[-empyre-] week two - MATTER

[John Hopkins]

Phil -

> the speaker, or through other forms of hardware is it possible to talk
> about the materiality of data without having to account for the entire
> network?

That is exactly what I was pointing out with the D-to-A conversion process -- 
you have to include that 'part' of the system as any 'interaction' with 'the 
digital' requires the analog! And prior to all that you have had to go through 
the reverse, A-to-D to 'represent' the world in the digital. If you only look at 
the artifact-ness of the digital (which is impossible based on what I just 
wrote), it misses the concept (because it sees everything as discrete closed 
systems): 'digital' is a process, a flow, embedded in a wider open system of 
flows... imho, you *have* to account for the whole open system in order to make 
sense the relationships within it...  Maybe impossible...

jh


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