CarlCanary 2.0 @mprove 2020

@CarlCanary: Jun 1 2020
Storms ahead of us. Hatred ahead of us. Poverty ahead of us. Viruses ahead of us. And criminal police ahead, also.

@CarlCanary: May 27 2020
To show, as some do, a Mondrian painting in black and white, is a crime.pic.twitter.com/SUoP1iqnlA

@CarlCanary: May 25 2020
Looking out of my window, there is a large open space down there. Often, there is a cheerful dog. And people. They throw a ball. And the dog runs. And brings it back. And continues. And I watch. The dog loves it. I love it. The fun is with the dog. The thought is with me.

@CarlCanary: May 25 2020
The only wonder that still is there, is what we used to call “nature”. It is amazing that some of it still exists. Humankind will soon get rid of it, vigorously working on it.

@CarlCanary: May 25 2020
Is there, among my readers, anyone who occasionally believes in wonders? If anybody answers positively, I will know. Otherwise, I won’t. To be sure, I don’t in absolutely & positively no way.

@CarlCanary: May 22 2020
Have you thought today of leaving the car in the garage? Have you thought today of not eating meat? Have you thought today of eating a bit less? Welcome, if you have.

@CarlCanary: May 22 2020
It is a tragedy. In 1968: 3.6 billion humans. Only 50 years later: 7.7 billion. “Tragic” is the catastrophe with no escape. In our case, for humankind. Therefore: War? don’t even think of it.

@CarlCanary: May 17 2020
Not everything lawful is also just; but what is just must become law (after Montesquieu).

@CarlCanary: May 17 2020
Der Philosoph glaubt, der Wert seiner Philosophie liege im Ganzen, im Bau: die Nachwelt findet ihn im Stein, mit dem er baute und mit dem, von da an, noch oft und besser gebaut wird: also darin, dass jener Bau zerstört werden kann und doch noch als Material Wert hat. (Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: May 16 2020
Artists (poet, painter, composer) to us today appear to be totally free, in life & work. Independence is artists’ being. But that’s true for modern artists only. Before they did what was expected from them to do. What we admire as art, was born out of surrender to restriction.

@CarlCanary: May 12 2020
A plastic word is a word everybody uses all the time. It is ubiquitous and means nothing. “Creativity” is one. “System” is another.

@CarlCanary: May 11 2020
BE CREATIVE! Everybody must. What a horror. Disgusting. I knew one woman who was creative every day. She was my mother. Just by cooking her way, she was creative day by day.

@CarlCanary: May 11 2020
Ever since there have been human beings, they have enjoyed themselves too little that alone, my brothers, is our original sin! – Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

@CarlCanary: May 11 2020
People in Germany have started to protest against the, often, harsh restrictions against corona infection. A new enemy has been discovered: conspiracists. Isn’t capitalism the great open conspiracy.

@CarlCanary: Apr 20 2020
When queuing up at the supermarket cashier, I keep distance. Not much. All those around have become police officers. Angry: “Stay away, keep distance!” Apparently, that’s all they can think. I would not be surprised if this were German mentality. The French? Italians?

@CarlCanary: Apr 20 2020
Of course, a pandemic is not exactly what we are looking for. But governments are using Corona to create an unsubstantiated general dark fear. And many follow this. The great joy of fear.

@CarlCanary: Apr 20 2020
Is it not amazing, shocking, frightening how these governments around the world, dictators as well as Western democracies, have deprived their people of their fundamental human rights as citizens? No justification but the possibility of an infection. This is always given.

@CarlCanary: Apr 15 2020
Two quotes from great Noam Chomsky, good to remember: “Education is a system of imposed ignorance.” And “Schools reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind.”

@CarlCanary: Apr 8 2020
Fantastic to watch how biology blew up ideology when Europe recently returned to the national state.

@CarlCanary: Apr 8 2020
People seem to believe that everything will be over in a few more weeks when the restrictions of civil rights are lifted. NO! The crisis will then only start. Nearly everybody will be infected: 60% of the population. A death-rate of 5% will kill 3% of the population. Get ready!

@CarlCanary: Apr 7 2020
When I was young & gave up god & said there was no such, I was proud of myself. I still had to learn that saying, “there is none”, is as stupid as saying, “there is one”. It’s great to see that we ask questions not allowing answers; it’s great to smile about them & be silent.

@CarlCanary: Apr 7 2020
At age of 13, I wondered why god allowed the bombing of Coventry & Dresden & the holocaust. A few years later, I wondered why humans constructed such ideas as god and gods. I learned they wanted to explain what cannot be explained. Not even such a simple fact, they understand.

@CarlCanary: Apr 7 2020
And god was there & was alone but did not know & created the world. And so it created its fate, for, before, there was no good nor evil but now there was & it was the human who now decided what god was & what it did. The human, however, has the will to tell the story differently.

@CarlCanary: Apr 7 2020
People are living in Europe, believing their continent without national borders is a great idea. There is also European economy. Capitalism. The EU’s sole reason of existence is a large domestic market. Now nature fights back against capitalism: the European idea melts into air.

@CarlCanary: Apr 7 2020
In Hannah Arendt’s “The freedom to be free”, I read that, the freedom to be free requires as its first pre-condition not only to be free from fear, but also to be free from need. Revolutions are not started by those for who they are.

@CarlCanary: Apr 6 2020
“The homeless man becomes free in a new sense; and only he who has lost all ties need have no arrière-pensée.” (Stefan Zweig in the preface to “The World of Yesterday”, 1942.)

@CarlCanary: Apr 6 2020
“...gerade der Heimatlose wird in einem neuen Sinne frei, und nur der mit nichts mehr Verbundene braucht auf nichts mehr Rücksicht zu nehmen.” (Stefan Zweig im Vorwort zu “Die Welt von gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers”, 1942 posthum)

@CarlCanary: Apr 6 2020
Reading is slow. It needs time. that’s its secret, its eros. Our current time is fast and accelerating. There you have it. In a way it’s your choice. Reading is a form of resistance. By “reading”, I mean reading books.

@CarlCanary: Apr 6 2020
How right you are! You know, of course, that your insight is more than 150 years old? But it is good to read it again. We must work against it!twitter.com/zeitonline/sta…
ZEIT ONLINEVerified account @zeitonline“Wer wie ich mit der Finanzkrise aufgewachsen ist, weiß, dass der Kapitalismus nicht funktioniert.” #bestofcampus trib.al/KtXfgfA

@CarlCanary: Apr 6 2020
Reading is one form how we materialize thinking. Digital reading from a file is flat; analog reading from a book is deep. None is better than the other. They are only different. I prefer the old-fashioned. It will not die, but it will be less frequent.

@CarlCanary: Mar 31 2020
A new sport in Germany: go from door to door, pants down, asking for some toilette paper. You know they have collected piles of it from all the supermarkets.

@CarlCanary: Mar 31 2020
In the early 1960s, Max Bense identified art as happening between chaos and structure; it appears in “gestalt” which term is borrowed from modern theory of perception, and then design.

@CarlCanary: Mar 31 2020
“Aufgabe von Kunst heute ist es, Chaos in die Ordnung zu bringen.” (Adorno, Minima Moralia, 1970) – The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.

@CarlCanary: Mar 29 2020
E-scooters are dangerous machines if you ride your bicycle. Even if you are fast, they are faster without doing anything themselves. Now reports say they are also drunk. Must be fun to scare the poor bicyclist.

@CarlCanary: Mar 29 2020
“The virus” is making people creative! Many professionals need to wear masks to lower their own risk. But there is a shortage of masks. The Internet is great: you steel a website, offer masks, collect payments, but you never deliver. Good capitalism.

@CarlCanary: Mar 26 2020
Not always is reason the path to knowing yourself. Often it serves as the instrument to prevent knowing yourself. (After de La Rochefoucauld)

@CarlCanary: Mar 25 2020
Is it not obvious: Governments are taking people’s anxiety caused by the pandemic as an excuse to establish radical means against our civil rights. Once established against the health crisis, they will remain for other purposes we now don’t think of.

@CarlCanary: Mar 18 2020
[Money] transforms fidelity into infidelity, love into hate, hate into love, virtue into vice, vice into virtue, servant into master, master into servant, idiocy into intelligence, and intelligence into idiocy. – Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts, 1844 (publ. 1932)

@CarlCanary: Mar 16 2020
I confess: I do not possess a smartphone, not even an ordinary mobile phone. I get along quite well. And I wonder why so many have so easily sold their souls to this technology that nobody was in need of. Only capital danced.

@CarlCanary: Mar 13 2020 Replying to @markamerika
Wonderfully insightful, dear Mark! Biology is beating economy like nothing. Societies trembling in fear. Everything closing down into silence. The Italians singing into the streets out of their windows.

@CarlCanary: Mar 13 2020
The German government has now announced financial support to all companies without limit to survive economically. I have never heard of similar measures against unemployment or poverty.

@CarlCanary: Mar 13 2020
For years, I have avoided Amazon. Now I ordered a used book from a seemingly private seller, not realizing Amazon was behind him. For a simple paperback, they collected more than 11 Euro for shipping within Germany. Outrageous! Never use them again.

@CarlCanary: Mar 3 2020
The corona virus is just nature retaliating against what humankind is permanently trying, with great success, to achieve: The ultimate destruction of anything that might still be called “nature”.

@CarlCanary: Mar 3 2020
The European peoples and nations, once known for bringing enlightenment and ethics to the world, are now again betraying and destroying their own achievements.

@CarlCanary: Mar 3 2020
Heraclitus of Ephesus (520-460 BC, maybe) is quoted as having said: “The people must fight for its law as for its walls”. The inner democratic constitution of society is as important as its defense against aggressors from outside.

@CarlCanary: Feb 24 2020
I always felt awkward about “Artistic Research”. What is the art in it, what the research? Now a “Manifesto of Artistic Research” has appeared. Critical. S. Henke, D. Mersch, N. van der Meulen, Th. Straessle, J. Wiesel are the authors. By diaphanes. Double book English/German.

@CarlCanary: Feb 23 2020
I guess I have written this before, so forgive me if I repeat it: Writing a program requires to think like a machine would think if it could.

@CarlCanary: Feb 23 2020
I know students of Digital Media who know little in algorithmics and programming. We who offer such studies must be doing something basically wrong.

@CarlCanary: Feb 23 2020
In 1992, Friedrich Kittler said: An intellectual who doesn’t know what a programming language is and how to write in it, cannot be called to be up to date any more. He often said this like a missionary, calling himself a programmer.

@CarlCanary: Feb 17 2020
It is the intellectual as a terrible torturer when he (or she) asks a difficult question and then requests it to be answered by saying “yes, yes” or “no, no”, and nothing else.

@CarlCanary: Feb 17 2020
We always want to find clear and stable and unquestionable concepts expressed in our words. The beauty and treasure of language, however, is that this is not possible and will never happen.

@CarlCanary: Feb 17 2020
When the wise rabbi was about to die, they asked him: What is the greatest of your wisdoms? After hours of silence he answered in a low voice: Everything is different.

@CarlCanary: Feb 17 2020
Would it not be great if we could, whenever we encounter a strange, different, dangerous, hostile kind of other beings, human or not, just shout out loudly: I am one of your kind, I am one of you! And become, and be accepted as, one of them.

@CarlCanary: Feb 9 2020
Humans who are inclined to see technology as fetish, seem to be incapable of love. They don’t extend their love towards humans but towards things of technology. (Adorno 1966) Isn’t this the essence of the current love for machine learning?

@CarlCanary: Feb 9 2020
Technology in our current world plays such a key role that it generates humans tuned to technology. They are inclined to take technology as a phenomenon whose purpose is itself, and not support of good and better human life. (Adorno 1966, my transl.)

@CarlCanary: Feb 9 2020
The only kind of education that could make sense is an education with the goal of critical self-reflection. Says Theodor Adorno in his “Education after Auschwitz” (1966).

@CarlCanary: Feb 9 2020
“The premier demand upon all education is that Auschwitz not happen again.” that’s the first sentence of Adorno’s “Erziehung nach Auschwitz”, a chapter of his “Erziehung zur Muendigkeit” (1971). Isn’t this how basically simple, how basically difficult all education is?

@CarlCanary: Feb 7 2020
The current trend in European politics towards reactionary and right-wing action in Germany reached a disturbing climax these days. Neo-fascists, Liberals, and Christian Democrats stood together to vote a liberal into the office of a regional prime minister.

@CarlCanary: Feb 2 2020
... and in English translation: Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process. Marx & Engels in “German Ideology”

@CarlCanary: Feb 2 2020
Das Bewusstsein kann nie etwas anderes sein als das bewusste Sein, und das Sein der Menschen ist ihr wirklicher Lebensprozess. Das schrieben Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels schon 1845/46 in Deutsche Ideologie. Von ihnen lernen!

@CarlCanary: Feb 2 2020
So the UK is now out. that’s good for them. The Europeans will get a big problem.pic.twitter.com/Tjz2hNkbTS

@CarlCanary: Jan 23 2020
Whatever the phenomenon may be that we call time, the hours and the minutes and the seconds of the clock demonstrate to us a process that we soon enough mistake for time, fully convinced that there it’s hanging on the wall.

@CarlCanary: Jan 23 2020
Has ever existed in history a machine, Burckhardt asks himself, comparable to the computer, the machine capable of sustainably influencing our world of thinking?

@CarlCanary: Jan 23 2020
The machine strikes into thinking, Burckhardt writes, long before philosophy takes it up. It confronts us with the hard to grasp complex of thinking without thinkers. Is this, perhaps, what the Artificial Intelligentsia is requesting us to accept?

@CarlCanary: Jan 23 2020
For, if you start developing a philosophy of the machine, you cannot begin from a fixed concept of the machine; you must rather study the metamorphoses of the machine – says Martin Burckhardt in his “Philosophie der Maschine” (2018).

@CarlCanary: Jan 11 2020
But the computer, I would like to offer, is not a computer nor a network of computers. The reason? It is a thing and in no way connected to life. No computer is an organ of a living being. There is no life, no death in it.

@CarlCanary: Jan 11 2020
... and another two decades later, John Brockman wonders that “the brain is not a computer but a network of computers?”

@CarlCanary: Jan 11 2020
John Brockman asks himself, in recounting his exciting experiences of the 1960s: “Who knew that within two decades ... we would begin to recognize the brain as a computer?”

@CarlCanary: Jan 11 2020
“Artificial Intelligence is today’s story – the story behind all other stories. It is the Second Coming and the Apocalypse at the same time: good AI and evil AI.” Thus starts John Brockman into “Possible Minds” that he edited recently.

@CarlCanary: Jan 10 2020
“Was ist die Mehrheit? Mehrheit ist der Unsinn. Verstand ist stets bei wen'gen nur gewesen.” Wrote the German poet Friedrich Schiller. Daily I must think of this when realizing once again that Trump was elected by democratic vote.

@CarlCanary: Jan 4 2020
If you do not know what darkness is, try closing tightly your eyes. See! (Also a bit of African wisdom in my words)

@CarlCanary: Jan 4 2020
It is other humans who make us into humans, and vice versa. (Sounds like African wisdom)

@CarlCanary: Jan 4 2020
A tree of your own height can not throw a shadow onto you. (African wisdom)

@CarlCanary: Jan 4 2020
When last year started, I advised my students to choose silly sounding topics or titles for their theses. They did not follow my advice. Which made me feel sad. I blame it on pressure from other professors.

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2019
The only question I believe to be interesting: Where will the next war start and who will do it? Which government will be first to do something against their own victims ("population")?

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2019
Looking out of my morning window, it is cold. Good reason to put on a warm jacket, take the bike, and do something outside. I’ll have a Schnaps when I return. that’s a private message.

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2019
The year is coming to its end. But time continuously keeps moving on. No big deal. Do you celebrate, firework, wish anyone a happy new? Really? Why?

@CarlCanary: 23 Nov 2019
WAR & ART are the two extreme poles of human existence: Nothing but destruction, nothing but construction. Way too often, war wins

@CarlCanary: 23 Nov 2019
Philosophy simplified: Everything you really need, comes to you. What doesn’t come to you, you don’t need.

@CarlCanary: 28 Oct 2019
When talking with a few students, it occurred to us that professors may be those who know to talk even if they know nothing to say.

@CarlCanary: 18 Oct 2019
Great example of an overtly imperialist politics in our times: first, the USA calls the Kurds for help against Islamic State. Then the invite Turkey to continue the suppression of the Kurds.

@CarlCanary: 18 Oct 2019
Life is an in-between. Between not-yet and no-more.

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
IRAQ. IRAN. HONG KONG. VENEZUELA. POLAND. HUNGARY. SYRIA. TURKEY. PALESTINE. YEMEN. SAUDI ARABIA. ... A world in flames. And then USA & China. Horrible.

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
The misery and suffering produced by capitalism has grown into gigantic dimensions such that the young must demand: Finally stop destroying our future! If only the will of revolution still were with us. Do you feel the fascists right next door?

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
Das Leid und Elend, das der Kapitalismus schafft, ist so riesenhaft angewachsen, dass die Jugend fordern muss: Hört endlich auf damit, unsere Zukunft zu zerstören! Wenn doch nur der Wille der Revolution noch da wäre. Spürt Ihr die Nazis nebenan?

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
“Die Demokratie ist kein Naturgesetz. Sie kommt nicht frei Haus, nicht mit der Post oder mit der Amazon-Prime-Drohne.” aus: Mareike Nieberding: Verwende Deine Jugend. Ein politischer Aufruf

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
“But in our time, as in every time, the impossible is the least that one can demand – and one is, after all, emboldened by the spectacle of human history ... for it testifies to nothing less than the perpetual achievement of the impossible.” James Baldwin

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2019
Was für eine Kraft, was für eine Wut in den jungen Menschen! Das Leben meldet sich zurück gegen den Kapitalismus. Hoffnung keimt auf bei den Alten, die grau geworden sind.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2019
Vis-à-vis the universe and the questions it poses to the human mind, we cannot but stand in a rational kind of awe. Awe, because we cannot answer the questions; rational, because we don’t need a god instead.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2019
Why is there something and not rather nothing? that’s the question asked,by the old Greeks, as well as by the young of today. It is a case of those questions we can formulate well, but never answer. Therefore, should not be asked.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2019
John Horgan had to re-discover that all literary criticism is ironic: never to be taken too seriously. For it is interpretation, nothing else. Charles S. Peirce had given us the tools for this: the triadic relation of the sign. We can only interpret when we communicate.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2019
If you belong to those in dwindling numbers who still believe reading a book is great, I recommend “The end of science. Facing the limits of knowledge in the twilight of the scientific age” by John Horgan. Oh yes, it is old, from 1996. So what? And it is cobtroversial. So what?

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2019 Replying to @GregorGysi @seawatchcrew
Es ist ein Verbrechen dieses Ministers und dieser Regierung. Die Europäer müssten einschreiten. Die deutsche Regierung müsste sofort Strafmassnahmen gegen Italien ergreifen. Früher wäre das ein Kriegsgrund gewesen. Gut, dass das nicht mehr geht. Aber fast.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2019
You might be inclined to put, what they call “Artificial Intelligence”, on the same level as “Human Stupidity”. However, the latter requires some fundamental human feature: to be alive and, therefore, die.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2019
Humans who don’t even know how to develop complex computer programs get so excited about humans who do this, that the admirers project intelligence into the complex machines + software other humans construct. This is then called “Artificial Intelligence”.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2019
Wrong in the maybe Osborne quote is that computers are not further developments of human beings: They are machines. They can carry out operations of intelligent character but they don’t possess intelligence.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2019
John Osborne (famous for his drama “Look back in anger") is claimed as having said, “The computer is the logical further development of the human being: Intelligence without morality.” Even he has not said so himself, it is a nice thought, wrong, of course, but nice

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2019
“The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power” by Shoshana Zuboff (2019) sounds a bit radical. Karl Marx is mentioned three times, with some sympathy, but not important. Utopian. So don’t be afraid.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2019
Am I the only one who has not been aware of Sherry Turkle’s “Reclaiming Conversation. The Power of Talk in a Digital Age"? Published back in 2015. It is inspring but not radical.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2019
Germany’s Association of Computing Science (Gesellschaft für Informatik) has announced to pull out of facebook. Too problematic in their general surveillance behavior. A rare insight at this level of establishment.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2019
“Jungsozialisten” (Young Socialists) are the young members of the German Social-Democratic Party. Their chairman Kühnert mildly indicated to better control huge capital like BMW or real estate sharks. Old party leaders react like parents to their nasty kids.

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2019
Neue Zuricher Zeitung brought a short report a few days ago according to which “Streaming is the new airplane traffic” and “digital consumption kills the climate”. Isn’t this fantastic? The Internet of Things and living in the clouds are really bad. Did we not all expect it?

@CarlCanary: 23 Mar 2019
Click on this commentary to Britain’s attempt to do what they have decided to do but obviously don’t want to (they call it Brexit).twitter.com/thepoke/status…
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@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2019 Replying to @gametheorygames
Yes, you are right. It is surprising. I am pretty sure that Nees observed this not from viewpoint of Mondrian’s enormous process of abstraction (of which many say it is in lines and not in colors). Nees must have observed only the radical geometrization (if this is a word).

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2019
From Mondrian it is one step to the computer, wrote Georg Nees in the preface to his 1968 doctoral thesis. He did not say “only one step”. What may he have been thinking of in Mondrian’s art? Would Mondrian agree, or would he have been greatly surprised?

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2019
Fantastic, those kids today around the globe, leaving their schools to gain their lives! Teachers are half-friendly (they must), but also threaten. Go, kids, go, I will join you. Ignore the teachers. Many of them are just cowards.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2019
No, don’t worry, just manage chaos! that’s probabbly great fun. Frieder
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@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2019
In an interview two years before his death (in 1977), German philosopher Ernst Bloch saw Nature as in a state of Not-Yet. The Alien only to us whose power we use. But not human’s home (Heimat). Nature must become our home that we live with.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2019
In some way, Rudolf Steiner’s position sounds nicely ironic that “god”, after having created the human, did not pay any further attention to his world and let his top creation look after himself. Isn’t this what we all do anyhow?

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2019
German artist Jonathan Meese calls German artist Joseph Beuys a traitor of art for his intention to democratize the capability of creating art. The more people are supposed to be creative, the more unhappy they will become.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2019
In old times they believed some god was the creator. Now they run businesses (“consultants”!) who call themselves “the CREATIVES”. Somebody should tell that god.
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@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2019
Yuval Noah Harari tells us: “History began when humans invented gods, ...”, and he is right. But he continues: “... and will end when humans become gods.” And he is wrong.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2019
Many good Christians now pretend to be appaled by their religious leaders’ sexual practices. They don’t realize that the principles of lie and science fiction are fundamental to all religion. Not only the Christian.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2019
Do people really know their own sexual fantasies, desires, and practices so little that they for only a second believed Catholic priests and bishops would not share the same?

@CarlCanary: 21 Feb 2019
German schools now go digital. Buying tablets etc. will not improve learning or teaching. It will trivialize it. Teachers will hide behind technology instead of criticizing it. Schools must openly fight the google mentality!

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2019
University of the Arts Bremen had its yearly show. Everybody shows their recent works. Funny: Paintings were easy even if I disliked them. Media installations were incomprehensible even if I wanted to like them. Is it thinking & perceiving? Houston, we have a problem. Do we?

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2019
When Death suffers one of his frequent depressions, he is afraid of eternal life.

@CarlCanary: 1 Feb 2019
Kunsthalle Bremen is still showing “What is love? In times of Tinder” ZKM Karlsruhe is announcing “Dating in Digital Worlds”. Are Germans investigating virtual ways of sex between actual people? Boring. Unhealthy. Uncool. Hygienic, maybe.pic.twitter.com/hHaeDSAVcu

@CarlCanary: 12 Jan 2019
Our learning begins in critically relating to some past; it reaches more than a naive level of rejection, if the critic is willing to take up aspects that are present in her own thinking and being as in the criticized thinking and being. (After Peter Bürger and Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: 12 Jan 2019
Isn’t this a fantastic formulation, a wonderful insight, an inspiring thought: Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own. It’s not my, it’s Arthur Schopenhauer’s idea.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jan 2019
Germany, as other economies, is crazy about digitization. Turn everything digital! Now some have found piles of private data on the digital web & made them public. Scandal! everybody cries. How stupid + hypocritical can you be! Technology becomes ever more fragile, you wanted it!

@CarlCanary: 4 Jan 2019
More than beautiful is nothing ("Mehr als schön ist nichts") – Martin Walser, the old German poet (91). He re-phrases it by using the same words with shifted meaning: More than beautiful is Nothing ("Mehr als schön ist NICHTS"). “Nothing” now is a noun, nothingness, Nietzsche.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
Time is continuous flow, at one speed & the same objectively; subjectively much different, too fast, too slow. Years only are for counting, as are days. The artificial is the digital, but nature is a different story. 2 degrees more: the digital. The polar bear sees melting ice.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
Big data now is more than a huge pile of collected data, too huge for us to grasp & make sense of. Since long times, mathematicians have developed marvellous techniques to analyze data. Now computers, huge and fast, can do it. that’s all. Why get so crazy about this?

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
Artificial intelligence promises miracles to those who like to be seduced into believing that a complex program, well-designed, was more than a complex program, designed well.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
The last day of the year is when ordinary politicians pretend to be philosophers. The digital, they claim, will offer wonders for all of us. But Nature is absolutely continuous. The digital thus is the artificial. Money is of the same kind.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
What is the age you must reach in order to say “too old to die young”, and to convince people by saying so?

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2019
“The number 2019, as we all know, is not a prime number.” Is this not a fantastic statement? How do we all know this? And what does it mean if it is true? And what does it mean that it is true (if it is)? Write your M.A. thesis on the question (if you’re young enough)!

@CarlCanary: 31 Dec 2018
Tonight, midnight, we tend to believe something ends, something new & unknown begins. A nice childish belief. It takes a full day before it has happened around the globe. We need the belief because the flow of time is too hard for humans to put up with.

@CarlCanary: 31 Dec 2018
An event becomes an event by way of the narrative and interpretation that connect calling some happening by its name with its later impact in society. (Rancière, more or less)

@CarlCanary: 31 Dec 2018
The event appears as the unexpected destroying the order of our expectations. It is not some kind of aberration from our expected order; it rather is the beginning of a new order (after Jacques Rancière).

@CarlCanary: 27 Dec 2018
In a bookstore you still find things, not signs only. There is hardly any place that can so directly inspire you. I always leave with 3 or 5 new books in my hands. It’s old-fashioned, but radically different from putting a note into a file.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2018
We are always already in exile, wherever it may be, however the particularities.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2018
In a nutshell: Abraham’s god was a real horrible guy, mean, merciless, cruel. Later his god forced a son to be born by a randomly picked woman & to be nailed to a piece of wood. It became the symbol for a furor of love that burned others, cut them into pieces, or wiped them out.

@CarlCanary: 21 Dec 2018
Isn’t it fantastic: once the “free world” fought a wall dividing Berlin. Now a president wants to get billions to build a wall separating his country from another one. Why not in the North also?

@CarlCanary: 21 Dec 2018
Yes, it is symbolic only. But still fantastic beyond measure: In some way, the Christian God had sex with a poor woman to create that other part of himself to get ready for being killed in a cruel way. He did it because he loves humans. Shouldn’t he see his shrink?

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2018
Perhaps, you are still reading, even if only from screen? artes.ucp.pt/citarj/issue/v…

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2018
To be alive and stay, needs lots of trust. Must a mathematician prove this? A trustworthy union representative asks you: Come with me down to the gate, we go on strike! – Both, that is life.

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2018
We speak of concrete and not abstract painting because nothing is more concrete, more real than a line, a color, a surface. (Theo van Doesburg)

@CarlCanary: 16 Nov 2018
Ridiculous: orthodox black-gowned & -hatted men; funny around their hats plastic protection against the rain. Friendly & joyful the Arabs not selling anything. Singing songs of belief, the Franciscans, loudspeker around their neck. Temple Mount of the book-religions in Jerusalem.

@CarlCanary: 10 Nov 2018
Take a look if you like: facebook.com/francesca.fran… Frieder

@CarlCanary: 31 Oct 2018 Replying to @DoddsDouglas
I am afraid, dear Doug, this is as you indicate. Not that I am against the joy of looking at surfaces, not at all. But why must we now so often tell people that we were somewhere where something happened? I am curious: What is it that happened there?

@CarlCanary: 31 Oct 2018
Dirk Baecker starts his new book “4.0 oder Die Luecke die der Rechner laesst” (The gap left by computers) thus: The project of modernity is followed by the project of digitization. Some hope this will continue the project of modernity, some are afraid it will crush it.

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2018
Another nice hoax that we are all willing to get excited about: the 380,000 Euro an image brought at Christies that was done by an “Artificial Intellugence”, as they say. Thousands of images were scanned, neural network applied, new product. New kitsch.pic.twitter.com/V1yBylGJ3P

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2018
Ryanair forces you to check in online so that they save on personnel. I had missed the email from them. They therefore collected 55 Pound penalty fee from me for checking in, more than the ticket cost. This is criminal.

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2018
Amazing & happening all the time. It creates an air of sympathy + friendliness with no reason at all. I had given a talk in London’s V&A, Jasia Reichardt before, Aaron Marcus after. Later I saw messages from the audience about how they enjoyed it. Nothing on contents.

@CarlCanary: 13 Oct 2018
Recently, I was to meet a friend at the station. When he did not get off the train, I waited for the next one an hour later. He did not come. I went home only to find his email: where are you? He was walking back & forth between station and cafe where we were to take breakfast.

@CarlCanary: 13 Oct 2018
For many years now have I turned myself into a living experiment against so-called digital communicaton: I don’t have a mobile phone because I have no need for it. But now reality is slowly zeroing in on me. More situations appear where I could need one.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2018
All of us believe that 5+1 is the same as 1+5, i.e. the results of the two additions are equal. But why do we believe this? Can you prove it? Only then I believe you

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2018
“Mathematics is the extension of common sense by other means.” (Jordan Ellenberg, thinking of Clausewitz)

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2018
Mathematics is hard, most of us think, very hard, too hard for me. But so is soccer. Or singing. Or boxing. Or painting. Or writing a good novel. Or preparing a delicious meal. What on earth do we expect to achieve without effort?

@CarlCanary: 30 Sep 2018 Replying to @Kunsthalle_HB @UniBremen @HfKBremen
Es gibt kein Hauptmotiv. 1965 schaute ich mir oft ein Büchlein mit Zeichnungen von Paul Klee an. Dann hab ich nachgedacht. Dann hab ich programmiert, Maschinensprache. Dann war die Zeichnung da. Sie wurde erfolgreich. So geht das. FN

@CarlCanary: 6 Sep 2018
The fight to re-integrate death into the Western collective awareness might become the starting point for the most important revolution of our century. (Jean Ziegler, my transl.)

@CarlCanary: 6 Sep 2018
Read Jean Ziegler: The living and the dead!

@CarlCanary: 24 Aug 2018
Denken ist langsam; klicken ist schnell. Thinking is slow; clicking is fast.

@CarlCanary: 12 Aug 2018
“Think of Rousseau, Voltaire, Holbach, Lessing, Heine and Hegel united into one single person, and you have Dr. Marx,” Moses Hess wrote after having met for the first time the 24 years old Marx. “You have in him, perhaps, the one and only living real philosopher.”

@CarlCanary: 11 Aug 2018 Replying to @noxymo
Is a nice paraphrase of what I tried to say. Thank you.

@CarlCanary: 11 Aug 2018
“All that philosophy can do is to destroy idols. And that means not making any new ones – say out of the ‘absence of idols’.” (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2018
There are 9 stroreys where I work. An elevator. All the young students always use it, never stairs. A few exceptions. I always use the stairs, from 1st to 6th or 7th. The stairs are kind of ugly. But I am there with myself. I feel life. The others feel technology. Voluntarily.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2018
Silence is the new luxury. It opens up a quality more persistent than any other luxury

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2018
We become humans by consciously living through moments of boredom, enjoying ourselves and the silent drums of our thoughts.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2018
The saddest situation I know is when I sit on an airplane surrounded by all those people for hours staring at tiny screens enjoying boring movies. I am afraid they expect to see something new in their hunt for the next kick. How boring.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2018
Blaise Pascal in his Pensées: “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” He wrote so in the 17th century. How much more right is he today!

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2018
The true engine of life is the capability of standing still in awe. Sounds religious? Is just fundamentally human. From the cradle to the grave.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2018
My friend, the philosopher H.P., tells me that it is the possibility of the impossible that pushes and propells us forward happily and fully convinced. Some call it god or allah or similar, some call it artificial intelligence. They are the most naive.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2018
And after all the wounds that together make up a life, do you still know for sure what you think you believe?

