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I'm glad there are people in this world who can completely unironically and confidently write "Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past

I'm glad there are people in this world who can completely unironically and confidently write "Signifier’s digital immateriality draws on a deeply material past. Acknowledging the processes and tools of digital form-making, I worked consciously with the computer to recast the lead, antimony, and tin of the 17th century Fell Types into ones and zeros." I certainly couldn't!

Luc 6y ago
After skimming through most of the article that paragraph actually started to make some sense to me.
- lotyrin 6y ago
  I had the exact opposite experience. This thesis (and the introduction) made perfect sense to me but the following results, methods and rationales left me unconvinced and uninspired.
earthboundkid 6y ago
Anything that smart people spend a lifetime doing—programming, font making, engineering, woodworking, auto repair, painting (house and fine art)—has depths that look completely crazy to outsiders.
- enriquto 6y ago
  You do not really need to be a smart person for that. Infinite depth is within everyone's reach! Cf. xkcd 1095[0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1095/ https://xkcd.com/1095/
  - saghm 6y ago
    I expected https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/ before I clicked
    - enriquto 6y ago
      There's also the one about cast iron skillets, that has a similar atmosphere https://xkcd.com/1905/ https://xkcd.com/1905/ Curiously, the three numbers do not seem really independent.
      - toper-centage 6y ago
        > Curiously, the three numbers do not seem really independent. Those numbers.. Can't be a coincidence.
        toper-centage 6y ago
        Unfortunately i couldn't find evidence of the pattern going any further or back (195, 591, 2195 etc).
Koshkin 6y ago
This is the style in which Brian Greene wrote much of his Until the End of Time, here is just one example: "the position and the speed of a particle—that a classical physicist in the mold of Isaac Newton would adamantly claim can be specified with complete certainty but that a quantum physicist realizes are burdened by a quantum fuzziness that makes them uncertain."
- deleted 6y ago
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arh68 6y ago
That paragraph was really something to parse. At first, I tried to read it. Then I realized it was probably some GPT-3 output. Then I realized it was probably some boilerplate lorem ipsum text. And then, I could read it.
zorpner 6y ago
What's the takeaway here supposed to be? That you understand the subject so deeply that no concrete or constructive content is necessary in your criticism? Because I take from your comment the exact opposite conclusion.

Luc 6y ago

After skimming through most of the article that paragraph actually started to make some sense to me.

lotyrin 6y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. This thesis (and the introduction) made perfect sense to me but the following results, methods and rationales left me unconvinced and uninspired.

earthboundkid 6y ago

Anything that smart people spend a lifetime doing—programming, font making, engineering, woodworking, auto repair, painting (house and fine art)—has depths that look completely crazy to outsiders.

enriquto 6y ago
You do not really need to be a smart person for that. Infinite depth is within everyone's reach! Cf. xkcd 1095[0] [0] https://xkcd.com/1095/ https://xkcd.com/1095/
- saghm 6y ago
  I expected https://xkcd.com/915/ https://xkcd.com/915/ before I clicked
  - enriquto 6y ago
    There's also the one about cast iron skillets, that has a similar atmosphere https://xkcd.com/1905/ https://xkcd.com/1905/ Curiously, the three numbers do not seem really independent.
    - toper-centage 6y ago
      > Curiously, the three numbers do not seem really independent. Those numbers.. Can't be a coincidence.
      - toper-centage 6y ago
        Unfortunately i couldn't find evidence of the pattern going any further or back (195, 591, 2195 etc).

Koshkin 6y ago

This is the style in which Brian Greene wrote much of his Until the End of Time, here is just one example: "the position and the speed of a particle—that a classical physicist in the mold of Isaac Newton would adamantly claim can be specified with complete certainty but that a quantum physicist realizes are burdened by a quantum fuzziness that makes them uncertain."

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arh68 6y ago

That paragraph was really something to parse. At first, I tried to read it. Then I realized it was probably some GPT-3 output. Then I realized it was probably some boilerplate lorem ipsum text. And then, I could read it.

zorpner 6y ago

What's the takeaway here supposed to be? That you understand the subject so deeply that no concrete or constructive content is necessary in your criticism? Because I take from your comment the exact opposite conclusion.