jfreijser
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Human Resources |
| Occupation | Web Manager |
| Location | Hoogmade, Netherlands |
| Introduction | All my interests can be summarized by the phrase Technics & Civilization: Man and machine, Man = machine = man ? And then, not just from a synchronous point of view, but through history, from the first moments of self-consciousness to hi-tech (or should I rather call it ‘non-tech’?) society of today. I'm interested in information technology, computers and the history of computing, the combustion engine, automotive machines, motorcycles. Main influences: Aldous Huxley, Samuel Butler, William Morris, Heidegger, Lewis Mumford, Robert Pirsig, John Berger, Douglas Engelbart, George Dyson. Without understanding, there is no technology. If you refuse to engage with technology, technology refuses to engage with you. Our own language is technology, our speech is too. Writing is technology and technology is culture. The first flint with man-made sharp edge is technology; it was the first difference that was consciously made to make a difference. Quotes: - One truly understands only what one can create (Giambattista Vico) - Any difference that makes a difference (Gregory Bateson’s definition of Information ) |
| Interests | Technics & Civilization, History of technology, language, culture, music, jazz, drumming, art, film, modern dance, riding my motorcycle |
| Favorite movies | Man with the Movie Camera, Citizen Kane, Seven Samurai, Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, Im Laufe der Zeit (Kings of the Road), Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser), Chinatown, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heimat |
| Favorite music | Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Bach, Ian Dury, Esra Dalfidan, World music, Irish folk, Indian, African |
| Favorite books | Brave New World, After Many A Summer, Slaughterhouse 5, De donkere kamer van Damocles, Mijn Benul, Hemingway's short stories, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Lila, Pig Earth, Technics & Civilization, Myth of the Machine, Medieval Technology And Social Change, Erewhon, Austerlitz, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Kafka on the Shore |