@CarlCanary: 28 Jul 2018
Last night, the event in German skies, and others maybe also: The red moon, long eclipse, plus Mars and a spaceship visiting. My friend Christian J. suggested: the sky of the night is the oldest screen, a natural screen of cosmic dimension.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jul 2018
(cont.) … post-digital discussion intends “such temporal & critical distance from the digital, while remaining partly defined by it.” (Bishop, Gansing, Parikka, “across and beyond”, 2016)

@CarlCanary: 28 Jul 2018
“… postmodern discussion staked out a temporal & intellectual position in relation to modernity without presuming to have … superseded it” … and similarly, … (cont.)

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2018
The intangible, data, have become commodities and, when in masses, new sources of profit making. It’s marvellous to see how people voluntarily are offering their data for nothing

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2018
Karl Marx told us that nothing fixed, precious, stable, cherished, private, will remain. It will all be transformed into commodities, subdued to exchange value.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2018
Does anything still remain of the romantic hope of former hippies, the mega machine “Internet” would help to create an egalitarian net society of equals?

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2018
Machine learning is in. In 1964, N. Wiener considered “machines which learn” as “relevant to religious issues”. If you believe in learning machines, you practice your religious.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2018
The publish-or-perish practice of “science” has created dozens of companies printing whatever they get to print. To extend publication lists. Now German scientists are in trouble. Good so.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
These are not the words of some fanatic, nothing is being ‘preached’ here, nobody is demanding that you believe: drop after drop, word after word falls from an infinite fullness of light and depth of happiness, – the tempo of this speech is tender and slow.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
The ice is close by, the solitude is tremendous – but how peacefully everything lies in the light! How freely you can breathe! How many things you feel to be beneath you!

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
Anyone who knows how to breathe the air of my writings will know that it is the air of high places, a strong air. You need to be made for it or you will catch a cold.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
You rob reality of its meaning, value, and truthfulness to the extent that you make up an ideal world … The ‘true world’ and the ‘world of appearances’- in plain language, the made-up world and reality

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
The last thing I would promise would be to ‘improve’ humanity. I won’t be setting up any new idols; let the old ones learn what it means to have feet of clay.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
I am a disciple of the philosopher Dionysus; I would rather be a satyr than a saint. (Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018
From F. Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, preface: Listen to me! I am the one who I am! Above all, do not mistake me for anyone else! (A short selection to come here.)

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2018 Replying to @DoddsDouglas @V_and_A
Dear Doug, some while ago you tweeted about a work of mine from 1967 (that is in your collection?). And as I see now, many took this up by saying something on twitter. This is how this works, right? Thank you! Frieder

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2018
Social Mediasupport unstable work conditions, make politics impossible, hate your soul. All by J. Lanier

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2018
Social Media: You loose your free will. SM turn you into an asshole. SM undermine truth. SM render meaningless what you say. SM kill your empathy, make you unhappy.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2018
You all must read Jaron Lanier’s “Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now”, you already know that, right?

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2018
is there a more bullshit job than working on making AI more fair? How about using that time & resources improving the basic conditions of populations so they can better contend with whatever technological fix is invoked to mis-administrate them? @davidgraeber @existentialcoms pic.twitter.com/AcfvooikbF
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@CarlCanary: 12 Jun 2018
This quote was from “Artificial UNintelligence”, new book by Meredith Broussard. Finally, they start learning the lessons H. Dreyfus has always told. Good.

@CarlCanary: 12 Jun 2018
“It’s time to stop rushing blindly into the digital future & start making better, more thoughtful decisions about when + why use technology”, M. Broussard

@CarlCanary: 12 Jun 2018
Now what is this!? I am totally out of everything and have no clue of nothing. But exactly that is happening. Wonderful. Friedertwitter.com/markamerika/st…
Mark Amerika @markamerikaDigital Afterlife – a new music video by MALK (@markamerika & @lauraonsale) is now on exhibit at Governors Island: harvestworks.org/may-25-july-22… pic.twitter.com/8mCAYcuVgb

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2018
Fundamentally wrong with the moral issue of autonomous cars is that people discuss the car’s algorithms as moral. They thus give up human moral behavior for machinic functioning.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2018
Learning must now be supported, organized, guided by digital media. What a deep & horrible misconception of what learning is! It is slow social and not fast alone.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2018
The German great humorist & poet Wilhelm Busch: Hatred only counts negatively for your life’s balance, positive is nothing but love.

@CarlCanary: 6 May 2018
Only one fact, I don’t understand at all: Why does the president not allow guns of all kinds into the room when he is speaking?

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
The most important friendship in the history of Eurpean culture was that between Marx and Engels. Certainly the one of the greatest concrete impact ever.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Several new books in Germany now point at how important for Karl Marx’ work his friendship and collaboration was with Friedrich Engels, really decisive.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Never has any German chancellor or president visited Karl Marx’ tomb in Highgate Cemetry in London.pic.twitter.com/9LwkNSKTzC

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Karl Marx is world-wide the most famous German individual. The average German citizen knows only little, if anything, about him. How proud would the French be having him!

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Volume 1 of Capital and the Communist Manifesto both belong to UNESCO World Cultural Heritage of documents.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
You read that Marx was the founder of communism. Wrong! The communist party existed before him. He and Engels became members. They wrote the Manifesto. Yes.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
People hate communism because say interpret it as Stalinism, Soviet Union, Maoism, Pol Pot, Fidel. They have just no idea. This is all abominably wrong. They want to see it so.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
When U of Bremen opened in 1971, everybody was studying Marx. No longer so. I currently offer a seminar: “Karl Marx was born in Trier on May 5, 1818”.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Radical thinking is thinking that does not stop. Therefore, it is dialectics. It is the same as thinking at all. Bourgeois thinking always stops somewhere.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Studying the Capital is a fantastic exercise in dialectical thinking that we are not familiar with. Therefore it appears to be difficult.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Reading Capital is tough, people complain. How can it be easy when thousands of professors are working hard to create ideology to hide the simple!

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
There is no better way to understand basics of bourgeois society but to study Capital. But always in groups, never alone! You must discuss.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Bourgeois economy is essentially a permanent attempt to create an opaque curtain to hide the sharp Critique of Political Economy.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Why do people proudly announce that Marx did not predict this or that when his intention was not to predict anything but rather analyse the facts!

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2018
Why are some interested in what MARX would have said about s.th. instead of reading what he did write about a lot! Read the Capital!

@CarlCanary: 13 Apr 2018
Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary pic.twitter.com/LNBM7A4BXs

@CarlCanary: 13 Apr 2018 Replying to @J0udini
I did not know that this is what I am trying. But it sounds good. Therefore I do.

@CarlCanary: 30 Mar 2018
Good Friday: the Christian godhood is a dialectic: father & son in contradiction, holy spirit as the unit. The only religion whose god commits suicide, today.

@CarlCanary: 25 Mar 2018
Bewildering to see that there are ordinary people who have nothing to win or lose, but they get excited about US trade aggression. It is steel, it is capitalism. Not our issue.

@CarlCanary: 25 Mar 2018
Great by shere numbers + fantastic engagement, the youngsters against shotguns. A pity they don’t see this is engraved into US society’s basics. Will they learn?

@CarlCanary: 14 Mar 2018
What is silence? Where is it? And why is silence today more important than ever? Questions Erling Kagge asks himself.

@CarlCanary: 14 Mar 2018
Erling Kagge tells this. When his daughters grew up they one after the other lost the capability of pure astonishment. They now grab their smartphones instead.

@CarlCanary: 14 Mar 2018
I just don’t believe any more that humans can explain the world. I just don’t. The world for us is reason to wonder. Stephen Hawking saw it differently.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2018
Außerdem ist man ohne Facebook-Account ja fast schon sozial isoliert. Abmelden ist also keine Lösung. Max Schrems

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2018
Wir reden beim Datenschutz viel zu oft über das, was auf dem Bildschirm zu sehen ist, und viel zu wenig über das, was im Hintergrund passiert. Max Schrems

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2018
There is the pessimism of intelligence. There is the optimism of will. Together they make sense. Together they belong. (Using Antonio Gramsci)

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2018
young students & old teachers unite in 17 manifestos on media, art, etc. All of them: 17.manifestos.de / mine: the algorithmic art manifesto

@CarlCanary: 6 Feb 2018
Once the Americans had lie-detectors. Now German robots recognize human emotions. Of course, that’s good for us, no doubt. A brave new world!

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2018
Art is resistance, disobedience, contradiction. The artist does what is not expected, not normal, not allowed.

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2018
All that humans know & do well, they ascribe to the computer claiming it knows & does it better: The secure path to computer supremacy + human’s defeat.

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2018
Cars are not good for humankind + nature. But autonomous cars? The epitome of insane stupidity. The human as slave of technology.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2018
Alleen. Alleen und Blumen. Blumen. Blumen und Frauen. Alleen. Alleen und Frauen. Alleen und Blumen und Frauen und ein Bewunderer Eugen Gomringer

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2018
Avenidas. Avenidas y flores. Flores. Flores y mujeres. Avenidas. Avenidas y mujeres. Avenidas y flores y mujeres y un admirador Eugen Gomringer
Translated from Spanish by Microsoft

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2018
“Art is what makes life more interesting than art.” – Fluxus artist Robert Filliou

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2018
“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” – Edgar Degas

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2018
A young student of mine went to South-East Asia for some months to live with the digital nomads & write a thesis. For that time she was happy.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2018
The digital nomads: Traveling while working & working while traveling. Just a petit-bourgeois romantic dream for a few young years? Maybe.

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2017
Imagine, how wonderful life would be if there were absolute truthfulness in the world. (Rodin)

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2017
Obsessively try to become truthful & honest. Be simple and naive! (believed Rodin)

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2017
Rodin, the French sculptor, believed: Art is nothing but a deep feeling. But he said: Work persistently. don’t hope to be inspired.

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2017
End of Gutenberg Galaxy, welcome Turing! See preliminary results of throwing 1000s of books out of the window at Bremen University.pic.twitter.com/40zQZ1lzLN

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2017 Replying to @drnn1076
Archives, dear Ricardo, that make the absent be present in some reduced way.

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2017 Replying to @thamya
50 companies that you own? Or whose architecture you designed. Fntasticly creative. Your own software?

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2017
We shall not cease from exploration & the end of all ... will be to arrive where we started & know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2017
Researchers of Artificial Intelligence are deep religious believers. They believe that naming a phenomenon is understanding it.

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2017
You may become a good teacher if you give up teaching & rather share space and time with students as a more experienced participant.

@CarlCanary: 9 Dec 2017
Trivial truth: We don’t know whether anything we sensually perceive is true. Truth does not exist out there. It is totally human-made.

@CarlCanary: 9 Dec 2017
Photography grasps what is given as a spatial (or temporal) continuum; memory images retain it only insofar as it has significance. (Kracauer)

@CarlCanary: 9 Dec 2017 Replying to @PulpLibrarian
Nice of you to put this up and show to other people even though we don’t know each other. Thank you.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 16 Sep 2017
with the great Frieder Nake in front of his Matrizenmultiplikation work part of Tate’s interactive timeline displaypic.twitter.com/SrE9ZvY0YB

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2017 Replying to @GLiegmann
Recht hat er schon: das Wahre gibt es nur im Wort, nicht in der Tat. Nur ist das Wahre nicht mehr so wichtig außerhalb der Mathematik.

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2017 Replying to @soyfantomas
It is only insofar as bourgeois democracy depends on radically protecting the individual. Division of power, solidarity, liberty must be top

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2017
“The book will kill the building”, Victor Hugo wrote in “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”. Now the Internet is NOT killing the book (Eco said).

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2017
Digitization is something like the EVIL of our time. Why are so many frozen in permanent enthusiasm about it? Not all of them can be stupid.

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2017
The destruction of democracy happens from inside by facebook et al. and many of us don’t care. Bye, bye privacy, the root of democracy.

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2017
Look around: a large proportion of your young friends welcome artificial intelligence & learning machines. Killing democracy from inside.

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2017
Do you believe in the hyper-individualist autonomous car instead of radically improving and supporting public transport?

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2017
Pretending that, what insane politicians agree on at crazy conferences will make any difference. And developing the autonomous smart car.

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2017
It seems as if the terribly blind human race cannot agree to return to “less for many, but more for most”. (Trump, the US, climate)

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2017
Is nothing left in the world but a bit of hope for kidding ourselves into an as-if life in accord with the remnants of nature?

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @GLiegmann
I gave up the daily tweet by the end of March. Now only occasionally.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @GLiegmann
This came out of a class I am teaching, Artificial Intelligence meets Artificial Art. Without skin, no intelligence. No nothing.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @Aigiluper
you are so right. the selfie maniacs have turned their self into the records they use in order to fill storage. somehow fantastic.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @neoscenes
Thank you, dear John. Very friendly of you. I must see you again, I must.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @quasimondo
that’s a pity. I feel sorry for you. And I am surprised that you get this kind of work on ebay. I would love to have it myself. Frieder

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017 Replying to @lrstmpf @baum_stumpf and
Das liegt nun zwar schon lange Monate zurück und Jahre fast. Es war aber äußerst liebenswürdig gesagt.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017
nicht schlecht, anregend, den roboter aus dem totenkult entstehen zu lassen, aus einem. auf meine grabstein: einen roboter.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017
But all the hope & longing for a returning nature is in vain, given the daily global destruction of nature that is growing exponentially.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017
Romantic minds walk the forests & seashores longing for unity in nature. For this, bourgeois thinking + acting for profit must be overcome.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017
The heart of mother earth will beat in the works of technology one day, but only then when nature & human are back in peace (Ernst Bloch).

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2017
Death – the event by chance that hits us absolutely certainly – now death often comes as the terror of the Islamic State or others. New.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2017
Currently, the world leaders of superstition are to be found in neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2017
Believing in an ever present network of causalities is the ultimate superstition itself. Some still call it “god”. Pretty + unnecessary.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2017
Many embark on continued search of the innermost true being. But life itself changes us incessantly. The innermost is always only becoming.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jun 2017
We try to understand & make sense of the world and its unrelated processes. But the world confronts us with zero empathy.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jun 2017
Human dreams of unlimited and growing power over nature emerge from our deep fear of death. Death is certain to happen but unknown when.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2017
We try to understand & make sense of the world, of its unrelated processes. But the world confronts us with zero empathy & escapes it all.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2017
Human dreams of unlimited and growing power over nature emerge from a deep fear of death, afraid of the certain, yet unknown chance we have.

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2017
Everybody can speak about art. But some make selfies with Mona & Lisa. (Billboard in Bremen, Germany)

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2017
In thinking we leave behind the world of things. We escape, in thinking, the thing. that’s liberation. And source of religion.

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2017
Selfie addiction is proof of an empty self.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2017
Without our skin we could not develop intelligence. Computers, however, don’t have skin, therefore ... It is as easy as this.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2017
Since software does not possess a living, feeling, longing, shivering, thin, strong, protecting, demanding skin, there can be no AI.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2017
Machines do not have skin. Our skin is life – a large living organ. If you call it “interface”, you are ignoring life and humanity.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2017
Life is but a detour to the novel of your life. We live through our narrations. We are a narrative.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2017
Gigantic misconceptions: Data are not raw materials, they need it. The world is not 0s & 1s. It is matter.

@CarlCanary: 1 May 2017
Marches for science are nice & friendly petit-bourgeois events. They want to continue their neuro crap or autonomous car. Smart insanity.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2017
Jean-Luc Nancy in his “Que faire?”: “But don’t only read. Do something.” (Why is he not starting from Lenin’s essay of the same title?)

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2017
Algorithmic Art is when you see the visible work for the very first time only then when it is finished as an instance of its infinite class.

@CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2017
Most of the time, it is only a few clicks to the knowledge of the world. New crap for those who believe in speed. Some educators do.

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2017
For decades, I have told my friends the car is a killing machine. They always laughed on me. Now it has become obvious.

@CarlCanary: 6 Apr 2017
“How many clicks does a good education need?” that’s Germany’s digital education question. How stupid can you get when you are a believer!

@CarlCanary: 28 Mar 2017
At the beginning of the 2nd half of the 20th century, the end of ferroconcrete age meets the start of electronic age. – Georg Muche 1954

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2017
They tell me my brain is a neural network. I don’t believe them. Turing said the brain is a bowl of porridge. He may be closer to truth.

@CarlCanary: 22 Mar 2017
Electronic space, the space of Internet, digital space by its very nature is space without the spatial feature of bodily experience.

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2017
Try not to remember anything anymore. Get rid of all memories. Of what we do remember, nothing remains but pure horror. This is history.

@CarlCanary: 12 Mar 2017
I tried during these years to avoid that private personal gossip that is so incredibly boring. The amount of non-messages amazed me much.

@CarlCanary: 12 Mar 2017
Curiosity was my reason to do these daily statements. I never became a twitterer. The experience was worth the effort.

@CarlCanary: 12 Mar 2017
This concludes my 4 consecutive years of 1 tweet per day. I quit. At least for a while. I may return. But must concentrate on other work.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2017
We clean up messy rich demanding human relationship with technology. We sacrifice conversation for mere connection. (Sherry Turkle)

@CarlCanary: 10 Mar 2017
Media no longer have a fixed, stable ontological state, as Armin Medosch said. Peter Lunenfeld before: theirs is an aesthetics of unfinish.

@CarlCanary: 9 Mar 2017
When politicians talk to each other as if they were trying to convince the other, they both are essentially deaf.

@CarlCanary: 8 Mar 2017
In scientific action, you must obey certain rules. In artistic action, you must break all rules. In times of crisis, science becomes art.

@CarlCanary: 7 Mar 2017
Being capable of using our mind to think about the mind, but not capable of explaining its existence – fantastic. Ignoramus. For ever.

@CarlCanary: 6 Mar 2017
A tendency may have existed in nature from its beginnings of evolving the human mind, that extreme singularity. We will never know.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2017
Language: fantastic medium of creating distance to ourselves. It’s part of nature as our potential. Transcends nature by describing it.

@CarlCanary: 4 Mar 2017
In Facebook, Twitter, etc. people show their private affairs & fakes. They build a new personality – they truly lose identity. (After Eco)

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2017
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. (Umberto Eco) And we are caught between machine and sign.

@CarlCanary: 2 Mar 2017
Digitization is the process of making things and processes computable, for good and worse. Definitely good for capital.

@CarlCanary: 1 Mar 2017
The machinic digital exists only in the algorithmic dimension. Decisive is algorithmics, computability. Digitality is only second to it.

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2017
All digital beings exist as Surface & Subface. The two cannot be separated. They are the twofold interpretation of the algorithmic sign.

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2017
Like everything else on a computer, the digital image exists as a double: surface (visible for humans) & subface (computable by software).

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2017
The Internet will be extinguished around the year 1996 like a spectacular supernova. (Robert Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet)

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 24 Feb 2017
2 weeks ago @thedanielfranke, @HHomburg and I had jury duty at @HfKBremen @DM_BREMEN. (not just) to the winners: → hfk-bremen.de/t/neuigkeiten-…

@CarlCanary: 24 Feb 2017
The world market for computers will call for about five computers. (Thomas Watson, CEO of IBM, 1943)

@CarlCanary: 23 Feb 2017
We should not dream of television. It will just not be possible to finance it. (Lee de Forest, father of the radio, 1926)

@CarlCanary: 22 Feb 2017
We will in the next fifty years not be able to successfully bring a metal airplane up into the air. (Inventor Wilbur Wright 1901)

@CarlCanary: 21 Feb 2017
Worldwide, there will be no more than one milllion cars. There are simply no more chauffeurs. (The inventor of the car, Daimler 1901)

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2017
When a lady with a red scarf enters the room of an art museum, the room changes and the works should also. (German artist, Uli Pohl)

@CarlCanary: 19 Feb 2017
Deciding for a specific approach or style in making art, is almost like entering a monastery.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2017
In algorithmic art you design algorithms. As soon as forms & colors appear visibly, you lose algorithmic control. You design for design.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2017
Baumgarten sees two modes of cognition: the sensory & the logical. The logical mode of cognition is the great theme of algorithmic art.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2017
Begin and end of all art is the human experience as a conscious living being in the world, no matter how formal the art may be.

@CarlCanary: 15 Feb 2017
In two days, on 18 Feb 17, from 10 to 20 at UdK Berlin: “Free of all conventions. Pioneering days of computer art”. Young people interested.

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2017
All those who are still reading, reading printed books of paper, for some hours turn themselves into unusable members of society.

@CarlCanary: 13 Feb 2017
Those horrible TV talk shows. Incredible in their stupidity. No arguments exchanged. Show, nothing but images. Trash. Society of spectacle.

@CarlCanary: 12 Feb 2017
We must ask ourselves what is causing greater harm to the soul of today’s world: the blinded greed or the harsh haste. (K. Lorenz)

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2017
The periods of never ending love are the cries of a Southern hot sun. Silent black Northern nights of never ending depth tell you it ends.

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2017
You knew that she will leave you for another love. You knew it. But when it happens you don’t know it any more. Suddenly, it’s catastrophe.

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2017
In Northern countries, the winter day starts deep dark & ends deep dark. Between these brackets sunshine. Culture is making sense of this.

@CarlCanary: 8 Feb 2017
A light begins to shine. Reactions to the president. Trying how far he can get with insults + signatures. Parliament? Shit. People? Not bad.

@CarlCanary: 7 Feb 2017
Never “so much power & at the same time so much perplexity, so much care & so much distraction, so much knowledge & so much uncertainty”.

@CarlCanary: 6 Feb 2017
Sorrow unites with joy, and loss with hope to build melancholy. It is sorrow that knows of hope in the loss we cannot avoid.

@CarlCanary: 5 Feb 2017
Critical thinking that is not based on self-criticism cannot be critical. This is the position against affirmation of the self.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2017
“Rationality must recognize the contribution of emotions, love, and repentance.” (Edgar Morin)

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2017
“Rationalism that ignores subjectivity, affectivity, life, & beings, is irrational.” (Edgar Morin)

@CarlCanary: 2 Feb 2017
Rationality “is the fruit of debate of ideas, and not the property of a system of ideas.” (Edgar Morin)

@CarlCanary: 1 Feb 2017
“True rationality is by nature open and engaged in dialogue with the real, which resists it.” (Edgar Morin)

@CarlCanary: 31 Jan 2017
For Andrew Reynolds, political scientist at, U of North Carolina, expert on democracy, North Carolina is a profoundly damaged democracy.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2017
Americans: 91% don’t trust government; 80% feel so about media; 73% about courts. Trump didn’t cause this, he’s the result. Therefore won.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2017
Trump didn’t make it because he is the incarnated anti-democrat. The country is no longer democratic, therefore they need him.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2017
Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. (Steve Jobs) And what would he say today?

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2017
don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. (Steve Jobs)

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2017
There are no failures – just experiences and your reactions to them. (Steve Jobs)

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2017
The preliminary already has beauty. How great might the finished be. But the process of always only preliminary is itself the final.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jan 2017
US citizens must prepare for many more marches against their freely elected president. It will be a long permanent march of four years.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jan 2017
As humans we are the animals capable of free decision and will. But we do not really want to decide. Therefore we build computers.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jan 2017
People believe they have nothing to hide from government. What a stupid trust in god! We must learn never to believe this any more.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jan 2017
Digitization is: Our entire life is rebuilt into a gigantic computer whose part we become ourselves more + more. Welcome, homo sapiens!

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2017
Never before has my tweet received as many reactions as yesterday’s on the brain that is not working like computers do. Encouraging!

@CarlCanary: 19 Jan 2017 Replying to @GLiegmann
Oh! What a surprise. No, there is now not much love any more.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jan 2017 Replying to @inconvergent
It is hard. But it’s not impossible. You must be strong in your conviction to use it rarely only. But then you grow.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jan 2017
“Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories.” (Robert Epstein) A clear statement. aeon.co/essays/your-br…

@CarlCanary: 18 Jan 2017
My artist friend, Mark Amerika, reminds me of “The sun also rises”, Ernest Hemingway’s debut as a writer. Isn’t this a title!

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2017
Great progress in the US: Immigration control may now ask for your accounts on so-called social networks. Internet facilitates surveillance.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jan 2017
Democracy of the inividual must withstand terrible things caused by media if it is to last. A new democracy of the masses must be found.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jan 2017
The ubiquitous media of verbal-visual terror are becoming a dangerous threat for freedom of speech. They transport lies + discrimination.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jan 2017
Digital communication reduces distance. Respect for the other vanishes. Spectacles have great times: show without distance. (Byung-Chul Han)

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2017
In the Soviet Union those in power gave medals to each other. The USA is desperately trying to reach the same level of absurdity.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2017
Must you connect? Why reduce yourself and your thoughts to the arbitrary format of the social machine that carries your message?

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2017
Letters to the editor were a civil, human, slow medium. Shitstorm is dehumanizing, immediate, anonymous: cheap & without responsibiliy.

@CarlCanary: 12 Jan 2017
What an absurd construction of the human mind, that god Allah that loves his followers for killing people for nothing but being there.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jan 2017
“You will not have my hate” by Antoine Leiris. You should read it. A Western civic answer to current religious hate and killing.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2017
When the Stranger in Camus’ novel at the end feels the benign indifference of the world, he feels that he had been happy and still was.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jan 2017
… to feel less lonely, [the only] hope was … on the day of my execution … a huge crowd … should greet me with howls of execration. (Camus)

@CarlCanary: 8 Jan 2017
We are back from the island down South in the Atlantic, back to ordinary work, back to lost time, to the process of permanent losses. Loser.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jan 2017
The year, quite likely, will be nothing but horrible. The Islamic State. Trump. Putin. Nature retaliating. In search of lost time, we are.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2017
We enter a new year & think it lies spread out like a silvery straight ribbon in front of us. How unpoetic. How unreal. How technical.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jan 2017
Beyond everything else, future is a matter of design. Vilém Flusser

@CarlCanary: 5 Jan 2017
Nobody really is willing to understand that the greatest & only operation of nature and of art is form-building design (gestaltung). Goethe

@CarlCanary: 3 Jan 2017
The terror of Big Data continues the urge of enlightenment to measure the world without mercy.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2017
There is no right life within the false. (Old Chinese, Marxist, or petit-bougeois saying)

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2017
When the Internet became visible, many dreamed of freedom + democracy. Now its services show their absolute control beyond all measure.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2017
Hardly anyone withstands the technologically possible: without hesitation, we permanently deliver data to business and NSA although we know.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2017 Replying to @glovink
I will not answer this crucial request of our time for a click. I want to keep the depth of friendship, that beautiful treasure. FN

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2016
CRISIS WILL STAY WITH US, WILL GROW. IT IS THE WEST THAT MUST BE BLAMED. IT IS CAPITALISM. WAR WILL BE UPON US. that’s what I expect.

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2016
In our memory, time is never linear. It is more like a chaotic jungle. Piles up here and there, this and that, impenetrable, inscrutable.

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2016
There is time in Proust’s “In search of lost time” that does neither have a past nor a future. It is the time of artistic creation.

@CarlCanary: 27 Dec 2016
“Often, our life is so careless of chronology,” says Proust in his “In search of lost time”. But we believe in life as chronomatography.

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2016
“In search of lost time”: on one + the same page, the narrator appears as if 8 or 10 or 18 years old. Virtuality? It’s more & long before.

@CarlCanary: 25 Dec 2016
“À la recherche du temps perdu” by Marcel Proust is the title of the most remarkable, for some the most beautiful novel of history.
Translated from French by Microsoft

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2016
The faintest thought you spend on the Christian message turns you into a nonbeliever for all times. But reality is against you.

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2016
In some way, this Christian story is childishly nice because it is so fantasticly unreal, so totally absurd & science fiction.

@CarlCanary: 22 Dec 2016
I am for messy vitality over obvious unity. I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning. (Robert Venturi 1966)

@CarlCanary: 22 Dec 2016
Let the reign of the divine Electric Light begin at last. Make room for youth, for violence, for daring! (Umberto Boccioni, 1910)

@CarlCanary: 22 Dec 2016
We rebel against everything which is filthy and worm-ridden and corroded by time. (Umberto Boccioni et al. 1910)

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2016
Our art is the art of a revolutionary period, simultaneously the reaction of a world going under & the herald of a new era. (Constant, 1948)

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2016
Michigan’s data-driven welfare fraud tool had 93% false positive rate, ruining lives of unemployed. #bigdata #wtf theguardian.com/us-news/2016/d…

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2016
… the role of the artist can only be … revolutionary: it is his duty to destroy the last remnants of an irksome aesthetic. (Constant 1948)

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2016
The present crisis has stripped capitalism naked. It stands more revealed than ever as a system of robbery and fraud … (John Reed Club 1932)

@CarlCanary: 16 Dec 2016
Mankind is passing through the most profound crisis in its history. An old world is dying, a new one is being born. (John Reed Club 1932)

@CarlCanary: 16 Dec 2016
We, of whom you believe yourselves to be judges, we will one day judge you. (Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 1960)

@CarlCanary: 16 Dec 2016
John Berger found this by Joseph Beuys, between spirit & imagination.pic.twitter.com/7OY5X7D6hl

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2016
“... everything heavy shall become light, every body a dancer, and every spirit a bird ...” (Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra)

@CarlCanary: 12 Dec 2016
Human environment of electric information takes precedence over the environment of nature. Nature becomes content of technology. McLuhan 60s

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2016
Philosophy of the mobile. In reading you mentally look up into infinity. In staring you always look down. A generation of downlookers.

@CarlCanary: 10 Dec 2016
Philosophy of the mobile. Reading is slow, connecting to thought. Staring is quick, connecting to surprise.

@CarlCanary: 9 Dec 2016
Mind emerges from the cracks and exaggerations of life and media when tragedy turns into comedy and comedy turns into tragedy.

@CarlCanary: 8 Dec 2016
Everybody believes the daily newspaper is bound to die. Indeed, it looks like. The Internet is no local newspaper. Can we live without?

@CarlCanary: 7 Dec 2016
I have turned myself into a regular supporter of Wikipedia. You should join!

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2016
We all like + use Wikipedia. But they must campaign for funds to keep up their raising quality + improve as the island without ads. Help!

@CarlCanary: 5 Dec 2016
Belief is a powerful technique of the mind. But it often leads to dogmatism and fundamentalism.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2016
An optimist is a person who orders a dozen oysters in hope of finding in one of them the pearl he needs to pay his bill. (After Fontane)

@CarlCanary: 3 Dec 2016
“Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper”, Francis Bacon said. Well known, necessary to say, and true.

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2016
Young people turn back to religion, to all sorts of fancy crazy believes. Poor they seem to be, lacking a future without needing a god.

@CarlCanary: 1 Dec 2016
Painting is silent poetry, poetry is speaking painting (Simonides).

@CarlCanary: 1 Dec 2016
You have no chance in life. Therefore, grab it and use it! How true, isn’t it.

@CarlCanary: 29 Nov 2016
“You were just a Joseph looking for an angel” sang Leonard Cohen. What unselfish hero that Joseph must have been acting as god didn’t dare.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2016
Recently published, online Proceedings of this year’s xCoAx conference in Bergamo: 2016.xcoax.org Take a look!

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2016
Killing is quick, fast, momentous. Thinking is slow, calm, friendly, lasting.

@CarlCanary: 27 Nov 2016
Globalized capitalism is outrageously aggressive. It lives of permanent destruction approaching apocalypse.

@CarlCanary: 25 Nov 2016
How much did we admire him! Right in front of the USA doorstep he dared socialism. He failed but was great: FIDEL CASTRO.

@CarlCanary: 25 Nov 2016 Replying to @AutoMinimalist
How kin they are, our two birds. They probably know each other quite well and ironically play with each other.

@CarlCanary: 24 Nov 2016
Are we not caught in our existence, at any time, between what is, what might be, and what has never been?

@CarlCanary: 23 Nov 2016
Isn’t the result of recent US elections a wonderful blow against Artificial Intelligence? Will people draw this conclusion? It is needed.

@CarlCanary: 22 Nov 2016 Replying to @markamerika @Ecole_ArtsDeco
What the hell! Paris again. Keynote. Do a great job. I’ll be with you in my mind. Frieder

@CarlCanary: 22 Nov 2016
If the story is true of Clinton’s trust in the algorithmic machine, then her defeat serves her well. Trump trusted bots creating news.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2016
Clinton: How much must you have given up of your human mind & soul if you trust the machine more than your judgment & feelings?

@CarlCanary: 20 Nov 2016
Some claim Clinton’s campaign was controlled by algorithms + big data. If true, this shows how much belief in machines can do to life.

@CarlCanary: 20 Nov 2016
Illusions that we generate in our thinking become the doors that open up to freedom.

