Note To Self Tie String Around Finger
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Note to Self: Tie String Around Finger
This book is about magic. It is about the persistence of faith, the tenacity of innocence. It is about doowap music and covered bridges and home made ice cream and New England cemeteries and the Bible and Elvis Presley and baseball and Allen Ginsberg and blues and rope swings and orgasms. It is about the dark, silent, ever-flowing river of enchantment and wonder. It is about life and nothing else.
Signs of the Inka Khipu
Author: Gary Urton
language: en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date: 2009-03-06
In an age when computers process immense amounts of information by the manipulation of sequences of 1s and 0s, it remains a frustrating mystery how prehistoric Inka recordkeepers encoded a tremendous variety and quantity of data using only knotted and dyed strings. Yet the comparison between computers and khipu may hold an important clue to deciphering the Inka records. In this book, Gary Urton sets forth a pathbreaking theory that the manipulation of fibers in the construction of khipu created physical features that constitute binary-coded sequences which store units of information in a system of binary recordkeeping that was used throughout the Inka empire. Urton begins his theory with the making of khipu, showing how at each step of the process binary, either/or choices were made. He then investigates the symbolic components of the binary coding system, the amount of information that could have been encoded, procedures that may have been used for reading the khipu, the nature of the khipu signs, and, finally, the nature of the khipu recording system itself--emphasizing relations of markedness and semantic coupling. This research constitutes a major step forward in building a unified theory of the khipu system of information storage and communication based on the sum total of construction features making up these extraordinary objects.
The Claim of Reason
Author: Stanley Cavell
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 1999-07-01
The first three parts of this book deal with the tension between ordinary language philosophy (as envisioned in the writings of J.L. Austin and the later Wittgenstein) and the 'tradition.' In the fourth part the author explores the problem of skepticism and takes a broad view of its consequences.