http://continentaldreams.com blog on continental dreaming, by gijs wahl Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:29:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en *Identity, site specific installation, lifesize, for honoursprogram GRA/UvA at Ellen De Bruijne PROJECTS download the words http://continentaldreams.com/2008/06/30/sunset/ He said yes, but his body tightened. I thought: you are like me, and suggested we'd switch place.   http://continentaldreams.com/2007/08/07/us/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/07/08/some-more-old/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/07/04/so-says/ I would like to propose a new medium for interdisciplinary communications. Not a medium that can convey meanings, but a medium that is laying the groundwork for all possible meaning. That might sound rather universal and abstract, but in fact it is the most sensuous medium, as the following example ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/06/26/medium2/ Waar ik woon weet ik: twee muren. Vroeger dacht ik slim: misschien meer, verderop. Dan zou ik weten: een kamer. Maar ik heb de andere muren nooit geweten. Ook nu kan ik ze alleen maar denken, want ik heb ze nooit gezien. Ik denk: misschien heel ver. Ik weet: twee ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/06/17/waar-ik-woon/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/04/27/grid/ In the city, every contingent fact seems to be multiplied: the stones in the pavement, the units that make up the buildings, and the buildings themselves. It even seems that this could continue ENDLESSLY. There never seems to be only one person tripping over a bottle accidentally. There is never only ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/04/21/citylife/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/04/12/house/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/04/05/ontology-2/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/03/27/untitled/ At some point, he just can't go any further. Unity he can experience. Pieces he can connect. But the link between these two escapes him. At last, after having taken all apart, he gets an eye in return. This is how he discoveres the connection: not as a symbol, not ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/03/26/regarding-the-viewer-dissecting-the-work/ http://continentaldreams.com/2007/03/25/ontology/ In 2007, a technique was invented that made it possible to experience feeling in an artificial limb (Nature: 29-1-2007). 'Feeling' is not to be understood as some passive experience, like a simulation. It works both ways: the artificial limb is in all its movements directed by thought, while the mind ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/03/13/mmebovary20/ "De onwaarheid erkennen als levensvoorwaarde: dat wil zonder twijfel zeggen dat we een riskant verzet bieden tegen de vertrouwde waardegevoelens; en een filosofie die dat waagt, situeert zich alleen daardoor al aan gene zijde van goed en kwaad". (Friedrich Nietzsche, Voorbij Goed en Kwaad, §4) Wanneer Kant de onwaarheid erkent als ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/03/01/nietzsche/ LEX = the harvest of acorns ILEX = the tree on which the acorns grow LEGERE = collecting AQUILEX = he who brings together the waters LEX = bringing together people LEX = law LEGERE = bringing letters together to form a word; reading http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/28/lex/ On the right to make oneself noticed In this essay I would like to bring into remembrance a medium that, although never exactly forgotten, seems to have been dismembered from contemporary liberal thought, having thus lost its function as a medium. First I will introduce this special medium. Then I will ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/17/medium/ After breakfast, I made my morning walk as usual. I was surprised to see one of the silver balloons hovering over my head for some time. Someone new must have sent it. In the beginning, we used our balloons like that all the time; just to check out the others ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/07/you/ Soms denken filosofen de waarheid vergezeld van een ermee corresponderende gemoedstoestand. Deze gemoedstoestand wordt soms ook als einddoel van het zoeken naar de waarheid beschouwd. Zo zou bijvoorbeeld een staat van ???????? worden bereikt wanneer men in verzekerd bezit was van de juiste oordelen. Zo ook dacht Sextus Empiricus’ imaginaire ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/04/ataraxia/ contact http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/03/gijs-wahl/ Wanneer de beschouwer het werk objectief zou bekijken, dat is, ontleden, stoot hij uiteindelijk op de cirkel van schepper, ding en idee. Eenheid kan hij zelf ervaren. Veelheid kan hij verbinden. Maar het verband ertussen kan hij net niet begrijpen in het werk. Helemaal ontleed ziet hij uiteindelijk een oog ... http://continentaldreams.com/2007/02/02/start/