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V. Bühlmann, L. Hovestadt (Hrg.):
"Symbolizing Existence-Metalithikum III";
Birkhäuser, Wien, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-0356-0378-1; 255 S.

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Symbolizing Existence selects one particular concept from the torrid wasteland of purely technical language, and considers its larger philosophical implications: electro-chemical doping and its application in semi-conductor technology. The word `doping´ derives from Latin dotare, for `to endow,´ or `to bestow.´ How to think of this strange practice, which is the giving of dispositions that are to condition what will be recorded as data? Today, we find a constitutive asymmetry between reading and writing not only when dealing with text and interpretation, but also in every situation where data is being recorded and (dis)played. This third volume of the Metalithikum series pays attention to this irritatingphenomenon that thwarts the categorical distinction between the natural and the human sciences. It contains articles on a.o. a digital architectonics, on the creative becoming of musical notation, on the joint origin of signs for numbers and letters, on languages as philological objects and media studies as an epistemological field, on luxuriation in food and beverage design based on artificial photosynthesis, on Mallarmé´s number-that-cannot-be-another, on mastership vis-à-vis of chance, and on the role of cryptography in the baroque notion of a line.

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Symbolizing Existence selects one particular concept from the torrid wasteland of purely technical language, and considers its larger philosophical implications: electro-chemical doping and its application in semi-conductor technology. The word `doping´ derives from Latin dotare, for `to endow,´ or `to bestow.´ How to think of this strange practice, which is the giving of dispositions that are to condition what will be recorded as data? Today, we find a constitutive asymmetry between reading and writing not only when dealing with text and interpretation, but also in every situation where data is being recorded and (dis)played. This third volume of the Metalithikum series pays attention to this irritatingphenomenon that thwarts the categorical distinction between the natural and the human sciences. It contains articles on a.o. a digital architectonics, on the creative becoming of musical notation, on the joint origin of signs for numbers and letters, on languages as philological objects and media studies as an epistemological field, on luxuriation in food and beverage design based on artificial photosynthesis, on Mallarmé´s number-that-cannot-be-another, on mastership vis-à-vis of chance, and on the role of cryptography in the baroque notion of a line.

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