Essays pertaining to images (knowledge,ideas, memories, visualizations) , media (any content of any medium of information distribution), medium and technology (technology is just more media portrayed in a medium).
The reason I started creating this website was because i began to see suffering all around me. The suffering I am referring to is not caused by violence or abuse. This sickness or dis-ease is widespread. Rare is the person who is free from its symptoms. I term this dis-ease: Image Sickness. In this essay I will begin by defining what an image is and how images in the mind can lead to Image Sickness.
Prototyping to be removed later: {Signals, Symbols, and Meaning
Define signal
Define information
Define symbol
First is must be understood that the symbol is not the thing, the map is not the place.
It can then be known that things interact in concrete and predictable ways. Science
This progresses to the realization that the things-in-themselves can also act as symbols in a higher-order "mind." Molecules act as symbols for the cells of the body; proteins in there somewhere!
We shape our tools. And then our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan
Etymology of Tool
Old English to-l The word "tool" comes from the Anglo-Saxon "to-l" which is a contracted form of "ta-w+" related to the verb "ta-wian" meaning to make, prepare, or cultivate.
Content and Media
Different media impact our sensory ratios differently and communicate different types of information.
The isomorphic translation of content between media can elucidate the physical message of the medium.
A media contains content which is itself a media. Each media can be content and the medium of content of other media. The medium of radio contains as its content the medium of speech.
Each layer of media affects the sensory ratio of a human's perception.
Each media affects the environment irregardless of the content of the media. It is the context.
What is the meaning of meaning and is it necessary to have meaning? Wiktionary's definition is the symbolic value of something. When we experience the environment we interpret various objects and situations through the image structure of our beliefs, needs, desires, ideas, and fantasies. Seeing an apple tree, our mind sees images of potential uses. An apple may mean simply food. It may mean money from selling apples. Through selling the apples we can buy tickets to a concert. Now the meaning of apple is entertainment.
Music is in the air, resonating all around us, it is what we see, what we taste, what we feel, what we hear. Enjulating strings vibrating at the smallest measurable points. These resonate and propagate like waves, encompassing more and more space as each expands and refracts off the other. It is at this point where the dualities between music and the physical begin.
Man has no individual I. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "I"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "I". And each time his I is different. Just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion. G.I. Gurdjieff
As a cultural mediator, it is the role of the artist to keep the community in conscious relation to the changing and hidden ground of its preferred objectives ..[a] strategy is to construct an anti-environment, which is the normal activity of the artist, the only person in the culture whose whole business is the retraining and updating of sensibility.
