{"id":600,"date":"2016-09-06T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T21:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/?p=600"},"modified":"2016-09-30T19:02:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T19:02:47","slug":"funes-the-memorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/funes-the-memorious\/","title":{"rendered":"Funes the Memorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nHe was, let us not forget, almost incapable of ideas of a general, Platonic sort. Not<br \/>\nonly was it difficult for him to comprehend that the generic symbol dog<br \/>\nembraces so many unlike individuals of diverse size and form; it bothered<br \/>\nhim that the dog at three fourteen (seen from the side) should have the same<br \/>\nname as the dog at three fifteen (seen from the front). His own face in the<br \/>\nmirror, his own hands, surprised him every time he saw them.<\/p>\n<p>With no effort, he had learned English, French, Portuguese and Latin.<br \/>\nI suspect, however, that he was not very capable of thought. To think is to<br \/>\nforget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of<br \/>\nFunes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.<\/p>\n<p>from <b>Funes the Memorious<\/b>, Jorge Luis Borges, <em>Labyrinths<\/em>, Translated by J.E.I., pp 69-74\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/gallery3.constantvzw.org\/var\/resizes\/SICV%40hackersandddesigners\/P1018339.JPG?m=1470134082\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/gallery3.constantvzw.org\/var\/resizes\/SICV%40hackersandddesigners\/P1018355.JPG?m=1470134196\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Images from <a href=\"http:\/\/hackersanddesigners.nl\/#\/Networked_Labor\">Networked Labour Workshop<\/a> conducted at the Hackers &#038; Designers Summer Sessions, Amsterdam, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was, let us not forget, almost incapable of ideas of a general, Platonic sort. Not only was it difficult for him to comprehend that the generic symbol dog embraces so many unlike individuals of diverse size and form; it bothered him that the dog at three fourteen (seen from the side) should have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicv.activearchives.org\/logbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}