Burroughs adresses his Ghost of Chance to this question. His answer as a person who dreamed about exceeding one human life was to agree with the sense that pop art achieved eternal verity status and for instance a room wrecked by a party, preserved, continues to communicate its message. Zbigniew Herbert addresses the question in a poem called "Path" .
Interesting to your point is that these two nominally outside of the archives both Dr. Sapolsky and John Haidt say to their best readers " the way that I can see you living the lessons i learned was by working in a university setting". You litteratti are ( or lotteratti was my Slip) more interesting because you hold the hope that some Sam Kriss outthere has theworld enough and time to live backwards partly, accepting all the forms of art( as in the quest to understand all the unconscious arts) that one rejected while seemingly dvllpng Tastees...Mr Kriss is that kind of honest broker who has a girlfriend to keep him relatively whole...
What would Prof. Colebrook say to the question: Perhaps the goal of maintaining an archive is opposed to life -- but what if thats true for only *mere biological life*? Does anyone actually care about mere biological life anyway? What does love have to do with mere biological life? Obviously one has to be biologically alive to experience love (put to the side for the moment the possibility of nonbiological life which I find implausible anyway or at the very least not scientifically supported in a direct sense.) But to me intuitively there is biological life, and then there is life that is meaningful. Of course the archive one is raised on shapes what one's thoughts are on that question, but that seems more or less inevitable (and to me not a particularly depressing inevitability at that.) To be up front as well I am not at all familiar with the literature on archives in this sense.
Burroughs adresses his Ghost of Chance to this question. His answer as a person who dreamed about exceeding one human life was to agree with the sense that pop art achieved eternal verity status and for instance a room wrecked by a party, preserved, continues to communicate its message. Zbigniew Herbert addresses the question in a poem called "Path" .
Interesting to your point is that these two nominally outside of the archives both Dr. Sapolsky and John Haidt say to their best readers " the way that I can see you living the lessons i learned was by working in a university setting". You litteratti are ( or lotteratti was my Slip) more interesting because you hold the hope that some Sam Kriss outthere has theworld enough and time to live backwards partly, accepting all the forms of art( as in the quest to understand all the unconscious arts) that one rejected while seemingly dvllpng Tastees...Mr Kriss is that kind of honest broker who has a girlfriend to keep him relatively whole...
What would Prof. Colebrook say to the question:
Perhaps the goal of maintaining an archive is opposed to life -- but what if thats true for only *mere biological life*?
Does anyone actually care about mere biological life anyway? What does love have to do with mere biological life? Obviously one has to be biologically alive to experience love (put to the side for the moment the possibility of nonbiological life which I find implausible anyway or at the very least not scientifically supported in a direct sense.) But to me intuitively there is biological life, and then there is life that is meaningful. Of course the archive one is raised on shapes what one's thoughts are on that question, but that seems more or less inevitable (and to me not a particularly depressing inevitability at that.)
To be up front as well I am not at all familiar with the literature on archives in this sense.
love is a part of biological life
@goodluck5642 Perhaps, but that's far from clear to me.