Friday, September 30, 2016

The History of Writing (Jack Kilmon)

http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm


Language existed long before writing, emerging probably simultaneously with sapience, abstract thought and the Genus Homo. In my opinion, the signature event that separated the emergence of palaeohumans from their anthropoid progenitors was not tool-making but a rudimentary oral communication that replaced the hoots and gestures still used by lower primates.  

The transfer of more complex information, ideas and concepts from one individual to another, or to a group, was the single most advantageous evolutionary adaptation for species preservation.  

As long ago as 25,000-30,000 years BP, humans were painting pictures on cave walls.

Written language was the product of an agrarian society.  

For the next step toward the development of an alphabet, we must go to Egypt where picture writing had developed sometime near the end of the 4th millennium BC.

Since the Late Pleistocene Humans Were Already Radically Transforming the Earth (Jackson Landers, June 7, 2016)

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/new-research-shows-late-pleistocene-humans-transforming-habitats-180959324/?no-ist

According to the paper, those four major periods of habitat transformations by humans include the Late Pleistocene dispersal of humans nearly everywhere around the globe; the spread of agriculture beginning in the Early Holocene; the colonization of the world’s islands; and the expansion of urbanization and trade beginning in the Bronze Age.



Three-age system

The three-age system in archaeology and physical anthropology is the periodization of human prehistory and history into three consecutive time periods, named for their respective tool-making technologies:
  • The Stone Age: The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 8700 BCE (or BC) and 2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking. 
  • The Bronze Age
  • The Iron Age:  The start of the Iron Age proper is considered by many to fall between around 1200 BCE to 600 BCE, depending on the region. In most parts of the world, its end is defined by the widespread adoption of writing, and therefore marks the transition from prehistory to history. (wikipedia)


Bronze AgeNeolithicStone Age
Dates are approximate, consult particular article for details

The Neolithic AgeEra, or Period, or New Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of the Middle East, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4,500 and 2,000 BC.
Traditionally considered the last part of the Stone Age, the Neolithic followed the terminal Holocene Epipaleolithic period and commenced with the beginning of farming, which produced the "Neolithic Revolution". It ended when metal tools became widespread (in the Copper Age or Bronze Age; or, in some geographical regions, in the Iron Age). The Neolithic is a progression of behavioral and cultural characteristics and changes, including the use of wild and domestic crops and of domesticated animals. (wikipedia)

Human timeline


Thursday, September 29, 2016

When Did the Anthropocene Begin…and Why Does It Matter? (Ian Angus, Sep, 2015)

http://monthlyreview.org/2015/09/01/when-did-the-anthropocene-beginand-why-does-it-matter/

The first Early Anthropocene proposal was advanced by U.S. geologist William Ruddiman, who argues that the Anthropocene started when humans began large-scale agriculture in various parts of the world between eight and five thousand years ago. Those activities, he believes, produced carbon dioxide and methane emissions that raised global temperatures just enough to prevent a return to an Ice Age.9
Other Early Anthropocene arguments suggest dating the Anthropocene from the first large-scale landscape modifications by humans, from the extinction of many large mammals in the late Pleistocene, from the formation of anthropogenic soils in Europe, or from the European invasions of the Americas in the 1500s. Some archeologists propose to extend the beginning of the Anthropocene back to the earliest surviving traces of human activity, which would take in much of the Pleistocene, and others have suggested that the entire Holocene should simply be renamed Anthropocene, since it is the period when settled human civilizations first developed.
This outpouring of proposals reflects humanity’s long and complex relationships with the earth’s ecosystems—many of the proposed beginnings are significant turning points in those relationships, and deserve careful study. (ibid)
關鍵是農業數千年以至晚近工業數百年作為一種生活方式給自然帶來的傷害和人的墮落

所以返璞歸真是回到農業以前的遊牧逐水草而居餐風露宿席地而臥(homeless cosmopolitan, a la Jerry Zaslove, 2000) (High Plains Drifter, Clint Eastwood, 1973) (and of course, Jack Reacher)

