Sunday, March 29, 2009

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self

Yea, twodimensional, linear monocromatic writting of spoken language is a recnet toy but lots of work has gone into writting in proteins, flowers, feathers and sounds, the funny habit of bald monkeys like you and me of drawing lines or pushing keys to say things is useful but just another trik. Very interesting and effective conversations have existed to provide the scafflod where we talk and write right now


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--- On Sun, 3/29/09, roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: roger malina <rmalina@alum.mit.edu>
> Subject: [Yasmin_discussions] invention of the self
> To: "YASMIN DISCUSSIONS" <Yasmin_discussions@estia.media.uoa.gr>
> Date: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 7:47 AM
> ramon
>
> thank you so much for the addition of "invention of the
> self" to
> the discussion on artists as inventors !!
>
> it seems to me that the brain is such a "plastic organ"
> that
> indeed many things that we take to be part of innate
> nature
> actually are the result of our interactions with the
> artefacts we
> invent
>
> one of the big mysteries in the history of human beings is
> why
> it took so long to invent written languages= written
> languates are
> a really recent invention in the history of homo sapiens
>
> so much of what i consider to be part of "myself' comes not
> only
> from my interactions with other people and the world, but
> with the
> artefacts we build= what was it like to be a human being
> before
> written language and the visual arts were invented ?
>
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