue, 09 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Glass stereo slide depicting a train crash at the Gare de Montparnasse in Paris.

Stereograph of the train derailment at Gare de Montparnasse on 22 October 1895. This stereograph is a great example of early photography entertainment technology. The police investigation at the site required that the locomotive would remain in place for more than two days after the accident, allowing many photographs to be taken. The stereograph when viewed through the stereoscope renders the image in actual 3D.

Partial Solar Eclipse

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The partial solar eclipse viewed from Downtown Brooklyn.

While the unfiltred sun is too bright to directly observe the obstruction, the reflection in the phone’s lense shows the destinct sickle.

Looking through a filter reveals the partially obstructed sun:

California Poppy

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

… is also a flower.

(And I have posted this one years ago already: California Poppy)

From Pacific Hights through the Presidio to Baker Beach

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This is my favourite run in San Francisco, maybe even in the world.

There are many more posts on San Francisco!

... and back in San Francisco

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Another flight detour

Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

… compare with this post.

Germany display at my college

Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

E 37th St

Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The cold haze, big buildings, grey and brown.

Glitch

Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I am of the opinion that flow cannot be understood without interruption or functioning without glitching. (Rosa Menkman)

Wheaton College in the sun

Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

More pictures of Wheaton College, Norton, MA., now in sunny early spring.

That is a lot of parking space

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The parking space around Wheaton College is bigger than the campus. Boston suburbs, that is why, I guess.

Wheaton College

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Starting my new position, teaching digital media studies at Wheaton College, Norton, MA.

Founded in 1839, Wheaton represents the typical New England liberal arts college. The moment I learned about the ideals of liberal arts education (quite a while ago) I was convince that this is the best way to inspire people, to allow them to unfold many different areas of knowledge. I think for young people, undergraduates, it is superior to the German research university which makes students immediately focus on one topic.

I am very much looking forward to work in liberal arts education.

Snowy morning

Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

East River Giant

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A giant on a barge, at 7 in the morning.

From Radio to Audio

Sun, 10 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Since 2022 I have been working on a project on digital transformation for broadcast radio. A major challenge is the audiance model - traditional mass audience for radio, while digital audio could in theory follow the targeted online audience. Programmatic advertising, which is becoming the standard for all media, requires a fundamental shift away from spots and airtime. So I am thinking about listeners across (traditional) broadcast radio and digital audio (including podcasts), how ratings change to different contact models, and what changes this requires in a publisher’s operations, processes and structures.

For my client amy.radio I serve as chief data scientist and media researcher.

Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Image: Christian Topography of Cosmas Indicopleustes. Codex Sinaiticus graecus 1186 fol. 66v: Map of the earth, 67r: οἰκουμένη - the habitable earth. Sinai (?), early 11th century. Brown, white, and red ink and gold on parchment.

The richest in illustrations of three illuminated manuscripts of the book, on display at the Metropolitan Museum, New York in the exhibition Africa and Byzantium

The text from exhibit’s label in the Metropolitan Museum:

“Originally written in Greek by Alexandrian merchant Cosmas Indicopleustes (“Cosmas who sailed to India”) in the sixth century, this copy of the book is a travelogue of sorts. Among the many maps Cosmas provided are those of trade routes along the coast of Africa, especially Aksum. For more than a thousand years, this book has been cared for by the monastic fathers of the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai. This text represents how significant documents originating from northern Africa circulated throughout the world.”

Vom Berge des Nordens

Eutokios sagte: »Noch einmal siegen die ewig Unheilbaren. Die nicht begreifen können, daß die 100000 Jahre der Metaphysik vorbei sind, und die der Physik angefangen haben: Wir, Lykophron, wissen, wohin wir gehören!« – Er schwenkte die Knochenhand hoch, würdevoll, eine strenge Raumkurve – und ich riß den Kopf: da standen wir: Menhirs in christlicher Nacht! – (Wind schob sich gleich dazwischen; unsere Boote jankten; Blödheit der Geräusche; ein Fluch schlitzte mir den Mund: erzeugt Paradiese: aber ohne Mich!! (Möchten die Christenpriester einst Gleiches erfahren! Unsere Rächer trinken zukunftssicher ihren Kumys im Imaus!). – – – (Arno Schmidt, Kosmas oder vom Berge des Nordens)

As Arno Schmidt notices, the most remarkable thing in the Christian Topography is the very original cosmology which Cosmas Indicopleustes outlines.

In Ptolemy’s model of the solar system all celestial bodies including the earth in the centre are spheres. For centuries before and after Cosmas, this had been the widely accepted foundation of astronomy.

In great detail, Cosmas, however, dismisses Ptolemy’s spheres, using fanciful mathematics and geometry and creatively ignoring many astronomical facts like e.g, the approximate distance from earth to sun, or the circumference of the earth, facts that were known and generally accepted at his time. Instead, Cosmas shapes his world like the tabernacle, a rectangular box with a vaulted ceilling, the celestial bodies being circled by angels at ⅔ of the hight around a giantic cone shaped mountain. The shadow which this mountain of the north casts, makes the night dark. Above image is from the same Sinai manuscript.

