Comments for Mutable Matter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com Welcome to Mutable Matter............. This blog is about matter - what we associate with it and how we imagine it. Especially what we cannot see. This blog will also provide a platform for the interactive art project with the same name that will run in 2008. Until then, feel free to leave your ideas, anecdotes and your associations and relationships with the hidden, but lively space of our world which affects us in a multitude of ways... Fri, 16 May 2008 00:50:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Of spoken and unspoken salads - An accidental encounter with Michel Serres by mutablematter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/of-spoken-and-unspoken-salads-an-accidental-encounter-with-michel-serres/#comment-197 mutablematter Tue, 13 May 2008 10:44:37 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-197 By the way, if you want to ask Michel Serres a question, please follow this link: http://www.stanford.edu/~acalefas/serres/ It's a website by him and one of his PhD students subtitled 'Everything you always wanted to know about the Humanities but were afraid to ask...' :) By the way, if you want to ask Michel Serres a question, please follow this link:

http://www.stanford.edu/~acalefas/serres/

It’s a website by him and one of his PhD students subtitled ‘Everything you always wanted to know about the Humanities but were afraid to ask…’

:)

]]> Comment on Of spoken and unspoken salads - An accidental encounter with Michel Serres by mutablematter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/of-spoken-and-unspoken-salads-an-accidental-encounter-with-michel-serres/#comment-196 mutablematter Tue, 13 May 2008 10:42:06 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-196 Thanks, Milton! I have heard of Adbusters from my days as a design student. Have not recently followed up on their activities though! Thanks for reminding me! Thanks, Milton! I have heard of Adbusters from my days as a design student. Have not recently followed up on their activities though! Thanks for reminding me!

]]> Comment on Of spoken and unspoken salads - An accidental encounter with Michel Serres by Milton http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/of-spoken-and-unspoken-salads-an-accidental-encounter-with-michel-serres/#comment-195 Milton Tue, 13 May 2008 04:05:50 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-195 Great post. Have you heard of Adbusters? They are a Canadian organization based in Vancouver and have long fought a counter-cultural war against consumerism, mental pollution and using less, lowering the volume and weaning ourselves off of petroleum. In Nov/Dec 2001 they did an issue on Mental Environmentalism - "What's my damage?" and punched a 1/2 inch hole through the entire magazine. Sorry to be so long in reading and responding. I'll link to your post. Great post. Have you heard of Adbusters? They are a Canadian organization based in Vancouver and have long fought a counter-cultural war against consumerism, mental pollution and using less, lowering the volume and weaning ourselves off of petroleum. In Nov/Dec 2001 they did an issue on Mental Environmentalism - “What’s my damage?” and punched a 1/2 inch hole through the entire magazine. Sorry to be so long in reading and responding. I’ll link to your post.

]]> Comment on Salad Machines in Space by Spaceblooms: Is Future of Farming in Outer Space? | hotspring.fm http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/salad-machines-in-space/#comment-194 Spaceblooms: Is Future of Farming in Outer Space? | hotspring.fm Sun, 11 May 2008 19:51:26 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/salad-machines-in-space/#comment-194 [...] Mutable Matter: “Salad Machines in Space” [...] [...] Mutable Matter: “Salad Machines in Space” [...]

]]> Comment on Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill - Iain M. Banks’ “Matter” by mutablematter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/lightly-seared-on-the-reality-grill-iain-m-banks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cmatter%e2%80%9d/#comment-192 mutablematter Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:12 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-192 Ok. Thank you for rectifying this! Does anyone have any comments on my reading of 'Matter' though? ;) Ok. Thank you for rectifying this!
Does anyone have any comments on my reading of ‘Matter’ though? ;)

]]> Comment on Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill - Iain M. Banks’ “Matter” by Damien R. S. http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/lightly-seared-on-the-reality-grill-iain-m-banks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cmatter%e2%80%9d/#comment-191 Damien R. S. Tue, 06 May 2008 15:58:35 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-191 Well, the Morthanveld are considered an equal to the Culture, which makes it unlikely the Culture's stepping on their toes. And Contact can't be everywhere. And even so, those poor aliens couldn't be considered enemies of the Culture in any meaningful sense. Honestly, if the Nariscene stir up wars for their own amusement, I think Contact would be itching to work on *them*. But see: Morthanveld. Well, the Morthanveld are considered an equal to the Culture, which makes it unlikely the Culture’s stepping on their toes. And Contact can’t be everywhere. And even so, those poor aliens couldn’t be considered enemies of the Culture in any meaningful sense.