@CarlCanary: 18 Nov 2016
Is it not fantastic that art keeps going strong by not being useful, by refusing to be useful? Let us not forget this marvel!

@CarlCanary: 17 Nov 2016
Is our life really characterized as a permanent attempt to find the balance between imagination and loss of the sense for reality?

@CarlCanary: 16 Nov 2016
In postmodern times, we claim as fact our fantasy’s inventions, and as fantasy what used to be called reality.

@CarlCanary: 15 Nov 2016
In this life, you always need to be ready for a suitable illusion. You cannot survive without self-deception. (Choreographer Samir Akika)

@CarlCanary: 14 Nov 2016
There were years of curbing liberalism by protecting workers & humans. Now it is raging around the world, China leading the race.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2016
When the systematic horror of the current murderers drives us into hatred + affect, the intellectuals’ duty is to continue thinking.

@CarlCanary: 12 Nov 2016
LEONARD COHEN. Who will ever write & sing like him again. Decelerating where the world accelerated; calming down when everyone was shouting.

@CarlCanary: 11 Nov 2016
Only in thinking can we get beyond the logic of terror and anti-terror, of murder and revenge.

@CarlCanary: 10 Nov 2016
Tuesday evening (15 March 19:30) at Merz Akademie in Stuttgart.pic.twitter.com/GSlW7uCBwR

@CarlCanary: 9 Nov 2016
There was 9-11. Now the answer 11-9.

@CarlCanary: 9 Nov 2016
Illusion is the interface between different realities. interface is the illusion of being in separation and exchange.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2016
Germans voted Hitler into power. Americans Trump. that’s naked capital, grabbing pussies, kicking Mexicans + other foreigners. Great future.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2016
Deep in their soul people hate rampaging global capitalism. They have no voice in this. Therefore they turn to the dumb right.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2016
Trump almost certain meanwhile. Britain leaving EU. Le Pen perhaps to win France, Wilders the Netherlands. Putin marches on.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2016
Early morning in Germany, the US still counting votes, Trump winning. The politics of desaster about to triumph. Again nationalism!

@CarlCanary: 7 Nov 2016
Books are appearing now with titles like “The idea of socialism”, “The idea of communism”. Caused by the sad abyss of lost utopias.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2016
Why do I read anyone of all those books surrounding me, by all those writers, as I have not yet read everything by Beckett, twice?

@CarlCanary: 5 Nov 2016
If you ever want to understand what is happening to you, us, everyone, be aware of the ultimate absurdity of everything. that’s then hope.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2016
There are those who believe in explainability of the world, of life, of our moving about on earth. I think all that for us is astounding.

@CarlCanary: 3 Nov 2016
Some dreamers believed in globalization. But it always was a brutal attack by capital. Now you see it: Crazy wealth, crying poverty, war.

@CarlCanary: 2 Nov 2016
If Trump should win the election, it will soon end any influence of Western ideology in the world. May this be different if Clinton wins?

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2016
We may compete against or resonate with the other. Competition is to win & beat. Resonating is to meet & be with. Close down or open up.

@CarlCanary: 31 Oct 2016
Bert Brecht, the German communist poet: My face shows many facets of brutality, silence, flabbyness, daring, cowardice, but only facets.

@CarlCanary: 30 Oct 2016
... but as humans we can work against capitalism. It’s not given by gods but made by humans. We need a revolutionary mind and hand.

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2016
It’s trivial. But must be said again, exactly now. Capitalism drives us humans against each other in fear, greed, hate, competition ...

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2016
Brave people of Wallonia facing the EU’s deal with Canada for some while but then giving in. Dealers like them all.

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2016
I always only work in two dimensions, flat, says Manfred Mohr. His projections from high dimensions onto the plane create new flat worlds.

@CarlCanary: 26 Oct 2016
Manfred Mohr says: I always only offer something. Unless you make something out of it, it just remains my offer, nothing more.

@CarlCanary: 25 Oct 2016
Can there be true democracy without capitalism? Maybe that’s the point. Must capitalism go for true democracy?

@CarlCanary: 25 Oct 2016
For those of you in Bremen today: “The algorithmic dimension in visual art”, 18:00, Kunsthalle Vortragssaal (Grabowski & Nake).

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2016
Tomorrow at Kunsthalle Bremen: We'll bring to a close our project “The algorithmic dimension in visual art”, supported by VW Foundation.

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2016
Democracy is difficult & risky. Terrorists know that. They drive democratic institutions into their opposite: surveillance, data collection.

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2016
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” That was a song. Against the madness of the religious states and autocrats? Why not.

@CarlCanary: 20 Oct 2016
Helmut Pape, the philosopher in Bamberg, will thus start into his lecture this term: Nobody is innocent & nobody carries the guilt.

@CarlCanary: 19 Oct 2016
Now coming up at ZKM Karlsruhe: “European Art 1945-1968” (2 historic dates). Algorithmic art is part of such a show.

@CarlCanary: 18 Oct 2016
Telling a story or performing a theater play is always a decision against the madness of the world.

@CarlCanary: 17 Oct 2016
If anything is the opposite of “social”, it is “social networks”. They allow for great attacks against caring social communities of humans.

@CarlCanary: 16 Oct 2016
The terrorism of social networks is based on their total neglect of history and context. But we only live in history and context.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2016
With the Internet shitstorm, social condemnation & torture are now a trivial affair: you participate with no responsibility nor mercy.

@CarlCanary: 14 Oct 2016
The digital/algorithmic breach of culture changes all: Time, space, work, love, secret, power, violence. We must gain distance from it.

@CarlCanary: 14 Oct 2016
Digital natives live without a distance to their homeland. But they need distance if they want to avoid disasters when rising to power.

@CarlCanary: 13 Oct 2016
Digital natives live without a distance to their homeland. But they need distance if they want to avoid disasters when rising to power.

@CarlCanary: 12 Oct 2016
Life? Viewed as poetry, it’s a sequence of stories you experience. Your stories. Unique, different, unrepeatable.

@CarlCanary: 12 Oct 2016
Rationalists try to explain, define, and find truth. Others experience life. In life you find stories. that’s all we may have. It’s a lot.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2016
If you love humans, there is only one thing to do: Motivate them to laugh about the struggles for truth. (Umberto Eco in an interview)

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2016
Back in 1967 H. Dreyfus wrote: in order to be intelligent, computers must have bodies. Bodies live: Thus they die. jstor.org/stable/20124494

@CarlCanary: 8 Oct 2016
The perennial failure of AI research: to think in abstract categories of dead matter instead of living organisms. Intelligence is life.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2016
If anything is artificial life then it’s these creatures of Theo Jansen’s. He talks of them as new kinds of animals. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbU3e…

@CarlCanary: 6 Oct 2016
Golan Levin recently told us of wireless emotion detection underway. The world seems to be obsessed by turning us into computable gadgets.

@CarlCanary: 5 Oct 2016
Most horrible & threatening in this world is the belief that each & every thing is computable or must be made to be.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2016 Replying to @REAS
Thank you much, Casey, I must look it up out of several reasons.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2016
Books are like sticky tape: your memories at the gone time of reading return when you open the book again. (Cornelia Funke)

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2016 Replying to @quasimondo
And those b/w images that you have seen: are a screen-print (edition of 40) or original drawings by the machine (about 40)

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2016
Vortrag 25.10. 18h: Prof. Frieder Nake + Dr. Susanne Grabowski zur algorithmischen Dimension i. d. visuellen Kunst #Computerkunst @UniBremen pic.twitter.com/zW1n69hS0N

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2016 Replying to @quasimondo
Amazing! the image is well known. This version of green on pink exists only twice. 600 Euro is way too cheap. B/W is 2000-3000.

@CarlCanary: 3 Oct 2016
A thousand enemies outside the house are better than a single one inside. (Arabic) Still valid in times of the Internet spies?

@CarlCanary: 2 Oct 2016
To again smell how beautiful time is without an ultimate god & goal, we need an attitude of vita contemplativa. (Byung-Chul Han)

@CarlCanary: 1 Oct 2016
Byung-Chul Han: The age of acceleration is already over. What we still feel as speeding-up is an atomization of time into tiny parts.

@CarlCanary: 30 Sep 2016
Paul Klee said: The artist knows everything, but he knows this only afterwards. He said this in comparing the artist to the phycisist.

@CarlCanary: 29 Sep 2016
The immanent mania of globalization generates madness, just as an unstable society produces delinquents and psychopaths. (Baudrillard 2002)

@CarlCanary: 28 Sep 2016
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door! Statue of Liberty inscription. Once a hope, but now?

@CarlCanary: 27 Sep 2016
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” (Lazarus) A hoax?

@CarlCanary: 26 Sep 2016
The purpose of all university activities, by all those working there, is critique of reality & ideology based on dialectics & enlightenment.

@CarlCanary: 26 Sep 2016 Replying to @tinysubversions
Dear Darius, It is big. But not that big. To study a lot, you could spend a day. But buy the catalog, it’s in English. FN

@CarlCanary: 25 Sep 2016
All political religions of the world unite in drowning in a dark ocean of blood the civilization of enlightening and liberating.

@CarlCanary: 24 Sep 2016
Stuttgart has public swimming pools with mineral water. Healthy. They also build an underground train station. It may destroy the first. Unh

@CarlCanary: 23 Sep 2016
Now at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart: “[un]expected. The Art of Chance”. On three flores. From Max Ernst, Duchamp, etc. to algorithmic art.

@CarlCanary: 22 Sep 2016
Black Mountain College was in constant re-formation. Its future form could not be given in advance. that’s an institution’s strong mission.

@CarlCanary: 21 Sep 2016
“Students can be educated for freedom only by teachers who are themselves free.” (John A. Rice 1935)

@CarlCanary: 20 Sep 2016
The old, slow, creaking descriptions are things of the past; today the rule is brevity – but every word must be high-voltage. (Zamyatin)

@CarlCanary: 19 Sep 2016
To sing the marching workers in their storm against the forces of oppression and of exploitation.

@CarlCanary: 18 Sep 2016
To dance into surrounding space a song, a song so soft that you can feel it on your skin.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2016
To paint into the air an image with your voice so far beyond imagination that you hear it.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2016 Replying to @ramin__
yes, somehow. But in 2: I knowI have it. But where is it?

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2016
but the digital copy is ugly. It makes you read from screen which is no real reading, it’s scanning.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2016 Replying to @uauage
Excellent suggestion. Next time it happens to me, I’ll ship it to you. No matter what the contents is.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2016
You order a book; when it arrives, you see you already have it. What do you do? You know you have a book but don’t find it. What do you do?

@CarlCanary: 15 Sep 2016
The past is a country we cannot visit any more although we all have been there. (Tony Judt)

@CarlCanary: 14 Sep 2016
The past wasn’t much better nor much worse, only different. More important than this quarrel is: we must not forget the past. (Tony Judt)

@CarlCanary: 13 Sep 2016
Memory vs. storage: “Gespeichert, das heißt vergessen.” (Stored away, that is forgotten.) – Hans Magnus Enzensberger

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2016
Acceleration makes us grow accustomed to walking in shallow luke-warm waters of the day & lose the freshness of the depth of history.

@CarlCanary: 11 Sep 2016
By accommodating to weak and false views and judgements mind and eye react to the incredible acceleration of life. (Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: 10 Sep 2016
My memory says: “that’s what I have done.” “Impossibly could I have done this,” my pride insists. Finally, my memory gives in. (Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2016
The work of art as such exists only then when it meets an audience, when it is consumed. (Peter Handke 1959) Artists only prepare for this.

@CarlCanary: 8 Sep 2016
All art, really all, must be critical. It is critical when it is different. If it is not different, it is not art.

@CarlCanary: 8 Sep 2016
Science struggles, we believe, with the natural. Art struggles, we know, with the artificial, the social. that’s different, don’t you think?

@CarlCanary: 6 Sep 2016
“… in relation to their artistic & historical significance, many pieces of digital art are still too affordable.” (Wolf Lieser 2013)

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2016
Artists build exciting complex crazy funny reactive machines. Great, enchanting. But why call them “empathetic"? They are just machines.

@CarlCanary: 4 Sep 2016
Love-hate the machine: “I respect it [the machine], but I also fear it. For what it does to me & how it rewires my brain.” (Eno Henze)

@CarlCanary: 3 Sep 2016
The G20 gang meets in China to accelerate economic growth. They cannot see that deceleration is what the world needs.

@CarlCanary: 2 Sep 2016
An Italian sculpturer had done a Karl Marx, naked, age 25, for East Berlin. It was kept veiled. When West Germany took over, it was melted.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2016
In Germany, when you were tired, you took a “Nickerchen”. It now is called a “power nap”. Why? It’s nothing new, it’s just a short sleep.

@CarlCanary: 31 Aug 2016
We are witnesses of horrible murders. Alain Badiou: To say this is unthinkable, is defeat. Thinking must exactly think the unthinkable.

@CarlCanary: 30 Aug 2016
Our brains are results of our body’s movements, touch, & work of the hand. AI addicts still seem to ignore this lesson Dreyfus told us.

@CarlCanary: 29 Aug 2016
We can not pass on experience from one generation to the next. Only we ourselves can gain experience. So we must do it!

@CarlCanary: 29 Aug 2016
If you ever see a chance: get a copy of Alexander Kluge’s, “News from Ideological Antiquity. Marx.Eisenstein.Capital“ Good to be reminded.

@CarlCanary: 27 Aug 2016
The high courts in Western democratic countries work hard these days saving democracy.pic.twitter.com/32ngT6MC8F

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2016
La France – la grande nation – is afraid of a few Islamic women who are bold or stupid enough to, on the beach, wear the burkini.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2016
Some still hike up into the mountains, stay overnight in a cabin, without smart phone, all by themselves. Sun, wind, themselves. Humans.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2016 Replying to @ferrouswheel @inconvergent
How wonderful to think of myself as an innocent snowflake. Only: they melt so fast.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2016
Almost none of us today allows at least to think alternatives to the structures & values of bourgeois society & capitalist logic. How sad.

@CarlCanary: 23 Aug 2016
Already in 1905, William Beveridge observed that political philosophy was surplanted by purely economic thinking. Capitalism unforgiving.

@CarlCanary: 22 Aug 2016
Free trade is freedom only for streams of capital. It has nothing to do with freedom for the people.

@CarlCanary: 21 Aug 2016
“In a few more years millions of school-children will have … a tutor as well-informed & responsive as Aristotle”. (Suppes 1966) Oh, really?

@CarlCanary: 20 Aug 2016
The “Turing test": an intellectual catastrophy. Replaced the power of historic, dialectical thinking by behavior. We still suffer from it.

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2016
The belief in intelligent machines comparable to human brilliance & emotion is like a religion with its roots in absence of knowledge.

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2016
Kurzweil’s Singularity: He claims the human race is stupid enough to let the software copy gain power over the original living being. Crazy.

@CarlCanary: 17 Aug 2016
Love is when a part of your self becomes one with the other person, totally and unquestioned.

@CarlCanary: 16 Aug 2016
Economists make us believe that when wages are low enough, everybody will be employed. Has it ever been that way? What an outrageous lie.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2016
Democracy is really existent in the minds & behaviors of us all plus the institutions of the court system, parliament, and the free press.

@CarlCanary: 14 Aug 2016
Democratic rule may be endangered in countries like Austria, France, Italy, the USA. The fight for the liberal civic state has started.

@CarlCanary: 13 Aug 2016
Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Slovenia, Turkey seemed to be on their way to democracy. They are back to autocracy. More to follow?

@CarlCanary: 12 Aug 2016
We have spent a lot for cloths of the newest fashion, largely superfluous. But we ignore the beggar on the pavement, not a dime for him.

@CarlCanary: 12 Aug 2016
In our societies, there is a lot of admiration for the rich & wealthy, and contempt for the poor & homeless. Should be the other way!

@CarlCanary: 10 Aug 2016
The young generations in UK rallied for EU on an opportunist agenda, hardly any progressive vision of people’s solidarity and liberty.

@CarlCanary: 9 Aug 2016
The EU is an association of capitalist states for better profits. But it also lets young generations dream beyond nations. And Britain?

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2016
“I'd rather be subversive today than depressive tomorrow.” that’s my friend’s, Werner Biedermann’s, motto for life.

@CarlCanary: 7 Aug 2016
Football and fine art are great in sick & disgusting prices that those pay who don’t understand an iota of football or art.

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2016
For the vast majority of living human beings, art is utterly irrelevant, without any meaning, interest, or influence on their lives.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2016
In a state with death penalty (USA, China, many more) you don’t even need religious reasons to kill. You get a job with the state.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2016
This pope is remarkable: Moslems are not the only killers, Christians are not lacking behind. All religions have fanatics. Hindus, Jews too.

@CarlCanary: 3 Aug 2016
When the Nazis came to power their first action was to purge & bring under their total control all national institutions. This is repeated.

@CarlCanary: 3 Aug 2016
The Turkish dictator is defending “democracy” by firing & arresting tens of thousands of intellectual professionals of all kinds. Thrilling!

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2016
Orson Welles’ radio hoax report of aliens invading New York (Oct. 30, 1938) was a great anticipation of virtual vs. actual mode of reality.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2016
Reading is like breathing. As successful medium it is ubiquitous & goes unnoticed. Like air: you become aware of it only when it’s missing.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2016
We must understand that the killer attacks will stay with us for a long time since they are expression of the deep terrorism of capital.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2016
Yes, of course: IF we were equal to the sum of all our data, we could be duplicated. But read the premise! Who believes such an assumption?

@CarlCanary: 28 Jul 2016
No wonder that Picasso could claim, “I don’t search, I find”. Finding is easy if you have eyes as large as his.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jul 2016
What you are searching for, also searches for you, some claim. If that was true, how come that the vast majority of people is utterly poor?

@CarlCanary: 26 Jul 2016
Now they start killing Christian priests. Week by week we notice how this new kind of war is deeper infiltrating Western society. No escape.

@CarlCanary: 26 Jul 2016
The Pokémon hype is a nice example of the easy switch-over from virtuality to actuality. People in a fragile world searching for stability.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jul 2016
As Erdoghan is getting ready for a sweeping dictatorship in the name of democracy, others are running around chasing Pokémon.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2016
Virtual & actual: During the Munich murder amok by a young man, Internet lovers were publishing fake images & images from other killings.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2016
Many a teacher would rather have some twits in his classroom than one genius. In some way, his attitude is right.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
How can Western governments continue talks about Turkey as a member of the EU? UK leaving, Turkey entering?

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
Liberal dogma has it that, whatever the state is doing (for everyone), private enterprise can do better (for profit) (Judt 2010).

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
Germans must remind us of the 20th July 1944: failed attack on Hitler. A new dictator now growing up in great strides against intellectuals.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
The illusion of permanent growth, fanatic defense of “free” markets, neglect of the public sector – this cannot go on (Judt 2010).

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
Since Reagan & Thatcher, a permanent chase for more profit has been the only goal of the West, creating poverty & shameless wealth.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2016
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today,” is Tony Judt’s first statement in his “Ill fares the land” (2010).

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
Imagine the subtle smooth sound of a drop of water falling down from the ceiling into a bucket.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
Isn’t art that that, at times, is inconspicuous, at other times horror.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
There is too much of “too much”, and too little of “too little” in the world.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
All those hopes, longings, expectations, squeezed together in international groups day and night in Germany now. How terrible the present.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
It is great to see how different the populations have become that are now walking up and down the streets in big cities of Germany.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
The flood of refugees into Germany has been diminished to a dripple. Now they are drowning again.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
The UK may leave the EU unless they find some other way, unlikely. One robber less fighting for leadership. Germany is the winner.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
Blind believes in technology substitute religion. You will not find me there.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
None of the proclaimed goals of the Dartmouth Conference on AI (1955) has been achieved. Those who proclaimed the goals are dead.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
I stick to my program of one tweet per day. Occasionally, it gets disturbed a bit. Therefore, there will now be an entire series.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2016
Where people prefer believing more than knowing, they let emerge religious fanatic sects, communities of believers, often intolerant.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jul 2016
Nobody must become a great programmer. But everybody should learn the basics of thinking algorithmically.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jul 2016
Museums are places of restoring and conserving. Perhaps, electronic art should not be conserved. It is all process, comes and goes.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jul 2016
Digitization was simply a technology. Now it has become an ideology. All wrong and misconceived. Thinking as a digital process. Think of it!

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2016
At “Conservation Pieces” in Basel I claimed the world of things is being transformed into a world of sign processes. Some liked this.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jun 2016
It is true, art is ever more occupied by generating processes than things. But there are still great painters. The fixed work will stay.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jun 2016
Sure, the EU is a burglars’ club for finance capital. You must be in opposition to it. Now it’s falling apart. Odd mixed feelings coming up.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jun 2016
Manifesto! by Julian Rosefeldt. Incredible. Hugely inspiring. Art’s radicalism, destruction, insult, hatred. Berlin, Hannover, more places.

@CarlCanary: 26 Jun 2016
My presentation today to “Conservation Piece(s)” at HeK Basel is: “The fragile & the open work of art. Isn’t time of preservation over?”

@CarlCanary: 26 Jun 2016
To the artist Michael Bielicky, the concept of “artist” has become uncertain, problematic, delicate. Must be re-invented, he says.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2016
We often assume, research in sociology or physics is different from poetry. Is it really? Should it be, must it be? Do physics as poetry!

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2016
You tell a robot: “Would you, please, say: ‘I am not a robot.’” What is your conclusion when it does say that? What if it does not?

@CarlCanary: 22 Jun 2016
There are those who say their brain is a server. And those who desire to become data. They work hard on it. Good luck!

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2016
As the city evolves into huge architecture + gigantic organizational networks, the remaining bits of nature become unnatural.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2016
The X is with us: “4th conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X” in Bergamo, Italy. 2016.xcoax.org

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2016
I’m sailing along on my bicycle through the green meadows around Bremen, singing aloud. The Chinese couple I pass looks on puzzled.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jun 2016
A day without writing in many cases is a day lost. A day without singing is a day lost.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jun 2016
During excile from Nazi Germany, many of the writers & philosophers felt the loss of their language as their greatest deprivation.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jun 2016
The state of a nation: contributions by refugees to criminal acts in Germany are not more than those by Germans. Relief?

@CarlCanary: 15 Jun 2016
Would you want to have Ms. Clinton as your president? Okay, she is a woman. And the only alternative to an ambassador from hell. Poor USA.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jun 2016
Getting up at 2 minutes past 4, the sun already rising. It’s a good feeling knowing my students are still sleeping. Some just went to bed.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jun 2016
As we see, our times – the world of technology, data, media – is getting ever more fragile. But the Middle Ages had the plague from heaven.

@CarlCanary: 12 Jun 2016
Some believe shootings like the Orlando attack can be safeguarded against. Of course, police & services had it. But there is no safety.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jun 2016
Kate Tempest, the rapper writer, says all writers are using the same material, the bubbling of humanity. Thus continuities between writers.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jun 2016
How was it possible that ordinary everyday life was continuing, while ordinary men & women were systematically extinguishing life? Germany.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jun 2016
We, who enjoy the privilege of earning our living by thinking and talking, are obliged to do this precisely and critically (after Reemtsma).

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2016
The mighty suppressors & providers of opportunities for exploitation occasionally appear at refugee camps like visitors in a zoo.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jun 2016
“Computers & creativity” has attracted many. Everything in life around us may contribute to flashes of ideas. Are programs any different?

@CarlCanary: 6 Jun 2016
... but then Gerhard Richter used a computer to do those huge (12 m wide) strip paintings. (Pollock at the door?)pic.twitter.com/Prz0QWaxw8

@CarlCanary: 5 Jun 2016
Basically, Gerhard Richter is supposed to have said, painting is “complete idiocy”. He may have been thinking of photography ...

@CarlCanary: 5 Jun 2016
If I had the power, I would take professors to court if they try to teach algorithmics by way of languages like Java.

@CarlCanary: 4 Jun 2016
What are their real feelings & ideas, when on TV we see a politician stroking a poor kid’s hair. Disgusting. Media are responsible for this.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jun 2016
Of course, you want to see Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center for European Excellence.pic.twitter.com/Tc4RU4WkEO

@CarlCanary: 1 Jun 2016
Recently, in the marvellous villa above Lake Como, in a green park with huge old trees, thinking, dreaming. War & suppression disappeared.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2016
Humans are performing many challenging kinds of sport – great & marvellous. But the top of sports now has become corruption, doping, media.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2016
On the other hand, thinking of computing processes may well strike a flash in your mind. But you yourself must do the thinking.

@CarlCanary: 29 May 2016
4 days of Digital Humanities are over. True equal partners or cheap service for non-programmers? How about Humanistic Computing Science?

@CarlCanary: 28 May 2016
Features of digitality are not better characterizing our times than features of computability. The revolution is algorithmic, not digital.

@CarlCanary: 27 May 2016
Domains of research can’t be “digital” as in “Digital Humanities”. But there is “discrete geometry”. Digital Humanities are not, but about.

@CarlCanary: 26 May 2016
Processors & storage. Time & space. Algorithms & data. Structures of dynamics & statics. The discrete & the computable – computers, media

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2016
A few days at Lago di Como. Water, mountains, narrow pathways, roofs + houses and friendly Italians. Digital humanities + Big Data.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2016
When at age of 60 I suggested a revolutionary change in our department’s teaching system, one guy said: “I am 50. I don’t change any more.”

@CarlCanary: 24 May 2016
We have not made the revovolution, the revolution has rather made us (French revolutionary Danton in Georg Buechner’s “Death of Danton”).

@CarlCanary: 23 May 2016
Everything could be different, but I cannot change anything (Luhmann). Sociology’s resignation must not be our conclusion. NO! CHANGE!

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2016
Be courageous, use your own reason to free yourself from the forced upon us geopolitical order of power & economy. Is this the new morale?

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2016
Every one leaving friends & home to find the new & different in a foreign country is strong, independent, courageous.

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2016
Enlightenment and Revolution are the two great European contributions to the world society. They must be defended by further development.

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2016
“Mathematics is the language of nature. Everything around us can be represented & understood through numbers.” What a blatant ideology.

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2016 Replying to @markamerika
Daring, as always! Brave. They call it creative.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 15 May 2016
The idea was never to abandon literature per se but to reinvent the parameters of writing and extend its reach.

@CarlCanary: 17 May 2016
If red is what you want to see, you see red. For, what is blue or green for others, you just call red.

@CarlCanary: 16 May 2016
Of course, it cannot be image OR word. It is always both in their gracious lovely dialectics. They need each other. For we look AND listen.

@CarlCanary: 15 May 2016
But then: “The age of the image. Redefining literacy in a world of screens”; Stephen Apkon, New York 2013. The contrast to the joy of books.

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2016
“This is not the end of the book”, Umberto Eco & Jean-Claude Carrière in conversation with J.-Ph. de Tonnac. Vintage 2009. A must of lust!

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2016
How elegant the book is, cut-up into pages, when compared to its forerunner: bulky roll of papyrus. How elegant the act of turning pages.

@CarlCanary: 12 May 2016
The book, Umberto Eco wrote long ago, is one of those achievements that, once invented, could not be improved. Like the wheel, spoon.

@CarlCanary: 11 May 2016 Replying to @REAS @errafael @jonippolito
From the master of brevity. Thank you, dear Casey. I tend to believe, conservation was modern. Now we’re post.

@CarlCanary: 11 May 2016
It is more difficult to shatter an old prejudice than it is to shatter an atom (after Einstein).

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2016
Thinking of anything requires to think of its opposite as well. Radical thinking is always movement between opposing forces.

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2016 Replying to @julian0liver
@julian0liver It’s great to read quarrels about what is or is not. don’t you have better things to do?

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2016
Golden Nicas 2016: Jasia Reichardt (Visionary Pioneer Media Art), Boris Labbé (Animation/Film), Ch. Wachter + M. Jud (Interactive Art).

@CarlCanary: 9 May 2016
Fantastic: the Panama Papers. Network action by journalists revealing hidden streams of finance capital. Karl Marx was so right!

@CarlCanary: 8 May 2016
“People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.” (Umberto Eco)

@CarlCanary: 7 May 2016
The culture of the calculating mind must dialectically be accompanied by the culture of visual perception. (Otl Aicher)

@CarlCanary: 6 May 2016
Reason became order, order became ideology, ideology became power, power became destruction. that’s rationalism’s story. (Otl Aicher)

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2016
Artists generate what they want; designers want what they generate. (Kurt Weidemann)

@CarlCanary: 4 May 2016
Designers’ creativity can be called up to the point; artists’ creativity is vagabonding. (Kurt Weidemann)

@CarlCanary: 3 May 2016
Design today is more and more a design thinking: projecting uncertainties into comprehensibles. (Kurt Weidemann)

@CarlCanary: 2 May 2016
Inviting Erdoghan to be responsible for selecting + rejecting refugees, what a monster of cynisism by Merkel, the Christian.

@CarlCanary: 1 May 2016
Merkel and the New Sultan Erdoghan are squeezing Europe back into nationalism. Poor Europe. The right wing triumphant.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2016
Labor Day in many countries used to be the day of action by the working class fighting capital. It has become a boring holiday for many.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2016
Schwarz-weiße Papierwelten im Kunstkeller rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/kr… via @rponline

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2016
Science fiction is to the digital artist what theory is to the language poet.

@CarlCanary: 29 Apr 2016
In many countries, investigative journalists are today stigmatised in similar ways as those forced to wear the Star of David in Nazi-Germany

@CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2016
The saddest news for many of us: Harold Cohen died on April 27, 2016. When I last saw him in September 15, his mind was as strong as always.

@CarlCanary: 27 Apr 2016
There is no democracy without the free press and courageous journalists. Freedom & justice starts & ends with them, heroes of our times.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2016
What is wrong with the car capitalist of BMW? They are not among those having manipulated their Diesels. Are they cowards?

@CarlCanary: 25 Apr 2016
The millions of Euros VW managers collect for essentially being a group of criminals are beautiful symbols of capitalism.

@CarlCanary: 24 Apr 2016
Fanatic religions and other ideologies must destroy the documents of the others: books, monuments. These are the others’ social memories.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2016
The environment is dying & we are catching all sorts of disease: the car industry is collecting great profits. Capitalism at its best.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2016
Art ... represents the culminating event of nature as well as the climax of experience. (Dewey, Experience & Nature)

@CarlCanary: 21 Apr 2016
All art ist instrumental in its use of techniques and tools. (Dewey, Experience & Nature 1929, VIII)

@CarlCanary: 20 Apr 2016
The highest degree (i.e. most complete) of incorporating natural forces and operations into our experience we find in the arts. (Dewey 1929)

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2016
Recent complaints in Germany: 0.5 billion Euro loss by burglars breaking into houses. that’s a result of wealth & poverty.

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2016
Without tenacity no scientific result of lasting impact will be attained. Helmut Pape makes me aware of this by referring to Ch. S. Peirce.

@CarlCanary: 17 Apr 2016
Fervent followers of fascism, the Islamic State, and other murderous systems find life only in the seconds of their violent death.

@CarlCanary: 16 Apr 2016
We are not capable of exactly defining what life is, but we all know it fairly well. that’s so because we are alive.

@CarlCanary: 15 Apr 2016
To be living as a human being is to be with others, to be in relations. Living is to be touched & touch. To hope & connect.

@CarlCanary: 14 Apr 2016
Living is more than being present. Living is stretching out and touching close and bridging past & future.

@CarlCanary: 14 Apr 2016
You should never just “function”! You are not a mechanism. You are a living being, i.e. you are dying.

@CarlCanary: 13 Apr 2016 Replying to @rlfbckr
@rlfbckr Wittgenstein is always good & to the point. If only I was not so sceptical about transcendentals.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2016
New at ZKM: “Reset Modernity!” (Linke, Latour) Modernity distinguished past/future, North/South, Progress/Regress, radical/conservative.

@CarlCanary: 11 Apr 2016
Since Descartes, we have been separating nature (= the other) from thinking (= our experience). WRONG! One is not without the other.

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2016
Germany claims to be good in industrial productivity and economic competition. Really: They successfully dumped wages down to the limit.

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2016
Governments in capitalist society want to be elected democratically so that they can bombard us with bourgeois ideology.

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2016
Highly advanced capitalism: Markets of goods tend to level out scarcities. But financial markets create scarcity in order to function.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2016
Economists tell us they need more and all data in order to completely control markets. Pure ideology. Many of us believe this.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2016 Replying to @quasimondo
@quasimondo No. Just aesthetics & art of 1960s. Now, all in generative design are using piles of splines, just because it is possible.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2016 Replying to @bitcraftlab
@bitcraftlab @quasimondo keep in mind, this was in 1965! Of course, there were curved lines, but I preferred straight ones.

