http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ rummaging through the net's trash cans since 1994 en Vox Thu, 01 May 2008 07:15:48 +0200 Copyright 2008 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270650001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270650001.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270650001.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 01 May 2008 07:15:48 +0200 My blog was a casualty of some updating, caused -no doubt - by my clumsiness in dealing with midphase’s cPanel. Fortunately I make export files on a weekly basis, so not much was lost, but the loss of search engine rankings and connectivity is ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270650001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270650001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> death touch mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5595a0005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5595a0005.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5595a0005.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 01 May 2008 07:15:48 +0200 My blog was a casualty of some updating, caused -no doubt - by my clumsiness in dealing with midphase’s cPanel. Fortunately I make export files on a weekly basis, so not much was lost, but the loss of search engine rankings and connectivity is ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5595a0005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5595a0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> death touch mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f54a140004.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f54a140004.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f54a140004.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:17:09 +0200 My dreaming is already different and it turns out that memories are not “pictures” but instead are other-sensory visions. Obviously, now that the modality in which they were generated and the modality in which they are remembered are different.... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f54a140004.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f54a140004?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> death sound touch mind-body http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559440005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559440005.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559440005.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:20:46 +0200 The staff is the staff of the herald and of the augur. The keryx, the aggello, the messenger, someone who comes before us to announce what follows. It is the staff of the forerunner. Tireisias’ staff is made of “crow’s wood”, his name already i... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559440005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559440005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> death sound touch mind-body http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2be0003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2be0003.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2be0003.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:28:30 +0200 Over time, I started to develop a revulsion against certain kinds of photographic gesture and against the photograph as such. The finished product, the print, even the digital file displayed on the web page. There was a time when I could make o... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2be0003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2be0003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sight mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270670001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270670001.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270670001.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:33:58 +0200 Odd how disembodiment was the most immediate effect of losing vision. The bodies of others and my own body as well. It would be easy to say the body sees to exist since notions of how it relates to the space around it, how it moves through that... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270670001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d1270670001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> navigation touch mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559490005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559490005.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559490005.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:59:15 +0200 I’m in the Anywhere. Space is mainly time, but not quite. Simultaneous occurrences exist there, but without the conventions of perspective and distance. I walk across Pont d’Iena and I say to D.: “those poles are very loud.” Yet I hear a kind o... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559490005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f559490005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sound navigation touch sight mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2c10003.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2c10003.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2c10003.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:47:39 +0200 From when my vision first started changing, I remember the feeling of combined dread and excitement. The fear produced in me by the strange colors I was perceiving, by objects abruptly appearing and disappearing, by the way everything acquired ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2c10003.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48cf3c2c10003?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sight mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d12704b0001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d12704b0001.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d12704b0001.html?_c=feed-rss Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:51:45 +0200 What is the camera to me. Perhaps a bit what a musical instrument is to musicians; the bond between D. and her clarinet, an instrument of expression and an object that has to be coaxed into performing for her. My cameras do not have to be adjus... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d12704b0001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00f48d12704b0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sight mind-body modality http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5594c0005.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(urbandiscount) http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5594c0005.html?_c=feed-rss http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5594c0005.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:22:35 +0200 Procedure is following pre-determined steps in time to arrive at a result. The steps all concern converting spatial information to a format I can perceive. I consider sighted help much the same way: converting visual cues into aural ones. I fel... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://urbandiscount.vox.com/library/post/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5594c0005.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d09e53bbfcbe2b00e398f5594c0005?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> sound touch sight mind-body modality