Ἡ γῆ μὲν πᾶσα τετράγωνός ἐστι, καθὰ προεγράφη. Τὸ ἀνάστημα δὲ αὐτῆς τῆς μεσοτάτης καὶ τὰ ὕψη τὰ κατὰ βόρεια καὶ δυτικὰ μέρη ἐσημάναμεν ἐνταῦθα διαγράψαντες ὅπως, μέση τυγχάνουσα καὶ πέριξ ἔχουσα τὸν Ὠκεανὸν καὶ πάλιν πέριξ τὴν ἄντικρυς γῆν, τῶν ἄστρων κυκλευόντων αὐτήν, δύναται καὶ κῶνον ἀποτελεῖν τὴν σκιὰν κατὰ τοὺς ἔξω, καὶ ὅτι καὶ κατὰ τὸ σχῆμα τοῦτο δύνανται καὶ αἱ ἐκλείψεις τῆς σελήνης ἀποτελεῖσθαι καὶ νύκτες καὶ ἡμέραι, καὶ ἡ θεία Γραφὴ μᾶλλον ἀληθεύει λέγουσα· «Ἀνατέλλει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ δύνει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἕλκει· ἀνατέλλων αὐτὸς ἐκεῖ πορεύεται πρὸς νότον καὶ κυκλοῖ πρὸς βορρᾶν· κυκλοῖ κυκλῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ κύκλους αὐτοῦ ἐπιστρέφει τὸ πνεῦμα», ὡσανεὶ τὸν ἀέρα κυκλεύων πάλιν εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἐπανήκει.

The earth taken as a whole is quadrangular according to the delineation already given. We have also indicated the altitude of its most central part and the heights in its northern and western parts. Hence we have delineated it as placed in the centre surrounded by the ocean and also by the earth on the opposite side of the ocean, with the heavenly bodies circling round it, so that the conical mountain16 can project a shadow according even to the pagans, while in accordance with this figure eclipses can occur, as well as the vicissitudes of night and day. Divine scripture confirms the truth of this, saying: The sun riseth and the sun goeth down, and draweth to his own place. On his rising he goeth then to the south and wheeleth his circles, and turneth round the air upon his circles;17 meaning that in circling through the air he comes back again to his own place. (Chapter 4, paragraph 11; Translation by Crindle 1897)

Newark EWR to Newark EWR via Newfoundland

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The worst flight ever: Snow storms over Europe, and our plane turns after 3½ hours, i.e. after almost eight hours in the air we are back where we started …

Communications Industry

Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

6 Pfennig Hindenburg

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Rainbow

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The Concord in Brooklyn

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Art Deco Elevator Cars, Chrysler Building

Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

… not much time because I am only going to the 9th floor (American counting, so it is actually only the 8th floor), and the lift is quite fast despite its age.

... and here am I, enjoying my shared office space:

Propagation Horn - Verkündigungshorn

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Model after Kircher’s Musurgia Universalis at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

But isn’t that a strange choice of design of some storefront prop:

Verkündigungshorn (transl. propagation horn): Essay from the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Quoddy Head State Park

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Perfectly circular ice age bog with carnivorous plants:

TP

Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

»‹Trigonometrische Punkte›« erklärte angeregt der Geologe: »die Grundmarkierungen unsres geographischen Wissens.«

Chantarelle

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Lincoln Center Summer Festival

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall has really great seats all around.

Milbridge Commons

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Milbridge Commons community garden, Milbridge, ME, flowers and herbs beautifully arranged in a spiral. Everyone is invited to forage fresh produce.

Scam Alert!

Sun, 20 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

… such a New York picture. Beware of scams and hustles, but New Yorkers don’t get played …

Seidenberg

Sat, 05 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

People my age from Munich might have some associations.

Das ungelebte Leben der Eltern

Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The more “impressive” the parents are, and the less they accept their own problems (mostly on the excuse of “sparing the children”), the longer the children will have to suffer from the unlived life of their parents and the more they will be forced into fulfilling all the things the parents have repressed and kept unconscious.

“Analytical Psychology and Education”, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Vol. 17 p. 78, Princeton 1981

λαθε βιωσας - Live unnoticed.

Tue, 30 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Α’ - ἔλεγχος

How can I be happy, and also be living a life of introversion instead of exposure, of serving to domestic duties rather than striving for professional success, keeping quiet instead of speaking up? For me in my own life, this is a rather new question, and I am certain that I don’t know.

In personality tests I consistently score high as being ‘dominant’, taking ‘initiative’, arguing ‘contrarian’, and generally carrying a lot of the ’narcissism inventory’. Until recently I have taken these traits for granted. This is who I am, this is what I need.

My life has taken unexpected turns, that make me question my strive and aspirations. I have written that I will not make “Abraham Sacrifice”. But how to cope with limited time and the challenges of life’s changes? What if nobody wants to listen to me? What if nobody cares who I am?

Β’ - νουθέτησις

“Live unnoticed” is one of the “pharmaka”, the remedies, Epicureanism offers us to stay healthy. Geert Roskam has published a voluminous book on the vicissitudes of an Epicurean doctrine.

Lorenzo Valla has a great way of explaining what Epicureans mean by desires that are unnecessary (we can very well live without satisfying them) but are excessive (if we try we will never be able to satisfy them); these desires are empty, and Valla’s example is fame:

If we are not conscious of fame in sleep which is most like death, shall we be conscious of it in death, which is an eternal sleep? […] Today we die; silence descends upon us tomorrow. […] Having borne so much, spent so many sleepless nights, done so much, and not having taken refuge even from death, do you conceive the hope of being in men’s mouths in the future, when you see that even kings and greatest princes have been expelled into an eternal obscurity of silence? Tell me, please, who was the fifth, the fourth, the third ruler of the Romans? Ask the man in the street. He can’t even tell you the second, or if one in ten thousand may know this information, he will recall it as if from as something that he never thinks about.

So why bother? Why is it so hard to just live a happy live, even when there is no real material wants, our society is reasonably stable, and even our relationships to people close to us are broadly good? Why do I continue to poison my mind with ambition, with the longing to be noticed?