換句話說回到關外是唯一的路

而那座有名的萬里長牆恰恰就是holocene的象徵不是用來防關外蠻族南侵是用來擋牆裡順民脫北

依此漢民族的內心結構於農業群居一切人倫規矩皆順此馴化而來

景陽崗早已變成景點武松早已無虎可打大象和北極熊只能孤獨死在動物園犀牛只能是尤內斯庫筆下文學象徵不能活生生非洲戲水

而你告訴我

我們生活在偉大的當代文明每晚睡前要刷牙打砲以前要洗手成功的定義是貪污不要被抓到政治正確的人住在Fiddler's Green

以上說明holocene乃至anthropocene人不只糟蹋自然也彼此糟蹋

台灣無關外可回大家只能困在糞坑以踐踏異己墊高自己呼吸所謂新鮮空氣為樂


通常我們對時間的想像至多二三十年能想到半世紀以上已不得了遑論一世紀兩世紀三世紀以上但地質學告訴我們應該想一萬年這一萬年來人有甚麼變化甚麼其實根本沒有變化


自戀絕非1960才發生人的自我中心是造作之源惡之始順此自毀互毀共毀是必然的這說明了人之為生物實可惡可悲可笑可棄可厭簡而言之該死還要裝模作樣讀史要讀無名氏檯面上這些權貴名嘴屁眼你打算從他她們的那個小洞裡看到浩瀚星辰嗎

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

人生配額

比如說下放勞改一月一兩豬油納粹集中營一天一碗清湯一片土司比如說2016台灣一人一生一支牙膏一條內褲一很重要海德格說每人一生只能想一件事說一句話洗一次澡說一次謊貪一次汙坐一次飛機睡一次覺讀一本書喝一杯酒活一次死一次愛一次恨一次比如說法官大大王小明說他這輩子唱台灣國歌的配額已經用完所以接下來只能唱日本國歌(2016-10-22)

company business (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH47UAEuHIE

懷念那個飛機上有吸菸區的文明的年頭

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

narrow margin (1990)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ_MKeGZfaM

绝地逃亡 skiptrace (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s8yxL3ef0Q

不是絕地也不是逃亡是拍得很成龍的旅遊廣告一周遊西伯利亞走到蒙古穿過戈壁沙漠到桂林泛舟雲南玩泥巴再回到香港飲茶

如何成為流芳萬世的台灣網軍意見領袖

識字及個性二百五即可勝任門檻極低淘汰率極高故須有特色為別人不敢不願不忍不齒為比如說連喝過期三周的牛奶三周或效唐牛當眾脫褲在電梯口大便須深諳兵法懂得製造矛盾對立就有論述挑撥發揮空間且擅造勢附勢收割勢須為表演家咬字清楚好像老外說中文表情瞬變翻臉翻書須文武雙全槍桿子出政權的硬道理四海皆準意思是說古有孟嘗君養食客三千今有領袖豢收數小弟三千

台北市長和台北州長的差別, 下列何者正確?

1. 等同於洪興和東興的差別
2. 等同於過期三周和四周的牛奶的差別
3. 前者轄區包含後者
4. 後者轄區包含前者
5. 以上皆非

Monday, September 26, 2016

危城 (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1PcRKISAOY

動作很多時間過得很慢麵煮得不錯中文說得像老外危城像今日台灣幾天後騎馬進普城的南方軍是洪金寶

Thursday, September 22, 2016

秋分

  • 一候雷始收聲:鮑氏曰:,二月陽中發聲,八月陰中收聲,入地則萬物隨入也。
  • 二候蟄蟲培戶:淘瓦之泥曰壞,細泥也,按《禮記》注曰:壞,益其蟄穴之戶,使通明處稍小,至寒甚,乃墐塞之也。
  • 三候水始涸:《禮記》注曰:「水本氣之所為」,春夏氣至,故長,秋冬氣返,故涸也。

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Network

1. Network Science, by Albert-László BarabásCambridge University Press, Aug 5, 2016

為什麼台灣沒有鬼沒有僵屍沒有喪屍

因為朱延平和
豬哥亮沒有拍

因為台灣的化妝師
還在國外進修

因為台灣人稠氣盛裝神弄鬼
把這些鬼名堂都嚇跑了

因為台灣疾管局早在
空氣和水裡加了Zombrex

因為只有香港
有鬼和僵屍

因為九叔和他的徒弟們
沒有來台灣抓鬼

因為政治正確的地方
沒有鬼沒有僵屍沒有喪屍

圍城五日之後

走快會喘
咳不出的痰
遂決定開始書寫

甚麼是動作(action)
為什麼好看的動作片
一定要Jason Statham才算

因為他是瘋狂的SOB

那個人決定不要勃起
臥床(bed-ridden)卅年

這算不算動作

他算不算瘋狂的SOB

人類的未來
寄望於更多動作
還是少一點動作

還是沒有動作

咳不出的痰
居然想著這麼偉大的事
Jason笑到屌都歪了

於是
我們終於知道

笑到屌都歪了
是一種動作

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

唐伯虎 (1470-1524)