@CarlCanary: 6 Apr 2016
The debts of Greek economy became the reason for the German war without bombing against Greece. Now they are getting ready for new attacks.

@CarlCanary: 5 Apr 2016
Ideologists have transformed the deep systemic crisis of European economy into the crisis of debts of some South-European countries.

@CarlCanary: 4 Apr 2016
To search for reasons of crises in the contradictions of capitalist economy & market themselves is a general taboo. that’s science!

@CarlCanary: 3 Apr 2016
The “free” market appears to virtually all economists, jounalists & general public as per se a sound & well functioning system. What a myth!

@CarlCanary: 3 Apr 2016
What if Salome did not dance crazy onlooking males but was decaptivated herself (instead of John Baptist)? Would this make any difference?

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 2 Apr 2016
“Next time boredom overcomes you, it might be best not to ignore it. It might be best not to cover it up with your smartphone.”

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2016
Basic questions: What if earth turns out to be a plane after all? What if the answer to all questions is, indeed, 42 (and not 43)?

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2016
A tough question that only humans can formulate: How does the brain generate consciousness? Some believe, it can be answered. I don’t.

@CarlCanary: 30 Mar 2016
March is over, flowers are with us, blossoms on the trees, longings of the heart, touches of our skins. Beauty of the world.

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2016
Some say, “I link therefore I am.” From an old man’s tower that’s a nice formulation but a poor existence. A clicking being.

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2016
Without my students, I would be nothing. Through them, I am a bit. At times even a bit more.

@CarlCanary: 28 Mar 2016
Even though we think we are absolutely individual, alone we are nothing, helpless, lost, and stupid. that’s the human condition.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2016
Hard for me to grasp why so many don’t agree that computers are different from humans & will always remain so. The reason: they cannot die.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2016
When recently Umberto Eco died, it became clear to me that my generation is disappearing. I don’t want to join. But I must.

@CarlCanary: 24 Mar 2016
Each and every human is a unique and different individual, leaving a gap that cannot be filled when she leaves or he (Oliver Sacks).

@CarlCanary: 23 Mar 2016
A world of shadows and shade, that’s the world of computing. Perceivable by humans is its surface, computable by machine: its subface.

@CarlCanary: 23 Mar 2016
Recent tweet: “I link therefore I am”. Suffering of linkeritis? I suggest: I am therefore I spam.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2016
Algorithmic art makes the original become its own copy, the copy to be the original. The individual piece, the class it is an instance of.

@CarlCanary: 20 Mar 2016
Uli Bernhardt + myself prepare a show about original & copy. The Chinese copy in order to increase value. The West throws throws copyright!

@CarlCanary: 18 Mar 2016
Gorgeous, aren’t they, these machines? Thank you, Claude Shannon. youtube.com/watch?v=Nqk_nW…

@CarlCanary: 18 Mar 2016
Now robots need to have bodies. May I remind you of old Hubert Dreyfus: “Why computers must have bodies in order to be intelligent.” 1967!

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2016
Fashionable now in computing: Tangible & embodied. At the same time, not allowed to touch anybody’s body = sexual harassment: a sick world.

@CarlCanary: 16 Mar 2016
Tangible stuff at the interface now available for kids. Kind of terrorism. Why not let them play with something that once was called toys?

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2016
Contradictions of computing: Em-bodyment in computing may be so exciting for some of us because they did not resist the de-bodyment before.

@CarlCanary: 14 Mar 2016
The world of computing is full of metaphors, some very stupid, others unavoidable. Computing is the general and permanent As-If.

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2016
Starting into year 4 of one tweet daily, Carl Canary is back from a trip of interviews about the algorithmic dimension in visual art.

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2016
… a bird on a wire, twittering along silently without great hope, not in despair, peace far away & freedom. Away now myself for 2 weeks.

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2016
This ends my third year of twittering once per day. My intention was no more than one year. Have I become a bird? And if so, what kind...?

@CarlCanary: 27 Feb 2016
“A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful” J. von Neumann 1954

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2016
“The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models.” John von Neumann in1955

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2016
The other day in Lueneburg, drinking Calvados.pic.twitter.com/lB6UxFT83q

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2016
In the current sad case, your choice is to again read “The name of the rose” or finally study “A theory of semiotics”. I opt for the second.

@CarlCanary: 24 Feb 2016
A fantastic experience in Hamburg, closing keynote at “SpaceShipEarth”, fresh & young & creative, a small edition of “eyeo” Minneapolis.

@CarlCanary: 22 Feb 2016
The virtual is what has always been with us but now it has become technology. Before it was God, spectre, communism, poetry. Now machine.

@CarlCanary: 21 Feb 2016
“There’s a hole in the forest” is the title of an M.A. thesis by my student Raphael. The philosophy of that, that is not, by being visible.

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2016
Programmers take great advantage from the absence of intelligence on the computer’s part. Why do they still believe in smart machines?

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2016
Casey Reas recently asked: “How many different things do you do with your computer?” Really different ones: maybe 15.

@CarlCanary: 19 Feb 2016
All critique, along the path of truly becoming human, must be rooted in a radical critique of all religions, and must aim for self-critique.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2016
“Fuck you, you fucking bastard” etc. is among the most popular messages now. Time, perhaps, to unfuck a bit and regain the joy of it.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2016
You will finish your supermarket shopping by grabbing your weekly piece of computer-generated art for 5$, I said in 1966.

@CarlCanary: 15 Feb 2016
“Everybody should be a machine”, Andy Warhol 1963. Also: “Everybody should like everybody”. Do we now? Not me.

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2016
Once there was Pop Art. Andy Warhol: “The name sounds awful”. Now there is Like Art. It is so cheap. Just click. that’s it. Nothing changes.

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2016
“The best maxim in writing, perhaps, is really to love your reader for his own sake.” (Charles Peirce 1888)

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2016
don’t allow yourself asking the famous question: Why am I here on earth, and what for? You are here to climb mountains for nothing.

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2016
Art extreme: Climbing high mountains on your bicycle: great absurdity of experiencing yourself. Nothing for eternity. Only for the moment.

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2016
Do you closely & in detail observe & record your thoughts when having sex? Are they different & less trivial than when you talk business?

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2016
The amount of bullshit mass media generate on one day may be the same that former high cultures generated during their entire existence.

@CarlCanary: 8 Feb 2016
I guess, even a Noble Prize winner’s thinking, when walking the streets of his city, is between 70 & 90% plain crap and nonsense. Great!

@CarlCanary: 8 Feb 2016 Replying to @markamerika
@markamerika Great, dear Mark! The insight. The strong formulation. Your way of keeping true to yourself. Thereby only becoming.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 8 Feb 2016
Artists, like systems, use their own outputs as inputs in an ongoing process of meta-making, postproducing that which postproduces them.

@CarlCanary: 7 Feb 2016
As humans we cannot stop thinking. On and on it thinks. It is not “I think therefore I am”. It’s rather “It thinks therefore I become”.

@CarlCanary: 6 Feb 2016
Riding your bicycle through a green landscape under blue skies: your head is empty, full of nonsense chasing other nonsense.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 5 Feb 2016
The use of theory in art schools has declined rapidly since the 90s and we’re looking at other alternatives like fiction, especially sci-fi.

@CarlCanary: 5 Feb 2016
Two months ago, on 19 Dec. 2015, we should have celebrated the first showing of the “Black Square” by Kazimir Malevich 100 years ago.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2016
Western societies must give up some of their economic power & work for radical improvement of work conditions in poor countries.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2016 Replying to @andreeatribel
@andreeatribel Das Gespräch war gut, ein erstes. Ich brauche Ihre email Adresse. Bin jetzt am Algorithmischen Zeichen.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2016
Human rights were first formulated as Western progress. But now people around the world live and suffer for them out of their own insight.

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2016 Replying to @andreeatribel
@andreeatribel Ich weiß nicht mehr, was wir jetzt machen wollen!? 17 Uhr im Kalender, aber wozu? Frieder

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2016
Critics of Western imperialism lose their right of critique when they violently suppress their own people.

@CarlCanary: 1 Feb 2016
Massive violence & religion’s claim of supremacy over life are a heavy irritation for all who believed in spreading of human rights.

@CarlCanary: 1 Feb 2016
Rudyard Kipling has seen the world of humans split into two: humans and Germans.

@CarlCanary: 1 Feb 2016
Canvas on a wall. Still picture. Colors in shapes. Everything static. But motion & emotion from your eyes through your mind to your body.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
On your bicycle you experience the weather more directly than anyone else. Rain and shine are your immediate friends, both.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
@Larersch seems to believe somebody called #god has nothing better to do than watching us. Crazy but nice

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
You must play the songs in your mind. Virtual music. Unhearable. Unbearable. Fantastic.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
@LinkgateFoundry Obscenity is new love. Love is old obscenity

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Unfollow me, unfollow you, that’s the greatest of following me. Schnudeli-do

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Now the train stops. Must I get off? This is the perfect tweet: Say something that is nothing.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Did you other concert-goers like the terribly childish gestures the band used?

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Great discrepancy: the band has a German name but their songs are English. Why not Russian or Armenian?

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Stefan finally helps me to get a vague idea of what a hash-tag is. Can I understand it?

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Most of the concert I liked the #schnudels’ song “schnudeli-do-schnudeli-di”.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
For me, the experience of listening to Sabrina in parallel to tweeting is close to unbearable.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Now Sabrina used the terrible word in this context, “friend”. I hate f-book and twitter for that trivialisation of a great social relation.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
A seminar without slides is great: we trust the word & gesture more than the image!

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2016
Sabrina talking about difference of facebook & twitter.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2016
Long serpentines, gently winding up the mountain are like a beautiful woman (Michael Klonovsky).

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2016
walls and walls from walls of walls from walls of walls from walls (translated from Max Bense)

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2016
that’s the right attitude!twitter.com/markamerika/st…
Mark Amerika @markamerikaIn the classroom, I role-play an artist, one that models experiential practice, not a professor who channels technocratic fundamentalism.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2016
In two days now, the “Electronic Superhighway 2016–1966” exhibition opens at Whitechapel Gallery London (29 Jan to 15 May 2016).

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2016
Time and again, the bicyclist becomes aware of the fact that he has, well, he is a body. It says: Look, I am still with you, day by day.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jan 2016
Bicycling is an effort of the mind as much as it is an effort of the legs.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jan 2016
The emotion of beauty ceases when the thing appears. Therefore, the thing must disappear from the image (after Mondrian): radical art.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jan 2016
When you disconnect yourself in some way from others, you become an individual. The more you are online, the more you belong to the masses.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jan 2016
A human is a subject by being connected. A human is an individual by being disconnected.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2016
We become an individual by disconnecting, in one way or other, from others. The individual is gaining individuality by losing connections.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2016
The subject, different & unique as he & she may be, is always already socially connected, and only exists as subject in connections.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jan 2016
As humans we are subjects of our own thinking, thus always already subjective, never objective – ourselves objects of our own thoughts.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jan 2016
Karl Gerstner: Die Dunkelheit, die sich das Licht gebar, 2010. The darkness which gave birth to light (Goethe)pic.twitter.com/HQZ6pUcUex

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2016
Today only a picture. A sentimental library at a private home.pic.twitter.com/N4embwQeKd

@CarlCanary: 16 Jan 2016
Many still believe in definitions. “What is music?” “Music is the sound of the environment which we live in.” (John Cage)

@CarlCanary: 14 Jan 2016
“Only a machine can appreciate a sonnet written by another machine”, Alan Turing is claimed to have said. Only, no machine can “appreciate”.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jan 2016
Clearly: darkness & chaos are starting points of light & order. Like hell is the origin of it all. Christian belief turns it around.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2016 Replying to @markamerika
@markamerika This is how the world moves. Insightful connections and contingencies.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 12 Jan 2016
So let me get this straight: Bowie is gone, Trump is leading the GOP, and Rupert Murdoch will be Mick Jagger’s children’s step-dad.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2016
FANTASTIC: Lynn Gamwell, “Mathematics + Art. A Cultural History”, 2016. Must get it. And read.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jan 2016
The cost of unlimited knowledge (Enlightenment’s dream) can be all human values (the “soul"). Lynn Gamwell in her “Mathematics + Art”.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2016 Replying to @bitcraftlab
@bitcraftlab @mariuswatz @Jean_no The official date is the 3rd January 2016. Funeral is on the 15th January.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2016
You cannot defend your and your country’s independence by fighting a war in a foreign country.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jan 2016
Fear is not a good foundation for the peace movement. Good reasons are human dignity, independence, the fight against imperialism.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jan 2016
The German blogger & journalist, Caspar Mierau, says cell-phone & laptop are extensions of his self. He represents many others.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jan 2016
The clock and its measure of mechanical time is an absolute precondition for capitalism to emerge. Benedictines did it. It’s culture.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2016
Measuring time is inventing a mechanism of permanent repetition at perfectly constant speed and then standardizing it.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2016
Aristotle still believed time was objectively given like the movement of the sun.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jan 2016
We cannot understand time (nor space) because we create them in our thinking. They are not out there for us to consider, they are inside.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jan 2016
We cannot “be in time” nor “have time”, for time is not a container nor a commodity.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2016
Time is not “out there”, we don’t find it, it’s not a thing nor process. It is our individual subjective experience of living, reflected.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2016
Germany this year welcomed 1 million refugees from Africa & the Near East. The population is 80 millions. What a change.

@CarlCanary: 31 Dec 2015
Ideally, Europe stands for enlightenment and empathy. For freedom, solidarity, and equality before the law.

@CarlCanary: 30 Dec 2015
As I am waiting, in Central Europe, for a next year to begin, they have, in the Far East, already started it. But they don’t care.

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2015
For some of us waiting is a chance for joyful relaxation. Others get nervous and kick their asses. As if that would help against anything.

@CarlCanary: 28 Dec 2015
A new postmodern kind of torture is to make refugees stand in line and rain and cold waiting only to be registered, then sent back.

@CarlCanary: 28 Dec 2015
For how long in our life’s time are we willing to wait for time to finally reach an event that we preset and hope for?

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2015
We have been waiting way too long, it’s time for things to happen. But where & what & why & when? Better wait?

@CarlCanary: 25 Dec 2015
“The philosophy of waiting is sustained by all the oracles of the universe.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2015
Waiting. Waiting for Godot. Waiting for the climate to collapse. Waiting at the supermarket counter. Waiting for the train.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2015
A student says: “I use my smartphone essentially to save time. To open a laptop or PC requires more time.” A dramatic development.

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2015
Mark Amerika once said this: “This thing we call writing has feelings too.” Really, writing is pure joy out of effort. Try it. Use a pen.

@CarlCanary: 21 Dec 2015
In Epuré’s artistic projects, “art derives from knowledge instead of representation”. He calls it “intrinsic art”

@CarlCanary: 20 Dec 2015
The painter is the mathematician and the mathematician is the painter, is what Sherban Epuré is striving for in his works.

@CarlCanary: 20 Dec 2015
Acquisition of knowledge is not data accumulation but incremental interpretation of energy and information. (Sherban Epuré)

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2015
The world is not for us to understand. We can only experience & generate signs. The sign processes express our not-understanding. Art!.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2015
Progress, on one side, is profit & killing. On the other it is realizing that there is experience & signs. No understanding of the world.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2015
Historians, sociologists, etc. can talk for hours about any topic without realizing they are generating sequences of signs & nothing else.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2015
Mathematics is the only pure “Geisteswissenschaft”, a science of the pure mind. The pure theoretical part of mathematics, that is.

@CarlCanary: 15 Dec 2015
Outside of mathematics, you cannot rigorously “define” anything. But inside mathematics, everything must be defined. There, it works.

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2015
Yes, definitions are nice to have. But only in simple cases they work. Phenomena are there for us to perceive & experience. Not to define.

@CarlCanary: 12 Dec 2015
After efforts to define music, Murray Schafer arrived at “Music is sound”. Then he discovered how narrow that was. He should have known.

@CarlCanary: 12 Dec 2015
Why, again & again, “define” complex phenomena like “music”. Instead of accepting it exists. Say “Music is” instead of “Music is some X.”

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2015
Visuelle Philosophie is the (German) title of a new book edited by Hanno Depner: Art & Science, Aristic Research, iconic turn marching on.

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2015
I've always wondered why profs love forcing exams upon their students. They like pulling the shit out of students’ asses.

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2015
As soon as you feel something you do is “nice”, you might as well give up doing it.

@CarlCanary: 10 Dec 2015
I've always wondered why profs like forcing exams upon students. They like pulling the shit out of students’ asses.

@CarlCanary: 10 Dec 2015
As soon as you feel something you do is “nice”, you might as well give up doing it.

@CarlCanary: 7 Dec 2015
“We are in the age of the algorithm. An algorithm is the glue that binds content, data and insights.” says Lutz Finger

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2015
The Algorithmic Revolution is great in generating algorithmic shadows obscuring our sensory perception for alienating substitutes.

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2015
Virtual Reality: ultimate form of alienation? Or: reducing a bit of the alienation resulting from computerization? (after H. Rheingold 1991)

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2015
Virtual Reality: ultimate form of alienation? Or: reducing a bit of the alienation resulting from computerization? (after H. Rheingold 1991)

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2015
Computers: wonderful amplifiers of human capability; computerization: soul-deadening juggernaut of alienation (after Howard Rheingold 1991)

@CarlCanary: 3 Dec 2015
We can think infinity. Mathematicians do it by profession. We can never experience it. Art is between infinity (mind) & experience (body).

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2015
What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. (Umberto Eco 2009)

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2015
Aesthetic application of technology is the only means of achieving new consciousness to match our new environments. (Gene Youngblood 1970)

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2015
Aethetic application of technology is the only means of achieving new consciousness to match our new environments. (Gene Youngblood 1970)

@CarlCanary: 30 Nov 2015
“Persons persecuted on political grounds shall have the right of asylum.” (German Constitution) Unconditioned. A lesson from Nazi terrorism.

@CarlCanary: 30 Nov 2015
“Man’s very perception of the world about him is programmed by the language he speaks.” Great influential insight by Benjamin Whorf long ago

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2015
Philosophy exists only as philosophies, in plural. Some claim that’s a weakness. But it is strength. Thinking must go many paths, all.

@CarlCanary: 27 Nov 2015
Under Stalin, communist activists were murdered if the dictator decided they were wrong. Under the IS, a religious festival is celebrated.

@CarlCanary: 26 Nov 2015
Never in life can we reach a state of certainty. All of our life is governed by uncertainty and not knowing for sure. Human is to live this.

@CarlCanary: 26 Nov 2015
Times have changed. The revolution is coming slowly and silently at variuos places. secure.avaaz.org/en/gcm_video_s…

@CarlCanary: 24 Nov 2015
Coming soon: Electronic Superhighway (2016 – 1966) 29 January – 15 May 2016 at Whitechapel Gallery London whitechapelgallery.org/about/press/el…

@CarlCanary: 23 Nov 2015
Soon to come up in Vienna. Will those four heros of digital media make history?pic.twitter.com/IhknOTQv8e

@CarlCanary: 22 Nov 2015
Two weeks ago, Remko Scha (70) died in Amsterdam. Creator + mover in music, linguistics, algorithmic art. Inst. of Artificial Art Amsterdam.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2015
Kunsthalle Bremen dedicates a remarkable exhibition to just one movie: Last Year at Marienbad. Unusual act of media in | as art, right?

@CarlCanary: 20 Nov 2015
See this t-shirt for the difference of knowledge and wisdom, definition and action. (attach photo!)pic.twitter.com/qutmhz0X4S

@CarlCanary: 19 Nov 2015
The US attitude on climate change: “close your eyes, move on the capitalist way as always”. Same in China. Global killers, both united.

@CarlCanary: 19 Nov 2015
Software now “lets a user effortlessly transform a selftaken video into a work of art!” that’s crazy. Art up to now needed effort.

@CarlCanary: 18 Nov 2015
Against the grey of the city in autumn, defend human values with the red of brick buildings & the light of candles all over. Sparkling eyes.

@CarlCanary: 17 Nov 2015
... says Mark Amerika. He may be right. How will that technology work?twitter.com/markamerika/st…
Mark Amerika @markamerikaIn the future, all reading will be mind reading.

@CarlCanary: 17 Nov 2015
Always a word at the tip of your pen. (German philosopher and poet, Max Bense)

@CarlCanary: 16 Nov 2015
Michael Bielicky recently at a meeting at ZKM in Karlsruhe, when we asked him how he feels when a project is finished: You are never happy.

@CarlCanary: 15 Nov 2015
«Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.« (Einstein) From some perspective, on some level, Science is the same as Art?

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2015
»I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge.« (Einstein in interview 1929)

@CarlCanary: 12 Nov 2015
Ethics in IT must strengthen privacy (against automatic collection of data); above all, such ethics must put human dignity on top.

@CarlCanary: 12 Nov 2015
Ethics in IT must protect health (against computer work); put priority on human love and care (against service robots).

@CarlCanary: 11 Nov 2015
Against automatic car & algorithmic evaluation: Ethics in IT must defend human free decision + establish transparency of institutions.

@CarlCanary: 9 Nov 2015
Radical ethics in IT activities is absolutely necessary. It is part of the defense of human rights against technology and thus capitalism.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2015
You enter a museum. Rooms are empty. Installations all over: Telling you what you could see if they had the objects they want to show.

@CarlCanary: 7 Nov 2015
In an art gallery in Bremen: Welcome! You shouldn’t really be here. So don’t enter. You wouldn’t get it anyway. – Everything a work of art.

@CarlCanary: 7 Nov 2015
The only way to escape the dictatorship of cloth-sensorism is to wear nothing. It’s good at night. May be uncomfortable during days.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2015
Hotels will know about your nightly habits. They will offer you customized services. A new industry will emerge, you bet.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2015
Bodywear will tell those who succumb to capital’s command that it’s time for a love affair, a one-night stand, a change in sexual behaviors.

@CarlCanary: 3 Nov 2015
My socks will say: it’s time for me to be washed. Some will find this great. It’s great for power plants, laundromat producers. Not for me.

@CarlCanary: 2 Nov 2015
Capital is getting the HCI community to design lots of cloth-with-sensors: all this is to control us even better. As citizens + customers.

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2015
These are the books I’ll be working on: A Semiotic Foundation of Computing / Harold Cohen’s Art / Mezei’s Historic Text on Computer Art.

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2015
For three months, I will now be a Fellow of MECS at University of Lueneburg. Great chance. Working on three book manuscripts.

@CarlCanary: 30 Oct 2015
These are pictures of this time. How long can it last before the crash?pic.twitter.com/0vtDLQVHfe

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2015
Daily images of thousands of men, women, children walking hundreds of kilometers to find into Germany. Their dispair must be immense.

@CarlCanary: 28 Oct 2015
From a global perspective, it is more & more obvious that economic growth must be stopped. But capitalism will not be able to admit this.

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2015
The problem of Artificial Intelligence is those who believe there could be such.

@CarlCanary: 26 Oct 2015
In all my life, I have drawn a line between intelligent behavior by humans & computable behavior by machines. Why do people not share this?

@CarlCanary: 25 Oct 2015
I am puzzled by my students who just do not want to accept that intelligence on a computer is an act of computability, not of intelligence.

@CarlCanary: 24 Oct 2015
Intelligent humans are able to construct semiotic machines that perform operations requiring intelligence. But those are not intelligent.

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2015
I have heard people claiming they re-invent themselves. Is it not hard enough (and also fun) just to be who you are in permanently living?

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2015
Announcing our Winter Semester 2015 Fellows, including @MathiasFuchs, @CarlCanary, @wahnfang. We’re looking forward!pic.twitter.com/MFc4wkJxAL

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2015
Some are seriously afraid they could somehow wreck their lives. What about trying to just live and enjoy what you do when you live?

@CarlCanary: 21 Oct 2015
Goal & way. As you get closer to the goal (that you once thought to be important), it disappears and vanishes or changes.

@CarlCanary: 21 Oct 2015
Goal & way. What you learn along the way may be more important than the goal. The way is life, the goal a degree.

@CarlCanary: 19 Oct 2015
Goal & way: Only he who knows his goal finds the way (Laozi). Thus, the way is more important than the goal that you already know.

@CarlCanary: 18 Oct 2015
Beuys: every human an artist. Kippenberger: every artist a human. Who is right? Both, even though such statements are not commutative.

@CarlCanary: 17 Oct 2015
Really human we become only in relation to other humans and together with them.

@CarlCanary: 17 Oct 2015
The most basic, deepest dialectics of the human race is that of individual and collective. »I« cannot exist without »Us«. We create me.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2015
The individual is an invention of bourgeois ideology. They needed it in order to establish their regime based on private ownership.

@CarlCanary: 14 Oct 2015
The famous individual that we all claim to be, is a hoax. I cannot even think of myself in isolation, without the others.

@CarlCanary: 13 Oct 2015
Art is like puberty: everybody criticizes, nobody understands. – from Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation in Bremen

@CarlCanary: 12 Oct 2015
don’t apologize when it’s Art. / Art is true. / Art hurts. – from Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation in Bremen

@CarlCanary: 11 Oct 2015
Art is the most beautiful lie. / Only Art will survive. / Art is no crime. – from Thomas Hirschhorn’s installation

@CarlCanary: 11 Oct 2015
Thomas Hirschhorn showing at Kunsthalle Bremen: Garbage, rubbish, ruins. Thus: Art.pic.twitter.com/CSesBlDrb0

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2015
For Kafka, nature was simple and immensely rich. For us, it was and remained a mystery for all times. Only awe remains for the human.

@CarlCanary: 8 Oct 2015
The next war for human capital will come. Then it will be millions rushing North. Nobody able to control them. They’ll just come & be there.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2015
Germany has won this war for human capital. Without a single shot. Capitalists did not have to pay for it. From now on the population pays.

@CarlCanary: 6 Oct 2015
European Supreme court ruling on privacy against US capital is great. Max Schrems a small Edward Snowden? Individuals fight big companies.

@CarlCanary: 5 Oct 2015
Fantastic, how easily Putin outmaneuvred Obama and the rest. They agreed to play with the dictator. Now they help keeping dictator Assad.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2015
I hear the devil laughing when muslims throw pebbles against him. Afterwards they stamp each other to death. Year by year.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2015
The refugee wave. Will it be possible to keep up principles of tolerance, individual freedom, enlightenment, and scepticism?

@CarlCanary: 2 Oct 2015
The Great Migration South/East to North is now really upon us. Europe will become a totally different society.

@CarlCanary: 2 Oct 2015
I am glad my thinking is not organized in packages of 4-year election periods. Maybe, soon it will, when nothing will be left?

@CarlCanary: 2 Oct 2015
Politicians still talk as if they, or anyone else, could stop the climate change. They are elected for 4 years. that’s their horizon.

@CarlCanary: 30 Sep 2015
Meteorologists expect a heavy El Niño this winter. Which will mean rough times for the American Pacific coasts.

@CarlCanary: 28 Sep 2015
The winter will be long and dark. And even in summer, there may be days with snow.

@CarlCanary: 27 Sep 2015
Some Germans are afraid of the impact on “German industry” of VW’s chuzpe. They have not separated themselves from their capital. Bad.

@CarlCanary: 26 Sep 2015
I love to see reactions by parts of the public: they claim to be shocked by the VW manipulations. VW leaders only do their capitalist duty.

@CarlCanary: 25 Sep 2015
Getting chilly on early mornings in Central Europe. But then, during the day, sun rays warm on your skin. Colors around. Feelings of fall.

@CarlCanary: 25 Sep 2015
Now another variant in the new capitalist wars: using standards for the environment to cheat + retaliate against competing capitals. Great.

@CarlCanary: 23 Sep 2015
Fantastic, these manufacturers of Diesel cars, manipulating measurements. This is data processing at its best. You believe in data?

@CarlCanary: 22 Sep 2015
Often we think of events that might happen. If then something similar does happen, we call it premonition. The future is pure speculation.

@CarlCanary: 21 Sep 2015
Culture: the theatre now often transforms a novel into a play. Reading becomes watching. A reaction to the Internet?

@CarlCanary: 21 Sep 2015
@DougSeeley @mofatkr_eng @mfa_russia What a surprise, fantastic, dear Doug! I have often wanted to get in touch with you via email.

@CarlCanary: 20 Sep 2015
Culture: I still avoid having a smart or cell phone or tablet etc. in order to allow for reading printed books. Am I crazy or old or both?

@CarlCanary: 19 Sep 2015
Culture: We start an Introduction to Digital Media for international Master students by visiting art galleries. How will the students feel?

@CarlCanary: 19 Sep 2015
Culture: old professor is writing books for print when, at the same time, «Leonardo» is preparing for only online. What does he hope for?

@CarlCanary: 19 Sep 2015
Culture: young guy, 16, travelling to Portugal from Germany, fingers and head permanently on his smart phone. What is in his head?

@CarlCanary: 19 Sep 2015
Culture: in the deepest Canadian province, Collingwood or Anten Mills, ONT, current art is exhibited. Some works sold. Who is interested?

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2015 Replying to @markamerika
@markamerika Great insight, dear Mark. The dictatorship of curators should (must?) be broken.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2015
In Canada, I bought something in the nutrition section. 200 g of plastic. Thought it was cheese. Says “Swiss Slices. No fat”. Poor Canadians

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2015
I met a person (critical guy) who believes in the automatic car. That car saving lives. If anything, it’s good for the sick car industry.

@CarlCanary: 14 Sep 2015
What would you do if you met a person who does not have a mobile phone? Call the police? The psychiatric squad? Shoot him as an alien?

@CarlCanary: 13 Sep 2015
Experience the marvellously strange feeling of writing on paper a few lines to a friend. It is rich compared to a facebook digital cheepie.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2015
I like writing postcards when I am travelling. To friends and family. Outside of Europe, postcards seem to be kitsch. Depressing.

@CarlCanary: 11 Sep 2015
To turn a manuscript on the first decade of computer art (1963-1972) into a book for today is not an easy job, I tell you. I try.

@CarlCanary: 10 Sep 2015
The moment that makes us stand still in awe and admiration of the phenomena of reality is a moment of greatest rational clarity.

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2015
Who doesn’t see the limitations of enlightenment cannot be an enlightened person.

@CarlCanary: 8 Sep 2015
Follow thinking’s urge to continue indefinitely, to infinity – only to discover our unavoidable limitations.

@CarlCanary: 7 Sep 2015
Ever since he painted them, we cannot see sunflowers without thinking of Vincent van Gogh. Can anyone achieve more on impact?

@CarlCanary: 6 Sep 2015
Before & during WWII, the US got lots of top European intelligence for nothing. The current situation is not in parallel, but a bit.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2015
After the current deluge, nothing will be the same. The Middle East & North Africa in shambles, some European countries rich in humanpower.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 3 Sep 2015
An artist’s work is always bequeathed to an anonymous future, so why create contemporary art when what’s really needed is atemporal art?

@CarlCanary: 4 Sep 2015
There is, once and again, discussion about software being creative. One of those fog-throwing ideological attacks. Totally irrelevant.

@CarlCanary: 3 Sep 2015
Harold Cohen always wanted his program Aaron gain some level of autonomy. When he came close to such, he felt a bit excluded.

@CarlCanary: 2 Sep 2015
A large canvas in Harold Cohen’s living room. 4 men in the circus, reminding of Picasso. Unseen by the world so far. From the 1980s.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2015
People at the airport. Pretending they are utterly important. Somebody is paying for the travel or they are rich. Boring but lots of time.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2015
Once more off to the States and Canada, visiting Harold Cohen and Leslie Mezei. To pushforward two books.

@CarlCanary: 29 Aug 2015
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Picasso in LIFE 1964

@CarlCanary: 28 Aug 2015
Picasso proudly declared, I don’t search, I find. (If it’s true.) Aha. Driven, pushed, intentionless. Happy young kid.

@CarlCanary: 28 Aug 2015
Tony Judt was an outstanding British historian of Europe. Stay away from the Internet for a while & read “Thinking about the 20th century”.

@CarlCanary: 27 Aug 2015
Z. Patterson gives art history a materialist foundation. She takes Bell Labs, S-C 4020 microfilm plotter, & origins of computer art. Read!

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2015
People often don’t understand the deep difference between probability and frequency. The machine only knows of frequency.

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2015
Computers are machines of absolute predictability. And yet, it is possible to let them do things of un-predictability. that’s fantastic.

@CarlCanary: 23 Aug 2015
An entire series of manifestos on “slow down” as a means for quality of work and product should come out of our work.

@CarlCanary: 22 Aug 2015
“I was totally part of you, oh motion, totally outside of things,” says a young girl dancer in Paul Valéry’s Eupalinos.

