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Yuk Hui at the 45th anniversary festivities at V2 in Rotterdam.

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A man speaking behind a lectern, the slide he shows says " Thermodynamic Ideology".
September 24, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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And first steps on the Wobbulator at Signal Culture in Colorado !

#Wobbulator #SignalCulture #SystemsThatMatter
March 28, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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The "Liberate the Machines!" book is starting to be available so I made a page for it even if it hasn't had a launch moment yet.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #AnalogComputing #MediaArchaeology
July 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Out of fashion or in demand ?

#dallas #usedbooks #chaostheory #complexity #systemsthatmatter
March 31, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Through a very dusty train window on a sunny day.

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View through a window full of sand or mud, with a patch where the sand has been rubbed off and a bit of landscape is visible.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Coming Friday, the 14th of November will see the launch of my book "Liberate the Machines!" at Creative Coding in Utrecht.

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter #MarloesDeValk #CreativeCodingUtrecht #MechanismsCommonToDisparatePhenomena
November 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Glad that I found a copy of this tome by Bernard Scott, long-time collaborator of Gordon Pask.

#BernardScott #GordonPask #SecondOrderCybernetics #SystemsThatMatter
April 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Just in ! Another lesser-known text by Whitehead, in a nice first edition from 1934.

#AlfredNorthWhitehead #SystemsThatMatter
A hand holding a small book from 1934 called "Nature and Life", by A.N.Whitehead.
February 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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#79 #SystemsThatMatter
October 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Finally started on building a modest crystal farm !

#SystemsThatMatter #79 #SemiConductingCrystals #PiezoElectricCrystals
April 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Apparently, Soviet second-order cybernetics was a thing.

#utdlibrary #SovietCybernetics #SecondOrderCybernetics #SystemsThatMatter
April 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Trying...

#othersemiconductors #79 #systemsthatmatter
A small window showing some components in a warm glow, including steel parts and a cubic crystal.
September 23, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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#Farbzentrenphysik #79 #SystemsThatMatter
October 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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These esp32 boards with ethernet are great but it took a while to get the first one working.

#wt32eth01 #SystemsThatMatter #79 #83
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Spending some time browsing the Signal Culture library today. This is from "The Spaghetti City Video Manual by Videofreex, published in 1973.

#SignalCulture #Videofreex #SystemsThatMatter
March 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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20-channel DAC module in progress !

#AnalogComputing #HybridComputing #EvolutionaryComputing #83 #SystemsThatMatter
A piece of perfboard with many electronic components.
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Slightly more advanced Wobbulating in the Signal Culture studio. Tomorrow we will be screening #59 in Denver !

#Wobbulator #SignalCulture #SystemsThatMatter
March 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Slowly we're finally getting somewhere with the book and I'm very happy with the result !

#LiberateTheMachines! #DialoguesWithMachines #SystemsThatMatter
April 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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built some more crystalfarming hardware today !

#79 #SystemsThatMatter #Overkill
June 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Hybridization in progress ! I had not done this for a loooong time, but I really enjoy prototyping like this.

#HybridComputing #AnalogComputing #83 #SystemsThatMatter
An electronics breadboard with a tangle of wires. An ESP32 system-on-a-chip microcontroller is connected to several other electronic components.
January 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Back to the books.

#CrystalFarming #79 #PiezoCrystals #SystemsThatMatter
July 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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'Volta's pistol', from a French chemistry handbook from 1871.

#voltasPistol #systemsThatMatter
August 20, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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And another fine interspecies project comes to its conclusion.

#LiberateTheMachines! #SystemsThatMatter
April 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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From old and unloved books on cybernetics and electronics, the accumulative drive seems to have shifted towards equally old and unloved books on chemistry and solid-state physics.

#OtherSemiconductors #79 #SystemsThatMatter
October 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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An extremely lucid and inspiring book; highly recommended.

#AnneAlombert #JacquesDerrida #GilbertSimondon #SystemsThatMatter
January 6, 2026 at 11:26 AM