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLpNA-mjyM4

《絕命詩》
身在陽間有散場,
死歸地府又何妨。
陽間地府俱相似,
只當飄流在異鄉。

《桃花庵歌》
桃花塢里桃花庵,桃花庵下桃花仙。
酒醒只在花前坐,酒醉還來花下眠。
半醒半醉日復日,花落花開年復年。
但願老死花酒間,不願鞠躬車馬前。
車塵馬足富者趣,酒盞花枝貧者緣。
若將富貴比貧賤,一在平地一在天。
若將貧賤比車馬,他得驅馳我得閑。
別人笑我太瘋癲,我笑他人看不穿。
不見五陵豪傑墓,無花無酒鋤作田。

《把酒對月歌》
李白前時原有月,惟有李白詩能說。
李白如今已仙去,月在青天幾圓缺?
今人猶歌李白詩,明月還如李白時。
我學李白對明月,白與明月安能知!
李白能詩復能酒,我今百杯復千首。
我愧雖無李白才,料應月不嫌我丑。
我也不登天子船,我也不上長安眠。
姑蘇城外一茅屋,萬樹桃花月滿天。

Monday, September 19, 2016

Unknown (2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5LkwxGUeqk

Saturday, September 17, 2016

exam (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2C-0iGHIgCk

zombieland (2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzQ66p8Vfdk

now, this is the funniest one

day of the dead (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAMxSPSJCUU

this one was a lyrically classic 

it happened, for the first time, in 1985, then, will happen again in 2017, of course, now we've got Zombrex, even Zombrex implant, but surely, it will keep mutating and evolving

Friday, September 16, 2016

Dead Rising: Endgame (2016)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD0l7KL22-I

Dead Rising: Watchtower (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBsgbXF3N-8&t=3438s

The Rezort / Generation Z (2015)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxbPb1GjY4g

宋永毅文集 etc etc

http://nova001.blogspot.tw/2015/06/blog-post_28.html

https://botanwang.com/taxonomy/term/4542

https://plus.google.com/100074035785709567073/posts/Rb6Wm4BvG5W

https://plus.google.com/100074035785709567073/posts/cQvVwiRBMTG

http://wenku.baidu.com/view/73a994eff8c75fbfc77db2b2.html

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=f5b0090663feeada&id=F5B0090663FEEADA%21925

On Buddhism (西谷 啓治 Keiji Nishitani, 1900-1990) (2006)

Six lectures by eminent Buddhist thinker Keiji Nishitani reflecting on Buddhism for the modern world.

On Buddhism presents the first English-language translation of a series of lectures by Keiji Nishitani (1900–1990), a major Buddhist thinker and a key figure in the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy. 

Originally delivered in the early 1970s (1971-1974), these lectures focus on the transformation of culture in the modern age and the subsequent decline in the importance of the family and religion. Nishitani’s concern is that modernity, with its individualism, materialism, and contractual ethics, is an insufficient basis for human relationships. With deep insight into both Buddhism and Christianity, he explores such issues as the nature of genuine human existence, the major role of conscience in our advance to authenticity, and the needed transformation of religion. Nishitani criticizes contemporary Buddhism for being too esoteric and asks that it “come down from Mt. Hiei” to reestablish itself as a vital source of worthy ideals and to point toward a way of remaining human even in a modern and postmodern world. (amazon) (kindle 2016-9-16)

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Paul Jozef Crutzen (b 1933)

DutchNobel Prize-winning, atmospheric chemist.

