Sunday, November 14, 2010

Kairos

I believe he wrote this in order to show how everything kind of represents everything else.  Or how there are in most cases connections between nearly everything and that we are all being identified by these connections through meaning.  I thought a plausible thesis was that there are billions upon billions of connections being made around the world.  Examples of these connections are the advertisement that he uses many times to show the connection between the characteristics of humans and computers and the tree roots.  However, I did not understand the connection of the paradox that he talks about.  He also talks about the connection between copy and paste.  This connection is created in the real world for practical reasons.  But one takes the meaning of their task away and they are left alone.  What are they?  Paste:  a function solely based on the idea that something has already been create and selected to be put somewhere with the paste function. Copy:  a function capable of happening but not useful without the paste function.  Meaning in this case is everything for these two and the connection is that their meaning is derived by the other and vis-versa.  They are supplementing each other purely through existents.  Not one before the other but simultaneously they are both created and destroyed.  I found that his message was kind of hard to get from the video and text at first but once I thought about it and started writing this blog, his  ideas were coming to me.

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