Das Kraftfuttermischwerk Beiträge

Ein von Kristian Ulrich Larsen und Olafur Haraldsson superschön inszeniertes Video, in dem ein Lichtschweif über die Landschaft Islands gleitet und mit Licht beschenkt. Den Text dazu gibt es von keinem Geringeren als Nikola Tesla. Und das nicht grundlos.

The text used for the narration of “Passing Through” is part of a speech Serbian scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known than figures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more or less the father of much of our modern technology, since he among other things developed the foundations of the European electrical system based on alternating currents and the principles of wireless radio communication. At the time he was deeply influenced by the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, believing that the world should be conceived as a whole where everything is interconnected influencing each other. And that energy is a force that runs through everything be it inorganic matter, organisms or human consciousness. According to this line of thought every single action has universal consequences, not unlike what the father of modern chaos theory Edward Lorenz in the 1960’s termed ‘the butterfly effect’.

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Ich weiß nicht mal, welchen Namen man diesem Dings in Deutschland mal gab, bei mir heist dieser Wurm Zini. In bunt.

(Direktlink, via Kottke).