In 2000, in IGBP Newsletter 41, Crutzen and Eugene F. Stoermer, to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology, proposed using the term anthropocene for the current geological epoch. In regard to its start, they said:
To assign a more specific date to the onset of the "anthropocene" seems somewhat arbitrary, but we propose the latter part of the 18th century, although we are aware that alternative proposals can be made (some may even want to include the entire holocene). However, we choose this date because, during the past two centuries, the global effects of human activities have become clearly noticeable. This is the period when data retrieved from glacial ice cores show the beginning of a growth in the atmospheric concentrations of several "greenhouse gases", in particular CO2 and CH4. Such a starting date also coincides with James Watt's invention of the steam engine in 1784. 
                                                                              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_J._Crutzen

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/living_in_the_anthropocene_toward_a_new_global_ethos/2363/

https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/alter-net/former-ss/2007/05-09.2007/steffen/literature/ambi-36-08-06_614_621.pdf

http://www.casinapioiv.va/content/dam/accademia/pdf/acta18/acta18-crutzen.pdf

http://www.environmentandsociety.org/exhibitions/anthropocene/huge-variety-possibilities-interview-nobel-laureate-paul-crutzen-his-life

http://downtoearth.danone.com/2013/01/09/paul-jozef-crutzen-the-age-of-the-anthropocene/

圍城五日

1. how to live an evidence-based good life? 

2. Robert Galatzer-Levy (2016) unavailable yet   (after forty years of chaos, of course, still in chaos)

3. 人時地定向感      orientation to ...

time  ----  the prison diary, the personal journal, the un-official  
chronicle, the Sunday historian's history book, the anecdotes, ruins of the past, the tomb, the graveyard, the migrating birds, the cicada
                         
space  ----  the GPS, the map, the landmarks, the street corners, the dark alleys, the trees, the hills and mountains, the lake, the beach, the sky, the stars

person  ----  the face, the smell, the faded photo, the worn-out furniture, the memory, the laughter, the tears, the hate, the wounds, the scars, the gratitude and remembrance, the forgetting, the unable to forget, nor to remember

4. http://www.chineseclassic.com/LauTzu/LaoTzu01.htm

5. lean and casual   這是evidence-based good life的高標

6. 沒有脫離系統    但沒有打算信賴系統

7. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5viXpvvYMYELU5ZME9JcVdTNlE/view?usp=sharing

8. 9/16 3:30 AM. full moon, out there

9. 在anthropocene    自然     是人去決定   去定義    去操弄    去掠奪    去糟蹋的    直到自然反撲    毀滅性的反撲     精神分析講的是     被工具理性絕對主宰下     人的潛意識反撲     毀滅性的反撲    上述兩個毀滅性的反撲加起來     天地無情     人亦無情    就是我們的命運     

10. 敬畏鬼神    就是敬畏天地    你沒聽過部落的老人說    那是他們的聖山嗎    

11. 混沌理論告訴我們一件事     就是線性邏輯有它的限制    過了那個限制     那個地方     你無以明之      控制不了   預測不了   你越造作越糟      你只能點起一柱香默禱

12. 我先前說     讓一個人來到湖邊      我現在越來越悲觀     他回不到湖邊了     不管醒著      還是夢中     我說的湖      當然不是日月潭      也不是人工挖的大池塘      或大壩後的水庫     是那種天地孕育的      人跡罕至的       無名的湖      來到湖邊       是在湖邊    坐下來三天三夜     抽掉半包菸      不是來到湖邊的旅館      只是來到     只是駐足    不是占據    不是擁有     我們可以說     他需要有回到湖邊的回憶      才能撐得下去    

13. 9/16  1:57 PM.   bad cold     藍調不停      喝水不停     喪屍不停        

14. 9/16  3:46 PM.   not gone yet, fatigue, generalized soreness, less chest tightness, less phlegm, not sure, low grade fever, 1000 ml hot water q2h, nap q2h, 

15. 文革五十年後    補宋永毅     文革機密檔案:廣西報告 (2014)

16. 精神分析處理的歷史     是怎麼樣的歷史      精神分析注定遲到       至少二三十年      所以它處理的     是已被湮滅的歷史     是歷史對人內心造成的後續的影響     是事後的事後的歷史    不看重具體發生的經過     以幽微的想像取勝    基本上還能不能稱之為歷史     是有很大問題的

17. 9/16 11:19 PM.  feels better, but D got it too. 

