reading is a technologytechnology
technology is an organism's response to chaos sive natura in the form of a problem as a "low-resistance path to an end."1
in the question concerning technology, heidegger asks what... of retrieving informationinformation
information is meaningness in a signal. It could be a quality, a quantity, a relation, a modality. But it is certainly a rather abstract idea. the information revolution allowed us to quantify ... from Writing Private or Broken Links
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through interpretationinterpretation
interpretation is the act of making meaningness of any system that shows emergence. It is related to the concept of explanation.
In Edward Tufte's Visual Explanations, he uses John Sno.... nabokovnabokov
vladimir nabokov (1899 - 1977) was a writer of novels and poems. he grew up in russia speaking russian, french, and english. he went to cambridge.
play was an important part of... says a good reader needs 4 things: imagination, memory, a dictionary, some artart
all art is quite useless. – wilde
the greeks spoke of art as mimesis, mimicking nature. The German idealists (kant and friedrich schiller) saw art as a form of play.
art is...istic sense.
Advice
It only accrues benefits in the long run, and since our time is limited, we must read a lot with a strong filter (tl;dr: start 10 times more books than you finish). The goal is to find a book that you need.
There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start looking for what it signifies, and then if you're even more perverse or depraved you set off after signifiers. And you treat the next book like a box contained in the first or containing it. And you annotate and interpret and question, and write a book about the book, and son and on. Or there's the other way: you see the book as a little non-signifying machine, and the only question for you is "Does it work? How does it work?" How does it work for you? If it doesn't work, if nothing comes through, you try another book. This second way of reading's intensive: something comes through or it doesn't. There's nothing to explain, nothing to understand, nothing to interpret. It's like plugging into an electric circuit. – deleuzedeleuze
gilles deleuze (18 january 1925 - 4 november 1995) was a french philosopher and, to me, the philosopher's philosopher and a sage. his work grapples with difference, creativity, though...
Naturally, one needs a librarylibrary
a library is a collection of books. But Umberto Eco and Nassim Taleb advocate for the antilibrary as well.
to keep books for reading.
I take recommendations from Five Books and The Marginalian.
After reading a book, ask four questions:
- What is the book about as a whole?
- What is being said in detail, and how?
- Is the book true, in whole or part?
- What of it?