I really love the al-Jazari project.
May I draw the attention of kind livecoders
to a text I have released recently about
India, myth and computation? It's
called The Remix Republik and
I'll be glad to hear anyone's views about
it.
http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/03/remix-republik.html
It's about 6000 words over 23 pages of PDF.
The summary is:
India is predicted by many as a rising star in the global village nightsky,
but only one book describes the new zodiac. In the dark theatre of DJ
Fadereu's mind, Google Earth and binary computation copulate with Hindu
avatars and Vedic timekeeping, Neitzche necks with nadabrahma, and
Baudrillard blows apart Bollywood.This cybernetic ride flickers uneasily
through the vast landscape of Indian and Western techno-philosophy.
Meanwhile, the murder of reality is imminent. The media are converting each
street into a studio, masses into extras, and life itself into the new
movie. The dynamics of these phenomenon are mediated by a new logic of
speed, and a new movement determines the games of territorial power. The
present, the past and the future have become exceedingly intertwined in the
instantaneous (and yet ancient) society we live in - we are the remixed
republic. The state of siege now remains poised at the most dramatic point
in our history since the Partition of 1947.
The world's oldest civilization, the author hopes, will rise to the
challenge with befitting ingenuity....
Received on Sat Mar 24 2007 - 08:20:55 GMT