#Farbzentrenphysik #79 #SystemsThatMatter

Quite recent and very interesting-looking (also available as a free pdf). #JamilAlioui #GilbertSimondon #SystemsThatMatter

#79 #SystemsThatMatter

Today I voted (by post) in the Dutch parliamentary elections. Strange to vote in a country where I don't live, don't work, don't pay taxes, and where the politics seems to have gone off the rails quite some time ago. #elections #verkiezingen2025

I'm not really looking for analogue computers anymore but I could not resist this small one: a gorgeous Philbrick Researches RP-F manifold from around 1966. I have not yet checked if it is still operational... #AnalogComputing #PhilbrickResearches #SystemsThatMatter

An early announcement of an event that will take place at Creative Coding Utrecht on the 14th of November: a conversation around my book "Liberate The Machines!" with Marloes de Valk, including a screening of my film #59. #LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter

A very intense and enriching makam workshop by Murat Aydemir in Mannheim. #OttomanMusic #MuratAydemir #Istanbur

Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'. #AlfredNorthWhitehead #WilliamJames #SystemsThatMatter

Great to finally meet Margit Rosen today and learn many things at the ZKM. Little did I realize that their care currently also extends to the 2018 reconstruction of Gordon Pask's 1967 interactive sculpture 'Colloquy of Mobiles'. #ZKM #MargitRosen #GordonPask #PaulPangaro #SystemsThatMatter

I am very curious to read this book by William James from 1909, but now I am perhaps even more curious to know more about that "Ecological Physics Research Group" headed by Glen Schaefer 40-50 years ago. #WilliamJames #PluralisticUniverse #EcologicalPhysics #GlenSchaefer #SystemsThatMatter

The beautifully calligraphed name of 'Tatar' Gazi Giray Han (1534-1607) on the title page of this a bit more than a century old edition of his Mahur peşrev and saz semai. #GaziGirayHan #MahurMakamı

I knew of two types of capacitor that had the right to their own symbol, but this 1939 manual has six pages of symbols corresponding to different types. #capacitors #79 #systemsThatMatter

Just in: the long awaited 1937 sequel to the 1927 bible on capacitor production by Philip R. Coursey that I posted a while ago. Even more details, materials and production methods, but now zooming in on electrolytic capacitors. #capacitors #electrolyticCapacitors #Dubilier #79 #SystemsThatMatter

I just realized that later today one of my first films, "IFSfilm" from 1991, will be shown in a programme put together by Martijn van Boven for the 25fps festival in Zagreb, under the title "Raw Data: The Origins of Digital Film". #IFSfilm #25fpsFestival

"Rat's nest" or "Manhattan Style" prototyping (or however one would like to call this particular hybrid variant) is fun to do and has something of a sculptural charm. Tomorrow we'll see if it actually does what it should do. #79 #ManhattanStyle #prototyping #analogElectronics #SystemsThatMatter

A sidetrack today; this is one page from the "Sekka Zusetsu" (雪華図説), a collection of 86 drawings of snowflakes made in 1832 by Doi Toshitsura, a local Japanese ruler. #SekkaZusetsu #SnowCrystals #SystemsThatMatter

Preparing for an upcoming makam workshop by studying this beautiful buselik peşrev by Greek-Ottoman composer Kemençeci Nikolaki (? - 1915). #KemençeciNikolaki #BuselikMakamı

The stagnation of physics Physicists today need to jettison the all-too-attractive myth that they are uncovering the hidden reality of our Universe | by Adrien De Sutter (@adesut.bsky.social) aeon.co/essays/why-t... #physics #reality #philsky

Two intense days with nose in the books; almost done with preparing this year's seminar at KASK, entitled 'Vibrant Matter'. Encountered this passage by Ian Hacking that describes the current state of my crystal projects quite well: #SchoolOfArtsGent #VibrantMatter #SystemsThatMatter

Do I know anybody who has a pdf of Jay McDaniel's 1983 article "Physical matter as creative and sentient" ? The full reference is: McDaniel, J. (1983). "Physical matter as creative and sentient". Environmental Ethics, 5(4), 291-317. DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics19835413

Very timely arrival of what must be the bible on the history and the materiality of capacitors, published in 1927 when capacitors were high-tech. #PhilipCoursey #Condensers #Capacitors #MediaArcheology #79 #SystemsThatMatter

My 'quasicrystal' film #37 from 2009 will be shown in a bit less than a week, on Sunday the 21st of September at 20h30 in Cinerama 1 in Rotterdam, as part of the friendly Conflux festival. #37 #confluxFestival #quasiCrystals

