Index ¦ Archives ¦ Atom

I won't be your father figure

Imported from an old blog.

If I recall correctly, Lacanian psychoanalysis posits a moment in youth when the child looks out to the world and seeks an individual or entity that provides the gateway to interaction with the external world. This individual or entity plants the seeds of language that …


Knowledge Access

This is an edit of an email posted to the Bootstrap Association Unfinished Revolution mailing list. That list was for discussing how the ideas originally produced by Doug Engelbart and his team fit in with modern concepts of information processing and collaboration. This was written in 2002. There is an …


August 15, 2001: The Badlands

Imported from an old blog.

These are the badlands. Giant piles of desolate mud. Eroded sedimentary goo. Knife edges. Wrinkles. Desolation.

I'm in the notch, leads to the wall. The land drops away from here to the prairie below. The prairie goes on forever. Nothing out there but green grass …

© Chris Dent. Built using Pelican. Theme by Giulio Fidente on github.