tlvx

being into baudrillard’s ideas, i just had to make this (i know, obvious) comment. it’s also worth noting that all matter is, in a sense, ‘quantized energy’, so, everything, everywhere, sortof suffers from this common ailment.

Imposing a grid is a form of digitization. Digitization is the reduction of something raw and analog — something real — into an absolute, structured system. There are many benefits to digitization; primarily, it becomes much easier to transmit.

Here is the basic tradeoff of digitization: you invariably lose something. Look at the sound waves above. The top one (analog) is the real deal, the bottom (digital) is better than nothing but still not what it represents.

(via jakob)