@CarlCanary: 21 Aug 2015
Any religion is antagonistic towards culture. (Schopenhauer)

@CarlCanary: 20 Aug 2015
“The effect of music is so very much more powerful & penetrating than is that of the other arts” ... music speaks of essence (Schopenhauer)

@CarlCanary: 20 Aug 2015
He exposed corruption in Mexico. Now he’s dead. Call on Mexican Prez @EPN : Justice for #RubenEspinosa! secure.avaaz.org/en/ruben_globa…

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2015
Charles Csuri is a pioneer of computer animation and digital art. Now 93 years old. See his recent work: Charlescsuri.tumblr.com

@CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2015 Replying to @markamerika
@markamerika What the hell is this? Mark Amerika seriously engaging in academia? Looks like a real jump ahead. Good luck and success!

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 19 Aug 2015
Is “posthuman” another way of saying “automated data junkies whose operationalized information behaviors feed the surveillance machine”?

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2015
Call space-time “strata” & call time-space “journeys”, says Mauricio Lissovsky. Nice metaphors for difficult basic categories.

@CarlCanary: 17 Aug 2015
“Critical Alternatives": 5th decennial Aarhus conference. New agendas for theory & practice in computing for quality of human life.

Frieder Nake Retweeted @CarlCanary: 16 Aug 2015
I love sitting in a chair in the sky. It’s when I most embrace my head being in the clouds.

@CarlCanary: 16 Aug 2015
Current terrorism is more often threatening those without any power than those in power. Terror against the poor masses, not the rich elite.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2015
The human’s individual biological body now has grown a social data body. It is used against the individual. By facebook, NSA, twitter, ...

@CarlCanary: 14 Aug 2015
It has become necessary to rigorously defend the private sphere against the furor of the digital age. Besides NSA it has many more names.

@CarlCanary: 13 Aug 2015
Never would a society as in “Brave New World” or “1984” be able to survive. Many dictatorships have shown this. Others are doing it now.

@CarlCanary: 12 Aug 2015
You may stop the twittering. But the next spring is still to come. (Former Turkish president Gül when Erdoghan shut down twitter)

@CarlCanary: 11 Aug 2015
@DougSeeley Are you, by any chance, that Doug Seeley who was teaching at UBC when I was there also? Frieder Nake

@CarlCanary: 11 Aug 2015
After an experiment I conclude: Down here on earth I don’t experience microgravity. The reason: I just cannot get out of my body.

@CarlCanary: 10 Aug 2015
Good teaching is more a matter of right questions than of right answers. (Josef Albers of “Homage to the square)

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2015
“Hundreds of people can talk, for one who can think. But thousands of people can think, for one who can see.” (John Ruskin)

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2015
Teaching is not so much a matter of method but of heart (the great artist Josef Albers who also loved teaching).

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2015
Digitization of cultural affairs appears as a permanent beginning and repeatedly renewed promise (after Valentin Groebner).

@CarlCanary: 6 Aug 2015
Alles Scheiße, Scheiße, Scheiße und noch mehr Scheiße. Glaubst Du das nicht? You shit head that you are.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2015
For many years I have enjoyed this seminar at “Mediensommer” with people from trade unions. A great recreation because we share interests.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2015
Really, we all want to live our will & fulfill our longings – even if our will and longings are destructive: for failure and defeat.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2015 Replying to @WetterauAC
@WetterauAC How do you know you nut?

@CarlCanary: 3 Aug 2015
... Knowledge without resposibility. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice.

@CarlCanary: 3 Aug 2015
Seven sins of modern society (Gandhi): Politics without principles. Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. ...

@CarlCanary: 2 Aug 2015
Hans Ulrich Obrist (following Alexander Dorner): if we want to understand Marcel Duchamp, we must understand Henri Poincaré.

@CarlCanary: 2 Aug 2015 Replying to @moritz_stefaner
@moritz_stefaner Should we, dear Moritz, share the billion? You get 60%, I get 40%. Because you had the idea.

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2015
Without words. The New Yorker.pic.twitter.com/jabJKTqqgX

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2015
Students ask me: When is what I do scientific? Scientific is when you ask and act from a distance. Without critique no scientific work.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2015
A narrow opening. It’s dark when you enter. Touching walls on both sides you slowly move into the black. You see nothing. A work of art.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2015
History. The great unfathomed source of thought for humankind. It happens then when it gets written. The “facts” before were different.

@CarlCanary: 28 Jul 2015
Buying is more American than thinking, and I’m as American as they come. (Andy Warhol) azquotes.com/quote/691057

@CarlCanary: 27 Jul 2015
I’m painting my way because I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do. (Andy Warhol)

@CarlCanary: 26 Jul 2015
The listener determines the meaning of a proposition, not the speaker. (Heinz von Foerster) So many have made similar statements.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2015
Work keeps you young. And growing old is Scheisse. (Oscar Niemeyer at age of 100)

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2015
Relaxed a skipper on his yacht, a whale along the boat, very close. How exciting a moment. He stares at his smartphone. How absent a mind.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2015
A pretty young woman, on a lonely beach, ocean & rocks around. How great & calm a moment. She stares at her smartphone. How narrow-minded.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jul 2015
A man is walking a museum hall of Greek sculptures, a moment of touching history. How awesome. He is staring at his smartphone. How crazy.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jul 2015
A young girl, a boy, embracing, first love. How great their body consciousness. He is staring at the display of his smartphone. How stupid.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jul 2015
A girl on horseback. How wonderful for her, an exciting experience. She is staring at her smartphone. Excluding her presence. How silly.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jul 2015
0 + 0 ≠ 100. Simple. Trivial. Clear. Where there is nothing and you do not make an effort, nothing can happen. Not even art.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jul 2015
Now the low fat dictatorship sees its end. Under its reign, people became even fatter. Why don’t you just eat what is good for you?

@CarlCanary: 17 Jul 2015
For how many floors do you use the elevator instead of stairs? One, two, five, ten? Walking the stairs is great for your health & psyche.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2015
Try to imagine for which of your activities you could replace your car by walking, biking, sharing, public transport. Try it! Feels good.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2015
onlinestars-live.de – it’s for the kiddies. They are not following me. Those new stars will invade Bremen. No mercy. Human as medium.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jul 2015
Allow yourself a day of not being all too serious. Sing a song when you get up. Sing a song when you teach or when you ride your bike.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jul 2015
... that are now usually identified as art, science, & technology – only that no money was involved, only joy, fun, beauty & great ideas.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jul 2015
The 25 years of hypercultural meetings that came to an end in Lueneburg, Germany, were grass-root workshops of intellectuals & artists ...

@CarlCanary: 12 Jul 2015
History has been happening the last 5 or 6 years between Greece & Europe. What is it? Modern capitalism? German supremacy? New colonialism?

@CarlCanary: 11 Jul 2015
May I safely assume that everybody who twitters knows Paul Klee’s “Zwitschermaschine”, his twitter machine?pic.twitter.com/uUkrheSYpt

@CarlCanary: 11 Jul 2015
May I safely assume that everybody who twitters knows Paul Klee’s “Zwitschermaschine”, his twitter machine?pic.twitter.com/8QmIXCXfan

@CarlCanary: 10 Jul 2015
One of 20th century’s plagues was the claim that complexity is but a mask behind which simplicity is hiding. (Timothy Snyder)

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2015
The truth of philanthrophy is different than that of critique. We are truly human if we live both. Which seems impossible. (T. Snyder)

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2015
A long line of marvellous meetings is now coming to its end after 25 years: HyperKult, dedicated to culture of algorithmics & aesthetics.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jul 2015
You should sit down in the early morning when blue skies are dawning, red appears in far distance, and birds sing welcoming the day: life.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2015
Nechvatal: contrast noise “with our market-frenzied materialist culture” by developing an eye capable of clear perception from outside.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2015
Noisy art of resistance “counters the effects of our age of simplification”, effects of consumer-oriented entertainment messages (Nechvatal)

@CarlCanary: 4 Jul 2015
An “art of noisy resistance is increasingly valuable” says J. Nechvatal. Based om skepticism, noise is strengthening critical thinking.

@CarlCanary: 4 Jul 2015
“I have ... come to see the style of cultural noise as the necessary (and thus valid) art of today ...” (Nechvatal) Noise as art.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jul 2015
Nechvatal: How might noises break & re-connect in distinctive ways of art the planet’s increasing technological linking + global mediation?

@CarlCanary: 1 Jul 2015
Dramatic, the decision by the US supreme court on marriage between any two. But how old- fashioned to found a family when it is vanishing.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2015
Remember again: “All that is solid melts into air.” (Marx) A central phenomenon of capitalism. Dramatically melting: the concept of family.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jun 2015
Is forgetting making you rich? When you are rich, how do you feel? What do you think when you are rich, rich in money? Do you think at all?

@CarlCanary: 29 Jun 2015
forget teaching forget learning forget politics forget philosophy forget aesthetics forget painting forget poems forget music forget twitter

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2015
forget war forget peace forget hunger forget car forget bike forget walking forget talking forget thinking forget writing forget facebook

@CarlCanary: 26 Jun 2015
We often say something without having thought about it. We should more often think something without saying it.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jun 2015
A week ago, I was sitting in Oscar Niemeyer’s Museum of Contemporary Art near Rio, with director, G. Vergara. Whow!pic.twitter.com/nKzCyGI8eb

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2015
Is a life possible today without awareness of happenings in the world? It is. But our world then changes. It shrinks & concentrates.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2015
Two weeks have passed without reading any news about what has meanwhile happened in the world. No Internet. Relaxing? In a way, yes. Great.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jun 2015
Back home in Bremen, from exciting Brazilian experience. Have I changed, have I learned anything, what specifically? We’re maltreating time.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
One day of waiting at airports and on planes. Boring like hell. In permanent danger of being killed by a suiciding pilot or radical. Absurd.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
The ocean is usually considered to be great, enjoyable, beautiful, attractive. But it makes a lot of noise. It kills your nerves.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Perhaps, the human race is the one capable of complaining, i.e. requesting that things should be better for them individually. Things won’t.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Animals don’t complain about the weather. Machines don’t either. Humans do. Complain about what cannot be changed. Crazy. But human.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Perhaps hard to believe, but there are clouds and rains and winds even in Rio de Janeiro. Some people complain. They know only little.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Once you may read these lines, they will be outdated. I nevertheless play the game as I have done for more than two years now.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
The exhibition on “Primary Codes” that opened yesterday in Rio de Janeiro was 100 years after Marcel Duchamp arrived in the US. Coincidence?

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Harold Cohen, unfortunately, cannot himself be in Rio to join Edmonds, Brown + myself for this show today. However, he is the hero.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
I have been preparing these tweets, one per day, but they currently don’t leave my laptop. The connection is too weak. So they must wait.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Oi Futuro is a great site for an ambitious exhibition. Poltronieri & Menezes have arranged for spaces on all floors in a creative mixture.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
Fantastic observation how in the evening Brazilians arrange sports gear & set up practice sequences along the beach. Cooperative healthcare.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2015
After days without Internet, I’m coming back. I first catch up with “One tweet per day”, filling the days I have missed.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jun 2015
The ocean under our hotel window, incessantly roling and roaring, blue warm winter skies. All Brazilians running, exercizing, practicing.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jun 2015
“Primary Codes” curated by Caroline Menezes & Fabrizio Poltronieri at Centro Cultural Oi Futuro Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Soon ready
Translated from Portuguese by Microsoft

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2015
First Time in Brazil: Primary Codes surveys the development of computer art in works by P Brown, H Cohen, E Edmonds, F Nake.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jun 2015
Tomorrow off to Brazil. “Primary Codes” in Rio de Janeiro’s Oi Futuro Flamengo: Harold Cohen, Paul Brown, Ernest Edmonds, Frieder Nake.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jun 2015
I may be the only one who did not know this: slow-science.org – or does anyone share my ignorance?

@CarlCanary: 5 Jun 2015
More from “Art that makes itself”. Panel 1: youtube.com/watch?v=LN0lDr… Panel 2:youtube.com/watch?v=5Ss9dA…

@CarlCanary: 4 Jun 2015
Talks at “Art that makes itself”. Frieder Nake: youtube.com/watch?v=ICOs_8… Paul & Daniel Brown:youtube.com/watch?v=rTjoxB…

@CarlCanary: 3 Jun 2015
Fantastic, how this man Blatter plays with the public, with the world’s top soccer representatives & with billions of money. We watch.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jun 2015
In his 3 years at Oxford, Stephen Hawking worked for only 1000 hours, 1 hr. per day. He changed this when he learned about his illness.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jun 2015
Do you feel awkward about always having to be creative? Can we really “learn” to be creative? I think that’s nonsense. Creativity happens.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2015
“Sorry, we had no exciting ideas last week,” the German newspaper DIE ZEIT recently titled announcing essays on creativity.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2015
Looking up the meaning of a word in a dictionary makes you look up more words in the dictionary. Meaning is far away, in infinity.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2015
“We will go right up to the sun” – title of Sonia Delaunay’s autobiography 1978.

@CarlCanary: 28 May 2015
Somebody seriously asks: Is the German constitution fit for the Internet? In some way he is right. But he has no clou of a constitution.

@CarlCanary: 27 May 2015
The amount of ideology spread by university professors compared to the amount of their own personal experience is astonishing and sad.

@CarlCanary: 27 May 2015
After looking through magazines with “Digital” in the title, I feel bad in my stomach. Who is writing, reading, believing all this crap?

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2015
Nature is retaliating twice for each victory that humankind believes to carry away over nature. We feel it, right? Nothing possible against

@CarlCanary: 24 May 2015
don’t ask me where I go, ask me where I come from (Bulgarian proverb).

@CarlCanary: 23 May 2015
Europe has become haven + heaven for the poor, beaten, hopeless in Africa & Middle East. Europe lets them drown in the Mediterranean Sea.

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2015
We must again pay tribute to Edward Snowdon. We often vaguely felt that all those networks are working against people. He proved it.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2015
I still do not have a mobile phone, I've never had one. This is a great protection, a liberation. Everybody staring down. I feel free.

@CarlCanary: 20 May 2015
“In god we trust” is the same as saying, “We do not trust people, we believe in the abstract, we are not responsible.”

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2015
People hype the digital like crazy. Horrifying how little they make use of their brains. Only together the digital & analog make sense.

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2015
What can be said at all, can be said clearly, Wittgenstein told us almost 100 years ago. Most of what we say is still unclear.

@CarlCanary: 17 May 2015
“Digital Art” is a crazy term. Art lives only as sensually perceived. The digital is invisible, cannot be sensually perceived in any way.

@CarlCanary: 16 May 2015
Nature is retaliating: twice for each victory that humankind carries away over nature. don’t you see and feel this? We say “catastrophes”.

@CarlCanary: 16 May 2015
Today in London: “Art that makes itself”, symposium, exhibition. Watermans Gallery West-London from 2 p.m. watermans.ticketsolve.com/shows/87353058…

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2015
Recently again those pictures of bulldozing piles of dead human bodies in German concentration camps: The world has still learned nothing.

@CarlCanary: 13 May 2015
During the last weeks, Germans have celebrated their liberation from fascism. It seldom happens that defeat is liberation.

@CarlCanary: 12 May 2015
Contradictions of alphabetical culture: lettter & calligram, sign & line, name & show, represent & explain, looking & reading. (Foucault)

@CarlCanary: 11 May 2015
If in Berlin: come to the opening of “Aesthetica”, 29 May, 19 hours, DAM Galleries, Neue Jakobstr. 6. dam-gallery.de/index.php?id=7

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2015
I once bought a book by Ray Kurzweil of predictions up to the year 2090. I was curious how outrageously wrong he consciously wanted to be.

@CarlCanary: 9 May 2015
There is no discipline world-wide in which Germany is as strongly leading as in the arts – claims German artist Markus Luepertz.

@CarlCanary: 8 May 2015
“No picture is ever finished. Otherwise, I would have no reason to paint the next one.” (German artist Markus Luepertz)

@CarlCanary: 8 May 2015
Theater, an ancient medium: hundreds in the same room listening to same words. Great compared to hundreds in the street with smart phones.

@CarlCanary: 8 May 2015
A wise and loving human resists the desire to change another person. Particularly others who they love.

@CarlCanary: 5 May 2015
When students are left alone to play, they generate names for medicine from your name. Proof attached.pic.twitter.com/ia1wBsmFlK

@CarlCanary: 4 May 2015
Livelihood: the uncontrollable, the not-accumulable, the unpredictable, the curious, the meanderous. Up and down, criss and cross.

@CarlCanary: 3 May 2015
Life as systematically striving for more knowledge, more contacts, a stronger body, more income means gradually losing your livelihood.

@CarlCanary: 2 May 2015
Life is not like a marathon. It is more like a hike. It has no goal. It is happening. Try it!

@CarlCanary: 1 May 2015
Life is a relation between us and the world, far away from optimization, quantification, or control. It is openness for surprise and wonder.

@CarlCanary: 1 May 2015
Life: Mechanistic fossilization is the threat of the epoch of capitalism (Max Weber).

@CarlCanary: 29 Apr 2015
Life: The heart and soul of capitalism is to turn everything into things you can buy if you have money. It is the arch-enemy of lifelihood.

@CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2015
Life: Some get money to brew up the pill for eternal life. Isn’t it amazing how crazy and out of this world some in this world become?

@CarlCanary: 27 Apr 2015
Life: You see parents sharing some actual space with their kids, happy to have them here. But they escape into mobile phone virtual spaces.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2015
Life: When young people today meet in actual life as living bodies, they need to always be connected to dozens of others in virtuality.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2015
Two weeks ago, the German writer Guenter Grass died. His admired hero of classic history was Sisyphus in his eternal struggle of repetition.

@CarlCanary: 24 Apr 2015
Many treat their bodies as things to be polished up: teeth, breasts, asses, penises, kidneys. Others sell their organs to survive.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2015
You would not believe something like this book to be possible in the digital hell: must get. Cheaper just now. eyeo.wufoo.com/forms/eyeo-201…

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2015
When you’re silent, you get a chance to listen to the others. Keeping silence is a powerful practice in Buddhism. Much to learn from.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2015
Design is thinking made visual. – Saul Bass

@CarlCanary: 21 Apr 2015
Trigonometry is not difficult. Know your formulae, and always remember: you are on the wrong track when you need more than 5 lines to do it.

@CarlCanary: 20 Apr 2015
There is insistence among formalists on perfection. Such limited material is capable of perfection, perfection replaces much. R. Motherwell

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2015
The fundamental criticism of the purely formalist position is how it reduces the individualist’s ego, how much he must renounce. Motherwell

@CarlCanary: 18 Apr 2015
The power of the [formalist] position must not be underestimated. It has produced some of the greatest creations of modern art. Motherwell

@CarlCanary: 18 Apr 2015
Only 60 years ago, on 18 April 1955, Albert Einstein died. A hero of the mind. Do we, ordinary people, know much about or from him?

@CarlCanary: 16 Apr 2015
... Otherwise we should have no feeling toward red or its relations, and it would be useless as an artistic element. Robert Motherwell

@CarlCanary: 16 Apr 2015
... Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters’ caps, and in a thousand other concrete phenomena. ...

@CarlCanary: 16 Apr 2015
The “pure” red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist, no matter how you shift its physical contexts. ...

@CarlCanary: 15 Apr 2015
... the other half use up their lives being part of that noise. I like the second half. Right? Franz Kline

@CarlCanary: 15 Apr 2015
Hell, half the world wants to be like Thoreau at Walden worrying about the noise of traffic on the way to Boston; ...

@CarlCanary: 14 Apr 2015
Thinking is purely being in the present moment. Radical, nothing else, now, and already gone, gone as it came. Coming and going in one.

@CarlCanary: 13 Apr 2015
Charlin Simon is doing her Bachelor Thesis on a media event, the Slimani siblings: living humans turning themselves into spectacles.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2015
Doctors warn not stare into the sun. Damage might occur. As a kid, I stared into the sun until it hurt. Fantastic color sensations occurred.

@CarlCanary: 11 Apr 2015
Dialectic thinking is governed by necessities beyond all arbitrariness. The arbitrariness of traditional philosophy is its necessity. Adorno

@CarlCanary: 11 Apr 2015
Booting Up Computer Art sciencefriday.com/blogs/04/07/20…

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2015
Dialectical thinking starts as a fight against the reification of the world. It is the fight against the frozen being-as-it-is.

@CarlCanary: 9 Apr 2015
The great thing about being a student: you are allowed, even expected to change. Some do not want this and don’t accept it. Too bad.

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2015
Our great works, when finished, don’t tell us more than what we should do better, different, new.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2015
All we may achieve and finish is only the start for the next attempt. Today’s conclusion is tomorrow’s opening.

@CarlCanary: 6 Apr 2015
Whatever we do is a first step only, the step before the next. What we may have conceived yesterday, and do today, must tomorrow be changed.

@CarlCanary: 5 Apr 2015
Some students want to be assured that, if what they will do, will be good enough. They get upset when I say it is not bad but never enough.

@CarlCanary: 4 Apr 2015
The necessarily-so of our existence is not the identity-with-itself, but rather the never-the-same-and-always-becoming.

@CarlCanary: 3 Apr 2015
We cannot conceive of the world other than it being a historic world. Being is in Becoming. Never static. Never still.

@CarlCanary: 2 Apr 2015
There is nothing on earth that is simply what it is. All that is, is in movement and becoming. (Adorno)

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2015
Wrong are many professors, the knights of fixed terms, in that they kill dialectical thinking, the self-movement of concept.

@CarlCanary: 31 Mar 2015 Replying to @REAS
@REAS Really no dreams, Casey? Maybe, you don’t “have” them. But you live them.

@CarlCanary: 31 Mar 2015
Still most professors tell us we must clearly define and fix our notions and concepts and stay true to them. How wrong they are!

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2015
Dialectical philosophy is necessarily a philosophy for which Thinking and Being are one and the same. (Adorno 1958)

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2015
Our thinking about being, and this being itself, are subject matter of dialectic thinking, both at the same time. Therefore contradiction.

@CarlCanary: 28 Mar 2015
When, reaching out for knowledge, we try to gain levels of dialectics, we must find a contradictory position between thinking and being.

@CarlCanary: 28 Mar 2015
Dialectics is a method of thinking that you can learn. It is also something that happens to the order of things we are thinking of.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2015
Hegel to Goethe: philosophy is the actual organisation of mind in contradiction. Breaking superficial façades of ideology, always radical.

@CarlCanary: 25 Mar 2015
Dialectics is the opposite of what we think: it is lived experience of the tension between the act of thinking & that that we think about.

@CarlCanary: 24 Mar 2015
Dialectics is a way of thinking beyond the purely conceptual order, where the conceptual is corrected by the very being of things.

@CarlCanary: 23 Mar 2015
We don’t necessarily know to which extent the conceptual order we project onto things corresponds to the things’ inherent order. We try.

@CarlCanary: 23 Mar 2015
In “concepts” we understand how we order things of reality. As reality, they have the inherent order of the given. Both differ.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2015
Classic Greek dialectics is a method of thinking, i.e. of doing philosophy, that takes us closer to the reality of things.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2015 Replying to @markamerika
@markamerika Academic thinking is thinking conscious of thinking. When we write we are conscious of the spontaneity of associative thought.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2015 Replying to @niklasbarning
@niklasbarning Thank you for telling me. When you publish a book you may get royalties through which you know some got it. But reading?

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2015 Replying to @hen_drik
@hen_drik To occasionally get this feeling of there once was a student who may have enjoyed what you did is great reward. Thanx.

@CarlCanary: 20 Mar 2015
Dialectics is anything but a shallow art of continuing a sophistic argument for its own sake.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2015
Similar to Newton, Leibniz first defined time, then space. “Time is the order of the non-coexisting things.” It’s the order of changes.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2015
“Absolute, true, + mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature, flows equably without relation to anything external” (Newton 1729)

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2015
“People like us … know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” (Einstein 1955)

@CarlCanary: 16 Mar 2015
Our good consolation to a poor and beaten friend may deep in our soul be not more than a way of distancing ourselves from his sufferings.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2015
We create external enemies and images of them in order to cope with our own internal problems of the self and its aggressions.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2015
We best learn from & with those who we admire, respect, or want to follow. The degree of envy or hate among intellectuals is bewildering.

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2015
We must be able to deeply understand the past if we want to live our own present time. (M. Mitscherlich recalling the German catastrophe)

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2015
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 is nothing but a short beginning. It is PI day. What an invention. What a miracle.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2015
Do you hurry to give him a dollar when you see a beggar, or do you say, well, there must be something bad or stupid he did in his life?

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2015
... Bartholl, Beyls, Cosic, Dehlinger, Lozano-Hemmer, Mohr, Molnar, Nake, Nees, Sommerer & Mignonneau, Verostko, Lichty, Reas, Wilson.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2015
An early announcement: AESTHETICA, 50 Years of Computer Generated Art | 30 May to 18 July 2015 [DAM] Gallery Berlin. Opening 29 May 7 pm ...

@CarlCanary: 9 Mar 2015
You may be interested in this site and its podcasts: creativedisturbance.org. Roger Malina from U of Texas at Dallas is its driving force.

@CarlCanary: 8 Mar 2015
Philosophers at times saw in technology the monumental. The contrary is true: insignifance, the banal. Everywhere & always already.

@CarlCanary: 8 Mar 2015
The technological world converts mind and nature into a dessert. Like a train it rushes through the dessert of abstraction. (R. Bothner)

@CarlCanary: 7 Mar 2015
The more technology expands, the more it annihilates what is the existential in life. (R. Bothner)

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2015
Technology and capitalism belong together, they need each other. Capital hides in technology. So we don’t notice. (R. Bothner)

@CarlCanary: 4 Mar 2015
The very moments of presence are the only ones going by, disappearing, always and immediately. Past & future, however, truly stay with us.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2015
The book will continue to be read, it will become a treasure, cult perhaps and symbol of revolt. More real than Deutsche Bank. (Unseld-B.)

@CarlCanary: 2 Mar 2015
When you read a book, you meet yourself. But drunken by their networks, many have no idea who that is + are shocked when meeting themselves.

@CarlCanary: 2 Mar 2015
You can see, hear, smell, taste, feel a book. It does not need electric power, only day- or candlelight. (Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz, publ.)

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2015
The book is the most beautiful little thing that is not a thing. (Ulla Unseld-Berkéwicz)

@CarlCanary: 27 Feb 2015
This ends my second year of doing one tweet per day. I continue the experiment into a third year, believing there are still some readers.

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2015 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Nein, das war grade der Punkt: der Bense hatte damit gar nichts zu tun. Es war allein Knödel. Er hatte das hohe Vertrauen. F.

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2015
Overpowered by superstition and technomagic, people are working their souls out of their bodies in rage against themselves without limits.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @neoscenes
@neoscenes What a nice flurry of remarks, dear John, to those old tweets I looked up & found you. Yes, a bottle of good wine would be great.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann But the thanks must really go to the computer scientist, my boss, Walter Knödel.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann You are so right, it is not the simplest challenge. Strange: I hardly ever feel being in a hurry, but at times, yes.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015
@jan_kenter Was wirst Du machen, lieber Jan, wohin wird es Dich mittlerweile getrieben haben? Frieder

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Probably not a bad way. Allow yourself an occasional jump to get ahead.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @neoscenes
@neoscenes You are most likely very right. However, beware of simpliicfactions.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015 Replying to @neoscenes
@neoscenes Therefore, mind stepping is not enough, must be material steps. Currently not in sight.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2015
Capitalism has discovered our innermost existence as a new field for capitalization: psyche as a new source of profit production.

@CarlCanary: 24 Feb 2015
Capitalism’s goal now seems to be a totally constructed and controlled world, not a chaotic development. Will mind be doomed to starvation?

@CarlCanary: 23 Feb 2015
Without any serious alternative, capitalism today is raging against the world. The Internet is its new power weapon. Becoming obvious.

@CarlCanary: 22 Feb 2015
A discounter in Germany offered soap showing a picture of a mosque. A moslem felt insulted. They withdrew the soap. Everybody fears Islam.

@CarlCanary: 21 Feb 2015
Heidegger in his Black Notebooks: It is necessary to neutralize Jewish thinking to revive German culture. Closer to Nazi ideology after all?

@CarlCanary: 21 Feb 2015
You should try this: tech-no-mad.net/blog/archives/… My friend John Hopkins is probably keeping the oldest such medium, his travelog.

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2015
It is obviously silly to believe in life after death. My life is one of the infinitely many ways the possibility of life gets realized.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2015
Reading a book in an acadamic environment has meanwhile become an act of anarchy. It amounts to resisting the general Macdonaldization.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2015
This is old. But interesting. History. About hackers. The computer revolution. youtube.com/watch?v=cVCLow…

@CarlCanary: 17 Feb 2015
Beauty is not based on rational argument. It does not need it. Where and when it happens, it is evident. It overwhelms us as pure quality.

@CarlCanary: 16 Feb 2015
Hardly ever is the fastest also the best way of doing something. Good ideas need time to become good ideas. Before they are only ideas.

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2015
People tend to believe that, what they have never seen or experienced is impossible to happen. The contrary is true.

@CarlCanary: 13 Feb 2015
“You should do reverse engineering as a civic activity,” says Golan Levin in Bremen, Germany. 80 students were listening to a great lecture.

@CarlCanary: 12 Feb 2015
Some believe they can stop climate change. But change is process, climate change an enormous process. It started a while ago. Stop? Only god

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2015
Multitasking is for computers. For humans it is the safe way to wasting time. But people keep telling you they are multitasking.

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2015
For all those of us who lack a geographic homeland, Language is the homeland of our being-in-the-world.

@CarlCanary: 9 Feb 2015
Love is only a dirty trick by nature to secure the further existence of humankind. Nice for us, isn’t it?

@CarlCanary: 8 Feb 2015
All we can acquire during our consciously lived life is a clear calm and composed attitude. Perhaps the essence of the finiteness of life.

@CarlCanary: 7 Feb 2015
US culture is often a dramatic celebration of no-touch. Touch is our surface only. But the surface of our skin comes before our deep soul.

@CarlCanary: 6 Feb 2015
On 5 Feb. 1965, now fifty years ago, the first show world-wide of generative art opened in Stuttgart, Germany: Georg Nees showed his work.

@CarlCanary: 6 Feb 2015
Live is being touched & touching. We are thrown into the world by experiencing touch. We should hope touch also be our last experience.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2015
Flowers and trees, perhaps, tell us more about life as a process of growth and decay than horses and dolphins can do.

@CarlCanary: 3 Feb 2015
Signs are corporeal as well as intellectual. The sign is put back in the bodymind, after centuries of residence in Western mind. Merrell ’97

@CarlCanary: 2 Feb 2015
Computers: incredibly fast, accurate, stupid. Humans: incredibly slow, inaccurate, brilliant. Together powerful beyond imagination. Einstein

@CarlCanary: 2 Feb 2015
Charles Sanders Peirce always has to tell us something:pic.twitter.com/rkfjCJp601

@CarlCanary: 2 Feb 2015
Charles Sanders Peirce always has to tell us something: Screen Shot 2015-02-02 at 17.22.25

@CarlCanary: 31 Jan 2015
”… in my desperate effort in 1913 to liberate art from the ballast of objectivity I fled to the shape of the square“ (Malevich)

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2015
When I type, I use one finger only. The index finger of my right hand. Plus the left index finger for upper case. I synchronize idea & word.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2015
I ask myself why dialogs in US films are usually fast and loud. As if one speaker wanted to outperform the other in speedily saying nothing.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jan 2015
from Mark Amerika: “Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job” by @waxpancake medium.com/message/never-…

@CarlCanary: 28 Jan 2015
There is no German identity that excludes Auschwitz. The great German culture is also resposible for the most horrible crime in history.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2015
Reality is an intricate process of contradicting processes. Nothing is only what we claim & believe it is. It always is also several others.

@CarlCanary: 26 Jan 2015
John Dewey considered the first goal of all education to be the capability for a truly democratic life. But we see the crimes of CIA.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2015
Good education (permanent effort + joy of helping humans) remains a romantic idea. Our social context is capitalism. Thus we always fail.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2015
@Datainstalled To any kind of ranking. Ranking is about quantity. Education is about quality. At least, it should. Some rankings are nice.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jan 2015
All education, without any exception, must be about qualities, human relations, empathy, personality, independence.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jan 2015
Ranking in education is a great error, real crime, truly counterproductive. Has nothing to do with learning or teaching. Pure economics.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jan 2015
Those strong & stable in their religious believes have no problem with other sorts of believers. The weak ones become radical & throw bombs.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jan 2015
The German weekly DIE ZEIT: We must fight for another Islam. For intelligent laws. For a Europe of self-esteme. For love, life, laughter.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2015
Any transcendental religion is in danger of suppressing: believers against disbelievers, priests against simple people, men against women.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jan 2015
Any belief in an absolute god has problems with the contradictions of real life. Believers ignore life for faith. Not nice when practiced.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jan 2015
People claim they are haunted by depressions of their souls & minds. Usually this is a healthy melancholia, but they cannot see it this way.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jan 2015
Learning to be alone, all by yourself, is an important process of getting older. We have always already been alone. But we did not admit it.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jan 2015
When we are young, a healthy body appears as if it was naturally given. It turns into hard daily work when we are no longer young.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jan 2015
“Show me your wounds” was Joseph Beuys’ invitation to his students when discussing creativity. Must we show our wounds when we grow old?

