Comments on Ernst Jünger: "November" - a Jünger translation for the season

Your blog on the Iphone/Phonophore was great. It i...

2011-12-12T12:25:33.902+01:00

Your blog on the Iphone/Phonophore was great. It is another example of a metaphor, from Jüngers writing, that materializes more or less as he imagined it, even though he could not have been aware that he was describing a device from the future. The smartphone could be used (or may already be used) as a surveillance device, much like the phonophore. And the most remarkable thing is that people do

@Baroh: thanks very much for the link about the Gl...

2011-12-03T18:24:32.332+01:00

@Baroh: thanks very much for the link about the Glass Bees! I visited the professor's site and yes, I get the picture. Remarkable!

I always maintained that the Glass Bees were more a symbolic representation of a whole group of contemporary electronic inventions/manifestations, such as internet data packets and switching mechanisms, computer viruses/trojans, and others. I still

This is how they look. http://raffaello.name/dyn...

2011-12-02T11:04:24.694+01:00

This is how they look.

http://raffaello.name/dynamic-works/flying-machine-arena/

PS He is living in Switzerland not Germany.. but you get the picture

Thank you for the translation. As a comment to y...

2011-12-02T10:50:08.455+01:00

Thank you for the translation.

As a comment to your earlier post about the phonophore and the Iphone 4, I just read an article about an italian professor called Raffaello D'Andrea, living and working in Germany, who wants to build a miniature building with autonomous small flying robots. Ring a bell?