Re: [microsound] SDIC

[andrew benson <cloudmachine99@xxxxxxxxx>]

What's wrong with algebra, anyways?  
--- Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Sure, but in a world without algebra, poetry would
> probably still be 
> > pretty
> > much the same thing.
> 
> disagree...mostly because of 'sensitive dependence
> on initial 
> conditions'...i.e., remove one small seemingly
> insignificant element 
> from a system and you will have a completely
> different system at some 
> point in time...
> example: without algebra you wouldn't have had the
> Bourbaki; without 
> Bourbaki you wouldn't have had OULIPO; without
> OULIPO there wouldn't 
> have been Calvino, Perec, Queneau...
> as a result poetry might well NOT have been the
> 'same thing'...
> 
> 
>
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Andrew Benson
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