Psyberspace

Anita Konkka Literary Web Site

“Anita Konkka is a Finnish novel writer. She has published since 1970 eleven novels, essays, radio-plays, and a dream-book. She is a tireless scholar of love and love relationships, problematic ones, too. However, she doesn’t portray her characters as enervated by love or otherwise with furrowed brow. In these Finnish latitudes she is able to write about love and its troublesome and unhappy aspects humorously and as though smiling, not derisively or with pity but friendly and understandingly.”

Nice to hear from you again Anita!

DaveNet : In rebuttal to Glenn Davis

“Davis says that the gee-whiz hello-world days of the Web are over. It’s true it was fun (for a few minutes) to watch a fish tank on a webcam. But that was not the promise or purpose of the Web. Maybe he thought that’s what it was. If so, he missed the point. It’s about publishing without middlemen.”

Dave Winer also wrote something about Glen Davies… see my post below.

Publishing without middlemen – reading without middlemen – can this happen? It is happening now – but new media wil not replace old, only transform it.

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 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…  ??

 

The Doc Searls Weblog : Easter Suday, March 31, 2002

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?

Catholic Enc. on Albertus

“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.”