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At 05:08 PM 6/2/2007, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At 03:54 PM 6/2/2007 -0500,
Natasha wrote:<br><br>
>Can anyone translate this statement by António <br>
>Cerveira Pinto into plain speech?<br>
><br>
>"What I meant by "cognitive issues" is not <br>
>related so much with "cognitive processes" as to <br>
>"cognitive environments". That is: BioArt (which <br>
>is just a provisional safe expression to deal <br>
>with a much open field -- cognitive arts --) <br>
>will not go back to typical modern/contemporary <br>
>de-constructivist strategies as long as it keeps <br>
>close to cognitive strategies, either performed <br>
>by humans alone, or by humans assisted by <br>
>nanobots, computational networks and so on. What <br>
>I mean by "cognitive" in relation to art is the <br>
>need that post-contemporary art keep in mind <br>
>that the new techne that post-contemporary is a <br>
>part of, cannot runway from knowledge and cognitive strategies
anymore."<br><br>
"Pull your head out of your ass and think a
bit."</blockquote><br><br>
Ha-ha! From the academic to the mundane. :-) However crisp
and cogent, your phrasing simply will not work for the book's
essay.<br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
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<dd><a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts &
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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