Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Paik, Nam June (1966), Cybernated Art, Manifestos, Great Bear Pamphlets, 24, New York, Retrieved on 2010-11-30

Memes

01 JAN 2010

 Electronics as the Buddhist Third-Way?

Newton's physics is the mechanics of power and the unconciliatory two-party system, in which the strong win over the weak. But in the 1920's a German genius put a tiny third-party (grid) between these two mighty poles (cathode and anode) in a vacuum tube, thus enabling the weak to win over the strong for the first time in human history. It might be a Buddhistic "third way," but anyway this German invention led to cybernetics, which came to the world in the last war to shoot down German planes...
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Is Paik referring to Cathode-Ray-Tubes (CRTs), diodes, or triodes in the below quote?

Parent Reference

 The New Media Reader
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Montfort , Nick and Wardrip-Fruin , Noah (2003-02-14), The New Media Reader, The MIT Press, Retrieved on 2010-03-01
Folksonomies: new media culture internet world wide web technology