In Epicureanism, there are no higher goods, just living a happy life. There is no value in virtue, honour, or glory. A happy life is a life without pain, with pleasures that come from the satisfactions of our true, necessary and natural needs, and lived among friends. Valla dedicates a chapter to prove that the pleasure of a happy life is indistinguishable from enjoying the things we have now, our food, our intellectual journeys, and foremost the company of our friends; at least regarding life on earth. Paradise, he argues, will be quite similar, just freed from this world’s imperfections.

A living dog is better than a dead lion. (Eccl 9,4)

Can it not be executed in less time by some other contrivance? Thus every advance has but raised up a new object of rivalry, itself to be superseded by some more rapid means, nor can I hope that I have nearly reached the limit. If I have approached it, it is more than I have a right to expect as the pioneer in this difficult career. Another age must be the judge of that as well as of the other questions relating to the engine. Charles Babbage, On the Mathematical Powers of the Calculating Engine, 1837, quoted after Babbage, Charles and Martin Campbell-Kelly. The Works of Charles Babbage Vol 3. Routledge, 2024. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003548652.

In his book “On Death”, Philodemus writes extensively on the question of posterity and why it is a waste of one’s life to aim to be remembered, although he offers a nicely differentiated perspective:

On the other hand, to experience suffering at the prospect of not being remembered by anyone at all seems to be natural: for it is sometimes the consequence of a life (that is) friendless and has nothing good. But if someone who has lived well and has had people well disposed to him should encounter some misfortune that makes away with those who know him, he will not be lacking in any way at all: for we have a need of consequential concomitants’”> not for their own sake, but (for the sake of) the acceptable life on which they naturally supervene: thus if that (life) is brought about, we shall pay no heed to what is nothing to do with us …

Nothing is gained by being noticed as such. It is important to get somewhat noticed to have friends to look after us. It is made very clear throughout Epicureanism that this is not what live unnoticed should mean. It is about a naturally insatiable desire for fame and recognition, even beyond our death.

The Piramide Cestia above is one of many monuments which we might see as indication that Epicurus had a point. ἡσυχία - Following a life in peace, we should be at peace in death. So in the end, to live unnoticed means to die unnoticed: λάθε ἀποβιώσας.

I will continue my investigation. You can follow my posts on Epicureanism: /epicureanism.

Epicureanism Bibliography

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Last update: 3 Aug 2025

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Kraut, Richard. “Two Conceptions of Happiness.” The Philosophical Review 88, no. 2 (1979): 167–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/2184505.

Kuttner, Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus

Kuttner, Ann L. Dynasty and Empire in the Age of Augustus : The Case of the Boscoreale Cups. University of California Press, n.d.

de Lacy, “The Epicurean Analysis of Language”

Lacy, Phillip H. de. “The Epicurean Analysis of Language.” The American Journal of Philology 60, no. 1 (1939): 85–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/290884.

Lampe, “The Birth of Hedonism”

Lampe, Kurt. “The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life.” In The Birth of Hedonism. Princeton University Press, 2014. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400852499.

Lehoux et al., Lucretius

Lehoux, Daryn, A. D. Morrison, and Alison Sharrock. Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. 1st ed. University Press, 2013.

Long and Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers, vol. 2

Long, A. A., and D. N. Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers: Volume 2: Greek and Latin Texts with Notes and Bibliography. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139165907.

Lucretius, Oxford World’s Classics

Lucretius, Titus. On the Nature of the Universe. In Oxford World’s Classics: Lucretius: On the Nature of the Universe, edited by Don Fowler and Peta Fowler, translated by Ronald Melville. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford University Press, n.d. https://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/display/10.1093/actrade/9780199555147.book.1/actrade-9780199555147-book-1.

Mack, “Renaissance Argument”

Mack, Peter. “Renaissance Argument: Valla and Agricola in the Traditions of Rhetoric and Dialectic.” In Renaissance Argument. Brill, 1993. https://brill.com/display/title/2292.

Malkin, “Epicurus & Apikorsim”

Malkin, Yaakov. “Epicurus & Apikorsim: The Influence of The Greek Epicurus and Jewish Apikorsim on Judaism.” In Epicurus & Apikorsim. Gorgias Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463219314.

Marx, “Differenz Der Demokritischen Und Epikureischen Naturphilo- Sophie Nebst Einem Anhange”

Marx, Karl. “Differenz Der Demokritischen Und Epikureischen Naturphilo- Sophie Nebst Einem Anhange.” In Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Gesamtausgabe (MEGA). Band 1: ARTIKEL LITERARISCHE VERSUCHE BIS MÄRZ 1843, edited by Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus beim Zentralkomitee der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion, Institut für Marxismus-Leninismus, beim Zentralkomitee der, and Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands. Berlin, 1975.

Mayhew, “Theophrastus of Eresus”

Mayhew, Robert. “Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds.” In Theophrastus of Eresus: On Winds. Brill, 2017. https://brill.com/display/title/35034.

McOsker, The Good Poem According to Philodemus

McOsker, Michael. The Good Poem According to Philodemus. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Milkowski, “Idyllic Heroism”

Milkowski, Marcin. “Idyllic Heroism: Nietzsche’s View of Epicurus.” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, no. 15 (1998): 70–79.

Mitsis, Epicurus’ Ethical Theory

Mitsis, Phillip. Epicurus’ Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability. Cornell University Press, n.d. https://www.degruyter.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=9780801466885.

Mitsis, The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism

Mitsis, Phillip, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Epicurus and Epicureanism. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Morgan and Taylor, “Memmius the Epicurean”

Morgan, Llewelyn, and Barnaby Taylor. “Memmius the Epicurean.” Classical Quarterly (Oxford, United Kingdom) 67, no. 2 (2017): 528–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0009838817000672.

