Archive for April, 2008

Amir Alexander: On the Materiality of Mathematics 9

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Mathematicians sense it too. The introduction of computers into mathematics has introduced a new materialist challenge into higher mathematics. Can a machine made of wires and silicon chips be allowed in the aetherial world of abstract mathematics? Are proofs accomplished by such material means legitimate? Is mathematics, the realm of pure unadulterated reason, compromised by the brute calculating power of these material beings?

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Barbara Ellmerer

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

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Markus Stegmann: Führschiffer

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Nestelt Bindfadenprimat am Hängekliff

Kleinkujau ihr Rührräuber habt eifriges

Holz an der Geleitfahrt Gehirntanktstelle

gelappertes Mehl mal Hirsebirne zwischen

den mageren Holzklippen Spaltstuhl

verklapptes Diesel mit Schubsäcken

elektrifiziertes Denkbleibsel was für

ein Sittich saftet im Fadennitrat ein

Führschiffer sag ich ein Binnenbirnler

am elektrischen Sondermorgen zwischen

Hose Holzzäunen lasten Säcke als

schwimmt der

täte was

sag ich

lodert der

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

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Barbara Ellmerer: (nach Matisse) Hermaphrodit 2

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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Ingrid Wiener: Erste Schritte auf dem Weg zu Bayes # 7

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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Ingrid Wiener: Erste Schritte auf dem Weg zu Bayes # 7, Gobelin 2007, 34×50cm nach Blei- und Filzstiftnotizen auf DIN A4

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Amir Alexander: On the Materiality of Mathematics 8

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

And yet, the politics of mathematics are still with us, bubbling beneath the surface. We sense it in the rule of professional “experts,” champions of order and necessity, who are forever seeking to present their claim in a mathematical mantle. They hope to infuse their arguments with a touch of mathematics’ aura of inevitability. We also sense it in the indifference, and even hostility towards mathematics of students and citizens. They refuse to engage with a field that will impose it absolute truths upon them, and never ask for their considered opinion. We see it in the schools, in the repeated struggles between “new math” and “old math” teaching methods, which map closely onto the political divisions between Left and Right.

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Markus Stegmann: Fehlfliege

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Bürdet wer Fehlfliege

anleitet als Gelenktankstelle

schleift und schmiert

das Fossil fühlig mit

gereichterten Augenzellen

luftig die Zufuhr matter

Baracken mit Lebendfingern

beschirmter Versuch

Bilder nehmen einen anderen Platz ein

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

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