Honestly, if the Nariscene stir up wars for their own amusement, I think Contact would be itching to work on *them*. But see: Morthanveld.

]]> Comment on Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill - Iain M. Banks’ “Matter” by mutablematter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/lightly-seared-on-the-reality-grill-iain-m-banks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cmatter%e2%80%9d/#comment-190 mutablematter Tue, 06 May 2008 11:02:45 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-190 Thanks. Have misread that part then. But who knows who is responsible further down the line? And is he really Ex-Culture? ;) Thanks. Have misread that part then. But who knows who is responsible further down the line? And is he really Ex-Culture? ;)

]]> Comment on Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill - Iain M. Banks’ “Matter” by Damien R. S. http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/lightly-seared-on-the-reality-grill-iain-m-banks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cmatter%e2%80%9d/#comment-189 Damien R. S. Tue, 06 May 2008 07:18:15 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-189 <i>tour of a brain-washing facility for enemies of the Culture </I> Correction: that had nothing to do with the Culture. That facility was in a war between two civs on one planet, overseen by the Nariscene, themselves mentored by the Morthanveld, and civilization entirely separate from though friendly and equal to the Culture. The general was ex-Culture and that's it. tour of a brain-washing facility for enemies of the Culture

Correction: that had nothing to do with the Culture. That facility was in a war between two civs on one planet, overseen by the Nariscene, themselves mentored by the Morthanveld, and civilization entirely separate from though friendly and equal to the Culture. The general was ex-Culture and that’s it.

]]> Comment on So why am I doing this project? by In-Security – Materialising Radiation « Mutable Matter http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/so-why-am-i-doing-this-project/#comment-160 In-Security – Materialising Radiation « Mutable Matter Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:00:20 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/so-why-am-i-doing-this-project/#comment-160 [...] of my previous projects, ‘Mutation’ had been partly been inspired by a drawing of the artist Cornelia Hesse-Honegger of mutated bugs [...] [...] of my previous projects, ‘Mutation’ had been partly been inspired by a drawing of the artist Cornelia Hesse-Honegger of mutated bugs [...]

]]> Comment on Lightly Seared On The Reality Grill - Iain M. Banks’ “Matter” by Ed http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/lightly-seared-on-the-reality-grill-iain-m-banks%e2%80%99-%e2%80%9cmatter%e2%80%9d/#comment-159 Ed Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:32:20 +0000 http://mutablematter.wordpress.com/?p=98#comment-159 I really enjoyed this novel. I've always loved the way Banks blends preconceptions of what makes a sci-fi or fantasy story, and have always appreciated the extent to which he creates such a vast, yet detailed universe. Detail further than what is required to tell the story is something which prevents predictability, for if you are only told about what is going to be integral, is it not possible to guess the broad strokes of the plot to come? As for the ending, I think the unpredictability of many of his novels is one of the things which makes them enjoyable. In this case it seemed to me that the characters - certainly Ferbin and Holse - changed profoundly over the course of the book and (spoiler if you haven't read it yet!) Ferbin's sacrifice was the symbol of how far he'd come from a pampered princely fop. I can't rate books in numbers because each is so individual, and there are very few stories by Banks I don't enjoy, but I will say that this book is certainly staying prominent on my bookshelf! I really enjoyed this novel. I’ve always loved the way Banks blends preconceptions of what makes a sci-fi or fantasy story, and have always appreciated the extent to which he creates such a vast, yet detailed universe. Detail further than what is required to tell the story is something which prevents predictability, for if you are only told about what is going to be integral, is it not possible to guess the broad strokes of the plot to come?
As for the ending, I think the unpredictability of many of his novels is one of the things which makes them enjoyable. In this case it seemed to me that the characters - certainly Ferbin and Holse - changed profoundly over the course of the book and (spoiler if you haven’t read it yet!) Ferbin’s sacrifice was the symbol of how far he’d come from a pampered princely fop.
I can’t rate books in numbers because each is so individual, and there are very few stories by Banks I don’t enjoy, but I will say that this book is certainly staying prominent on my bookshelf!

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