Thought Distributed Into Your Environment
Nietzsche had a different style of writing when he was using a typewriter.
I often feel that typing in emacs for brainstorming makes me have a different sort of thought than writing on paper. It's faster for text, but it's harder to doodle, and the differences trickle through.
Similarly, I can't distinguish my house keys on sight, but I keep the one I need first next to the car keys on my key chain. When my car's in the shop I have a harder time getting into my apartment.
Under the sway of the machine, writes the German media scholar Friedrich A. Kittler, Nietzsche’s prose “changed from arguments to aphorisms, from thoughts to puns, from rhetoric to telegram style.”
I often feel that typing in emacs for brainstorming makes me have a different sort of thought than writing on paper. It's faster for text, but it's harder to doodle, and the differences trickle through.
Similarly, I can't distinguish my house keys on sight, but I keep the one I need first next to the car keys on my key chain. When my car's in the shop I have a harder time getting into my apartment.
posted by Kevin at
8:14 PM
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I thought that the first argument relates to tool-process-outcome, i.e. different tools or media can activate different neural pathways: every medium may use a different bus to get data to your cpu, thus the data can trigger different processes on its way to the cpu, whereas the second argument is conditioning, or memorization -- more like pavlov's dog (no offense). well, maybe the second is a special case of the first. :) this is fun, keep it going!
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