Saturday, October 21, 2017

Cirque of the Towers, Wind River Range: Writing, Simulacra, and "What is the Block Chain?", Re "Simulacra," Dean MacCannell at yesterday evening's UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' Working Group talk "HOSTS ON HOLIDAY: The Hawaiian Imaginary at The Cal", STEM realistic virtual universe and e.g. for surgery?, From the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' gate to MARS in realistic virtual ... UNIVERSE https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/mars-astronautabby-wants-to-be-first.html … Can we Hitchhike with @AstronautAbby?:)


Writing, Simulacra, and "What is the Block Chain?"

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Writing ...

Hi M,

I didn't hear back from you on the phone about "Are you going to develop further, from your most recent writing project, to write a beautiful Cuttyhunk local historic district plan into existence? :)"  for example ... and haven't heard in writing from you either about this.

Might you? ... (... perhaps with other folks too)

I think writing has beneficial effects on the brain and bodymind ... and that it could be a good practice to get into daily even for the next few centuries / millennia even ... (thinking along the lines of Lacan here too ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan ... with new Jacques Lacan label today in this blog)...

Writing ... so generative coding ... information technology production, if you will ... writing in symbols

and neurophysiologically speaking even ...  and talking, speaking and writing as language production re Lacan is another aspect of this theorizing of generativity and symbols :)


Further thoughts in these regards to follow perchance, since singing letter writing/emailing - ah LANGUAGE (re Lacan) - isn't really addressed by any of the above excepting by G.A. and Lacan ... a morning's writing insight ... ")

L,
Scott


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Simulacra ...

Simulacra and Simulation (French: Simulacres et Simulation) is a 1981 philosophical treatise by Jean Baudrillard, in which he seeks to examine the relationships among reality, symbols, and society, in particular the significations and symbolism of culture and media that are involved in constructing an understanding of shared existence.
Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original to begin with, or that no longer have an original.[1] Simulation is the imitation of the operation of a real-world process or system over time.[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation


simulacrum |ˌsimyəˈlākrəm, -ˈlak-| noun (pl. simulacra |-ˈlākrə, -ˈlakrə| or simulacrums) an image or representation of someone or something: a small-scale simulacrum of a skyscraper.• an unsatisfactory imitation or substitute: a bland simulacrum of American soul music.ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin, from simulare (see simulate) .
simulate |ˈsimyəˌlāt| verb [ with obj. ] imitate the appearance or character of: red ocher intended to simulate blood.• pretend to have or feel (an emotion): it was impossible to force a smile, to simulate pleasure.• produce a computer model of: future population changes were simulated by computer.DERIVATIVES simulation |ˌsimyəˈlāSHən| noun.simulative |-ˌlātiv| adjectiveORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from Latin simulat- ‘copied, represented,’ from the verb simulare, from similis ‘like.’
(Apple Dictionary on MacBook Air OS X Yosemite 10.10.5)

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(From ...

"Baudrillard's published work emerged as part of a generation of French thinkers including Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan who all shared an interest in semiotics, and he is often seen as a part of the post-structuralist philosophical school.[13]"
in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

... to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Deleuze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_and_Repetition

... to ...
Deleuze conceived of philosophy as the production of concepts, and he characterized himself as a “pure metaphysician.” In his magnum opus Difference and Repetition, he tries to develop a metaphysics adequate to contemporary mathematics and science—a metaphysics in which the concept of multiplicity replaces that of substance, event replaces essence and virtuality replaces possibility. 
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/

... to Baudrillard and Deleuze on simulacra and virtuality ...
"Postmodernist French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. Where Plato saw two types of representation—faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum)—Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever".[7] In Baudrillard's concept, like Nietzsche's, simulacra are perceived as negative, but another modern philosopher who addressed the topic, Gilles Deleuze, takes a different view, seeing simulacra as the avenue by which an accepted ideal or "privileged position" could be "challenged and overturned".[8] Deleuze defines simulacra as "those systems in which different relates to different by means of difference itself. What is essential is that we find in these systems no prior identity, no internal resemblance".[9]" ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacrum ...