@CarlCanary: 14 Jan 2015
The irrevocable finiteness of life is the eternal wound of our souls. Watch out: technology is trying to get hold of it. Then we'll be lost.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2015
Instead of rushing from one place to the next, checking them off one after the other, take your bike and visit the next village or forest.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2015
It is an art of life to consciously acquire habits that help us lead a decent, healthy, friendly, and simple life, and do this easily.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jan 2015
Getting older is the process of losing options and potentials. It is a process of admitting that we didn’t do what we should have done.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jan 2015
Crayons are the answer of a culture defending freedom of the press against kalashnikovs of fundamendalist murderers.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2015
We all want to die suddenly, unexpectedly, without pain, in the middle of our lives, with a knowing smile. Few only achieve this.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jan 2015
Nature is always young. Its permanent process is one of growth and decay, without end, always both. As humans, we also grow and decay.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jan 2015
People treat their faces + asses with anti-aging lotions + cream. Thus they prove they are really old. Lotion doesn’t rub time from skin.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2015
An answer to “observe & accept": Are we to accept killings, privately or ordered by the government? NO, NEVER! We are to observe and resist.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jan 2015
Compulsively we always feel we have to explain what is happening. But there is really nothing to explain. It’s better to observe and accept.

@CarlCanary: 4 Jan 2015
A little slowness, living in the now, and a reduction of the significance of the nation state might really help us. (Ranulph Glanville)

@CarlCanary: 3 Jan 2015
Things have their own time, and we should learn to enjoy this, rather than imposing our own, usually rushed time. R. Glanville

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2015
It is difficult to slow things down & also keep alert. Being caught in between, being a bit lost, is good for a human being. R. Glanville

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2015
If you slow things down, you see nuances that you wouldn’t normally see. … slowness has a particular quality of its own. R. Glanville

@CarlCanary: 1 Jan 2015
If you, on this first day of the year, don’t know what to do – why not watch this talk vimeo.com/channels/eyeo2… from eyeo Festival 2014?

@CarlCanary: 31 Dec 2014
Why not take the last day of the year as your chance to finally give up religion & God & all that? Relief would come to your life.

@CarlCanary: 29 Dec 2014
According to global rights, Germany and other countries are obliged to take to court leading US politicians as responsible for torture.

@CarlCanary: 28 Dec 2014
Pinochet requested torture in Chile. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice were responsible for torture by the CIA. We’re in nice company.

@CarlCanary: 27 Dec 2014
Ever since Thatcher, Reagan, Schroeder neoliberal politics has made the rich exponentially richer, the poor poorer. How much longer?

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2014
It is time to remind of Karl Marx’ characterization of capitalism: “All that is solid melts into air”. It is happening now at high speed.

@CarlCanary: 26 Dec 2014
The owl gains its majestic attitude from not knowing the simplest fable about itself. We know complex stories about us, without any majesty.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014 Replying to @noxymo
@noxymo Thank you very much for this reference. I will happily use it.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Therefore, it is no lovely to live in places like Bremen or Southern Spain. Here speed limit is gradually becoming 30 kmh.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014 Replying to @peeofive
@peeofive Marco! How nice of you. A glass of wine one day would be marvellous ...

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann I don’t even know the name, “Markus Gabriel”. But the German title is great in its double interpretation.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann I don’t know anything about them. This makes me so sure I know how they feel.

@CarlCanary: 24 Dec 2014
How would you feel when you must admit that you are too old now to die young? Relief or regret, winner or loser?

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2014
I have always been puzzled by the idea that God let itself be born by a female human who did not even before have sex. This god is an alien.

@CarlCanary: 22 Dec 2014
If natural human intelligence makes me believe I am a machine of artificial intelligence, I rather remain in a state of animal intelligence.

@CarlCanary: 21 Dec 2014
Machines don’t think they are humans. Therefore they cannot be intelligent. Human intelligence requires that you believe you are a machine.

@CarlCanary: 20 Dec 2014
Humans know that God created them in his own image. Animals don’t know of such comparison and parable. That’s how different we are forever.

@CarlCanary: 20 Dec 2014
The little owlet doesn’t know it is not an owl. But humans see that owl & little owlet are different and, therefore, not of the same kind.

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2014
Don’t run away from chance and randomness. Rather embrace them. They are essential for life and nature, for health and happening.

@CarlCanary: 18 Dec 2014
Perhaps the most disturbing fact of the catastrophe of the US society is that half of the population is in favor of torturing people.

@CarlCanary: 16 Dec 2014
Bush said those innocent petit-bourgeois US citizens were patriots who ran the torture camps that his government had established.

@CarlCanary: 15 Dec 2014
Would it not be great to put former national leader, George W. Bush, on trial in Den Haag for crime against human rights? Plus his crew.

@CarlCanary: 14 Dec 2014
The spearhead of bourgeois democracy, the USA, now appears as being lead astray by their services and government. But what if it is system?

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2014
The CIA torturing practice did not prevent any more terror, did not save any life, did not lead to finding Osama bin Laden. What if it did?

@CarlCanary: 12 Dec 2014
In Germany, the leading national newspaper, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, brought a full page of their large size format about the crimes of CIA.

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2014
World politicians now claim to be upset by US-American torture practice. It is, indeed, horrible in every respect. But it is their practice.

@CarlCanary: 10 Dec 2014
In Germany, 2014 has been the year with the highest average temperature (11 degrees Celsius) since weather measurements’ recording began.

@CarlCanary: 10 Dec 2014
Wise men warn us, the world is going to collapse. They do not see that capitalism is saving it day by day at the expense of its destruction.

@CarlCanary: 8 Dec 2014
The others tell us, you are poor because you have no god. We answer, we are rich because we do not need such a kind of sign.

@CarlCanary: 7 Dec 2014
Religion is nice for those who need final answers and still believe there are. We are the happy ones who have given up on anything final.

@CarlCanary: 7 Dec 2014
The human condition is that we can formulate questions sharp + precise but they don’t have answers. No god will help you get out of this.

@CarlCanary: 6 Dec 2014
You may reach “truth” only after you have travelled all the processes of signs, infinitely many infinitely long. You never reach the end.

@CarlCanary: 5 Dec 2014
No science without Euclidean geometry, no science without systematic experiments, no science without scepticism – Greece & Renaissance!

@CarlCanary: 3 Dec 2014
Science, as we know it, is a great Western achievement or, to be more cautious, the Western approach to the world: Analyse & destroy. Tough.

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2014
We are living in times of fast food. But food is not a fast process. Many also love fast media. The movement for slow media is still weak.

@CarlCanary: 2 Dec 2014
The Green Party in Germany is now rallying for good, healthy, organic food. Many will prefer plastic food. It’s artificial, i.e. art.

@CarlCanary: 30 Nov 2014
Somebody in Germany suggested to freeze children and unfreeze them only for the happy and relaxed moments of life. Not realistic, nice idea.

@CarlCanary: 29 Nov 2014
Almost none of the university professors I know likes exams. They make machines act for them. Doesn’t it make more sense to abolish exams?

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2014 Replying to @itWilllBeOK
@itWilllBeOK No horses whatsoever, just nothing but cars. Many of them BMWs.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2014
Students come and go. Teachers sit there and watch. We make them pay for their coming & going. Should it not be the other way around?

@CarlCanary: 27 Nov 2014
A student asked me: And if I say nothing in my final exam, would this be okay? I’ll buy you a drink afterwards. Not bad, I thought, lovely.

@CarlCanary: 26 Nov 2014
A student asked me: May I ask my friend to stand in & act for me at my final exam? I’ll pay him, to be fair, he said. Good idea, I thought.

@CarlCanary: 26 Nov 2014
A student asked me: May I present my friends’ work as my own at my final exam? I’ll pay him for this. Why not, I thought.

@CarlCanary: 24 Nov 2014
A student asked me: May I collect entry fees from you and others when you come to my final exam? Clever, I thought. I’m his thesis advisor.

@CarlCanary: 24 Nov 2014
Great wisdoms of subjectivism: What nobody has observed has not happened at all.

@CarlCanary: 22 Nov 2014
Only when you live immersed into presence, not in abstract time, you are happy. Totally immersed into presence, death vanishes. (O. Neurath)

@CarlCanary: 22 Nov 2014
Because of the visualization hype, more people become aware of Otto Neurath’s ISOTYPE work & dream. Do you know, he was a revolutionary?

@CarlCanary: 20 Nov 2014
How far are we still from the point at which artistic powers & practical wisdom of life shall cooperate with scientific thinking (Nietzsche)

@CarlCanary: 20 Nov 2014
During one week in Dallas, I saw one biker only. Lonesome, he was pushing his bike over the lawn. What a sad place. A monument for the car.

@CarlCanary: 19 Nov 2014
Without mercy, the algorithmic revolution is so successful because it is based in semiotics (not in mechanics). It’s about fluid technology.

@CarlCanary: 18 Nov 2014
Conviviality puts priority on Being against Having. To convince people of such change, let alone society, requires a revolution in thinking.

@CarlCanary: 18 Nov 2014
Without strict limits to the growth of technology, voluntarily & consciously by social agreement, there is no hope for anything good.

@CarlCanary: 15 Nov 2014
The dialectics of technology: its development leads to some positive change & hopes at the expense of destruction & misery. No conviviality.

@CarlCanary: 15 Nov 2014
Ivan Illich’s book “Convivial Tools” (early 1970s) was a radical critique of technology. It is a must for you if you want to understand.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2014
About 40 persons (Les Convivialistes) have published in French their Manifeste Convivialiste. Find short versions: lesconvivialistes.fr

@CarlCanary: 12 Nov 2014
Europe is tearing down borders for unlimited movement of capital. In parallel, they erect them again against refugees from war & poverty.

@CarlCanary: 12 Nov 2014
When nations & people awake, is it necessary that they engage in war and slaughter their neighbours? Even today. Have they learned nothing?

@CarlCanary: 11 Nov 2014
Everybody has problems in their private relations, all of us are struggling. Some pretend to know how to “manage” relations. How trivial.

@CarlCanary: 11 Nov 2014
Is it not annoying, at times, to talk to students who don’t know to listen & create sense from what they hear (instead, stare at screens).

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2014
This is a day of Germany – a nation of great science, art, music, literature in the center of Europe, of the most horrible killing ever, too

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2014
Philosophy today generates pop stars and popular magazines. Richard David Precht’s “Who am I?” attracts the masses in 23 languages.

@CarlCanary: 8 Nov 2014
To a large extent, the Internet is just the world’s toilet. For a cheap place to publish private crap. There was a time before the Internet.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2014 Replying to @noxymo
@noxymo It is of course ourselves who, by using the Internet, de-humanize others. By, e.g., calling technical systems “social networks”.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2014 Replying to @ahx
@ahx Indeed, the dialectics is that many of the older generation see the losses, but the younger ones see what they gain. No turning around.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2014 Replying to @oneandonlyoddo
@oneandonlyoddo Thank you very much. When you get yourself into an uneasy situation, it’s good to know there are real people.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2014
Would you become excited if you had the chance to observe a meeting of Homo Faber and HomoLudens? Are they different or rather similar?

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
Obama is losing. They will block him. He has no chance. The faintest idea of socially responsible politics in the US has no chance.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
In Bremen, we want students to work on their projects for half a year, nothing else during the time. Not all of them see their great chance.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
Within five seconds, you realize, your days, your weeks, your months even change. Nothing the same as before. Every move slow now, so slow.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
You lie in your bed. Morning is dawning. Tender blues emerging between prevailing greys. Pinks also, gently moving into reds. The skies.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
One tweet per day, for one year. That’s what I do. Why the silence of many days? I was in hospital, sorry, bike accident. Now back again!

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
How can anyone hope to tell the story of current media, without involving history of the machine & its influence on manual & mental labor?

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
Much of academic teaching is still archaic. that’s good. Think of the current example of the MOOC! Incredibly backwards-oriented form of TV.

@CarlCanary: 4 Nov 2014
If not the role of the preacher, university professors often usurp the position of a wise man that they obviously are not. (Horkheimer)

@CarlCanary: 27 Oct 2014
In 1952, Max Horkheimer, back to Frankfurt from exile in the USA, characterized the academic lecture as the failed secular form of sermon.

@CarlCanary: 26 Oct 2014
Dark October outside my window this early morning, November approaching. The air wet without rain. They are cutting old trees.

@CarlCanary: 26 Oct 2014
Thinking must be inconsiderate, not very friendly. This may be the reason why true thinkers are often not listened to at all (K.-H. Bohrer)

@CarlCanary: 25 Oct 2014
What do those really think of themselves who believe in, or expect, or work towards, computers eventually becoming like humans?

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2014
Feeling the deepest longing love for the other, without limit or restriction: isn’t this giving up one’s self, getting rid of the self?

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2014
When the king was riding his horse, he saw the poor homeless man. “Would you not like to be me?” “No, I don’t want to be me.”

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2014
However, a human activity can always only be approximated by computable functions. There are non-computable functions, infinitely many.

@CarlCanary: 20 Oct 2014
Any human activity that can be approximated by a computable function can become subject matter of computer operation. That’s all for AI.

@CarlCanary: 20 Oct 2014
Trivial! AI is artificial: a finite set of computable functions of human origin. But: Intelligence is humans’ specific semiotic capability.

@CarlCanary: 19 Oct 2014
How little the attention may be that those humans pay to their own life when they claim there is no real difference between them & machines!

@CarlCanary: 18 Oct 2014
Humans are semiotic animals (Hausdorff), computers are semiotic engines. The difference is: humans die. Programs don’t. They disappear.

@CarlCanary: 16 Oct 2014
The difference between human & computer is deep & eternal: humans experience death & they know it. The computer: just nothing of this.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2014
The misery with the Internet is that the young generations are downplaying its deeply de-humanizing power. A voluntary march into slavery?

@CarlCanary: 14 Oct 2014
People look at the Internet as a democratic economic system, which it is not at all. It is a tricky form of control & exploitation. (Lanier)

@CarlCanary: 13 Oct 2014
In addition to my announcement recently concerning the honour awarded to radical thinker Jaron Lanier, look here: dw.de/german-book-tr…

@CarlCanary: 12 Oct 2014
“Technology has become a new religion”, said Jaron Lanier in an interview to German newspaper, Die Welt. The crowd as a new conscious agent.

@CarlCanary: 12 Oct 2014
Today, Jaron Lanier received the very prestigious Peace Award, given each year to an author by the German Book-Sellers Association.

@CarlCanary: 11 Oct 2014
Globalisation has many prices. One of them is called Ebola. Many more will come. The origin is Capital.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014 Replying to @neoscenes
@neoscenes Nice formulations, dear John, that you found weeks ago. As you know, the inmates of both kinds may be running the asylum.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014
@Knarfs11 This is a while ago, dear old Frank, I was touring the US, don’t often follow up what others reply. Thank you! Still going strong.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014 Replying to @crcdng
@crcdng No, I don’t see this self-contradiction. Mathematics is real, but it is not about reality. Therefore it can define terms.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014 Replying to @peeofive
@peeofive Only, don’t do it too often. Those who are critical of themselves, of what they do, gain more strength than the others.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014 Replying to @nodashNET
@nodashNET You are working on a related topic? I hope you find interesting stuff in that old substantial book.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann It was a five-weeks trip to the US, great meetings. Preparing for a book, still secret.

@CarlCanary: 10 Oct 2014
How come that young students both in the USA & Germany, in Computer Science or the Arts, love speculating about the real of the Artificial?

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2014
The speculation about the world of the Artificial was not different at U of Texas Dallas, where I was surrounded by Arts & Technology.

@CarlCanary: 9 Oct 2014
Back in Bremen, Germany, after 5 weeks USA. Students in both countries aren’t very different. Only, in the US they are both older & younger.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2014
Soon coming up in Basel, Switzerland: dusie.ch/nnm/ An interesting slate of speakers, isn’t it?

@CarlCanary: 6 Oct 2014
Arthur Danto suggests that if, since Warhol, reality and art don’t have visible differences, their difference must be in invisible features.

@CarlCanary: 5 Oct 2014
“The world is the sum total of facts, not things” is Wittgenstein’s famous 1st sentence of his Tractatus. Facts are statements, i.e. signs.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2014
Computers are machines to create the world of the AS-IF. German philosopher Hans Vaihinger’s “Philosophy of As If” is of 1911, transl. 1924.

@CarlCanary: 3 Oct 2014
The USA, so vast, so forbidden rich, so poor at the same time, such great minds & inventors, such narrow minds also. Full of guns. Exciting.

@CarlCanary: 3 Oct 2014
Last night at Immigration Office in Bremen, Germany: international students showing their installations under the title “AS IF”. Also today.

@CarlCanary: 1 Oct 2014
If you still read books (you should!), take to Arthur C. Danto, What art is, 2013. Easy reading, enjoyable, enlightening. It’s think-fodder.

@CarlCanary: 1 Oct 2014
Finishing five weeks in the USA with one week of meetings & presentations at UT Dallas with Roger Malina, Mihai Nadin, Charissa Terranova.

@CarlCanary: 29 Sep 2014
Going to meet Mark Amerika today in Boulder, CO. A re-union after several years: Computer art will meet net art.

@CarlCanary: 28 Sep 2014
Now in Boulder, CO, after two weeks with Harold Cohen, his art, his thought, his critical mind. Must become an exceptional book.

@CarlCanary: 27 Sep 2014
For a long time, the great narrative of art was about artists + their works. Neo-liberalism transforms it into money + nonsense gossip.

@CarlCanary: 27 Sep 2014
You may believe that works & creative artists constitute the reality of art. A different view takes money & nonsense babble instead.

@CarlCanary: 25 Sep 2014
The rich and mighty compare the works of art they possess in the way others compare the cocks they have (after Metz & Seesslen).

@CarlCanary: 24 Sep 2014 Replying to @alan_dsh
@alan_dsh Let us hope for your optimistic version. Would be nice

@CarlCanary: 24 Sep 2014
Each day, persuade yourself into doing something that you would prefer not to do. And do it. that’s the joy & art of masochism.

@CarlCanary: 24 Sep 2014
I find this in our university library: better barefoot than without a book.

@CarlCanary: 22 Sep 2014
Modern cultures, strongly based on technology, rapidly become more fragile. They wear inside their catastrophic ends.

@CarlCanary: 21 Sep 2014
There may be a few spots on earth where nature is still hiding from the onslaught of culture. They are rapidly disappearing. Culture wins.

@CarlCanary: 20 Sep 2014
Understanding the world is only: trying out, and comparing, concepts in relation to the contradictions of reality.

@CarlCanary: 20 Sep 2014
Intellectuals occasionally long for cleanly defined concepts. They form the concept hygiene police squad. Radically mistrust them!

@CarlCanary: 18 Sep 2014
Definitions in maths may be free of contradiction. Reality, however, is full of contradictions. Maths cannot map reality into clean form.

@CarlCanary: 17 Sep 2014
What is essential & substantial can be made explicit in words only. To get closer, we must uncover their inherent tensions & ambiguities.

@CarlCanary: 16 Sep 2014
Concepts cannot be defined in strict terms. Only mathematics allows for sharp definitions. Definitions cannot match contradictory reality.

@CarlCanary: 15 Sep 2014
Geometry is largely deductive thinking, experimental science is the home of induction. Procedural thinking is needed in new complex domains.

@CarlCanary: 14 Sep 2014
3 old forces in society: executive, legislative, juridical. Plus the medial – soon to be expanded by the “datalogical” (says Michel Serres).

@CarlCanary: 13 Sep 2014
Art is complex. Not simple. Music also and mathematics. In all their complexity they contain beautifully simple elements.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2014
Dictators & religious leaders hate complexity. They force hierarchies of threat & death upon people. Long live complexity! Long live chaos!

@CarlCanary: 11 Sep 2014
We read that things are getting ever more complex. Authors suggest methods to reduce complexity. Why? Complexity is okay. Fight boredom!

@CarlCanary: 11 Sep 2014
Teacher & student – not a symmetric relation. Is it changing in times of the Internet? To entrepreneur & worker. Or to doctor & patient?

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2014
Do doctors learn more by following blogs of their patients than from professors during studies? Maybe. Why then do they get all the money?

@CarlCanary: 8 Sep 2014
Religion continues to be a great justification for feasts and orgies of killing. Other ideologies also provide such reasons.

@CarlCanary: 8 Sep 2014
The poor of the world are starving to death or dying of lack of medicine. The rich are on diet to get rid of their fat. They are on drugs.

@CarlCanary: 6 Sep 2014
Christianity: based on tortured martyrs, women stoned to death, heretics & wise women burned in public, men hewn into pieces & pulled apart.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2014
Democracy, we believe and claim, is where power rests with the people. What a hoax! Power is with the lobbyists and their associations.

@CarlCanary: 4 Sep 2014
Trains now sometimes have wagons of quietude. Those who continue using cell-phones, in their calls make obvious their irrelevance.

@CarlCanary: 3 Sep 2014
Migration Immigration Integration Population (growth), says Barbara Nessim, the fabulous artist in New York. See her show 18 September!

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2014
”Social” networks make it possible that everybody’s voice mixes with all the others to growing unarticulated noise. Nobody listens anymore.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2014
The strong & clear human voice, full of suffering, sorrow & joy, is drowned ever more by the background babble of ubiquitous mobile media.

@CarlCanary: 31 Aug 2014
Power systems always consider those as principally incompetent who do their work at lower ranks. Teachers: students; government: citizens.

@CarlCanary: 30 Aug 2014
Permanently we are evaluating everything, and get evaluated ourselves by others. The crux is: it’s not about qualities, it’s about numbers.

@CarlCanary: 29 Aug 2014
To those who still take elevators: why not take the stairs instead? It’s good exercise, you stay fit, and feel better. You are the energy!

@CarlCanary: 28 Aug 2014
I feel, I really feel, I’m always active, on the move. But do I know whereto I go? I have no clue. In all uncertainty, I’m certain.

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2014
Have you ever wanted to kiss a painting when you saw it? Have you ever wanted to take one down because it was so boring?

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2014
They don’t talk to you, the pictures in the empty building, but they are longing for your questions and desires. Please, care for them.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2014
When you go to a museum of fine art, do you then listen to the pictures on the walls? They seem silent but, occasionally, they whisper.

@CarlCanary: 23 Aug 2014
A translation of Rilke’s lines: Here humans grow, here in this very house / one and the other loses blindness for all his years to come.

@CarlCanary: 23 Aug 2014
(This is German, sorry:) Hier wachsen Menschen, hier in diesem Hause / wird mancher sehend für sein ganzes Leben. (Rilke, about art museum)

@CarlCanary: 22 Aug 2014
Science appears as the great promise (beyond religion) to understand the world. It is a trick by those who cannot bear uncertainty.

@CarlCanary: 20 Aug 2014
Escape into the world of metaphors! That’s what science does. Viewed this way, science appears as a form of poetry. that’s lovely.

@CarlCanary: 20 Aug 2014
I’m sorry, but we cannot understand the world. Even if we try hard. There is only metaphorical description. This they call “understanding”.

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann don’t we all know him quite well from fairy tales?

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2014
Power of metaphor: you struggle with a problem; you don’t understand; you look at a different domain; now you understand. You believe you do

@CarlCanary: 18 Aug 2014
Metaphor was needed to turn computers into consumer products. Now GUI & WIMP hide the fact that computing systems are extremely complex.

@CarlCanary: 17 Aug 2014
Metaphors are often nicely poetic and misleading. We cannot avoid them and, yet, they transfer piles of ideology. Politicians love them.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
Is it a thrilling or a stupid idea to have the knowledge of the world at the fingertips? Massaging your knowledge like your lover’s back.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
»… every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world …« (Robert Frost 1963)

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
That person is truly knowledgeable (if not even wise) who is capable of exactly discriminating what he or she knows only vaguely.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
Everything we believe to know well, still leaves and creates open questions. Teachers try to make us believe there are final answers.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
Knowing is nothing but believing in processes of approximating knowledge. We can never “have” knowledge. We may only move closer to it.

@CarlCanary: 15 Aug 2014
If you read German: Roberto Simanowski, Data Love (2014)! Highly recommended. Must be translated into English.

@CarlCanary: 9 Aug 2014
“We see only the flowers … under our feet in the meadows. The pines have developed their delicate blossoms on the highest twigs …” (Thoreau)

@CarlCanary: 9 Aug 2014
“We hug the earth – how rarely we mount! … We might climb a tree, at least.” (Henry Thoreau, Walking)

@CarlCanary: 7 Aug 2014
“The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.” (Henry Thoreau, Walking) Sympathy with the devil?

@CarlCanary: 7 Aug 2014
Penzias is beautifully right. However, the mind is not a tool. He re-establishes mind over machine by instrumental reasoning – old thinking.

@CarlCanary: 7 Aug 2014
“I have no doubt that the world’s most powerful information tool will continue to be the human mind.” (A. Penzias 1989)

@CarlCanary: 7 Aug 2014
So much music in the air, Miles Davis, Leonard Cohen, Keith Jarrett. But I only here the quick short sounds of swallows high up in the air.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2014
Sing a song for all those who are known for never listening to any music.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2014
Paint in acrylics an homage to all those artists who never look at anything but their own works.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2014
Address in your audience particularly those who are proud of never being proud.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2014
Dedicate your thesis to all those readers who don’t ever read anything.

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2014
Shneiderman: Those who believe they can shape the future, will shape the future. – But I’m afraid, a human future will need a bit more.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2014 Replying to @hhpapazian
@hhpapazian @hipertipo My mind is not the problem Is yours?

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2014
If public funds are being used to build natural language interaction with machines, better use the money to teach children about Leonardo.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014 Replying to @BSkirlo
@BSkirlo It is a wonder that they do not mainly use their cars to kill each other. Collective inhibitions.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Yes, I still like watching them up their. But without any nobility.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014 Replying to @BSkirlo
@BSkirlo And I hope, Benjamin, you have not yet regretted, nor will so in the future ahead of you.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014 Replying to @hhpapazian
@hhpapazian @hipertipo Really not a bad idea. But certainly of a different category. Just now, I am barefoot.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014
Quality of life: to use technology as little as ever possible. Car, mobile phone, credit card, computer. Turn them off, often.

@CarlCanary: 29 Jul 2014
Shneiderman: “We should question every application of technology to ensure that its benefits outweigh its costs.” We must!

@CarlCanary: 24 Jul 2014
Research may often end in numbers, but zero understanding. Research may also lead to insight, but zero numbers. Which do you prefer?

@CarlCanary: 24 Jul 2014
“Speed is easy to measure, but quality improvement is more difficult to assess.” (Shneiderman) That’s the point in computing, in HCI.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jul 2014
Shneiderman clearly opposes A.I.’s crazy goal of humanlike qualities in computing machines (as propagated by McCarthy, Kurzweil, etc.).

@CarlCanary: 24 Jul 2014
“Usability” as the criterion for software nails you down to superficial form. Interest, immediacy, aesthetics in the broadest sense instead!

@CarlCanary: 22 Jul 2014
“Leonardo’s Laptop” does not go beyond the engineering criteria of acceleration & usability. Insofar, it’s only liberal, not liberating.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jul 2014
Ben Shneiderman’s “Leonardo’s Laptop” is now 12 years old, still nice reading. But the »user« remains his central character. What a pity.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jul 2014
Those interested in contemporary art have noticed: Grand master Otto Piene died 17 July 2014. The sky was his home. news.artnet.com/art-world/otto…

@CarlCanary: 19 Jul 2014
Machines only manipulate numbers; people connect them to meaning. (Arno Penzias 1989) If only AI-researchers could read and listen!

@CarlCanary: 19 Jul 2014
Computers don’t contain »brains« any more than stereos contain musical instruments. (A. Penzias 1989) Still, some compare brains & computers

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2014
“Unlike machines, human minds can create ideas. We need ideas to guide us in progress, as well as tools to implement them.” (Arno Penzias)

@CarlCanary: 17 Jul 2014
I am sitting in the sun looking up into the blue and white. Swallows joyfully showing their art of flying, cheering me.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2014
I am sitting in the sun as young girls down there on the sandy square force their horses to do funny movements the horses would never do.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jul 2014
I am sitting in the sun thinking about the spider over there running up and down, but then its body is becoming one with its web. A unit.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jul 2014
Today, the day of the French Revolution. An important date, I believe. Was it really important? Bourgeois liberties & Napoleon’s wars.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jul 2014
I am sitting in the sun feeling how the soft warm wind is tenderly stroking my naked skin, hoping it will continue doing this.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jul 2014
I am sitting in the sun observing the little girl in the sandy square down there, jumping over a wooden hurdle for nothing but her own joy.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jul 2014
That 7-1 is already history now. It is History! All probabilities & statistics tumbled, all likelihoods smashed. The impossible became real.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jul 2014
Digital Humanities is about putting humanities’ subject matters under the roof of computation. Count and calculate on a vast scale.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2014
Humanities are about putting things into many contexts. Computing is about taking everything out of all contexts (besides computability).

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2014
Big data. Digital Humanities. New kinds of research, questions, methods? Normal science, no more. Science done because the means are there.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
Thoreau: “I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil...”

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
Politics, says Henry David Thoreau, is nothing but smoke of a cigar, blown up into to air. A convincing metaphor, even if wrong.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
If you have never read anything by Michel Serres, Petite Poucette will thrill you and change your view of the world.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
You must get the short essay »Petite Poucette« by Michel Serres. At age of 83, he declares love for the Internet generation. Dirty? Great!

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
An English translation has been announced of Michel Serres’ “Petite Poucette”, subtitle: The Culture and Technologies of Millenials. A must!

@CarlCanary: 6 Jul 2014
Can anything be called “quality of life” that does not start from the other and end in the other?

@CarlCanary: 30 Jun 2014
Is quality of life not a dream dreamt by so many who we will never meet and who have nothing, literally nothing, but their dreams?

@CarlCanary: 29 Jun 2014
Quality of life, is it not that each one of us, EACH!, is free to move about and unite in joy and health with others, all of them.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2014
Quality of life: The joy of a child who must not fear ever to be put out of work because computers have taken over what she had done?

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2014
Is quality of life not a song in the morning and a poem at night? A hand stroking your neck and a smile when you wake up?

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2014
Quality of life: Is it not like ”Walden“, remember the book by Henry D. Thoreau? It was old when the hippie movement re-discovered it.

@CarlCanary: 26 Jun 2014
Quality of life: is it not to step outside with no fear that some lunatic is interested in killing you, and no police is beating you up?

@CarlCanary: 25 Jun 2014
Quality of life: is it not to breath fresh air, drink clear water, smell the morning bread? Have a juicy fruit and music in the air?

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2014
People often look up slides after some speaker’s oral presentation. I don’t provide them. They belong to the presentation as a medium.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2014
The right to have your dreams is the last human right. “Das Recht auf Traeume ist das letzte Menschenrecht” (F. Hundertwasser)

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2014
This is my rule for this language game: one tweet per day. There are days without a tweet. I make up for them later, at times even before.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2014
The idea that becomes the machine that makes the art (Sol LeWitt): exactly the description of what algorithmic art does.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2014
Conceptual artists have known all this. Computer art emerged at the same time. Computer artists knew it a bit better. Their concepts run.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2014
The artist’s primary occupation has now become creating the Subface of the work. Such that we are thrilled by the Surface. Visible Surface.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jun 2014
The “art” of a given work of art now resides in the gap between Surface and Subface. It is of processual nature, not of thingliness.

