Stupendous Links The Links of John Morgan
A really nice page of links – backs up the notion “show me your links and i know who you are” – i have a sense i know John Morgan from links and nothjing else.
Theories and Metaphors of Cyberspace
Theories and Metphors of Cyberspace – Abstracts
Try https://web.archive.org/web/20050308075725/http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/Cybspasy/WLogeman.html
“Possible theme of a paper could be the — Necessity and Metaphor. Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own”
I wrote that a long time ago… it was an abstract for something I am still writing.
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Saturday, 02 July 2022
I still like this quote – it linked me to many collaborations with Charles ‘Hipbone’ Cameron.
Contrary to popular belief ‘we can not think what we like’, words and metaphors have a power of their own.
I can think you might be an AI reading this.
But to think the floor of the Louvre is reading this… ??
Thymie
Meet the Horses and Ponies: Thymie
” I am called Thymie. I am the oldest, and the boss of the herd, yet the gentlest of everyone. I was born in 1984.I have had a successful, though short, trotting racing career as well. My racing name was Lotsa Time, and I am so gentle, and therapeutic that Kate spelled the Time part after a lovely herb to capture my healing essence.”
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Here is one of the pages from the site – which i have enjoyed making. The business is going well! We are loving the newness of our life – which is very different from how it was. The transitions have been hard.
Psyber-L: Exploring Psyche in Cyberspace Mailing List
Psyber-L: A Psybernet Mailing List
Psyber-L: Exploring Psyche in Cyberspace
Mailing List
“An online group for experiential learning about online depth interaction for people doing psychological work on the Internet. The group has been active (and inactive!) since 1993 and now has a life based on our history and sense of affiliation as well as the shared purposes.
“The Psyber-L mailing list grew out of the need to learn more about and experience first hand the potential of the net, especially how online group interaction effects the psyche.
“If you have an interest in the psyche online – please join!”
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I have been completing the transition of this group from L-Soft to Yahoo. Bit sad about that as L-soft had a good feel to it and a better product, no ads etc. However Yahooo is easier and cheaper! I will be able to start writng there soon… life is getting back to normal after the huge upheval of stating the Mt. Lyford Horse Treks (see link coming up).
How is it then that i have time for being here – but not there in the cty? Solitude, strange but true. But then why here at all? Here being in this blog?
I am having a great time reviewing psybernet… tidying… shifting, it is helping me find myself. That sounds too grand. Helping a tiny bit in the big process.
The list of links is really a nice mirror for me and goes well beyond this weblog: Old Links
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What was all that about?
I was wondering if the web is still interesting, after reading about Cool Site of the Day boredom (see link below).
I searched Google on: “meaningful hidden sources” and picked the items of most interest to me. I can get engrossed in all of this and find it (synchronistically!) magical.
Magic has been quite word lately as I read “True Names”. But that is another story. Knowing the right word is to do magic. And that is what I’d say to Mr. Davies – what are you typing in your search engine?
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“Like his contemporary, Roger Bacon (1214-94), Albert was an indefatigable student of nature, and applied himself energetically to the experimental sciences with such remarkable success that he has been accused of neglecting the sacred sciences (Henry of Ghent, De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis, II, x). Indeed, many legends have been circulated which attribute to him the power of a magician or sorcerer. Dr. Sighart (Albertus Magnus) examined these legends, and endeavoured to sift the truth from false or exaggerated stories. Other biographers content themselves with noting the fact that Albert’s proficiency in the physical sciences was the foundation on which the fables were constructed. The truth lies between the two extremes. Albert was assiduous in cultivating the natural sciences; he was an authority on physics, geography, astronomy, mineralogy, chemistry (alchimia), zoölogy, physiology, and even phrenology. On all these subjects his erudition was vast, and many of his observations are of permanent value. Humboldt pays a high tribute to his knowledge of physical geography (Cosmos, II, vi). Meyer writes (Gesch. der Botanik): “No botanist who lived before Albert can be compared with him, unless it be Theophrastus, with whom he was not acquainted; and after him none has painted nature in such living colours, or studied it so profoundly, until the time of Conrad, Gesner, and Cesalpini.”
Fall into a great excess!
The medieval “magician” Albertus Magnus wrote:
“A certain power to alter things indwells in the human soul and subordinates the other things to her, particularly when she is swept into a great excess of love of hate or the like. When therefore the [human soul] falls into a great excess of any passion, it can be proved by experiment that the [excess] binds things together [magically] and alters them in the way it wants. Whoever would learn the secret of doing and undoing these things must know that everyone can influence everything magically if [s/he] falls into a great excess.”
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa . [dead] . Now http://web.archive.org/web/20010222162001/http://studiolo.org:80/Mona/MONASV12.htm
“Most probably it was Sigmund Freud’s influential essay on Leonardo’s homosexuality and Freud’s consequential analysis of the Mona Lisa which was the direct or proximate impetus for Duchamp’s image. But, whereas Duchamp seems to imply that the picture fuses artist and sitter, male and female, Freud suggests that the Mona Lisa (specifically her smile) is a manifestation of Leonardo’s submerged memory of the birth mother from whom he was estranged at age four and who Freud theorizes expressed an unnatural affection toward her young son. In fact, Freud refutes the notion that there is a physiognomic similarity between the artist and the sitter, but goes on to suggest that the device of the smile was obviously so meaningful to the artist, using it frequently in his works of the time, it must have repressed significance. The person behind the Mona Lisa, Freud suggests, may have had such a smile, a smile that evoked long ago suppressed memories of his mother. Indeed, as Freud is quick to point out, this seems to have been a persistent theme: Vasari even noted that at the earliest age Leonardo was known for having created images of smiling women:
Let us leave the physiognomic riddle of Mona Lisa unsolved, and let us note the unequivocal fact that her smile fascinated the artist no less than all spectators for these 400 years. This captivating smile had thereafter returned in all of his pictures and in those of his pupils. As Leonardo’s Mona Lisa was a portrait, we cannot assume that he has added to her face a trait of his own, so difficult to express, which she herself did not possess. It seems, we cannot help but believe, that he found this smile in his model and became so charmed by it that from now on he endowed it on all the free creations of his phantasy.
“(Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci: A study in psychosexuality. tr. A.A. Brill. New York, Vintage Books, [1955] Originally published by Freud in 1910, p. 79.)”
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“He started Cool Site in 1994, after discovering the thrill of happening upon an especially interesting Web site and telling his friends what he had found. Within a year, more than 20,000 people a day were visiting the site, and Mr. Davis became a Web celebrity, giving interviews to online magazines and fending off gifts from Webmasters who were desperately seeking his recommendation of their sites. ”
“Today, Mr. Davis has not only kicked his Web habit but also almost completely given up the medium. The Cool Site of the Day still exists, but it is no longer run by Mr. Davis, who has also lost his enthusiasm for trolling for new pages.”