Umwelt , as I learned from Ed Yong’s book, An Immense World , is the world as it is experienced by a particular organism. How does the organism that is my dad now , not my dad of 5 or 25 or 50 years ago, experience the world? What language assigns itself, or doesn’t, to the surfer and the wave, the son and the daughter? How cold and confused and in... See more
A memory commensurate to the complexity of the past and the whole cast of participants, a memory that includes our power, produces that forward-directed energy called hope.
The practice of software begins to resemble closely the practice of memoria and, specifically, the memory theatres of Camillo, which constitute memory as a public space; a kind of virtual architecture for an incomplete image of the world. Software begins to look like the closest medium to memory itself we have produced .