@CarlCanary: 17 Jun 2014
Data & Code. The two relevant forms of software. Behind them: algorithmics & computability. In front of them: interactivity & aesthetics.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jun 2014
Back from eyeo-2014 festival in Minneapolis. Lazy, concentrated, inspiring. Différent, i.e postmodern. I will change my teaching in 2 weeks.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jun 2014
The work of art now consists of two aspects, levels, sides, always two: sensually perceived SURFACE & logically constructed SUBFACE.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jun 2014
... but it was not impossible, as we see. The sensual dimension forms a new unity with the algorithmic dimension. That’s revolutionary.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
The Algorithmic Revolution in art is about taking away the sensual dimension from art. Seems impossible, for art is about sensual cognition.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
Unbelievable that in early computer art you didn’t see anything of your work until it was finished – terrible or great. There was no screen.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
If living in Germany and speaking German, you should consider this seminar as part of Hattinger Mediensommer: forum-politische-bildung.de/dig

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
The self-contained person doesn’t do anything for a small advantage, she cannot be forced to denounce, nor dive into egotism.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
The self-contained person does what she/he wants to do, not what the other wants her/him to do. She also knows she is not alone in the world

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
The self-contained person is all by herself. She says what she thinks, not what the other wants her to say. She never reproduces, she thinks

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
All the university can do is provide opportunities for younger people to self-educate. that’s already difficult enough. Power is lost.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
The necessity of self-education implies that no teacher can really educate any student. In the end, it is always the student’s own work

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
Real education trivially requires acquirung skills, but it is much more and cannot be reduced to skill & competence. (Lenzen)

@CarlCanary: 8 Jun 2014
European general Bildung knows of 3 components: individual culturability, self-education, collective cultural progression.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jun 2014
Acceleration in education if exerting power on students. They get deprived of maturing, thus of real education beyond pure skills.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jun 2014
If we at the universities don’t dedicate time to students, but take it away from them, we stupidly follow the economic law of acceleration.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jun 2014
Education (Bildung) requires time. Time stands for love. Dedicating time to a subject matter, is dedicating love to it. (Max Horkheimer)

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2014
Processes of education are now often reduced to pure processing of something. But processing doesn’t allow the subject matter to mature.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2014
Advice: Go to the theatre, or visit the fine art museum if you want to understand and design (digital, algorithmic, interactive) media.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2014
In comparison, the Theatre is a slow medium. It is a permanent plea for slowness and requires concentration + imagination. How great!

@CarlCanary: 30 May 2014
But is “easy” the good & agreeable, our goal, choice and hope? Or do we prefer the “difficult”, the challenge, failure? Can you tell?

@CarlCanary: 28 May 2014
Easy and difficult, light and heavy, dark and bright. Everything is what it is only in relation to its opposite. Parmenides already told us.

@CarlCanary: 27 May 2014
We believe we recall from memory what we remember. But really: we tell a story that we call “memory”. We invent memory as we tell stories.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2014
Is it not incredibly sad that education is largely determined by the terror of exams? What a permanent cruelty: entry to the labor market.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2014
Creating and opening spaces, in the immediate and metaphoric sense of the word, is the job of education in times of the space-killing web.

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2014
Defending education as a primarily social process requires schools & universities to create wonderfully attractive spaces – joy to be there!

@CarlCanary: 25 May 2014
All those “educators” advocating technical means to partially replace living people in education, should be banned from the classroom.

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2014
Realizing that MOOCs, like books, are instruments to create knowledge but not knowledge, you regain autonomy in your learning process.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2014
Learning is a complex process between being in solitude and with a social group. MOOCs and all those hypes are only technical means.

@CarlCanary: 20 May 2014
If you have a great idea, don’t immediately look it up on the web. Develop the idea. Make it your own. Only then compare with others.

@CarlCanary: 19 May 2014
In talking with students, series of good ideas come up. Now, the Internet immediately kills them all. “It’s all out there already.” Really?

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2014
Patients can help personnel to stay in good health condition. Personnel can help patients to regain good health condition.

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2014
People in hospitals should not be divided into patients and personnel. They are citizens in momentarily different states of their health.

@CarlCanary: 18 May 2014
The bourgeois state can never really represent the intentions of the entire population. But we can force it into doing it to some degree.

@CarlCanary: 15 May 2014
Hospitals and the entire health system must be kept free from any private capital. They must be run by the civic state alone. Not for profit

@CarlCanary: 15 May 2014
The capitalist system is transforming hospitals into sources of profit. The matter getting transformed there are humans.

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2014
Things around us are objects and not subjects. Persons around us are, first, objects as well – but objects of the same kind as we are.

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2014
Only if we relate to “things” in a kind and caring way, will we be able to relate to the other “person” in a kind and caring way.

@CarlCanary: 9 May 2014
There is only one thing you can get without paying money for it: debts. (German comedian Heinz Schenk)

@CarlCanary: 9 May 2014
Recent topics of Bachelor theses: T-shirt as media. Skateboard as media. Human sweat odor as media. The museum of missed opportunity.

@CarlCanary: 9 May 2014
In a melancholic mood, Caspar D.F. was watching his green, always a bit blue, approaching Yves Klein’s very own blue, perhaps.

@CarlCanary: 8 May 2014
Algorithmic thinking: that’s when you state precisely what you only know intuitively. You don’t know it at all, but you make it precise.

@CarlCanary: 7 May 2014
Ukraine has now seen many reasons that would have been excuses for war 100 years ago. Is this now progress? They have a civil war.

@CarlCanary: 6 May 2014
The German chancellor returned from the US with nothing about the continued monitoring of all communication traffic by the US. Success!

@CarlCanary: 4 May 2014
The OECD hostages in Eastern Ukraine came free. That’s good. But the killing is stepping up. Diplomats & ordinary people – any difference?

@CarlCanary: 2 May 2014
Why should the Russians in Ukraine not start their own state to live there or even merge with Russia if they like that Zarist state so much?

@CarlCanary: 2 May 2014
A good book is out that some of you need: Grant D. Taylor, When the machine made art. The troubled history of computer art. Bloomsbury 2014

@CarlCanary: 2 May 2014
EU border criminals say „push back“ when chasing refugees from Syria or Afghanistan back into the sea. Greece once was a friendly country

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2014
The EU has established a horror border control around their territory against refugees from terror. Greek police terrifies them to death.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2014
When his blue returned, Caspar D.F. was sitting on a rock watching the skies, clouds, and trees in the breeze, the blue at his shoulder.

@CarlCanary: 29 Apr 2014
Caspar D.F. spoke thus: Carefully touch your red, stroke it ever so gently, feel your soul embracing your red from inside.

@CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2014
Caspar D.F. said: Pick up your yellow and, when it cries, which is quite likely, join it and cry bitterly over the state of the universe.

@CarlCanary: 25 Apr 2014
One morning, Caspar D.F. said: Take your blue & open it. Do it carefully because it might hurt you. It is not used to being eaten.

@CarlCanary: 25 Apr 2014
No science, no art can be without the deepest love & longing for, without the strongest engagement & involvement with what is & what is not.

@CarlCanary: 25 Apr 2014
All teachers, all nurses, all those who professionally take care of & help others must get frequent sabbaticals. Their work is too hard.

@CarlCanary: 24 Apr 2014
They test, collect statistics, evaluate, compare, rank. They call this teaching & learning. What a misunderstanding! What a shame, a crime!

@CarlCanary: 24 Apr 2014
Admire! Love! Become part of! Do what you cannot do. Try what you have no idea of! Dare what your teachers warn you of!

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
They now talk about creativity as if it was a trade, a technique, something to learn & apply. What a crazy way to waste time, money, life.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
21 April 2014: 100 years ago, Charles Sanders PEIRCE died, the „greatest mind of the Americas“ (Joseph Brent). Hero of semiotics.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
Art originates in imagination & play, in possibility’s reaction to reality. Soon enough, it must turn into hard work or it does not exist.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
This is the epoch of emptyness: Anything rich & empathic is turned inside out to get rid of its human contents & replace it by the machinic.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
facebook: the inflation of friends. the transformation of avatars into so-called friends. making friends in the age of digital construction.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
“Friends”. I have a few in real life. I can count them & on them. So-called friends won’t come to help you when in trouble.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
So-called social networks should invariably and always and by everyone in their good mind be called “so-called social networks”.

@CarlCanary: 22 Apr 2014
SOCIAL NETWORK NETWORK SOCIAL SOCIAL NET NET SOCIAL NOT VERY SOCIAL NOT SOCIAL AT ALL DISRUPTIVE INSTEAD NETWORK SOCIAL Really social?

@CarlCanary: 21 Apr 2014
Already gone: Public lecture „Algorithmic thinking“ & Workshop „Idea, concept, algorithm, program“. Frieder Nake, Amiens CO:DE/*SIGN

@CarlCanary: 21 Apr 2014
You are alone when reading a book. Silence around you and inside you. Great moments of being yourself. How different it feels! Romantic?

@CarlCanary: 21 Apr 2014
Paying attention is not the problem. Many are permanently paying attention to their gadgets. But attention depth & span is now often bad.

@CarlCanary: 11 Apr 2014
Ending up beyond your goal is as bad as ending short of it is. (Confucius) So what can we do at all?

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2014
“Men are not isolated non-social atoms, but are men only when in intrinsic relations.“ (John Dewey 1888) Does this make sense?

@CarlCanary: 9 Apr 2014
I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual in the social consciousness of the race. (John Dewey)

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
„Apart from the thought of participation in social life the school has no end nor aim.“ John Dewey, in his “Ethical Principles ...”.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
Remember the language Newspeak (Orwell’s “1984"): War is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength. The language of governments.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
Finland, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland restrict the operational areas of their armies purely to the defense of their territories.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
Besides Costa Rica (that has had this extraordinary state since 1949) there are 23 states without an army. It should be more.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
The new kind of war is currently under test conditions. It is about gaining total supremacy without direct killing. Some competitors.

@CarlCanary: 7 Apr 2014
The best achievement of the the European bourgeoisie was civil rights. Now Europe has the chance to defend freedom against the US.

@CarlCanary: 2 Apr 2014
Machinization of mental labor is what computers are made for. On the level of global surveillance, we now see clearly what this really means

@CarlCanary: 2 Apr 2014
The well-known Libet experiment was in 1979. Does anybody believe it proved there is no free will?

@CarlCanary: 31 Mar 2014
How ever our will wants it to be, our reason delivers good arguments for its justification. (Schopenhauer after Precht)

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2014
For Kant, reason is what comes first. It leads to will and act. Schopenhauer turns this around. Will leads to reason as justification.

@CarlCanary: 29 Mar 2014
Descartes believed that we may understand the true nature of things. Kant didn’t believe this anymore. Schopenhauer even less. And we?

@CarlCanary: 27 Mar 2014
In all our explanations of events and phenomena, we semiotically invent those events. There is no understanding. It’s always invention!

@CarlCanary: 27 Mar 2014
Insofar as they invent mathematical systems of great complexity & power, physicists are artists and poets. Sometimes, artists are physicists

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2014
The biggest bang and the blackest hole are other words only for the religious thing that believers call „god“. A mighty sign for war.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2014
The world is not for us to understand. We can only describe phenomena we observe. It’s all our descriptive, and thus: poetic, work.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2014
Human science dictates to nature the laws it is to obey. Simple minds, however, believe these semiotic systems are the laws of nature.

@CarlCanary: 26 Mar 2014
Kant already knew that there are no laws in nature for us to discover, but we construct them as semiotic inventions. Nature: a construction.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2014
At times, before falling asleep, I think of people who believe in creation of the world by god. I cannot but think they are sick.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2014
Immanuel Kant published the first attempt to explain the planetary system without recourse to god. That’s not so long ago.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2014
It seems that humans, by nature, are neither good + altruistic, nor evil + egotistic. They seem to possess both capabilities.

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2014
The individual is a sick invention of the bourgeoisie, a product also of enlightenment, an ideology of capitalism. But we like it. Odd

@CarlCanary: 21 Mar 2014
As humans we are fundamentally social being (like other primates also). We are not individual loners as Rousseau suggested.

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2014
It is wonderful to love our own country, its mountains, lakes, forests, people. But we hate social-political conditions of our state.

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2014
More frustrating than the lack of sympathy we experience from others is the lack of sympathy we extend to others. (Precht)

@CarlCanary: 14 Mar 2014
Not to be loved by anyone is a sad situation. However, more frustrating even is not to be able yourself to love anyone else.

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2014
Japan, South-Korea, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Ukrain, Romania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary have 1.2 to 1.4 children per woman. Hope!

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2014
Putin’s Olympic games were constructed as a tremendous system of lies and corrupt relations of the power elites (ZEIT 6 Feb 14).

@CarlCanary: 13 Mar 2014
The Truth is usually not considered to be funny. Often it is bitter. Or even devastating. Particularly when it hits ourselves.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2014
German: „Ich will es wagen, lachend die Wahrheit zu sagen.“ Jakob von Grimmelshausen. Eng: Laughingly I will dare telling the truth.

@CarlCanary: 10 Mar 2014
Of course, acceleration is the business and currency of the internet, also of computing & capitalism in general. Nothing but acceleration.

@CarlCanary: 10 Mar 2014
How many people in the world may, perhaps, look up these statements a year from now, on 28 Feb. 2015, when I will stop it again?

@CarlCanary: 10 Mar 2014
When my first year of doing these messages was over, friendly 176 persons had tuned in their connections to look them up. Nice people.

@CarlCanary: 6 Mar 2014
Peter “Volcano” Weibel turned 70 yesterday. Young, superactive, permanently generating new ideas, never a break. Mathematician artist.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2014
Mark Amerika’s intervention caused me to reconsider my retreat from tweet. I did so & decided to go for a second year of 1 message per day.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2014
Mark Amerika is one of the great artists of our time. He is a netizen. If he is your friend, you should listen carefully what he suggests.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2014
For 1 year I had written 1 tweet per day. As an experiment by a hesitating skeptic. When I stopped, Mark Amerika asked me to continue.

@CarlCanary: 4 Mar 2014 Replying to @underkuerbis
@underkuerbis @etothepii Das wäre doch zu traurig, das darf nicht stehen bleiben. Mathe ist viel zu schön für dieses Urteil.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
The tragedy is that we don’t see the horrors of capitalism because we participate a tiny bit in its advantages. We don’t want to see.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
Those are to be blamed who, far back in time and California, invented their dream of freedom inside the hull of capitalism. Unaware kids.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
The Internet itself is, of course, not observing us. Neither has it anything to do with freedom. It is a mega-machine of computation.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
It is as if the Internet was observing us. The medium of imagined freedom has mutated into the medium of total surveillance. Dialectics.

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, dear K.O. GOETZ! 100 years, a storm of art. Feel his energy in his images. Nobody like him. ko-götz.de

@CarlCanary: 3 Mar 2014
My friend, Mark Amerika, seduced and convinced me to continue this series of remarks. As of 1 March 2014. I am late. Due to illness. Sorry

@CarlCanary: 13 Feb 2014
One extra tweet: I did all this for the experience. Arjan Hoelke had challenged me. So I agreed & endured. It was fun & boredom.

@CarlCanary: 13 Feb 2014
This now is all, the end, finished, over. One year exactly of one tweet per day. At times in a package to catch up after silence. Thank you.

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2014
Dear Arjan: I am approaching the end of my year as a generator of one tweet per day. I have kept my promise to you, though with ups & downs.

@CarlCanary: 11 Feb 2014
Most of our countries waste billions on their armies. We accept this. Creativity is needed to get rid of them. that’s worth a great effort!

@CarlCanary: 10 Feb 2014
Germany has a lady as the army’s boss. Instead of making soldiers’ lives nicer, she should bring them back into society! Impossible? Why?

@CarlCanary: 9 Feb 2014
Germany now has a clever and bright woman as her minister of defense (i.e. war). Why is the feminist movement so quiet about this?

@CarlCanary: 9 Feb 2014
All the wealth the people of a nation generate must go into people’s wealth & health instead of their army! What a great life would emerge!

@CarlCanary: 9 Feb 2014
But what if Austria, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden, & others started the movement of „Countries without Army“! What a wonder!

@CarlCanary: 9 Feb 2014
Think about your country without an army! I would love Germany to be first. US, China, India, Russia? No chance. They are military societies

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2014
The first sentence & first paragraph of your thesis must be very clear, exciting, surprising, promising, provoking. Try hard! Or give up.

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2014
In Berlin: I highly recommend seeing the fabulous K.O. Goetz show at Neue National Galerie. It’s breath-taking. And great surprise

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2014
People seem to be afraid if their country does not have an army. Civil resistance would replace it. Should we not try? Is it old-fashioned?

@CarlCanary: 4 Feb 2014
All countries have armies. Costa Rica does not. What a revolution if Germany abolished the army! Democratic, pacifist, peaceful, and just.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2014
Many believe eBooks are the book’s future. Is the wave of new independent bookstores in the US ("Indies") only a form nostalgia for rich?

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2014
Frieder Nake lectures: „On the Move – Image Algorithm“. Monday, Feb. 3, 18:30, Humboldt Univ., Atrium Georgenstr. 47, ground floor. Come!

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2014
Computer science is not about computers but about computing. It is about sign processes in algorithmic form, restricted by computability.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jan 2014
Semiotics, the theory of sign processes, is not about signs, but about meaning. Signs are means to scientifcally generate + analyze meaning.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2014
The digital epoch is infiltrating humanities research. Good, but not exciting, and a bit dangerous: big data is nothing but big and lots.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2014
2015: the 50th year after the first three exhibitions of computer art. Only few took notice in 1965. Now nearly all images are digital.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jan 2014
No media reach the immediacy of the medium theatre, its vibrations and shivers of here and now. It easily incorporates the digital.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jan 2014
Many of us are intoxicated by digital arts. But go to the theatre: words, body, gesture, face, music, dance, image, architecture, video, ...

@CarlCanary: 24 Jan 2014
Dinner. In France you sit, eat, drink for hours, discussing. In the US you rush salad & steak into your mouth & run to look after your gun.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jan 2014
As the US are recording all of civilian electronic communication, Al Quaida and others are enormously stepping up their terror attacks.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jan 2014
Meanwhile the year is three weeks old. I hope everybody has by now given up all their great resolutions for the year. Back to normal.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jan 2014
Only by living, sharing, working with other humans, does a human become really human. There is no independent individual. Sorry.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2014
My life is gone as if I had not lived at all, are the old servant’s words in Anton Cekhov’s play „The Cherry Orchard“.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jan 2014
Obama told the Americans & Europeans that US surveillance & espionage will continue as ever. He only used different words. Nice of him.

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2014
That’s too difficult for me, he said, and did not dare doing it. that’s wrong. Really, he did not dare, thus it turned out to be difficult.

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2014
Your autobiography is not about yourself. It is more likely about the person you never were but always wanted to be. Our skewed view.

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2014
If in Berlin on 25 January, 3 p.m. at DAM Gallery (Neue Jakobstr. 6): Discussion with Frieder Nake on algorithmic art. Finissage of his show

@CarlCanary: 17 Jan 2014
Click below to sign a petition in favor of the hero of last year, Edward Snowden: avaaz.org/en/send_snowde…

@CarlCanary: 15 Jan 2014
Isn’t it frustrating? Millenia ago, you just shouted: Let there be light! Immediately, it happened. Now you whisper: Give me a job! Nothing.

@CarlCanary: 15 Jan 2014
Some believe, time does not exist at all. They only believe in change. Correct: Time is made by humans as a word for change.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2014
You can never start a new life. But each day, you can start a new day. (Allegedly Henry Thoreau)

@CarlCanary: 13 Jan 2014
The main tendency in the world is revolt. The main hidden tendency in the world is Corruption. that’s a dialectics.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2014
“Arschloch: Arsch hoch!” In German sounds nice. One letter difference only. Its meaning? Asshole: up your ass into the skies!

@CarlCanary: 10 Jan 2014
They now organize walks and hikes along pilgrim paths. A feeble attempt to help people against the Internet’s speedy destructions.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jan 2014
The digital world is the opposite of the wanderer’s world. Where he is all and entirely one, the digital is everything in nothing.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jan 2014
The wanderer is without a goal, always on the move. His experience is to be free, for himself, slow, amazed in awe. Very different.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jan 2014
The German „wandern“ is a romantic activity. It is to walk, hike, rove, be on the road, wander. All of this. Cannot be translated.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2014
People believe they cannot alter fate. Others know they can & try. The latter offers more consolation. (When reading Martin Suter.)

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2014
Did you know this important fact: each & every day, about 20 million people celebrate their birthday. If they do it at all.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jan 2014
The sticky times & days are over, the days of the “ever newly born without conception” babies. Science remains crystal clear & critical.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
How naive all our reaction to Snowden’s fantastic revelations about Western state surveillance. Human rights as nice ideology, not more.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
New Year’s Day, instead of declaring to start an entirely new life, you should say to be happy still continuing your old life.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
A calendar for 2014: „Neues von der Heimatfront. Krieg beginnt hier. Widerstand auch“ Orders to Paula Keller paulilula@gmx.de for 10 Euro

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
There will be more killing, more wars, more hatred, more suppression, more poverty, more corruption. Christians Moslems Capitalists.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
A friendly and exciting wish for the new year: Everything will remain different.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
Love needs time and space for breathing. What is happening, though, is that one chokes the other.

@CarlCanary: 2 Jan 2014
„Love is a game in which both players cheat,“ says a fortune cooky. Good reason to hate each other when they realize what the other is doing

@CarlCanary: 27 Dec 2013
Take a look, if you like: on-verge.org/reviews/no-mes…

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2013
The Bremen exhibition „Frieder Nake. Light into the dark“ was conceptualized, organized, curated by Susan Grabowski. Tremendous job she did.

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2013
Other contributers to the algorithmic art show in Bremen are: Brian R. Smith, Mike Weisser, Ulrich Bernhardt, Andreas Kreul, many students.

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2013
A recommendation for readers of German: Geschichte des Kapitalismus by Juergen Kocka. It’s not party stuff but serious research.

@CarlCanary: 23 Dec 2013
Public life will come to a near standstill in some countries because the Christians let their god be born in a human & inhuman form.

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013 Replying to @effzehn
@effzehn @markamerika My presence there is an experiment: experiencing a bit of your world. But lots of THANX, for the remix in Bremen.

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
The Bremen show (“Light into the darkness”!) is a political statement, however generating joy. A festival of remix.

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
Casey Reas took an old piece of mine and turned it into a grand visual happening without end. See it in Bremen till end of December

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
Efi Kontogeorgou & Danny Barrantes implemented a huge media fassade in Muenster, Germany, celebrating early algorithmic art. Seen in Bremen.

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
Mark Amerika (Boulder, CO) and Daniel Cermak-Sassenrath (DK) contributed a remix of my „Paragraphs on computer art, past and present“ (2010)

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
Boris Mueller and students from Potsdam contributed a long list of tweets that are codes for algorithmic art.

@CarlCanary: 19 Dec 2013
The Bremen show has works by established artists and by students reacting to works I did up to 50 years ago. It’s a great feeling for me.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2013
Proposal: studens’ theses should be good enough to warrant an entry in Wikipedia. The number of clicks determines the grade.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2013
The easiest way to keep you young is not to celebrate your birthday at all, or to repeatedly celebrate the same. 25 times 50, e.g.

@CarlCanary: 17 Dec 2013
Last Sunday, an exhibition of early computer art of mine opened in Bremen along with interactive reactions by young artists. And much more.

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2013
The fascination we experience in a mask is the human-like, but frozen look. So it’s totally non-human. Like Arttifial Intelligence: frozen.

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2013
Mandela’s smile was a living face. He was also dancing, i.e. arguing with his body. The Occupy Fawkes smile, in comparison, is a dead mask.

@CarlCanary: 13 Dec 2013
Lenin predicted in the end to beat capitalists with a bag of money. Mandela beat the white racists with his permanent smile.

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2013
Impossible for me to understand why people don’t see that a human has a living body to be intelligent. Computers don’t. Therefore ...

@CarlCanary: 11 Dec 2013
Stories and anecdotes certainly say more than definitions. In science, however, definitions are needed. Only in science. In math they work.

@CarlCanary: 9 Dec 2013
The rational mind is such a marble. If only people tried to use their naturally given rationality in a rational way. With empathy.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
To ask the question „What is art?“ and hope for an answer, is as stupid as asking „Will computers be intelligent?“ In depends on definition.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
If you think of your brain as a mighty computer, you cannot but conclude that computers will eventually become intelligent. You die before.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
German politicians again try to have the supreme court ban the neo-Nazi party. People’s convictions are not the same as party activities

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
How great it could be to spend the money not for Artificial Intelligence research but for health and nutrition of natural humans. Too simple

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
„Why computers must have bodies in order to be intelligent“ was Hubert Dreyfus’ great essay in 1967. The old & young still don’t believe him

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
Students WANT to believe there can be true artificial intelligence. They don’t want to admit that intelligence is to know we must die.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
Werner Büttner was one of the new wild in the1980s. In times of globalization, his art is national because it’s full of German words

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
In an assignment, I ask the students to pick an artist’s generative art for their inspiration. They ask: can I take Magritte (or similar).

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
German abstract expressionist, Karl Otto Götz, was also experimenting with large grids of fine resolution. Strict mind & wild body. Same.

@CarlCanary: 4 Dec 2013
Scientific and technological thought has deeply penetrated the arts. Computers generate graphic works. (Ohff 1972) that’s 40 years.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
Twice in his “Art is Utopia” (1972), Heinz Ohff writes about early computer art of the mid-1960s. Some kind of accepting it as art.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
Different from the other animals, human existence is mental existence. At any moment, we may break out of what is given. We are utopians.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
André Breton said: The work of art is worth anything only insofar as in it, future’s reflections are trembling.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
There are only two kinds of art: the art present-in-time, and utopian art. (Heinz Ohff) Is utopian art absent-in-time?

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
German writer Heinz Ohff boldly entitled one of his books (in 1972): “Art is Utopia”. It “is”, he says, not: it may be.

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
Can we be and not live towards a concrete utopia? People say the state of capitalism is so miserable because there is no utopia anymore. Bad

@CarlCanary: 28 Nov 2013
Utopia in Greece was a place nowhere. For us: a home you are searching for, hoping for, an ideal, imagination, a stupidity, unreal. Great

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
I often wonder how tolerant students are towards their teachers even though these often talk about the empty or nonsense,

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
Should we bet that the first wars for water will start during the current decade?

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
It is a crazy idea to believe that some measures taken here and there will stop the desastrous climate events. Too late.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
The man from the Philippines at the UN climate change conference in Warsaw proves how nobody is interested in action.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
I bet, somewhere in the world writers are active developing stories about the the early warnings of the climate change now visible.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
Week by week, the impact of Snowden’s NSA disclosures is being felt more. Fabulous what this man has given to the world.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
The preview of the „No message whatsoever“ show at DAM GALLERY Berlin was great. Most pieces already sold.

@CarlCanary: 21 Nov 2013
Someone should soon start the masculist movement. For there will be no balance, the weights will be too heavy on the other side.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
If you take as start the first drawings that some scientists forced their computers into doing in 1963, then Digital Art is now 50 years old

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
Two days until the exhibition „No Message Whatsoever. Frieder Nake & Friends“ opens at DAM GALLERY BERLIN, Neue Jakobstr. 6, Friday 7 p.m.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
Within 20 years, the average time shareholders keep their shares went down from more than 4 years to 22 sec! That’s the state of capitalism.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
They say, governments have lost control of their own secret services. Even if they do, it’s all part of the suppression by bourgeois state.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
Local & national newspapers are convivial media. The Internet is a medium seemingly open & free, really of greatest suppressive potential.

@CarlCanary: 13 Nov 2013
Defend the freedom of the Press! It is our most precious institution even though controlled by capital. Buy the good newspapers.

@CarlCanary: 7 Nov 2013
NSA & UK services demonstrate convincingly, how much the state is an institution of the ruling classes against the suppressed. Thank you.

@CarlCanary: 6 Nov 2013
No end to the beauty of NSA & UK surveillance of the world. Cameron is supposed to defend freedom of press. He is doing the exact opposite.

@CarlCanary: 5 Nov 2013
Mihai Nadin, the culture scholar, in his new book asks „Are you stupid“ and suggests „A second revolution might save America from herself“.

@CarlCanary: 5 Nov 2013
The US don’t have a decent health insurance, their right wing is running wild against it. Europeans willfully destroy their insurances.

@CarlCanary: 5 Nov 2013
Bert Brecht was sarcastic about individual’s capability for planning their own life. Must collectives also fail in planning their affairs?

@CarlCanary: 5 Nov 2013
Allende and British cyberneticians in the early 1970s believed in computers as means to run an economy for the people. Idealists.

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2013
Now is the time for computer people of the world to unite against the typical use of computers. Will they stand up against their own roots?

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2013
Today, 1517, Luther: theses against Catholic church collecting money from people for saving their souls. Now corruption is daily business.

@CarlCanary: 1 Nov 2013
War today in the advanced societies is not primarily about killing people but about steeling and desroying data.

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2013
Any technology is first of all good as a weapon: against the own population, against the other capital, against other countries.

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2013
Proudly, big capital now announces they have been attacking each other in cyberspace all through these years. Had you expected otherwise?

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2013
How beautifully and lovely naive those thousands of innocent citizens in former East Germany who were spying on their neighbors.

@CarlCanary: 29 Oct 2013
Merkel, Obama, NSA, USA, Germany: watch and enjoy the Society of the Spectacle (Debord) performing. Celebrations of nothing.

@CarlCanary: 24 Oct 2013
Months passed since Snowdon’s NSA surveillance revelation. German power elites didn’t pay attention. Now they get excited. Final orgasm.

@CarlCanary: 24 Oct 2013
Great and fantastic! NSA & USA have monitored Germany’s Merkel-Monster’s mobile phone. She is now reduced to nothing but an ordinary woman.

@CarlCanary: 23 Oct 2013
Definitely surrealist, but intriguing: 1000s conspire for one day worldwide to clean & throw away their mobiles. Big sigh of relief.

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2013
Young modern politicians like Obama twitter and show up in other social media. They blatantly violate basic human rights.

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2013
NSA, i.e. USA, have recorded 70 million phone calls in France within one month. This is partnership in our times of technological terror,

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2013
There are still people who believe we could regain the kind of personal freedom enlightenment was fighting for. But it has gone forever.

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2013
Also at Kunsthalle Bremen: „Kunst wäscht den Staub des Alltags von der Seele.“ Picasso

@CarlCanary: 22 Oct 2013
At Kunsthalle Bremen: From this building, you may return insightful for entire life (translated from Rilke)

@CarlCanary: 17 Oct 2013
The working class in the US is so weak they cannot even force the capitalist class and their state into a decent insurance. Very sad.

@CarlCanary: 17 Oct 2013
So the US is „saved“. This affair is a great spectacle between political leadership and finance capital. The latter must stay in command.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
You should definitely read “Why Marx was right” by Terry Eagleton, the brave British Marxist. Don’t be afraid.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
The medical doctor’s existence in capitalism is absurd: if successful, he cures the patient. But then he has no patient anymore.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
Modern concepts of author require notation of the object. Today’s generative notation swallows the object. The end of the author! (Carpo)

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
In digital media, processes of design and realization gradually become one (Mario Carpo). Is this good or bad?

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
John Ruskin is claimed to have thought of the printing press as the origin of all evil that industrialization was still to bring. Romantic!

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
I now have a student in the North of Germany who is a teacher in Sicily. He commutes, more or less. That’s thinking globally.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
Obama received the Peace Nobel Prize. Since then, he and his militia have creatively celebrated high-tech murder by the state.

@CarlCanary: 15 Oct 2013
Two days left to save USA from state bankruptcy. It will not happen, but what a grand spectacle they perform.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
Students & professors. A new semester is upon us. New students, new expectations, new hopes. Lots of frustration, lots of suppression.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
I recommend to read Mario Carpo, Alphabet and Algorithm. Published in English, German translation. Architecture as example for the digital.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
The horse across from my window, fenced in, on a juicy green lawn, runs and jumps like mad. I am sitting and reading. I’m not a horse.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
In a few days, the fifth conference Media.Art.Histories will take place in Riga. Creating media and writing their history. Funny.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
I stopped taking elevators thirty years ago. It is great to take the stairs eight floors up. You don’t need a fitness place.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
San Diego. Always blue skies. The ocean. Only cars, 6 or 8 lanes. Only parking lots surrounded by shops and burgers. And crazy runners

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
In the newly elected German Parliament, the three left parties possess a (narrow) majority. They don’t even think of ruling the country.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
Traditional art is painting the surface, that’s from above. Algorithmic art is painting the subface, that’s from below. Subversive.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
What a human is doing, is unimportant as long as he continues working. – Wols again, who paintedlike mad because his life was short.

