Tjebbe van Tijen on Thu, 10 Jul 1997 20:00:05 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> a reductionist manifesto |
This openening statement dropped in my Emailbox this week ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Nils Roeller* Goedel - a nomadic case study Napoleon realized the strategic importance of officers skilled in mathematics and so he was eager to found the Ecole Polytechnique. Hitler was different. He concentrated on a stupid, cold and bloody Lebensraum instead of recognising that, in the small town of Goettingen, German mathematicians had already been successful in opening spaces that were waiting to be inhabited, like the flexible Riemann-space and the friendly Hilbert-space. Not seeing the opportinities that mathematics offered was one reason for losing the war. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directly after reading I climbed my bookshelves to find anything confirming this bold statement. Now a funny thing happened: a rather yellowish piece of folded paper dropped from the inside of one of these fat Goedel paperbacks and it reads as follow: "a reductionist manifesto our aim is to reduce all reality to one, basic meme, explaining it all our enemy is complexity that makes one doubt we do not want to doubt we want to make sure: that shortsight becomes insight backslight changes in foresight hindmost in utmost one bright idea is enough to chase the planets from their orbits so lets not waste time anymore and impose out theories" I thought it would be nice and wise to share this serendipic moment with other nettimers Tjebbe van Tijen Imaginary Museum Projects, Amsterdam tijen@inter.nl.net --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de