Németh, Epicurus on the Self

Németh, Attila. Epicurus on the Self. Routledge, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315207001.

Northrop F. S. C., The Meeting Of East and West (1960)

Northrop F. S. C. The Meeting Of East and West (1960). The Macmillan Company., 1960. http://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.507603.

Odell, How to Do Nothing

Odell, Jenny. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy. With Rebecca Gibel. HighBridge, 2019. http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/-/9781684573929/?orpq&email=%5Eu.

O’Keefe, Epicurus on Freedom

O’Keefe, Tim. Epicurus on Freedom. Cambridge University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482571.

Onfray, Appetites for Thought

Onfray, Michel. “A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist.” In A Hedonist Manifesto. Columbia University Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7312/onfr17126.

Onfray, “A Hedonist Manifesto”

Onfray, Michel. Appetites for Thought: Philosophers and Food. With Donald Barry and Stephen Muecke. Reaktion Books, 2015.

Osler, Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity

Osler, Margaret J., ed. Atoms, Pneuma, and Tranquillity: Epicurean and Stoic Themes in European Thought. Cambridge University Press, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511608353.

Parekh, Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy

Parekh, Bhikhu. Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1981. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05747-4.

Philodemus, On Death

Philodemus. Philodemus, On Death. SBL Press, c2009. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb08825.0001.001.

Platon, Hippias Maior

Platon. Hippias Maior. Translated by Friedrich E. D. Schleiermacher. Platons Werke. n.d.

Prater, “Vermeer und Epikur”

Prater, Andreas. “Vermeer und Epikur: Lebenslust in der Kunst der Frühaufklärung.” In Vermeer und Epikur. De Gruyter, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110759556.

Roskam, A Commentary on Plutarch’s De Latenter Vivendo

Roskam, Geert. A Commentary on Plutarch’s De Latenter Vivendo: De Latenter Vivendo. Leuven University Press, 2007. https://muse-jhu-edu.proxy.library.nyu.edu/book/24397.

Roskam, Live Unnoticed

Roskam, Geert. Live Unnoticed: On the Vicissitudes of an Epicurean Doctrine. Brill, 2007. https://brill.com/display/title/14470.

Sellars, The Pocket Epicurean

Sellars, John. The Pocket Epicurean. In The Pocket Epicurean. University of Chicago Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226798783.

Sharpe, “In Praise of the Meaningless Life | Issue 24 | Philosophy Now”

Sharpe, Bob. “In Praise of the Meaningless Life | Issue 24 | Philosophy Now.” Philosophy Now, no. 24 (1999). https://philosophynow.org/issues/24/In_Praise_of_the_Meaningless_Life.

Stern-Gillet, “Epicurus and Friendship”

Stern-Gillet, Suzanne. “Epicurus and Friendship.” Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue Canadienne de Philosophie 28, no. 2 (1989): 275–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0012217300015778.

Stevenson, Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson. Floating Press, The, 2009.

Strauss, “On Tyranny”

Strauss, Leo. “On Tyranny: Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence.” In On Tyranny. University of Chicago Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226033525.

Sudhaus, “Nausiphanes”

Sudhaus, Siegfried. “Nausiphanes.” Rheinisches Museum Für Philologie 48 (1893): 321–41.

Teh, Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science

Teh, William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, Nicholas J., ed. Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science. Routledge, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315211626.

Trésor de Boscoreale

Trésor de Boscoreale : Gobelet Aux Squelettes. With Musée du Louvre. n.d. Matériau : argent  ; Technique : coulé = fondu = fonte, soudé = soudure (le rebord, l’anses et les pieds sont soudés), repoussé (le décor est fait au repoussé), dorure (traces de dorure sur les accessoires), 12,2 cm x 10,2 cm. Louvre. https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010256164.

Valla, On Pleasure = De Voluptate

Valla, Lorenzo. On Pleasure = De Voluptate. Edited by M. de Panizza Lorch. Translated by A. K. Hieatt and M. Lorch. New York : Abaris Books, 1977. http://archive.org/details/onpleasuredevolu0000vall.

Valla, Vom Wahren Und Falschen Guten

Lorenzo Valla, = De vero falsoque bono. Einl. von Michael Erler. Übers. Und Anm. von Otto Und Eva Schönberger. Königshausen und Neumann, 2004.

Verde, “Epicureanism”

Verde, Francesco. “Epicureanism.” Oxford Bibliographies, n.d. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0202.

Voula Tsouna, The Ethics of Philodemus

Voula Tsouna. The Ethics of Philodemus. Oxford University Press, 2007. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=737544.

Warren, “Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus, and Ataraxia”

Warren, James. Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics. With Oxford University Press. Clarendon Press, 2004.

Warren, Facing Death

Warren, James. “Introduction: Epicurus, Democritus, and Ataraxia.” In Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Warren, The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

Warren, James, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521873475.

Westenberg, “Epicurean Arts”

Westenberg, Thomas William Anthony. “Epicurean Arts: The Aesthetic Theory of Philodemus of Gadara.” Thesis, Macquarie University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.25949/19432352.v1.

Wilson, Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity

Wilson, Catherine. Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity. Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2008.

Woolf, Cicero

Woolf, Raphael. Cicero: The Philosophy of a Roman Sceptic. Philosophy in the Roman World. Routledge, 2015.

Yona, Epicurean Ethics in Horace

Yona, Sergio. Epicurean Ethics in Horace: The Psychology of Satire. First edition. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Yona and Davis, Epicurus in Rome

Yona, Sergio, and Gregson Davis, eds. Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281416.

Mênin Web and Print Publishing, Crates and Hipparchia: Cynic Handbook.