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
I never eat. I never sleep. Whatever I do is irrelevant so long as I continue painting. – Wols

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
The universe and art are infinite. They’ll never end. Nature is art. Said Wols, the German artist genius who lived in Paris almost forgotten

@CarlCanary: 7 Oct 2013
Announcing „Frieder Nake & Friends“ to open on 15 Nov. 2013 at DAM GALLERY Berlin. Commemorating 50 years of Algorithmic Art.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
A friend is someone you can share silence with. The two of you enjoy being together in solitude.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Radically new phenomena, appreciated by the young generation, cause the old guys to predict terrible diseases.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
So-called social networks cut you off from yourself. You lose your self in a never ending sea of nothingness.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Solitude is not necessarily loneliness. Solitude may be rich, loneliness is usually sad.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Solitude may be a prerequisite for the experience of awe – one of the most profound experiences in life. (Kirk Schneider)

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
The tinnitus of permanent onlineness is a plague of the mind. Being always online kills thinkin

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Turn off your mobile smart cell thing called phone, turn it off for one day at least.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Being disconnected is new luxury, a relief from the cacophony of permanent twitter, facebook, and other bombardments.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

@CarlCanary: 4 Oct 2013
Have you ever been to a concert where you could not hear the music? You could only see it. The sound waves.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2013
The story your, and some other person’s, smell unite into by mixing when you are sitting close, or even closer, to each other.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2013
The words your fingers tell you when they, ever so slightly, touch another person’s skin. This also now has become dangerous.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2013
The words your eyes whisper when they touch another person’s eyes. It has become dangerous to do so.

@CarlCanary: 12 Sep 2013
In tweets, we express ourselves in such fragmentary ways that no room is left for personality. (Jaron Lanier, Comm. ACM Sept. 2009)

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2013
At times we make ourselves more stupid in order to make an algorithm seem smart. (Jaron Lanier 2009) It’s the trick of Artif. Intelligence

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2013
J. Lanier (defending capitalism) rejects the idea of collective intelligence emerging from computing. We collectively become idiots (2009).

@CarlCanary: 9 Sep 2013
SNOWDON must get the Nobel Peace Prize. So much courage. Do we react in any way in our daily personal habits to his great revelations?

@CarlCanary: 7 Sep 2013
Great: the power-plays. Killer gas in Syria. Russia & China great supporters. The West split. Human rights, surgical strikes. Obama caught.

@CarlCanary: 7 Sep 2013
The old & current interface to the compArt database Digital Art: dada.compart-bremen.de. The new one: relaunch.compart-bremen.de Your opinion?!

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
Susan Grabowski & I have now started „The Algorithmic Dimension in Visual Art“ in collaboration with Kunsthalle Bremen. Watch out for it!

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
4 According to their share of the vote, parties send people to parliament, known & unknown, doesn’t matter. They can be withdrawn any time.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
3 For “voters”, a menu opens with names of parties, known & unknown. Mark up to three.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
2 Introduce new procedures: binary decision (I vote / I don’t vote). Gives a good measure of reputation of parliamentary democracy.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
(3 parts) New voting method! 1 Make voting compulsory. Have heavy fines for abstaining, at least 100 Euro.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
Allow yourself to read one book per week, 100 or 200 pages. Immerse in thinking. Leave the Internet hoppers behind. Thinking is resistance.

@CarlCanary: 5 Sep 2013
Destroying deep reading of books (by permanent use of Internet) leads to not understanding anything any more. Good for the power structure.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2013
Before you engage in reading a fascinating book cover to cover, you check and flip and jump and look. Linearity? Stupid thought!

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2013
Ever since McLuhan, young authors tell us how crazy linear thinking is. I have never met a person who was thinking linearly. Have you?

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2013
Many of my students seem not to be capable of deep reading any more. They lose concentration in favor of hopping & staring. Okay, new world.

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2013
McLuhan’s „The medium is the message“ told us that our thinking changes when we immerse into a new medium (the Internet). Watch out!

@CarlCanary: 1 Sep 2013
For some, the very idea of reading a book is oldfashioned, maybe silly (Nicholas Carr). That’s what the internet does to you. Poor guy.

@CarlCanary: 28 Aug 2013
Of course, don’t vote in Germany’s upcoming election. But don’t claim you don’t trust parties anymore. Have you ever trusted them?

@CarlCanary: 28 Aug 2013
Those who don’t vote in Germany’s upcoming elections often talk of themselves as being the largest party. What a funny sort of masturbation!

@CarlCanary: 26 Aug 2013
Parliament elections coming up in Germany: great hope that 30% or more will not go. Result of general social-democratization.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Current times are obsessed by the idea that art and science are the same somehow. They can be the same when they disappear as such

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
There is scientific creativity and artistic creativity. They differ in the character of their works. The psychology behind may be similar.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
It is a shame that humans cannot create moons. However, the creation of the second moon could be a piece of concept art.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Humans are not capable of „godly“ creativity. I use this word for all that that humankind finds itself to be exposed to: nature.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
The machine is capable of trivial creativity. For it generates something that was not there before. That’s how far it can go.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
People want the robot that they themselves have built and programmed to be called creative in its works. That’s trivial creativity.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Humans always seem to be fascinated by a machine taking over human capacities. Making a robot paint, is creative. The robot is not.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Here is another painting robot, currently under development, but highly advanced, and already incredibly popular: emptykingdom.com/featured/e-dav…

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
It seems as if now people are interested in forcing a machine to be a painter. Why? Like him: alproductions.org/index.htm

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Computational Creativity. This was the topic. Some believed this can be: the computer creative. In the end, two or three were left.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
One student said: Creativity is when you do it. I guess he was right. At least, without generating something, you cannot be creative.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Those students in Switzerland were a select group from Germany. All disciplines. Very different from my local ones. Why?

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Can a country be clean? People say, Switzerland is. Germany also. But Switzerland more. Are the US clean? Or Russia?

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Back from Switzerland. Doing all this for 1 year, 1 message per day. Personal stuff is boring. Must generate a series of unsent messages.

@CarlCanary: 25 Aug 2013
Now in Switzerland. Do high mountains and narrow valleys hamper your free radical thinking, or do they pamper it? Naturalism.

@CarlCanary: 9 Aug 2013
If interested in Artificial Intelligence, read: Hector Levesque, Thinking as Computation, 2012. He is positive but skeptic.

@CarlCanary: 9 Aug 2013
Hector Levesque in „Thinking as Computation“: if trick & fake don’t help passing the Turing Test, then what will? (273) The question of AI.

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann NO.

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2013
Studying at a university – what a marvellous experience it should be. For many it has become a cruelty of harnessing their minds.

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2013
West-Germany always accused East German athlets of all kinds for doping. It was unfair. They have done the same. Be sure: everyone does.

@CarlCanary: 8 Aug 2013
German artist Manfred Mohr recently received the ACM SIGGRAPH Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art. Great.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann The teacher must try that some at least of his/her students reach and get beyond what he/she stand for. Only that is success.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Was für eine grandiose Quelle, dieser Musil.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann This may, or may not be so. It doesn’t really matter what one person of whom we assume he may have existed, was thinking.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann The special and extravagant thoughts we may have in mind are probably best kept as ours.

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013 Replying to @natwitte
@natwitte @LewisBeale You tweet, I tweet, but we don’t have ice-cream. I now see yours, will you see mine?

@CarlCanary: 5 Aug 2013
Extra: A student peeped into my office: The date today is 5 / 8 / 13. Good luck with Fibonacci! Is this a riddle? What would C.P. Snow say?

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2013
Catholic church – great place for hypocrisy, deceit, murder, crime, war, rape, intrigue, suppression – nicely covered up by filthy ideology.

@CarlCanary: 4 Aug 2013
The catholic confessional box must be a great place for sex at least in the mind. Do you believe anyone who claims that’s not true?

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2013
Michel Noll has prepared the facts of computer art at Bell in the 1960s: ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php… Also see: dada.compart-bremen.de

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann You ask because you are afraid I am getting out of my mind losing firm ground under my feet?

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann By their being so young, they will necessarily pass their teacher.

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2013
As a German professor, I must believe in unity of research & teaching. It does exist as a dream only. Some continue dreaming it.

@CarlCanary: 1 Aug 2013
When I started as an academic teacher, students were older than me. Now they are younger & understand the world better than I. Change!

@CarlCanary: 31 Jul 2013
Getting nervous: soon I’ll do a seminar for elite students only: Computational creativity. Will I live up to their level? They must pass me.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2013
Perhaps, there is only nonsense science and research for war (against the own people and others). But students don’t believe me.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2013
Beyond the desktop! Yes, of course. But does anybody believe in gesturing a text? The precision of the mouse will survive greasy fingers.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2013
Lovely: High-tech companies in a middle-East country hire ultra-orthodox women for substantially lower wages. They are glad praying instead.

@CarlCanary: 30 Jul 2013
Do you really believe the universe ever started like a 100 m run starts? If it started, what was there before? Why do we believe such crap?

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2013
The EU prepares for easy conditions for new nuclear plants. Germany still claims to get rid of nuclear power. Germany will use EU as excuse.

@CarlCanary: 25 Jul 2013
„Put politics in command!“ (Mao) is obsolete. Technology is clearly leading politics. What can be done, gets done. Without mercy. Capitalism

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann That is really a pity, great injustice of historic measure.

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2013
A weak state is one basic belief of US ideology. This weak state runs NSA. Almost total control of world communication. Ideology!

@CarlCanary: 23 Jul 2013
I have nothing to hide, the petit-bourgeois react to the fact that their phone and email traffic is monitored. They have no clue of freedom.

@CarlCanary: 22 Jul 2013
NSA, really nice. US spy on allies like FRG + enemies. So does the UK. All also vice versa. Criminals must distrust each other. At maximum.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jul 2013
How can there be true learning in institutions based on mistrust? Schools must be based on infinite trust. Of course, no grading, nothing.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Concepts work in disciplines like maths or physics. Disobedience is our duty anywhere else. A school would be great to teach this

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2013 Replying to @alan_dsh
@alan_dsh Of course, you always have desires, and you should have them. But when a desire is satisfied, accept it as it is.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2013
The good teacher asks the student to do something they both don’t know how to do. The good student happily: great, I’ll do it. No grades.

@CarlCanary: 18 Jul 2013
Classes are over at our university again. Now the real thing starts: grading performance and exams. The great festival of distrust.

@CarlCanary: 17 Jul 2013
What are soccer players thinking when they make the sign of the cross after having scored? Is thunder caused by god playing soccer?

@CarlCanary: 17 Jul 2013
Several days ago, Green Party MP Claudia Roth (Germany) dropped some tears in Istanbul. Like war! she cried. Has never been in any.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013 Replying to @alan_dsh
@alan_dsh Have I achieved anything? In some view: yes. But it seems I am not aware of it. Definitely, my failures are more.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann A hope fulfilled immediately gives birth to new ones (after Wilhelm Busch)

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013 Replying to @alan_dsh
@alan_dsh From where, do you think, are you too far away? If you are far, you can get closer.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013
The end is always already upon us but we never reach it. The end repeating itself and lasting forever. That’s the Samuel Beckett experience.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013
Some heroes of the contradictions of reality: Beckett & Buddha, Marx & Hegel. Singers and philosophers.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013
Science is the perpetual attempt to bring sense into reality. But reality makes no sense. It is nothing but terribly contradictory.

@CarlCanary: 16 Jul 2013
The virtual used to be that that is possible. But now we can perceive it. Machinic virtuality changes the being of reality.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jul 2013
Nothing is more sobering than a hope fulfilled. Nothing is more treacherous than a hope broken down. Says Paul Watzlawick.

@CarlCanary: 11 Jul 2013
Thinking, if unexpressed, doesn’t exist for others. Thinking appears in signs. They are the texture of all thinking, as Peirce tells us.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jul 2013
Some believe, good language is merely helpful for good thinking. Wrong, says PEIRCE: language is essential for thinking.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann As it happens, I am often lacking behind, but I always catch up with the goal of 1 tweet per day.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2013 Replying to @alan_dsh
@alan_dsh The stillness of perception is, indeed, great: no interest anymore but perceiving what the world is offering. Can we achieve this?

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2013 Replying to @teilbibliothek
@daniel_thefox Definitely another view. A more abstract one. A less sensual, however with the aim of hitting the senses.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann The remarks about Kandinsky’s original anarchism. I had not known this.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann At least this is how a good such dangerous journey should end. In the marvelous beauty of the silent dessert.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013 Replying to @teilbibliothek
@daniel_thefox That sounds like relief. It is. But the real work now only starts.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Oh no, we are not. But in the extended sense of Beuys we are. We deal with reality. Quite successfully, at times.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann I will, one day, for sure, a must. An old must.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann ... you quote this from Musil in reply to Bense’s disobedience? In fact, we cannot experience it. Only live it.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013
From Possibility (as ontological category), Being may emerge. For Charles S. Peirce, Possibility is neither Nothing nor Being.

@CarlCanary: 8 Jul 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Wie genau Musil das sah. Alle, die wissen, was sie sagen, sagen es dialektisch.

@CarlCanary: 7 Jul 2013
22 September 2013: election day in Germany. DON’T VOTE! STAY HOME IN PROTEST AGAINST THEM ALL!

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2013
Tilman Baumgaertel in Neue Zuercher Zeitung: The end of utopia. Did you ever believe the Internet was free? Crazy. nzz.ch/aktuell/feuill…

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2013
Amnesty International: Germany must allow many more refugees from Syria into the country! Right they are.

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2013
The dark spot of the continued Egyptian revolution is that final victory over the Muslim Brothers was achieved by the military

@CarlCanary: 5 Jul 2013
Wie konnte nur irgendjemand so blöd sein und glauben, das Internet sei kein Kontrollraum. Arme Romantiker. F. Nake nzz.ch/aktuell/feuill…

@CarlCanary: 4 Jul 2013
EGYPT, EGYPT, EGYPT! The masses of the people have won a second time. Their victory is the start for an arduous process.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jul 2013
We must act, without choice. In acting, we stop reflexion, i.e. semiotic action. That’s cruel to ourselves, semiotic animals that we are.

@CarlCanary: 3 Jul 2013
Semiosis, the sign process, is without beginning and end. We are always already engaged in sign processes. We interrupt them only in acting.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jul 2013
It is in relation and reaction to the others that we save ourselves from freezing and self-ossifying.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jul 2013
In Sept., Germans will vote. Intellectuals discuss how to not vote and turn this into a sign of protest against the politicians’ mud.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jul 2013
What we see on screen is real without doubt. It is more sign than thing. Its meaning only appears in thinking, not on screen. Think screen.

@CarlCanary: 1 Jul 2013
Humans can reflect crystal-clear what they feel only vaguely. Children are best in this. They may be the real philosophers.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2013
NSA and corresponding British & German & Chinese & Russian secret guys: They do their jobs. The technically possible must be done, right?

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2013
Merkel, Obama, Putin – they are in power, that’s all. They may believe in controlling capitalism. Thus they have no moral standards.

@CarlCanary: 27 Jun 2013
Turkey, Brazil, Egypt, Greece, Spain, ... Revolts of immediacy, directness. The civil society The tendency in the world is revolution.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2013
A beautiful and powerful title of Max Bense’s: “Ungehorsam der Ideen” (Disobedience of Ideas). Should this not be the goal of education?

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2013
It would be nice if progress existed in culture & between people. But there is no such. We only project it onto the world to hide regress.

@CarlCanary: 24 Jun 2013
Beauty, that some search for in works of art, is clearly contingent & not essential. It only comes-with (reality) and never alone.

@CarlCanary: 21 Jun 2013
Observing reality is observing movement in all its forms. A multitude opens up! Physical, chemical, mental, semiotical. Always different.

@CarlCanary: 20 Jun 2013
Watch the 2: German Merkel – never interested in anything but stay in power; US president Obama who you once believed would be different.

@CarlCanary: 19 Jun 2013
In times of clicking and staring at, this may be appropriate for some: estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listin…

@CarlCanary: 18 Jun 2013
1 tweet per day for 1 year, that’s what I am doing here. It has already become a bit of a burden. But I will continue. At the end: a book!

@CarlCanary: 18 Jun 2013
It often seems as if professors were mute. They make you submit papers and then you get back nothing but a mark. Terrible.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jun 2013
Only a small number of people you get to know in your life such that you can touch them without being accused of sexual harassment.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jun 2013
Being connected to many. In increasing numbers. that’s nothing but quantity. Is it not crazy? Stay local instead. There you know people.

@CarlCanary: 14 Jun 2013
At Twitter’s Headqiarters: „Reach every person on the planet.“ What would it mean if I did? If anybody else did? Just nothing.

@CarlCanary: 13 Jun 2013
The semiotic object of the sign »GOD« does have an impact on reality, but is not a real thing. Insofar it is different from »UNICORN«.

@CarlCanary: 12 Jun 2013
The Internet invites to permanent and general prostitution in all affairs. Unknowingly, we all take part. What a feast!

@CarlCanary: 11 Jun 2013
We can safely assume that whatever we think is possible in terms of technology, the secret services and police are actually doing.

@CarlCanary: 10 Jun 2013
Will technology liberate or enslave us? Frequent question in scifi. Stupid ideology! Only we liberate us. Only bourgeoisie suppresses us.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jun 2013
The algorithmic principle appearing everywhere in current society and culture. That makes the difference. Music and art have paved the way.

@CarlCanary: 9 Jun 2013
Manfred Mohr 75 on 8 June2013! Great meeting close to his roots in southern Germany. One of the top few in algorithmic art. Congratulations!

@CarlCanary: 9 Jun 2013
ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), on 7 June, opened the exciting retrospective show: „Der Algorithmus des Manfred Mohr. (M.M.’s algorithm)“

@CarlCanary: 6 Jun 2013
Love and melancholia condense to a song, a poem, a picture, to a dance even and finally to just being together. No more is possible.

@CarlCanary: 6 Jun 2013
Humans create great worlds of signs: One way to leave behind the tragedy of not being capable of grasping the whole. More is not possible.

@CarlCanary: 4 Jun 2013
We can never have the whole. It escapes our capacities. Many cannot accept this. Which causes us to make art.

@CarlCanary: 4 Jun 2013
What is a human doing throughout life but explore dialectics of form & contents. How difficult, how enlightening: reason for melancholia

@CarlCanary: 2 Jun 2013
Gutenberg or Turing Galaxy – isn’t this too huge a comparison? Andromeda Galaxy vs. the earthly culture of the printing press?

@CarlCanary: 1 Jun 2013
Banks cannot see the suffering of individual workers producing capital’s profit. They control the multitude’s life for collecting interests.

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2013
We are slow in thinking. We are fast in reacting. We tend to follow the speed of the internet. We could instead slow down. Our choice!

@CarlCanary: 31 May 2013
Deleuze says we need silence for thinking (at times at least). This is what you lose being online all the time. You gain stupidity.

@CarlCanary: 28 May 2013
Relief: to shut off the Internet: silence enabling thinking, thinking instead of reacting. Perhaps say something that is worth the effort.

@CarlCanary: 28 May 2013
Otto Muehl died, the Austrian actionist. His art was nothing but provocation. Blood, suffering, excrements. Now in art’s heaven?

@CarlCanary: 26 May 2013
Classic capital is based on exploitation of labor, finance capital on debts. Profit gives way to interest: exploiting society’s development.

@CarlCanary: 26 May 2013
You should read the new essay by Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Declaration. About victims of finance capital and what to do.

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2013
„open online learning, as defined by you“ U decide what u choose. Great. You are alone. Online. Dreaming of other people. Who also „learn“.

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2013
MOOC! Wasn’t it a good experience to share a room with a dozen eually minded and a good teacher and discuss issues?

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2013
German universities are now reduced to Bachelor production, fast. Professors don’t rebel, students don’t protest. The storm will come.

@CarlCanary: 22 May 2013
56% of young people in Spain are jobless. What a crime. Or consequence of capitalist production. The future of these future-less millions?

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
The current wave of technology-based teaching is the newest form of helping bad teachers to be tolerated.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
U believe in MOOCs? In online bombarding freely floating in the air? Why don’t u prefer down-to-earth teaching by living stock?

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
In social networks: you don’t engage in social relations, you let the technical net do it. The result? Strong individuals. Social drones

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
... a „social network“ that is a technical one. Like drones in war: you don’t kill, you let the machine do the killing.

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
... some however hate it. Facebook on the laptop between teacher and student: a device destroying a social relation for the sake of ...

@CarlCanary: 21 May 2013
It is an example of McLuhan’s „The medium is the message“: the form tells what it is about, no contents. Teachers love it ...

@CarlCanary: 15 May 2013
e-learning is mostly a power relation. Those who learn must surrender to those who control the technology. Ideology and spectacle...

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2013
... a process first and for all between people, not things nor techniques. e-learning is certainly not about learning.

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2013
... making the teacher wonder: why is she coming here at all instead of doing her stuff at home? Learning is a social process ...

@CarlCanary: 14 May 2013
The laptop between student and teacher: a machine celebrated for its communicability is disrupting a precious & curious situation ...

@CarlCanary: 11 May 2013
Data visualizations are often images of graphs. I don’t see what I am supposed to see. An ideology? Am I blind? New ways of seeing?

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
This one you know, I bet: If elections had the potential of changing anything really, they would long have been forbidden.

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
Did you know: “100 years of abstract art”. Conference at Jacobs University Bremen. Anarchism influenced Kandinsky. Great.

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
We love to live, and live in what we do. Capitalism, however, forces people to work in ways and under conditions they hate.

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
Your journey deep into yourself takes you to a great dessert. Marvellous.

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
One way only to escape from the helpless search for final concepts: the radical return into pure corporeality

@CarlCanary: 10 May 2013
All our efforts, are they more than futile attempts to leave behind the fundamental experience of permanent sadness?

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2013
Disobedience of thinking. At least this much each living being can, and actually must, practice. Often, there is no choice.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2013
„Sad and also without concepts.“ that’s a poetic paraphrase for yearning in melancholy.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2013
The technology we know is less and less transparent even though it is all human-made. How does this make sense, if any at all?

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2013
May 1! The day of the working class. The day of class struggle. Reduced now to one holiday not of Christian origin.

@CarlCanary: 30 Apr 2013
Pictures & poems, wonderful they are. They move us, we hate them. Yet, people fight about which is better, text or image.

@CarlCanary: 29 Apr 2013
This is an extra, propaganda for a book and a contribution contained in it. transcript-verlag.de/ts2382/ts2382.…

@CarlCanary: 29 Apr 2013
Beautifully stupid: German Google corrects “Senster” into “Fenster” which is definitely not what you want.

@CarlCanary: 28 Apr 2013
Our emotions often make our rationality look like a fool. Isn’t that great? For both of them

@CarlCanary: 27 Apr 2013
Visualization is grossly over-estimated. But visualization may help making our ideas clear.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2013
I have no problem in trying to understand, since I have stopped looking for understanding; I just perceive. That’s enough.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2013
Great meeting with urbanscreen (leaders in media fassades): Media fassades are the battleground for the thing and the sign, two worlds.

@CarlCanary: 26 Apr 2013
Everything has already been said and nothing is left to be said. But silence is unbearable.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2013
Don’t blame the horrible look of all those presentation slides to the slides. Blame it to the unclear thinking of the speaker.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2013
She says, take a picture of yourself sitting on the toilette, pants down, joint in your mouth, turn it into a tweet. Think it.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2013
The Germans get excited about Mr. Hoenes. They believe he was an honest man till some days ago. How stupid of them. How naïve.

@CarlCanary: 23 Apr 2013
If facebook had existed in Nazi Germany, no Jew would have been kept hidden, nobody would have escaped. (H. Welzer)

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2013
Today, Gestapo or Tscheka are not necessary. Every inhabitant of the net voluntarily delivers his or her data to the world. (Welzer)

@CarlCanary: 19 Apr 2013
How stupid to think you don’t count. Each one of us counts. Each one of us must resist. Otherwise the market destroys everything.

@CarlCanary: 17 Apr 2013
Concern is what we always already want when we engage ourselves in relation to some other, thing or being.

@CarlCanary: 16 Apr 2013
Understanding melancholy as a sorrow that knows of being unavoidable, but in this never loses expectation.

@CarlCanary: 15 Apr 2013
Where could deep love have its origins if not in deep concern, worry and care.

@CarlCanary: 14 Apr 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann My weekend this week is a workshop on concepts for a big mixed media interactive installation from print to digital publication

@CarlCanary: 14 Apr 2013
For 2 months now have I created these statements. You may have sensed the idea: for one year, I post one message per day.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2013 Replying to @telmi
@telmi Der Papst ist ja so was wie ein Medienereignis. Er soll die Katholen wieder froh und heiter machen. Im Vergleich macht er das gut.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann It is good that we are not aware of what we should be aware of.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2013
All that car driving, smart phone using, energy consumption, fancy cloths wearing, shit food eating – incredible destruction. To hell!

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2013
Harald Welzer: Reality is the trivial condition that a finite world does not allow for unlimited growth.

@CarlCanary: 12 Apr 2013
Wirklichkeit besteht in dem schlichten Umstand, dass eine endliche Welt keinen Raum für unendliches Wachstum zulässt (H. Welzer)

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2013
Unbedingt lesen: Harald Welzer, „Selbst denken. Eine Anleitung zum Widerstand“ Pflicht für jede Schule, jede Uni.

@CarlCanary: 10 Apr 2013
We are longing for love because in it we are close to art. But we are not aware of this. That’s good

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2013
CAS/CADE conference in Bristol. Danny Barrantes, Susan Grabowski, myself give our presentation as a video message Tuesday.

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2013
Rational mind does not uncover reality – it creates reality in semioses.

@CarlCanary: 8 Apr 2013
I am suspicious when people justify humane behavior on religious grounds. Should we not be humane without help from any god?

@CarlCanary: 5 Apr 2013 Replying to @telmi
@telmi Eine deutliche Stimme ist bei jedem Menschen gut. Die Stimme des Papstes ist mir schnurz. (Aber das ist völlig egal.)

@CarlCanary: 5 Apr 2013
Power and oppression regularly rely on ideology for their justification. Particularly successful are monotheistic ideologies.

@CarlCanary: 4 Apr 2013
Pizza at Bordeaux’s Pink Flamingo: you’ll never have the same again. Our choice was Ghandi and Aphrodite

@CarlCanary: 3 Apr 2013
Like apes, we jump from one tree to the next, from one rock to the next. But we call this culture.

@CarlCanary: 2 Apr 2013
New: Algorithmik & Aesthetik / Computability & Interactivity / From Print to Digital Publication. agis.informatik.uni-bremen.de
Translated from Romanian by Microsoft

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
Bordeaux’s Semaine Digitale was a beautiful experience. More than 120 at the talk, a small dedicated group for the recode workshop.

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
Words end when we encounter matter. There is the realm of deepest understanding.

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
We think we can imagine space. But we cannot perceive space; we perceive only bodies.

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
Cognition is the path to loneliness. We can bear it only in deep sensitivity and introspection (after Max Bense)

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
Computer intelligence is fascinating for many. They see themselves as machinic. Instead of observing how infinitely different they are.

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
You better be prepared for random events if you want to live your life in reason and control (after Max Bense).

@CarlCanary: 1 Apr 2013
In politics or elsewhere, power cannot be deduced. In power, being is disfigured. Power can only be questioned (after Max Bense).

@CarlCanary: 24 Mar 2013
Everything in the modern world may be different than it is. Necessarily everything is contingent. That’s why strong religion hates modernism

@CarlCanary: 24 Mar 2013
The difference between religion and any other opinion is that religion claims to have direct access to the truth (after Norbert Bolz).

@CarlCanary: 24 Mar 2013
God speaks to believers. But he does not discuss. Dialog is what the devil adds to the boredom of paradise

@CarlCanary: 20 Mar 2013
A religion, when taking itself seriously, cannot be tolerant. Therefore, Islam is still serious about itself (after Norbert Bolz).

@CarlCanary: 20 Mar 2013
Digital art is art in the age of its immaterial produceability (after Walter Benjamin).

@CarlCanary: 20 Mar 2013
Next week in Bordeaux reCoding. Young people studying the surface of algorithmic art by rediscovering the subface (aka algorithm).

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013 Replying to @CarlCanary
@CarlCanary @jotwe You may be right: how can the attempt to generate sense work in the medium of nonsense, in the nonsensical medium?

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Or we need a bright background to do things right.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013 Replying to @underkuerbis
@underkuerbis @MediaSemiosis Media in their history start by people using them for their own sake. Then this ends. The medium is born.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Losing the c of clue may be a sign of trivial dialectics. The dialectics of spelling.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Bald wird er sich wieder zeigen, der Magnolienbaum, an seinem Ort aber in stolzer sanfter Blüte.

@CarlCanary: 19 Mar 2013
Art is the great danger for every human existence. The same is true for love. In it you extinguish yourself.

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2013
No culture is better than any other. Does a culture progress or regress? It changes. Without change, it is not culture.

@CarlCanary: 17 Mar 2013
From the heap of cheap insights: Erotics happens in the mind at least as much as in the body.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2013
You want to get away from where you are, but want to stay as well. You are longing for change, and sad about leaving. Dialectics

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2013
Going to university, is expecting more of yourself than of others. Teachers must provide opportunities for this to happen.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2013
Unveiling a secret amounts to raping it.

@CarlCanary: 15 Mar 2013
A rock never cares. Insofar, rocks are like Nothing. Not really – when they fall down, they may kill you.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Exactly that is what I am not so sure about, being German.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Men like Berlusconi are good for all the other politicians. In his light they all appear bright.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann My different paradise then is pure boredom.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013 Replying to @GLiegmann
@GLiegmann Das Weitermachen ist mir noch selbst definierte Aufgabe. Nicht Überzeugung, nur Erfahrung.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013
Artists often look down upon interpreters of their works. Without others’ interpretations, an artist’s work is nothing.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013
From the heap of cheap insights: We are only then and when others perceive us. How they perceive us is how we are.

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013
Unanfechtbare Wahrheiten gibt es nicht. Und wenn doch, dann sind sie langweilig. (Fontane, Stechlin)

@CarlCanary: 11 Mar 2013
When you think about it, isn’t all experience like that of distance & nearness, far away & close, simultaneously. Dialectics.

@CarlCanary: 7 Mar 2013
Why should I prevent someone from going through the wall if he doesn’t want to take the door?

@CarlCanary: 7 Mar 2013
The genuinely invisible cannot be hidden to the eye’s look.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2013
It’s good that paradise is not open any more. Religious people can, therefore, dream of it.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2013
Each and every word you hear is important. More important even are those words that you create from those heard. Read Sartre.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2013
Without a lot of fire in the eyes, the brains, the behind, a teacher should not do the job.

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2013
Instead of so-called right ideas, wouldn’t ideas as such already make a difference? (Echoing René Magritte)

@CarlCanary: 5 Mar 2013
Different than Wittgenstein: What you cannot speak about, try saying differently.

@CarlCanary: 28 Feb 2013
Capitalism cannot exist without fierce development of grim technology. We are reduced to curb its impact. Unless we fight capitalism.

@CarlCanary: 27 Feb 2013
Two comedians leading in Italy – great conterbalance to European capitalist furor. But not the end yet.

@CarlCanary: 26 Feb 2013
The Greeks, when they were ancient, suffered their fate without escape. Fate has now become technology. We ourselves produce it.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2013
Where are all the birds when the storm is blowing? How do they feel when the snow is falling?

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2013
Many of us love the warm and dry friendly sun. Can you think the world without the cool and wet wonderful rain?

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2013
Beautiful day when your first look out of the window early in the morning reveals the calm white of snow.

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2013
The Vatican Bank appears to be involved in any number of criminal financial activities. Would you expect different?

@CarlCanary: 25 Feb 2013
Germany as one of the richest countries concentrates its wealth in the hands of a tiny group. 40% own only 1% of everything. Scandalous.

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2013
Think of it: is „computational design“ the same as „design as computation“?

@CarlCanary: 20 Feb 2013
Incredible – some don’t know what an algorithm is. The Algorithmic Revolution was a show at ZKM Karlsruhe, 30 Oct 2004 – 31 Jan 2008

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2013 Replying to @MediaSemiosis
@MediaSemiosis ... said Ludwig Wittgenstein.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2013 Replying to @smaratsen88
@jotwe There is, however, lots of nonsense there already. Read Kurt Schwitters!

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2013
We see in the innocent pleasures of early computer art of the 1960s the dawn of present day digital media: algorithmics & aesthetics.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2013
„Social Network“ are destroying sicial relations. One of capitalism’s greatest ideological attacks against human values.

@CarlCanary: 18 Feb 2013
Yellow, red, blue. Do emotions have color? Do you believe any of this? Is any such belief different from religion?

@CarlCanary: 15 Feb 2013
Holy smoke: Pope Benedict giving up. Germans no longer pope. But god continues singing in the rain.

@CarlCanary: 14 Feb 2013
Boycot AMAZON! They only think profit. Treat workers as mean as early capitalism: no right, low wage. Seem to cooperate with neo-Nazis.

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