18. 9/17 2:41 AM. moon hazy, in the cloud, out there. 

19. 9/17 3:40 AM. 起雨

20. 9/17 10:12 AM. 無風  小雨

21. About Energy
      
      fire  ---  probably more than 1.5 million years ago
      agriculture --- began about ten thousand years ago (i.e. holocene)
      watermill --- two thousand years ago
      windmill --- one thousand years ago
      the organic energy regime --- lasted until the 18th century

      the fossil fuel energy regime

      In late 18th-century England the harnessing of coal exploded the constraints of the organic 
      energy regime. With fossil fuels, humankind gained access to eons of frozen sunshine --- 
      maybe 500 million years' worth of prior photosynthesis. 

      By 1870 we used more fossil fuel energy each year than the annual global production from all   
      photosynthesis.
      Our species has probably used more energy since 1920 than in all of prior human history.
      In the half century before 1950, global energy use slightly more than doubled.
      Then in the next half century, it quintupled from the 1950s level.
      Since 1950 we have burned around 50 million to 150 million years' worth of it.

      Coal outstripped biomass to become the world's primary fuel by about 1890. 
      King coal reigned for about 75 years, before ceding the throne to oil in about 1965.

      King oil's reign, now 50 years in duration, will likely prove to be as brief as coal's, but that 
      reamins to be seen. 

      Global Commercial Energy Mix, 2013
                      Oil                   33%
                      Coal                30%
                      Natural Gas     24%
                      Hydroelectric    7%
                      Nuclear             4%

      In 1960, most of the world outside of Europe and North America still used little energy. 
      In the 50 years after 1965, China increased its energy use by 16 times, India by 11, Egypt by 10 
      or 11. Meanwhile US energy use rose by about 40%.

      The US accounted for 1/3 of  the world's energy consumption in 1965, but only 1/5 in 2009; 
      China accounted for only 5% in 1965, but 1/5 in 2009, and in 2010 surpassed the US to become
      the world's largest energy user.

      The creation and spread of fossil fuel society was the most environmentally consequential 
      development of modern times.     

22. 時間     靜止在那個瞬間     不過      我們知道      那是不可能的

23. 喪屍為什麼    去過日本韓國   還沒有來台灣    因為我們對毀滅的想像   還在前現代    還沒有到那個地步    

24. 死前    再坐一次飛機    去那不重要

25. 死前    當然    不再投票    也許    再刷牙三次

26. 所以    死前    沒有    太多事好做

27. 可能    再看    一本Jack Reacher 

28. 9/17 12:56 PM.   仍然無風    無雨     吃稀飯

29. 圍城     表示出不了城     像瘟疫中的俄蘭城

30. 一切     都發生在圍城中

31. 告訴我    那一部喪屍片   值得看第二遍    沒有    對吧     可見拍到現在    浪費了多少化妝   拍不出形上的趣味

32. 喪屍移動的速度     由何決定     為什麼有的慢     有的快     

33. 當代文明    是用生產鏈     供應鏈     行銷     廢棄垃圾處理     維持運作的    環環相扣     如果其中環節       無法彌補的出了問題      就會整個崩塌下來    我們就回到鑽木取火    看北極星辨識方向     平均每天移動五十公尺     就像我現在一樣

34. 9/17 3:47 PM. 中雨   無風

35. 9/17 4:56 PM. well, it went north

36. 9/17 9:56 PM. raining, no wind, Deleuze's metaphysics is about continuity (Brent Adkins, 2015, pp. 1-3)

37. 9/18 12:39 PM. two ER. one adm, one pending. 

38. 9/18 6:05 PM. today is today. tomorrow is tomorrow. 

39. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_-kb4vpIkY    a nice and interesting British guy

40. 9/19 2:16 AM. sleepless, bronchitis

41. 9/19 12;15 PM. tired

42. 9/19 1:07 PM. 2 ER. 2 consults (by now). 1 critical (ARDS) in ICU (MMT 100 mg per day, not sure if it was related)

43. 9/19 4:50 PM. 4 consults (by now). break, till 6:00 PM. 

44, 9/20 12:55 AM. seven hours to go

45. 9/20 10:24 AM. 圍城五日之後  仍在城裡  沒有打算離城  所以圍與不圍  沒有差別