Peacock
This photo is a part of my Madeira Gallery.
On 10.31.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
This photo is a part of my Madeira Gallery.
On 10.30.08, In Music, by Peter Giger
What makes these unassuming vignettes so special, however, is their boundless confidence. Norlin often chastises herself for her mistakes, but she rarely sounds guilt-ridden or self-pitying. It has been said that the human race can only progress by imagining better versions of itself and in these songs—“2006”’s list of resolutions, “My Best Friend”’s affirmation of [...]
More Modern Stories from Hello Saferide (2008)
What makes these unassuming vignettes so special, however, is their boundless confidence. Norlin often chastises herself for her mistakes, but she rarely sounds guilt-ridden or self-pitying. It has been said that the human race can only progress by imagining better versions of itself and in these songs—“2006”’s list of resolutions, “My Best Friend”’s affirmation of companionship—there is an understated decency, a precious humanity. Her songs acknowledge a fact of life rarely acknowledged in music: that kissing, laughing, and crying can happen in the same three minutes.
from a review in Stylus Magazine
On 10.30.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
The Swedish version of the magazine Metro has an artice about a woman who hacked a man’s account in the net based role play Maple Story and deleted his virtual life. The background is that they were married, virtually, and that the man recently divorced the woman. The news article’s account of the event is [...]
Research Material
The Swedish version of the magazine Metro has an artice about a woman who hacked a man’s account in the net based role play Maple Story and deleted his virtual life. The background is that they were married, virtually, and that the man recently divorced the woman. The news article’s account of the event is that the woman has committed murder based on a “crime passionnel”. This “virtual murder” could give up to 5 years imprisonment – as the headline suggests.
Both ‘murder’ and ‘married’ are used as metaphors. Even if they were married only in the game, and not legally, it’s not so far fetched to imagine a future with real virtual marriages. In fact, even without research, I’m pretty sure there are cases already and they will most certainly increase. This is kind of strange for me personally, but looking outside my own door, it doesn’t strike me as impossible or even particularly odd.
But virtual murder…? Can the act of erasing a virtual person ever be compared to the act of murder (erasing a human person of flesh and blood)? It might be fun to draw the parallel, but is the metaphor ‘virtual murder’ grounded in some insight into the future, as ‘virtual marriage’ might be? Is it possible that virtual embodiment ever can be compared to physical, biological embodiment in terms of ethics and law?
I don’t think there is any question about whether a separate person might be inclined to value her or his virtual embodiment as more valuable than the physical/biological, disregarding the obvious fact that the latter is a prerequisite for the former. But can this view ever cross the personal realm and become an interpersonal viewpoint?
It might. When, and if, our virtual relations become more and stronger than our physical/biological relations, the soul-body binary might be succeeded by a virtual-body binary where the virtual part actually gets precedence over the body part (just as the soul, or mind, has precedence over the body today). Law systems have of course always relayed on the viewable, bodily part of a human being. That’s why horrible crimes as rape or bullying does not get the penalty they deserve in most law systems.
Perhaps it boils down to the question about “what is life?” or the even more difficult question “what does it mean to live?”.
On 10.30.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
The photo is from my Durban Gallery. I’m not sure what kind of fish it is. Generally, I meet fish in a more gastronomic setting. See the ladder? It would have been somewhat cruel, if fish knew what we know about their situation. Lucky them.
Sometimes I feel a bit Grumpy
The photo is from my Durban Gallery. I’m not sure what kind of fish it is. Generally, I meet fish in a more gastronomic setting. See the ladder? It would have been somewhat cruel, if fish knew what we know about their situation. Lucky them.
On 10.30.08, In Music, by Peter Giger
Walking down memory lane and listen to some of Marvin Gaye’s marvelous music.
http://open.spotify.com/album/6dP88Q6t9UMPowre0Gaywa
Marvin Gaye
Walking down memory lane and listen to some of Marvin Gaye’s marvelous music.
On 10.24.08, In Music, Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
This photo was post processed under the influence of the music from the film The Red Violin. No relation between my picture and the film… but the music reminded me about something, perhaps, Jean Sibelius could have produced today, and this thought was. perhaps, a result of the fact that the film music was directed [...]
This photo was post processed under the influence of the music from the film The Red Violin. No relation between my picture and the film… but the music reminded me about something, perhaps, Jean Sibelius could have produced today, and this thought was. perhaps, a result of the fact that the film music was directed by Esa Pekka Salonen. You never know, however here is a spotify-link to the music: spotify:album:7JzCQj0FXpAKsAYo19L2WQ
On 10.23.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
Is it just me or is the Harvard/APA reference system comical when you have to create a reference to an old book “out of print” for hundred or thousand of years? Here is an example a an auto-generated reference created in the APA tradition:
Thinkers as Immanuel Kant has both mindsets and this duality is embedded [...]
Is it just me or is the Harvard/APA reference system comical when you have to create a reference to an old book “out of print” for hundred or thousand of years? Here is an example a an auto-generated reference created in the APA tradition:
Thinkers as Immanuel Kant has both mindsets and this duality is embedded in the title of his classic book Critique of Pure Reason (Kant & Meiklejohn, 2004).
And in the biliography / reference list:
Kant, I. & Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (2004). Critique of pure reason. Mineola, N.Y: Barnes & Noble.
I can’t stand this. It looks really stupid – if you know the original book was published in the end of the 18th century (1781). It’s quite easy to find a hack in this case. I can remove the reference entirely. It is not really needed here, but the problem remains the next time I reference something that actually is in the book and has to be referenced in a proper manner.
There are a lot of possible hacks and more proper solutions, but most of them doesn’t fit well with in a text based mostly on contemporarary references intertwined with a few references to these old “elephants”.
On 10.21.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
31 minutes after I posted a blog post with the tags nihilism and web 2.0, also included in the title, a search on these terms is picked up by Google BlogSearch and the blog post is placed 1:a in the hit list (487 hits in total). This make me think 1) Google BlogSearch is a [...]
Google Blogsearch Screenshot
31 minutes after I posted a blog post with the tags nihilism and web 2.0, also included in the title, a search on these terms is picked up by Google BlogSearch and the blog post is placed 1:a in the hit list (487 hits in total). This make me think 1) Google BlogSearch is a fast index machin 2) What about relevance ranking in Google BlogSerach? 3) I have a neat research subject 
On 10.21.08, In Other, by Peter Giger
This is the main conceptual space for the search and research I’m doing right now.
This is the main conceptual space for the search and research I’m doing right now.
On 10.21.08, In Photo / Design / Art, by Peter Giger