All my posts on Epicureanism: /Epicureanism

Unsere Angst ist ihre Macht

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The Utopian Alphabet

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Thomas Morus, Utopia. First edition 1516. Recto: The Utopian alphabet. Verso: Woodcut of Utopia by Ambrosius Holbein. New York Public Library.

Wadi Hayl Fujairah, الحبل الفجيرة

Sun, 12 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The fort was built in the 1930 and is birthplace to the Sheikh. The third picture shows the drain for date syrup.

Khor Laffan

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Claude

Fri, 09 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Claude Lorrain, Pastoral Landscape, the Roman Campagna, ca. 1639

Claude Lorrain, View of Crescenza, ca. 1648 New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

The pandemic

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Uptown F , Midtown Manhattan at 09:20 on a Thursday.

Nostalgia - Heimwehe

Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Wilhelm von Kobell, Oil on Wood, 1823. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dead Media

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Die Arroganz der Bücher

Fri, 28 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

«Zwischen den Büchern und der Wirklichkeit ist eine alte Feindschaft gesetzt.

Das Geschriebene schob sich an die Stelle der Wirklichkeit, in der Funktion, sie als das endgültig Rubrizierte und Gesicherte überflüssig zu machen. Die geschriebene und schließlich gedruckte Tradition ist immer wieder zur Schwächung von Authentizität der Erfahrung geworden. Es gibt so etwas wie die Arroganz der Bücher durch ihre bloße Quantität, die schon nach einer gewissen Zeit schreibender Kultur den überwältigenden Eindruck erzeugt, hier müsse alles stehen und es sei sinnlos, in der Spanne des ohnehin allzu kurzen Lebens noch einmal hinzusehen und wahrzunehmen, was einmal zur Kenntnis genommen und gebracht worden war.

Die Macht dieses Eindrucks bestimmt die Kraft der Rückschläge gegen ihn. Dann wird mit einem Mal der Staub auf den Büchern sichtbar. Sie sind alt, stockfleckig, riechen moderig, sind eines vom anderen abgeschrieben, weil sie die Lust genommen haben, in anderem als in Büchern nachzusehen. Die Luft in Bibliotheken ist stickig, der Überdruß, in ihr zu atmen, ein Leben zu verbringen, ist unausbleiblich. Bücher machen kurzsichtig und lahmärschig, ersetzen, was nicht ersetzbar ist. So entsteht aus Stickluft, Halbdunkel, Staub und Kurzsichtigkeit, aus der Unterwerfung unter die Surrogatfunktion, die Bücherwelt als Unnatur. Und gegen Unnatur sind allemal Jugendbewegungen gerichtet. Bis dann die Natur wieder in deren Büchern steht.»

Hans Blumenberg, Die Lesbarkeit der Welt.

Instagram, Gents Tailor

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

تبلدي حب - crystallised love

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Dirham

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

from Yas Island

from close by

Page of the Blue Quran

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Louvre Abu Dhabi.

From a manuscript, c. 900 AD, North Arfica

The Hindu Zodiac

Fri, 19 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Personification of the zodiacal constellations. Sri Lanca, c. 1800 AD

Moon Island Resort

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Moon Island Resort https://goo.gl/maps/hY2tEt2eRow4uvhe9

Why do I not see the Hudhud?

Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

هدهد

Another dust storm

Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Al Reem

Fri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Al Reem is another island that is named after a gazelle.

غزال الريم - the goitered gazelle.

Astroturf

Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Folkloristic embellishment

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The Moon

Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

… full moon over our desert island seen through a 14cm reflector. Nice how well taking pics with an iphone adapter works!

Sierpinski Triangle

Fri, 17 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Fractal tiling. St Giovanni in Laterano.

Magpies with Roses

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The magpie holding the rose of Lancester “Por Bem”

Nun sei bedankt

Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Le cygne colleté au couronne. The ceiling in the Royal Place in Sintra, commemorating the marriage of Isabel de Portugal with Philip le Bon.

Camels

Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

16th century faience with blue Arabian camels

SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Stone tablet with the magical square SATOR AREPO TENET OPERA ROTAS, Roman 1st century AD. Lisboa

Verzeichnung

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Anna Jotta, Bronze (2017). Museo Gulbenkian

Verzeichnung

Mon, 13 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Diego Pimentao, Paper and graphite / Verzeichnung. Museum Gulbenkian

Elevador de Santa Justa, Lisboa

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Miraduoro de São Pedro de Alcântara with the view on the castle hill and the Atlantic. Lisboa

Sun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Iraq has become a no-flight zone

Sat, 11 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Solar Eclipse in Abu Dhabi

Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The eclipse started before sunrise and reached the maximum cover at 7:37 here at Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

The thin crescent watched through the homemade camera obscura

Flags of the Season

Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ashtrays

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The historic assembly room of the National Consultative Council of Abu Dhabi

Bottle of crude oil from one of the first exploratory drillings, once owned by Sheikha Salama bint Butti

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Sheikha is said to have taken this bottle from the drilling site back to her home at Al Ain to show it to her son, the later Sheikh Zayad bin Sultan Al Nahyan.

Qasr al Hosn

Christmas in the Emirates

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Merry shopping and Frohes Fest!

Diversity of religions

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Qasr al Hosn

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The tower of the outer wall of the original Abu Dhabi fort Qasr al Hosn was built by late Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan al Nahyan in 1948. Just a few decades lie between the tower in the front and those in the back …

Tarikh Al Tabari

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

From the library of Sheikh Sakhbut bin Sultan Al Nahyan at Qasr al Hosn.