Today's menu consisted of makam kürdî. Mostly the peşrev by the 17th century Greek-Ottoman composer Tanburi Angeli and the much more recent - and very beautiful - kürdî ağır semâî by Hacı Fâik Bey (1831-1891). #TanburiAngeli #HacıFâikBey #KürdîMakamı

William Thomson / Kelvin explaining piezo-electricity in 1893. #WilliamThomson #Kelvin #piezoCrystals #79 #SystemsThatMatter

I'm happy that at least the setup looks sort of intriguing, since otherwise my attempts are reproducing a century old scientific experiment are utterly failing. We will get there at some point. #piezoCrystals #79 #ArtScience #SystemsThatMatter

Learned about slew rates and other limitations of signal amplifiers, but got to 70V p-p maximum output swing with a -3 dB point around 1.5 MHz. #analogElectronics #79 #piezoCrystals #SystemsThatMatter

Somehow I have been thinking Flusser-aligned thoughts without ever reading any of his work. A conversation with @gottlieb.bsky.social some time ago convinced me that I should, and today the mailman brought this. #VilemFlusser #SystemsThatMatter

Looking forward to catch up with these classics. #OctaviaButler #ParableOfTheSower #ParableOfTheTalents #SystemsThatMatter

Brussels today. #bxl #stopGenocide #Palestine

Unpacking a work from 2019 for the first time in five years. So far it seems to have survived storage. #71.1 #RadarDisplay #p7phosphor #DialoguesWithMachines

For the new crystal experiments I need irregular agglomerates more than I need the canonic shapes. #piezoCrystals #79 #SystemsThatMatter

Preparing new crystal experiments and the most suitable transistors I have turn out to be these new-old-stock in their similarly new-old-bag. These were designed for driving core memory arrays. #piezoCrystals #analogElectronics #79 #SystemsThatMatter

The saz semai in makam buselik ascribed to Behram Ağa, a composer from the 16th century. The piece feels quite recent. #BehramAğa #buselikMakamı

One unexpected aspect of wanting to read Marx and Engels in the original is that the canonical editions are everywhere and cheap too. #Marx #Engels #DialecticsOfNature #SystemsThatMatter

Today, in the (supposedly) age of AI, I made this very modest adjustable power supply because I needed it and because it is nice to build one. #analogElectronics #79 #SystemsThatMatter

Come do artistic research with us at KASK ! Four fully funded artistic research PhD positions available in Ghent, deadline 29th of September. hogent.cvw.io?q=Artistic-A...

Encountered this box with my first attempts at video analog computing circuits. This is obviously from the pre-BNC-era, so that must be 10-11 years ago. #DialoguesWithMachines #AnalogComputing #VideoSynthesis #SystemsThatMatter

Working on presentations of the "Liberate the Machines!" book in the fall, hopefully near you as well... More info here: www.joostrekveld.net?p=2781 #LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter

Trying to wrap my head around the bootstrapping of op amps (but still no idea why that is how it is called) and trying to get it to work for frequencies into the several MHz. #bootstrapping #79 #SystemsThatMatter

Just arrived, for later reading, but another part of me can't really wait: a 1981 attempt to bring contemporary biology and process philosophy together. #CharlesBirch #JohnCobb #SystemsThatMatter

'Volta's pistol', from a French chemistry handbook from 1871. #voltasPistol #systemsThatMatter

I was very curious about this one and it is a very stimulating read so far.. #baruchGottlieb @gottlieb.bsky.social #ecocommunism #ecosocialism #systemsthatmatter

Didn't recognize this piece at first since it was included in an uşşak faslı, but it is an interesting notation of the very famous beyati saz semaisi composed by Kanuni Ömer Efendi (? - 1870). #kanuniÖmerEfendi #beyatiMakamı

Not among the most well-known peşrevs in makam buselik, but the one composed by Bolâhenk Nuri Bey (1834–1910) is also very beautiful. #BolâhenkNuriBey #buselikMakamı

The Muhayyer saz semaisi composed by neyzen Salim Bey (1829?-1884). #neyzenSalimBey #muhayyerMakamı

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Alternating lives, voices, bodies, epochs on about every page, reminded me of (otherwise from an entirely different universe) Egan's "Schild's Ladder" in its convincing switching of worlds. #sudcharente #vajrachrandrasekera

Was looking into what Cognitive Scientists mean by ‘domain-general’ cognition, and then hit upon this. This is definitely NOT how we use that term. Tip: read the last sentence to understand what went wrong here. Sigh.