kriegspiel

the kriegspiel or the Game of War

Guy Debord believed that the board game that he designed in 1977, after years having the idea in his mind, would be his legacy.

“I succeeded, a long time ago, in presenting the basics of [war] on a rather simple board game,” he wrote in 1989. “The surprises of this kriegspiel seem inexhaustible; and I fear that this may well be the only one of my works that anyone will dare acknowledge as having some value.” Guy Debord 1989

more on Kriegspiel

and trace its philosophical roots in Alexander's Galloway essay

your brain is like a pile of s***!

your brain is like a pile of sand! our brain is posed at the edge of chaos and for that reason it has all this creative power! A great article at the last issue of New Scientist brings our brain through a systematic view at a state of self-organizing criticality "these systems are right on the boundary between stable orderly behaviour and the unpredictable world of chaos." “The quintessential example of self-organised criticality is a growing sand pile. As grains build up the pile grows in a predictable way until, suddenly and without warning, it hits a critical point and collapses. These “sand avalanches” occur spontaneously and are almost impossible to predict, so the system is said to be both critical and self-organising”.

read the full article here

Aesthetics

"esthetics is for me as ornithology must be for the birds"

Barnett Newman

few ideas about Aesthetics

"Deleuze's Aesthetic takes the form not of a judgment, but rather of an experimentation and creation that defies judgment"

Rachjman, J. (2001) The Deleuze Connections. MAssachusetts Institute of Technology, p. 114

Aesthetics of pragmatics