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Episode 127: Leaving the Mechanical Dollhouse: On Abeba Birhane's "The Impossibility of Automating Ambiguity"

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The Digital in Birhanese Thinking

The flash of insight that defines the creative gesture becomes in itself kind of the digital aspect of the analog world. That's why we don't want to man a key in either or because you can't account for creativity in a world of pure becoming. The dove comes in from the outside and comes out from the center. There's a kind of a digital leap involved in that, but that's not the digitality of the technologies predicated on control and the assertion of absolute categories. I've been an image. You don't have numbers yet when you all you have is zero and one,. So it makes sense. But here I think you've located and this is where I find the digital

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