Wondering who's exoticism is sold here

Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

People like me are called or call themselves Westerners here. So we regard ourselves and are regarded occidental. Are we thus the exotic in the orient or are people from here self-identifying as exotic the way we identify as western?

Hydroponic Farming

Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ultra micro-local farming: The greens are grown right in the supermarket.

Al Jahili Fort Al Ain

Sat, 30 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

as seen on the bottles.

Al Ain Oasis and Falaj

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hili Archaeological Site Al Ain

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bronze age towers with relief featuring humans and gazelles, 3rd millennium BC

The Crescent

Fri, 29 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

And a the evening star.

Camel Caravan

Thu, 28 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The camels find their way to the camel market just by themselves. Al Ain, Camel Market

Panoramic Wallpaper Les Incas

Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

All the romanticism of the exotic …

The Wallpaper was designed by the Manufacture Joseph Dufour in 1818. It is 11 metres long and printed with 42 colours.

On exhibition at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Faulheit garantiert Arbeit

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Die kapitalistische Klasse betrachtet die gesamte Produktion als einen kapitalsichernden Wert und das Kapital als Zeichen, das die Muße garantiert. Auch das sozialistische, nichtkapitalistische System erkennt in der Produktion jenen Wert, der die Mußestunden sichert. … So strebt alles Lebendige nach Faulheit. Andererseits ist die Faulheit der Garant und Motor der Arbeit, schließlich kann man Faulheit nur durch bzw. über die Arbeit erreichen.
Kasimir Malewitsch

The capitalist class views the entire production as a captial-securing asset and the capital an indication which guarntees leisure. The socialist non-capitalist system, too, recognizes in the production this very asset to guarantee leisure. … Thus all that lives craves for laziness. On the other side is laziness the guarantee and engine of labour, for only by, respectively through labour can laziness be achieved.
[my translation]

All the future

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Amor addit inertibus alas.

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Nemo adeo est stupidae, natura, mentis asellus.
Cui cor & ingenium haud indere possit amor.
Pegaseas pecori Arcadico ille accommodat alas.
Mopsum hebetem in blandum format & arte procum.

Long video of the sunset over NYUAD campus

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

NYU Abu Dhabi

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Starting fall 2019 I work full time at New York University Abu Dhabi as creative technologist and professor of interactive media.

You find an overview of my academic teaching and links to the syllabi here: https://github.com/jbenno/teaching

All the sand of Saadiyat

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The Oasis close by

Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Zrno mljeveno ispod kamena prosijano

Wed, 06 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Salzburg and Mecca

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Yugoslavian Furniture - Who knew that was a thing!

Thu, 31 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Serious Weather

Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Arquitectura fascista

Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Palazzo Bo - Teatro anatomico

Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Overtourism

Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Allegory of Arithmetic

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Frans Floris, Antwerp 1557. Louvre Abu Dhabi

Tower of Babel

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Abel Grimmer, Antwerp 1595. Louvre Abu Dhabi

Camels

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Scary war technology

Sat, 21 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ottoman Empire 16th century war technology at the Museum of Islamic Civilization, Sharjah

Kufic script from the 1st century AH (8th century AD)

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Dated year 3 AH (700 AD). Museum of calligraphy, Sharjah

Quite abstract calligraphy

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

دع الأيام تفعل ما تشاء وطب نفساً إذا حكم القضاء. (بيت شعري)

فاطمة محمد عبد الرحيم

الكوفي, حبر على ورق

1425 هـ / 2004 م

Let time do whatever it desires, and be self-satisfied as you receive the act of god. (A poetic verse)
Fatma Mohamed Abdul Raheem
1425 AH / 2004 AD
Kufi script, ink on paper

Wind Tower

Fri, 20 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Dates

Sat, 14 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Karl Marx Walking Tour

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

… London

Pentagonal Tiles

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

From the Minaret of Timurid Musalla at Gawhar Shad, Herat, Afghanistan (Destroyed 1885)

Deutsche Woche

Sun, 01 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fresh Dates on Campus

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Regional Produce

Wed, 28 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Abu Dhabi has beautiful sides

Fri, 23 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In the desert

Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

New York University, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

Arriving late at night with 40º C

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Finally leaving for our new home

Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Thälmann und Thälmann vor allen!

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

слава!

Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Blaue Ziegel

Mon, 12 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The German Tribes

Sun, 11 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bible with margins - 16th century Hypertext

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillemi Britonis in omnes prologos. Hieronymi et additionibus Paul Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering, published by Anton Koberger in Nürnberg 1497.

Kirchenbibliothek St. Nikolai, Berlin-Spandau

Paper Astrolabe

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

16th century

Quran in Arabic and Latin

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

1694

Splendor Solis

Sat, 10 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Tempelhof

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Stamps

Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Packing for Abu Dhabi

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Finally! Really at the last possible instance we get our formal invitation to start at New York University, Abu Dhabi.

Now packing 25 years of Wired Magazine which might come handy in my classes^^

1E9 Conference Munich

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

What is Intelligence? An intellectual Spaziergang with Joscha Bach, Chris Mansfield, and Joerg Blumtritt.

Tue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Talk at 1E9 Conference Munich, July 9th 2019.

Better be prepared for July 4th

Mon, 24 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

And Back in NYC

Fri, 21 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Hegel

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Marx Engels

Tue, 18 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Tegel

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Dich mein stilles Thal

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Stehen in Gottes Gnad’ macht stehen allzeit grad

Book

Thu, 30 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Haumanstetter Urbarium. Klosterneuburg, 1513

Rietveld Children's chair

Tue, 28 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

MAK

Aquamarin

Sun, 26 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This was one of my favorite pieces in the Vienna Schatzkammer when I was a kid.