... to Baudrillard ...
"Likewise, in a digital era, Baudrillard claims that history has come to an end and reality has been killed by virtualization, as the human species prepares itself for a virtual existence."
... https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/baudrillard/ ...)

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Re "Simulacra," Dean MacCannell at yesterday evening's UC Berkeley Anthropology Tourism Studies' Working Group talk
"HOSTS ON HOLIDAY:
The Hawaiian Imaginary at The Cal" -

http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103050552852&ca=50029e88-46cb-4118-800a-30923065d698

- a hotel for Hawaiians in Las Vegas, Nevada ... observed as a closing thought that the talk was pretty straight "Tourism Studies" not touching on questions of "simulacrum" (perhaps re my interest in creating a realistic virtual earth / Harbin and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy).

My question in the talk referred to "The Cal" in Google Streetview, as an emerging realistic virtual earth - https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=!1s0x80c8c3a10390f5bf%3A0x980d16a20a5307ff!2m22!2m2!1i80!2i80!3m1!2i20!16m16!1b1!2m2!1m1!1e1!2m2!1m1!1e3!2m2!1m1!1e5!2m2!1m1!1e4!2m2!1m1!1e6!3m1!7e115!4s%2Fmaps%2Fplace%2FThe%2BCal%2Bin%2BLas%2Bvegas%2F%4036.1727928%2C-115.1454205%2C3a%2C75y%2C48.35h%2C90t%2Fdata%3D*213m4*211e1*213m2*211sBfGt8ydw-H557WlV3mX3ow*212e0*214m2*213m1*211s0x80c8c3a10390f5bf%3A0x980d16a20a5307ff!5sThe%20Cal%20in%20Las%20vegas%20-%20Google%20Search&imagekey=!1e1!2shttps%3A%2F%2Fi0.bookcdn.com%2Fdata%2FPhotos%2FBig%2F963%2F96355%2F96355217%2FCalifornia-Hotel-And-Casino-photos-Exterior.JPEG&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjlubChvYDXAhWhslQKHR8sBMUQpx8IjwEwDQ - NOW WITH VIDEO ... and in comparison with Harbin Hot Springs n Google Streetview ... Does Google as a company have an "Aloha" spirit ... I think so, mentioning this in my question.

Wasn't sure where the critique in this talk was.

Can we add this talk and ten other good ethnographic / anthropological talks+ to Google Streetview? ... And could I add my 3 Harbin Hot Springs to the Harbin gate, accessible here ...
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
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to the Harbin Gate ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~
in Google Streetview as ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?


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"What is the Block Chain?" ...



"Blockchain - The New Technology of Trust" 

http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/pages/blockchain/

https://twitter.com/thisisteymour/status/919595732805529600

(which I found on John Palfrey's Twitter feed - https://twitter.com/jpalfrey - about October 20, 2017)

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The Block Chain will be vital for health care data such as for ...

Surgery in the WUaS online Teaching Hospital http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital https://twitter.com/StanfordSurgery/status/921449753812111361 in a STEM realistic virtual earth in all languages and nation states and in space as well


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/921794459662086144


... along with a CryptoCurrency (MIT / Stanford-informed even, and in all 7,099 living languages at World University and School).


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Simulacra for surgery for precision and at the cellular and atomic levels will be important - in all nation states' languages and in space

Simulacra for surgery & at cell & atomic levels will be important in all nation states' languages & space http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Hospital  Realistic Virtual Earth


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/921801952844922880


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.@StanfordPlastic's Dr. Rohit Khosla teaches in the Hue Central Hospital OR in Hue City, Vietnam. #surgery #surged


https://twitter.com/StanfordSurgery/status/921449753812111361

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From the @HarbinBook Hot Springs' gate to MARS in realistic virtual UNIVERSE https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/mars-astronautabby-wants-to-be-first.html … Can we Hitchhike with @AstronautAbby?:)


https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/921791143867596805

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From the Hot Springs' gate to MARS in realistic virtual UNIVERSE Can we Hitchhike with ?:)



https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/921778219052802048

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Writing, Simulacra, and "What is the Block Chain?" https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2017/10/cirque-of-towers-wind-river-range.html … https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/921801952844922880 Simulacra for surgery & at cell & atomic levels …


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/921808018097946624


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