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Wolfgang Hagen is not the best known of German media theorists outside of Germany - despite his long career, and such huge books as on the history of radio. Hagen's way of thinking through media epistemologies - and hence related to media archaeologies - is however important in the way it ties into that concept material and phantasmatic dimensions of epistemological objects (instead of the slightly always more vague "episteme" of Foucault).
With a keen interest in the 19th century, Hagen is able to tap into the formative technicality of media cultures - and hence the prehistory of the contemporary "software unconscious". As such, this quote by Hermann von Helmholtz, requoted from Hagen (and his translation) is a good example of the German focus on Helmholtz as important figure as for instance Freud in thinking about the medial unconscious of our culture - and aesthetics. A lot of this you recognize from emphases of Kittler ("psychophysics" as the way to understand the emergence of the So-Called-Man of media cultures), but here in the own words of Helmholtz:
"Aesthetics seeks the essence of the artistically beautiful in its unconscious rationality. I have... sought to reveal the hidden law that determines the mellifluousness of harmonic tonal connections. Actually, this is something that happens unconsciously as far as the overtones are concerned, which are indeed perceived by the nerves but do not usually come forth into the domain of conscious ideation; nevertheless, their pleasantness or unpleasantness is felt without the listener knowing where the grounds for such feelings lie." (Helmholtz,Über die physiologischen Ursachen der musikalischen Harmonie, lecture from 1857, published in Vorträge und Reden in 1896 90).
Hagen's article - from which this quote comes from - is in the book Artists as Inventors, Inventors as Artists.
What's more, this quote points to the early formulations and scientific basis that relates to economies and politics of affect - such a crucial part of societies of spectacle and post-Fordism.
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Hagen, Helmholtz, affect
Posted by Jussi Parikka at 04:23
Labels: affect, Helmholtz, Kittler, psychophysics, Wolfgang Hagen
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You might have noticed photographs where subject is pin sharp while the background is hazy giving a feel of motion. Such photographs are known as pan shots. Panning gives the image a dynamic perspective. Panning helps in showing action in still photographs & is often used in sports photography. Though similar to Bokeh but still Panning is way different than Bokeh. Bokeh doesn't portray motion but panning does.
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Flash is often used on the web in form of videos, games & other flash based web applications. Love it or hate it but you can't escape it atleast for now.Thus it becomes necessary to install flash plugin on your system in order to make sure all those flash content work flawlessly in your web browser. Here I'll guide you to install flash plugin on your Arch Linux system(32 Bit & 64 Bit).
First, you'll need to edit the pacman configuration file of Arch Linux i.e. '/etc/pacman.conf'. This can be done by issuing following at the shell;
vi /etc/pacman.conf
Once the file is loaded in the shell, scroll down & find the repository section. Under repository section enable the 'Multilib' repository by deleting the '#' symbol from front of it. This is known as uncommenting. It should look like this after uncommenting.
[multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
After the above is done, issue the following command to refresh & sync the enabled repositories.
# pacman -Syu
Now that we have repositories refreshed, its time to install the flashplayer like any other software using pacman. For that issue,
# pacman -S flashplayer
Now the 32 bit flashplayer is installed on your system. Verify it by typing 'about:plugins' in address bar of Mozilla Firefox. Try loading a youtube video or any flash site and it should work without any issues.
Installing software under Linux doesn't require one to hit the console anymore. Thanks to the graphical package managers available which have made the job of installing, uninstalling & updating software packages a child's play. Still knowing how to manage software via console is necessary to make yourself a competent Linux user. In this first post I will cover installing software under Debian Linux. I will follow this post with installing softwares on Redhat, installing from source etc.
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Moon is a beautiful body in our solar system. Its various phases are so picturesque that one often feels to capture its beauty with a camera. Capturing moon is not easy at it sounds & more often you will get nothing but a white orb if you don't know the right technique to capture the moon. In this guide I'll explain intricately to get a perfect moon shot which will elicit 'wows' from your friends & colleagues.
I love photography. I love to shoot different genres of photography but my favourite is 'Tabletop Photography'. Under tabletop photography one is required to photograph an object on a table as the name suggest. Though it sounds a piece of cake its not so easy to do considering you've to visualise a lot of things beforehand. Sometimes you may get a perfect picture you want within a few seconds & at times you may end up waiting for hours. I like the challenging nature of tabletop photography & that's the reason why I love tabletop photography. Recently I shot a tabletop photograph to express my love for the badminton sport. Here is an account of the same which will help you to begin with tabletop photography. I advise to begin with minimal equipment & then jump on to complicated setups. If you've a good vision then the possibilities in tabletop(or for the matter any type) photography are virtually endless.


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Slashdot reports on a mysterious case of high tech urban sabotage in California, with lessons for first responders in complex urban environments.
Software innovator Bruce Perens writes,
Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported.
"That attack demonstrated a severe fault in American infrastructure: its centralization. The city of Morgan Hill and parts of three counties lost 911 service, cellular mobile telephone communications, land-line telephone, DSL internet and private networks, central station fire and burglar alarms, ATMs, credit card terminals, and monitoring of critical utilities. In addition, resources that should not have failed, like the local hospital's internal computer network, proved to be dependent on external resources, leaving the hospital with a "paper system" for the day"
This is an interesting example of emerging threats to urban centres in the future, along the lines of previous posts on attacking the electric grid system. The entire article, found here, is well worth reading.
In particular, Bruce has a discussion of the lessons learned from this mysterious attack:
The first lesson is what stayed up: stand-alone radio systems and not much else. Cell phones failed. Cellular towers can not, in general, connect phone calls on their own, even if both phones are near the same tower. They communicate with a central switching computer to operate, and when that system doesn't respond, they're useless. But police and fire authorities still had internal communications via two-way radio.
Very rich food for thought about the future of complex urban emergencies.


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Lana Del Rey Has Revealed She Is Writing A Musical
American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey has revealed she is writing a musical.
The 32-year-old singer-songwriter has revealed she's recently been approached about penning a Broadway musical, and Lana expects to finish the production in two or three years' time.
Looking ahead to future projects, Lana shared: "I was asked to write a musical, which I've started. It was for Broadway. I may finish in two or three years. Me and Rick [Nowels, her frequent collaborator] have written something, so we'll see."
Despite this, Lana isn't sure who she would like to see play herself in a biopic based on her own life.
She told L'Officiel USA: "I'm thinking a big picture here, because I love Baz Luhrmann. Not sure who would play me though."
Lana is one of the best-selling artists in the music world today.
But the chart-topping star – who considers herself to be a spiritual person – has revealed she is constantly asking herself difficult questions.
She explained: "I believe you are your own doorway to an understanding of something greater. I never think of how I can get bigger or better, I just think, 'How can I go deeper? How can I know myself more so that I'm a clearer conduit for whatever else is in the ether?'
"Meditation's a big part of my life. I was already doing that when I was young, thinking about what I wanted to do, things I wanted to manifest. And most of it was about the written word."
Lana also revealed that writing has become an important "channel" for her thoughts, as it allows her to have an important "dialogue" with herself.
However, the American star doesn't consider herself to be a "truth seeker".
She said: "I really like to channel through writing in my own small way. I don't consider myself a truth seeker in that way. I'm just my own dialogue."
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