Maurizio Cattelan

Sun, 19 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Plus Ultra

Sat, 11 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Grottesche

Fri, 03 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Belvedere

Vienna!

Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Concrete Obelisk

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Potsdam

Gedeck

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Very good that we have soldiers fighting hackers.

Sun, 21 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Futura

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Die Technische Stadt

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The socialist smart city 1928.

Smart City

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Mansplaining in Biedermeier

Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Georg Adam Schmidt c. 1815.

Teaching history in the nationalist reaction. On the floor lies a portrait of Emperor Nero on top a picture of Prince Metternich. The lesson: Napoleon has destroyed peace like Nero. Chancellor Metternich restores peace at last.

De Varennes à Vincennes

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Entdecken Sie Kanada

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Finally a new project in Berlin

Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

(Yes, that’s true. This is how WeWork REALY looks!)

Berlin

Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Rietvelt-Schröder House, Utrecht

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bitcoin - alive in Rotterdam

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Kubuswoningen

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Rotterdam, Cube Houses by Piet Blom.

Cross of S. Servatius

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Trier, c. 890 AD. Gold, gems, enamel, on a body of ivory.

De Maagschap van de H. Anna

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Westfalia, end of 15th century.

Maastricht

Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Practicing polyphonic song

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Eindhoven

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Framtiden

Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Framtiden börjar här - From the future to here. Exhibition opening featuring ‘Stranger Visions’ Heather Dewey-Hagborg.

Kurt Schwitters in Stockholm

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Vedute di Stockholm

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Stockholms stadsbibliotek

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Stockholm

Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Redemptorist

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Church of the Most Holy Redeemer, East Village, Manhattan

Herons at the Palace of Fine Arts

Thu, 07 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Earthquake precautions at the Golden Gate Bridge

Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

And back again to San Francisco

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Brief visit to the mother country

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Crypto money is still alive!

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

... and in Philadelphia again

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

a little bit warmer now. And with cat content.

Grab life by the carbs.

Fri, 15 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Refiguring the Future

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Exhibition with Barak Adé Soleil, Moreshin Allahyari, Lee Blalock, Zach Blas, Micha Cárdenas and Abraham Avnisan, Shawné Michaelain Holloway, Mary Maggic, Lauren McCarthy, Claire Pentecost and Martha Pentecost, Sonya Rapaport, Sputniko! and Tomomo Nishizawa, Stephanie Syjuco, Pinar Yoldas.

Curated by REFRESH:

Van der Ende Onderdonk House

Wed, 06 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

We have some nice food however

Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Brooklyn

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Back in Brooklyn - Welcomed by a Blizzard

Tue, 29 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Sausalito

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Random Silicon Valley Image

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

San Mateo

Fri, 25 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Invest in Bavaria

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

San Francisco

Wed, 23 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Herons

Tue, 22 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Back in New York

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Long Island City. Manhattan in the fog.

San Francisco

Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Where we live … Taylor x Union. The most beautiful house.

Moray eel

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

German Society of Pennsylvania

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

A cashless world

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Christ Church. Est. 1698

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Coat of arms with six golden crosses and four lilies en chevron argent.

Pigments

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Bagels with vegan lox

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

North Liberties, Philadelphia

Wed, 09 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

One more time Philadelphia. Very cold in January.

Leaving Barcelona for a much colder place

Fri, 28 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The lounge dedicated to Pau Casals: “Un compromis viu amb la musica i amb la defensa de la pau”.

The last sunset of our stay in Barcelona.

Torre de Collserola

Thu, 27 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The Barcelona Television Tower on the Tibidabo, designed by Norman Foster

Christmas in Barcelona

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Tyuya

Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

My Christmas 2018. Started working on a potential new company: Tyuya.

This will very likely stay in stealth mode for a long time …

This is the story of the Tyuya color code (I am a collector of elements after all …):

'Mit dieser Methode werde ich es bis zum Ende schaffen'

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Portbou where Walter Benjamin took his life on September 26 1940.

Cathedral of Communication

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Correos y Telegrafos

Niaux

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Prominent guests in Perpignan

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Rue de l’enfer

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

St. Dominique

Sun, 23 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Mary hands a rosary to Dominic. Jaquobins, Toulouse.

Wallpaper Groups

Sat, 22 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Collecting the 17 crystallographic groups of the plane.

Mont Juic - Mons Judaicus

Mon, 17 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

“A tombstone from the Jewish cemetery of Montjuic, made of Montjuic stone in the year 1306. The epitaph reads:

Funerary stele of Rachel, daughter of the Rabbi Abraham Ha Levi, may her Rock and her Saviour protect her. She passed away in the year 5066 of the Creation.

The name Montjuic comes from mans judaicus, the place name used in medieval times for the mountain that held the cemetery where Jews living in Barcelona were laid to rest. Discovered in 1945 on the north-east face of the massif. and located beneath the castle, it is known to have been used from the 9th Century onwards and until the destruction of the Jewish quarter of Barcelona at the end of the 14th Century. At that time, many tombstones, like Rachel’s -which comes from a collection in the palace of the Marquis of Lyon, in Montcada street, were pillaged and used as building material.”

Amarus, Benedict, Romanus

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Evora

Aqueduct

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Aqueduto da Água de Prata, Evora

Ich kann beim besten Willen

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Caeli fenestra facta es

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Évora

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Nos Ossos Que Aqui Estamos Peolos Vossos Esperamos

Starnberg

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Upstate

Mon, 26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Asphalt Green

Sun, 25 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Bernsdall Art Park, Frank Lloyd Wright

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ennis House, Frank Lloyd Wright

Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Downtown LA through the smog of the forest fires

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

San Diego is also a nice place ...

