apophenia: a book exercise

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April 18, 2004

a book exercise

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

Just as we are afraid of ghosts and of the God of the panopticon insofar as they are imaginary non-entities - that is, because they do not exist - so, according to lacan, we love God precisely because he does not exist.

I had to fudge it. The first two books i picked up didn't have 5 sentences on page 23. Leave it to Derrida and JL Austin to have rather long sentences that fill the page. Thus, i went with Bentham's "The Panopticon Writings" (which were out due to a recent debate with my roommate).

Note: catching up on blog reading, but i thought that this exercise was fun!

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Comments (5)

kurtis:

"Since the remote probe monitors and organizes data traffic occurring on the distant network, this considerably reduces the amount of information that would otherwise be required to be transmitted to the network management station for analysis."

LAN Management with SNMP and RMON, Gilbert Held, Wiley Computer Publishing, 1996.

Posted by kurtis | April 19, 2004 11:41 AM

Posted on April 19, 2004 11:41

nick:

"I invited them over. "
max lucado

Posted by nick | April 26, 2004 11:47 AM

Posted on April 26, 2004 11:47

fluxus:

"In particular, we shall focus on ergodicity breaking, using disordered systems as an example."

ISBN 0201554089

Posted by fluxus | April 28, 2004 3:01 PM

Posted on April 28, 2004 15:01