Michele Pasin / Quotes

Unity of agency needs stable intentions

No matter how jumbled my brain is in some ways, unity of agency only requires a reasonably stable set of intentions, and the ability to carry them through. By a combination of retrieval, reconstruction, adaptation and thinking anew, I am creating this book, and that has helped sustain and create the person I am.

Saved 23 April 2015

#agency #unity #writing

Book and encyclopedia as antagonistic technologies

Even if Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopedia is entitled Dic- tionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, its ambition is to be much more than…

How Books Will Become Machines #book #writing #world #Encyclopedia

Dogen sceglie di scrivere in giapponese

Tornato in Giappone, il monaco scrive un libello per elogiare lo zazen. Diversamente da Eisai, svincola lo Zen dallo Shingon. È coinvolto nella persecuzione…

Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena) #zen #writing #language #history

Example of objects

When I use my pen to ink marks onto this piece of white paper, the action of writing or 'inking' is an operation of distinction whereby I bring forth the…

Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana #words #distinction #action #objects #writing

From vague to crisp ideas

During the course of writing this book, many of these ideas became more crisp, while others that started as crisp became more vague and fuzzy. The…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #writing #idea #thinking

Hoping to leave readers more confused

than a year, and thinking about some for at least fifteen, I am more confused now about digital technology and consciousness than when I started writing…

Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) #consciousness #technology #reality #writing