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

UCSD Robot Zoo

Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Frankfurt

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Frankfurt

Babel (so obvious)

Thu, 08 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Palm Antenna

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Antennae disguised as palms on Dubai route E11.

Nymphenburg

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Atlas Shrugged in Brooklyn

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The World’s Worst Startups

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The U.N.’s Powerful New Way to Aid Refugees

Fri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Breaker Magazine has a very detailled story about our refugee blockchain project we did for the United Nations:

”The U.N.’s Powerful New Way to Aid Refugees” by Corin Faife.

Read more about the Building Blocks project: United Nations: “We could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.”

Quadraginta milia librorum Alexandriae arserunt.

Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Quod tu non nosti, fortassis novit Ofellus.

Heat

Sun, 22 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Paper file card

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Paper file card catalogue, Munich City Library at Gasteig

Shadow

Fri, 20 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

United Nations: “We could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.”

Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The most exciting work we have done so far with my company was to build and set up a blockchain-based payment system for the United Nations’ World Food Programme (as described earlier here: Blockchain-based accounting and payment system ).

Now the UN is upping the stakes: “We felt we could replace the services offered by banks with blockchain.” so WFP director Robert Opp. This quote is directly connected with the Buildingblocks system that we developed for the world’s largest help organization.

The numbers are far exceeding what even we blockchain enthusiasts would have thought to be possible: 98% reduction in transaction costs and big increase in transparency by facilitating easy auditing.

The huge success of the Buildingblocks project motivates us to go one step further - this is why we build RAAY, a full scale blockchain platform to bring financial services to the billions of unbanked people of the world: https://raay.money/

Read more about our work in this nice article on Bloomberg, or here on [Coindesk.com](http://www.coindesk.com/the-united-nations-just-launched-its-first-large-scale-ethereum-test/

Watch me present the project at the inaugural Token Summit Conference on May 25th 2017 at NYU Stern Business School, New York,

Get connected faster than you can say “Information Superhighway“

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Telephone

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Western Electric Model 2500

The very dark side of 20th century biology

Fri, 06 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory; former “Eurgenics Record Office” - the titles in the locked-up remota shelves talk of all the cruelty and barbarism of the “enlightenment age of science”.

Critical Infrastructure

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Gated

Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Anti-social corporate street furniture

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

San Francisco, Market St.

Bernal Hights, San Francisco

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

California Poppy

Thu, 29 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Caribbean Chocolate

Mon, 26 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Weekend Lecture

Sat, 24 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

German Classroom at Pittsburgh University

Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Bamboo Scaffolding

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Dead Media

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Nestorian Bronze Crosses

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

13th century. University of Hong Kong

Payment

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Pittsburgh

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Spiritual Container

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Tong Lau

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Vertical City

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Cizhou ware

Tue, 20 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Pre-euro-baroque, the original ‘china’. Song dynasty (960-1279 AD) The University of Hong Kong

Streaky Pork, Old Bamboo Shoots

Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Munich Security Conference

Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Verzeichnung

Mon, 12 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Frankfurt Airport

Wed, 15 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

https://youtu.be/DwnKxEc8VIg

Take back your tumblelog!

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

No more of this. The outcry against Twitter and Facebook is great and their sin is very grievous.

2008 to 2018: After this lost decade of writing, let us turn. Let us feed their gluttony no longer.

Foresake not the works of thine own hands. It is enough.

Algorithmic Art and Data Creativity

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000

by Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Joerg Blumtritt Strata + Hadoop World Conference Singapore 2016

When it comes to data visualizations, we usually think of infographics. But besides data as storytelling, journalism, and dashboards, data has grown into a medium for expression for a large spectrum of creative output. Parametric design, algorithmic architecture, and rapid prototyping technologies have redefined the relationship between creator and artist tools.

Contemporary artists are still struggling to find the language for a new contemporary output and practice in the post-Internet genre. The online world is bingeing, but it is also rapidly changing. Artistic expression within the digital arts has brought forward critical examination of technology and its impact on society, such as surveillance and self-determination, and has often collaged quotations of all aspects of media and consumerism, questioning art market concepts like authorship and intellectual property rights, in mediums ranging from video, software, and websites to hardware, kinetic machines, and robotics. In some cases, the next generation of digital artists, responding to their own experiences of the online world, have affected what is being known as a staunchly Web 1.0 aesthetic. At the same time, parametric or generative art is being created from algorithms without direct human intervention.

Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Joerg Blumtritt illustrate current developments with examples of recent bodies of work and discuss possible routes of art driven by data and algorithms.

Spruce Thicket in the Snow

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My woods: /tags/forest

Spruce Thicket in the Snow

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My woods: /tags/forest

Spruce Thicket in the Snow

Wed, 09 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

My woods: /tags/forest

Strawberries with curdled milk

Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Zamdorf

Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Commute

Mon, 13 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

In langen Zügen kriecht am Boden das Gewürm.

Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I love you so much fun

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I love you so much fun and addicting but it is a great day to be a good day to be a little bit of a new one and only a few years back in the world to me that you have a nice dream.

I'm at the end of this year to the point where you are so cute."

Sat, 11 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’m at the end of this year to the point where you are so cute.

the best thing ever is when you have to be a good day to be a good time to get a new one is a good day

to be a good day today basis of the day

I will be a good day to be a little too hard and fast food restaurants are not in my room for a few weeks and months and it will take the bus driver just got to go out with the best way for me I was in my room for a good one to the gym with a lot to be in my head hurts so bad.

Bahn

Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Full English (lacking black pudding)

Thu, 02 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Backbord und Steuerbord

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Breakfast

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

… improvised from lounge ingredients

LH2470

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Breakfast

Mon, 30 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Classical Mechanics by Leonard Susskind