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TEXTUS		   Texts expanding on the ideas and direction of Abandon: 
 
(also read: Who or What is Abandon?) 
 
 
Traditions (in art)   The extra-museal approach to art implies the abandonment of some traditions, not so much the artistic traditions however, but mainly the traditional social cultural circumstances such as scarcity; museality and art trade.
 
On- Creativity   Texts related to the subject of creativity
 
On- Duchamp   Texts about this influential artist
 
Amorph   Amorphous interactivity, adapting to user interaction. 
Sometimes a 'formless' - linear approach - is prevalent to a designer's behaviouristic assumption in an interactive environment.
 
Synthesis   Synthesis & technological synthesis: media art as a possible mediator between the rational and spiritual dialectic forces.
 
 
 
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TEXTUS		   Interesting texts from various sources:
 
 
    The following links are all local, but mostly from other sources and the texts are re-edited. This out of tiredness with dead global links and the bad HTML editing of much theoretical WEB-pages. The original URL's will be provided in the documents.  
 
Eureka   Edgar Allan Poe's profetical essay - Prose Poem, as he called it.  
 
Über den Tod   Über den Tod (about death) from Arthur Schopenhauer. 
It seems that the text is an excerpt (adaptation) of his famous 'World As Will And Idea' (Germany -1819), maybe ment to be a 'popular scientific' (or populistic) version of his philosophy, easy to carry and cheap to obtain.
 
Nitrous Oxide   "Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide" 
By William James - 1882
 
Orch Or   'Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selection' 
Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose wrote an interesting article about the relation of quantum physics and consciousness.
 
 
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