sure, that was not supposed to go to the list (email below), but hey, i hope you can see the relation of a chat log with live coding :)
cheers,
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Subject: [livecode] cmml
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From: ad al<alejo.duque_at_europeangraduateschool.net>
> http://svn.annodex.net/scripts/trunk/ircCMMLBot.py
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> meta info for video.... btw of our little talk on tagging.
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> Subject: Re: [livecode] non-linguistic programming
> Sent: Tue, 08 Jan 2008
> From: douglas edric stanley<destanley_at_mac.com>
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> > >So to get back to your comment you are assuming
> > >that code requires a machine to be "useful" - or
> > >put another way you are making a statement that
> > >only causal outcomes are a valid use of program
> > >code.
> >
> > Well no, I wouldn't make that statement, because
> > obviously you /can/ write pseudo-code and it
> > still makes sense. But it is still a part of the
> > machinic process. It is an activity in relation
> > to machines and to execution stacks, so even if
> > pseudo-code needs no machine, it is still a
> > machinic diagram, i.e. part of a machinic
> > apparatus. Machinic thinking, if you will.
> >
> > Which indeed, I agree with you, distinguishes it somewhat to mathematics.
> >
> > >>Anyway, music without instruments and musicians
> > >>is just as absurd as music without music.
> > >>That's probably why Wittgenstein was the only
> > >>appropriate response.
> > >
> > >So you've never been on a long walk with an ABBA
> > >song running around your head?
> >
> > Oh sure. Steigler has some interresting things to
> > say about that, by the way, if you're
> > interrested. But that would lead us a bit too
> > much off subject.
> >
> > Still, the music in your head is instrumental.
> > And a melody that you hum along to yourself is
> > even all the more instrumental. It's your body
> > that actualizes the melody. As does your
> > consciousness, even if you don't actually make
> > any noise. This is pretty basic hermeneutics.
> > Husserl would be the starting point, and his
> > writings on temporal retention in relation to the
> > temporality of consciousness.
> > --
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> >
> > // Douglas Edric Stanley
> > <douglas_at_abstractmachine.net>
> >
> > // Artiste
> > http://www.abstractmachine.net
> >
> > // Professeur d'Arts numeriques, L'école supérieure d'art
> d'Aix-en-provence
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> >
> > // Chercheur, Laboratoire Esthétique de l'interactivité, Université de
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