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19 11, 2008

Lacanian Ink 32 – FALL 2008

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 19th, 2008|philosophy|1 Comment

Josefina Ayerza To resume again… http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII1.html Jacques-Alain Miller A Reading of the Seminar From an Other to the other IV http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII2.html Jacques-Alain Miller The Other Side of Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII3.html Alain Badiou The Son’s Aleatory Identity in Today’s World http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII4.html Lilia Mahjoub The Image in the Fantasy http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII5.html Massimo Recalcati Madness and Structure in Jacques Lacan http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII6.html Jean-Luc Nancy Strange Foreign Bodies http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII7.html Slavoj Zizek Why Lacan Is Not a Heideggerian http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII8.html Josefina Ayerza Cecily Brown, Doug Aitken http://www.lacan.com/lacinkXXXII9.html

16 11, 2008

web update

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 16th, 2008|events, xylem news|0 Comments

The majority of the content has been moved here, so the old site will be completely removed after some time. If you still want to find something on the old xylem site just follow this link.

10 11, 2008

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 10th, 2008|philosophy, politics|0 Comments

Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics), Martin Hagglund "It is a masterful performance and one cannot help but be convinced in the end... Radical Atheism is a brilliant and most original work that is certain to be read, argued with, commented on, and frequently cited. It carves out a way of reading and interpreting Derrida—indeed all of Derrida, from early to late works—that every reader of Derrida will have to reckon with." Michael Naas, DePaul University "Impeccably argued, Radical Atheism is bound to have a significant impact on Derrida scholarship. By developing the logic of survival, Hägglund convincingly demonstrates that Derrida is essentially a philosopher of life, but of the only life there is—the life of finite beings—and hence a radical thinker of temporality. It is a very courageous book as well that critically takes issue with the negative theologians' appropriation of Derrida and makes [...]

9 11, 2008

Animex 2009

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 9th, 2008|animation, events|0 Comments

Animex, Middlesbrough’s international celebration of animation, is organised by the University of Teesside's principal lecturer Chris Williams and is in its tenth year. More about Animex The Animex International Festival of Animation & Computer Games takes place every year in Middlesbrough in the North East of England. Animex seeks to educate, entertain and inspire at every level from school children right through to the highest level of professional practitioner. Using a unique blend of talks, presentations, workshops, exhibitions, screenings and awards Animex brings the world of animation and computer games to audiences from any background. In an ethos of collaboration and sharing we aim to make our event one that can be enjoyed by anybody, from anywhere regardless of background and prior knowledge. We hope that you will find something in our programme that you can be part of and, if you have any ideas as to how we can [...]

7 11, 2008

Design Journals

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00November 7th, 2008|research|0 Comments

Links will be added ... ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems Application of Concurrency to System Design Art criticism Art Documentation Art Education Art History Art Journal Art, Antiquity and Law Artifact Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing Arts and Humanities in Higher Education Arts Education Policy Review Arts in Society Built Environment CoDesign - International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts Computer Aided Geometric Design Computer Design Computer-Aided Design Design automation for embedded systems Design Issues Design journal Design Management Review Design Philosophy Papers Design Research Quarterly Design Studies Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Designs, Codes, and Cryptography Document Design Electronic Design Entertainment Design Environment and Planning, B: Planning and Design Ergonomics in Design Facilities Finite elements in analysis and design Folding & design Formal methods in system design Furniture History Fusion engineering and design IEEE Design & Test of Computers IEEE [...]

25 10, 2008

mixed feelings, Autodesk acquires Softimage.

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:51+02:00October 25th, 2008|animation, CGI, Softimage XSI, technology|2 Comments

It has been officially confirmed that Autodesk signed agreement with Avid Technology to Acquire Softimage. http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?id=12022457&siteID=123112 Users' feelings are mixed for the future of the Softimage product line. In general the most important questions are: Are they to kill Softimage? Till now Autodesk acquired all major 3D packages. What about competition ? What are the pros and cons of such an acquisition? Some say no, Softimage is not to be killed, and this in a way is probable. Autodesk never killed any of its previous aquisitions, including Maya, Mudbox, Descreete Logic products etc. They still develop these products but evidently the "innovation curve" have changed. It is a truism that we havent seen any major additions to Maya since Autodesk aquired it. We hope this will change in the near feature. In general, the pros and cons that most users identified in various forum discussions are: Pros & Cons Autodesk, [...]

19 10, 2008

XSI 7.0: Bradley Gabe’s videos

By μο.|2017-12-04T21:03:23+02:00October 19th, 2008|CGI, Softimage XSI, technology|0 Comments

Bradley Gabe shows in his XSI 7 Video Tutorial how you can creates a static particle emission, then drives point animation using vectors pulled from curve tangency. here is the link: http://vimeo.com/user594481/videos ICE Demo: Building a Force from a Curve http://vimeo.com/1313863 Vortex Control http://vimeo.com/1330615 ICE: An Artist Tour #1 http://vimeo.com/1349449 ICE: An Artist Tour #2 -- Production Primer http://vimeo.com/1392786

18 10, 2008

Speed test for Firefox, Chrome and IE

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:10:52+02:00October 18th, 2008|technology|0 Comments

Here I provide a benchmarking test regarding the start-up speed of firefox 3.0.3, Chrome and IE 7. The test has been done with more than 30 identical tabs for Firefox and Chrome and with one tab for IE (it was actually crashing when storing more than 4-5 tabs.) I also provide a benchmark with MarineTraffic. Here is the video: [flv]http://xylem.aegean.gr/~modestos/mo.blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/benchmark.flv[/flv] Download high res video. The test was performed on an Intel Core 2 Quad 9300 2.50 processor with 4Gb RAM.

1 10, 2008

time to withdraw and think.

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:11:04+02:00October 1st, 2008|politics|0 Comments

In New York on the last day of an American tour, absorbing the demise of Yankee Stadium and maybe of Wall Street as we thought we knew it, Zizek’s talk is a blast-furnace but not a blur. The theme through all Zizek’s gags is that the financial meltdown marks a seriously dangerous moment — dangerous not least because, as in the interpretation of 9.11, the right wing is ready to impose a narrative. And the left wing is caught without a narrative or a theory. “Today is the time for theory,” he says. “Time to withdraw and think.” speech Here is the original post.

22 09, 2008

zotero runtime error 6, overflow

By μο.|2016-01-12T21:11:04+02:00September 22nd, 2008|technology|4 Comments

If you are getting this error, then you probably reached the limit of VBA script. I guess to many bibliographic entries... The solution to this is simple and it is a bug in zotero code that has been identified by Mat Hickman. Here is my zotero.dot file it you are interested. :: Here is the process (I copied and pasted from his post here): Vba is visual basic for applications and is a programming language by microsoft that allows you to automate programs in their office suite. Patching the code is, basically, safe. Anyway, just take a copy of zotero.dot before you start playing! Step by step instructions follow... 1. Shut down all instances of Word. Find zotero.dot and right click on it; choose open (default is 'New'). 2. You should be faced with a blank document. Press Alt+F11 and the vba editor will appear. On the left [...]

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